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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Accenture and Surescripts Joins HL7 Argonaut Project
Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with members in 55 countries, today announced that Accenture and Surescripts have joined the Argonaut Project. Launched in December 2014, the Argonaut Project addresses the recommendations of the JASON Task Force, a joint task force of the HIT Standards and Policy Committees. The overarching goal of the project is to accelerate the development and adoption of HL7’s Fast
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Validic Launches Mobile Health Developer Platform with HealthKit Integration
Similar to Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google’s APIs and resources to help developers build directly to their platforms, Validic has launched Validic Connect™ to enable app and devices developers to build directly to the Validic digital health platform. Validic Connect™ officially launched at the start of this quarter. The company also announced today the addition of 36 new clinical and fitness devices to its marketplace – growing its ecosystem by 20% in the first quarter of this year.
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Consumer Health Engagement Platform Novu Raises $20M
Novu, a consumer health engagement platform that focuses on individual wellness and employee well-being through a daily lifestyle practice has raised $20M in funding from SSM Partners and Noro-Moseley Partners. The company will use the capital to further establish its leadership position and propel its technology and product roadmap to support existing and new market opportunities.
Through Novu, insurers, health care providers and employers can engage consumers to create
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11 Recent Trends on Advancing Patient Engagement Tools
Advancing patient engagement can improve patient health outcomes and lay a foundation for many care coordination efforts, including meaningful use, Patient-centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Today, eClinicalWorks has released recent survey findings examining public and physician attitudes towards advances in patient engagement tools.
The survey, commissioned by eClinicalWorks and conducted online by Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults, in March 2015 reveals
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MU Stage 3 Proposed Rule: 5 Toughest Measures for Physicians
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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