Today’s Business News
VitalHealth Software, provider of web-based solutions for collaborative health management established by Mayo Clinic and the Noaber Foundation, has announced the release of a cloud based next generation EHR solution for eye care practices. The VitalHealth EHR will be available to eye care providers exclusively through Uprise, a practice management and EHR solution from VisionWeb, a provider of cloud-based solutions for eye care professionals.
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced more than 750 developers in numerous countries have joined its healthcare developer community. This milestone coincides with enhancements to Nuance’s 360 | SpeechAnywhere Services, which provides improvements in accuracy and increased customization of medical vocabularies. These latest enhancements to Nuance’s cloud-based speech recognition services allow developers to easily integrate the fastest, most reliable medical speech recognition with their healthcare applications.
The Children’s Care Alliance (CCA) is working closely with Alere Accountable Care Solutions (ACS) to create a health information exchange (HIE) for underserved children in the Lehigh Valley area of northeastern Pennsylvania. Backed by the support of the business community, the HIE represents a first-of-its-kind collaboration between healthcare organizations and the education community and is poised to move toward improving the healthcare of children in the region.
Computer Programs and Systems, Inc., a provider of healthcare information technology to rural, community and specialty hospitals, announced today that the CPSI System, Version 19, is compliant with the ONC 2014 Edition criteria and was certified as a Complete EHR on July 3, 2013, by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ACB, in accordance with the applicable hospital certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The ONC 2014 Edition criteria support both Stage 1 and 2 meaningful use measures required to qualify eligible providers and hospitals for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Infor, a provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, has announced the release of the Infor Business Intelligence (BI) 10x, to modernize data processing and enrich decision-making. The solution delivers advanced analytics and planning capabilities, self-service dashboards, and social collaboration for a more beautiful, modern, mobile, and social experience. At its core, Infor BI 10x is fused with innovative core technologies such as Infor ION and Infor Ming.le ™ to create an experience that surpasses the ordinary to maximize real-time visibility and cultivate business development.
A healthcare certification program — launched early this year to help address one of the industry’s most challenging issues, the incompatibility of many software and IT systems – has certified the first group of health IT products. Under the pilot program, a joint initiative of IHE USA and ICSA Labs, the products met rigorous testing requirements for security and interoperability. The certified products are offered by eight health-IT vendors: Baxter Healthcare Corporation, B. Braun Medical Inc., CareFusion Corporation, Corepoint Health, Greenway Medical Technologies Inc., Hospira Inc., InterSystems Corporation and Masimo Corporation. Products were tested and certified to meet requirements in the IHE Patient Care Device or IHE IT infrastructure domains which specify capabilities related to medical device interoperability, clinical-document sharing, patient identification, audit logging and security.
Phoebe Putney Health System has chosen the MU Assistant® cloud-based software solution from SA Ignite to streamline and automate their “last mile” of achieving Meaningful Use (MU) and attesting for Medicare incentive payments. MU Assistant® has been dubbed the “TurboTax® for Meaningful Use reporting” for its ability to automate MU reporting and enable one-click electronic attestation to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
Next Wave Health, an investment advisory firm and innovator in healthcare information technology, has announced that veteran healthcare executive and clinical/business strategist Drexel DeFord has joined Next Wave Health as a principal advisor, where he will help forward-thinking entrepreneurs turn promising ideas into successful businesses. Next Wave Health (NWH) will soon announce investments in companies that will transform the healthcare industry. Deford’s insights through his many years of experience in public and private healthcare will be invaluable in leading these efforts.