Medical recertification is expensive, considered to be arduous by physicians, and has yet to establish a recognizedcausal impact on patient outcomes. The backlash against themaintenance of certification (MOC) exams has largely been driven by physicians, thus creating a discourse that highlights their challenges, but missing is the perspective of patients, the end consumer in the healthcare chain.
As an increasing number of hospitals and insurance companies require recertification
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Archives for 2015
Infographic: Healthcare IT’s Transformation Journey
The need to reduce costs while caring for an aging population has led to sweeping changes in everything from how patients choose insurers to how doctors are reimbursed and medical records are stored and shared. As a result, the pressures on today’s healthcare CIOs and the data centers they manage are building. Mergers and acquisitions are packing more technology into tighter spaces, growing computational demands are creating crowded equipment racks, and staggering power and cooling requirements
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Fitbit Launches Windows 10 App to Personalize Fitness Journey Across Windows Devices
Wearable fitness leader, Fitbit has launched Fitbit for Windows 10 app designed to provide a more engaging and fluid app design that lets users personalize the way they interact with key pieces of their health and fitness journey across all their Windows devices. Through new Windows 10 app features, people at all fitness levels can now more easily access and log their most important personalized data in real-time. Fitbit helps users track their steps, activity, exercise, food, weight
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Emdeon Closes $910M Acquisition of Altegra Health
Emdeon Inc. has closed its $910M acquisition of Altegra Health, a national provider of technology and intervention platforms that combine data aggregation and analytics with unique member engagement and reporting capabilities to achieve actionable insights and improved management for value-based healthcare. The acquisition combines Altegra Health’s risk adjustment and quality analytics platform with Emdeon’s Intelligent Healthcare Network™, revenue cycle technology and payment solutions,
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Dispatch Health Raises $3.6M for Mobile Healthcare Delivery
Mobile health delivery startup, Dispatch Health has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to expand its current services, as well as to administer onsite, advanced medical care, improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. The Denver, Colorado-based company uses mobile cars staffed by acute care clinicians, equipped with a CLIA-certified lab, medical equipment, medications and IV’s, WiFi connectivity providing access to the health information exchange, and a network of established mobile
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Healthcare Natural Language Processing Market to Reach $2.67B by 2020
The global healthcare Natural Language Processing (NLP) market is expected to grow from $1.10 billion in 2015 to $2.67 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 19.2%. According to a new market research report, "Natural Language Processing Market for Health Care and Life Sciences Industry by Type (Rule-Based, Statistical, and Hybrid NLP Solutions) - Worldwide Forecast and Analysis to 2015 - 2020", published by MarketsandMarkets, NLP technologies are gaining traction in healthcare and life sciences industry
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Accenture: Half of Digital Health Startups Fail Within 2 Years of Launch
While digital health and healthcare IT startup funding is accelerating at a record pace, more than half of digital health startups funded between 2008 and 2013 are not likely to survive longer than 20 months, according to a new report from Accenture. The report finds that the imminent rise of these "zombie digital health startups" will lead to larger healthcare companies acquiring these startups to help drive growth by infusing top talent, fueling innovation and
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Accenture, Duke Collaborate on Healthcare Analytics Research
Accenture and Duke University have formed an alliance focused on jointly developing new advanced analytics solutions to address real-world, client-specific business challenges. The Accenture and Duke University Analytics Research Program, which will have an initial focus on healthcare analytics research, aims to bring together data, modeling and analysis to achieve sustainable business and patient outcomes.
The relationship combines Accenture’s industry and analytics expertise with Duke
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New Roche App Measures Parkinson’s Disease Fluctuations
Roche Pharma Research & Early Development (pRED) has developed a smartphone app for those with Parkinson’s disease that complements traditional physician-led assessments with automated tests that continuously measure their symptom fluctuations. According to Roche, this could potentially be the first time that such an app has been used to measure disease and symptom severity in a medicine development program in Parkinson’s disease. Developed in consultation with Max Little, a pioneer in PD
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Zobreus Launches Mobile Patient-Oriented EMR for Patients and Doctors
After successfully raising over $50k on Kickstarter campaign, Zobreus Medical Corporation announces that it has launched the Patient-Oriented Electronic Medical (POEM) Record™ v1.0 now available in the Apple App Store. The POEM Record™ allows patients to manage and control all of their healthcare data in a structured, mobile EMR so that the information is easily accessible to them and their doctors as needed.
POEM Overview
Unlike other patient health records, the POEM Record™ organizes
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