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CareCloud EHR Raises $20 Million

MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CareCloud, the fastest-growing provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and medical billing software and services, today announced it has secured $20 million in Series B financing. The funds will fuel the Company’s continued aggressive growth across all business functions, with a focus on product development while also bolstering sales and marketing capabilities. The funding round was led by Tenaya Capital and included existing investors Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners. This round brings CareCloud’s total funding to $44 million. Stewart Gollmer, Tenaya Capital’s Managing Partner, will join CareCloud’s Board of Directors.

“Most of the U.S. healthcare system is shackled with decades-old technology that will hinder us from improving patient care or delivering on cost containment efforts in a rapidly-changing environment of reform,” said Albert Santalo, CareCloud’s Chairman and CEO. “This investment validates CareCloud’s mission to aim at the heart of the challenge by leveraging the power of the cloud to foster innovation and ultimately replatform the industry. I am very pleased to welcome Tenaya Capital to our strong base of investors.”

CareCloud’s cloud-based platform now powers close to 3,000 providers in 45 states as medical groups look to improve their operational and clinical outcomes amidst a rapidly changing healthcare reimbursement environment. CareCloud manages more than $2 billion in annualized accounts receivables on behalf of its clients leveraging its cloud-based revenue cycle management service. The Company’s award-winning platform currently supports more than 5 million unique patients that will be increasingly engaged through the Company’s CareCloud Communityoffering that allows for greater care coordination and is the cornerstone of CareCloud’s vision to be the industry’s Single Log In for Healthcare.

“Technology will play an increasingly significant role in the transformation of how healthcare is delivered and paid for in this country. It’s clear that the current solutions are either decades old client-server technology or outdated web-based architecture,” said Gollmer. “CareCloud and its modern platform represent a tremendous opportunity to bridge the technology gap that plagues the healthcare ecosystem. We are excited to invest in CareCloud and feel that the company represents a powerful combination of industry-leading vision and exemplary execution, driven by a remarkable team.”

Physicians See Better Billing, Technology As Keys To Higher Performance

The May 2013 Practice Profitability Index (PPI), which serves as an annual barometer for the operational wellbeing of U.S. medical groups in the year ahead, surveyed more than 5,000 physicians across the nation and uncovered a downward trend in profitability for the year ahead, which is driving a growing “rip and replace” market for technology. It found that, of the 41% of practices with specific plans aimed at operational improvements in the coming year, the main interventions are: implementing a new EHR (41%), replacing their existing EHR (25%), outsourcing billing/collections (18%) and replacing their practice management system (16%). Furthermore, the majority of physicians (52%) are uncertain if their practice management systems will accommodate regulatory changes in the year ahead. The complete 2013 PPI findings can be accessed at www.poweryourpractice.com/PPI.

Tenaya Capital is a leading venture capital firm with a history of investing in disruptive and category-leading companies including HubSpot, Zuora, RightScale, and Zappos. Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners led CareCloud’s $20.1 million Series A funding in September of 2011.

About Tenaya Capital

Tenaya Capital is a leading venture capital firm with offices in Woodside, California, and Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1995 as Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, they became an independent company in 2009. Over the years they’ve raised five funds representing over $1 billion of committed capital, investing it in a wide range of high-growth technology companies including software, consumer Internet, communications, semiconductors, electronics, and cleantech. For more information visit www.tenayacapital.com

About CareCloud

CareCloud is a leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health record (EHR) and medical billing software and services for medical groups. The company’s products are connecting providers to one another – and to their patients – through a fully integrated digital healthcare ecosystem that can be accessed on any browser or device.

CareCloud is helping thousands of physicians to increase collections, streamline operations and improve patient care in over 45 states and currently manages over $2 billion in annualized accounts receivables on behalf of its revenue cycle management clients. To learn more about CareCloud, please visit www.carecloud.com.

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June 18, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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Providers Say Agfa Healthcare Has Room for Improvement as an Imaging Partner

OREM, Utah – Wednesday, February 20, 2013 – Agfa HealthCare’s stated core belief is centered around helping imaging providers succeed, yet a majority of  U.S. clients interviewed by KLAS report gaps in reaching desired results when using Agfa as a vendor. The reasons and other details can be found in the new KLAS vendor-specific report Agfa HealthCare Study 2013: Partnering with Agfa in 2013.

