SA Ignite Customers Achieve High MIPS Scores Using IgniteMIPS Solution SA Ignite Inc. (@saignite), a recognized leader in delivering solutions that help healthcare providers achieve top performance scores and financial incentives in the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) program announced that it helped its customers achieve an average overall MIPS score of nearly…

HIMSS18 BY THE NUMBERS 1,355 exhibiting companies – this is the largest exhibition at a HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition to date! 336 first-time exhibitors 100+ startup companies  415+ thought leadership sessions on the show floor from industry experts  8 specialty pavilions – with topics ranging from cybersecurity to innovation and interoperability to federal health Innovation live, brought to you…

Navicure® and ZirMed® Announce Naming of Merged Company to Waystar™ Navicure® and ZirMed®, the two top-rated providers of revenue cycle technology, who merged in November 2017, announced the combined organization will operate under the new name Waystar™. Waystar simplifies and unifies the healthcare revenue cycle with innovative technology that empowers clients to collect more with less cost and less stress,…

Allscripts to acquire Practice Fusion business Allscripts (@Allscripts), a global leader in healthcare technology, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Practice Fusion, for $100 million in cash, subject to adjustment for working capital and net debt. Practice Fusion is a Silicon Valley pioneer in partnering with top-tier life sciences organizations to drive innovation. In combination with Allscripts existing payer and…

SA Ignite Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its Leadership in Developing Pioneering Technology in the North American Value-Based Care Compliance Space Based on its recent analysis of the value-based care compliance market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes SA Ignite (@saignite) with the 2017 North American Enabling Technologies Leadership Award. The award is for providing cutting-edge IT solutions and for showing strong…

CVS Health to Acquire Aetna; Combination to Provide Consumers with a Better Experience, Reduced Costs and Improved Access to Health Care Experts in Homes and Communities Across the Country CVS Health (@CVSHealth), a pharmacy innovation company and Aetna (@AetnaNews), a diversified health care benefits company, announced the execution of a definitive merger agreement under which CVS Health will acquire all…

Company Brings on New Clients and Welcomes Bill Conroy to Board of Directors SA Ignite Inc. (@saignite), a leading provider of solutions that simplify and automate the management of complex value-based programs, recognizes 2017 as a year of strong growth for the company. Most notably, SA Ignite experienced a 43% increase in year-over-year bookings for Q1-Q3 2017 compared to the…

ZirMed and Navicure - Even Better Together ZirMed (@zirmed) and Navicure (@Navicure) have announced they are joining forces to become one united company! As two leaders in revenue cycle management, they are coming together to provide more than 400,000 hospitals, health systems and ambulatory services organizations with a comprehensive suite of analytics-driven solutions proven to help improve financial performance. Uniting with @Navicure…

Auxilio Business Operations to Assume CynergisTek Name Auxilio Inc. (@AuxilioInc), a provider in healthcare document services and cybersecurity solutions, announced that it has officially assumed the CynergisTek name and the NYSE MKT ticker symbol will become “CTEK”, effective September 8, 2017. CynergisTek was acquired by Auxilio in January of 2017 and has a proven track record of delivering unmatched healthcare…

West’s Health Advocate Solutions Introduces New Member Platform West’s Health Advocate Solutions (@healthadvocate), a clinical health advocacy company, announced the latest update of its interactive online member engagement experience. The website and mobile app both enable members to access all of their Health Advocate services in one place, seamlessly connecting them to experts and resources to help them get the…

Frost & Sullivan Honors Linguamatics for Developing a Best-in-Class NLP-based Data Mining Platform for the Healthcare Industry Based on its recent analysis of the Big Data text analytics market for the healthcare industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Linguamatics (@linguamatics)  with the 2017 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology Leadership. Linguamatics stands out in the natural language processing market…

Orion Health Positioned Highly in IDC and Healthcare Informatics Rankings Orion Health (@OrionHealth) has been ranked highly on two industry lists: #38 on the IDC Health Insights HealthTech Rankings 2017 and #55 on the 2017 Healthcare Informatics' (HCI) annual list of the top 100 healthcare IT companies. Both rankings were based on 2016 calendar year revenue from healthcare IT. ZirMed (@zirmed)…

Bridge Patient Portal and MD EMR Systems Partner to Build Integration Between Bridge Patient Portal and GE Centricity EMR and CPS Bridge Patient Portal (@Bridge_PP), an enterprise patient portal for health organizations, and MD EMR Systems, an electronic medical record solutions developer and certified development partner for GE, have established a partnership to build an interface between the Bridge Patient Portal…

Seventh Annual Spok Survey Finds Additional Opportunities in Hospital Mobile Strategies Spok, Inc. (@spoktweets), a global leader in healthcare communications, released the first of two reports on the results of the annual mobility strategies in healthcare survey. This research, conducted by Spok since 2011, is designed to assess mobile workflow enablement progress and trends in hospitals across the country. More…

Spok Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2016 Operating Results; Software Bookings Increase from Prior Quarter Spok Holdings, Inc. (@spoktweets), the global leader in critical communications, recently announced operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2016. In addition, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.125 per share, payable on March 30,…