With less than three months remaining until the ICD-10 transition, The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA) are announcing efforts to continue to help physicians get ready ahead of the October 1 deadline. In response to requests from the provider community, CMS is releasing additional guidance that will allow for flexibility in the claims auditing and quality reporting process as the medical community gains experience using the new ICD- 10
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Get My Health Data Campaign Launches
For patients, accessing their health information online is often a confusing and down right painful process. Sadly, few patients know what to ask for or what information should be available to them, and not nearly enough health care organizations are equipped to meet their requests.
To change that, a coalition of patient advocates today has launched the Get My Health Data Campaign to support patients in asking for, getting and effectively using their digital health data.
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Social Network for Doctors SERMO Expands to Canada’s 77,000 Physicians
SERMO, the leading social network for doctors with more than 340,000 members across the US and UK, announced its latest international expansion, opening its doors to Canada’s 77,000 physicians. The Canadian expansion follows SERMO’s international UK launch in April. SERMO is well on its way to becoming the largest global medical social network exclusively for physicians. SERMO also has plans to roll out in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa over the next few weeks.
SERMO is a
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Teladoc IPO Raises $157M, Shares Priced at $19
Today, Dallas-based telehealth provider, Teladoc initial public offering (IPO) debut under the symbol “TDOC" on the New York Stock Exchange at $19 per share, raising $157 million. The underwriters for the offering also have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,237,500 shares of Teladoc common stock.
Founded in 2002, the company emerged as an early leader in the growing telehealth space as self-insured employers and insurance companies look for ways to cut healthcare costs by
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HealthTap, Quest Diagnostics Launch Virtual Diagnostic Testing for Healthcare Consumers
HealthTap, the world’s largest, most trusted digital health hub and Quest Diagnostics has announced a collaboration that will enable doctors to order diagnostic testing services for patients through HealthTap’s comprehensive virtual care platform. The partnership between a major national medical laboratory provider and an end-to-end virtual care company, which will enable doctors and consumers to access a broad range of diagnostic service options to help care for patients in a virtual
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UAB Medicine Selects athenahealth to Advance Care Coordination
UAB Medicine, the third largest academic medical center in the nation is implementing athenaCoordinator Enterprise patient access services to improve care coordination in the ambulatory space. The implementation will streamline care transitions and patient referrals, in The Kirklin Clinic of UAB Hospital, a multi-specialty ambulatory care site that serves more than 2,000 patients a day in 35 specialties.
The solution is expected to go-live in July allowing UAB Medicine to ensure patients
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Florida’s PremierMD ACO Selects eClinicalWorks for Population Health Management
Florida’s PremierMD ACO LLC (Premier), an ACO participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, has chosen the eClinicalWorks CCMR population health platform to advance its ACO objectives, coordinate care across the continuum as well as evaluate population health and quality improvement activities. eClinicalWorks will also be the preferred EHR solution for the organization.
Premier participates in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, which has been created by the Centers for Medicare
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Telehealth App Approved By NHS to Deliver Prescriptions to UK Patients
Dr Now, a telehealth app that dispenses and deliver prescriptions directly to patients’ home or office has been approved by NHS England to handle NHS prescriptions using the NHS Electronic Prescription Service. Now available for Apple and Android devices, Dr Now offers instant access to UK registered doctors through video-based consultation, with NHS prescriptions dispensed and delivered in central London and overnight nationwide via its Now Pharmacy prescription hubs for free. Registered
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Infographic: 5 Digital Health Trends Reshaping Healthcare
Healthcare executives expect that, within the next three years, their industry will need to focus as much on training machines as they do on training people, according to one finding from a new report by Accenture. The Accenture 2015 Healthcare IT Vision is based on a survey of doctors, consumers and healthcare executives and] highlights emerging technology trends that will affect the health industry in the next three to five years.
84% of health executives surveyed agree or strongly agree
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King v. Burwell: 5 Key Trends Driving Consumer-Focused New Health Economy
Today, the Supreme Court affirmed the 4th Circuit, holding that tax credits are available in states using the federal exchange. PwC's Health Research Institute (HRI) performed an analysis of publicly available information - including ACA enrollment data and CMS data on hospital spending - to assess the financial impact of the loss of subsidies in the federal marketplace. The Court’s decision in King v. Burwell removes uncertainty for some 8 million Americans who were at risk of losing coverage
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