Memorial Regional Hospital, the flagship hospital of the Memorial Healthcare System

“We’re positioned to collaborate with, and provide the ACO and its physicians, with enhanced care coordination and technological resources that will further support their drive to continuously improve the care and cost efficiency for patients in the community.”

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

Memorial Healthcare System has acquired Broward Guardian, a Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) composed of mostly primary care physicians in South Florida. This acquisition allows Memorial to support the continued development of a vibrant network of community-based, primary care physicians to coordinate care for Medicare patients, while providing physicians the necessary resources to become successful in the emerging value-based healthcare model.

With Memorial’s full operational support, Broward Guardian is poised to expand its network of participating primary care physicians across South Florida, helping the community based, independent physicians strengthen their own practices and focus on a population health approach.

“We’re positioned to collaborate with, and provide the ACO and its physicians, with enhanced care coordination and technological resources that will further support their drive to continuously improve the care and cost efficiency for patients in the community,” said Memorial Healthcare System President and CEO Aurelio M. Fernandez III.

Broward Guardian patients will benefit from enhanced coordinated care with nurses and social workers providing chronic condition management and support for socioeconomic needs, which are often barriers to accessing care. From an operational perspective, Broward Guardian’s physician network will be able to access retrospective, predictive and actionable analytics on cost and quality for its population. All of these efforts aim to facilitate coordinated delivery of care, while limiting unnecessary spending, in what is the cornerstone of where a patient’s care begins – primary care.

“Memorial Healthcare System is committed to maintaining the health and well-being of our communities and empowering physicians and patients with all the resources required to proactively address medical issues within the context of population health before they become bigger problems,” said Matt Muhart, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Memorial Healthcare System. “We’ve long embraced value-based healthcare and seized the opportunity to invest in an optimal infrastructure that helps elevate the delivery of care.”

The acquisition allows Memorial to facilitate a strong environment of collaboration, clinical integration, and innovation while continuing to support physician independence.

“Broward Guardian was formed to help primary care physicians build experience in value-based care and strengthen primary care practices,” said John Harkins, Broward Guardian’s executive director. “Fully joining Memorial Healthcare System is an important and exciting next step that will provide our doctors with the infrastructure that will be required to thrive in the time to come.”

Broward Guardian was formed in 2013 as a primary care focused organization and began as a Track 1 ACO in 2014 in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Broward Guardian advanced to a Track 3 ACO in the Medicare Shared Savings Program in 2017. Currently, there are 42 ACO participants and 795 ACO providers and suppliers with approximately 9,000 Medicare beneficiaries attributed to Broward Guardian ACO.

Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public healthcare systems in the U.S. and a national leader in quality care and patient satisfaction. It is highly regarded for a patient and family-centered approach at facilities that include Memorial Regional Hospital, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Memorial Regional Hospital South, Memorial Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar, Memorial Hospital Pembroke, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Health Specialty Center in Wellington, and Memorial Manor nursing home.

Among the many awards and recognition it has earned are Modern Healthcare magazine’s “Best Place to Work in Healthcare,” Florida Trend’s “Florida’s Best Companies to Work For,” and Becker’s Hospital Review’s “150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare.” In a recent report (“Humanizing Brand Experience”), the Denver-based consulting firm Monigle named Memorial the top health system brand in America, based on consumer surveys.

To learn more, visit http://www.mhs.net.

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Enhance your MPI software with 4medica 1% as-a-Service™ – Guaranteed!

Current flaws in the identification & matching of patient records not only inhibit the nation’s ability to effectively trace back the contacts of infected individuals during the coronavirus outbreak, but also the administration of an eventual vaccine & collection of dosage data registries.

MARINA DEL REY, California (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

4medica® has released a position statement on the importance of accurate patient matching as crucial to the success of re-opening the country in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in support of The Pew Charitable Trust letter to the leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives.

4medica President Gregg Church, a long-time vocal advocate of clinical interoperability and the importance of accurate patient matching for the seamless and secure exchange of patient medical records, states:

“For decades, the healthcare industry has danced around the issue of mandating guaranteed accurate patient matching. The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing to light two momentous issues affecting the lives of millions of Americans: One, the medical necessity of ensuring correct patient demographic data, and two, the ability to exchange that data among disparate healthcare organizations and medical record systems through much needed national adoption of standardized data elements.”

“Current flaws in the identification and matching of patient records not only inhibit the nation’s ability to effectively trace back the contacts of infected individuals during the coronavirus outbreak, but also the administration of an eventual vaccine and collection of dosage data in immunization registries,” he added.

