Beginning next month, Cerner customers will start implementing Surescripts' Real-Time Prescription Benefit tool into their Millennium EHRs. The Kansas City vendor's collaboration with Surescripts was initially announced last November.
Ann Mond Johnson, who previously served as CEO of Zest Health, a Chicago-based digital technology company, has been named CEO of the American Telemedicine Association. She will officially take the reins March 5.
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
In June 2017, Spok surveyed 46 CHIME CIOs about their priorities in 2018, as well as other topics. The results show that technology and gaining buy-in are areas of increasing importance.
Falls Church, Virginia-based Health Wizz recently unveiled its platform, which allows consumers to aggregate and share their personal health information.
"Healthcare systems want stability, long-term partnerships and scale and a lot of healthcare systems find that [most] telehealth startups don't have the ability to give them that," said Avizia CEO Mike Baird.
To help their patients better remember bits of information, more and more doctors are, with their patients' consent, recording appointments.
See how Quantum Health is providing the steps to help their members tackle the cost of specialty medications and other drugs.
At an NEJM Catalyst leadership event earlier this month, Intermountain Healthcare CEO Marc Harrison and Virginia Mason Health System CEO Gary Kaplan outlined how healthcare organizations can thrive during times of change.
Through its Neural Engineering System Design program, DARPA is sponsoring research into a new generation of technologies that could better enable communication between devices and the brain.
Vulnerable devices could provide doorways into hospital networks, breaching confidentiality or locking up the system entirely.
Last month, Brian Wells, who previously held various positions at Penn Medicine, took on a new role at Merlin International. In a recent interview, he discussed his new gig.
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Health information network Surescripts revealed its 2016 National Progress Report, and the future of e-prescribing is looking stronger than ever.
Inova Health System and ContinuumRX have formed a joint venture focused on continuity of care. The JV will give patients home infusion and specialty pharmacy services.
Bessemer Venture Partners and Columbia Capital co-led the investment round. Both had participated in Verato's Series A in 2015.
The deal comes five months afterSpecialists On Call announced $50 million in new funding. At the time, the company said it would take some of the money to look for acquisition opportunities.
What's notable about this new cash infusion is that a major health system, New York-Presbyterian, participated.