Building on the AMA’s current efforts to transform medical education and ensure medical students are trained and prepared to practice in the evolving health care environment, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted policy today to ensure medical students receive necessary hands-on clinical experience using EHRs.
The new policy calls on the AMA to work with medical school accrediting bodies to encourage the nation’s medical schools, along with residency and fellowship training programs,
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Medtronic, Samsung Partner to Enhance Diabetes Management
Medtronic and Samsung Electronics has announced a partnership to improve diabetes management for the millions of people at risk and currently living with the disease. Together, Medtronic and Samsung will combine Samsung’s deep understanding of consumer mobile technology to deliver secure and convenient access to Medtronic’s integrated diabetes management systems that provide clinically-proven outcomes.
Managing diabetes effectively requires daily ongoing management to keep blood sugar levels
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FDA Approval of Digital Health Solutions Expected to Triple by 2018
FDA-regulated digital health solutions are expected to save the U.S. healthcare system more than $100 billion over the next four years, according to new research from Accenture. Accenture also predicts that FDA approvals of digital health solutions will triple by the end of 2018, to 100, from 33 last year.
The Accenture study assessed the number of digital health solutions that received FDA 510(k) clearance from 2010 through 2014. The analysis focused on devices and software created for
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Healthy Data Center = Greatest Protection for Patient Data Infographic
The state of your data center has a domino effect on all the infrastructure and networks that depends on its "health." A healthy data center ensures your healthcare organization can provide the greatest level of patient and, by extension, the greatest protection for patient data. From optimizing data center technologies to streamlining operations and safeguarding against downtime, all aspects must be considered to transform a data center into a backbone supporting the patient experience.
The
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McKesson Sells Off Care Management Business to Investors
McKesson Corporation has completed the sale of its Care Management business to private investment firm Comvest Partners along with co-investor Mosiac Health Solutions. The Care Management business will be rebranded as AxisPoint Health to provide complex and chronic case management services, nurse advisory services, and a care management software platform used by payers to manage utilization, disease, and case management services in-house. AxisPoint Health currently
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Cohero Health’s Mobile Spirometer Receives FDA Clearance
Cohero Health, an NYC-based digital health company focused on developing connected health tools and technologies to improve respiratory care, has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA for its mobile spirometer. The handheld, wireless spirometer measures critical lung function metrics with the same precision as clinical-grade spirometers. The mobile spirometer pairs with a smartphone or tablet, enabling real-time measurement and reporting.
The device integrates with Cohero Health’s mobile
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New CMS Policy To Provide Entrepreneurs Access Medicare Data
Today at sixth annual Health Datapalooza, the acting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Andy Slavitt, announced a new policy that for the first time will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to access CMS data, such as Medicare claims. As part of the Administration’s commitment to use of data and information to drive transformation of the healthcare delivery system, CMS will allow innovators and entrepreneurs to conduct approved research that will ultimately improve
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CVS Health, HHS Collaborate to Provide Personalized Preventive Care Recommendations
CVS Health announced it is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promote an online tool, which provides recommendations from government-recognized clinical experts for the personalized preventive services patients should receive based on their age and gender. Many of these preventive services are available to patients at MinuteClinic and CVS/pharmacy locations, as well as at their physician's office, and many are now covered by most insurance without
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Apervita, Mayo Clinic To Create First Self-Service Health Measures Marketplace
Apervita and Mayo Clinic, today announced a partnership to create the first self-service marketplace for health measures that will serve as a one-stop-shop to author, publish, and apply measures, allowing users to connect their data to open standard measure definitions. The new capability automatically transforms measure definitions into computable analytics and is being developed with Mayo Clinic contributing its expertise in medical care, know how, and technology.
Today, there are already
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Susannah Fox Appointed New CTO of HHS
Former associate director of the Pew Research Center, Susannah Fox has been appointed the new chief technology officer (CTO) at HHS. Fox will replace Bryan Sivak who held the post since 2012 after succeeding the inaugural CTO Todd Park.
In a post on the HHS Idea Lab blog, Fox said "when I was asked to consider the role of Chief Technology Officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to serve under the leadership of Secretary Burwell, I was drawn by the
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