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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Amwell Named The #1 Most Downloaded Telehealth App
Amwell, American Well's consumer-facing mobile app for live, online doctor visits, is the #1 most downloaded telehealth app for the second year in a row. According to App Annie, a market intelligence leader in app analytics revealed that Amwell was the most popular telehealth app of 2014 and 2015 in the U.S., based on combined iOS and Google Play downloads1.
The telehealth app gives people the ability to see a doctor of their choosing by video, in less than three minutes on average. Amwell
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AMA Invests $15M to Launch Innovation Studio, Health2047
The American Medical Association (AMA) is investing $15M to become the founding partner of Silicon Valley-based healthcare innovation studio- Health2047 that will create new solutions for physicians and their patients to improve health care delivery.
Health2047 plans to collaborate with AMA content experts across a wide range of medical, health policy, and pragmatic practice areas. It will also integrate health care companies, technology companies and entrepreneurs to co-develop, create and
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UPMC, Health Catalyst Partner To Develop Cost Management Solution
UPMC and Health Catalyst are teaming up in a strategic partnership to develop a cost management solution that will measure and analyze the true cost of healthcare delivery for each patient. The partnership is the first of its kind that builds upon an activity-based cost management system developed by UPMC for commercial use and Health Catalyst's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) infrastructure, analytics expertise, and professional services. Financial details of the partnership were not
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QPID Health Integrates With Epic EHR at Partners Healthcare
QPID Health, which helps hospitals and medical groups achieve their quality goals by generating actionable patient facts from EHR has signed an expanded enteprise-wide software and services agreement with Partners HealthCare. Over the next two years, QPID Health will integrate with Partner's Epic-based EHR system including legacy systems across all 10 of its hospitals and associated physician organizations.
QPID Health's clinical reasoning software combines advanced natural language
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