IoT is starting to make real impact on our lives and with 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day in the U.S., one area poised to benefit the most is elder care. Samsung and Mybitat (an AGT company) are now working together on a joint solution with the goal to improve quality of life, allowing the elderly the freedom to securely live at home longer without requiring family assistance.
Using Mybitat data fusion and big data analytics, along with new sensors and IoT Intelligence algorithms
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Mount Sinai Launches System for Seamless Faster Referrals
The Mount Sinai Health System and software company par8o are creating a seamless referral process for the Health System’s care providers. Effective referrals matter because patients with chronic heart failure or diabetes, for instance, may have more than one physician caring for them, and most primary physicians coordinate with many other care providers. With medical practices across the Mount Sinai Health System referring hundreds of thousands of patients each year, the need for an intelligent
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Sen. Alexander Urges HHS Secretary To Fix Problems with EHRs
Last Thursday in a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the FY2016 budget request from the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), Sen. Alexander asked HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell if she would commit to working to fix the problems with the electronic health record (EHR) system:
“Doctors don’t like their electronic medical record systems by large,” he said. “They say they disrupt the work flow. They interrupt the doctor-patient relationship. They haven’t been worth the
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athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion Tops for Driving Patient Portal Adoption
A recent KLAS report finds vendors athenahealth, Epic and Medfusion are the most effective at helping their customers drive patient portal adoption. The recent KLAS report entitled Patient Portals 2015: Adoption beyond Meaningful Use reveals all three vendors having over half of their customers report that at least 20% of patients have accessed the portal--a number well beyond the meaningful use bar of 5%.
For the report, KLAS interviewed 186 healthcare provider organizations to determine
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CareCloud Raises Another $15M, Appoints New CEO
Cloud-based practice management EHR provider CareCloud has raised $15M in additional funding from its investors to help accelerate product innovation and operations. Additionally, the company has appointed Ken Comée, a proven leader of enterprise cloud technology businesses, as its new Chief Executive Officer, replacing Albert Santalo who will remain at CareCloud as Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer.
During the past three years, Comée has served as a Board member and
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Meaningful Use Stage 3: 8 Key Questions for Physicians
This post is sponsored by Revenue XL
By now, most physicians know about Meaningful Use (MU)—the government program that provides incentive payments to eligible providers that meet specific criteria when implementing certified electronic health records (EHR). Providers currently meet either Stage 1 or Stage 2 criteria, depending on their implementation timeline.
However, on March 20, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking for Stage
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Mount Sinai Health Selects InterSystems HealthShare
Mount Sinai Health System, an acclaimed integrated health system, has selected InterSystems HealthShare as its interoperability platform for long-term growth. The HealthShare platform will also support Mount Sinai’s objectives to participate in government programs and value-based contracts to improve care quality, availability, and efficiency.
Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated healthcare system providing exceptional medical care to local and global communities. Encompassing the
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CMS Commits $3B to Upgrade Medicaid-Enrollment Systems
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to spend $3 billion dollars between fiscal 2016 and fiscal 2025 to help states upgrade and maintain their Medicaid eligibility and enrollment systems, Modern Healthcare first reports. The increase stems from CMS permanently raising the matching rate to 90% from 50% for money that states spend on building Medicaid eligibility & enrollment systems, and from 50% to 75% for maintenance and operations of those systems.
All
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Xerox Wins $565M NY Medicaid Management Contract
Xerox will work with the state of New York to upgrade its Medicaid claims processing system to a next-generation technology platform that will help manage expanding Medicaid rolls, the company announced on Monday. Under a $564.9 million, five-year contract with the New York State Department of Health, Xerox will implement its Health Enterprise solution, a flexible, adaptable and analytical Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS). The system is one of the only platforms that can manage all
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Want a Connected Healthcare System? You Are the Missing Key
Editor's Note: John H. Hammergren is chairman, president and chief executive officer of McKesson Corporation.
How often do we visit the doctor’s office and think, “This again?” when handed a long medical form to fill out? Don’t we all wonder why our medical information can’t be automatically transferred from our primary care physician to the specialist? Or to the hospital or outpatient surgery center?
The answer is this: we don’t currently have a national network of connectivity that
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