Medications are one of the most critical parts of treating countless injuries, illnesses, and chronic conditions. They are prescribed based on the best course of treatment for the patient's particular situation, so it is essential that the patient is given the correct pharmaceutical in the correct way for optimum results.It is bad enough to think that a medical error gives the patient no positive change, but it is even worse when such an oversight causes a negative impact on the patient. For
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Castlight Health Integrates With Washington Health Alliance to Improve Care Guidance
Castlight Health, Inc. announced a new partnership with the Washington Health Alliance, the state’s leader in healthcare cost and quality transparency. The partnership integrates Castlight’s comprehensive health navigation platform with Washington state’s largest healthcare cost and quality database to help the state’s Castlight customers, including Boeing, Esterline Technologies, Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health and their employees make smarter health benefits and healthcare
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Ransomware Tops ECRI Institute’s 2018 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards List
Ransomware and other cybersecurity threats to healthcare delivery has topped ECRI Institute’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2018 list. Ransomeware are potential patient safety crises that can disrupt healthcare delivery operations, placing patients at risk. Ransomware attacks can lead to canceled procedures and altered workflows (e.g., reverting to paper records). They can also damage equipment and systems, expose sensitive data, and force closures of entire care units. Ultimately, they
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BurstIQ Partners With Unified Signal to Launch Crypto-Wallet Integrated Mobile Phone Service
BurstIQ, Inc., a HIPAA-compliant healthcare blockchain data record integration and security company has entered into a strategic partnership with Unified Signal to launch the world’s first mainstream blockchain-enabled crypto-wallet bundled with mobile phone service.The crypto-wallet will initially be deployed to United Signal’s mobile networks as an automatic update to customers’ e-wallets, adding instant access to their crypto-currency; Bitcoin, Ethereum and others for use within the united
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Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cota Partner to Advance Personalized Cancer Treatment
In 2011, Cota, a healthcare data and analytics company bridging precision medicine and population health, was founded by doctors for doctors. Over the past six years, the start-up has moved beyond precision medicine as a goal to a reality, and just this past year, have secured a multi-year collaboration with Novartis towards breast cancer and recruited top thought leaders in the space, like former Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson, Dr. Andrew Norden.Today, Cota announced their latest
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Maryland HIE Renews Contract With Verato to Use Universal MPI for Patient Matching Support
Chesapeake Regional Information System for our Patients (CRISP), a not-for-profit regional health information exchange (HIE) serving Maryland and the District of Columbia, has renewed its contract to use the Verato Universal MPI to automatically process its most difficult potential matches that would otherwise have to be manually reviewed and resolved. The ability to match and link patient identities across its participating organizations is fundamental to CRISP’s core services including its
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SnapMD Expands Telehealth Platform with Spanish-Language Capabilities
SnapMD, a full-service telehealth technology innovator and solutions provider, announced new Spanish-language patient support services to its Virtual Care Management (VCM) telemedicine platform to extend and strenghten health system care capabilities. The patient support for Spanish-language needs increases patient access to care from the comfort of their own home through the user-friendly patient portal.As an enterprise-software telemedicine platform that reaches across the care continuum,
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Humana Launches Digital Health Records Innovation Challenge
Health insurer Humana Inc. is sponsoring a new innovation challenge focused on making digital health more useful to patients, physicians and others– specifically in the Medicare space. Traditionally, the health care industry has stored digital health records - medical claims, pharmacy claims, calls, letters, hospital stays, and health program participation - in disparate places across different systems. But with advanced data processing and analytics, it is now possible to assemble these data
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Surescripts Joins Forces With 5 EHR Vendors to Provide Prescription Benefit Price Transparency
Surescripts is joining forces with five EHR companies (Allscripts, Aprima Medical Software, Cerner, Epic and GE Healthcare ) to provide Real-Time Prescription Benefit and Prior Authorization. Representing 53 percent of the U.S. physician base, the partnership will leverage information from pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) CVS Health and Express Scripts, who represent nearly two-thirds of U.S. patients, to deliver patient-specific benefit and price information to providers in real time at the
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HealthPartners Taps AMC Health For Telemonitoring Hypertension Study
AMC Health, a provider of real-time virtual care solutions has been selected as the telemonitoring provider for HealthPartners Institute for its high blood pressure study, Hyperlink. Recently, HealthPartners was awarded $6 million to expand this study to determine if telemonitoring can improve a patient’s health and decrease blood pressure more than traditional clinic-based care. In the second phase of research, AMC Health and HealthPartners will work together to monitor patients’ blood
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