The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is reportedly seeking assurance from Apple about protecting sensitive health data collected by its HealthKit platform and upcoming smartwatch, according to two sources from Reuters. Apple has met with FTC on multiple occasions to ensure that it will not sell its users' health data to third party developers. Apple's HealthKit platform was designed with built-in health data protections.
"We designed HealthKit with privacy in mind," said Apple spokeswoman
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Is It Time to Replace Your Practice Management System?
Practice Management systems form the backbone of any medical practice, helping physicians and their staff manage appointments, keep track of patients, and perform medical billing. While government incentives have put a spotlight on Electronic Health Records (EHR) in recent years, now is also a critical time for practices to take a close look at their PM systems. Many in use today are outdated, making daily tasks harder than they need to be, slowing staff down, and causing anxiety around industry
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Xerox Invests in HealthSpot To Accelerate Deployment of Telehealth Kiosks
Xerox announced today it is investing in HealthSpot Inc., a pioneer in patient and provider driven healthcare technologies. HealthSpot’s telehealth platform allows patients to interface via Skype with nationally recognized doctors and healthcare professionals in a 40-square-foot telehealth kiosk. The average visit takes just 15 minutes, offering patients convenient and affordable access to doctors. The terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Investment Details
With Xerox’s investment,
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Report: 61% of Struggling Hospital CFOs Expect to Be Fired by 2016
61 percent of hospital chief financial officers (CFOs) and business managers in "struggling" hospitals expect to be fired by 2016 due to outdated revenue cycle management solutions, according to a recent Black Book report. The report reveals hospital CFOs could potentially lose their jobs because their outdated revenue cycle management software, staff, and solutions were powerlessly stuck in fee for service mode too long. CFOs self identified as "struggling financially" believe they must
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Epic Systems to Offer Remote Hosting to Clients in 2015
Epic Systems is currently building a data center at its Verona, Wisconsin campus to offer remote hosting services to its clients targeted at medical groups and small hospitals, VentureBeat first reports. The decision brings the largest EHR provider closer to offering a software as a solution (SaaS) model that could help increase market share against its competitors such as Cerner, who has been offering remote hosting services since 1999. The remote hosting services will be offered first to new
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Half of Providers Unsure of ICD-10 Revenue Impact
Nearly half of healthcare providers are unsure of the ICD-10 revenue impact or have yet conducted revenue impact assessments, according to a new eHealth Initiative (eHI)/AHIMA survey. In fact, 35 percent
believed that their organization’s revenue will decrease during the first year of ICD-10 compliance.
The report provides a look at just how prepared healthcare organizations are for the upcoming ICD-10 implementation and how they think ICD-10 will impact their operations. Survey respondents
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Hospital Uses Google Glass to Accelerate Stroke Treatments
On Monday, Dr. James Grotta, director of Stroke Research at Memorial Hermann's Texas Medical Center hospital began using Google Glass to communicate vital medical information with hospital staff while responding to 911 calls involving possible stroke victims, Houston Chronicle first reports. Using Google Glass will allow medical responders to work hands-free to quickly expedite patient stroke diagnosis and treatment.
"We can start treatment right away at those sites and save a lot
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Infographic: The Rise of HIPAA Violations
Infographic created by TrueVault illustrates the rise of HIPAA violations providing a picture of the regulatory landscape along with the type of complaints, breaches and fines that occur due to HIPAA violations.
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MD Insider Closes Largest AngelList Investment Round Ever
MD Insider, a big data healthcare innovator that significantly reduces healthcare costs for employers, today announced that it closed a $1.5 million investment - the largest online investment round ever raised on AngelList, the leading technology startup equity investing platform. The syndicate was led by renowned investor, Tim Ferriss, best-selling author and early investor/advisor to companies including Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and Uber. MD Insider is now the #1 most active company and the
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UK Medical School Launches First Google Glass Curriculum
Earlier this year,Virtual Medics – a group of consultant surgeons at Barts Health NHS Trust and medical students at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) utilized Google Glass in surgery to remove cancerous tissue from the liver and bowel of a 78 year-old man. The procedure was the UK's first global live-streamed surgical teaching session and was watched live via computer or mobile phone, by 13,000 surgical students, healthcare professionals and members of the public from around the world in
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