At Mercy Health, our promise to the community we serve is to make lives better – mind, body and spirit – and to genuinely enjoy being of service while making healthcare easier. One way we’re accomplishing this is through telehealth initiatives.
Telehealth represents the biggest entry point for providers like ours to manage the population, particularly the baby boomer and older generations, as the physician shortage looms and care between visits becomes increasingly important. In 2029, when
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Archives for 2015
Medtronic Acquires RF Surgical Systems for $235M
On Monday, Medtronic announced a definitive agreement to acquire RF Surgical Systems, Inc., a medical device company focused on the detection and prevention of retained surgical items (sponge, gauze or towel) for approximately $235 million. Additional terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition of the Carlsbad, Caliornia-based company supports Medtronic's economic value strategy. Partnering with stakeholders in healthcare, Medtronic is moving to offer products and services that
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Home Care Startup Honor Donates $1M in Free In-Home Care Across 10 Cities
The problem of insufficient elder care is one of the biggest issues facing the nation, so much so that it’s now one of top priorities for the White House and the President. Today at the White House Conference on Aging, Seth Sternberg, CEO of Honor is announcing a new initiative to donate $1 million in free in-home care across 10 cities and working with established care providing organizations in those communities to ensure this care goes to helping older Americans. The first city to benefit from
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Nuance Joins athenahealth’s “More Disruption Please” Marketplace
Nuance today announced it has joined athenahealth’s “More Disruption Please” program, an initiative driving disruption in healthcare and transforming the way physicians provide patient care. As part of this partnership, Nuance’s Dragon Medical 360 solution will be part of athenahealth’s Marketplace offerings, providing organizations with solutions from leading innovative companies to drive productivity and performance.
More than 30% of patients spend 10 minutes or less with their physician,
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NextGen Healthcare, Mass HIway Connect to Ensure Secure Exchange of Patient Information
NextGen Healthcare, a provider of healthcare information systems, services, and connectivity solutions, today announced it has successfully connected to the Mass HIway, marking the opening of a new secure electronic communication channel for Massachusetts healthcare providers. This has created thousands of connections across hospitals and eligible professionals nationwide.
Through this partnership, providers utilizing NextGen® Share can now exchange crucial patient information with the 350+
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VA To Harness Data from 390K Veterans to Understand Chronic Conditions
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is announcing four new studies that will use genetic and other data from VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP) to answer key questions to better understand chronic conditions.
MVP, which has enrolled more than 390,000 Veterans so far, has already become the nation’s largest database linking genetic, clinical, lifestyle and military exposure information. Part of a beta test for data access, the newly funded studies are among the first to use MVP data to
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Report: EMR Market to Grow at 7% Over Next 5 Years
The EMR market is expected to grow at 7 to 8 percent each year over the next five years according to recent report by Kalorama Information. The report, EMR 2015: The Market for Electronic Medical Records reveals that while the growth rate is lower than previous years, there are enough opportunities for vendors in consulting and training, system upgrades and poaching contracts from other vendors. Fear of penalties will also convince a few new customers to seek out services.
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PillPack Launches Medication Reminders App for iPhone, Apple Watch
Full service pharmacy provider PillPack has launched its PillPack - Medication Reminders mobile app for iPhone and Apple Watch to eliminate the frustration of remembering to take medication. The app is the first mhealth app of its kind to auto-import a customer's current medication list regardless of which pharmacy they currently use, and use geo-tracking sensors to create custom reminders based on location, activity or time to more naturally fit with people's daily routine.
According to
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Millennials: The Rising Generation of Health Hackers
We are in the midst of a healthcare revolution; however, one age group known as Millennials has developed a distrust of the U.S. healthcare system and it is driving them to spend more money now to remain healthy in the future. According to new research from Deep Focus's latest report, Spring/Summer 2015 Cassandra Report: Body, Mind, Soul, Millennials (ages 18-34) are finding alternative ways to support healthy and balanced lifestyles, using technology to “health hack” and track their health,
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New Salary Tool Gives Health IT Professionals Earning Insight
Ever wondered how much other health IT professionals are earning when searching for a new role? The obvious option of using Glassdoor generally falls short when trying to gain accurate salary data for health IT related jobs. To help provider greater insights for health IT professionals, HealthITJobs.com has launched a new real-time salary tool that allows health IT professionals to compare their salaries with industry averages. Salary data is collected from participating HealthITJobs.com
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