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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By VINCE KURAITIS & LESLIE KELLY HALL Vince Kuraitis Leslie Kelly Hall Among many healthcare providers, it’s been long-standing conventional wisdom (CW) that hoarding patient data is an effective business strategy to lock-in patients — “He who holds the data,...
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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Here’s the live stream of today’s Society for Participatory Medicine’s conference in Boston: View Entire Article on TheHealthCareBlog.com
by The Health Care Blog | Oct 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By FRED TROTTER On Oct 19, I will begin to MC the health equity hackathon in Austin TX, which will focus on addressing healthcare disparity issues. Specifically, we will be using healthcare data to try and make an impact on those problems. Our planning team has 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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By KENNETH D. MANDL, MD; DAN GOTTLIEB; JOSH C. MANDEL, MD Josh Mandel Kenneth Mandl Dan Gottlieb The opportunity has never been greater to, at long last, develop a flourishing health information economy based on apps which have full access to health system data–for...
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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
On Today’s episode of healthin2point00, Jess asks me about the CVS & Aetna’s merger, CSweetner & HIMSS new partnership in women’s health care, HLTH’s new pledge with Parity.org, Noona Healthcare getting acquired by Varian Health Systems. And as Jess point...
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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF Health “That’s why we’re investing so heavily in the innovation space…we look at physicians and how they’re spending their days. The amount of time they’re spending clicking away on their EHRs, wasting time – we think we can help fix it. It’s...
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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By CHARLES GABA It’s pretty rare that I ask THCB readers to go over to another blog and support that blog with money BUT, today is the day to do that. Charles Gaba has been THE leading source of information about exactly who is signing up for ACA plans on which...
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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 12, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ANNE COCQUYT On October 26-27 SERENDIPITY is coming back to San Francisco with an opportunity-packed, two-day personal and professional development conference. Hosted by the digital networking platform GUILD, this conference is not your average conference. With 40...
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 The Health Care Blog | Oct 11, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By HANNAH MARTIN; JENNY BOGARD; WILLIAM DIETZ, MD; ANNE VALIK; NICHOLE JANNAH; CHRISTINE GALLAGHER; ANAND PAREKH, MD; DON BRADLEY MD Hannah Martin Jenny Bogard Dr. William Dietz Anne Valik Nichole Jannah Christine Gallager Dr. Anand Parekh Dr. Don Bradley ...
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...
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