Despite the flood of health apps and devices rushing to integrate with Apple's HealthKit platform, FitBit has announced it currently has no plans for HealthKit integration, 9to5Mac first reports. In a response to a flurry of queries on their consumer forum section of their website, the fitness tracking developer replied:
“We do not currently have plans to integrate with HealthKit… It is an interesting new platform and we will watch as it matures, looking for opportunities to improve the
Read More
Government: Is It The Best Venue for Reaching HIT Interoperability?
91% of providers said that interoperability was a primary driver for clinical outcomes, while 89% said the same about fiscal outcomes, according to a recent study by Smart Data pioneer peer60. The data gathered from VP’s of Quality, CNOs, CIO, and other key hospital leaders revealed more than 90 percent of healthcare leaders felt that interoperability will improve the overall experience of patients and clinicians. Leaders who worked closest to fiscal and clinical outcomes proved to be most
Read More
EveryMove’s HealthKit Integration Enables Charitable Donations
EveryMove, a fitness tracking incentive network announced its Apple HealthKit integration, making it the first and only HealthKit partner that transforms tracked activity data into charitable donations.
HealthKit functions as a "digital health ecosystem" in which a multitude of devices and apps can capture and share activity data, allowing EveryMove access to an increasingly robust network of data sources and to turn this data into charitable donations. Right now, all EveryMove users can
Read More
Pioneer ACOs Dropout: Why Are Providers Leaving in Droves?
What is driving the high Pioneer ACOs dropout rate? Laura Beerman, Director at Decision Resources Group (DRG) explains the key drivers behind the trend.
Three years ago, CMS launched the Pioneer ACO program with 32 healthcare organizations designed to work in coordination with private payers by aligning provider incentives, which will improve quality and health outcomes for patients across the ACO, and achieve cost savings for Medicare, employers and patients. Today, only 19 providers
Read More
Caradigm Rolls Out Health IT Apps for Clinically Integrated Networks
Today Caradigm announced a new health IT applications bundle to help clinically integrated networks (CINs) achieve population health goals. To effectively position for the future of healthcare while maintaining focus on current operations, many hospitals and physicians have turned to CINs as a viable option to (1) increase quality, (2) reduce cost and waste in the current system to maintain margins, (3) sustain independence for physicians not ready for hospital employment and (4) position
Read More
Merck Global Health Innovation Fund Pumps $5M in Exostar
Merck Global Health Innovation Fund announced a $5.0 million investment in Exostar to enable them to accelerate the growth and expansion of their healthcare and life science business. Exostar’s cloud-based authentication identity hub for the healthcare industry, Secure Access Manager (SAM), connects customers with other organizations securely across large communities of users. The investment, made by the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, will help Exostar maintain its rapid growth in these
Read More
Patient Engagement Market Expected to Reach $13.7B by 2019
The global patient engagement market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 20% from 2014 to 2019, to reach $13.7 billion by 2019, according to a new report from ReportsnReports. The shift from a volume-based to a value-based model fueled by growing demand from consumers for improved healthcare quality and greater value is forcing healthcare providers and payers to provide more patient engagement solutions.
Patient Engagement Market Segments
Based on the mode of delivery, web-based solutions
Read More
ONC’s Chief Nursing Officer Judy Murphy Resigns
In a note to ONC staff, Karen DeSalvo announced that ONC Chief Nursing Officer and Director of the Office of Clinical Quality and Safety Judy Murphy will be resigning to become the new Chief Nursing Officer with IBM Healthcare Global Business Services. Murphy joined the ONC in 2011 as the Deputy National Coordinator for Programs and Policy where she led the HITECH funded program offices helping over 100,000 providers and 1,300 critical access and rural hospitals meet the meaningful use incentive
Read More
Wearable Fitness Trackers Adoption Trends (Infographic)
Wearable fitness trackers have created an unprecedented opportunity for the healthcare community to collect valuable data that could greatly impact patient care and health insurance premiums. Still, adoption rates for such devices remain low in the U.S. adult population.
While the use of health and fitness tracking devices has more than doubled in the last two years, a new nationwide survey conducted by TechnologyAdvice shows that only 25.1 percent of adults are currently using either a
Read More
Philips Telehealth Apps Receives 510(k) Clearance for New Digital Health Platform
Royal Philips has announced its telehealth apps eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion have received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A part of Philips Hospital to Home's suite of telehealth programs, eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion are focused on patient care within the home and are the first clinical applications to be available through the cloud-based digital health platform, which Philips announced in collaboration with Salesforce.com earlier this summer.
Read More
