Hackers have stolen millions of customer and employees records from Anthem, the country's second-largest health insurer. Anthem states the hackers were able to gain access to Anthem's IT database obtaining personal information from around 80 million current and former Anthem members such as their names, birthdays, medical IDs/social security numbers, street addresses, email addresses and employment information, including income data. However, there is no evidence the hackers stole credit card or
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AMA, MATTER Partner to Create Physician Office of the Future
The American Medical Association (AMA) and MATTER, Chicago's new health tech incubator, today announced a new partnership to create the trans formative health care innovation and technology-enabled "physician office of the future." The partnership includes creation of The AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER that will allow physicians, entrepreneurs, health care professionals and industry experts to test new models for health care delivery.
"New technologies by themselves are not
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StartUp Health Adds 6 Digital Health Startups to its Portfolio
StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers, today announced the addition of 6 new digital health startups to its global portfolio, bringing the total to 90 companies. The company now boasts the largest peer network of Healthcare Transformers and portfolio of digital health companies with nearly 200 entrepreneurs from companies in 8 countries and more than 45 cities. Other key stats as of January 2015 include:
- Total Raised to Date: $190
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Yale New Haven Health System to Implement Mobile Hearbeat CURE App
Mobile Heartbeat, a provider of smartphone clinical communications has inked an enterprise agreement with Yale New Haven Health System to rollout their Mobile Heartbeat CURE (Clinical Urgent Response) smartphone application to clinicians in all facilities in the provider’s network, which include Yale-New Haven Hospital, Bridgeport Hospital, Greenwich Hospital and the YNHHS Saint Raphael campus. Mobile Heartbeat has recently completed pilot implementations which helped YNHHS to realize
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Judge Blocks Partners HealthCare Expansion to Prevent Market Dominance
On Thursday, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet L. Sanders rejected an agreement for Partners HealthCare to acquire South Shore Hospital in Weymouth and two Hallmark Health System hospitals, in Medford and Melrose, Boston Globe reports. Outlined in a 48-page decision, Sanders found the settlement was to complex for the court to properly enforce and did not provide sufficient protections to keep Partners’ market power in check. According to Sander, the acquisition would “cement Partners’
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In-Depth: 2014 Best in KLAS Awards for Software and Professional Services
On Friday, KLAS released their annual Best in KLAS Awards for Software and Professional Services report, a high level overview of performance ratings for vendors offering software, professional services, and medical equipment to the healthcare industry. Each year, ratings are compiled from evaluations received during the 12-month period prior to its publication from healthcare professionals in North America. New segments in this report include:
- Population Health
- Urgent Care
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Cerner Rakes in 6 Best in KLAS Awards
EMR leader leader Cerner Corp. announced this week it has won six Best in KLAS 2014: Software and Services awards including "Best in KLAS" Remote Hosting for the sixth consecutive year.
Cerner earned the following 2014 Best in KLAS rankings in the following categories:
Application Hosting CIS/ERP/HIS for Remote Hosting *Sixth Consecutive Year
Ambulatory EMR (1-10 Physicians) for PowerChart Ambulatory™
Global non-U.S. Patient Administration Systems for Millennium® PAS *New
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European EHR Market Expected to Reach $3.7B by 2020
The European EHR market earned $2.74 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach $3.69 billion by 2020, according to new analysis from Frost & Sullivan. The study covers hospital and ambulatory EHR market in Europe finds the growing use of clinical and non-clinical information systems, including patient administration systems, scheduling and billing is fueling the increasing demand for EHRs in Europe.
Europe EHR Market Drivers
Key market drivers highlighted in the report include:
- rising
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UMC, Cerner Announce 10-Year Expansion Contract for EHR Alignment
University Medical Center (UMC) Health System and Cerner Corp. has announced a 10-year extended and enhanced relationship to align EHR and Clinical IT teams at UMC, Texas Tech Physicians of Lubbock and UMC Physicians Network Services.
Partnership Details
Under the new alignment, UMC will work with Cerner to further implement the shared digital patient record, automate additional clinical workflows including endoscopy and oncology and create a single communications platform across the three
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54% of Physicians Find Gaps in Using Health IT for Care Coordination
Among physicians routinely using health IT for care coordination, at least 54% of them did not receive the information electronically, according to a study published in Medical Care. The study finds that although a higher percentage of physicians using HIT received patient information necessary for care coordination than those who did not use HIT, more than one third did not routinely receive the needed patient information at all.
Study Background
Agency for Healthcare Research and
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