Throughout 2012, KLAS published a series of reports focused on imaging solutions. These reports, as well as discussions with providers, revealed that Agfa was losing client loyalty in some areas due to weak customer relations. In order to further understand this situation, KLAS launched a performance study to specifically evaluate Agfa. With the exception of x-ray equipment and speech recognition systems, Agfa receives second-tier scores across their suite of imaging solutions. However, as provider concerns grow around Agfa as a partner, there is a clear opportunity for Agfa-and other imaging vendors-to improve in helping their clients succeed.

Even with the challenges Agfa faces, they are showing early signs of success and leadership in several aspects of enterprise imaging. One of Agfa’s strengths is scaling IMPAX PACS in large, complex provider organizations. Scalability is an attribute that is important to some providers.

“This report is aimed not just at measuring how well Agfa is currently delivering synergistic solutions to their clients,” says Matt Terry, research director at KLAS and report author, “but its purpose is to also look into user perceptions and provider confidence in moving forward with Agfa.”

Other imaging vendors mentioned in this report include Merge Healthcare, McKesson, FUJIFILM, GE Healthcare, Philips, Carestream, and Siemens. To learn more about this vendor-specific report, the strategic imaging partners in the study, and the related reports published in 2012, providers and vendors can check out the full report, Agfa HealthCare Study 2013: Partnering with Agfa in 2013. This is a vendor-specific report and is available to healthcare providers at a significant discount. To purchase, visit www.KLASresearch.com/KLASreports.

About KLAS
KLAS is a research firm on a global mission to improve healthcare delivery by enabling providers to be heard and to be counted. Working with thousands of healthcare executives and clinicians, KLAS gathers data on software, services, medical equipment, and infrastructure systems to deliver timely reports, trends, and statistical overviews. The research directly represents the provider voice and acts as a catalyst for improving vendor performance. KLAS was founded in 1996, and KLAS’ staff and advisory board members average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. For more information, go to www.KLASresearch.com, email marketing@KLASresearch.com, or call 1-800-920-4109 to speak with a KLAS representative. Follow KLAS on Twitter @KLASresearch.

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February 18, 2013 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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PIH Health Hospital Taps Just Associates’ Repair™ for Outsourced MPI Maintenance

Remote monitoring service speeds identification, elimination of duplicate and overlaid patient records for improved data integrity

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Oct. 16, 2012 – Just Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in data integrity and data quality solutions for healthcare organizations, announced today that it will deploy Repair™ at PIH Health (formerly Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital) to provide the facility with remote master patient index (MPI) management services.

Part of the firm’s comprehensive outsourced patient identity management suite, Repair leverages Just Associates’ highly trained staff and proprietary IDMaster® duplicate workflow software for cost-effective ongoing management of the duplicate validation and reconciliation process. Previously, the firm provided comprehensive MPI clean-up services to PIH Health in preparation for deployment of an enterprise-wide electronic MPI system that receives and links patient information between PIH Health Hospital and approximately 101 primary care and specialty care physicians and 23 advanced practice professionals.

“Just Associates was instrumental in ensuring the integrity of patient data in our MPI and all downstream systems. That experience and their familiarity with PIH Health’s systems made the decision to turn ongoing MPI maintenance over to them an easy one,” said Lois Miller, RHIA, director of health information management, PIH Health. “Not only will Repair ensure rapid elimination of any new duplicates, but its business intelligence tools and the expertise of the Just Associates team will allow us to target resources to ensure any weaknesses in training, workflows and processes are addressed.”

Utilizing Repair provides PIH Health with a number of significant benefits over internal MPI management, including:

  • An experienced team providing efficient duplicate validation and eradication seven days a week
  • Ongoing monitoring to prevent new duplicate records and other issues from negatively impacting data integrity
  • Elimination of backlogs, overflows and staffing challenges, such as turnover and leave time, that impact productivity levels
  • Significant cost savings or cost-neutral expenses by eliminating the need to recruit, train and retain qualified internal staff
  • A more accurate count of unique patients to accelerate compliance with several key meaningful use criteria

“A duplicate-free MPI is crucial for an effective data integrity strategy,” said Beth Just, MBA, RHIA, FAHIMA, Just Associates’ CEO and president. “The power of Repair coupled with our data integrity experts will ensure that PIH Health’s clinicians have access to accurate patient information, which will help drive patient safety and quality care.”

