Today at HIMSS 2014, HIMSS released the results of the 2014 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey, which examines the roles, responsibilities and outlook for nursing informatics professionals. The 2014 Survey captures current professional status and practice trends, while identifying changes that have occurred over the last nine years in the nursing informatics workforce.
The Survey, supported by the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community, continues to suggest that nurse informaticists play
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Verizon Converged Health Management Receives New FDA Clearance, Adds Two New Biometric Devices
Verizon’s Converged Health Management, a remote patient-monitoring medical platform designed to help clinicians and patients manage patients’ health in between doctor visits, just received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to run on the iOS (Apple, Inc.) mobile operating system.
Patients and clinicians now will be able to access Verizon’s solution on their iPhones and can use their iPads to access the Converged Health Management portal.
In addition, Converged Health
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Hearst Health Ventures Invests in Mobile Health Startup Tonic Health
Hearst Health Ventures, a unit of Hearst Corporation, and Tonic Health today announced a venture investment by Hearst in Tonic Health, a patient engagement and medical data collection company. The joint announcement was made by Steven R. Swartz, president and CEO of Hearst Corporation; Richard P. Malloch, president, Hearst Business Media, the group that includes Hearst Health Ventures; and Sterling Lanier, CEO and co-founder of Tonic Health. Financial terms of the investment were not
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Practice Fusion Partners with AliveCor and Diasend for Device Data Integration with EHR
Practice Fusion partners with AliveCor and Diasend to help doctors gain a more complete picture of their patient’s health.
It’s no secret that medical devices like heart rate monitors and blood glucose meters can help patients manage their health. However, for the doctors that prescribe these devices, the recurring challenge is how to regularly – and easily – access and analyze the resulting treasure troves of data to deliver better care.
Today, Practice Fusion, the largest cloud based EHR
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Qualcomm Integrates Bluetooth Low Energy Enable Connected Medical and Fitness Devices
Today at HIMSS 2014, Qualcomm Life announced the integration of Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, with the 2net Hub software, making the 2net Hub one of the first standalone, FDA-listed wireless gateways on the market that can seamlessly connect to BLE-enabled medical and fitness devices. This latest 2net Hub software release significantly expands Qualcomm Life’s solution portfolio as it adds yet another software radio management capability to support integration of a variety of BLE-enabled medical
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15 Health Tech Startups to Watch at HIMSS 2014 Startup Showcase
A list of the 15 most promising new health tech startups to watch at the first ever HIMSS 2014 Startup Showcase
For the first time ever at this year’s HIMSS is the Startup Showcase that will feature 44 of today’s most promising new health tech startups. Startups will be featured in a 1,600 square foot pavilion on the main exhibition hall floor at the annual conference in Orlando running from Monday, February 24 through Wednesday, February 26.
The Startup Showcase will include:
Demo
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Deloitte Launches ConvergeHEALTH To Support Value Based Personalized Healthcare
Deloitte Consulting LLP announces the launch of ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte, a business unit that supports the data-driven transformation of health care through the application of insights derived from new data, analytics, transformational services and collaborative business models. The formation of ConvergeHEALTH is one part of a $150-200 million investment Deloitte is making in life sciences and health care analytics, which comes at a critical time as health care and life sciences organizations
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Senators Urge CMS to Establish Clear Metrics for ICD-10 Testing
On Tuesday, four republican senators sent a letter to CMS expressing concerns regarding the limited "brevity and scope" of front end ICD-10 testing scheduled for the week of March 3, 2014. The letter sent to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner warned, "before either Medicare or Medicaid could conceivably transition to any new diagnostic coding method, CMS must establish clear metrics and perform system-wide tests to certify its readiness."
10 Questions for CMS
The letter was signed by
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Workgroup Recommends 7 New Meaningful Use Stage 3 Objectives
Last week, the Health IT Policy's Meaningful Use workgroup released seven recommendations for meaningful use stage 3 objectives to emphasize interoperability. The new recommendations were based on the following four key focus areas:
Clinical Decision Support
Patient Engagement
Care Coordination
Population Health Management
The seven new proposed meaningful use stage 3 objectives are:
The electronic health record is able to assist with follow up orders; results of specialty
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How Do We Get Physicians Back to the Art of Medicine?
Nuance introduces Art of Medicine initiative with roundtable of physician leaders
Driven by a staggering number of recent studies pointing to increasing physician burnout and frustration with technology, Nuance today launched its “The Art of Medicine” initiative to support clinicians and their patients as they navigate the changes and challenges of today’s complex healthcare landscape. The initiative will comprise a series of engaging and educational programs and initially includes
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