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WASHINGTON – January 27, 2021 – The Honorable Lance Robertson, former US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Aging, has been named a director at Guidehouse, a leading global provider of consulting services to the public and commercial markets.
Jacksonville Beach, FL – January 26, 2021 – Optimum Healthcare IT, a Best in KLAS healthcare IT staffing and consulting services company, announced today that they have partnered with the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) for provide recent college graduates a pathway to high-paying healthcare IT jobs through the Optimum CareerPath™ apprenticeship program.
CHICAGO – January 27, 2021 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ MDRX), MATTER, Microsoft and ARC Innovation Center at Sheba Medical Center hosted a challenge in December for health IT developers focused on reimagining care delivery. 2020 marked 200 years since the trailblazing social reformer and nurse Florence Nightingale was born, and in honor of the mark she left on healthcare, the World Health Organization named 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 26, 2020 – The impact from the COVID-19 pandemic caused tens of millions of Americans to lose their jobs, health insurance and, for some, access to their medications.1 New research released today by CoverMyMeds found that 65 percent of patients were financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic2 and 36 percent sacrificed their treatments or medications to pay for bills and basic needs.
ST. LOUIS, January 27, 2021 — Interlace Health (formerly FormFast), a healthcare process transformation company, has announced that Allison Reichenbach, former Chief Operating Officer, has been promoted to the position of President. She succeeds Randy Campbell, who will assume the role of Chief Technology Officer.
Chicago (Jan. 26, 2021) — Chief information officers (CIOs) from 24 leading health systems across the nation recently convened at Scottsdale Institute’s annual CIO Summit.
As organizations rollout vaccinations across their populations, many are exclusively scheduling through patient portals –with this effort, organizations are seeing significant increases in call volumes January 21, 2021 – Virginia Beach, VA – Divurgent, an international IT consulting company, announced today that it has launched and successfully deployed a Virtual Patient Support Solution to address... read moreThe largest physician-owned, private, for-profit healthcare network in the U.S. adopted Expanse across their Western facilities in just three months. January 20, 2021 Steward Health Care’s relationship with MEDITECH has strengthened despite the challenges of the coronavirus, as the two organizations worked together this fall to virtually deploy MEDITECH Expanse across 18 Steward facilities located... read moreThe widely recognized Information Security certification has been awarded to ANCILE for its uPerform digital learning platform. ANCILE Solutions, the company behind the market-leading Digital Learning Platform uPerform®, announced today that it achieved the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001:2013 certification, demonstrating its dedication to security management best practices. ISO 27001 is one of the... read moreHealth systems can integrate training and performance support in the workflows of their EHRs to drive clinician proficiency and satisfaction. ANCILE Solutions, the company behind the market-leading Digital Learning Platform uPerform®, is pleased to announce support for the SMART on FHIR standard. uPerform empowers health systems to deliver higher quality EHR education with role-based training... read moreDrFirst Launches Award for Healthcare Providers and Organizations Using Technology to Unite the Interconnected Healthcare Universe ROCKVILLE, Md., January 15, 2021 –Nominations are open for a new award recognizing Healthiverse Heroes. The award is offered by health technology pioneer DrFirst to honor healthcare providers and organizations that are breaking through information silos that get in the way... read moreJohn Ward to lead Divurgent’s financial organization as the company positions itself for future growth and expansion. January 12, 2021 – Virginia Beach, VA – Divurgent, an international IT consulting company, announced today that it hired John Ward, MBA, CPA as Chief Financial Officer. John joins Divurgent with over 20 years of IT services company... read moremyBenefitCheckSM helps over 100,000 providers order medications patients can afford by sharing prescription coverage and cost information in prescribing workflows at the point of care ROCKVILLE, Md., January 11, 2021 – Cost is the determining factor for patients deciding whether or not to pick up prescriptions waiting for them at the pharmacy. When medications are too costly,... read moreLake Mary, FL – January 7, 2021 Kirby Partners and Ouellette & Associates are collaborating to collectively launch the Healthcare Technology Leadership Experience (The Healthcare TechLX). With more than 65 years of combined experience, and the benefit of decades-long relationships, the two firms have established themselves as the leaders in their respective fields. The Healthcare... read moreANDOVER, MA, AND VALHALLA, NY, JANUARY 5, 2021– Retia Medical is the first company to utilize Capsule Technologies’ new Device Driver Interface (DDI) development strategy to integrate its Argos Cardiac Monitor, the companies announced today. Capsule’s new DDI development strategy uses the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-Patient Care Device (IHE-PCD) framework to speed device connectivity to... read moreHelena, Montana –– Big Sky Care Connect (BSCC), Montana’s premier health information exchange (HIE), is partnering with DrFirst, a leading healthcare IT pioneer, to provide clinicians throughout Montana access to DrFirst’s extensive medication history information system. Before the anticipated launch of BSCC in late 2020, Montana was just one of two states without a state-designated HIE. An HIE is a... read moreCHICAGO – December 16, 2020 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ MDRX) announced today that Sunrise 20.0 is now generally available. Sunrise is a comprehensive platform of health that connects all aspects of care, including acute, ambulatory, surgical, pharmacy, radiology and laboratory services, and also features an integrated revenue cycle and patient administration system. Sunrise is... read moreCompany offers guidance to track and report vaccine administration to the CDC CHICAGO – December 17, 2020 – Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (NASDAQ MDRX) is dedicating extensive resources to ensure its clients are prepared to maximize functionality within its solutions to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Allscripts has collaborated with public health officials at all levels,... read moreLake Mary, FL – December 8, 2020- Kirby Partners, Healthcare IT & Cybersecurity Executive Search Firm, has signed the Parity.org ParityPledge® in Support of People of Color and in Support of Women. The ParityPledge simply asks that companies commit to interview and consider at least one qualified woman and person of color for every open... read moreMEDITECH Cloud Platform bundles three solutions that further extend the possibilities of the Expanse Electronic Health Record (EHR). December 3, 2020 Today MEDITECH introduced MEDITECH Cloud Platform—a suite of solutions available to healthcare organizations of all sizes that further extend the possibilities of the Expanse Electronic Health Record (EHR). This offering includes: Expanse NOW, High... read more