The Pew Charitable Trust letter outlines immediate actions that Congress should take to address the gaps in healthcare data exchange blocking the nation’s response to this and future pandemics:

Work with federal agencies—such as the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the U.S. Postal Services (USPS)—to ensure the use of all available tools at their disposal so that public health entities can effectively trace contacts and track immunizations.

Advance the use of other regularly collected demographic data elements for patient matching and identification to ensure that public health authorities have up-to-date contact information when receiving reports from laboratories, hospitals and other testing sites.

Require that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—such as through ONC or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—ensures that all of the demographic information listed in the new regulations are also shared among hospitals, laboratories and registries for pandemic response purposes. Current regulations apply to electronic health records (EHRs) and not to the systems that may transmit data directly to public health authorities for contact tracing or to registries—such as lab systems.

Standardize and share data elements such as individuals’ phone numbers and addresses across all health IT systems.

“All healthcare organizations struggle with high, double-digit duplication rates and the issues of mismatched identities,” continued Church. “We must solve patient matching issues today to get patient duplicate records closer to 1 percent. Not only must healthcare stakeholders of all representations continue supporting efforts to mitigate the spread of the pandemic to prevent disease and death, we also must recognize the role of every state’s local businesses and governments patchworked together heroically upholding our nation’s healthcare system.”

To help facilitate conversations on the national need to urgently address patient identity matching and resolution, Church joins experts presenting collaborative ideas at two upcoming virtual events:

eHealth Initiative webinar: Contact Tracing and Patient Matching (Data Analytics for Managing COVID-19)

Thursday, May 28, 2020

2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET

ONC Working Session: Patient Identity and Matching

Monday, June 1, 2020

9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET

In addition to launching The COVID-19 Alerts and Reporting Solution™ with partner KPI Ninja to help identify and prioritize patients at higher risk of contracting severe forms of the respiratory disease, 4medica has released its 4medica 1% as-a-Service™. The technology service is the latest advance in 4medica’s history of helping ACOs, HIEs, HINs, hospitals, health systems, laboratories, radiology imaging centers and payers clean and maintain data hygiene.

About 4medica

Guaranteeing an unprecedented 1% patient record duplication rate, 4medica® solves data integrity and financial challenges to minimize patient safety and other clinical risks and achieve true clinical interoperability and transparency for patients. Our Big Data Management and Clinical Data Exchange cloud solutions help healthcare organizations facilitate patient identity management and data exchange to ensure the right data is captured at the right time, the first time. 4medica’s Perfect Order for Perfect Payment™ ensures labs and imaging centers get paid by integrating high-volume revenue cycle management services throughout the entire order management process. 4medica has processed up to 6 billion clinical results representing more than 70 million patient identities. The company connects 40,000-plus physicians to hundreds of ACOs, HIEs, HINs, hospitals, health systems, laboratories, radiology imaging centers and payers nationwide. Learn more at http://www.4medica.com.

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Productive Plastics Face Shield

“We recognized that with our existing manufacturing expertise and resources we are in a unique position to serve our community in a time of need, especially the healthcare and essential professionals, by manufacturing these face shields,” said Hal Gilham, CEO of Productive Plastics.

MT. LAUREL, N.J. (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

Productive Plastics, a leading heavy gauge plastic thermoforming contract manufacturer, announces that it is now manufacturing face shields to be used as personal protective equipment (PPE) to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. These face shields are single use, made to be worn by frontline healthcare professionals and for any essential professional (retail, grocery, food service, delivery) where personal interaction is necessary. All Productive Plastics face shields are proudly manufactured in the USA.

Productive Plastics’ face shield has an innovative design that maximizes protection, freedom of head movement, and comfort. Utilizing its over 65 years of plastic and manufacturing expertise, with assistance from various industry business partners, Productive Plastics was able to dedicate a portion of its existing manufacturing operation to begin producing a very high quality face shield at a cost competitive with both foreign and domestic suppliers. With the addition of new machinery and an anticipated hiring of a 10-15% increase in their workforce, Productive Plastics is estimating the production of 5,000 to 10,000 face shields per day to meet the high demand for PPE. Initial production runs will be donated to local hospitals, first responders, and other essential employees.

“We recognized that with our existing manufacturing expertise and resources we are in a unique position to serve our community in a time of need, especially the healthcare and essential professionals, by manufacturing these face shields,” said Hal Gilham, CEO of Productive Plastics. “We are extremely proud not only to be part of the solution in the response to this pandemic, but to also be able to offer employment to some of the people in other industries that were displaced by the economic effects of these challenging times.”

