Yelp, a consumer review company has announced an innovative partnership with New York-based investigative journalism not-for-profit ProPublica to integrate health care statistics and consumer opinion survey data onto the Yelp business pages of more than 25,000 medical treatment facilities.
Partnership Overview
The information is compiled by ProPublica from their own research and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for 4,600 hospitals, 15,000 nursing homes, and 6,300
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IBM Acquires Merge Healthcare To Enhance Medical Images in Watson
IBM has announced plans to acquire Merge Healthcare, a provider of medical image handling and processing, interoperability and clinical systems designed to advance healthcare quality and efficiency for $1 billion. The acquisition will bring IBM Watson's advanced image analytics and cognitive capabilities with data and images obtained from Merge Healthcare medical imaging management platform to surface new insights from a consolidated, patient-centric view of current and historical
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NTT DATA Acquires Exclusive Rights to InteHealth Technology
NTT DATA, Inc., a leading IT services provider, announced it has acquired global exclusive rights to InteHealth, Inc.'sinnovative technology applications and solutions. The offering will allow healthcare payers and providers to establish a seamless connection to share information among key stakeholders. As a major component of electronic health record’s (EHR) meaningful use, this exclusivity agreement will allow NTT DATA to continue offering leading comprehensive solutions that bridge the gap
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3 Keys to Improving Privacy & Security Protections for Electronic Health Information Exchange
Increasing reports of cyber theft of patient information via hacking—most recently of UCLA Health System, EHR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering and its patient portal NoMoreClipboard, and, earlier, of Anthem and Premera—suggest these data breaches will continue as criminals increasingly seeking out medical data because the data contain links to financial and insurance information.
Why Is Healthcare Data So Vulnerable?
So, why is healthcare data so vulnerable? The answer is simple:
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Baptist Health South Florida to Implement Cerner EHR, Replaces Siemens Clinicals
Baptist Health South Florida has announced it will implement Cerner Millennium and HealtheIntent across all of the system's hospitals, physician offices and outpatient locations. As part of the implementation, Cerner will enhance the organization's existing Cerner Soarian Financials revenue cycle management solutions (RCM), providing Baptist Health with an integrated, enterprise-wide HIT system.
"With the responsibility for more than 1 million patient visits each year and nearly
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Report: Global Telehealth Market to Reach $34B by 2020
The global telehealth market is expected to be worth US$ 34.27 billion by the end of 2020, with North America being the largest market globally accounting for more than 40% of the global market size. According to a new market research report, 'Global Telemedicine Market - Growth, Trends & Forecasts (2015-2020)', published by Mordor Intelligence, the largest segments of the telemedicine markets are telepathology,teleradiology, teledermatology abd telepsychology.
Telehealth is a broader
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Livongo for Diabetes Named First Telehealth Program to Receive AADE Accreditation
Livongo Health has been named an accredited diabetes education program by the American Association of Diabetes Educators, making it the first online/telehealth program of its kind to achieve this prestigious accreditation status. The Chicago-based digital health company is reinventing the way health is managed by combining technology, real-time information, and human support to make life easier, starting with diabetes.
"I believe others will follow suit as I think it is the wave of the future
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Dell Named Founding Health IT Partner for The Innovation Institute
The Innovation Institute announced that Dell Services has agreed to become the founding health care information technology partner of The Institute’s Innovation Lab in Newport Beach, CA. As world-class corporate health-care incubator, The Institute’s Innovation Lab facilitates innovation among inventors, health care plan providers, medical facilities, physicians and more, furthering developing and then introducing new solutions into the health care marketplace.
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Virtua Selets Teladoc to Offer Telehealth Visits In Southern New Jersey
Dallas-based telehealth provider, Teladoc has been selected by Virtua, the largest health care provider in southern New Jersey, to provide telemedicine services to its employees and residents of the communities it serves. As part of the agreement, board-certified primary care physicians employed by Virtua will join Teladoc’s clinical network, which offers 24/7/365 access to state-licensed, board-certified physicians via phone, internet, secure online video and mobile
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Lockheed Martin Launches Healthcare Technology Alliance to Advance Healthcare IoT
Lockheed Martin has announced the formation of a new healthcare technology alliance, combining the expertise of leading health IT providers, medical technology companies, and academic institutions to advance public health. As part of the alliance, Big Cloud Analytics, Inc. (BCA), a leading provider of real-time predictive analytics technology will work with Intel Corporation to create Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for the new Lockheed Martin Healthcare Technology Alliance.
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