by HIStalk | Apr 25, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
CPSI to Acquire Get Real Health to Expand Patient Engagement Solutions Community healthcare EHR company CPSI will acquire patient engagement vendor Get Real Health for $11 million. FTC Charges Surescripts with Illegal Monopolization of E-Prescription Markets The FTC...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 24, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Samyukta Mullangi By SAMYUKTA MULLANGI MD, MBA, DANIEL W. BERLAND MD, and SUSAN DORR GOOLD MD, MHSA, MA Jenny, a woman in her twenties with morbid obesity (not her real name), had already been through multiple visits with specialists, primary care physicians (PCPs),...
by HIStalk | Apr 24, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
David Wenger is founder and CEO of Bridge Connector of Nashville, TN. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m the founder and CEO of Bridge Connector. Bridge Connector is an integration platform as a service with a data-driven workflow automation solution. It is...
by HIStalk | Apr 24, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Censinet Launches Industry’s First Third-Party Risk Management Platform Designed Exclusively for Healthcare Providers Censinet launches its health system vendor management platform and raises $7.8 million in a Series A funding round. Job cuts expected at major Belfast...
by HIStalk | Apr 23, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News HHS announces CMS Primary Cares, two value-based care payment models launching in 2020 that it says will cover at least 25% of Medicare beneficiaries and providers. The models are: Primary Care First, in which small primary care practices will be paid a fixed...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 23, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By SAURABH JHA, MD In this episode of Radiology Firing Line Podcast, I speak with Bishal Gyawali MD, PhD. Dr. Gyawali obtained his medical degree from Kathmandu. He received a scholarship to pursue a PhD in Japan. Dr. Gyawali’s work focuses on getting cheap and...
by HIStalk | Apr 23, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Kindbody Raises $15M Series A To Reinvent Modern Women’s Health Care Women’s healthcare company Kindbody raises $15 million in a Series A round that brings its total funding to $22 million. ESO Takes Over Emergency Medical Services Performance Improvement Center...
by HIStalk | Apr 22, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
I’ve been working with a large provider group and recently spent some time with them in a retreat format. Although the group bills itself as a topnotch organization from a clinical quality perspective, there is a great deal of physician dissatisfaction. The EHR is a...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 22, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD At its April 4, 2019 meeting, the staff of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) asked the commission to discuss a very strange proposal: Doctors who treat patients enrolled in Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program must...
by HIStalk | Apr 22, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
AI and Machine Learning Only Work if You Do By Brian Robertson Brian Robertson is CEO of VisiQuate of Santa Rosa, CA. Do AI and ML represent a game-changing opportunity for revenue cycle management? Absolutely. An annual research report by EMC and IDC indicates that...
by HIStalk | Apr 22, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
HHS Announces Next Steps in Advancing Interoperability of Health Information HHS opens Draft 2 of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for public comment. Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement – Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) ONC will...
by HIStalk | Apr 21, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News HHS opens Draft 2 of its Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for public comment. ONC will present a webinar on Draft 2 on April 23. In related news, ONC announces that it will open a four-year, $900,000 per year (first year) funding opportunity...
by HIStalk | Apr 19, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Weekly News Recap IBM halts sales of Watson for Drug Discovery due to low demand Healthcare data integration vendor Redox raises $33 million The New York Times profiles the Butterfly IQ device that transforms a smartphone into an ultrasound scanner Provider...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 19, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Sam Aptekar Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE, MD and SAM APTEKAR A friend of mine told me the other day, “We’ve seen our insured patient population go from 15% to 70% in the few years since Obamacare.” As a primary care physician in the Midwest, he’s worked for years in an...
by Health IT Buzz | Apr 19, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
In the 1990s, many Americans interacted with the Internet through America Online. While this platform was revolutionary, providing users with e-mail services and access to content, it was also a closed network. Their users were restricted from accessing applications,...
by HIStalk | Apr 19, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
IBM cutting Watson for Drug Discovery IBM halts sales of Watson for Drug Discovery due to low demand. Elizabeth Holmes’ Failed Theranos Was Just Granted 5 New Patents In 2019 CB Insights reports failed blood-testing company Theranos was awarded five new patents in...
by HIStalk | Apr 18, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Top News IBM halts sales of Watson for Drug Discovery due to low demand. The company says it will intensify its focus on clinical development. The Watson for Drug Discovery web page is still active, including testimonials from Barrow Neurological Institute. Webinars...
by HIStalk | Apr 18, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
The largest US health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, has added its critique to the Medicare for All proposals currently being debated in Congress. We’re going to hear about this for the next year and a half, at least through the next presidential election, so I’m not...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 18, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
By ADRIAN GROPPER, MD Many of you have received the email: Microsoft HealthVault is shutting down. By some accounts, Microsoft has spent over $1 Billion on a valiant attempt to create a patient-centered health information system. They were not greedy. They adopted...
by HIStalk | Apr 18, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Acting as the data integrator between hospitals and digital health apps brings Redox $33 million Health data integration vendor Redox raises $33 million, bringing its total funding to $50 million since launching five years ago. Theranos’ Holmes seeks records on...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 17, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Today on Health in 2 Point 00, Jess and I are in New Orleans at the ATA Annual Conference. In this episode, Jess asks me about my takeaways from the conference, Cityblock’s $65 million raise, and Microsoft HealthVault shutting down. In terms of virtual care, it seems...
by HIStalk | Apr 17, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Uniting the Full Continuum of Care for the Individual: Why Digital Technologies Must Embrace Holistic Patient EngagementBy Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA Mary Kay Thalken, RN, MBA is chief clinical officer of Ensocare of Omaha, NE. More than half of healthcare...
by The Health Care Blog | Apr 17, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
SPONSORED POST By DIANA CHEN The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has partnered with Catalyst @ Health 2.0 to launch two innovation challenges on Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) and Home & Community Based Care. As a national leader in building a culture...
by HIStalk | Apr 17, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
I asked provider IT professionals to weigh in on this question, whose genesis was an outsider’s assessment via an HIStalk comment: do we health system IT people automatically dismiss potentially disruptive technologies (such as AI) because we are too entrenched or too...
by HIStalk | Apr 17, 2019 | Healthcare Technology
Activist investor Jeff Smith: There is a ‘huge’ value opportunity in Cerner Starboard Value CEO Jeff Smith believes Cerner can increase its operating margins by as much as 9% within the next 18 months if it meets unspecified targets. In African Villages, These Phones...
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