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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Digital Health Funding Expected to Top $6.5 Billion by 2017
Digital health funding is expected to double in the United States over the next three years, growing from $3.5 billion in 2014 to $6.5 billion by the end of 2017, according to new research by Accenture. The forecast is based on market analysis, project experience, third-party analysis and data from 2,000 digital health start-ups receiving funding between 2008 and 2013.According to Accenture, an estimated $2.8 billion was used to fund digital health start-ups last year, growing at an annual rate
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Health Data Aggregator Validic Adds New Integration & Research Partners
Validic, the healthcare technology interoperability platform for aggregating digital health data, announced today the addition of several new clients and partners, as they continue to expand and grow their global digital health ecosystem.
With the addition of several new clients, which include Alere, The Vitality Group, Everyday Health, Datu Health, and ShapeUp, Validic’s client population size increases from 72 million to 80 million lives. Validic continues in discussions with major health
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Cerner & Athenahealth Announces Integration with Apple’s HealthKit
EHR leaders Cerner and Athenahealth have announced plans to develop mobile health apps integrated with Apple's Healthkit platform, Reuters reports. Representatives from Cerner and Athenahealth both confirm the developed apps integrated with HealthKit will allow physicians to monitor patients with chronic diseases.
Cerner senior director Brian Carter said the company will work with smaller organizations allowing coordinated care teams e.g. (doctors, nurses, clinicians) to access data from
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ONC Appoints New Director of Health IT Certification Program
On Friday, the ONC announced it has appointed Naval Captain Alicia Morton as the new Director of the ONC Health IT Certification Program. Morton joined the ONC in 2005 where she lead the ONC's first entry into EHR certification and has worked in a variety of roles. Most recently, she served as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer alongside Jacob Reider and as a Senior Advisor in OST.
Prior to joining the ONC, Morton managed the systems development component of the Doctor’s Office
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HIMSS: 25 Years of Health IT Leadership Infographic
During this week's National Health IT Week, HIMSS released a report that summarizes the findings from 25 years of their annual Health IT Leadership survey. The report includes responses from over 12,700 hospital and health system leaders from 1990-2014. History tends to repeat itself and the report reveals that historical concerns still ring true today including:
- 1991- 75% say their institution’s financial health is helped by computers
- 1994 - 14% predict that digital patient
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Apple’s HealthKit To Integrate with Epic’s MyChart App
Apple's HealthKit will integrate with Epic's MyChart app patient portal allowing patients access to their health information according to Epic's president Carl Dvorak, VentureBeat reports.
"Apple’s HealthKit has tremendous potential to help close the gap between consumer collected data and data collected in traditional healthcare settings. The Epic customer community, which provides care to over 170 million patients a year, will be able to use HealthKit through Epic’s MyChart application—the
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