drchrono announced the launch of its Personal Health Record platform (PHR), onpatient, with a HealthKit integration on iOS 8. This integration allows patients to import data they choose from the Health app into their onpatient personal health records and send it to their physician in an easy-to-digest snapshot. According to Dr. James Rieger MD, "In the last few years, patients have been trying to bring their wellness data into the office, but I just couldn't look at it all. This new format
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Digital Health Ear Thermometer Integrates with Apple HealthKit
Swaive has developed a digital health smart thermometer that integrates with Apple HealthKit on the iPhone or iPad. The bluetooth Swaive smart thermometer analyzes temperature and provides critical information to help monitor the health of the whole family.
How It Works
The smart thermometer is designed to be the easiest for anyone to use and obtain accurate results with a 0.01 degree professional grade accuracy to meet FDA requirements. Users simply put the device in the ear, press the
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Can Google Glass Transform Into A Real-Time Health Sensor?
The latest fixation on quantified self movement in the form of wristbands, cuffs and watches has been given a new dimension. It may now be possible to prevent diseases even before you start seeing visible symptoms. According to a recent study, researchers at Affective Computing Group, part of the MIT Media Lab and Georgia Institute of Technology, have transformed Google Glass into a health sensor.
The research team has found that the head-mounted wearable device can seamlessly monitor the
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WEDI Survey Reveals ICD-10 Delay Negatively Impacted Provider Readiness
The ICD-10 delay to October 1, 2015 has negatively impacted provider progress causing two-thirds of providers to slow down efforts or place them on hold altogether, according to recent Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) industry preparedness survey results. The survey reveals that while the ICD-10 delay was supposed to provide healthcare organizations more time to be prepared to the ICD-10, many organizations are failing to take advantage of the additional time.
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HealthKit Apps Return Is Quickly Thwarted by More iOS 8 Bugs
Last week, a software bug delayed the launch of Apple HealthKit on iOS8 preventing developers from making HealthKit apps. On Wednesday of this week, Apple provided the first update to the new iOS 8 software that fixes a bug so HealthKit Apps can be made available on the App Store.
Other list of changes in the iOS 8.0.1 release include:
Addresses an issue where third-party keyboards could become deselected when a user enters their passcode.
Fixes an issue that prevented some apps from
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Practice Fusion and Quest Diagnostics Partner for Electronic Lab Test Ordering
Today, cloud-based EHR provider Practice Fusion and Quest Diagnostics, has announced a partnership agreement that will allow a tip-to-tail electronic lab test ordering and management for Practice Fusion’s community of more than 112,000 medical professionals.
Partnership Details
Beginning as early as the first quarter of 2015, providers that use the Practice Fusion EHR and receive results electronically from Quest Diagnostics will also be able to place laboratory test orders electronically to a
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Medisafe Grabs First Prize at Health 2.0’s Traction Startup Championship Competition
MediSafe, a mobile health medication management platform connecting patients and health providers has won first prize in this year’s Traction: Health 2.0’s Startup Championship.The top-rated and cloud-synced platform allows doctors to increase care quality between office visits by sending “automatic prescriptions” with take-as-directed instructions directly to patients through their mobile app.
Traction is part of Health 2.0’s Annual Fall Conference in Santa Clara, exhibiting innovative
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Mana Health’s Patient Portal Achieves Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification
Mana Health, a healthcare technology company, announced today that its award-winning patient portal, Patient Gateway, version 1.0.0, has achieved ONC HIT 2014 Edition Modular EHR certification. Eligible healthcare organizations (HCOs) participating in Stage 2 meaningful use achievement can use the Patient Gateway to demonstrate that they have met the Patient Electronic Access objective and qualify for incentive payments under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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10 Harbingers of Disruptive Change in Healthcare
As the global market for drugs surpasses $1 trillion this year, growing payer scrutiny of value for money is just one of the factors that will drive disruptive change in the use of medicines over the next decade. The ten harbingers of change identified by the IMS Institute reflect the deep and rapid changes in the global health sector that are upending business models and forcing all stakeholders to re-evaluate their approaches to bringing healthcare to patients.
They point to a future of
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Big Data Cancer Platform COTA Secures $3.7M in Funding from Insurer
Big data cancer platform COTA closes $3.7M of planned $7M Series A funding round to make value-based cancer care delivery and reimbursement a reality.
The promise of value-based care and big data insights in healthcare are undeniable. But few have found a way to integrate it in a real-life setting and obtain the consensus of payers, providers, patients, technology partners etc. COTA, which today closed $3.7M in Series A funding from Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc. , is changing that status
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