What would you call a physician who sewed up a patient’s wound without addressing the depression, bipolar disorder or other behavioral health issue that led to the injury?
We might cynically label the doctor disinterested or inattentive; we might sympathetically call her distracted or overwhelmed.
But it might be far more accurate to say the doctor lacks information. With access to the patient’s complete health record when he came into the emergency department (ED), she
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Archives for 2015
Cox Enterprises Invests In Diabetes Management Platform Rimidi
By the year 2050, one in three Americans will have Diabetes. To help relieve the anxiety and simplify the management of diabetes. Cox Enterprises has announced a strategic investment in Atlanta-based Rimidi, a digital health company focused on diabetes and other chronic conditions. The funding will be utilize to accelerate expansion of their enterprise diabetes management solution and further expansion into additional markets.
Rimidi’s flagship product, Diabetes+Me is a cloud-based enterprise
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Independence Blue Cross, TowerView Health Launches Medication Adherence Pilot Program
The Independence Blue Cross (Independence) Center for Health Care Innovation announced this week that it will collaborate with TowerView Health and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) on a pilot program to help chronically ill people who have multiple prescriptions make sure they take the right medication at the right time each day.
Pilot Details
People with health coverage from Independence Blue Cross who qualify for this study and choose to
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Doximity Rolls Out “Apply Using Doximity” Tool for Physicians
Doximity, the leading online medical network with over 50 percent of all US doctors as members, announced a new, instant method for physicians to apply for career opportunities — “Apply Using Doximity.” With one click, Doximity members can quickly submit their verified online profile as a curriculum vitae (CV) for an open job opportunity, and a recruiter will reach out to the physician directly.
Eighty seven percent of physicians are open to new jobs, and yet the application process is
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NextGen Launches Data-Driven Population Health Solution
NextGen Healthcare, a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. and a leading provider of healthcare information systems, services, and connectivity solutions, today has announced the launch of NextGen® Care, a new population health and care management solution designed to streamline the care team’s workflow, more effectively manage patient populations, drive better outcomes and decrease cost of care delivery mandated by evolving value-based payment models. The solution provides risk
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Ginger.io, WiserCare Named HX360 Innovation Challenge Winners
HX360 announced that digital health companies Ginger.io and WiserCare were the winners of the inaugural HX360 Innovation Challenge competition. The competition recognizes the best-in-class digital health companies demonstrating improved patient experience in hospital and health system settings. The winning companies were selected from an original field of eighty-three entries, with the four finalists presenting their solutions live before a judging panel during the HX360 Innovation Challenge
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Validic Raises $12.5M To Accelerate Digital Health Ecosystem
Validic, a leading digital health platform for aggregating health data, announced today that it has secured a $12.5 million Series B round led by Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Kaiser Permanente. The additional capital will be used to build out their team, product offerings, client and device reach.
In the current healthcare environment, many companies are trying to solve the problem of integrating, managing and updating connections to the rapidly expanding
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Samsung Eyes Elderly Care Market With Mybitat Partnership
IoT is starting to make real impact on our lives and with 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day in the U.S., one area poised to benefit the most is elder care. Samsung and Mybitat (an AGT company) are now working together on a joint solution with the goal to improve quality of life, allowing the elderly the freedom to securely live at home longer without requiring family assistance.
Using Mybitat data fusion and big data analytics, along with new sensors and IoT Intelligence algorithms
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Health Wildcatters 2014 Startup Class Raises $4.5 Million
Health Wildcatters, a mentorship-driven healthcare seed accelerator, announced that its second class of startups has collectively raised $4.5 million since the program ended in late November. The fundraising results from this class are similar to those from Health Wildcatters’ first class, which raised $4.6 million within six months of the program.
Health Wildcatters provides mentorship, seed funding and other business resources to the 10-15 healthcare-focused startups that
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12 Things You Need to Know About Value-Based Reimbursement
Public and private payers, including Medicare and some of the nation’s biggest health insurers, plan to hasten the migration of the healthcare reimbursement system from pay-for-volume to pay-for-value. The acceleration in the pace of change from fee for service to risk-based reimbursement is likely to reshape the healthcare business over the next three to five years.
While all healthcare stakeholders will be affected, the pioneers of this approach to healthcare financing will be large,
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