About Just Associates, Inc.

A recognized leader in health information data integrity and management, Just Associates, Inc. (www.justassociates.com) is a healthcare data integration consulting firm that delivers superior value to its clients through improved data integrity. Just Associates has the process expertise and systems knowledge to deliver tailored, value-added solutions that improve clients’ financial outcomes and business processes, support delivery of quality patient care, and meet the expectations of diverse stakeholders through improved data integrity.

About PIH Health

PIH Health is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) regional healthcare delivery network that was founded in 1959 by volunteers who went door to door with coffee cans to raise funds to build a local healthcare facility. Over 50 years later, PIH Health has maintained that same sense of community and family-like culture where patients are the top priority, and employees and volunteers are proud to be affiliated with such an organization. PIH Health serves residents of LA and Orange Counties, as well as the San Gabriel Valley area, offering a wide range of services, including utilization of primary care teams to provide general medicine and preventative care, access to emergency and urgent care, home health services and hospice, and a network of over 180 specialists in accessible and welcoming neighborhood locations. PIH Health is committed to remaining at the forefront of healthcare advances, including technology, equipment and top-notch facilities and amenities to benefit patients and staff alike. Its highly trained and compassionate physicians, nurses, clinicians, staff and volunteers work tirelessly and collaboratively every day to be the communities’ health and wellness partner. Those who are interested in supporting PIH Health in carrying out its charitable purpose are invited to make an in-kind gift by visiting PIHHealth.org and clicking the “Donate Now” button or calling the PIH Health Foundation at 562.698.0811 Ext. 14120.

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November 21, 2012 I Written By

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Tigermed Selects Merge eClinical to Improve Study Management Efficiency

CTMS Solution Provides Single Platform for Management of Clinical Study Activities

CHICAGO, Oct. 22, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Merge Healthcare Incorporated (Nasdaq:MRGE), a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare, today announced that Tigermed Consulting Co., Ltd. has selected Merge eClinical’s CTMS solution for Sponsors and CROs to streamline clinical trial management (CTMS) and maximize operational efficiency across its studies.

Based in Shanghai, China, Tigermed is a leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) providing regulatory, clinical and data management services. With several offices located in Asia, including China, South Korea and Japan, partnering with Merge for CTMS will support Tigermed’s expansion of operations into Europe and North America.

“We were seeking a CTMS system that was cost-effective, scalable and easy to use,” explained Dr. Xiaoping Ye, Chairman and General Manager at Tigermed. “With Merge CTMS, we expect to see a significant improvement in our study management efforts, allowing us to pass on cost savings to our clients.”

“With Merge, our clients can be assured that we will track study enrollment and other critical study details in an easy to learn, intuitive interface, accessible via the web by our staff throughout the region,” Dr. Ye continued. “This will allow us to improve study management by ensuring we have reliable, quality data.”

“We are pleased to have been selected as a CTMS partner for Tigermed’s global clinical trial needs,” said Justin Dearborn, President of Merge Healthcare. “This is the largest single transaction Merge has entered into in China to date. With increasing demand for site and data collection solutions in the Asia-Pacific region, we believe our eClinical solution will continue to gain traction. Our straight-forward interface and simplified user experience allows studies to be managed in a fraction of the time of other solutions. Bundled with the industry’s best training and support, Tigermed now has a complete study management solution in Merge CTMS.”

About Merge

Merge is a leading provider of clinical systems and innovations that seek to transform healthcare. Merge’s enterprise and cloud-based solutions for image intensive specialties provide access to any image, anywhere, any time. Merge also provides health stations, clinical trials software and other health data and analytics solutions that engage consumers in their personal health. With solutions that are used by providers and consumers and include more than 20 years of innovation, Merge is helping to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare worldwide. For more information, visit merge.com.

About Tigermed

Tigermed Consulting Co., Ltd. is a leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) in China dedicated to providing regulatory affairs, Phase I–IV clinical trials, data management, biostatistics, medical translation and GCP training services for healthcare products. Since its inception in 2004, Tigermed has been committed to accelerating product development timelines while reducing R&D costs and risks, helping to bring the miracles of new products to market effectively.

