61 percent of physicians feel the federal government has not done a fair job with the MU stage 3 proposed rule, according to a recent survey conducted by QuantiaMD and exclusively designed by Healthcare Informatics editors. For the survey, QuantiaMD, a Waltham, Mass.-based social network for physicians asked physicians in its network about proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 rules to support the path to nationwide interoperability.
In response to an open answered question on what
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Summa Health to Offer Robotic Telestroke Program for Stroke Patients
Summa Health System is developing a robotic telestroke program through a partnership with InTouch Health, a provider of telemedicine technologies. InTouch Health will be install one robot for Summa Akron City Hospital and another robot for Summa Barberton Hospital – that will allow neurologists to perform live real-time audiovisual consultations with emergency medicine teams. The goal of the robotic telestroke program is to speed the delivery of clot-busting drugs, such as tissue plasminogen
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HHS CTO Bryan Sivak Steps Down
Bryan Sivak,chief technology officer (CTO) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is stepping down from his post at the end of April.
A 2015 Fed 100 honoree, Sivak is notably known for roles in the development of a "Buyer's Club" to share institutional wisdom on procurement, and the ongoing administration of the Entrepreneurs in Residence program, a one-year program where private sector developers work with the HHS on health innovation initiatives.
Additionally, Sivak served
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LifeMap, Mount Sinai Launches COPD Navigator App Pilot
LifeMap Solutions, a digital therapeutics provider and subsidiary of BioTime, Inc. has launched a pilot program for COPD Navigator, an Apple HealthKit-compliant iOS app that helps patients monitor and manage the symptoms of COPD with Mount Sinai. For the pilot, LifeMap will partner with researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and with COPD experts from the Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute to work with patients who use the COPD Navigator iPhone app
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New Patient Monitor Automates Patient Data Transfer to EMRs
Welch Allyn, a provider medical diagnostic device company, announced it has developed a new patient monitor for physician’s offices that fully automates vital signs capture and wireless data transfer to your EMR. The solutions aligns with the population health management objective to keep a patient population as healthy as possible, reducing the need for more expensive tests, procedures and office visits that add additional costs to the system. In order to do this effectively, data automation
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Ochsner Health Launches Innovation Accelerator to Revolutionize Patient Centered Care
On Thursday at the Health Innovation Summit at New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW), Ochsner Health System announced the launch of an innovation accelerator called iO designed to support and partner with companies working to revolutionize patient-centered care, NOLA first reports. Through the accelerator, patient-centered care solutions for both patients and providers can be tested, validated, funded and launched.
The new accelerator will focus on developing entirely new ways for providers
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Scripps Health Selects Epic for Integrated EHR & RCM System
Scripps Health has selected Epic as its strategic partner for a single, integrated EHR and revenue cycle management (RCM) system, and is in its final phase of the selection process. The new system will replace Scripps’ current ambulatory and inpatient EHR and revenue cycle management systems. System design is slated to begin in mid-2015, with implementation planned to kick off in mid-2017, subject to final approval of Scripps’ agreement with Epic by the Scripps Health board of
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AMC Health, Qualcomm Partner to Enhance Virtual Care Coordination
Qualcomm Life, Inc. and AMC Health, a provider of 'real-time' patient management solutions are partnering to accelerate the transformation of chronic care and population health management by significantly enhancing connectivity and care coordination for at-risk patients, specifically those with heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, asthma or COPD, in a cost-effective manner. Under the new partnership, the companies will integrate Qualcomm Life's 2net Connectivity Platform with AMC Health's
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Philips, Mount Sinai To Create Digital Pathology Repository
Today, Philips announced a joint development agreement with the Mount Sinai Health System to create a digital image pathology repository containing the digital scans of patient tissue slides and data analytics to pursue the discovery of new tissue-based tests and unlock pathology data. The collaboration aims to advance clinical research and ultimately enable better care for complex diseases, including cancer. Terms of this collaboration agreement were managed by Mount Sinai Innovation Partners,
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Survey: 5 Millennial Trends Altering the Delivery of Healthcare
Advances in healthcare technology is altering the future delivery of healthcare and insurance for the next generation of younger patients known as millennials, according to a new consumer survey by PNC Healthcare. The survey of more than 5,000 consumers nationwide explored the impact of patient-centered care among various age groups, including millennials (ages 21-32), Generation X or Gen-Xers (ages 33-49), baby boomers (ages 50-71) and seniors (age 72+).
Five growing trends among
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