The Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) and OpenNotes, today announced a partnership to empower patients by by inviting patients to read and engage with the contents of their medical records. "These are doctors who are extremely savvy about technology and play a leadership role in advancing the use of technology," said Homer Chin, MD, who leads efforts to integrate health information technology further with OpenNotes. "While OpenNotes isn't a technology itself, notes
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Home Care Startup Honor Inks Deal with National Parkinson Foundation
Honor, a home care focused digital health startup has landed a partnership with the National Parkinson Foundation (NPF) to license it’s proprietary care guidance. This partnership gives Honor a unique advantage to train its Care Professionals using NPF care expertise—and to provide superior personalized non-medical care to clients with Parkinson’s.Additionally, Honor Care Pros will be equipped with the Honor Care Pro App , containing the Foundation’s content and detailed recommendations for how
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HealthTrio Integrates McKesson InterQual Connect For Automated Medical Review
InterQual Connect™ is now being integrated into HealthTrio’s Smart Connect portal solution making HealthTrio the first portal partner to bring InterQual Connect’s cloud-based automated medical review and authorization capabilities to its payer-provider network. HealthTrio's SaaS provider for the healthcare market, enables payers and providers to achieve the triple aim of better care, better outcomes, and lower cost within a rapidly transforming industry. Now health plans and ACOs that use Smart
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Sacred Oak Medical Center To Implement Medsphere’s Open Platform EHR
Sacred Oak Medical Center, a new Houston-based inpatient behavioral health hospital has selected the Medsphere’s OpenVista® EHR system for implementation. The brand new behavioral health hospital will open later this summer with 20 beds and expand over time to an 80-bed capacity.Sacred Oak is managed by RedShift Healthcare Management and Consulting, a Houston firm providing services focused on hospital management, mergers and acquisitions and rural healthcare networks.Medsphere's OpenVista is
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Medtronic Expands Diabetes Care Offerings with Canary Health
Medtronic and Canary Health, a provider of proven digital health self-management programs announced a partnership to expand their diabetes offerings. As part of the partnership, Medtronic will now resell Canary Health’s self-management programs through its sales channels to health plans and providers, and the two companies will jointly develop future solutions that leverage their respective expertise. The partnership marks Medtronic’s first big move into pre-diabetes care and will enable the
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Ontario Systems Acquires Rev Cycle Provider Columbia Ultimate Business Systems
Ontario Systems, a provider of revenue cycle management (RCM) and accounts receivable management (ARM) software and services provider has acquired Columbia Ultimate Business Systems (CUBS™). Based in Vancouver, WA, Columbia provides software and services to outsourced revenue cycle management (RCM) and accounts receivable management (“ARM”) firms as well as government clients. The acquisition will benefit both organizations’ customers through expanded product offerings and access to an even
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Judge Dismisses American Well’s Patent Claim Against Teladoc
This week, Judge Talwani in the District Court of Massachusetts has dismissed American Well's patent suit against Teladoc. The federal judge ruled that its patent covering the basic provision of telehealth is invalid because the patent’s major elements are “too abstract” to be patentable and do not “amount to an inventive concept.” In response to the federal judge's decision, American Well plans to appeal the ruling. "American Well is the leading innovator in telehealth and we respectfully
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Medisafe App Adds ‘Auto-Populate Meds from Pharmacy’ Capability
Medisafe, a personalized medication management platform with nearly three million patient and caregiver users has unveiled its new ‘Import from Pharmacy’ feature. The new "import from pharmacy" feature enables consumers to auto-populate medications from tens of thousands of pharmacy locations including Walgreens, CVS and Rite-Aid directly into the Medisafe app. The new feature tackles a vexing consumer health challenge – integrating personal health information from multiple data sources that
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Hearst Acquires Majority Stake in Health Plan SaaS Company MedHOK
Hearst announced it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Tampa-based MedHOK, Inc., a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for health plans offered by insurance companies, health systems and companies that administer drug benefits. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed and the transaction is expected to close early this summer, subject to regulatory approvals.The announcement was made by Hearst President and CEO Steven R. Swartz, Hearst Business Media
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AMA Adopts New Guidance for Ethical Practice in Telemedicine
On Monday at the American Medical Association’s (AMA) Annual Meeting, the AMA announced it will adopt new guidance for ethical practice in telemedicine for physicians. The new ethical guidance will will help physicians understand how their fundamental responsibilities may play out differently when patient interactions occur through telemedicine, compared to traditional patient interactions at a medical office or hospital.Developed The new ethical guidance on telehealth and telemedicine was
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