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November 20, 2012 I Written By

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Pri-Med Acquires Amazing Charts EHR

Partnership Will Allow Amazing Charts’ Clinicians to Receive Individualized Continuing Education Based On Practice Patterns 

Boston, Mass., November 19, 2012 – Pri-Med, the leading provider of professional medical education to a community of more than 260,000 clinicians, today announced the purchase of Amazing Charts, a leading provider of electronic health records (EHR) to independent medical practices.

As an independent operating subsidiary of Pri-Med, Amazing Charts will continue to offer its intuitive and affordable software solutions to clinicians, but now will have the resources to accelerate product development and the geographic reach of Pri-Med’s medical education conferences in 30 cities nationwide. Dr. Jonathan Bertman, founder of Amazing Charts, will continue to serve as President, with Kathleen Repoli serving as Senior Vice President. Other terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Given the vast amount of knowledge and the pace at which practice recommendations change, providing real-time feedback to clinicians based on their current practice styles is critical,” said Jonathan Bertman, MD, FAAFP, founder and President of Amazing Charts. “While other EHR vendors may try to find ways to sell EHR data to the highest bidder, we believe any use of this data must be ethical, with clear and consistent disclosure, and used to improve patient outcomes rather than allow advertisers to better target consumers. And after being contacted by dozens of companies, including other EHRs, private equity firms, and venture capitalists, I have no doubt that Pri-Med is the best possible partner for our clients, our employees, and most importantly, the patients for whom we all care.”

With Amazing Charts, Pri-Med gains a next-generation medical education platform strategically located at the point of patient care, enabling it to deliver CME activities where and when decision support is needed.

“The holy grail of medical education is to demonstrate improved patient outcomes as a result of access to unbiased evidenced-based CME. We believe that in addition to our live meetings and online CME courses, providing this education at the point of care is the obvious next step, and we are excited to develop this with Amazing Charts,” said John Mooney, founder and CEO of Pri-Med. “With this deeply integrated partnership, we are together reimagining the EHR as a real-time educational instrument that expands well beyond managing one’s practice”

“Pri-Med has been committed to developing clinician-friendly solutions that are accessible, affordable and immediately applicable to patient care,” added Bertman. “That’s why we have attended every Pri-Med conference for over nine years! Pri-Med’s customers are our customers, and to say I am excited about what we can do together would be an understatement.”

Shields & Company, Inc. advised Amazing Charts in the transaction.

Click here to watch John Mooney and Dr. Jon Bertman discuss their vision for this unique partnership and how it came to be.

About Pri-Med

Pri‐Med is an operating division of Diversified Business Communications. Based in Boston, Mass., the organization has been a trusted source for professional medical education to over 260,000 clinicians since 1995. Through live meetings in over 30 U.S. cities and online at www.pri-med.com, actively practicing clinicians rely on Pri‐Med for opportunities to engage with local peers, meet internationally renowned faculty and participate in world‐class educational activities. For more information, visit: www.pri-med.com.

About Amazing Charts

Amazing Charts provides Electronic Health Records (EHR/EMR) and services to healthcare practices. Based on number one user ratings for usability, fair pricing, and overall satisfaction, Amazing Charts has been implemented in over 5,600 practices, and continues to add over 70 new practices a month. Founded in 2001 by a practicing family physician, Amazing Charts V6 is ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certified for Meaningful Use. Amazing Charts is headquartered at the historic Lafayette Mill Building in North Kingstown, RI. For more information, visit:www.amazingcharts.com

About Diversified Business Communications

Diversified Business Communications, based in Portland, Maine, provides information and market access through face-to-face events, magazine publishing, and eMedia on four continents. In addition to health care, Diversified serves a number of industries including: technology, retail, food and hospitality and business management solutions. Diversified operates divisions in Australia, Hong Kong, India, the UK and Canada.

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November 19, 2012 I Written By

John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 15 blogs containing almost 5000 articles with John having written over 2000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 9.3 million times. John also recently launched two new companies: InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com, and is an advisor to docBeat. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and Google Plus.

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triCerat Introduces Cliptite™ to Help Ensure Data Loss Protection

U.S. software developer triCerat is launching Cliptite™ today to help healthcare professionals secure sensitive data sharing and prevent data loss when using Windows Clipboard. Cliptite™ is designed specifically for remote desktop and application environments in hospitals and other healthcare settings that require an additional level of security.

