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How Digital Health is Opening Up Communication Between Doctors & Patients

by HITC Staff 03/15/2016 1 Comment

Nothing is more important between a doctor and a patient than communication. The more you communicate, the healthier people get and the more knowledgeable doctors become. Without open lines of communication, important details can be missed, patients might put off appointments for too long and trust can’t be built. Cloud-based patient relationship management (PRM) systems are one of the latest ways for offices and clinics to keep the lines of communication open. This new digital health
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Why EHR Integration is Crucial for Digital Health Innovation

by Erica Garvin 03/14/2016 1 Comment

Catalyze CEO Dr. Travis Good

  Catalyze’s Travis Good talks about why there’s more to EHR integration than the API Last year digital health funding reached $5.8 billion, leaving no question that the potential is aplenty for ambitious health-tech innovators. Still, it takes more than seed funding to bear fruit in this market. While innovating in digital health may truly be something, integrating in digital health—well, that’s everything. According to Catalyze’s cofounder and CEO Dr. Travis Good, establishing
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Health First, HealthLoop Team Up to Enhance Patient Experience

by HITC Staff 03/11/2016 Leave a Comment

HealthLoop

Health First, a Central Florida not-for-profit, integrated delivery network is teaming up with HealthLoop, a patient engagement platform to establish automated communications with their patients, starting with surgeons in the Orthopedic Surgery Department at Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center. With HealthLoop, Health First patient follow ups will be automated and through text message and email communications. Physicians will be able to deliver timely, condition-specific guidance
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GE Centricity Named Official EMR Provider for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

by Fred Pennic 03/11/2016 Leave a Comment

GE Healthcare Develops Two New Apps For Caradigm Intelligence Platform

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has selected the GE Centricity Practice Solution as the official EMR to be used by the medical teams of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. The news marks the first time that all athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games will have their health interactions managed by an EMR. Centricity PracticeEMR  Solution will be used for managing data related to injuries and illness for athletes competing in the games as well as spectators, officials, athlete family
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e-MDs Acquires Ambulatory Software Asssets from McKesson to Boost Market Share

by HITC Staff 03/10/2016 Leave a Comment

e-MDs

Ambulatory EHR provider e-MDs announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire several ambulatory software assets from McKesson Business Performance Services in a move to boost its market share in the ambulatory EHR space. These McKesson assets include  McKesson Practice Choice™, Medisoft®, Medisoft® Clinical, Lytec®, Lytec® MD, and Practice Partner®.  "The McKesson team supporting these products is passionate about the same thing we are ─ helping doctors maintain focus on the patient,”
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Perfect Alliance: Patient Engagement and Medical Website Personalization

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Perfect Alliance: Patient Engagement and Medical Website Personalization

This post is sponsored by  ScienceSoft, an international software development and consulting company with headquarters in the USA (McKinney, Texas) and development centers in Eastern Europe and Asia. Patient engagement serves an ambitious goal of encouraging patients to care about their health more. Generally, it is considered that only private means of delivering information, such as mobile devices (think smart phones and tablets) and patient portals, can help caregivers reach out to users
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GE Healthcare Appoints Charles Koontz CEO of GE Healthcare IT

by HITC Staff 03/09/2016 Leave a Comment

Charles Koontz

GE Healthcare today announced the appointment of Charles Koontz as new president and CEO of GE Healthcare IT and GE Healthcare Chief Digital Officer, effective March 14. Koontz succeeds Jan De Witte, who is leaving GE. Koontz joins GE from Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) and CSRA, where he was Executive Vice President of the Federal Civilian Agencies Group. As VP and General Manager of the Healthcare group at CSC, Charles focused on transitioning healthcare clients to next generation IT, mobile
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How to Leverage Psychology to Build Persuasive Solutions for Healthcare

by Our Thought Leaders 03/08/2016 Leave a Comment

How to Leverage Psychology to Build Persuasive Solutions for Healthcare

Editor's Note: Mike Wiseman is the CTO of Next IT Healthcare, a company that helps healthcare organizations drive lasting behavior change and improved patient outcomes. “Patient engagement” and “technology” have become so intertwined over the past few years that the distinction between them is now problematically blurred. Patient engagement, while a popular buzzword in health technology circles, has always been an area of great focus for the health sector. From physicians to big pharma, we’ve
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5 Strategies for Maintaining A Healthy Revenue Cycle During An EMR Transition

by Our Thought Leaders 03/07/2016 1 Comment

5 Strategies for Maintaining A Healthy Revenue Cycle During An EMR Transition

  Editor's Note: This post is written by David Dyke, VP of Product Management and Carmen Sessoms, CHFP, FHFMA Assistant VP of Product Management at RelayHealth Financial.  You’ve heard the horror stories. Now hear how making clinical and financial data “inseparable” can help ensure a smooth migration that doesn’t blow up the revenue cycle. Your EMR migration can cost you twice. But the second cost is avoidable if you know where to look and what to do. The first cost is obvious.
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Parks Associates: 42% of Consumers Aged 24-34 Own A Connected Health Device

by HITC Staff 03/04/2016 Leave a Comment

66% of Americans Would Use Mobile Health Apps to Manage Their Health

37% of consumers aged 18-24 own a connected health device, while 42% of consumers aged 24-34 own one, according to research from Parks Associates. Among consumers 65 and older, 31% own a connected health device. The report, 360 View Update: Shopping For Care: Insights from Consumers reveals connected health device ownership (including digital fitness trackers, networked weight scales, connected treadmills, and blood pressure meters) has risen from 24% to 33% of U.S. broadband households between
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