Today’s Business News
Greenway, a leading information technology partner to healthcare providers, has announced its acquisition of PeopleLYNK, an innovative patient engagement solution. PeopleLYNK promotes patient engagement in cooperation with PrimeSUITE®, Greenway’s integrated practice management and EHR offering. Patient engagement contributes to improved population health and patient satisfaction, and is a major goal of meaningful use Stage 2. By adding PeopleLYNK to its portfolio of solutions, Greenway better enables healthcare professionals to improve population health outcomes and meet the goals of meaningful use while empowering patients to play an active role in their own healthcare.
In other Greenway news, the company announced they will be working with Vanderbilt University Medical Center to jointly develop a clinical data research network (CDRN) that will include nearly 30 million patients and speed the translation of research findings into clinical practice. By participating in the project, Greenway is the first electronic health record provider to be a full partner in a national Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant. The Mid-South CDRN created by Greenway and Vanderbilt will fuel research with the de-identified electronic health records of patients nationwide along with patient-reported outcomes. Approximately 24 million patients will be those with electronic records in Greenway systems, and the remainder will be patients of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Vanderbilt Affiliated Healthcare Network.
Saint Luke’s Health System, which includes 10 hospitals across the Kansas City, Mo. region, has finalized an agreement with EDCO® Health Information Solutions to implement EDCO’s patented Solarity® technology, and remote indexing services to assist the facility in achieving its goal of reaching Stage 7 of the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model. The technology and services will provide Saint Luke’s the capability to scan patient records at the point of care, and have the documents indexed automatically with Solarity. EDCO’s team of medical record indexing professionals will quality check the indexed documents before returning them to Saint Luke’s EMR in less than one hour. Learn more about smarter scanning and indexing with Solarity, here.
Deloitte Consulting LLP announces the launch of ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte, a business unit that supports the data-driven transformation of health care through the application of insights derived from new data, analytics, transformational services and collaborative business models. The formation of ConvergeHEALTH is one part of a $150-200 million investment Deloitte is making in life sciences and health care analytics, which comes at a critical time as health care and life sciences organizations are facing new challenges driven by changing reimbursement models, technological and scientific innovation and increased regulatory and safety pressures.
CynergisTek™, provider of IT security solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced that it has expanded its collaboration with Iatric Systems, Inc., a comprehensive healthcare IT integration company, to offer healthcare organizations a unified approach to auditing and monitoring that builds upon the implementation of Iatric Systems automated patient privacy monitoring solution, Security Audit Manager. CynergisTek will now offer both support and management for the privacy monitoring function. This new approach is designed to provide additional expertise, alleviate healthcare organizations internal resource challenges, and provide a highly effective privacy monitoring program that is aligned with the expressed expectations of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to ensure HIPAA and HITECH compliance.
Allscripts client Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) has achieved the prestigious Stage 7, the highest level attainable, on the HIMSS Analytics Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Adoption ModelSM (A-EMRAM).N GPG, a part of Northeast Georgia Health System located in Gainesville, Ga., is a multispecialty physicians group with more than 200 providers. Northeast Georgia Health System serves almost 800,000 people annually in more than 13 counties across Northeast Georgia.
PatientPoint® announced a partnership with Netsmart to utilize PatientPoint technology as part of Netsmart’s myHealthPointe.kiosk, a point-of-care patient engagement technology solution that streamlines check-in and intake processes, improves client interactions through more informed interventions, and enable clinicians to maximize time with clients.By incorporating PatientPoint’s comprehensive patient engagement system into its best-in-class electronic health record (EHR) and CareFabric™ ecosystem, Netsmart will further enhance its suite of solutions that improve clinical
MediSafe an award winning, top-rated mobile medication management platform, announces the company is now integrating with Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms to help healthcare institutions clearly report prescription information and regimens to patients through the MediSafe app. As the first external medication management solutions ready to integrate with all leading EHR platforms, MediSafe can be adopted by any provider to keep out-patients accountable for their medication adherence, helping to improve health outcomes and reduce controlled costs.