A new bill introduced into the US House of Representatives introduced by Rep. Gary Palmer (R-AL-6) on June 4 proposes a two-year “grace period” for accepting codes submitted in ICD-10-CM/PCS. The bill, H.R. 2652, Protecting Patients and Physicians Against Coding Act of 2015, would establish a two-year ICD-10 grace period during which physicians and other health care providers submitting claims and other documents using ICD–10 are not penalized for errors, mistakes, and malfunctions relating to
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Former Facebook CFO Launches Digital Health Company Lyra Health
Former Facebook and Genentech CFO David Ebersman along with experienced group of tech leaders, clinicians, data scientists, and health care policy experts has announced the launch of a new new behavioral digital health startup called Lyra Health. Backed by venture capital firm Venrock, Lyra Health will have a singular focus on transforming behavioral health, enabling more patients to get the care they need, when they need it.
Approximately 50 million Americans suffer from behavioral health
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Careport Health Raises $3.8M to Optimize Post-Acute Care
Careport Health, a technology company that helps health systems better manage their post-acute care networks has raised $3.8M in funding to accelerate growth. The round was led by Baseline Ventures, with participation from CommonAngels Ventures, Excelerate Health Ventures, Generator Ventures, Launch Capital, 500 Startups and Andy Palmer.
Eliminating the Information Gap
After witnessing the challenges of finding post-hospital care, Dr. Lissy Hu, a Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business
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StartUp Health Adds 12 Digital Health Startups to its Portfolio
StartUp Health, a global entrepreneurship development company for Healthcare Transformers has announced the addition of 12 new digital health startups to its global portfolio, bringing the total to 102 companies.
The newest addition of 6 companies represent a diverse range of subsectors (from telemedicine and patient engagement to wellness, nutrition and diagnostics) and locations including Dubai, UAE, Tel Aviv, Israel, Austin, TX, Boston, MA and New York, NY.
The newest portfolio
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5 Common Myths About The ICD-10 Transition
With ICD-10 compliance date less than five months away, there is still an abundance of common misconceptions associated to this transition. For providers, these ICD-10 misconceptions can prove extremely costly and damaging to the implementation.
Pam Klugman, chief product officer of Clear Vision Information Systems specifically warns providers to avoid these five common myths about ICD-10:
1. The new ICD-10 codes are simply increased and renumbered code sets. While it is true
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Allscripts Expands Patient Admin System Presence in UK
Allscripts is expanding its patient administration system presence in the United Kingdom with recent agreements from East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to deploy Allscripts PASTM. As part of the agreement, the Allscripts PAS will replace the Trusts' existing system and will empower the health organizations to use a highly flexible and configurable solution to manage patient data. Allscripts PAS is currently used across the National
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HealthSouth to Use TruClinic’s Telemedicine Portal for Discharge Planning
Utah-based TruClinic and HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Utah announced a joint agreement which enables HealthSouth to utilize TruClinic’s telemedicine portal for discharge planning and continued communication via a hub and spoke system, connecting patients with their health care providers. The referring doctors now have real time capability to follow up patients’ progress.
HealthSouth looked to telemedicine alternatives in order to reduce inefficient practices in the referral and
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Erlanger Chooses Epic for $100M Integrated EHR
Earlier this month, Erlanger Health System announced that is has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR system that is expected to cost close to $100 million over 10 years. The new EHR system will incorporate clinical documentation from all areas of patient care into a single database for greater ease of use, better accuracy and timeliness, and the increased satisfaction of patients and clinicians, as patient information will be shared more easily. Epic reportedly
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Hospital Pilots Chemotherapy Apple Watch App in London
King’s College Hospital in London is launching a pilot that will equip patients going through chemotherapy treatments with an Apple Watch to improve medication management and adherence, Wearable reports. Using Medopad’s Apple Watch Chemotherapy app, patients will receive on-wrist notifications of their medications to take. Patients will also be able to track their symptoms and temperature to submit to physicians in a couple of taps. Medical staff will also have access to patient’s activity
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How Data Security Is Vital to Population Health Management (Infographic)
Almost 20 years after HIPAA was enacted, the healthcare industry is facing unprecedented risk to patient privacy and security- and that risk is only going to get worse. To take control, providers need to to take action now and manage security and compliance risk as they manage clinical and financial risk. To effectively balance the need for extended care teams to have rapid access to complete patient information, healthcare organizations must have a holistic security strategy.
The following
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