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QuadraMed Expands Integration of Health Language Solutions

Posted in Press Releases on Thursday, November 07, 2013.

DENVER, CO (Nov. 7, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that QuadraMed Corporation has extended and expanded its partnership agreement to further leverage its Health Language® terminology management solutions. Enhanced integration of Health Language applications into the QuadraMed Computerized-Patient Record (QCPR) continues to build upon the clinical value and usability of the Enterprise Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution for QuadraMed users.

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How Lexicomp helps reduce patient medication errors and more [VIDEO]

Posted in Client News Coverage on Monday, October 28, 2013.

Lexicomp Online for Dentistry provides industry leading reference information and screening tools to help answer prescribing, diagnosis and treatment questions.

 

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HealthPlan ServicesSM Celebrates Multiple Go-To-Exchange SM Milestones in Wake of Federally Facilitated Marketplace Launch

Posted in Press Releases on Thursday, October 24, 2013.

HPS is among the first to confirm full enrollment of an individual in a qualified health plan via its innovative exchange platform

TAMPA, Fla. – Oct. 24, 2013 – HealthPlan ServicesSM (HPS), the nation’s leading technology, sales, retention and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, is celebrating successful go-live of its Go-To-Exchange SM platform, a comprehensive suite of services designed to streamline carrier participation in insurance marketplaces. It is just one of several significant milestones HPS has achieved related to the opening of the Federally Facilitated Marketplaces (FFM) and State Based Marketplaces (SBM).

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Health Language Selected to Support DocuTAP’s Urgent Care EMR Solutions

Posted in Press Releases on Thursday, October 24, 2013.

DENVER, CO (Oct. 24, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that DocuTAP will integrate its Health Language® applications into its electronic medical record (EMR) solution for urgent care environments. The terminology management solutions were specifically selected to address improved regulatory compliance with Stage 2 Meaningful Use and help improve accuracy and conversion to the ICD-10 coding system.

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Healthcare Standards – Opportunities and Challenges Remain for SNOMED CT, RxNorm and LOINC

Posted in Client News Coverage on Wednesday, October 23, 2013.

Health IT standards and interoperability go hand-in-hand. Going forward, the success of the industry’s movement towards greater health information exchange (HIE) will hinge on the successful uptake and adoption of standards that will ensure reliable communication between disparate systems.

 

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Just Associates Appoints Megan Munns Project Supervisor

Posted in Press Releases on Thursday, October 17, 2013.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. – Oct. 17, 2013 – Just Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in data integrity and data quality solutions for the health information exchange (HIE), health information management (HIM), health informatics (HI) and health information technology (HIT) markets, has appointed Megan Munns as a Project Supervisor. In this position, Munns will leverage her extensive Epic certifications and experience to support IDOptimizeTM for Epic, which improves data integrity and care quality by improving the system’s record match capabilities and increasing duplicate record identification.

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Lexicomp and Facts & Comparisons Used by Top U.S. Pharmacy Schools

Posted in Press Releases on Wednesday, October 16, 2013.

Industry-leading drug information resources prepare tomorrow’s pharmacists

Ohio, Hudson —(October 16, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that its Lexicomp and/or Facts & Comparisons drug information resources are used by faculty and students at nearly 90% of the top U.S. pharmacy schools as ranked by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Grad Schools 2014.

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New Analysis Further Demonstrates Clinical Benefits and Return on Investment Associated with ProVation Order Sets, powered by UpToDate Decision Support

Posted in Press Releases on Tuesday, October 01, 2013.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (Oct. 1, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the release of additional data demonstrating  best practice findings and return-on-investment (ROI) achieved through hospital implementations of ProVation® Order Sets, powered by UpToDate® Decision Support. Specifically, aggregated data from several hospitals revealed that the ROI associated with use of evidence-based order sets and a clinical content management system was significant, with time-to-payback for the investment as low as 13 months.

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HealthPlan ServicesSM Shows Continued Support to Voices for Children, Tampa Bay Community

Posted in Press Releases on Friday, September 27, 2013.

TAMPA, Fla. – (Sept. 27, 2013) – HealthPlan ServicesSM(HPS), the nation’s leading technology, sales, retention and administrative services provider for the insurance and managed care markets, will host the 6th annual HealthPlan Services Golf Classic  golf tournament supporting Voices for Children benefiting Guardian ad Litem. The Golf Classic, which takes place on Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Eagles Golf Club in Odessa, Fla., is one of the ways that HPS fulfills its mission of giving back to the Tampa Bay community.

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Amphion Medical Solutions Appoints Subbu Ravi as COO

Posted in Press Releases on Friday, September 20, 2013.

MADISON, Wis. – (Sept. 19, 2013) – Amphion Medical Solutions, a leading provider of advanced transcription and coding solutions and services, announced today the appointment of Subbu Ravi to the new position of chief operating officer (COO). In this role, Ravi is responsible for Amphion’s overall strategic growth and will lead product development, sales and marketing, and IT.

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Senior Living Communities with Remote Monitoring Technology Experience Lower Discharge Rates, Higher Productivity and Revenues

Posted in Press Releases on Friday, September 13, 2013.

MENDOTA HEIGHTS, Minn. – (Sept. 13, 2013) – Assisted and independent living communities that deploy remote monitoring technology with emergency response capabilities increase lengths of stay by reducing the number of discharges necessary to accommodate higher-acuity care needs of aging residents. That was one of several key findings of a study conducted by Halleland Habict Consulting LLC to evaluate the economic benefits of implementing remote “activities of daily living” monitoring technologies in senior living communities.

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Averting Risk through Effective Population Management Strategies

Posted in Client News Coverage on Friday, September 06, 2013.

It’s a unique time in healthcare. Public and private initiatives are aligning and are working synergistically toward the transformation of the healthcare system through improved care access, quality and cost. Part of this movement is a paradigm shift away volume-based, fee-for-service care toward a system where quality is the foundational aspect of all clinical and administrative operations—a healthcare system incentivized by a performance-based regulatory and reimbursement environment to provide proactive, patient-centered care.

 

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Laying the Best Foundation for Medication Reconciliation

Posted in Client News Coverage on Friday, September 06, 2013.

Effective medication reconciliation across the continuum of care is a critical element to eliminating medication errors and adverse drug events (ADEs). It is a focal point of such national initiatives as Meaningful Use (MU) and the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals and will also be crucial to ensuring performance metrics are met under Value-Based Purchasing and the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.

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Artemis Health Group Integrates Health Language to Support Regulatory Compliance and Interoperability in Ambulatory EHR and PM Offerings

Posted in Press Releases on Wednesday, September 04, 2013.

DENVER, CO (Sept. 4, 2013) — Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today that Artemis Health Group, Inc. has selected its Health Language® applications to promote clinical documentation, regulatory compliance and interoperability in the Artemis suite of OB-GYN electronic health record (EHR), practice management and patient engagement solutions.

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Methodist Hospital Deploys MedsOnCue Digital Patient Engagement Solution in its Outpatient Pharmacy

Posted in Press Releases on Thursday, August 22, 2013.

LAKE MARY, Fla. – (Aug. 22, 2013) – VUCA Health announced today that Methodist Hospital has deployed MedsOnCue in its outpatient pharmacy. The hospital is using the innovative digital patient education solution to reinforce safe medication use by providing patients with on-demand access to prescription-specific videos and informative tools including images of their medications.

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