COLUMBIA, MD, USA (October 31, 2012) — To help healthcare professionals secure sensitive data sharing and prevent data loss when using Windows Clipboard, software developer triCerat, Inc. – creator of the revolutionary ScrewDrivers® printing technology – is introducing its Cliptite™ software.

triCerat’s Cliptite™ software is designed specifically for remote desktop and application environments in hospitals and other healthcare settings that require an additional level of security to prevent data loss when using Windows Clipboard, the integrated Microsoft component that allows content to be copied and pasted between applications.

Employing assignable encryption technology, Cliptite™ allows administrators to safely enable the Windows Clipboard redirection across multiple ICA and RDP sessions without worrying that the data will be copied to an unauthorized client system.

“When sharing sensitive data in the workplace, many organizations tend to either overlook the potential data loss of the Windows Clipboard copy and paste mechanism and hope for the best, or turn off the Windows Clipboard entirely to ensure data loss protection,” according to Andrew Parlette, Vice President of Product Engineering at triCerat.

Cliptite™ allows organizations to enable the Windows Clipboard securely without great implementation or testing burdens by intercepting all data before it is copied onto the Windows Clipboard. The data is then encrypted using a secure 128-bit key and subsequently placed on the Windows Clipboard as encrypted data. If a user running an unauthorized server or workstation attempts to access the Windows Clipboard, the resulting data will be scrambled and unrecognizable. However, when a user running an authorized server or workstation accesses the Windows Clipboard, the data will be transferred and decrypted to the requesting application.

“Regardless of industry, Cliptite™ provides a cost-effective solution that enables users to secure the Windows Clipboard over a remote connection and safely provide Windows Clipboard data sharing,” says Parlette. For more information, visit www.tricerat.com.

About triCerat, Inc.

Creator of the revolutionary ScrewDrivers® print management technology that changed the way thousands of organizations operate on a daily basis, triCerat has developed its complete Simplify family of desktop management tools that improve the performance, stability, security, and reliability of server, workstation, and virtual desktop environments. Based in Columbia, MD, triCerat has more than 10,000 clients worldwide. Founded in 1997, triCerat is a Citrix Ready Technology Partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a VMware Technology Alliance Partner.

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Sisoft Integrates Fovia’s Powerful Advanced Visualization

International Footprint Expanded for Embedded HDVR®

Palo Alto, California and Ankara, Turkey, October 23, 2012 — Fovia Medical, Inc., a world leader in volume rendering technology, and Sisoft Saglik Bilgi Sistemleri, operating in the United States as Sisoft Healthcare Information Systems LLC, a leading provider of web-based Hospital Information Management Systems, Picture Archiving & Communication Systems, and web-based Electronic Document Management Systems, have natively integrated Fovia’s High Definition Volume Rendering® technology in all of Sisoft’s image viewers and PACS workstations. Through Sisoft’s secure, remote viewing technology, healthcare professionals have 24-hour remote access to Fovia’s interactive advanced visualization.

Sisoft now delivers high performance 3D imaging locally and remotely via Fovia’s HDVR® engine.  The benefits of Fovia’s scalable, CPU-based, HDVR software solution enable Sisoft to deliver cost-effective advanced visualization to its customers, while maintaining the flexibility to quickly and effectively respond to the various sectors of the medical market that it serves.

“We are a Gold Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork and are extremely selective about the platform technologies we deploy to our customers. After a comprehensive review of the advanced visualization market, the selection of Fovia’s High Definition Volume Rendering Platform was clear. By utilizing Fovia’s powerful HDVR software, we have been able to rapidly develop and integrate high value clinical tools for our customers around the world,” said Ömer Siso, Sisoft’s Chairman of the Board.

Ken Fineman, Chief Executive Officer of Fovia stated, “We are excited to have a partner with such a sharp and comprehensive view of the medical software market.  Several factors combine to make Sisoft an optimal integrator of our HDVR technology: Sisoft’s reputation as a secure and advanced systems integrator, its gold status with Oracle, and its recent selection as one of the top informatics companies in Turkey.

About Fovia, Inc.

Fovia, Inc. was founded in 2003 to address the challenges of data explosion – the exponentially increasing amount of data being acquired by modern imaging modalities. The firm has developed a CPU-based, High Definition Volume Rendering software solution that leverages and scales with multi-core, multi-processor and multi-threaded generational processor development.  Fovia’s HDVR solution is more scalable, cost effective, flexible, and easily deployable on an enterprise-wide basis than GPU or other hardware-based approaches. It can be easily and natively integrated into various original equipment manufacturers’ offerings, thereby enabling OEMs to quickly and easily offer the world’s most advanced volume rendering to their customers.  More information can be found at www.fovia.com.

