Cleveland Clinic is now offering 24-hour telehealth visits that allows Ohio-based patients to receive urgent care consults via smartphone, tablet or computer for just $49 dollars. The new telemedicine service called MyCareOnline is provided through Cleveland Clinic’s partnership with telehealth platform provider American Well.
“It’s tremendously more convenient, because people can be seen from home or work,” said Dr. Peter Rasmussen, the medical director for distance health at Cleveland
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Archives for 2015
Information Blocking in Health IT: Myth or Reality?
Editor's Note: Irv Lichtenwald is president and CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record. Prior to joining Medsphere, he served as CFO of Advent Software, a leading provider of investment management solutions. Between 1995 and 2003, Irv led Advent through three public stock offerings.
Do we believe in something we can’t see?
The suggestion has been made that some vendors are actively engaged in “information
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HHS’s Ebola Detection Kit Could Provide Diagnosis in 20 Mins
To assist doctors in diagnosing Ebola virus disease quickly, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) will pursue development of an Ebola virus diagnostic test for use in a doctor’s office, hospital, clinic, or field setting that will provide results within twenty minutes.
Diagnosing Ebola virus infections quickly in resource-poor areas would enable health care providers to isolate and provide
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Intel-GE Care Innovations to Test Telehealth with Seniors
Intel-GE Care Innovations™, a joint venture between Intel Corporation and GE Healthcare has announced a partnership with Front Porch Center for Innovation and Wellbeing to measure the telehealth benefits of leveraging remote patient monitoring (RPM) with senior living residents.
Study Details
Residents of Kingsley Manor in Los Angeles and Claremont Manor in Claremont, California, will use Health Harmony, Care Innovations’ RPM platform that simplifies RPM by providing intuitive and
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WEDI Opens ICD-10 Readiness Survey to Gauge Industry Progress
On Thursday, The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced the release of its latest ICD-10 readiness survey to help determine how prepared the healthcare industry is prepared for the upcoming Oct. 1, 2015 compliance deadline. With less than 111 days left , providers, health plans, vendors and clearinghouses are invited to participate in this important initiative to help gauge progress for all parties.
With the implementation deadline fast approaching, providers,
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Epic CEO Judy Faulkner Pledges 99% of Wealth to Philanthropy
On Tuesday, Judy Faulkner, founder and CEO of Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems announced plans to give away 99% of her wealth to philanthropy, Forbes report. Faulkner joins 136 other individuals and families in the Giving Pledge led by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes either during their lifetime or in their will.
In her formal pledge letter Faulkner wrote, "Epic needs to be strong, successful, and
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Hospital To Pilot First-Ever Patient Tablet App for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Montreal-based McGill University Health Centre’s (MUHC) Steinberg-Bernstein Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery has partnered with SeamlessMD, a company which provides a cloud-based patient engagement solution for surgery, to perform the first-ever study of a patient tablet app for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS). Funded by the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), the study will determine whether a patient tablet app can improve patient adherence to ERAS
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Senate Health Committee Announce Health IT Bipartisan Hearings
Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced the start of a series of bipartisan hearings on possible solutions to achieve the promise of health IT. The senators announced that Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) will chair, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will serve as ranking member, for the committee’s next hearing in the series, and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will chair a subsequent hearing.
“Today’s hearing sets the table for
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Doctor Evidence to Supply IBM Watson Health with Cancer Research Data
Clinical health research provider Doctor Evidence has announced a content partnership with IBM Watson Health to supply clinical cancer research data to Watson’s oncology solutions & developer ecosystem. As part of its new Watson Health unit, the solution has already ingested nearly 15 pages of medical content, including over 200 medical textbooks and 300 medical journals.
Content Partnership Details
Doctor Evidence will contribute 2 million additional data points from highly
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Wellstar Breaks Off Merger Negotiations with Emory
Wellstar Health System announced it has ended merger negotiations with Emory Healthcare, Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. The proposed merger failed to fit into Wellstar’s “new strategic direction," according to Gary Miller, chairman of the system's board of trustees.
"WellStar has declined to enter the next stage of discussions with Emory University,” Miller said. “We respect Emory University as a leading, international academic medical center. WellStar will accelerate multiple horizontal
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