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Elation Health Acquires Medical Billing Company Lightning MD

Healthcare IT Today

The acquisition adds revenue cycle capabilities to Elation’s clinical-first EHR and Best in KLAS , virtual care platform. The company was founded in 2017 by registered nurses Kelly Schoenfeld and Brian Esser. ” Lightning MD is a convenient billing solution focused on user experience for independent medical practices. .

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Tebra Secures More Than $72 Million at Over $1 Billion Valuation to Expand Digital Healthcare Technology Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Tebra provides independent healthcare practices with a complete operating system for practice success. Built through the combination of Kareo and PatientPop, the offering includes modern websites, messaging and scheduling, telehealth, EHR, care delivery, practice management, billing, payments, and analytics.

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Blockchain in Healthcare: How it could transform EHRs, drug safety and medical reviews

Advanced Medical Reviews

Blockchain dates back to the 2000s, but it only entered the mainstream in 2017. That year, it neared the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle, a visual index of how much attention emerging technologies garner for their business-level potential.

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It’s Private: Innovative Techniques Begin to Address Clinicians’ Mental Health

Healthcare IT Today

and Chief Medical Officer at CPSI New collaboration between mobile app developer, EHR vendor and health systems decreases clinician stress The perennial challenge of clinical burnout has reached an inflection point. Hayes, MD Dr. William Hayes has served as Chief Medical Officer for CPSI since 2017. Hayes, M.D., About William J.

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How Apple's API Fits Into Its Burgeoning Healthcare Stack

Lloyd Price

The big Apple health news in 2017 wasn’t a new product or program, but an added functionality: Subtle, but major. The regulatory agency officially unveiled a pre-certification pilot program in September 2017 that Apple was taking part in—alongside Samsung and Fitbit, among others. All that’s left might be to build the EHR itself.?

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This helped the organization achieve HIMSS Stage 7 in 2017 – the first academic hospital in Canada to do so. Department of Veterans Affairs' effort to modernize its IT systems and create an interoperable EHR shared among VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. He earned a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2018. Washington.

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What is the Future of Virtual Wards?

Lloyd Price

For example, a 2017 study found that a virtual ward program in the UK reduced hospital admissions by 45% among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Unintended consequences: Like any healthcare intervention, virtual wards may have unintended consequences.