Two in five physicians agreed that using digital health technology to communicate with patients will improve patient outcomes, according to data from Manhattan Research's Taking the Pulse® U.S. 2014 study. The study found more than a third of physicians said that they had been evaluated or rewarded based on metrics measuring cost of treatment, patient outcomes or referrals over the past year. The Taking the Pulse® U.S. 2014 was fielded online among 3,066 U.S. practicing physicians in Q1 2014.
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2014 Wireless Innovation Project Winners Announced by Vodafone Americas Foundation
The Vodafone Americas Foundation™ today announced winners of its sixth annual Wireless Innovation Project, a competition where entrepreneurs, creators and developers from universities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and non-profits are invited to submit innovations that make a difference in the world under the theme of “mobile for good.” Winners were named during a ceremony at the Social Innovation Summit 2014 held May 28-29 at the United Nations Plaza in New York City.
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SAP Accelerates Genomic Data Research with Strategic Collaborations With Stanford School of Medicine and GA4GH
SAP AG today announced a strategic collaboration with Stanford School of Medicine to research the contribution of genetics, environmental exposures, behavior and other factors to disease susceptibility using the power of the SAP HANA® platform. The company also announced its participation in the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, a council of industry leaders working toward accelerating worldwide efforts to responsibly share and analyze large amounts of genomic and clinical data.
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Aver Informatics Raises $8.5 Million to Simplify the Healthcare Reimbursement Process
Aver Informatics – a data management platform that simplifies the healthcare reimbursement process – announced today that it has received $8.5 million in Series A funding led by Drive Capital and GE Ventures. Additionally, Aver has secured two additional customers: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Molina Healthcare.“For the last three-plus years, we’ve been working hard to create a sustainable change in healthcare. Today is a pivotal moment for us that will help transform the
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How Wearable Technology Is Transforming Mobile Health (Infographic)
According to a recent study, the number of adults using smartphones to monitor their health grew from 61 million to 75 million in 2012, and is projected to increase more than threefold by the end of 2014. The infographic shown below created by Career Glider features statistics on how wearable technologies is transforming mobile health, including how they’re affecting the way Americans stay active and healthy.
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Should Facebook Have Access To Our Medical Data?
Leslie Saxon, chief of cardiovascular at the Keck School, USC talks how companies such as Facebook wants to have access to our medical data and why at the recent Wired Health summit.
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CareCloud Partners with BBVA Compass to Help Medical Practices Ease Administrative Burdens
CareCloud and BBVA Compass announced today that they are joining forces to help medical practices ease administrative burdens, improve client care and boost financial performance via an integrated package of bank services and healthcare technology.
The pairing is timely. According to CareCloud's 2014 Practice Profitability Index, which surveyed more than 5,000 physicians nationwide about their practices' financial health, nearly 40 percent of U.S. medical doctors see profitability trending down
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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Delays Should Be Used to Strengthen Benefits for Patients and Families
Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families issues statement in response to the recently proposed meaningful use stage 2 delay to 2016 by CMS.
“Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) released a proposed regulation giving hospitals, doctors and vendors more time to upgrade their electronic health records to the national standards released in September 2012 for use this year. While this
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Core Registration: The Umbrella Over All Health Systems and Data
This post is sponsored by Tools4Ever
Dean Wiech discusses healthcare’s ability to quickly anticipate the inflow, transfer and outflow of staff using a transparent and uniform overview of all personal data in a single system, a process called core registration. For many organizations, core registration is absent or incomplete.
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CMS Proposes New Rule to Extend Stage 2 Meaningful Use Through 2016 & Begin Stage 3 in 2017
New CMS proposed rule includes a provision to extend Stage 2 Meaningful Use through 2016 and begin Stage 3 MU in 2017.
Today, HHS published a new proposed rule that would provide eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals more flexibility in how they use certified electronic health record (EHR) technology (CEHRT) to meet meaningful use. The proposed rule, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for
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