Today the ONC has issued the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020 that lays out the vision, goals, and actions that the federal government intends to apply the effective use of health IT immediately and in the coming years. This outlined plans aims to modernize the nation's health IT infrastructure to enable individuals, their providers, and communities achieve their health and wellness goals. The ONC states that this robust health IT infrastructure should support the dynamic use of
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Archives for 2015
Modernizing Medicine Raises $38M for Mobile Specialty EMR
Cloud based, specialty-specific EMR provider, Modernizing Medicine announced that it has closed $38 million in Series E funding led by Pentland Group and funds affiliated with Summit Partners and Sands Capital Ventures. Many of the company’s investors are medical specialists who use EMA bringing its total funding to $87M.
The EMR provider currently serving eight different medical specialties, more than 9,000 providers have adopted Modernizing Medicine’s EMA in their practices. Available as
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GLNeuroTech Secures $1.9M for Wearables & Apps For Parkinson’s Disease
Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies (GLNT) has received $1.9 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve the efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS) programming for Parkinson’s disease (PD) and minimize time required by a clinician to optimize settings. The technology development and commercialization will combine wearable motor symptom sensing and a DBS platform into a single integrated system. Intelligent algorithms for searching settings and selecting optimal
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SyTrue’s CEO Talks How NLP Technology Is Unlocking Data Driven Healthcare
Growing numbers of healthcare executives recognize the broad and critical uses of Natural Language Processing (NLP). To learn more, we sat down with SyTrue Founder and CEO Kyle Silvestro to discuss NLP’s key role in healthcare now, and its future direction.
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Big questions about Natural Language Processing (NLP) are fading away but a few remain. How do you define NLP’s capabilities when someone asks, “What is NLP, exactly?”
NLP allows computers to read, understand and extract in-context
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Patient Record Exchanges Made “Right”: Sharing the Right Data with the Right Provider at the Right Time
At Mercy Health, one of our most important goals is keeping patients safer by allowing critical information to move with them – whether they’re traveling to an institution like the Mayo Clinic for treatment or seeking emergency care while away from home. The importance of exchanging records seamlessly, and the added value of providing better care for patients, cannot be overstated. Indeed, I’m continuously amazed by just how much information exists relative to how providers are exchanging
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AMA, 41 Other Medical Societies Push to Delay Meaningful Use Stage 3
On Thursday, the American Medical Association (AMA) and 41 medical societies have backed Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) in urging the administration to delay Meaningful Use Stage 3 in light of pivotal changes to Medicare. The coalition of physician organizations firmly believes that locking in Stage 3 rules for the Meaningful Use program would be a detrimental step that undermines the implementation of Medicare payment reforms.
In letters delivered to the Secretary of Health and Human
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Fitbit Wearables Becomes HIPAA-Compliant, Target to Offer Fitbits to Employees
This week, Fitbit, Inc. announced that it now supports HIPAA compliance, enabling Fitbit Wellness to more effectively integrate with HIPAA-covered entities, including corporate wellness partners, health plans and self-insured employers.The added HIPAA compliance is a big step for Fitbit Wellness, the company’s business-to-business offering that provides turnkey software and services to help organizations drive engaging, effective and motivating wellness programs. These benefits include:
- The
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Zoll Acquires Israeli Wearable Cardiac Monitor Startup for $35M
ZOLL® Medical Corporation, a company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions has acquired Tel Aviv, Israel-based Kyma Medical Technologies, Ltd. for its wearable remote patient monitoring device for chronic cardiac illnesses. Under the terms of the agreement, ZOLL Medical Corporation will pay $35 million, plus milestone payments based on sales and the incorporation of Kyma technology into future products.
Wearable Cardiac Monitor Overview
Kyma's μ-Cor is an
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Kyruus Raises $25M To Redefine How Patients Get Matched to Providers
Kyruus, a SaaS-based referral coordination platform that helps hospitals optimize patient access and referral management, has raised $25 million in funding to accelerate adoption of its ProviderMatch technology. The funding round was led by New Leaf Venture Partners, with participation from Providence Health & Services, Leerink Capital Partners, andMcKesson Ventures. They were also joined by existing investors Venrock, Highland Capital Partners, Lux Capital, and Fidelity
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Medfusion’s New App Enables Aggregation, Patient Access to Healthcare Data
Medfusion, a patient engagement platform has launched a consumer mobile application, Medfusion Plus to provide patients with a one-stop destination for all of their medical records. Available now via download on the App Store and Google Play, iOS and Android device users can now aggregate and access their healthcare records onto their mobile devices. The information is pulled via Continuity of Care (CCD) documents from the patient portals and includes laboratory results, immunizations,
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