Public and private payers, including Medicare and some of the nation’s biggest health insurers, plan to hasten the migration of the healthcare reimbursement system from pay-for-volume to pay-for-value. The acceleration in the pace of change from fee for service to risk-based reimbursement is likely to reshape the healthcare business over the next three to five years.
While all healthcare stakeholders will be affected, the pioneers of this approach to healthcare financing will be large,
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athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion Tops for Driving Patient Portal Adoption
A recent KLAS report finds vendors athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion are the most effective at helping their customers drive patient portal adoption. The recent KLAS report entitled Patient Portals 2015: Adoption beyond Meaningful Use reveals all three vendors having over half of their customers report that at least 20% of patients have accessed the portal--a number well beyond the meaningful use bar of 5%.
For the report, KLAS interviewed 186 healthcare provider organizations to determine
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eCaring, Samsung To Deliver Home Care Monitoring via Galaxy Tablets
eCaring, Inc. and Samsung Business Services™ today announced delivery of technology and services that enable healthcare providers to reduce costs, while enhancing the quality of patient care. eCaring’s care and disease management solutions will use Samsung’s advanced tablet technology and enterprise services to ensure 24/7 peak performance of all Samsung devices in the hands of patients and their healthcare aides.
The two companies will work together to streamline delivery of
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Report: Healthcare Interoperability Gets Failing Grade
A national physician survey of nearly 3,000 physicians who use the Epocrates medical reference app reveal that 95% of physicians have experienced a delay or difficulty delivering medical care because patients’ health records were not easily accessible or shared. The Epocrates study, prepared by athenahealth finds only 14% of physicians can actually access electronic health information across all care settings. Given the nearly unanimous frustration over the lack of helathcare
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Mercy, Rockwell Opens Telehealth Clinic For Employees
MercyCare Community Physicians and Cedar Rapids, IA-based avionics and IT systems provider, Rockwell Collins has partnered to build a telehealth clinic at 5070 Rockwell Dr. NE, which is set to open on April 20, according to The Gazette. The telehealth clinic will provide on-site health care to employees and their families on the company health plan through telehealth visits with remote Mercy physicians from three area clinics — in Marion, Blairs Ferry and downtown Cedar Rapids.
Two Mercy
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HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey Infographic
The 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey of more than 200 healthcare provider employees reveals that healthcare organizations are widely beginning to deploy mobile health technologies with the aim of engaging patients within their organizations. Many respondents also emphasized a need to fully optimize and leverage the wide capabilities that mobile technologies and platforms offered.
The infographic shown illustrates the key findings:
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HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey: 15 Key Findings
Today, at the HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago, HIMSS released the results of the 2015 HIMSS Mobile Technology Survey. This year’s study, of more than 200 healthcare provider employees. Many respondents revealed that healthcare organizations are widely beginning to deploy mobile health technologies with the aim of engaging patients within their organizations. Many respondents also emphasized a need to fully optimize and leverage the wide capabilities that mobile technologies and
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Nudge App Helps Consumers Make Sense of Wearables Data
Leading health tech company, Nudge, today announced a new service that bridges the gap between consumers using wearables and fitness trackers, and health professionals. Nudge+Coach is a big leap in the health space, providing consumers with a way to connect directly to a vetted network of health coaches directly from the Nudge app.
By partnering with a Nudge coach, consumers gain access to a virtual accountability partner that can help make sense of wearables and fitness tracking data, and
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#HIMSS15: 70% of Physicians Believe Health IT Decreased Patient Engagement
Despite U.S. doctors’ increased use of technology, more than two-thirds (70 percent) of them believe that health IT has decreased the amount of time they spend with patients, according to a new survey by Accenture. The findings revealed during HIMSS15 is part of a six-country survey of more than 2,600 physicians, including roughly 600 in the United States found about three-fourths (76 percent) of those surveyed believe that interoperability of the tools currently available limits their ability
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HIMSS Launches EHR/HIE Interoperability Testing & Certification Program
HIMSS has announced the launch of a new testing and certification program called ConCert by HIMSS designed to streamline the certification of interoperability in health IT and helps evaluate vendor claims, simplifying the task of selecting the right information systems for your organization.
Built on the work of the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup (IWG) and IHE USA, ConCert by HIMSS is a robust, highly automated testing and certification program that will verify, once certified, a product
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