Features and benefits of Productive Plastics face shields include:

• Reduced risk of exposure- extended forehead and side shielding provides full face protection, further reducing the risk of exposure from respiratory droplets
• Greater freedom of movement – contoured design avoids impact with shoulders and chest
• Spacious design – easily fits over other commonly used mouth and eye PPE
• Increased visibility – anti-fog coating available
• Lightweight and comfortable fit
• Proudly made in the USA

Productive Plastics face shields are offered for sales in bulk quantities to hospitals and other medical, dental, or clinical businesses, as well as to distributors and companies in need of PPE. The minimum order quantity is 1,000. To inquire specifically about this product, please email: faceshields@productiveplastics.com.

Productive Plastics will continue to seek for new ways to bring its resources and expertise to bear in support of its valued customers, frontline heroes, and other communities in need during this challenging time.

The Productive Plastics Face Shield is authorized by the FDA under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for use by healthcare providers as PPE and is only authorized for the duration of the EUA unless authorization is terminated or revoked sooner. This product has not yet been FDA cleared or approved. Body contacting materials include latex free elastic band, open cell foam padding, and PET visor.

About Productive Plastics

Headquartered in Mt. Laurel, NJ and established in 1955, Productive Plastics offers thermoformed plastic components through pressure thermoforming and vacuum forming. Productive Plastics is a leading contract manufacturer of heavy gauged thermoformed parts for medical equipment, transportation, kiosk, industrial, and plastic enclosure markets. For more information, please visit https://www.productiveplastics.com/ or call 856-778-4300.

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Cimcor, Inc. is dedicated to helping organizations secure their infrastructures. This strategic alignment with CIS complements our mission to help organizations comply with the CIS Controls and easily assess and harden systems using CIS Benchmarks.

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (PRWEB)
May 27, 2020

Cimcor, the leader in next-generation, file and system integrity monitoring software is partnering with the Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®), a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. With this partnership, the top ranked CimTrak Integrity Suite has been added to the CIS CyberMarket®.

CIS CyberMarket is CIS’s collaborative purchasing program that serves U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government organizations, nonprofit entities, and public health and education institutions to improve cybersecurity through cost-effective group procurement. By leveraging the collective purchasing power of participating public and nonprofit organizations, CIS CyberMarket works with industry-leading cybersecurity providers to secure significant group purchasing opportunities to meet cybersecurity needs of its members. 

“Cimcor, Inc. is dedicated to helping organizations secure their infrastructures. This strategic alignment with CIS complements our mission to help organizations comply with the CIS Controls and easily assess and harden systems using CIS Benchmarks,” says Robert E. Johnson, III, Cimcor CEO and President. “The consensus-based guidelines of CIS Benchmarks and the clarity of CIS Controls are foundational components of an effective cybersecurity program for any organization. The CimTrak Integrity Suite is a powerful tool to accelerate the implementation of these security controls”

“Taking a best practices approach to cybersecurity, as found with the CIS Controls, combined with implementation of the secure configuration recommendations contained in the CIS Benchmarks, provides for an effective cyber defense posture,” says Curtis Dukes, CIS Executive Vice President of Security Best Practices & Automation Group. “We welcome Cimcor into CIS CyberMarket to provide cost-effective solutions to SLTT community.”

Within an agreement and partnership between both entities, Cimcor will foster the usage of the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks to assist organizations with recommended secure configurations of all IT systems.

Vendors that want to participate in the CIS CyberMarket are rigorously vetted by both CIS subject-matter experts and a volunteer board of state and local government cybersecurity professionals to ensure the services are the best and most effective solution for its members.

The CimTrak Integrity Suite with certified CIS Benchmarks, is an easy and effective way to assess and monitor systems against CIS Benchmarks, and ensure that systems configurations are in a hardened state and in a predictable state of integrity.

About Cimcor, Inc.

Cimcor develops innovative, next-generation, compliance and system integrity monitoring software. The CimTrak Integrity Suite monitors and protects a wide range of physical, network, cloud, and virtual IT assets in real-time while providing detailed forensic information about all changes. CimTrak helps reduce configuration drift and ensure that systems are in a secure and hardened state. Securing your infrastructure with CimTrak helps you get compliant and stay that way. For more information, visit https://www.cimcor.com/cimtrak

About CIS

The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. elections offices. To learn more, visit CISecurity.org or follow us on Twitter: @CISecurity.

