Fourteen of the top major U.S. hospitals are piloting their own trails of Apple's HealthKit platform, Reuters reports. Apple's HealthKit platform serves as an serve as an integrative hub for patient-generated health information like blood pressure, weight, heart rate, calorie burn or sleep activity with third party apps. Users can decide what information is placed in HealthKit and which apps can access their data through the Health app. Apple's rivals, Google and Samsung which have released
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8 Predictions Shaping the Future Healthcare Supply Chain
As the healthcare industry continues to change, organizations are seeking new ways to remove waste, cut costs and improve patient care. Healthcare supply chain provider, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) recently spoke with a select group of customers, from large and mid-sized hospitals to some of the biggest suppliers in the world, for their perspectives on how the supply chain will help usher in healthcare transformation and its role in the coming two decades.
Based on those interviews,
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Pri-Med Launches EHR for Direct Primary Care With Free 60-Day Trial
Pri-Med introduces their EHR For direct primary care to help physicians make transition from traditional fee-for-service to fast-growing membership medicine
Pri-Med, a provider of professional medical education with a community of more than 260,000 clinicians, has announced the introduction of their EHR for direct primary care with a free 60-day trial. InLight EHR, Direct Primary Care (DPC) Edition is a cloud-based clinical documentation system designed specifically for Direct Primary Care,
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Cerner Closes $1.3B Acquisition of Siemens Health Services
Cerner announced this morning the completion of its $1.3B acquisition of Siemens Health Services’ assets, client relationships and associates. Cerner expects revenue in 2015 to be approximately $4.8 billion to $5 billion, with a client base spanning more than 30 countries across more than 18,000 facilities.
The combined business unit now have a combined annual research and development investment of more than $650 million that will enable Cerner to speed delivery of the
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Home Health App Delivers Access to Clinical Notes on the Go
Better care coordination is fundamental to improving both patient health and the healthcare system as a whole— and in the long run will save the health care system billions. Medicare’s recent decision to pay physicians to better coordinate care for vulnerable seniors is a significant step toward reducing costs and bettering care by starting with the details that often go overlooked. A recent study found that comprehensive care coordination can reduce hospital readmissions by nearly 25%— over
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Huron Consulting Group to Acquire Studer Group for $325M
Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Studer Group, a healthcare consulting firm that helps healthcare providers achieve cultural transformation to deliver and sustain exceptional improvement in clinical outcomes and financial results. Together, the combined organization will have more than 1,500 dedicated healthcare professionals working to empower transformation for healthcare providers.The acquisition will combine Huron
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Provider Allows Patients To Contribute To Own EHRs
Evidence shows that successful management of complex health conditions requires the close collaboration of providers, patients, and their caregivers, and that the transparency made possible by health information technology may facilitate that collaboration. To help improve care for complex patients, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has received a $450,000 grant from The Commonwealth Fund to develop develop OurNotes, a new initiative for allowing patients, caregivers, and
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AMA-Led Coalition Urges ONC to Change EHR Certification
On Wednesday, a coalition of 35 medical societies led by the American Medical Association sent a letter to the ONC National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, M.D., urging to change the EHR certification program to "align to better align end-to-end testing to focus on EHR usability, interoperability, and safety."
The nine page letter to Karen DeSalvo states, “The undersigned organizations are writing to elevate our concern about the current trajectory of the certification of electronic
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ONC Announces Its First Chief Health Information Officer
In a note to ONC staff, the National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo announced that Dr. Michael James McCoy will be joining ONC as their first Chief Health Information Officer, effective January 26, 2015. In his new role, Dr. McCoy will lead the development of ONC clinical policy for standards and regulatory matters to help ensure ONC initiatives improve health beyond health care, including serving as the lead clinical subject matter expert on interoperability. He will report directly to
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CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner To Step Down
CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner announced that she is stepping down from her post in February, agency officials confirmed Friday. Her replacement, former UnitedHealth Group executive Andy Slavitt will now serve as principal deputy administrator. Tavenner, 63, spent more than three years with CMS and faced critical criticism for the disastrous roll-out of HealthCare.gov in fall 2013 and Medicare operations. Tavenner's email to staff did not offer any explanation for her
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