About Sisoft Healthcare Information Systems

Sisoft Healthcare Information Systems (formerly Çözüm Bilgisayar) was founded in 1987 to develop secure and advanced technology for healthcare professionals.  Its products include Sisocare (Web-based Hospital Information Management System), Sisopacs (PACS – Picture Archiving & Communication Systems), Sisoedms (Web-based Electronic Document Management Systems), Sisofamily (Web-based Family Practice Information System), Sisomobile (iPad, iPhone, Android Applications, PDA, MCA), Sisotemp (Temperature Tracking System) which is particularly designed to measure the ambient temperature in antiserum rooms and cupboards and Sisoffice (Office Automation). Sisoft is one of Turkey’s leading informatics companies and has been an Oracle Solution partner since 1998.  It operates in the United States from its offices located in New York, New York. More information can be found at http://www.sisoft.com.tr or http://www.sisoft.us.

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OhioHealth Selects Health Care DataWorks for Enterprise Data Warehouse and Healthcare Analytics

Another leading health care system has turned to Health Care DataWorks for the healthcare analytics it needs to make more informed decisions.

OhioHealth, a 17 hospital and 21 health and surgery center system based in Columbus, Ohio has entered into a multi-year agreement with HCD to implement its KnowledgeEdge™ Enterprise Data Warehouse.  OhioHealth joins Cedars-Sinai, Orlando Health, Essentia Health, Presbyterian Healthcare Services and Children’s Medical Center of Dallas all of which are already relying on HCD’s solution to provide actionable knowledge to improve quality while cutting costs.
Health Care DataWorks will provide a fully hosted business intelligence solution to speed the implementation process and enhance OhioHealth’s ability to leverage end-to-end user analysis for more informed healthcare decision making.

 Columbus, OH (October 11, 2012) – Health Care DataWorks, Inc. (HCD) is entering into a multi-year agreement with OhioHealth to provide its KnowledgeEdge™ Enterprise Data Warehouse to broaden the health system’s access to analytics in a manner that will  improve quality while reducing costs.

 Organization-wide data will be aggregated in the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to give OhioHealth seamless and near real-time access to information across multiple operational systems, including financial, administrative, clinical and research. This end-to-end user analysis capability provides an increased level of business intelligence. Additionally, HCD will provide its Value-based Purchasing application to help preserve or potentially secure additional Medicare reimbursements.

The EDW is particularly beneficial in the new paradigm of health care, where the pay-for-results approach is replacing the fee-for-service model. Because the EDW will provide end users with numerous ad hoc capabilities for procuring information, OhioHealth will be able to incorporate predictive analysis into decision making.

“Today’s evolving healthcare environment has placed a premium on system-wide analytics capabilities,” said Michael Krouse, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for OhioHealth. “Our team is looking forward to a strong partnership with HCD that will enable us to fast track the EDW implementation and achieve a higher level of  healthcare analytics that to this point has been largely prohibitive.”

KnowledgeEdge Enterprise will deliver an Enterprise Data Warehouse in a fraction of the time it would take OhioHealth to build its own, the result of HCD providing all the software, hardware and support, including the underlying data model, pre-built dashboards and pre-built reports. HCD also will host the EDW for OhioHealth.

“Our relationship with OhioHealth is a testament to the value we bring to healthcare organizations seeking to leverage information for timely and informed decision making,” said Detlev H. (Herb) Smaltz, Health Care DataWorks CEO. “When you aggregate and organize the tremendous amount of data that is created from disparate data-producing systems, you achieve a higher level of business intelligence that puts you in a stronger position to manage the balance between improving quality and reducing costs.”

About Health Care DataWorks, Inc.

Health Care DataWorks, Inc., a leading provider of business intelligence solutions, empowers healthcare organizations to improve their quality of care and reduce costs. Through its pioneering KnowledgeEdge™ product suite, including its enterprise data model, analytic dashboards, applications and reports, Health Care DataWorks delivers an Enterprise Data Warehouse necessary for hospitals and health systems to effectively and efficiently gain deeper insights into their operations. For more information, visit www.hcdataworks.com. 

