Category: Analytics

GE announced this afternoon that it will acquire workforce management and analytics software vendor API Healthcare. Terms were not disclosed. GE will incorporate API Healthcare’s offerings into its Hospital Operations Management product line that includes asset management and patient flow optimization solutions. GE Healthcare Services President and CEO Michael Swinford was quoted in the announcement…

Top News GE will acquire API Healthcare, a provider of healthcare workforce management software and analytics solutions. Reader Comments From Brian: “Re: Advisory Panel ‘2014 will be the year of …’ patient relationship management. Spanning not only the clinical realm, but the financial realm as well. Every touch, clinical and financial, influences the patient’s attitude…

Patient participation in health information exchange efforts would go a long way toward improving quality and safety efforts, according to Joseph Schneider, vice president, chief medical information officer and medical director of clinical informatics at Baylor Health Care System. read more …read more

In an announcement made recently, ONC and CMS have launched “Test EHRs” for providers to fulfill transition of care requirements under Meaningful Use. Under Stage 2 of Meaningful Use transition of care objective measure No. 3, eligible providers have to conduct one or more successful electronic exchanges of a summary of care document or one…

Karen DeSalvo, M.D., the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently wrote a blog on the White House website, advocating the effectiveness of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program with supplemental, supportive data. Karen DeSalvo, M.D., the new National Coordinator for Health Information…

Just 160 hospitals in the United States have achieved stage 7 on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR Adoption Model. In a piece at Becker’s Hospital Review, some of those hospitals offer best practices for… read more …read more

NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions announced its NextGen® Ambulatory EHR version 5.8 solution meets the latest ICD-10 standards. …read more

Medflow is pleased to announce the first successful deployment of Medflow version 8.1, the company’s 2014 Meaningful Use Certified version. This is a tremendous milestone and accomplishment that demonstrates the leadership role Medflow maintains in the eye care industry. …read more

The use of data analytics helped Boston Medical Center recover from a $34 million operating loss in 2010 and report a $2.5 million operating profit two years later, according to president and CEO Kathleen Walsh. read more …read more

Providers in the Meaningful Use program have struggled most with the clinical summary measurement, the required security risk analysis, and patient smoking status reporting, according to a new study published in Medical Care, the Journal of the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association. read more …read more