With ACOs and Meaningful Use Stage 2 pushing patient engagement to the forefront, physicians are increasingly looking to pharma companies to help them with patient engagement by providing patient services, according to Decision Resources Group's new Manhattan Research study, ePharma Physician® 2014. The study shows strong physician interest in patient engagement support and resources from pharma, along with an expectation that the industry will take a leadership role in developing tools to help
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12 Insightful EHR Adoption Trends in the Nashville Market
Report from TechnologyAdvice explores EHR adoption trends in the Nashville market
Earlier this year, the National Center for Healthcare Statistics (NCHS) released a report stating 78 percent of office-based physicians had adopted electronic medical records in 2013. But this same report noted a wide regional variance in EHR adoption, with New Jersey representing the low end with 66 percent adoption and Minnesota the high end with 94 percent adoption.
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Practice Fusion Signs 122 Partnership Deals with Health Systems, Hospitals, Clinical Labs and Imaging Centers in 2014
Practice Fusion, the country’s largest physician-patient community, reported today that it has signed 122 enterprise clients since the start of 2014, including health systems, hospitals and independent clinical labs and imaging centers. With these new clients on board, over 440 healthcare enterprises have chosen Practice Fusion’s clinical network solution for affiliated providers. These enterprises pay fees for data transmission, care coordination and population health management.
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Health IT VC Funding Soars to $1.8B in Q2 2014
Health IT VC funding soared to $1.8 billion in 161 deals in Q2 2014, more than double the $861 million raised in 164 deals in Q1 2014, according to a new Mercom Capital Group report. Ten of those deals were for over $50M each. The $2.6B raised so far this year has already exceeded the $2.2B raised in all of 2013. There were 263 investors that participated in these funding rounds.
Practice-centric companies received 61 percent of all VC investments in Q2 2014, with $1.1B in 61 deals.
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Arizona Care Network Offers Propeller Health to its Members with COPD
Propeller Health (formerly Asthmapolis), the FDA-cleared digital health solution for chronic respiratory disease, and Arizona Care Network, a physician and health system collaboration, jointly announced today that ACN will be the first Accountable Care Organization (ACO) to offer the Propeller platform to its members with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Arizona Care Network was formed through collaboration between two of the state's largest health care organizations, Dignity Health
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6 Ways to Take Advantage of the Delay in ICD-10 Compliance
William McElmurry, Senior Vice President at SoftServ Inc. shares six ways you can utilize the one year delay in ICD-10 compliance to your advantage.
Those who invested early on in ICD-10 implementation may feel a level of frustration with recently signed legislation delaying ICD-10 compliance one year to October 1, 2015, but it may be a blessing in disguise. All organizations required to implement ICD-10 can take advantage of the delay, viewing it as an opportunity to re-assess their
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Cartoon: Why Big Pharma Can’t Innovate with mHealth
David Doherty, CoFounder & Director at 3G Doctor recently published this satire comic shown below that highlights the reasons why big pharma is failing to innovate with mhealth. In his recent article regarding the obsession with the 'random controlled trail' approach to mHealth, Doherty states,
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Cigna Reaches 100 ACO Goal, Signs 11 Agreements in 7 States
Cigna has announced it has successfully reached its 100 Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) goal established in 2012. Effective Jul 1, Cigna entered into 11 arrangements in seven states, thus taking its ACO arrangements to 100. Cigna will serve one million customers through these ACOs.
The new agreements have been entered with Northeast Medical Group (NEMG) in Connecticut, Harbin Clinic and Physician Performance Network of Georgia/Tenet in Georgia, Presence Health Partners in Illinois,
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Archiac Pagers and Lack of Secure Text Messaging Costs Average Hospital More Than $1.75M Annually
Inefficient communication during critical clinical workflows such as patient admissions, emergency response team coordination and patient transfers costs the average U.S. hospital about $1.75 million annually, according to a new report from Imprivata® and the Ponemon Institute. Titled “The Imprivata Report on the Economic Impact of Inefficient Communications in Healthcare,” the report finds that a significant amount of time is wasted during these workflows—primarily due to the inefficiency of
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Infographic: Rx for Doctor Disconnect
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, nearly 90% of physicians are using smartphones, but only a tenth of our hospitals are offering a secure texting solution at their facilities. So how can physicians become engaged when they are struggling to communicate with the rest of their team?
The infographic visualization created by Voalte highlights the doctor disconnect trend by exploring the key issues and risks contributing to poor physician engagement.
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