Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.

Nuance Partnership Helps Healthcare Organizations Discover Revenue and Prepare for Value-Based Payments with Advanced Practice Clinical Documentation Improvement

HFMA-ANI, Orlando, June 22, 2015 – Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced a partnership with Jvion, a healthcare predictive analytics company, to provide further support to healthcare organizations with Advanced Practice Clinical Documentation Improvement™ (CDI) as they prepare for the shift to a value-based reimbursement model.

OpenLegacy Announces New eSuite Integration Platform and Secured Web Gateway

Princeton, New Jersey, June 24, 2015 – OpenLegacy, the open source-based legacy integration platform provider, today announced the availability of its eSuite Integration Platform, which makes it easy for enterprises to integrate their back-end systems of record with mobile, Web or cloud applications through a set of standard APIs. 

Summit Imaging Launches Industry’s First Rapid Response Mobile Application

SEATTLE – June 23, 2015 – Summit Imaging, a technology-focused ultrasound medical equipment support company, today announced the release of Summit Imaging Mobile, the mobile version of its comprehensive online support portal. Summit Imaging Mobile is the first mobile application to give clinical engineers full service ultrasound support, allowing them to submit support cases, connect directly to an equipment expert, and order new parts from wherever they are so they can get their facility’s machines back up and running in the shortest amount of time. 

LG CNS Introduces Smart, Efficient Population Health Management With the LG CNS Care Cloud

GEORGETOWN, Texas, June 22, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Live at the national AHIMA LTPAC conference in Baltimore today, Collain Healthcare, an LG CNS Company, introduced the LG CNS Care Cloud, a technology ecosystem for population health management, to drive quality, reduce costs, and improve the patient, caregiver and provider experience.

Zynx Health Partners with McKesson to Optimize Order Set Deployment

Los Angeles, June 22, 2015 - Zynx Health™announced today the release of an exclusive integration between ZynxOrder® and Paragon® Hospital Information System release 13 from McKesson that makes order set management easy through automated content synchronization. This intuitive solution eliminates common integration challenges including time-consuming file-based uploads. 

COCIR and HIMSS strengthen their cooperation

BRUSSELS – 22 June 2015 – The European Coordination Committee of the Radiological, Electromedical and Healthcare IT Industry (COCIR*) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS**) have renewed their cooperation agreement to progress their common goal of improving the use of information and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

Vocera Clinical Workflow Engine Improves Clinical Integrations and Reduces Costs

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 16, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mobile healthcare communications company, Vocera (NYSE:VCRA), today introduced the Vocera Clinical Workflow Engine to streamline integrations between the Vocera Communication System and clinical systems such as nurse call and electronic health records (EHRs). 

U.S. Treasury Awards PCDC $55MM in New Markets Tax Credits

NEW YORK, NY (June 16, 2015)  - The U.S. Treasury's CDFI Fund today awarded the Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC) $55 million in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation. 

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When drugs are on the FDA’s shortage list, outsourcing facilities can produce their own compounded versions. When the FDA removed tirzepatide from that list with no warning, it created a considerable amount of chaos both behind the scenes and in pharmacies all over the country. 

If passed, this bill would help clinician-led clinical registries explore Medicare data for research purposes. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American College of Cardiology both shared public support for the bipartisan legislation. 

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