The Peak 10 National IT Trends in Healthcare study revealed that today’s healthcare CIOs simply do not have enough hours in the day to keep up with the demands of their job. CIOs feel like they have their head on a swivel, by keeping up with technology innovation, staying compliant with changing regulations while also staying alert of emerging security threats. It’s a sunrise to sunset job. The infographic illustrates the constant balancing act today's healthcare CIOs are faced with today
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Patient Advocates Urge ONC to Include Patients when Assessing Interoperability Under MACRA
In comments filed today, leading consumer, patient and labor advocates urge the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to incorporate robust measures of patient-to-provider interoperability and electronic health information exchange in payment and delivery models rolling out under MACRA (the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act). The comments, from the Consumer Partnership for eHealth (CPeH), note that patients and family caregivers are key partners in
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TigerText Integrates with Honeywell for Quick Access to EMR Data
Secure messaging provider TigerText has teamed up with Honeywell to combine TigerText's app with Honeywell’s new Dolphin CT50h clinical smartphone to streamline care coordination and provide a better experience for patients. The customized app includes a secure, encrypted bot technology designed to enable care providers to scan a patient’s barcode and retrieve critical, up-to-date information about the patient’s medications, care team and recent procedures directly from their EMR.“We’re excited
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Digital Health at Scale in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Novartis Foundation is gathering experts across the public and private sectors to discuss digital health as an enabler to improve the quality of healthcare in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and how to bring impactful digital health programs to scale.The two-day dialogue event, “Wired for impact: digital health at scale in low- and middle-income countries” is taking place in Accra, Ghana and is co-hosted by the Novartis Foundation and the Ghana Ministry of Health with the Ghana
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Solera Health Partners with AI Coaching Platform Noom
Solera Health, a technology-enabled personalized preventive health network, and Noom, Inc., a mobile health leader whose coaching platform delivers structured programs to address the underlying behaviors that cause the most pressing pre-chronic & chronic conditions, have joined forces to launch a multi-platform lifestyle program that will give millions of Americans access to the tools they need to successfully fight the diabetes epidemic.Together, the two companies will offer a unique
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Pontiac General Hospital To Implement Medsphere’s Open Platform EHR
Pontiac General Hospital, a 306 licensed-bed hospital has selected the Medsphere's OpenVista® EHR system for implementation to improve management practices and clinical workflows as they also grow clinical staff and expand available services. More than just an acute care facility, Pontiac General serves the surrounding community as a healthcare hub by offering services ranging from urgent care to family medicine to obstetrics. The hospital also has a mental health unit and offers 24-hour crisis
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DirectTrust Launches Partnership for Patients Program to Securely Share PHI
DirectTrust today announced the launch of Partnership for Patients Program (P4PP), an initiative that will make it easier for patients and health care consumers to securely share personal health information with medical professionals at hospitals, offices, clinics and other locations via secure email. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that health care providers provide access to personal health information in the format and file type—including
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Amazing Charts Unveils End-to-End Revenue Cycle Management to Small Practices
The era of value-based care is setting in and providers need still need to ensure they receive every dollar earned while giving quality patient care. Small practices need to be diligent about financial processes as coding errors, etc. can result in revenue leakage. To meet this need, Amazing Charts, a provider of EHR and PM systems, announced a new revenue cycle management (RCM) service specific to independent physician practices powered by PGM Billing, a leader of medical billing services.Ideal
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5 Ways Providers Can Prevent Patient Data Breaches
2015 was unsurprisingly the year with the highest-profile healthcare data breaches to-date. With more and more patient information being transferred and stored digitally it’s a trend likely to continue for many years to come. Clinics, doctors offices, insurers and hospitals, however, are equally increasing their measures in fighting back.Similar to money and jewels, no data is completely immune from unauthorized access so long as legitimate access is granted to specific people. That doesn’t mean
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NIH Awards Mayo Clinic $142M to Create Biobank for Precision Medicine Initiative
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Mayo Clinic $142 million over five years as part of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative to create the world’s largest biobank for the PMI Cohort Program. Mayo Clinic will use the funding to support the collection, storage and distribution for research use of biological samples known as biospecimens. Laboratory analyses of the biospecimens, including chemical and genetic tests, will be a key component of the core PMI Cohort Program
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