Telehealth platform American Well, today announced the launch of American Well 250 Cart, an FDA-cleared multi-functional telehealth cart that will enable health systems to digitally load-balance clinical services for on-demand and scheduled visits, leveraging both in-system and cloud-network providers and specialists. The 250 cart joins the Cisco-Based 760 Cart, which American Well launched In January, also focused on acute care use cases.American Well 250 Telemedicine Cart OverviewThe American
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Only 10% of Patients Prefer Secure Texting Over Patient Portal Communication
According to a new survey released today, only 10 percent of patients prefer to receive physician communications via patient portals, whereas twice that many (19.6 percent) favor receiving information via secure text messages when in-person and phone calls are not an option. The new survey, conducted by DrFirst, also reveals that more than 90 percent of respondents would like the ability to communicate via secure text messaging with a family member’s care team if that loved one were ill.Key
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Heart Analyzer App Adds Live Heart Rate Support for Apple Watch
Third-party app Heart Analyzer announced it has added live heart rate support, improved complications for Apple Watch Series 4 users. With support for live heart rates, Heart Analyzer will now record your heart rate in real-time when you have the app open. This update allows consumers to get detailed information about your heart rate at specific times, and view trends and graphs over time.On Apple Watch, the app: - Includes an instant and informative app giving you a snapshot of your heart rate
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Change Healthcare Unveils Claims Lifecycle Artificial Intelligence
Change Healthcare today announced Claims Lifecycle Artificial Intelligence, a new capability being integrated into the company’s Intelligent Healthcare Network and financial solutions, to help providers and payers optimize the entire claims processing lifecycle.Claims Lifecycle AI OverviewThis Change Healthcare Claims Lifecycle AI service is trained on more than 500 million service lines making up over 205 million unique claims that touch $268 billion in charges. The service leverages the
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Rock Health: 3 Insights from Digital Health Consumer Adoption 2018 Report
Adoption of digital health tools reached record heights in 2018, according to a recently released survey report from Rock Health. In fact, eighty-nine percent of respondents used at least one digital health tool—up from 80% in 2015. Live video telemedicine and wearable adoption rates surged following a pause in growth in 2017. Meanwhile, respondents were increasingly guarded about their personal health data—in 2018, respondents were less willing to share data with highly-trusted entities like
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Apple to Deploy Health Records Feature on iPhone to Veterans
Today at HIMSS19, Apple announced a partnership with The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to deploy the Health Records on iPhone feature to Veterans. For the first time, American veterans receiving care through the Veterans Health Administration will soon be able to securely view their aggregated health records directly in the Health app on their iPhone.Impact of VA Partnership with AppleHealth Records on iPhone will be the first record-sharing platform of its kind available to the VA,
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Providence St. Joseph Health Acquires Blockchain-Powered Revenue Cycle Platform Lumedic
Providence St. Joseph Health, one of the nation's largest health systems, today has acquired Lumedic, a next-generation revenue cycle management platform powered by blockchain technology. Providence St. Joseph Health will be the first integrated provider-payer system to establish a scalable blockchain platform to transform claims processing and enhance interoperability between providers and payers.Optimizing Revenue Cycle ManagementReducing inefficiencies in revenue cycle management (RCM) has
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CHIME Launches Innovation Center to Foster Health IT Innovation
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) today launched CHIME Innovation to facilitate the creation and adoption of healthcare technology innovation and to improve health and care globally. The launch marks the completion of the buildout of the Intermountain and CHIME Innovation Center powered by Sirius Healthcare within the Kem C. Gardner Intermountain Transformation Center in Murray, Utah.CHIME Innovation Center OverviewCHIME Innovation will serve as an educational
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VA Tops 1 Million Video Telehealth Visits in FY2018
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it has reached a telehealth milestone, achieving more than 1 million video telehealth visits in one fiscal year (FY18), a 19 percent increase in video telehealth visits over the prior year. From October 2017 through September 2018, Veterans received VA quality care during approximately 2.3 million episodes of telehealth care.- About half (1,074,400) were video telehealth encounters, which allows real-time interaction between VA care
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Change Healthcare Offers Free Healthcare Data Interoperability Services for Healthcare Industry
Change Healthcare today announced free clinical data interoperability services for the healthcare industry. The foundational, infrastructure services, namely record locator service, identity management, and document retrieval solution with the protection of patient privacy, support a comprehensive range of use cases. Change Healthcare Interoperability Powered by AWSThe interoperability services will run on the secure, scalable, and agile Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, providing Change
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