Cerner and Epic reported the highest patient portal utilization rates (higher than 20%), according to a recent study by peer60 that explores which vendors have the best patient engagement results. The report reveals that the right vendor can help a provider yield much higher rates of success than others. Despite Cerner and Epic's patient portal utilization rates, the report also found key flaws in their patient portal features:
- Cerner users seemed particularly frustrated by the
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Is Your Self-Tracking Health App or Device Really Secure?
How safe is your self-tracking health app or device? A recent Symantec report reveals the hidden security risks of your quantified self data.
Technology has made it possible for us to literally keep tabs on ourselves and measure our everyday activities with the objective of improving our quality of life and preventing health issues. Call it self-tracking, life-logging, quantified-self, or body hacking; this concept and its practice has caught on quite significantly today. Wearable computing,
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Telehealth Companies Have Raised $433M Across 79 Deals Since 2007
Telehealth companies have raised $433M across 79 deals since since the start of 2007, according to CB Insights Data. The venture capital database and angel investment database company stated in a recent blog post that 2014 YTD funding has already reached record breaking levels with the highest amount of telehealth funding on record, up 130 percent from 2013. The chart shown below illustrates the funding trend to telehealth companies since 2007. For more information on telehealth funding deals,
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Patient Portal Features: Which Is The Most Beneficial & Frustrating for Consumers?
To successfully attest for Meaningful Use Stage 2, providers must have a patient portal that is used by at least 5 percent of patients in order to receive financial incentives. Reports have shown that providers have struggled with patient portal adoption which caused CMS to lower the objective to 5 percent from the initial 10 percent. While educating patients about patient portals is clearly the first step, maintaining their involvement depends heavily on understanding both the features they
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Rock Health Adds 8 Startups To Its Portfolio, Partners With Abott, Blue Shield of California, Deloitte
Rock Health, a San Francisco-based full service seed fund for digital health startups today announced its latest addition of eight startups to its portfolio. The newest class is focused on using technology to address several pain points in healthcare ranging from a platform to allow doctors to manage neurological disorders to a collaboration platform for life science R&D.
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ACO Trends to Watch in 2014 and Beyond Infographic
Infographic created by CDW Healthcare illustrates some of the key ACO trends to watch in 2014 and beyond.
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Creative England Launches £1million Digital Health Fund in UK
Creative England has announced a new £1million fund to stimulate creative and digital health innovation in UK healthcare for regional based SMEs. The first of four programmes to open as part of this fund is the West Midlands Interactive Healthcare Fund, in partnership with Nominet Trust and the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. The fund aims to encourage small creative and digital businesses in the North, Midlands and South West regions to develop innovative concepts or prototypes using
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Number of eVisits Expected to Top 100 Million Globally in 2014
The number of eVisits is expected to reach 100 million globally potentially saving over $5 billion when compared to the cost of in-person doctor visits, according to a recent report from Deloitte. The report findings show that as eVisits are proven and adopted globally, they are increasingly likely to offer affordable primary medical and diagnostic care to large populations that do not have access today. eVisits are defined in the report as a subset of the telehealth market, which is estimated
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40% of Patients Are Unaware of Patient Portal Options
40 percent of patients are unaware of their patient portal options provided by their primary care physician, according to recent study by TechnologyAdvice. In an effort to learn more about how patients wish to communicate with their doctors, Technology Advice surveyed a random sample of 430 patients who had seen their primary care physician within the last year.
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Validic Raises $5M to Accelerate Health Data Interoperability
With the emergence of patient devices, wearables and healthcare apps, insightful healthcare data is now overflowing in abundance. However, the ability to extract and deliver that data more readily to healthcare organizations is still a real challenge— until now. Validic, a pioneer in accessing digital and mobile health data announced it has closed $5 million in Series A funding co-led by Greycroft Partners and SJF Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate its leading healthcare technology
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