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VA Demos Telehealth Scheduling System to Representatives

by HITC Staff 10/24/2014 Leave a Comment

On Thursday, representatives from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) met with the Veteran Service Organizations (VSO) at the Washington VA Medical Center for a hands-on demonstration of the VA's new Clinical Video Telehealth scheduling system. The solution went live last month and is intended to improve how VA employees schedule future telehealth appointments.  Telehealth rapidly is becoming a popular option, particularly for Veterans who do not have a VA health care facility close to
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3 Finalists Named in Boston Children’s “Innovation Tank”

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3 Finalists Named in Boston Children's Innovation Tank

Boston Children’s Hospital today announced the three finalists selected to compete for $30k and investment advice from industry leaders in the hospital’s first “Innovation Tank” to be held Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, at Boston Children’s Global Pediatric Summit + Awards, Taking on Tomorrow (#PedInno14), at the Seaport World Trade Center. "Innovation Tank" Details Sponsored by Phillips Healthcare, startups will pitch their business or product solution designed to improve pediatric care to a panel of
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CareCloud Launches Advanced Analytics to Medical Groups

by HITC Staff 10/24/2014 Leave a Comment

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  CareCloud, provider of cloud-based practice management, EHR, and medical billing software and services, today announces the launch of CareCloud Advanced Analytics, a powerful new analytics suite that provides industry-leading visibility into a medical group’s financial, operational, and clinical performance. CareCloud Advanced Analytics is designed to allow medical groups of all sizes to optimize business process and results. CareCloud will be showcasing its new analytics offering along with
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HHS Launches $840M Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative

by HITC Staff 10/23/2014 Leave a Comment

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The Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced that it will invest $840 million over the next four years in a new initiative to help 150,000 clinicians access information and improve health outcomes. Through the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative, the HHS will fund successful applicants who work directly with medical providers to rethink and redesign their practices, moving from systems driven by quantity of care to ones focused on patients’ health outcomes, and coordinated health
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Could Ebola Survivors Blood Help Infected Patients?

by HITC Staff 10/23/2014 Leave a Comment

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Researchers are testing to find out if Ebola survivors blood could help infected patients to fight off the disease for patients in West Africa. An international research consortium led by the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp (ITM) will assess whether treatment with antibodies in the blood of Ebola survivors could help infected patients to fight off the disease. If proven effective, this straightforward intervention could be scaled up in the short term and provide an urgently needed
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Medical Group Launches Pilot Study to Integrate Apple Watch into Patient Care

by HITC Staff 10/22/2014 Leave a Comment

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HSHS Medical Group has announced the launch of a comprehensive pilot study integrate the Apple Watch and other virtual care technology into patient care. The medical group has established a task force, headed by Andrew Bland, MD, chief quality officer, to study the integration of technology into the medical home model prior to Apple’s release of the watch in early 2015. The task force will work together to establish protocols for use of technology and identify doctors and nurse navigators to
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AirStrip and IBM Partner to Develop Predictive Analytics Solution

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AirStrip and Dignity Health

AirStrip and IBM today announced that AirStrip will work to develop a mobile monitoring solution to help clinicians predict declining health in acute and critically ill patients. IBM will provide the streaming analytics technology which allows AirStrip’s solution to use data from numerous data sources in real time. The new solution, being co-developed by AirStrip with the University of Michigan (U-M) Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care, will bring together data from electronic
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Infographic: Apple HealthKit vs. Google Fit

by HITC Staff 10/21/2014 1 Comment

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Infographic created by True Vault, a HIPAA compliant database as a service provider illustrates how Apple HealthKit stacks up against Google's Fit digital health platform from a developer's perspective. It also highlights Samsung's SAMI (Samsung Architecture Multimodal Interaction) ecosystem and their new sensor-filled watch "Simband."  Know the difference between HIPAA compliant hosting and building a HIPAA compliant app, and download True Vault's Developer’s Guide to HIPAA Compliance.
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See-Through Brain Sensor Helps Researchers Better View Brain Activity

by HITC Staff 10/20/2014 Leave a Comment

See-Through Brain Sensor Helps Researchers Better View Brain Activity

A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a see-through brain sensor to help neural researchers better view and understand brain activity. Neural researchers study, monitor or stimulate the brain using imaging techniques in conjunction with implantable sensors that allow them to continuously capture and associate fleeting brain signals with the brain activity they can see. However, it’s difficult to see brain activity when there are sensors blocking the view. The team
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Nuance Embeds Speech Solution into eClinicalWorks Mobile EHR

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Nuance Unveils The Industry’s Largest Medical Imaging Network for Image Sharing

Nuance today announced it has partnered with eClinicalWorks to embed Nuance cloud-based medical speech recognition technology into eClinicalTouch for the iPad and eClinicalMobile for iOS and Android, enabling clinicians working in outpatient settings to enter patient notes into the Electronic Health Record (EHR) using tablets and smartphones through a fully connected and consistent experience. “This is a major win for clinicians practicing in the ambulatory setting using our Dragon Medical
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