by HIStalk | Apr 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Weekly News Recap The Illinois state procurement board recommends voiding University of Illinois Hospitals’ $62 million Epic contract, saying that Cerner’s bid was lower and referring the issue to the state’s Executive Ethics Commission after noting that Impact...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa asks me all about health & technology, in just 2 minutes, featuring venture rounds for Kyruus, Parsley Health, Livongo buying RetroFit, the RWJF AI challenge from Catalyst @ Health 2.0 and a ridiculously long explanation of where the @boltyboy...
by HIStalk | Apr 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Tulare hospital’s creditors lining up in court Healthcare Conglomerate Associates – former management company of Tulare Regional Medical Center (CA) – attributes its past struggles with payroll to glitches in the Cerner system it implemented in 2016. Parent...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. They just raised another $10M and...
by HIStalk | Apr 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News The State of Illinois Procurement Board finds evidence of a conflict of interest in the $62 million contract awarded to Epic by University of Illinois Hospitals and Health Sciences System, prompting the board to refer the matter to the state’s ethics...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By TIM WILLIAMS & DAVID INTROCASO This past October CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the agency’s “Meaningful Measures” initiative.[1] Ms. Verma launched the initiative because, she admitted, the agency’s current quality measurement programming, widely...
by HIStalk | Apr 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
So many things are going on in the healthcare IT world that it’s impossible to keep up. I came across an article about the telehealth program at New York Presbyterian, which has been implemented in the emergency department to reduce wait times. The Express Care...
by HIStalk | Apr 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Warnings of $100M Overpayment Prompt Recommendation to Void Contract The State of Illinois Procurement Board finds evidence of a conflict of interest in the $62 million University of Illinois Hospitals EHR implementation contract awarded to Epic, prompting the board...
by HIStalk | Apr 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Nathan Read is senior director of IT at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC. Tell me about yourself and the hospital. I’ve been in healthcare IT my whole career, which is going on 20 years now. The first 15 to 20 years was working on the...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JOHN EL-MARAGHY When it comes to navigating healthcare and making decisions about your health, and the health of loved ones, there is no yellow brick road. Even the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a leading national healthcare nonprofit, could only...
by HIStalk | Apr 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
UNC Health Care Achieves Highest Rank Possible in Three Health IT Categories UNC Health Care (NC) announces that it has achieved HIMSS Stage 7 for inpatient, ambulatory, and analytics, of which neighboring Duke Health was the first trifecta winner. Livongo Health...
by HIStalk | Apr 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News UNC Health Care (NC) announces that it has achieved HIMSS Stage 7 for inpatient, ambulatory, and analytics, of which neighboring Duke Health was the first trifecta winner. The announcement includes a little dig at Duke, noting that UNC is “the only health...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of health and how we love to hate WTF is wrong with it right now. Can’t get enough? Check out more interviews at www.wtf.health. One of the new faces – and mega...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By BENJAMIN MAZER, MD Doctors can be two-faced. This isn’t necessarily a negative attribute. Doctors have distinct personas for our patients and our colleagues. With patients, doctors strive for a compassionate but authoritative role. However, with each other, doctors...
by HIStalk | Apr 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
CMS Paid Practitioners for Telehealth Services That Did Not Meet Medicare Requirements An OIG analysis finds that CMS erroneously paid out $3.7 million for telemedicine claims that did not meet Medicare requirements. Pentagon wants to spot illnesses by monitoring...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA Health Datapalooza is coming up quick at the end of April, so I sat down with Bruce Greenstein, CTO of HHS about why all of THCB’s health tech friends should attend. Plus, we get into what’s happening with the open data movement and how Bruce’s...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN Lawton Burns and Mark Pauly, economists at the Wharton School, just published an article that should be required reading for all policy makers and health services researchers. The article, entitled “Transformation of the health care industry: Curb...
by HIStalk | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
I’ve written a bit lately about burnout and how it’s impacting people in healthcare IT. A couple of years ago, I took up a hobby that was 180 degrees from my day job. I don’t fancy myself an artist, but it was a way to use my mind in a different way than I typically...
by HIStalk | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Matt Sappern is CEO of PeriGen of Cary, NC. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’ve been in healthcare IT for more than 15 years, holding various leadership roles across product development, services, support, and sales. Probably most formatively, I was at...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Today Jessica DaMassa asks me about the microbiome, the Dev4Health conference & whether there are more female CEOs than there used to be. All in 2 minutes, plus a bit more with me defending myself from Bruce Greenstein’s wisecracks–Matthew Holt View Entire Article...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By MATTHEW HOLT Any DuRoss is one of the more charming and remarkable characters in the health tech world. She lead the campaign for Proposition 71 in 2004 which funded and established the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Later on she was a key player...
by HIStalk | Apr 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
CHS lays off dozens of corporate employees Nashville-based hospital chain Community Health Systems lays off at least 70 corporate IT employees. Rumors suggest data center and deployment areas were hit hard. GE Healthcare IT unit carveout backed by US$850m in loans...
by HIStalk | Apr 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Nashville-based hospital chain Community Health Systems lays off at least 70 corporate IT employees. Anonymous rumors say the data center and deployment areas were hit hard and the company may be looking to send data center support offshore. Wayne Smith, CEO...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By NYU SPORTS & SOCIETY Should young athletes be allowed to play tackle football? Are concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) a public health problem or merely one associated with professional sports? Join experts in science, media, policy and...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
BY VA WEST HAVEN COE CLINIC If it weren’t for the round, scaly patch on the young woman’s shoulder, her doctor might never have known that she served in the Navy for 6 years. He wouldn’t have learned about her sun exposure during a year-long station in east Africa,...
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