Sharecare, an online health and wellness engagement platform, today announced at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference a strategic collaboration with HCA to accelerate innovation through the creation of new patient engagement solutions. HCA also made a financial investment in Sharecare during 2014, and the companies are exploring opportunities to create a joint innovation lab. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
Sharecare and HCA first began working together in December 2013,
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HIMSS Analytics Honors Children’s Hospital of Orange County With Stage 7 Award
HIMSS Analytics awarded Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children's Hospital) in Orange, Calif., with a Stage 7 Award. The award represents attainment of the highest level on the Electronic Medical Records Adoption ModelSM (EMRAM), which is used to track EHR progress at hospitals and health systems.
HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS
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25 Best Health Tech Infographics of 2014
Annual yearly recap of the best health tech infographics created in 2014
Over the past 12 months, HIT Consultant has covered some of the most in-depth and well designed healthcare technology related infographics in this industry. Infographics provide a great way to display complex information or research data in a visually appealing format. Themes this year covered the gamut of healthcare technology including trends transforming health IT (EHR, meaningful use), mobile healthcare, patient
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Patient Registry Market Expected to Reach $611M by 2019
The global patient registry market is expected to reach $610.8 million by 2019 from $381.0 million in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 9.9% from 2014 to 2019. The report segments this market on the basis of delivery model, product type, database type, functionality, and end user. Among various end users, the government organizations and third party administrators (TPAs) segment is expected to account for the largest share in 2014. Government organizations and TPAs extensively use this software for
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Epic, IBM Forms Advisory Group for $11B DoD EHR Bid
At a Washingon D.C. event on Wednesday, IBM Corp. and Epic Systems announced a 17-person advisory group that will help advise the Department of Defense (DoD) through implementation if they win the $11 billion DoD EHR contract, Modern Healthcare reports. The assembled advisory group is comprised of executives, physicians and Epic clients from 12 organizations as follows:
- Ross Martin, MD. Vice President of Policy and Development, American Medical Informatics Association.
- Monte Brown,
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Infographic: Impact of Digital Health on Patients & Providers
With the advent of the Internet, many aspects of our reality have changed: communication, data, storage, access to information and the list continues. One of the ways in which the Internet and technology have allowed for a better quality of life is with its integration in our healthcare system. From personalized medicine to biometrics, the following infographic created by Televox illustrates the impact of digital health on providers and patients.
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55% of Physicians Will Not Attest to Meaningful Use Stage 2 This Year
Fifty-five percent of physicians do not plan to attest for Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2015, according to a survey of nearly 2,000 physicians by Medical Practice Insider in partnership with SERMO. Utilizing SERMO physician's network platform, MPI ask members the simple yes or no question: Do you plan to attest for MU Stage 2 in 2015? Respondents stated attestations does not make sense for their practice as well as their patients. Others stated the patient engagement MU requirements extremely
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Fertility Sensor Prima-Temp Wins Venture+ Forum Competition
Fertility sensor startup, Prima-Temp, Inc. was named the winner of its 2014 Venture+ Forum mHealth Pitch competition for startups. During the mHealth Summit's Venture+ Forum, twenty-one startup companies were selected to deliver live pitch presentations to a panel of investors and leaders from digital health accelerators.
In the United States alone, 11 million women are trying to conceive at any one time and 50% of those women use products to help them achieve that goal. Accurate continuous
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HIMSS Names Its 2014 Award and Scholarship Recipients
Recognizing outstanding contributions to HIMSS and the healthcare industry, HIMSS has named its 2014 award and scholarship recipients. The HIMSS Foundation and three HIMSS chapters provided seven scholarships to students enrolled in health IT and management systems degree programs.
Award winners are nominated in four award categories:
- industry service
- HIMSS service
- publications
- chapters.
All award and scholarship recipients will be honored at the HIMSS Awards Gala
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Healthfirst Selects eCaring to Provide Real-Time Patient Monitoring
Healthfirst®, a not-for-profit healthplan serving more than one million members in downstate New York, announced today that it is partnering with eCaring, in an effort to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and hospital readmissions, for Healthfirstmembers. eCaring is the nation’s leading developer of care and disease management systems to deliver real-time patient health care data generated from the home to providers and payers.
The partnership will work with
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