MTBC (Medical Transcription Billing, Corp), a leading provider of proprietary, healthcare information technology solutions has released its e-prescribing app for the Apple Watch now available to U.S. healthcare providers.
Apple Watch App Features
The app will extend key components of its existing e-prescribing app for iPhone users, known as MTBC iRx, to the Apple Watch. Users of the Apple Watch app can view patient refill request alerts and inbound patient communications on the watch and
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Latest Bionic Eye Developments Indicate Bright Future for Ocular Medical Devices
The recent announcement by the Clinical Ophthalmology Research Group at the University of Oxford that two patients were able to achieve some restoration of vision following implantation of the Alpha IMS device puts maker Retina Implant AG ahead of the pack in the bionic eye space, according to an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.
Shashank Settipalli, GlobalData’s Analyst covering Medical Devices, says: “These promising results, in conjunction with a string of positive
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National ACO Selects drchrono EHR for Practice Management, Medical Billing
National ACO has selected drchrono as their EHR software vendor of choice for medical records, practice management and medical billing. Accountable Care Organizations known as ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers that come together voluntarily to give coordinated high quality care to their Medicare patients.
The implementation of drchrono's EHR platform will enable National ACO to standardize software across over 230 physicians with over 14,000 attributed
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CHIME Responds to CMS Chief Remarks on Future of Meaningful Use
This week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS publicly put the meaningful use program on its death bed.
"The Meaningful Use program as it has existed, will now be effectively over and replaced with something better.""As any physician will tell you, physician burden and frustration levels are real. Programs designed to improve often distract. Done poorly, measures are divorced from how physicians practice and add to the cynicism
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Devin Jopp Steps Down As President & CEO of WEDI
Devin Jopp, Ed.D, President and CEO of Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is stepping down from the post after four years at the Reston, VA-based not for profit organization. The WEDI Board of Directors has formed a search committee to help identify a replacement for Dr. Jopp.
During his four-year tenture, Dr. Jopp coordinated the development of the 2013 WEDI Report, which serves as an industry consensus roadmap for the next generation of healthcare data exchange. Additionally,
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State of Mobile Health Apps Security: Perception vs. Reality
55 percent of consumers expect their mobile health apps to be hacked within the next six months, according to a recent report from Arxan Technologies. Executive IT leaders (48%) who have oversight or insight into the security of the mobile healthcare and produce apps also share the same concerns.
For the report, "State Application Security," Arxan Technologies surveyed 318 consumers and 80 IT executives with security oversight or insight into mobile health apps in the US, UK, Germany, and
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Health Choice Preferred, Cigna Form Accountable Care Collaboration
Health Choice Preferred, a division of IASIS Healthcare, and Cigna have announced an accountable care collaboration designed to offer more than 16,000 Cigna commercial customers in Utah a more coordinated, personalized healthcare option.
The collaboration ties value-based incentives to performance improvements that support population health management and improve outcomes for Cigna’s customers. Health Choice Preferred’s integrated network of healthcare providers utilize a broad range of
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CrossChx, Former HHS Innovators Partner to Build The ‘Internet of Healthcare’
CrossChx, a provider of identity resolution for smarter healthcare is teaming up with Bryan Sivak (former CTO of Health and Human Services) and Dr. Jacob Reider, (former Chief Medical Officer and later Deputy National Coordinator of the National Coordinate for Health IT within HHS), to develop what they're calling the “Internet of Healthcare.” In their new roles, Sivak and Reider will be helping CrossChx develop a connected IoH framework for the industry that can enable many of the healthcare
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Philips, Marin General Hospital Form $90M, 15-Year Partnership to Transform Care
Philips and Marin General Hospital Health have formed a $90 million, 15-year strategic partnership to improve patient care and encourage innovation in healthcare. This partnership, as with some of the Philips’ past collaborations with Mackenzie Health, the Westchester Medical Center Health Network in New York’s Hudson Valley, and Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta, GA, shows a growing need for strategic partnerships as a way to continue building out the healthcare continuum.
Strategic
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Mobile Engagement Provider mPulse Mobile Pulls In $10M
mPulse Mobile, a mobile engagement solution provider that spun out of the healthcare division of mobileStorm has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by HLM Venture Partners with participation from OCA Ventures, Merrick Ventures and Jumpstart Ventures. The capital will enable the company to enhance its analytics capabilities and gain further penetration in the consumer health and wellness market.
The company's cloud-based intelligent mobile messaging solution is HIPAA compliant and
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