With physicians facing the most notable changes in Medicare in a generation, the American Medical Association (AMA) has unveiled several online tools to help physicians through pending Medicare payment and delivery changes and to improve their opportunity for success under the new program that will go into effect in 2017.These new tools were designed to build on earlier, significant AMA efforts to ensure that physicians and their practices are prepared for MACRA: The MACRA webpage on the AMA’s
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Honor Pilots In-Home Care Partnership with Walmart in Dallas-Fort Worth
Honor, a digital health startup connecting consumers with in-home caregivers, seniors and their families is expanding its service with a pilot partnership with Walmart in two stores in Dallas-Forth Worth, TX. Honor currently operates in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, and combines the best care professionals in the industry with proprietary app technology that modernizes the entire home-care experience, making it more flexible and accessible for family caregivers and their aging
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Kaonsoft, ProMedica Form Joint Venture to Develop Digital Health Apps
ProMedica, one of Ohio's largest healthcare systems, is teaming up with enterprise mobility software company Kaonsoft, to form Kapios Health, a healthcare technology company that will focus on the development of digital health apps created by ProMedica Innovations inventors.Through the joint venture, Kapios Health will utilize the flexible Kaonsoft Enterprise Mobility Platform™ to build and deploy digital health apps with minimal configuration and without the additional effort or expense of
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Startup Incubator 1776, Accenture Partner to Help Digital Health Startups
Startup incubator 1776 has teamed up with Accenture to provide guidance and insights to its growing roster of digital health startups. As part of the partnership, Accenture will assign some of its health consultants to the 1776 campuses in D.C. and New York to help evaluate new portfolio companies for future viability and advise and engage with these and other emerging digital health companies.Launched by co-CEOs Donna Harris and Evan Burfield and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with
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Eccrine Systems Lands $5.5M Advanced Sweat Sensors For Medicine
Eccrine Systems, a Cincinnati-based company developing advanced, wearable, sweat-sensing systems, has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding with participation and support from CincyTech Fund IV and other sources within the CincyTech local, regional and national investor community. The company plans to utilize the funding to accelerate the development of non-invasive, sweat-sensing systems for use in medicine, industry and sport. Founded in 2013 based on innovative research and intellectual
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Five Big Challenges Hospitals Face When Developing Mobile Apps
Embracing innovation isn’t always easy for hospitals when it comes to developing mobile apps, but there are solutions. Kinvey’s CEO Sravish Sridhar explains.Improving outcomes and reducing costs: is there an app for that? Well, there could be. In fact, you can build one. But Kinvey’s Sravish Sridhar cautions health organizations to be careful when it comes to app development. Although you can’t save money without spending some first, the wrong approach to digital innovation could end up costing
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5 Ways Telemonitoring Can Transform Quality of Care
Editor’s Note: This post is sponsored by Samsung. Providers and insurers have a financial stake in keeping patients out of the hospital. To do so, they need accurate, up-to-date patient information and the ability to quickly share that data with different members of their team. Not only does this take the right software, but also the right device.Half of all American adults — about 117 million people — suffer from one or more chronic health conditions such as hypertension or diabetes, many of
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QuiO Raises $1M for Sensor-Smart Injection Devices for Drug Delivery
QuiO (pronounced kwee-oh), a digital healthcare startup developing sensor-driven smart injection devices and connected cloud-based software for the clinical trial and chronic disease market has raised $1.05 million in seed funding. The round was led by undisclosed investors with expertise in the health insurance, pharmaceutical and clinical research industries. The company plans to utilize the funding to finish development of its lead SmartinjectorTM device, which leverages a propriety design
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Survey Reveals Consumer Drivers to Choose Virtual Visits Over In-Person
Consumers are interested in using telehealth `as a replacement or complement to in-person care, according to a joint survey conducted by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and WEGO Health of active healthcare users. The survey revealed that ease of scheduling, reduced travel, and increased access to care for immobile patients would motivate them to choose virtual visits over in-person care.The results released this week at the ATA’s Fall Forum event in New Orleans in a panel discussion
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drchrono Launches First Native iOS EHR App Certified for EPCS
drchrono Inc., an EHR, practice management, revenue cycle management and medical API platform on iPad, iPhone and web, announced that its EHR app is now certified for Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS) on iPad, iPhone and web.EPCS within the drchrono EHR app now allows physicians to write and transmit electronic prescriptions for controlled substances to pharmacies, and for pharmacies to easily receive and dispense these prescriptions to patients.The U.S. Drug Enforcement
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