About OhioHealth

OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable, healthcare organization serving and supported by the community. OhioHealth has also been recognized by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” six years in a row, 2007-2012.

Based in Columbus, Ohio, it is a family of 21,000 associates, physicians and volunteers, 17 hospitals, 21 health and surgery centers, home-health providers, medical equipment and health service suppliers throughout a 40-county area. OhioHealth member hospitals include Riverside Methodist Hospital, Grant Medical Center, Doctors Hospital-Columbus, Grady Memorial Hospital, Dublin Methodist Hospital, Doctors Hospital-Nelsonville, Hardin Memorial Hospital and Marion General Hospital. For more information, please visit our website at www.ohiohealth.com.

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November 14, 2012 I Written By

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Southwest Spine & Sports Moves EMR & IT Infrastructure to ClearDATA Healthcare Cloud Platform

Phoenix, AZ, September 6, 2012 – – ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced that Southwest Spine & Sports (SWSS), a Scottsdale, Arizona-based healthcare provider, is operating virtually its entire IT infrastructure of servers, storage, and applications on the ClearDATA Healthcare Cloud Platform.  By moving to the ClearDATA Healthcare Cloud, SWSS reduced its Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for IT infrastructure, maintenance, and support by approximately 50% over a two year period.

SWSS originally contracted with ClearDATA to upgrade its EMR software Sage Intergy into the cloud in order to eliminate the need to purchase a new and costly server.  The cost savings, reliability, performance, security, and HIPAA regulatory compliance of the ClearDATA Healthcare Cloud Platform convinced SWSS to move virtually its entire IT infrastructure over as well. The entire migration and implementation was completed in 2-3 weeks.

“Our move to the ClearDATA Cloud has proven to be a solid business decision. It has helped from a technology and IT standpoint and solved many problems,” said Michael Wolff, M.D., founder and medical director of SWSS. “Everything runs better in the cloud than it did in our offices, and our systems and data is much more secure now that it is backed up offsite. ClearDATA has given us phenomenal service.  In the long run, the cost savings should be significant.”

About Southwest Spine & Sports

Southwest Spine & Sports (SWSS) in Scottsdale, Arizona was established by Michael Wolff, M.D. in April of 1999. They now have four offices in the Phoenix metropolitan area with eight practicing physicians, three physician assistants, and a support staff of greater than fifty.  SWSS specializes in providing nonsurgical solutions for a wide range of sports and spine injuries and painful conditions. Its physicians are Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and have completed advanced fellowship training in interventional spine and sports care. For more information, visit: http://www.swspineandsports.com/ or call: (480) 860-8998.

About ClearDATA’s HIPAA Compliant EMR Cloud Hosting Service

In response to growing market demand, ClearDATA has developed a secure, HIPAA-compliant, and cost effective solution for EMR software delivery that features a pre-configured combination of ClearDATA’s private Cloud services, HP’s state-of-the art server and storage solutions, and EMR/PM software images to form a single solution delivered as a service. ClearDATA’s EMR Cloud Hosting Service, which includes online backup and recovery, saves healthcare organizations from substantial capital expenditures while providing secure, reliable, high performance access to EMR software and patient information according to HIPAA Security Rule and the HITECH Act.

About ClearDATA Networks, Inc.

ClearDATA Networks, Inc. is the market leader for cloud computing and information security services for healthcare providers, software vendors and VARs, and 100% dedicated to the healthcare field. ClearDATA’s services enable providers to fully automate and securely manage healthcare medical records, applications, IT infrastructure and digital storage. The company provides HITECH HIPAA-compliant cloud and hosting infrastructure and managed cloud services, offsite backup and disaster recovery, medical image archiving, healthcare information security and world-class support. The company also offers HIPAA Security Risk and Remediation services to hospitals and providers  in order to ensure that they meet the rigorous standards of HIPAA security required for protected health information to demonstrate Meaningful Use. For more information, call 602-635-4000, email: sales@)cleardata.net or visit: http://www.cleardata.net.

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October 5, 2012 I Written By

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Windsor Health Group Selects MedHOK’s Single Platform for Care, Quality and Compliance for Clinical and Compliance Programs

TAMPA, Fla. – August 7, 2012 – Windsor Health Group and MedHOK, one of the healthcare industry’s fastest growing software companies, announced today that Windsor’s Medicare Advantage business, Windsor Health Plan, Inc., will deploy MedHOK’s single platform for care, quality and compliance to proactively close care gaps, enhance care management, improve Star scores and ensure compliance.  In doing so, Windsor is positioning itself to succeed in the rapidly changing healthcare environment that is emphasizing care and quality outcomes.

