Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into legislation stating that deductibles, co-insurance or other conditions for coverage of telehealth visits cannot differ from those for in-person visits. The bill enacted last week is retroactive to January 1st; however, it will take sometime for insurance companies to update their policies. The legislation was sponsored by Assemblywoman Addie J. Russell.
"Essentially it’s now been put into law that health insurance can recognize a
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Archives for 2015
Health Tech Incubator MATTER Adds 10 Startup Members
Chicago based health tech incubator MATTER has added ten more startups to its membership bringing its total to 40 companies. The recently launched incubator aims to collectively fuel the future of healthcare innovation. in Chicago through mentorship, networking opportunities, partnerships with companies and affordable workspace.
The company recently secured $4.4 million led by twenty two local companies mostly focused in the tech and healthcare sectors complementing an initial $2.5M grant
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Sharecare Partners with HCA to Create Digital Patient Engagement Solution
Sharecare, an online health and wellness engagement platform, today announced at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference a strategic collaboration with HCA to accelerate innovation through the creation of new patient engagement solutions. HCA also made a financial investment in Sharecare during 2014, and the companies are exploring opportunities to create a joint innovation lab. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Sharecare and HCA first began working together in December 2013,
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Augmedix Raises $16M to Expand Google Glass in Doctors’ Offices
Today, Augmedix announced that it has received $16 million in Series A venture funding co-led by the company's seed investors Emergence Capital and DCM Ventures. Augmedix plans to utilize the capital to expand to expand operations, fuel product development, and establish new partnership initiatives. Augmedix has raised $23 million in total venture funding to date.
Founded by Stanford grads CEO Ian Shakil and Chief Product Officer Pelu Tran in 2012, Augmedix — a service powered by Google
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HIMSS Analytics Honors Children’s Hospital of Orange County With Stage 7 Award
HIMSS Analytics awarded Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children's Hospital) in Orange, Calif., with a Stage 7 Award. The award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), which is used to track EHR progress at hospitals and health systems.
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS
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Rise of the “Internet of Healthy Things”
People are embracing connected objects that are actively caring for them.
As the decades have gone on, we’ve seen everything around us advance technologically at a rapid pace. Looking at Moore's law, you can see the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. This in turn has allowed faster innovation in technology in every sector, from social networks, search engines and banking, to name a few. Despite all of
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25 Best Health Tech Infographics of 2014
Annual yearly recap of the best health tech infographics created in 2014
Over the past 12 months, HIT Consultant has covered some of the most in-depth and well designed healthcare technology related infographics in this industry. Infographics provide a great way to display complex information or research data in a visually appealing format. Themes this year covered the gamut of healthcare technology including trends transforming health IT (EHR, meaningful use), mobile healthcare, patient
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Patient Registry Market Expected to Reach $611M by 2019
The global patient registry market is expected to reach $610.8 million by 2019 from $381.0 million in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 9.9% from 2014 to 2019. The report segments this market on the basis of delivery model, product type, database type, functionality, and end user. Among various end users, the government organizations and third party administrators (TPAs) segment is expected to account for the largest share in 2014. Government organizations and TPAs extensively use this software for
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Providers Launch Project to Promote Innovative Models in EMS
Mount Sinai Health System is partnering with University of California, San Diego Health System to launch a new project entitled “Promoting Innovations in Emergency Medical Services.” Supported by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Health Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health & Human Services, the project will support the implementation and dissemination of innovative Emergency Medical Services (EMS) delivery models. The $225k
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Epic, IBM Forms Advisory Group for $11B DoD EHR Bid
At a Washingon D.C. event on Wednesday, IBM Corp. and Epic Systems announced a 17-person advisory group that will help advise the Department of Defense (DoD) through implementation if they win the $11 billion DoD EHR contract, Modern Healthcare reports. The assembled advisory group is comprised of executives, physicians and Epic clients from 12 organizations as follows:
- Ross Martin, MD. Vice President of Policy and Development, American Medical Informatics Association.
- Monte Brown,
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