Today at HIMSS15 in Chicago, HIMSS released the results of the 2015 Impact of the Informatics Nurse Survey – a survey of nearly 600 participants including C-suite executives, clinical analysts and informatics nurses. The survey examined the growing technology-driven healthcare ecosystem and the role nursing informatics – a specialty that integrates knowledge, data and wisdom – is playing in this evolving environment. The results indicated that the role of informatics nurses has expanded greatly
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Practice Fusion, AstraZeneca Partner on PHM Initiative for Asthma & COPD
At HIMSS15, EHR provider Practice Fusion and AstraZeneca today announced a Population Health Management (PHM) program that arms members of Practice Fusion's community of 112,000 medical professionals with data-driven insights that can help them in their efforts to improve care for patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
The program, developed by Practice Fusion and sponsored by AstraZeneca, identifies patients whose current asthma or COPD care does
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HIMSS15: AMA President Unveils Physician Leadership Plan For Digital Health
The game-changing digital health transformation of medicine is emerging into a new phase, according to Robert M. Wah, M.D., president of the American Medical Association (AMA), and there is reason for great optimism in the future of this evolution as the AMA helps physicians take on a greater role in leading changes that will move technological innovations forward.
Today, in his keynote address to the 2015 Annual HIMSS Conference Innovation Symposium in Chicago, Dr. Wah discussed the AMA’s
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Cerner Launches Apple Watch App, Push HealthKit Data to Cerner Millennium
On Thursday, Cerner announced its plans to will bring its patient app, HealtheLife, to the Apple Watch. The iOS 8 HealtheLife app is designed to make it easier for patients to manage their health from Apple Watch, with push notification reminders to track health data and a display dashboard for tracked metrics.
Starting this month, Cerner plans to conduct initial deployments with clients to collect biometric values from the Apple Watch-compatible HealtheLife app, including weight, blood
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Healthcare Gamification Startup Ayogo Raises $2M
Ayogo Health, a patient engagement company that transforms the way consumers with chronic conditions engage with their own care through healthcare gamification has raised $2.5M in Series A funding from a syndicate of investors including Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (GHI), Excel Venture Management, and 7Wire Ventures. The capital will help accelerate Ayogo’s growth with expanded research and development and sales and marketing. Additionally, David Stevenson of GHI, Caleb Winder of Excel,
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Cleveland Clinic Innovations Launches Store to Sell Digital Health Products
Cleveland Clinic Innovations — the healthcare provider business development arm — quietly launched ADEO, an e-commerce company designed to sell digital health care products directly to hospitals, physician practices and patients last October.
The store currently has 13 products available in the store, which is described as the "first online marketplaces for medical innovations.” The name “ADEO” comes from the Latin phrase meaning “to go forward.”
The service is an outgrowth of the Global
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New App Integrates any Apple/Android Health/Medical Device
Applied PilotFish Healthcare Integration, a provider of middleware solutions has launched HealthConnect, a platform agnostic application that resides on a smart device. The app will enable end to end integration with anything anywhere using any format and any connectivity protocol including Apple or Android supported health/medical devices. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), patient care coordination organizations, mHealth providers, and others can leverage the PilotFish HealthConnect
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Majority of Clinicians Believe EHRs Are Not Sufficient for Care Coordination
Majority of clinicians (51%-53%) believe the EHRs are not sufficient enough for coordinating care, while 78 percent of office managers believe the EHR is sufficient, according to new survey by PerfectServe. The survey conducted by Nielsen looks at perspectives on HIPAA, organizational readiness for population health and challenges in care coordination from nearly 1,000 clinicians (including hospital and office-based physicians, nurses, specialists), case managers and practice
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Carequality Publishes Trust Principles for Secure Interoperability
Carequality has announced the publication of the Carequality Trust Principles, the policy foundation for connecting health data sharing networks throughout the U.S. Carequality, a Healtheway initiative, is a public-private collaborative supporting nationwide health IT interoperability to accomplish in healthcare what the telecommunications industry did to link cell phone networks.
The Carequality community that has come together to develop and implement the principles includes representatives
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Lifespan Goes Live on $100M Epic EHR Install
Rhode Island’s largest health care system, Lifespan announced it is now live on Epic's EHR platform creating an integrated platform to share information seamlessly throughout the health care system, from hospitals and clinics, to ambulatory centers and community partners, Rhode Island Public Radio reports. The new system also provides one integrated record where clinicians can chart patients’ care and health condition, promoting better, safer and more coordinated care.
“There will not be
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