President Obama is asking Congress for $215 million to fund the Precision Medicine Initiative, a new patient centered research effort that aims to to accelerate biomedical discoveries and provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select which treatments will work best for which patients. The Obama administration hopes to launch the new initiative with a $215 million investment in the President's 2016 budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
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Archives for 2015
In-Depth: 2014 Best in KLAS Awards for Software and Professional Services
On Friday, KLAS released their annual Best in KLAS Awards for Software and Professional Services report, a high level overview of performance ratings for vendors offering software, professional services, and medical equipment to the healthcare industry. Each year, ratings are compiled from evaluations received during the 12-month period prior to its publication from healthcare professionals in North America. New segments in this report include:
- Population Health
- Urgent Care
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Is Universal Health Data Platforms the “Holy Grail” of Interoperability?
Health information exchange (the verb) has been the goal of health IT, now that we have moved into the “post-EHR adoption” era of healthcare. Published and private surveys have shown that about 80% of physician practices have implemented an EHR, and of those, about 90% have participated in meaningful use. The challenge before us now, then, is somehow connecting the fragmented places where health data resides, and bring them together into a unified health data layer that is current,
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Cerner Rakes in 6 Best in KLAS Awards
EMR leader leader Cerner Corp. announced this week it has won six Best in KLAS 2014: Software and Services awards including "Best in KLAS" Remote Hosting for the sixth consecutive year.
Cerner earned the following 2014 Best in KLAS rankings in the following categories:
Application Hosting CIS/ERP/HIS for Remote Hosting *Sixth Consecutive Year
Ambulatory EMR (1-10 Physicians) for PowerChart Ambulatory™
Global non-U.S. Patient Administration Systems for Millennium® PAS *New
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ONC Releases Health IT Interoperability Roadmap
ONC issues draft nationwide health IT Interoperability Roadmap; Implementation resources also released as first deliverable
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0. The draft Roadmap is a proposal to deliver better care and result in healthier people through the safe and secure exchange and use
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3 Facts Proving The Future of Google Glass in Healthcare is Brighter Than Ever
There have been tons of recent reports and op-eds following recent announcements from Google about the changes to the Glass program. Unfortunately, much of the reporting has been misleading. Let's start by getting the facts straight, then consider what's next for Glass.
Facts:
1) Glass is “graduating” from Google[x], the company’s research division, and becoming a full-fledged business unit within Google proper.
2) The new business unit will be overseen by Tony Fadell, who led the iPod
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Roche and Qualcomm Partner to Innovate Remote Patient Monitoring
Qualcomm today announced that Qualcomm’s subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., and Roche, a leader in point-of-care diagnostics, have entered into a strategic partnership to improve remote patient monitoring and management of chronic disease patients. Together, the companies aim to advance chronic care management using connected therapy to further improve therapy quality, increase convenience and drive patient engagement in managing their health.
Partnership Details
Roche will utilize Qualcomm
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2013/2014 Comparison of HIE Providers Supporting Meaningful Use Stage 2 (Infographic)
Recently, the HIMSS HIE Committee conducted a follow-up survey to its 2013 Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Survey research providing a year-over-year snapshot of how health information organizations (HIOs) are facilitating providers’ progress in achieving meaningful use objectives – specifically around Stage 2. The 2014 Follow-up survey results infographic visualization shown below highlights progress and notable improvements during the last year, including critical Meaningful Use Stage 2 benchmarks
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Advance Health Raises $40M to Expand In Home Health Assessments
To improve healthcare, the next evolution of member care is necessary. In a study by The Physicians Foundation, 27 percent of Americans do not have a Primary Care Physician (PCP) and of those that do, 22 percent do not visit their PCP on a regular basis. Patients fail to follow care plans and medication guidelines, or do not to take the basic steps to care for themselves. The result: members are not engaged, care that is fragmented and providers and health plans do not have a complete picture of
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5 Key Steps to Reduce Outpatient Coding Denials
Assessing current outpatient coding procedures and creating a plan that aligns HIM, clinical documentation improvement, and revenue cycle will help reduce claim denials and improve the overall financial health of your organization.
Time is money. It’s a well-known phrase that applies to every industry whether you are repairing a broken pipe or scrolling through endless pages of physician dictation to find the specific detail needed for a code. Efficiency is a key component to keeping
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