by HIStalk | Oct 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
A reader recently asked how/where I keep my own personal medical records. I may have written about it in the past, but my strategy is always evolving, so I’ll share my answer. From my college and medical school days, I have a few paper documents, mostly pathology...
by HIStalk | Oct 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
OptimizeRx Acquires CareSpeak Communications Digital prescription savings company OptimizeRx acquires interactive patient messaging vendor CareSpeak Communications for an undisclosed sum. Apple gives U.S. users tool to see what data it has collected Following a...
by HIStalk | Oct 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Alexander Scarlat, MD is a physician and data scientist, board-certified in anesthesiology with a degree in computer sciences. He has a keen interest in machine learning applications in healthcare. He welcomes feedback on this series at drscarlat@gmail.com. AI State...
by HIStalk | Oct 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Rizwan Koita is CEO of CitiusTech of Princeton, NJ. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m the founder and chief executive officer of CitiusTech. We founded the company in 2005. This is my second company — I started a tech support company. Before that, I spent...
by HIStalk | Oct 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Influential Leapfrog Group Jumps In To Rate 5,600 Surgery Centers Hospital grading organization Leapfrog Group will launch safety and quality surveys of the country’s 5,600 outpatient surgery centers after an investigation revealed poor oversight and substandard...
by HIStalk | Oct 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Radiation oncology and software vendor Varian Medical acquires Finland-based Noona Healthcare, whose software captures patient-reported outcomes and supports symptom management. Reader Comments From Managing Director, Otium cum Dignitate: “Re: HIMSS Form 990....
by HIStalk | Oct 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Anthem Pays OCR $16 Million in Record HIPAA Settlement Following Largest U.S. Health Data Breach in History Anthem will pay the HHS Office of Civil Rights $16 million to settle HIPAA violations from a 2015 data breach that impacted 79 million people. Four Men and...
by HIStalk | Oct 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
As an urgent care physician, I enjoy the satisfaction of being able to make a bad day better for many of my patients. Although I live in a major metropolitan area, there is a relative shortage of primary care physicians (at least ones taking new patients). For those...
by HIStalk | Oct 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Hurricanes Michael and Florence Remind Us Why We Need a Data Backup PlanBy Marty Puranik Marty Puranik is president and CEO of Atlantic.Net of Orlando, FL. The immense flooding of Hurricanes Michael and Florence across the Florida Panhandle and southeastern areas of...
by HIStalk | Oct 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
The Compliance Difficulties of Medical Device ConnectivityBy Abbas Dhilawala Abbas Dhilawala, MS is CTO of Galen Data of Houston, TX. There are numerous challenges facing the global healthcare ecosystem today, including aging populations that require more healthcare...
by HIStalk | Oct 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Cloud-Based Digital Pathology Startup Deep Lens Exits Stealth Mode With $3.2 Million Seed Financing Pathology image detection support system vendor Deep Lens announces $3.2 million in seed funding and availability of its free VIPER service for pathologists....
by HIStalk | Oct 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Pathology image detection support system vendor Deep Lens announces $3.2 million in seed funding and availability of its free VIPER service for pathologists. Co-founders of the Columbus, OH-based company are CEO Dave Billiter, MBA (Cardinal Health) and...
by HIStalk | Oct 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Weekly News Recap Athenahealth is reportedly choosing from its options to accept acquisition bids from previously rejected suitors, sell out to NThrive, or continue as a going concern Several hospitals evacuate patients and suffer damage from Hurricane Michael The...
by HIStalk | Oct 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Athenahealth is reaching out to previously rejected suitors The New York Post reports that Athenahealth is waffling between accepting acquisition bids from companies it previously rejected, merging with NThrive, or remaining as is. 2 Florida hospitals in wake of...
by HIStalk | Oct 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Bay Medical Sacred Heart and Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center evacuate a combined 330 patients after suffering extensive damage during Hurricane Michael’s destructive trek through Panama City in the Florida panhandle. Damage to the facilities included a...
by HIStalk | Oct 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
I was excited to hear that Atul Gawande, MD has been booked as the opening keynote speaker for HIMSS19. Many of us were initially enthusiastic about the efforts by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase to revolutionize healthcare delivery. That enthusiasm...
by HIStalk | Oct 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
CVS Health and Aetna $69 Billion Merger Is Approved With Conditions The DoJ clears CVS Health to proceed with its $69 billion merger with Aetna, which will operate as a standalone business once the deal closes at the end of Q4. Amazon patents new Alexa feature that...
by HIStalk | Oct 10, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Former GE Healthcare Value-Based Care Solutions Group Rebrands as Virence Health Technologies GE Healthcare’s former Value-Based Care Solutions Group, sold to private equity firm Veritas Capital in April 2018 for $1.05 billion in cash, renames itself Virence Health...
by HIStalk | Oct 9, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News GE Healthcare’s former Value-Based Care Solutions Group, sold to private equity firm Veritas Capital in April 2018 for $1.05 billion in cash, renames itself Virence Health Technologies. The GE Healthcare products that were included in the acquisition are...
by HIStalk | Oct 9, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Mayo Clinic completes installation of Epic electronic health record Mayo Clinic wraps up its system-wide Epic implementation, dubbed the Plummer Project, with go lives at facilities in Arizona and Florida. Liberty IT Solutions Awarded $11.4MM Computerized Patient...
by HIStalk | Oct 8, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Although the majority of my work is in the CMIO space, I occasionally do some work for vendors. Depending on the vendor and the situation, it could be anything from participating in a focus group to helping design and execute on usability studies. I’ve worked with...
by HIStalk | Oct 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Assessment of US Hospital Compliance With Regulations for Patients’ Requests for Medical Records A study of 83 mostly top-rated hospitals finds that patients still struggle to get copies of their medical information, with many facilities ignoring a federal requirement...
by HIStalk | Oct 7, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News An study of 83 mostly top-rated hospitals finds that patients still struggle to get copies of their medical information (matching my appalling experience): 89 percent do not allow patients to request a specific category of information to be released 47...
by HIStalk | Oct 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Weekly News Recap Cerner announces the partner companies that will serve on its VA EHR modernization team Change Healthcare is reportedly preparing for a 2019 IPO that will value the company at up to $12 billion A new Pew Charitable Trusts report on patient matching...
by HIStalk | Oct 5, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Health tech pioneer Deborah Estrin named MacArthur fellow The MacArthur Foundation awards Deborah Estrin a fellowship for her work on determining how data generated by smartphones, wearables, and online interactions can be used for mobile health while still...
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