Hospital aims at eliminating adverse events and develop aggressive treatment plans via putting data insights right into clinician workflow. Ochsner Health System has recently launched a new AI and cloud tech from Microsoft and Epic Systems to offer better care to all its patients. […]
President Trump has proposed the FY19 budget for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and it stresses that the agency should make dealing with the opioid crisis its top priority. […]
The court said that the complaint lacked credible allegations denoting that false claims were actually submitted to Medicare. A federal Judge carrying out his duties in the Middle District of Florida has dismissed the lawsuit against EHR giant Epic systems that claimed that the company […]
The EHR software vendor also plans on bringing new client-facing tools along with the recently-acquired technologies from Practice Fusion and McKesson to the show floor. Remember Allscripts announcing its partnership with Microsoft to design a new cloud based EHR last year? Well, we will finally be seeing its results at HIMSS 2018. […]
After its merger announcement with Aurora Health Care, Advocate Health Care announces that it will replace its current mix of Allscripts, Cerner and eClinicalWorks EHR with Epic EHR Software Chicago-based Advocate Health Care has announced that it would merge with Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Care to create the 10th-biggest not-for-profit healthcare system in the U.S. It is [...]
The Revenue Cycle leader at TransUnion Healthcare believes the patients to be the new payers in healthcare. Jonathan Wiik, revenue cycle leader at TransUnion Healthcare, has revealed that in the evolving healthcare payment landscape, the patients are the new payers and they now represent a staggering 30% of the billing revenue. […]
The agency contracted MITRE to perform an assessment and is pooling comments and recommendations for a final report due at the end of this month, the VA Secretary told the Senate VA committee. The EHR contract conducted between U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Health It giant Cerner is reportedly on hold due to an independent [...]
After numerous months of rumors, tech giant Apple has finally announced that it will be launching a personal health record (PHR) feature with its iOS 11.3. The beta of this feature has already been launched to users in Apple's iOS Developer Program. The particular feature is called Health Records and it will aggregate the existing patient-generated [...]
Epic Systems has been reportedly hit with a serious False Claims Act suit which claims the Healthcare IT giant’s billing system double bills the government when it comes to anesthesia services. The motioned lawsuit was made public last week and it claimed that there was a glitch in the system that was actually causing hundreds of [...]
Due to the virus, Merck received a reduced third-quarter revenue due to the virus causing temporary production shutdown and lost sales in certain markets. A prominent News source has reported that the Global pharma giant Merck was still suffering the effects of the global Petya/NotPetya cyberattack that it fell victim to in June 2017. Unfortunately, Merck [...]
