Virginia Tech and science and technology solutions company Leidos have teamed up to collaborate on student-conducted scientific research into the big data challenges of today’s EHRs with the aim of optimizing healthcare delivery. Leidos and Virginia Tech will use technical data from hospitals and physician offices to establish methods to improve quality of care and reduce the cost of healthcare, particularly for hospitals. This partnership is expected to prepare the Virginia Tech students for
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Archives for 2015
SERMO’s Social Network for Doctors Expands to Spain, Mexico
Social network for doctors SERMO has expanded its network to 260,000 Mexican and 232,000 Spanish doctors as it strengthen its footprint as the largest global social network exclusively for physicians available now in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US.
The Power of Medical Crowdsourcing
SERMO is a unique resource for doctors serving as a place to consult with hundreds of thousands of peers from around the world on patient cases (medical
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Sen. Alexandar: 5 Reasons to Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3 Rulemaking
Editor's Note: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) gives administration officials five reasons to take more time before making final the Meaningful Use Stage 3 rule of the federal government’s program to require doctors and hospitals to create EHR systems.
Over the last 5 years, the taxpayers have spent $30 billion to encourage doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records systems. The whole purpose of this program is to benefit patients, so that they and their health care providers
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CVS Health Partners with MassChallenge, Rock Health to Drive Digital Health Innovations
CVS Health made a big leap into digital healthcare with the recent opening of a Lab in Boston focused on developing new digital health solutions. On Wedneday, CVS Health announced it will partner with digital health venture fund Rock Health and healthcare startup accelerator MassChallenge in efforts to drive faster digital health innovation and expand areas of focus.
By forging new relationships in key markets—Boston, for healthcare and San Francisco, for technology – CVS Health aims to
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Crowdfunding for Medical Devices Could Be A Passing Fad
While it is well established in other areas of business, crowdfunding for medical devices presents a new set of challenges and opportunities, and could become a passing fad rather than an encouraging new trend in the healthcare sector, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.
According to Shashank Settipalli, GlobalData's Analyst covering Medical Devices, although medical device regulatory agencies, such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have not enacted
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Congressional Leaders Urge Admin to Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3 Rulemaking
On Tuesday, congressional leaders continued to urge the Obama administration to immediately adopt Meaningful Use Stage 2 modifications and delay final rulemaking for Meaningful Use Stage 3 no sooner than January 1, 2017. The call from U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) comes as a bipartisan group of 96 Republicans and 20 Democrats in the House of Representatives in a separate letter to the administration urged it to “pause” the process of making stage three
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Quest Diagnostics, Inovalon Launch Real-Time Analytics at Point of Care Solution
Quest Diagnostics is teaming up with Inovalon, a provider of cloud-based healthcare data analytics and data-driven intervention platforms to launch of Data Diagnostics™, a suite of hundreds of real-time patient-specific data analyses that clinicians can order individually, on demand at the point of care within their existing workflow to identify and address gaps in quality, risk, utilization and medical history insights. Under a five-year, exclusive, collaboration agreement between Inovalon and
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New Disposable Wearable Patch Measures Vital Signs Every 2 Mins
The monitoring of vital signs, such as pulse rate, respiration rate and body temperature, is an essential component of patient assessment. Changes in vital signs can be indicators of deterioration in a patient’s condition. However, in general care areas of the hospital, vital signs are typically taken during routine observation rounds only once every four to eight hours. If a patient deteriorates between these observation rounds, the warning signs can go undetected for hours, leading to
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Iron Mountain, QuadraMed Partner to Improve Patient Identity Management
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a the storage and information management company, and QuadraMed®, a provider of healthcare technologies and services, have entered into a strategic relationship to provide enterprise master person index (EMPI) solutions to help healthcare organizations identify and eliminate duplicate and fragmented records within and across their various patient database(s). The partnership will help healthcare organizations strengthen their ability to meet regulatory compliance
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Kurbo Health, Humana Partner to Offer Mobile Weight Loss Coaching for Kids as Employee Perk
California-based Kurbo Health and Humana Inc., have partnered to offer qualified employers with a Humana health plan will have the option to purchase a twelve-month subscription to Kurbo Health’s mobile health coaching and weight loss program as a wellness benefit for employees’ children starting this month. Previously, insurers provided access to weight loss programs to companies for adult employees, this is the first time a wellness program specifically designed to help an employee’s children
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