HIMSS: 52% of Hospitals Currently Use 3 or More Connected Health Technologies
More than 50 percent of hospitals currently use three or more connected health technologies with many organizations planning to implement additional technologies to improve engagement and quality of care with patients, according to the new 2016 HIMSS Connected Health Survey, The survey reveals an optimistic outlook on the emerging trend of connectivity within the healthcare ecosystem.
Accenture: Only 18% of
Read More
eSoultions acquires Clearinghouse ClaimRemedi
eSolutions, Inc. today announced that it has acquired billing system and clearinghouse service provider ClaimRemedi. The acquisition will allow eSolutions to better help health care providers improve revenue cycle management practices. Founded in 2002, ClaimRemedi helps physician offices, clinics, and hospitals increase revenue by decreasing workload and claims rejections and denials.Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.
“Combining ClaimRemedi with eSolutions provides the
Read More
IBM Launches SleepHealth App, Unveils Watson Health for ResearchKit
Today at HIMSS16, IBM Watson Health and the American Sleep Apnea launched the SleepHealth app to help identify connections between sleep habits and health outcomes. SleepHealth is the first ResearchKit study to run on the data-rich Watson Health Cloud that will enable participants to easily complete tasks and submit surveys right from the SleepHealth app.
SleepHealth Study Overview
In concert with researchers, physicians and patient advocates in the US, the SleepHealth study will
Read More
Study: 65% of Patient Satisfaction Attributed to Physician Empathy
65% of patient satisfaction was attributed to physician empathy, according to the study recently published in the Journal of Hand Surgery. The study presented this week at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), links patient-perceived physician empathy with improved outcomes and medical care satisfaction.
In the study, 112 new patients (mean age 51) at the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery rated personal interaction with
Read More
6 Ways Health Informatics Is Transforming Health Care
The fact that technology is rapidly transforming health care should come as no surprise to anyone. From robotic arms that perform surgery to nanorobots that deliver drugs through the bloodstream, the days of being tended to by the human country doctor seem to have fully given way to machines and software more in keeping with the tools of Dr. McCoy from “Star Trek.”
However, technology's evolutionary impact on health care isn't all shooting stars and bells and whistles. Some of health care's
Read More
HIMSS16 Day 2 Summary and Highlights
HIMSS Leadership Survey Underscores Importance of Clinical IT Executives
The 27thAnnual HIMSS Leadership Survey finds 95 percent of IT leaders view health IT as a strategically critical tool to help healthcare organizations be successful especially surrounding their patient care focused efforts. Leaders working for an organization with a clinical IT executive tended to place a substantially higher importance of health IT than their counterparts in a variety of areas, but most
Read More
Chilmark Research: Provider-Led Care Management Still In its Infancy
Chilmark Research has released its inaugural 2016 Care Management Market Trends Report on the growing market for provider-centric care management solutions. The report is an in-depth review of over 100 solutions currently available in the market, for which a subset of leading vendors have been comprehensively reviewed.
Defining Care Management
At a fundamental level, care management requires medical professionals to practice medicine differently. Care management will have to
Read More
Epic-Focused Consulting Firm Nordic, Qlik Partner to Enhance EHR Insights for Providers
Epic-focused consulting firm Nordic has partnered with visual analytics provider Qlik to help enhance EHR capabilities for healthcare systems – allowing users to query data directly with flexible and interactive visualizations. With Qlik Sense, Nordic combines its healthcare IT expertise in best practices and operational processes with visual analytics software that puts user-friendly data in the hands of the practitioners — right where they want it — within the Epic environment.
By
Read More
Mobile EHR drchrono Adds Electronic Capture of Insurance, Credit Cards Via App
Mobile EHR provider drchrono today has released a new version of the its platform that now allows for electronic photo capture and storage of patient insurance cards and credit cards right through the app to help process more claims accurately. The drchrono iPad EHR, drchrono iPad patient check-in app and web portal allow a physician to take a photo of a paper insurance card and move it directly into the drchrono platform.
In addition, a patient can complete the same process right from the
Read More
Provider-Led Groups Collaborate to Improve Data Flow to Clinical Apps
The Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) and the Center for Medical Interoperability are teaming up on technical initiatives to enable clinical apps to easily and securely access health information. The two provider-led, nonprofit organizations will leverage complementary strengths to develop compatible architectures and platforms to facilitate the flow of data from the patient to clinical applications and services that can enhance care.
The Center serves as a cooperative R&D
Read More
