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4 Critical Success Factors for Hospitals Deploying Mobile Communication

by Jasmine Pennic 05/19/2016 Leave a Comment

4 Critical success factors for hospitals deploying mobile communication platforms

63 percent of hospitals and health systems surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy a mobile communications platform supporting more than 500 smartphones over the next 12 to 18 months, according to study conducted by Spyglass Consulting Group. The report, "Large-scale Smartphone-based deployments enable hospital-wide communications" identifies the market opportunities and challenges for hospital IT shops to widely deploy a smartphone‐based communications platform to support patient care teams
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Anthem Unveils New Health Innovation Studio in Atlanta

by Jasmine Pennic 05/19/2016 Leave a Comment

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This week, Anthem Inc. unveiled its new health Innovation Studio in midtown Atlanta’s Technology Square. The 6,500 square feet studio will house a  multi-disciplinary team focused on creating new digital health solutions to enhance the consumer health care experience, improve the quality of care, and lower health care costs.The Innovation Studio work will focus on further advancing Anthem’s three strategic pillars: I. consumer experienceII. managing the cost of careIII. Provider
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Livongo Health to Offer Public Wisconsin Employees Access to Diabetes Management Program

by Fred Pennic 05/18/2016 Leave a Comment

Livongo Health for Diabetes Management

Livongo Health, a consumer digital health company has teamed up with WEA Trust to provide public employees in Wisconsin access to its end to end diabetes management program. The goal of the partnership is to improve the quality of life and high cost of care for Trust members with diabetes.“Engaging members to track their diabetes regularly and then giving them real-time feedback is essential to managing care and cost, ” said Dr. Tim Bartholow, WEA Trust’s Chief Medical Officer.Partnership
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Decisio Health Lands $4.5M for FDA-Cleared Clinical Intelligence Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 05/18/2016 Leave a Comment

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Decisio Health, a Houston-based healthcare software company that helps acute-care provider organizations continually improve their clinical processes, announced today that it has raised $4.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by DECLATEX, LLC with participation by the University of Texas Horizon Fund. The company also added Larry Lawson, founder of eCardio, as an investor and board member.In addition to the funding round, the company has launched their clinical intelligence
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Magellan Health To Acquire Armed Forces Services Corporation for $117.5M

by Fred Pennic 05/17/2016 Leave a Comment

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Magellan Health, Inc., a provider of complex care and special population management, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Armed Forces Services Corporation (AFSC) for $117.5M. The acquisition will enhance Magellan’s existing footprint in special population management within the military and veteran communities, as well as other federal agencies. Headquartered in Arlington, Va. AFSC has extensive experience providing and managing behavioral health and specialty services to
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Tactio Taps Redox for EHR Integration With App-Enabled Remote Patient Monitoring

by HITC Staff 05/16/2016 Leave a Comment

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Tactio Health Group and API EHR integration provider Redox are teaming up to add EHR integration connectivity to its TactioRPM app-enabled remote patient monitoring (RPM) solution. The partnership will enable providers using TactioRPM to integrate app-enabled monitoring and patient engagement to their existing EHR system. Leveraging Redox's capability to integrate EHRs such as Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, McKesson, and GE allows for simplified monitoring for providers.This partnership also aligns
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M&A Expert Talks 4 Trends Emerging from the Health IT M&A Market

by Fred Pennic 05/16/2016 Leave a Comment

M&A Expert Talks 4 Trends Emerging from the Health IT M&A Market

As Managing Director of SC&H Capital, an investment banking and advisory firm, Chris Helmrath knows M&A opportunities when he sees them. And in today’s HIT M&A market, he sees a rapid shift from mega mergers to middle-market acquisitions.In our interview, Chris—a 30-year veteran of buy- and sell-side healthcare transactions—discusses four key trends emerging from the evolving health IT M&A market, as well as what they mean for consultants and their clients. Trend No. 1. A More
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Cost Savings, Disaster Recovery, Need for Scalability Named Top 3 Healthcare Cloud Drivers

by HITC Staff 05/13/2016 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Cloud Drivers

 The top three healthcare cloud drivers are cost savings, more robust disaster recovery solutions and the need for scalable platforms to support internal requirements, according to a new Level 3 Communications, Inc. The study, conducted by HIMSS Analytics and designed to understand cloud use, trends and preferred vendors among healthcare organizations, was released today.The 2016 Cloud Survey is a blinded, web-based quantitative study that includes perspective from more than 100 IT decision
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TigerText Unveils Chat Bot to Streamline Care Coordination, Patient Experience

by HITC Staff 05/13/2016 Leave a Comment

TigerText Multiple Devices Healthcare

TigerText, maker of TigerConnect, a secure communications platform, today announced the availability of HealthBot, an encrypted, custom-branded, HIPAA-compliant messaging chat bot app that can be embedded into a web page or mobile application to help automate a range of tasks, driving organizational efficiencies and lowering overall costs. How It Works Through a simple chat window, patients can interact with HealthBot to schedule appointments, inquire about a drug’s side effects, or receive
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Recent Hospital Breach Offers 3 New Lessons Learned for Providers

by Our Thought Leaders 05/12/2016 1 Comment

Global Healthcare Cybersecurity Spending Expected to Exceed $65B Over 5 Years_Security Data Breaches_Ransomware

Editor’s Note: D’Arcy Guerin Gue is a co-founder of Phoenix, with over 25 years of experience in executive leadership, strategic planning, IT services, knowledge leadership, and industry  relations —  with a special focus on patient engagement and federal compliance issues. She currently serves as the Director of Industry Relations at Phoenix Health Systems, a division of Medsphere SystemsYesterday, the Children’s National Medical Center announced yet another  major hospital breach, this one
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