by HIStalk | Jun 22, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Tech company once lauded for growth shutters Tampa office suddenly, leaves over 100 without jobs Chronic care management company CareSync closes amidst bankruptcy rumors. Wildflower Health Acquires Circle, an Innovative Mobile Health Business Incubated by Providence...
by HIStalk | Jun 22, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Chronic care management company CareSync shuts down. Reader Holy Mackerel alerted me to the development: ”Shipt founder Bill Smith offered on Monday to buy 100 percent of company stock for $7 million. Keeping in mind that investors poured in $79 million, he’d...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Jessica DaMassa hosts this edition of Health in 2 Point 00 on the Italian leg of her Grand Tour of Europe. This time it’s another takeover with Roberto Ascione, CEO of Healthware dishing on innovation on the Almafi Coast, the impact of GDPR on digital health in Europe...
by HIStalk | Jun 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
I was excited to learn that the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan health care venture has selected Atul Gawande MD as its CEO. My first reaction was to wonder how he was going to fit this into his schedule, given his responsibilities as a surgeon, educator, author, and more....
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By STEVE FINDLAY Amid fresh political rancor and legal machinations in the ongoing war over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there’s a bright spot: Medicaid. At least for now. This matters. True to predictions made by Obama and supporters when the ACA became law (2010),...
by HIStalk | Jun 21, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
GoodRx, a service for finding the best price on prescription drugs, is in sale talks for up to $3 billion Prescription drug comparison pricing company GoodRx is reportedly in talks with several companies, including McKesson, to sell its assets for between $1.5 billion...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of the health industry 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. Central to the ‘WTF...
by HIStalk | Jun 20, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Quest Analytics Acquires BetterDoctor to Create First Health Plan Platform to Ensure Network Adequacy, Provider Data Accuracy and Improved Member Experience Healthcare provider management and network access technology company Quest Analytics acquires provider...
by HIStalk | Jun 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Walmart patents a system for storing a patient’s vital medical information in blockchain database housed in a wearable device. Reader Comments From Uncle Carbuncle: “Re: IT department names. I’ve seen it go from DP to MIS to IT and now sometimes to technology...
by Health IT Buzz | Jun 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Over the past decade, hospitals and physician offices have made tremendous gains in shifting their record-keeping from paper to computerized systems. This transition to electronic health records (EHRs) has engendered frustration among clinicians who expected computers...
by HIStalk | Jun 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
John Talaga is co-founder and EVP/GM of OnPlan Health of Bannockburn, IL. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m a co-founder of OnPlan Holdings. I founded HealthCom Partners, which was acquired by McKesson in 2006. We developed introduced PatientCompass, which...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By CHARLES SILVER and DAVID A.HYMAN Today THCB is happy to publish a piece reflecting the learnings from Charles Silver and David Hyman’s forthcoming book Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care, shortly to be published by the libertarian leaning Cato...
by HIStalk | Jun 19, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Walmart Patents System for Accessing Medical Records Stored on a Blockchain Walmart’s latest patent suggests it will develop a wearable that will give emergency responders access to an unresponsive patient’s medical record using blockchain technology. Google is...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By JESSICA DAMASSA WTF Health – ‘What’s the Future’ Health? is a new interview series about the future of the health industry 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. Having formerly worked...
by HIStalk | Jun 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
One of the hot topics in the physician lounge lately has been telemedicine. Several of the larger physician organizations are pursuing strategies to incorporate telemedicine into their practices. It’s interesting to see the different strategies they’re taking, and...
by HIStalk | Jun 18, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Elizabeth Holmes indicted on wire fraud charges, steps down from Theranos The US Attorney indicts Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President and COO Sunny Balwani for fraud, charging that as Theranos executives, they knew that the company’s blood...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 17, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA The year was 1965, the place was Boston Children’s and a surgery resident named Robert Bartlett took his turn at the bedside of a just born baby unable to breathe. This particular baby couldn’t breathe because of a hole in the diaphragm that had allowed...
by HIStalk | Jun 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News The US Attorney indicts Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President and COO Sunny Balwani for fraud, charging that as Theranos executives, they knew that the company’s blood testing technology was unreliable and was not competitive with...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 16, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By ANISH KOKA The phone rings. It’s not supposed to be ringing. It’s 2 am. The voice on the other line is from an apologetic surgery resident. Resident: There is this patient.. Me: Yes, go ahead. Please. Resident: He’s tachycardic. Me: How fast? Resident: 160 ?...
by HIStalk | Jun 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
I wish I would have known that I would be “judged” on my level of grief after the loss. One of my classmates in medical school committed suicide during the last half of our last year. Even though I wasn’t in his most inner circle of friends (really just his fiancée...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
It’s a #Healthin2Point00 #Takeover edition — in which I get the boot and Jessica DaMassa invites Eugene Borukhovich who runs Bayer’s Digital Health Division and oversees the #Grants4Apps program to answer all he knows about ICEE Health (the conference they’re at),...
by HIStalk | Jun 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Weekly News Recap GPB Capital acquires Maryland-based RCM/EHR vendor Health Prime International. Inspirata acquires Caradigm from GE Healthcare Former IBM employees say Watson Health’s troubles stem from the company’s inability to successfully merge the assets of its...
by HIStalk | Jun 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Hackensack Meridian Health Funds Key Innovation to Improve Health Care in New Jersey Hackensack Meridian Health uses its $25 million innovation investment fund to finance Pillo Health’s digital home health companion. Outcome Health names advertising executive as new...
by HIStalk | Jun 15, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
Top News Cancer informatics technology vendor Inspirata acquires Caradigm from GE Healthcare. Imprivata bought Caradigm’s identity management business in October 2017. Microsoft, originally a 50-50 Caradigm joint venture investor with GE Healthcare to which it...
by The Health Care Blog | Jun 14, 2018 | Healthcare Technology
By SOFIJA DRECUN At this years’ SXSW it was all about blockchain and cryptocurrencies, but it was like that at HIMSS, JPM, CES, etc. as well. Since we wrote already about the first of the two buzzwords – blockchain as a trend in Healthcare, we decided to tackle the...
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