The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to spend $3 billion dollars between fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2025 to help states upgrade and maintain their Medicaid eligibility and enrollment systems, Modern Healthcare first reports. The increase stems from CMS permanently raising the matching rate to 90% from 50% for money that states spend on building Medicaid eligibility & enrollment systems, and from 50% to 75% for maintenance and operations of those systems.
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Xerox Wins $565M NY Medicaid Management Contract
Xerox will work with the state of New York to upgrade its Medicaid claims processing system to a next-generation technology platform that will help manage expanding Medicaid rolls, the company announced on Monday. Under a $564.9 million, five-year contract with the New York State Department of Health, Xerox will implement its Health Enterprise solution, a flexible, adaptable and analytical Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). The system is one of the only platforms that can manage all
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Unofficial Guide to Apple ResearchKit Infographic
Infographic created by Ultera Digital illustrates key facts about Apple ResearchKit, an open source software framework designed for medical and health research that helps doctors, scientists and other researchers gather data more frequently and more accurately from participants using mobile devices.
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Home Health Technology Utilization to Reach 78M by 2020
Consumers utilizing home health technology will increase from 14.3 million worldwide in 2014 to 78.5 million by 2020, according to a new report from Tractica. The report reveals home health technologies are emerging as a distinct segment within the larger mobile and digital health market. Key factors driving the utilization of home health dinclude:
- the ability to remotely monitor patients with chronic conditions
- conduct virtual physician consultations (eVisits) is being seen
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60M Households Will Own at Least 1 Fitness Tracker by 2019
60 million U.S. households will own at least one connected fitness tracker by 2019, according to new report from recently released research from Parks Associates.
"Standards-based connectivity technologies such as Bluetooth/Bluetooth Smart have been key enablers for wearable mobile device platforms such as fitness trackers and smart watches," Mehta said. "These new device platforms are leveraging Bluetooth connectivity to open up a range of applications and use cases ranging from fitness and
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Cerner Integrates EHR & Engagement Platform with Healthwise Patient Education Resources
This week, Healthwise and Cerner announce an agreement to integrate Cerner's EHR and online engagement platform HealtheLife(SM) with Healthwise's patient education resources. Together, the integration will gives individuals access to evidence-based health education across the continuum of home, work, or care settings. Individuals can now expect to receive consistent educational content through Cerner's integrated member engagement solutions, including Cerner's online health and wellness
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How Healthcare IT Drives Clinical & Financial Improvement (Infographic)
Hospitals and IDNs are investing in new technologies that enhance the value of their EMRs, enable interoperability across their internal and external information systems, and help deliver care directly to the patient, according to results of a survey update (2013 to 2014) conducted by HIMSS Analytics on behalf of Philips. These healthcare IT investments are supporting collaborative care across the continuum and are focused on clinical and financial improvement.
Of the 121 survey respondents,
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PatientsLikeMe, Biogen Study Reveals Wearables Can Help MS Patients
As many as 500,000 people between the ages of 20 and 50 in the U.S. are living with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to the nonprofit National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Up until the 1990s, patients with advised against exercise as it was thought to worsen symptoms and fatigue. Since then, studies have proven the exact opposite with exercise improving fatigue, quality of life and mood. So with the recent emergence of wearables over the past few year, can using fitness trackers/wearables help
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Epic to Waive Record Sharing Fees
EHR leader Epic announced this week during HIMSS15 that it will no longer charge a fee to exchange patient records between Epic customers and non-Epic customers through a module formerly called Care Elsewhere, Modern Healthcare first reports.
Data sharing services with Non-Epic customers have since been bundled into Epic's other interoperability module, Care Everywhere. “We're not going to charge for Care Everywhere for at least until 2020,”said Epic CEO Judy Faulkner in an interview
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Healthcare Analytics Platform Arcadia Healthcare Solutions Gets Raises $13M
EHR data aggregation/analytics and consulting firm Arcadia Healthcare Solutions announced this week, it has raised $13M in funding led by private equity firm Peloton Equity with participation by existing investors and Zaffre Investments, a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. The capital will be used to develop its data aggregation and analytics platform, accelerate sales and marketing, and make new key hires at the executive level.
Founded in 2002, the Burlington, MA-based
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