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?
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
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
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
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."
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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
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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5 Must-Track Metrics for Physician Practice Profitability
The late, legendary management expert Peter Drucker once famously said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”
In today’s challenging and rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, measurement is more important than ever. However, it can be easy to fall prey to “data for the sake of data” and lose the most meaningful metrics in a sea of statistics. When it comes to revenue cycle management— all of the activities that happen before, during and after a patient’s visit that affect a
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Apple Reportedly Plans to Stop Selling Fitbit Devices
Apple is reportedly planning to pull Fitbit devices from its retail stores, Re/Code first reports. Apple did not release a statement on why they will no longer sell the device; however, it is a safe bet to assume Apple is focusing more on its own wearable solutions optimized for the HealthKit platform.
The announcement comes just one week after Fitbit announced it did not have any plans to integrate with Apple's HealthKit platform; however, they did not totally rule out the possibility of
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AARP and UnitedHealthcare Launches The Longevity Network
Today at the 2014 HealthTech Conference in San Mateo, AARP and UnitedHealthcare announced the launch of “The Longevity Network” to promote innovations in health care that will improve the quality of people’s lives as they age. The platform will serve as a central hub where entrepreneurs, advocates and consumers can share information and access ideas, press and other media, social feeds and event invitations about health care innovation for the 50+ community.
According to a study from Parks
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