On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Karen DeSalvo, M.D. is stepping down as National Coordinator, effective August 12. Vindell Washington, M.D., Principal Deputy National Coordinator at ONC has been appointed to replace DeSalvo. “During her tenure, ONC has worked with other federal partners and the private sector to update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan and develop a Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, both of which chart a person-centered path
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Medlio, PatientLink Enterprises Wins Allscripts Open API Patient Engagement Challenge
Today, Allscripts has named Medlio as the first place winner and PatientLink Enterprises the runner-up winner of the Allscripts Open API Patient Engagement Challenge. Allscripts launched the competition with Health 2.0 this summer with the goal of fostering innovation that will help healthcare organizations address the patient engagement through API connectivity requirements of Meaningful Use Stage 3. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) program requires
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UMass Memorial, PatientPing Partner on Interoperability Network Initiative
UMass Memorial Health Care is teaming up with PatientPing, a Boston-based national care coordination network that connects healthcare providers with real-time clinical event notifications on a data-sharing initiative in Massachusetts. The goal of the partnership is to foster higher quality care through better patient care coordination in a state whose efforts thus far have been challenged by competitive barriers. Early data shows that a significant number of patients who receive care at UMass
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HealthStream Acquires Credentialing Software Morrisey Associates for $48M
HealthStream, Inc. has acquired Chicago-based Morrisey Associates, a provider of physician credentialing and privileging for approximately $48.0 million in cash. For HealthStream, the acquisition provides a robust set of credentialing and privileging solutions for healthcare professionals for its Provider Solutions segment. Morrisey Associates reported $12.8 million in revenues in 2015. As part of the acquisition, president of HealthStream’s provider solutions business, Michael Sousa will
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AT&T Taps biotricity to Power IoT Wearable Medical Devices
AT&T, Inc. has teamed up with biotricity, a medical diagnostic and consumer healthcare technology company to power wearable medical devices. As part of the collaboration, AT&T will serve as biotricity 's preferred network to power these devices with near real-time connectivity for data transmission. AT&T is currently already providing a pilot for connectivity based on the pending launch of biocricity's flagship, the bioflux solutions by year-end. AT&T will power biotricity’s
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Mayo Clinic, Philips Partner on Mt. Kilimanjaro Climb for Cardiac Research
Philips is collaborating with the Mayo Clinic to climb Mount Kilimanjaro on a research expedition to understand how the body reacts to the rigors of high altitude and how those learnings can be applied to improving human health. Because the lack of oxygen at high altitudes mimics oxygen deprivation in the body during a cardiac event, Philips researchers hope to understand how to better detect and prevent cardiac issues. The expedition starts on August 7 and its expected to last approximately 10
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IDS Adds SyTrue’s NLP Technology to its Clinical Reporting Platform
IDS, a cloud-based healthcare technology company has announced a partnership with enterprise Natural Language Processing (NLP) provider SyTrue to drive new point of care insights and inform the full cycle of patient care. As part of the partnership, IDS is integrating SyTrue’s NLP OS™ operating system into Voice2Dox, IDS’ advanced clinical and diagnostic reporting and speech recognition platformIntegration DetailsThe new NLP system is seamlessly embedded into Voice2Dox workflows, boosting
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Aetna Expands Accountable Care Model with Duke Health, WakeMed Health
Aetna is expanding its accountable care collaboration with Duke Health and WakeMed Health & Hospitals. The collaboration offers employers and individuals in 12 central North Carolina counties a health care option designed to improve quality, efficiency and the patient experience, and to control costs. The co-branded product called Aetna Whole Health–Duke Health & WakeMed, brings together Duke Health and WakeMed physicians, hospitals and outpatient facilities, as well as WakeMed Key
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Fitbit Taps Walgreens Executive As New VP of Digital Health
Fitbit announced that it has appointed Adam Pellegrini Vice President of Digital Health starting September 6th to lead Fitbit's vision and strategy of driving its integration into healthcare systems worldwide. In his new role, Pellegrini is responsible for helping Fitbit connect its products, information, data and insights in new and innovative ways into clinical settings. He will also focus on developing new partnerships with healthcare systems, insurers and other payers, pharma companies and
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Philips Unveils Clinically Validated Wearable Ecosystem for Consumers
Philips has announced the global launch of of their clinically validated wearable ecosystem for consumers designed to empower consumers to take greater control of their health. Starting today, the medical grade health monitoring devices -- a health watch, connected scale, blood pressure monitor and thermometer -- and a fully integrated companion HealthSuite Health App is now available. Over 66 million Americans over the age of 50 have at least one chronic disease, yet research suggests that up
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