MedHOK offers fully NCQA certified software for HEDIS®, Pay for Performance and Disease Management performance measures. The company has more than 18 million lives in production and is on track to double this number within the year.

Nashville-based Windsor Health Plan, Inc., which provides Medicare Advantage and standalone Part D prescription drug plans for more than 157,000 Americans, will use MedHOK’s platform  to bolster care management quality for its members across 28 states:

  • MedHOK’s 360Member™ solution to increase its commitment to member-focused care
  • Utilization Management
  • Pharmacy Coverage Determinations and Redeterminations
  • Case and Disease Management
  • Predictive modeling and stratification
  • Part C and Part D Star improvement, quality and care gap closure
  • Pay for Performance
  • Grievances
  • Appeals
  • CMS Complaint Tracking Modules (CTMs) and general complaints
  • Independent Review Entity and external appeals
  • Correspondence/fulfillment, dashboard, reporting and audit functionality

“Windsor Health Plan and our employees have as our highest priority to ensure that our members receive the best quality of care available in the markets we serve.  Our strategy is to continue to invest in comprehensive clinical and member management systems like MedHOK that help improve quality and virtually every facet of the user experience for both our members and providers alike. We know that future success depends on constantly driving quality improvement and providing excellent service that our members expect and deserve,” said Michael A. Muchnicki, Chief Executive Officer of Windsor Health Group.

MedHOK’s integrated care management, quality and compliance platform facilitates improved clinical outcomes and care coordination while enhancing quality measures, compliance and financial performance. It accomplishes this by:

  • Providing real-time access to Star, HEDIS, pay-for-performance (P4P), and proprietary quality and performance measures, helping plans and providers to accurately monitor in real-time the data they need to achieve and maintain high quality ratings.
  • Triggering interventions when care gaps are identified, in particular for patients with multiple co-morbidities and chronic conditions.
  • Utilizing predictive analytics models to generate profiles based on clinical, quality and financial data for member, provider and local populations.
  • Calculating risk scores for every member, enabling timely predictions of those at the highest risk for more accurate forecasting of care costs and utilization.
  • Continuously monitoring for and addressing regulatory changes from CMS and state Medicaid agencies, ensuring clients stay ahead of the compliance curve.

“With the passage of health reform, all lines of business will see revenue directly tied to care, quality and compliance outcomes.  Health plans will need to deploy the right technologies that enable continuous monitoring of key care and performance measures,” said Anil Kottoor, president and CEO, MedHOK. “MedHOK’s single platform for care, quality and compliance is built for health plans and other entities seeking to succeed in this new rigorous, results-oriented environment.  We are proud to partner with Windsor to meet their future needs.”

About MedHOK

Tampa, Fla.-based MedHOK has more than 18 million lives in production and expects to double that number in 2012, making it one of the healthcare industry’s fastest-growing software companies. It offers a cloud-based integrated software platform for care management, quality and compliance that enables physicians, ACOs, PCMHs, payers and TPAs to manage and measure care against national quality standards for optimal outcomes. Its innovative modular software helps healthcare organizations meet quality, care and compliance objectives across business lines by facilitating real-time information sharing with all stakeholders to address disease management and care coordination, clinical quality and utilization review, and quality and financial measures. ICD-10 compliant, HIE-ready and securely accessible on any device, the MedHOK platform is user-friendly, rapidly deployed and easily configurable for a low total cost of ownership and rapid return on investment. It holds 2012 HEDIS®, Pay for Performance and Disease Management performance measures certification.

About Windsor

Windsor Health GroupSM refers to Windsor Health Group, Inc., an insurance holding company and its operating subsidiaries, which include Windsor Health Plans, Inc. (WHP), and Sterling Life Insurance Company (SLIC). WHG, through WHP and SLIC, serves more than 230,000 Americans with a variety of insurance offerings for the senior population. WHG is a subsidiary of Munich Health North America, Inc., which is a subsidiary of Munich Reinsurance Company (Munich Re), one of the world’s leading reinsurers.

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August 22, 2012 I Written By

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