HIMSS Corporate Member News

DrFirst, the market leader in e-prescribing and delivering intelligent medication management solutions that improve patient safety, today released survey findings identifying key medication reconciliation challenges faced by hospitals today.

Updox, the industry leader for care coordination and healthcare connectivity solutions, named Tim Chapman to the Updox Board of Directors. Tim joins current Updox Board members Mark Shary, partner, Tamarind Hill; Ryan Engle, principal, TT Capital Partners; Kevin Scalia, executive vice president, Netsmart Technologies; and Michael Morgan, chief executive officer, Updox

Nucleus Medical Media, Inc. has partnered with GetWellNetwork to distribute its medical animations to hospitals and healthcare providers throughout the United States and the Middle East. GetWellNetwork will offer these educational videos through its Interactive Patient Care (IPC) platform, offered via tablet or patient room television.

Innovaccer Inc., one of the leading Silicon Valley-based healthcare analytics companies, unveils a free tool, 'Healthcare Model Evaluator' to assist providers in quantifying the financial benefits, calculating their risk-bearing capabilities, and maximizing their outcomes under various value-based reimbursement models.

The Healthcare Financial Management Association Annual National Institute (HFMA ANI 2017) starts Sunday, June 25 in Orlando. Given that it is the largest gathering of healthcare financial professionals in the U.S., it's a sure bet that one of the biggest topics of conversation throughout the event will be revenue loss—and how to stop it. With healthcare organizations of all sizes continually being squeezed on margins while also being asked to take on more risk, it has become more important than ever for providers to capture all the revenue that is due to them.

Chief financial officers (CFOs) of hospitals and health systems today are struggling to navigate a perfect storm of financial challenges. Fewer patients are being hospitalized, which reduces fee-for-service revenue. More patients are defaulting on their bills thanks to the increased prevalence of high-deductible health plans. Meanwhile, government and commercial insurers keep launching new and confusing payment models, while the momentum behind full and partial capitation of reimbursement contracts is growing.

Health Catalyst®, a leader in healthcare data analytics, decision support and outcomes improvement, announced today that Duncan Gallagher has accepted an appointment to the company's Board of Directors, and officially joined the Board of Directors on May 12.

Medicomp Systems, a physician-driven provider of clinically contextual patient data solutions, announced today that the company has received Frost & Sullivan's 2017 Enabling Technology Leadership Award. Medicomp's Quippe was chosen because of its ability to optimize EHRs for physicians at the point of care. The solution mirrors the way physicians think and work to help them to make sense of all clinical data and enable quicker, more accurate clinical documentation.

Top ranked MACRA and MIPS Technology vendor, SPH Analytics, announced today their approval by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as a Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) to report data on behalf of MIPS eligible clinicians, as well as their approval to move from conditional to final approval to administer the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) survey.