U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said that America’s patients need a “breakthrough” in the medical device industry after touring Smith & Nephew, a medical device company in Memphis, Tennessee.
“We hear a lot about the negative effects of the medical device tax, but what I’m hearing more from the medical device community is about the negative effects of regulatory burdens on doctors and patients,” said Alexander, chairman of the Senate health committee. “We’ve had a
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Rock Health: 18 Consumer Adoption Trends in Digital Health
This week, Rock Health, a full-service venture fund dedicated to digital health released the findings from their national survey on the consumer adoption trends in digital health. The report, "Digital Health Consumer Adoption: 2015" produced by Teresa Wang and Malay Gandhi with help from Kati Dahl surveyed 4,000 consumers on their attitudes attitudes towards data privacy and sharing within the healthcare ecosystem.
The report identifies six overarching categories of digital health that
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QuadraMed Scoops Up NextGen Healthcare’s Hospital Solutions Division
Quality Systems, Inc. has sold the Hospital Solutions Division of its NextGen Healthcare subsidiary to QuadraMed Affinity Corporation (“QuadraMed”), which is part of the Harris Operating Group of Constellation Software Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The Hospital Solutions Division of NextGen is a provider of an integrated operations suite for critical access and rural hospitals. QuadraMed provides healthcare software and services primarily used in hospitals, health systems and related facilities
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Cleveland Clinic: Top 10 Medical Innovations of the Past 10 Years
Each year, at the close of its annual Medical Innovations Summit, Cleveland Clinic predicts the Top 10 Medical Innovations for the coming year. With the annual list turning 10 years old this year, an advisory panel of Cleveland Clinic has compiled a "throwback" Top 10, a listing of the top medical innovations of the past 10 years. Taking a look back at the list reveals that many of the previous medical innovations become transformative.
In the spirit of innovation, here are the Top 10
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Michigan Launches Nation’s First Cloud-Based Medicaid System
Michigan residents will benefit from improved health care delivery and reduced costs through Medicaid Management Information System technology, a first in the nation programs that includes a partnership with another state.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has worked with the State of Illinois, the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget, and CNSI to recently launch the second phase of the nation’s first completely automated real-time and cloud-enabled
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PatientSafe Solutions Acquires Merck subsidiary Vree Health
PatientSafe Solutions, a provider of connected healthcare workflow and care coordination solutions has acquired all assets of Vree Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck. The acquisition of Vree Health's service-enabled care coordination technology will help boost PatientSafe’s existing care coordination offerings to provide an end-to-end mobile care network at all points of patient care. As part of the acquisition, PatientSafe plans to maintain Vree Health's office in New Jersey, and the
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Baptist Health Care to Implement Allscripts Sunrise EHR
Pensacola, Florida-based Baptist Health Care Corporation has selected Allscripts Sunrise EHR solution to improve the quality and safety of patient care and better manage their business operations over Cerner and Epic. The Allscripts solution will provide Baptist with a single, comprehensive health care record for every patient that is accessible by clinicians at any point of care, including hospitals, ambulatory sites, physician practices and other trading partners. Non-clinical departments will
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Former Epic Employees Raises $3.5M for EHR Integration API
Founded by former Epic engineers, Redox, a health IT startup helping developers integrate with EHRs and health systems manage their connections to the cloud, today announced it has raised $3.5M in Series A funding led by .406 Ventures with participation by Flybridge Capital Partners and HealthX Ventures. The company hopes to solve the EHR interoperability problem with their RESTful API designed to help apps share data with almost any EHR vendor at any health system.
Redox's
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Welltok Acquires Zamzee to Optimize Children’s Health through Gamification
Health optimization provider Welltok, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Zamzee, an award-winning health program developed by HopeLab, to strengthen its CaféWell Health Optimization Platform™ for children. Welltok’s CaféWell Health Optimization Platform organizes health and condition management programs, apps and digital tracking devices to improve engagement by providing personalized guidance via social, gaming and cognitive technologies.
Zamzee rounds out their offerings to include
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Accenture: Digital Health Solutions Could Save Primary Care $10B Annually
Digital health solutions could save primary care $10 billion annually, according to a new report released by Accenture at the U.S. News & World Report’s Hospital of Tomorrow Forum. The Accenture report highlights the economic value of applying digital health solutions to three care scenarios: annual patient visit; ongoing patient management; and self-care.
For an annual patient visit, applying digital health solutions – such as biometric devices, analytic diagnostic engine and a virtual
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