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RESTON, Va. (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

SeKON Enterprise, Inc. the premier management and technology consulting firm serving federal government health services is pleased to announce today that senior technical expert Dr. James A. (Jim) Bryant has joined the company as the Technical Advisor in the Federal Health Record Modernization (FEHRM).

Before joining SeKON, Dr. Bryant held key leadership roles within complex organizations including federal, state and local governments and commercial industries. With 40 years of progressive experience as a leader, teacher, advisor and manager, his counsel and expertise are sought in leading people and change through high profile initiatives.

At SeKON, Dr. Bryant will provide sociotechnical advice to the FEHRM Director, Dr. Monica Farah-Stapleton, as well as the Veterans Administration (VA) and Department of Defense (DoD). The FEHRM was recently established as a joint DoD/VA organization to work specifically on electronic health records (EHR).

Jim will prove to be invaluable as a catalyst for innovation for our customers and within our organization. I couldn’t be more excited to have him join our SeKON family,” said CEO Dr. Angela Wilson.

About SeKON

Established in 1996 by Dr. Angela Wilson, SeKON Enterprise, Inc. is a privately held management and technology consultancy based in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. For more than 20 years, we have delivered our clients value by driving efficiency of operations and applying emerging technology with innovative techniques while being accountable for delivering excellence, transparency and ongoing collaborative communication. We have a proven record of helping our clients achieve their mission goals through dedicated support, partnering, thought leadership, value-added services and quantifiable benefits by engaging the best resources available. We are committed to solving problems that matter, achieving mission goals, and making a measurable impact on organizations and the stake holders they serve through the convergence of the right talent, tools and processes. For more information, follow us on LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/company/sekon

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TMJ Plus Wellness Center

I’m so thrilled with how the site turned out. My goal was to create a resource that doesn’t just market my practice, but also helps patients understand their condition.

GRAPEVINE, Texas (PRWEB)
May 26, 2020

TMJ Plus Wellness Center of Grapevine, TX is excited to announce the launch of its new Hybrid-Responsive website: https://www.tmjplus.com.

Founder Becky Coats, DDS, also known as Dr. Jaw Dropper, has been at the forefront of TMJ disorder treatment since founding her practice, and now she has a website that is at the forefront of digital technology. TMJ Plus Wellness Center offers its patients a seamless online experience built with usability in mind. The new website has a clean, uncluttered design and makes it easy for patients to request appointments and learn more about Dr. Coats and her practice’s TMJ disorder treatment options.

“I’m so thrilled with how the site turned out,” says Dr. Coats. “My goal was to create a resource that doesn’t just market my practice, but also helps patients understand their condition.”

On tmjplus.com, users will find useful information about the practice’s services, patient testimonials, and a blog with helpful posts by Dr. Becky Coats. The website is equally responsive on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops, allowing patients to access the resources they need whether they’re at home, at work, or on-the-go. With just a few simple clicks, patients can interact with the practice and connect with their doctor.

In addition to offering patients an innovative new website, TMJ Plus Wellness Center is taking a high-tech approach to COVID-19. The practice is following all CDC protocols regarding masks, social distancing, and sterilization, but they’re also using state-of-the-art technology like plasma air cleaning, UV phone disinfection, and oral ozone water rinses to provide patients additional protection. Each night, ozone gas is infused into the office to kill airborne pathogens. Patients can learn more about the safety protocols being implemented by Dr. Coats and her team here: https://www.tmjplus.com/patient-info/safety-protocols/

About Dr. Becky Coats

Dr. Becky Coats is a Diplomate of the American Board of Craniofacial Pain, a winner of the Academy of General Dentistry’s Mastership Award, a Fellow of the International Dental Implant Association, and frequent guest expert on TMJ and facial pain featured on Good Morning, Texas and BizTV Texas. Sometimes known as Dr. Jaw Dropper, Dr. Coats is a leading expert on TMJ disorders and facial pain.

About TMJ Plus Wellness Center

TMJ Plus Wellness Center provides total health solutions for TMJ pain. With its innovative holistic approach to TMJ disorders, TMJ Plus provides both rapid relief for TMJ symptoms and a long-term treatment plan that addresses the underlying cause of the disorder. In addition to TMJ disorder treatment, TMJ Plus provides dental cleanings, BPA- and metal-free fillings, safe mercury removal, cavitation surgery, fluoride-free dentistry, and more. To learn more or request an appointment, visit the new website at https://www.tmjplus.com, or contact the practice at 2631 Ira E. Woods Ave., Grapevine, TX 76051 phone: (817) 481-6888.

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