According to the new 2016 HIMSS Connected Health Survey, more than 50 percent of hospitals currently use three or more connected health technologies with many organizations planning to implement additional technologies to improve engagement and quality of care with patients. The survey reveals an optimistic outlook on the emerging trend of connectivity within the healthcare ecosystem.
Conducted in partnership with the Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), HIMSS surveyed 227 IT,
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Mayo Clinic to Pay $1B for Epic Implementaiton Over 5 Years
Mayo Clinic is expected to pay about $1 billion over the next five years to implement Epic for a single integrated EHR, replacing Cerner and GE, according to its 2015 annual financial report filed last week. According to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Mayo said the five-year EMR deal will exceed $1 billion and plans invest $1.5 billion in its IT infrastructure. Terms of the contract were not disclosed in the report.
Epic's EHR will serve as the foundation for Mayo Clinic
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UnitedHealthcare, Qualcomm Collaboration Provides Financial Incentives for Using Wearables
UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm are teaming up to launch UnitedHealthcare Motion™, a wellness program that provides employees with wearable devices at no additional charge and enables them to earn financial incentives of up to $1,460 per year for meeting specific walking goals. The collaboration will focus on new UnitedHealthcare programs and services that incorporate the latest generation of wearables, medical devices and home diagnostic tests that utilize Qualcomm Life’s 2net™ Platform for
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Medisafe Launches Medisafe Providers™ for Physicians to Track Patients’ Med Adherence Between Visits
Medisafe®, a cloud-based mHealth platform for medication management approaching three million patient and caregiver users, today announced the launch of Medisafe Providers™, enabling physicians, care teams, and pharmacists to track their patients’ medication adherence between visits.
Providers can also view adherence alongside patient biometric measurements – blood pressure, glucose, weight, amongst others – which Medisafe users can self-report or bring into the Medisafe mobile app through
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HHS Proposes New Rule for Enhanced Oversight of Health IT Certification Program
The HHS and ONC today proposed a new rule that would further enhance the safety, reliability, transparency, and accountability of certified health IT for users. The “ONC Health IT Certification Program: Enhanced Oversight and Accountability” proposed rulemaking would modify the ONC Health IT Certification Program to reflect the widespread adoption of certified electronic health records and the rapid pace of innovation in the health IT market.
The proposed rule would focus on three key
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Tableau Integrates with Epic’s EMR to Deliver Clinical Insights
Tableau Software, a provider of business analytics software has announced an agreement to integrate its customer-created Tableau workbooks and dashboards with Epic's EMR. The integration will enable joint customers to deliver actionable insights from Tableau to EMR end-users, empowering physicians, clinicians, nurses and case managers for clinical analysis. Additionally, the community of Epic and Tableau users will share knowledge, innovation and best practices to accelerate
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Health Catalyst Pulls In $70M to Accelerate Outcomes Improvement
Health Catalyst, a Salt Lake City-based provider of healthcare data warehousing, analytics solutions and outcomes improvement has raised $70M in Series E funding. The funding round was co-led by Norwest Venture Partners, the lead investor in three previous rounds, and UPMC, a world-renowned healthcare provider and insurer that is also a Health Catalyst customer. . Other contributors to the round were new investors Leerink Capital and existing investors Sequoia Capital, Sands
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UPMC Invests $35M into medCPU for Clinical Decision Support
UPMC and medCPU Inc. has announced a strategic partnership in which UPMC, one of the nation’s leading integrated health systems, will take a majority interest in this technology innovator, become a customer of medCPU’s real-time decision support solutions and co-develop additional products with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
As part of this transaction, UPMC has commenced a tender offer to purchase stock from existing non-employee medCPU shareholders and expects to hold
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East Jefferson Hospital Taps Teladoc to Provide Telehealth Services to New Orleans Residents
East Jefferson General Hospital has selected telehealth service provider Teladoc to deliver telehealth services to residents in New Orleans and surrounding areas. The addition of Teladoc’s on-demand health care services will enable more local residents to have greater access to care – when, where, and however they want – via smartphone, mobile app or secure online video. The relationship also further cements East Jefferson General Hospital’s position as a leading health care system in
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IBM Watson, NY Genome Center to Create Open Cancer Data Repository
Unveiled during Thursdays's White House Precision Medicine Initiative Summit, the New York Genome Center and IBM Watson are teaming up to create a comprehensive and open repository of genetic data to accelerate cancer research and scale access to precision medicine. Utilizing cognitive insights from IBM Watson, the partnership could help transform the way physicians deliver personalized treatment to individual patients.
Open Cancer Data Repository Details
Together, IBM and New York Genome
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