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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AMA: 10 Key Issues for Physicians to Watch in 2015
For the medical professional, 2015 presents another year of changes and continued challenges. From meaningful use struggles to Medicare physician payments, the AMA has identified the following 10 key issues for physicians to monitor in the year ahead:
1. The administrative load and competing regulatory programs.
According to the AMA, time and expense devoted to administrative and regulatory requirements is one of the top frustrations to physicians.
In 2015, the AMA noted they will be
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Caremerge Nabs $4M to Expand Its Care Coordination Platform
Caremerge, a cloud-based communication and care coordination platform for the senior care industry, announced today a $4 million first institutional financing round led by Cambia Health Solutions, and included additional investments from Generator Ventures, GE Ventures, Arsenal Venture Partners and Ziegler-LinkAge Longevity Fund These investors are some of the first to focus on aging and long-term senior care. The funding will be utilized to expand its care coordination platform and
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Qualcomm to Power Walgreens Connected Health Program
Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Life, Inc., is collaborating with Walgreens to power device connectivity with Walgreens mobile and web applications and its Balance Rewards for healthy choices™ program with robust medical device connectivity and care coordination capabilities. Additionally, Qualcomm Life's 2net Platform will also enable remote patient monitoring, transitional care support and chronic care management through a secure and seamless transmission of
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Wellbe Nabs $2.42M to Expand Guided Episode Management
Wellbe, provider of the cloud-based Guided CarePath® that empower patients to learn and take the actions required to achieve better outcomes at lower costs has closed on a new $2.42M investment round. The round included investments from Terrence Gibbons, former CEO of Pharmacy OneSource; Greg Baldwin, former CEO of Baxa; Mark Bakken, former CEO of Nordic Consulting; and Philip Seeger, CEO and President of Medcor, among others. The company will use the funding for product improvements and
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Accenture Awarded $563M Contract for Healthcare.gov
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded Accenture Federal Services with a five-year, $563 million contract to continue Accenture’s work on the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) in support of the overall Health Insurance Marketplace website HealthCare.gov.
Accenture delivered technology solutions and systems to support this year’s enrollment, expand outreach to issuers and support the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), including:
Completing all
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