Johnson & Johnson Innovation announced the opening of JLABS @ TMC, a new 34,000-square foot life sciences incubator providing entrepreneurs shared lab space, private offices, and modular laboratory suites. The Houston, TX-based incubator is equipped with a medical device prototype lab, including a 3D printer, which will provide entrepreneurs access to highly specialized tools, as well as skills building programs to design and develop smart health technologies.
JLABS @ TMC is housed within
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Survey: Care Coordination Biggest Challenge to Achieve Population Health Management
Care coordination is the biggest challenge for health systems to achieve population health management followed by financial investment and data management, according to a new healthcare leadership survey by Philips.
Conducted by HIMSS Media on behalf of Philips, the survey of 105 health care IT leaders reveals that a majority of health systems have already implemented population health management programs as they seek to improve patient outcomes.
Respondents stated measurable clinical
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Scrypt Acquires HIPAA-Secure Messaging App DocbookMD
Scrypt, Inc., a leader in helping healthcare and lending customers streamline paper-intensive processes has completed the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based DocbookMD, a HIPAA secure patient care team collaboration platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
DocbookMD allows providers to send HIPAA-secure messages containing patient information and images such as X-rays, EKGs or photos from anywhere. Providers can set a 5 or 30 minute priority on a message and be
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Accenture: Only 18% of Doctors Believe Patients Should Have Full EHR Access
Only 18 percent of doctors believe patients should have full access to their EHRs, dropping significantly from 31 percent in 2014, according to the Accenture 2016 Consumer Survey on Patient Engagement. Meanwhile, 92 percent of consumers believe they should should have full access to their records has increased over the past two years. The survey reveal a growing divide between U.S. consumers and doctors who believe that patients should have full access to their own EHRs
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HIMSS Leadership Survey: 4 Key Findings to Know
Today at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Las Vegas, HIMSS released the results of the 27thAnnual HIMSS Leadership Survey of 282 IT executives and professionals. The survey covers a variety of topics designed to capture responses to fixed longitudinal challenges facing health IT leaders as well as dynamic time-specific concerns.
Here are 4 key findings from the survey:
1. 95 percent of IT leaders view health IT as a strategically critical tool to help
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ONC Launches 2 FHIR App Challenges
The ONC today announced a three-part strategy to spur the development of market-ready, user-friendly software apps for consumers and health care providers. While increased adoption of health IT has generated significant amounts of computable, electronic health information, technology that can pull information from different sources and present it in a user-friendly way is limited.
HHS’s new strategy seeks to leverage the Health Level 7 – Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®)Web
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WellDoc, Lifespan Partner to Deliver Diabetes-Focused Digital Health Solution
WellDoc, a digital health technology leader, today announced a collaboration with LifeScan, Inc., a business within the Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Care Companies to deliver a best-in-class digital health solution for patients living with Type 2 diabetes.
Under the collaboration, WellDoc’s BlueStar product, the first FDA-cleared digital therapeutic for adults who live with Type 2 diabetes, will be integrated with LifeScan’s OneTouch Verio Flex™ Bluetooth® Smart blood glucose monitoring
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Wanda, Dignity Health to Launch Digital Health Oncology Platform OncoVerse
Wanda, a NetScientific Inc. portfolio company that commercializes transformative biomedical and healthcare technologies has signed a collaborative deal with Dignity Health, to launch OncoVerse, a digital health oncology care platform. OncoVerse was initially conceived by a Dignity Health physician who wanted a tool to improve team collaboration, especially when evaluating a complex cancer case and determining the appropriate treatment plan.
OncoVerse is a software platform designed to
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Report: Only 1.6% of Claims Have Been Denied Post ICD-10
Of the $810 billion in claims processed by more than 2,400 hospitals and 630,000 providers using RelayHealth Financial clearinghouse, just 1.6% have been denied. This denial rate has remained unchanged since November and represents approximately $12.9 billion in denied claims since October 1st. The disclosed denial rate data from RelayHealth Financial is based on for more than 262 million claims processed between October 1, 2015 and February 15, 2016. A low denial rate indicates a healthy cash
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Surescripts Activates National Record Locator to Improve Healthcare Interoperability
To improve healthcare interoperability and patient safety, Surescripts has announced nationwide activation of its National Record Locator Service, a service that gives providers an effective way to obtain a more complete view of a patient’s health history. Surescripts’ National Record Locator Service includes 140 million patients and almost 2 billion, and growing, interactions between those patients and members of their care team.
CVS Health, Express Scripts, Epic and NextGen Healthcare are
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