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 The Health Care Blog | Jun 14, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Deborah C. Peele Adrian Gropper By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD and DEBORAH C. PEEL, MD Electronic health records (EHRs) are a polarizing issue in health reform. In their current form, they are frustrating to many physicians and have failed to support cost improvements. The...
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 The Health Care Blog | Jun 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Slide into Health in 2 Point 00 (or rather, Health 2.0 HIMSS Europe) with Jess and I today! On Episode 84, Jess asks me about the big news that CVS has now made it possible for employees to get reimbursed for Big Health’s Sleepio, an insomnia digital therapeutic, and...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 13, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By KEN TERRY Far more attention has been devoted to the ways in which industry consolidation has driven up health costs than to proposals on how to remedy the situation. But the introduction of Medicare for All and Medicare for More bills—however dim their short-term...
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 The Health Care Blog | Jun 12, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By ANDRÉ BLACKMAN There I was, my 10th-grade science fair. My mother made sure I had a tie that fit properly and a shirt that was perfectly pressed. I stood among my peers with our cardboard presentation displays highlighting what we did to make it to this point. I...
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 The Health Care Blog | Jun 11, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are in Helsinki for Health 2.0 HIMSS Europe. In Episode 83, Jess asks me about Roche cheating on mySugr—Roche announced a new partnership with digital diabetes provider GlucoMe, about the new $100 million hospital venture fund...
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 The Health Care Blog | Jun 7, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By LUKE OAKDEN-RAYNER I’ve been talking in recent posts about how our typical methods of testing AI systems are inadequate and potentially unsafe. In particular, I’ve complainedthat all of the headline-grabbing papers so far only do controlled experiments, so we don’t...
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 The Health Care Blog | Jun 6, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on THCB Spotlight, Chris Gervais, Chief Technology Officer of Kyruus, tells us about what Kyruus is doing to improve patient access and help health systems match patients to the right providers. Health systems often don’t know enough about their providers, and...
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