The North American health IT market is expected to reach $104 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 13.5% during the forecast period of 2015 to 2020, according to a recent report by MarketsandMarkets. A majority of this growth is attributed to the growing adoption of various healthcare IT solutions by healthcare providers in order to meet the heightened regulatory requirements for patient care and safety, increasing need to curtail the soaring healthcare costs, and growing need to improve the quality of
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Georgia Connects With Alabama to Support Health Information Exchange
Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), Georgia's statewide health information exchange (HIE), and Alabama's One Health Record® today announced the success of an electronic connection between the two networks. This is the second state-to-state health information exchange (HIE) connection for GaHIN, which connected with the South Carolina HIE in 2014, and is one of only a few interstate connections in the nation.
"Healthcare doesn't stop at the state line, so we need to ensure that
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23andMe Scores $115M to Maximize Its Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests
Genetics startup 23andMe, Inc., has raised $115 million in Series E funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company to expand its FDA-approved direct-to-consumer genetic tests. New investors in the round include Casdin Capital, WuXi Healthcare Ventures and Xfund, as well as existing investors including Illumina (ILMN), New Enterprise Associates, MPM Capital, and Google Ventures. The latest funding round brings its total funding to date at $241 million, Forbes now values the company at
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3 Medicare Reforms That Could Keep Seniors Healthier, Wealthier
Empowering seniors to take control of their own health spending and rewarding the doctors who coordinate patients’ care, as well as the providers that reduce patients’ costs and improve the quality of their treatment, could vastly improve the health of seniors on Medicare, according to a new report by National Center for Policy Analysis Senior Fellow Devon Herrick. Medicare reform requires empowering seniors to manage more of their own health care spending using Medicare Health Savings Accounts
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Physician Practice Guide to Accurate EHR Software Pricing
The expected benefits of any EHR systems are to improve patient care, lower administrative costs and improve billings and collections. The primary measures of effectiveness are:
- The claims collection rate;
- The number of patient visits per day;
- The amount of time spent managing faxes and paper charts and
- The direct costs of paper charts (cost of materials, storage, destruction etc.).
EHR system costs will vary widely and depend primarily on the size of the physician
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Geisinger Health System to Utilize Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform
Geisinger Health System has announced it will collaborate with Cerner to use Cerner'sHealtheIntent℠ population health management platform to further extend Geisinger's data-driven population health capabilities. In a proof-of-concept project, Geisinger leveraged HealtheIntent's system-agnostic platform that normalizes data from any source, to aggregate clinical and financial data from its core EHR and other sources, such as its insurance company.
Coming off the heels of the positive proof of
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Tanzania’s Healthy Baby SMS Service Records 1M mHealth Registrations
The CDC-funded mHealth Tanzania Partnership’s Healthy Pregnancy, Healthy Baby SMS Service (HPHB) has announced 1 Million registrations to its service since its launch in November 2012. The service has sent 55 Million free SMS with safe antenatal, motherhood and infant healthcare information to Tanzanian pregnant women, mothers with newborns, male supporters and general information seekers across all national mobile networks.
The service is a success thanks to the dynamic collaboration among
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Philips, Genomic Health Partner to Utilize Innovative Digital Pathology
Royal Philips has announced a collaboration with Genomic Health, Inc., a provider of genomic-based diagnostic tests, to leverage Philips digital pathology tools in Genomic Health’s continuing scale up of its molecular diagnostic testing processes. Pathology involves the examination of patient tissue samples and plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including cancer. Pathologic evaluation of tumor tissue specimens is a critical step in the genomic
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Cerner Unveils HL7 FHIR-based API to Integrate EHR Data with 3rd-Party Apps
Cerner, a global leader in health care technology, has unveiled a production version of HL7’s FHIR standard that is being tested in the Cerner Millennium electronic health record (EHR).
“This next-generation standards framework enables health care organizations to utilize Cerner’s open platform, which is designed to enable third-party innovators to advance care delivery and improve interoperability capabilities with other FHIR-compliant EHR systems,” said Dr. David McCallie, senior vice
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AWS, Philips Strengthens Partnership to Unleash Digital Health IoT
Royal Philips today announced that it is strengthening its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of its strategy to enable a digital health IoT for new types of connected and personalized devices. AWS IoT, a new platform that makes it easy for devices to connect to AWS services, will expand the connectivity, capabilities and services of Philips' HealthSuite digital platform, an open IT infrastructure that supports the secure management of data related to a person's
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