By Marvin Luz – The consumerization of healthcare is dramatically changing the equation for providers. Competitive pressure is forcing providers to invest in new technologies and processes designed to improve the patient experience, all while they’re seeking ways to grow revenue.
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Your personal health information is moving and being viewed to improve the quality of your healthcare and lower the costs. The job will not be complete until all health records are digital and interoperable. Here’s what’s happening to make that reality.
Greenway Health™ announced that its Greenway Prime Suite® customers around the country can now use CommonWell Health Alliance services to exchange clinical information with other participants at no cost.
Centura Health has been named a 2015 HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have utilized health information technology.
Health information exchange is happening all around. This week’s HIE rundown includes: MEA|NEA acquires The White Stone Group, IdenTrust achieves full accreditation, & Greenway Health Partners with Premise Health’s Intel clinics.
Modernizing Medicine announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire gMed. The acquisition is expected to increase Modernizing Medicine’s gastroenterology market share and anticipates closing the transaction in Q3.
This week’s rundown includes Greenway Health launches Interoperability University, Gov. Abbott signs HB 2641 to improve data interoperability for TX public health, and Community Health Partnership (CHP) Provider Network connects to CORHIO.
CommonWell Health Alliance announced the commitment of five of its health IT vendor members—athenahealth, Cerner, CPSI, Greenway Health and McKesson—to actively deploy CommonWell services to health care provider sites nationwide throughout 2015.
Epic is set to open its own app store for mobile applications that can work with the vendor’s EHR platform. The news was first reported by the Wisconsin State Journal. According to the article. The Epic app store will launch in a few weeks.