9 of 10 hospital leaders plan to reduce their decision-making on planned or ongoing initiatives, and at worst drain IT investment dollars for a protracted period of time, according to Black Book Ranking’s year end C-suite survey. The report reveals brakes being pumped on advanced software acquisitions due to political and funding uncertainty that is menacing long term strategies and the willingness to purchase health IT products and services in the first half of the New Year.The key findings are
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Cleveland Clinic, IBM Ink 5-Year Collaboration to Establish Model for Cognitive Population Health
Cleveland Clinic and IBM has inked a five-year agreement to establish a model for a health system transition to value-based care and population health, and to uncover potential standards that could be replicated by providers nationwide. The agreement reflects the parties' intention to expand the use of IBMs secured cloud, social, mobile and Watson cognitive computing technologies across clinical and administrative operations. The collaboration is also being designed to better capture the value
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DirectTrust: 4 Health IT Recommendations for the New Trump Administration
To ensure continued forward movement in adoption of electronic health information exchange and increased interoperability for care coordination, DirectTrust has released a list of four recommendations for the new administration. The recommendations were submitted to the President-elect’s Transition Team at a closed-door meeting held on Tuesday, December 20.DirectTrust is a health care industry alliance created by and for participants in the Direct exchange network used for secure, interoperable
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CHRISTUS Health Expands Population Health Agreement with Philips Wellcentive
CHRISTUS Health, an international, Catholic, not-for profit health system has expanded the scope and duration of their alliance with Philips Wellcentive to aggregate and analyze data across all CHRISTUS Health through 2020. The expanded relationship now includes domestic population health management initiatives offering health plans to its total staff of 40,000 associates, and manages plan offerings on state exchanges.. Additionally, the the collaboration with Philips Wellcentive will explore
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Teladoc CMO Henry DePhillips Appointed to National Quality Forum Telehealth Committee
Teladoc Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Henry DePhillips has been named to the National Quality Forum (NQF) Telehealth Multi-stakeholder Committee. As part of member of NQF, DePhillips will work closely with the multi-stakeholder NQF committee to establish a structure for measuring the quality of telehealth encounters and to identify existing and potential metrics that could be used to evaluate the quality of telehealth services.The NQF Committee will assess the best means of measuring the quality
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PwC Unveils Top 10 Healthcare Industry Issues to Watch in 2017
2017 will be a year dominated by the continued shift toward value within healthcare as the industry adapts to a new era under the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI). Traditional health organizations and new entrants will need to balance the uncertainty of the new administration’s approach to healthcare with the continued opportunities being created by forces greater than politics.The annual PwC report, “Top Health Industry Issues
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Zipari Nabs $7M for CRM, Consumer Experience Platform for Health Insurance
Zipari, a Brooklyn, NY-based startup has raised$7 million in Series A funding led by Vertical Venture Partners. The company plans to utilize the funding to expand their suite of CRM-centered software as a service solutions for the health insurance vertical.Founded in 2014, Zipari provides carriers with CX platform, a SaaS based insurance-specific consumer experience platform featuring real-time insights into consumer behavior at every touch-point, enabling member segmentation with predictive
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HIMSS CEO Stephen Lieber to Retire at End of 2017
Stephen Lieber, CAE, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of HIMSS, announced his intention to retire as of the end of 2017. Lieber was appointed CEO of HIMSS in April 2000 where he lead the organization through period of tremendous change in healthcare and technology. During this period, HIMSS has emerged as the leading thought leader, resource and advisor for the transformation of healthcare through the best use of IT.“HIMSS has seen tremendous growth in size, reach and influence
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12 Reasons Why Digital Health Has Reached the Tipping Point in 2016
Digital health finally reached a tipping point in 2016 as consumers adopted digital health tools at a record rate over the last 12 months, according to the latest report from digital health venture firm Rock Health. The second annual report, Digital Health Consumer Adoption written by Ashlee Adams, Mark Shankar and founder, Halle Tecco surveyed over 4,000 consumers nationally on the latest trends in consumer adoption of healthcare technology. These insights reveal consumer attitudes toward
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HHS Calls for Developers to Create Online Model Privacy Notice Generator
The HHS has issued a call for designers, developers, and health data privacy experts to create an online Model Privacy Notice (MPN) generator. The Privacy Policy Snapshot Challenge will award up to $20k to the creators of the best MPN generator that produces a customizable MPN for health technology developers. Challenge Overview & BackgroundThe Privacy Policy Snapshot Challenge leverages updated content developed recently by ONC, with feedback from OCR, FTC, and other private and public
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