Health IT Business News – Monday, April 29, 2013

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Big Data analytics company Explorys announced today Trinity Health, the fourth largest Catholic healthcare system (10th largest overall) in the nation, has joined the Explorys Network. Under the terms of this multi-year agreement, Trinity Health will implement the entire suite of Explorys’ cloud-based big data analytics solutions across its 47 acute-care hospitals, 432 outpatient facilities, 33 long-term care facilities, and numerous home health offices and hospice programs spanning ten states in order to continue improving its care of patients, residents and communities.

The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) has recently selected PatientClick EHR as part of their Vendor Product Portfolio. The Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) developed the Electronic Health Record Product Portfolio  as a free resource for health care providers to compare information about electronic health record (EHR) systems.

Hayes Management Consulting announced that the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM) purchased its MDaudit Professional billing compliance software. MDaudit Professional and its counterpart for acute care facilities, MDaudit Hospital, are used by healthcare organizations to increase audit production, streamline and standardize the billing compliance process and assess their exposure to risk.

Presagia,  developer of web-based and mobile Athlete EHR software solutions, announced that they have partnered with Physiotec, a forerunner in the development of health and fitness exercise software. The integration of Physiotec’s software with the Presagia Sports Athlete EHR will enable sports medicine professionals to better engage athletes with interactive exercise and rehabilitation programs. 

athenahealth, in partnership with MIT’s H@cking Medicine, invites the health care, technology and scientific communities to participate in a Hack-a-Thon on May 4 and 5 at athenahealth’s headquarters in Watertown, Mass. The goal of this event is to bring together inventive, forward-thinking minds to take on the status quo of health care and to introduce disruptive and meaningful solutions to make health care work as it should. If you are an engineer, entrepreneur, medical professional, designer, or scientist interested in driving change and improvement in health care, get involved by applying online to participate.