Senate health committee today confirmed President Obama's nominee Dr. Robert Califf to be the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a vote of 89 to 4. The vote comes after over a month of opposition from Senate over the FDA's response to prescription painkiller abuse. Dr. Califf, a cardiologist and clinical researcher from Duke University, has been a consultant to drug companies was meet with resistance from Democrats who felt his ties to drug companies would be a
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First Databank Unveils OrderSpace to Enhance Medication Ordering in CPOE
FDB (First Databank), a provider of clinical drug knowledge that improves medication-related decisions and patient outcomes has announced the release of FDB OrderSpace™, a web-based solution that enables customization of medication ordering content in CPOE systems. The McKesson Paragon® electronic health record is the first to deploy FDB OrderSpace with the goal of making ordering medications easier and more satisfying for clinicians.
FDB OrderSpace is a web-based software tool that enables
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What Benefits Do Health IT Professionals Want Most?
As the healthcare industry continues to grow, so does the need for health IT talent. The question is, how do you attract this talent in today’s increasingly competitive job market? The answer is simple: offer a competitive benefits package comprised of the benefits and perks that health IT workers want most.
The infographic below, compiled by HealthITJobs.com, a free job search resource for health IT professionals, shares findings from its 2016 Health IT Job Perk Report. The report covers
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Castlight Launches Partnership with Behavioral Health Platform MyStrength
Health benefits platform provider Castlight Health and myStrength, Inc., a recognized leader in computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT), announced an agreement to integrate myStrength’s CCBT as a value added offering into Castlight’s behavioral health solution Elevate. Castlight Elevate helps employees working through conditions such as depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, insomnia, and stress. myStrength is one of most recent and deepest integrations into the Castlight platform
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eClinicalWorks Enters Acute Care Market, Launches Cloud-centric Platform 10i
After securing $100 million in international business in 2015, ambulatory EHR provider eClinicalWorks today announced its entrance into the acute care market with its latest product – eClinicalWorks 10i. The cloud-centric platform creates a unified record across in-patient, out-patient and allied health settings. Available in 2017, the initial release of the acute care platform will focus on enterprise operations functionality, including inventory management, support for emergency and operating
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Report: Activity Tracker Market to Top 87M by 2021
Activity tracker shipment totals is expected to top 87 million in 2021 as these devices, from players including Fitbit, Xiaomi, Jawbone, Misfit (Fossil), and many others, according to a recent report from ABI research. The report reveals activity tackers will continue to lead consumers into the emerging wearable wireless connected health and wellbeing market.
Despite the increasing popularity of activity trackers, the medical device market still awaits the shift to connected devices that has
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drchrono Delivers All-inclusive Mobile EHR Experience
Direct Urgent Care has implemented drchrono EHR to support its growing urgent care business and its new facility opening today in Mountain View, CA. Today, doctors are moving their practice to a more mobile environment and want to help their staff manage patient information directly from an iPad. Direct Urgent Care has embraced this vision and drchrono worked closely with them to design a unique mobile EHR solution that meets the needs of its growing urgent care medical facility network.
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Adventist HealthCare Selects Wellcentive for Population Health Management
Adventist HealthCare, a faith-based, not-for-profit, integrated healthcare delivery system based has selected Wellcentive for population health management technology. As part of the agreement, Wellcentive will develop the ability to integrate privacy-sensitive aspects of social determinants of health into patient data, sharable throughout care teams as part of data aggregation and translation.
"For our patient population, and really for every patient population in America,
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IBM Watson Health to Acquire Truven Health Analytics for $2.6B
IBM Watson Health today announced plans to acquire Truven Health Analytics, a provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights for $2.6 billion. The acquisition will boost IBM Watson Health to one of the world’s largest and most diverse collections of health-related data, representing an aggregate of approximately 300 million patient lives acquired from three companies. Through the Watson Health Cloud, healthcare organizations will be able to take previously disparate data sets,
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PwC Launches DoubleJump Health to Accelerate Innovation in Consumer Health
PwC's Health Industries Group today launched DoubleJump Health, a consumer health accelerator that speeds the pace of innovation in person-centered health and brings medical and scientific breakthroughs to the market more quickly. The two-initiative will evolve our approach to medical research that includes 1) a new data sharing platform aimed at expediting medical discovery by breaking down health data barriers among the diverse array of healthcare industry players and 2) a digital
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