by HIStalk | Jun 16, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News The local paper’s review of the June 2 ransomware attack on Estes Park Health (CO), which includes a 23-bed critical access hospital, contains interesting nuggets: The ransomware took down the health system’s network, phones, and email. The health system’s...
by HIStalk | Jun 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Weekly News Recap Allscripts announces plans to acquire specialty drug prescription prior authorization platform vendor ZappRx. GE Ventures looks for a buyer for its stake in 100-plus startups that include 27 healthcare companies. French company Dassault Systèmes...
by HIStalk | Jun 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Allscripts is buying ZappRx, a prescription drug start-up Allscripts will buy specialty drug prescription prior authorization platform vendor ZappRx, according to reports, as it moves toward diversifying its EHR business. General Electric wants to sell its stake in...
by HIStalk | Jun 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Allscripts will buy specialty drug prescription prior authorization platform vendor ZappRx, according to reports, as it moves toward diversifying its EHR business. The acquisition price was not disclosed, but is reportedly less than the $41 million ZappRx...
by HIStalk | Jun 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
I’m an avid reader and was very excited to hear about “Code Blue” by Mike Magee. The author is a physician and chronicles decades of bad behavior by what he calls the “Medical Industrial Complex” of self-interested parties that drive our healthcare non-system. Magee...
by HIStalk | Jun 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Congress Questions Leadership of VA Health Record Overhaul Lawmakers continue to express frustration with a lack of leadership over the VA and DoD’s EHR projects, calling the proposed Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Program Office more of a concept than...
by HIStalk | Jun 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Gabe Orthous is CIO of Central Georgia Health Network in Macon, GA. Tell me about yourself and your job. I’ve been in the business for 20 years. I started my career in revenue cycle, moved on to analytics and population health, and now we’re in the throes of...
by HIStalk | Jun 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Industry long-timers Ivo Nelson and Dana Sellers hit a couple of massive health IT consulting company home runs. They created Healthlink and Encore Health Resources and then sold them to large companies in 2005 and 2014, respectively. Those brands have disappeared,...
by HIStalk | Jun 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Humana and Epic to Enhance Patient, Provider and Payer Collaboration Epic will integrate Humana’s real-time prescription benefits checking tool within its e-prescribing workflow. EQT to Sell Press Ganey Swedish investment firm EQT will sell healthcare advisory and...
by HIStalk | Jun 11, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Epic will integrate Humana’s real-time prescription benefits checking tool within its e-prescribing workflow, giving prescribers drug efficacy and cost information at the time of prescribing. Other elements of the relationship include work with prior...
by HIStalk | Jun 11, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Connecticut and Illinois Open Investigation into Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp Data Breach Attorneys general from Connecticut and Illinois launch an investigation into the cause of the American Medical Collection Agency breach, which may have exposed the data of 20...
by HIStalk | Jun 10, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
As much as clinicians complain about EHRs, they can be powerful tools for data analytics. I’ve worked with a number of organizations that have embraced the ability of the EHR and practice management systems to help them understand why their schedules are backed up and...
by HIStalk | Jun 10, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Medisanté Enters U.S. Market and Chairs the Direct-to-Cloud IoT Activity Work Group in the Personal Connected Health Alliance Switzerland-based medical Internet of Things vendor Medisanté enters the US market with the opening of an office in Bridgewater, NJ. KRMC...
by HIStalk | Jun 9, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News A physician’s New York Times opinion piece says corporatized healthcare is cynically taking advantage of the professionalism of doctors and nurses by assuming they will work extra hours without extra pay, with the biggest overtime culprit being the EHR. The...
by HIStalk | Jun 7, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Weekly News Recap A breach of American Medical Collection Agency exposes the information of 19 million of patients of national lab companies LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics The six former National Coordinators express their support for the proposed interoperability...
by HIStalk | Jun 7, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Champion Healthcare Technologies Receives Investment from The Riverside Company The Riverside Company acquires medical device tracking software vendor Champion Healthcare Technologies from Jump Capital for an undisclosed sum. Bain Capital, 5 others in race to buy...
by HIStalk | Jun 6, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News LabCorp joins the roster of companies impacted by the American Medical Collection Agency breach, notifying nearly 8 million customers that their personal and financial data may have been exposed. Opko Health’s 422,000 BioReference Lab customers were also...
by HIStalk | Jun 6, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
The American Board of Family Medicine takes a step towards interoperable encounters of the professional kind by becoming the first American Board of Medical Specialties member Board to implement automated licensure updates for US licensees. Instead of Diplomates...
by HIStalk | Jun 6, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Carbon Health Secures $30 Million Series B Funding To Reimagine The Consumer Healthcare Retail Experience And Accelerate Expansion Into New Markets Nationwide San Francisco-based primary and urgent care company Carbon Health raises $30 million in a Series B funding...
by HIStalk | Jun 5, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Former National Health IT Coordinators Respond To Proposed ONC, CMS Interoperability Rules All six former National Coordinators pledge their support for the proposed ONC/CMS interoperability rules, saying they will transform information flow, spur innovation, and...
by HIStalk | Jun 4, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News All six former National Coordinators pledge their support for the proposed ONC/CMS interoperability rules in a Health Affairs article. They say the rules will transform information flow, spur innovation, and empower consumers. They also observe that: Rapid...
by HIStalk | Jun 4, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Biden Cancer Initiative Announces the Oncology Clinical Trial Information Commons Former Vice President Joe Biden’s cancer initiative will include data from nine organizations including IBM Watson Health and Ciitizen as part of a new clinical trial data sharing...
by HIStalk | Jun 3, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Maybe I am becoming less tolerant as I get older, but I seem to be very easily tired by people in this industry who talk a good game, but are unable to get any of their ideas to fruition. It’s especially tiresome when these folks are hired by major organizations at...
by HIStalk | Jun 3, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Why the Interoperability and Patient Access Proposed Rules Matter for the Future of HealthcareBy Russ Thomas Russ Thomas is CEO of Availity of Jacksonville, FL. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for...
by HIStalk | Jun 3, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
EHR Developers are Aligned with Goals of Cures NPRM, Hope ONC will Remove Ambiguity and Reassess Timeline The vendor members of the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association raise “significant concerns” in draft comments about proposed federal rules covering...
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