The FDA has cleared the non-surgical, non-invasive treatment for prostate cancer known as HIFU or High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy. The Food and Drug Administration approved HIFU after more than 10 years of clinical trials, paving the way for Ablatherm HIFU to become the treatment of choice for localized prostate cancer in the U.S. More than 40,000 patients worldwide have had HIFU treatments since the procedure was approved in Europe. The procedure is also approved by Health
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Indegene Acquires Population Health Analytics Platform SmartCare
Indegene, a global healthcare solutions for life sciences companies, payers and providers, today announced it has acquired SmartCare®, a population health analytics platform from Connecticut-based Vantage Point, Inc. This acquisition further strengthens Indegene’s ATOM (analytics, technology, operations and medical) offering which is designed to support U.S. companies in navigating changes associated with the Affordable Care Act. Financial terms of the acquisition were not
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HIMSS Launches Value Score for Quality/Value Measurement of Health IT
Today HIMSS announced the launch of the HIMSS Value Score, healthcare’s first international quality measurement for the value of health IT. Developed with the assistance of McKinsey & Company, the Value Score builds off of HIMSS’ Value Suite and HIMSS Analytics’ Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model (EMRAM). The new standards will help healthcare providers optimize and use IT to improve clinical and financial outcomes, and drive efficiencies in care.
HIMSS Value Score Overview
The Value
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Catalyze Unveils Redpoint to Streamline EHR Integration for Digital Health Companies
Catalyze, Inc., a Madison, Wisconsin-based provider of cloud services for secure healthcare data is introducing its newest product, Redpoint to enable healthcare integration workflows and automate secure connectivity. Redpoint is the product evolution of Catalyze's industry-leading integration services, used by many progressive digital health vendors.
Today’s challenges with healthcare integration
Scaling the new era of value-based care requires providers successfully integrating with their
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Hospitals To Reap Millions in CMS Reimbursement Revenue
Like most hospitals, Good Samaritan in St. Vincennes, Indiana was struggling with the typical EHR interoperability plaguing most healthcare facilities in which multiple EHR system cannot share data. However the 232-bed community health-care facility not only solved this common interoperability, but used it to unlock a treasure trove of CMS funds while also improving patient care.
Middleware, used for years to integrate data in financial and retail organizations with its simple open
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Mobile EHR drchrono Releases its First Medical Billing App
Traditionally, medical billers have been locked to their desks in order to figure out the status of medical claims. To solve this, mobile EHR provider for physicians, drchrono has just released its medical billing app for the iPad that will allow medical billers to view claims and review billing statuses right from their mobile device.
For the first time, executives, physicians and medical billers can now see the status of billing anywhere, anytime through their iPad. Additionally,
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Sensium Healthcare Appoints Kevin Smith Chief CCO
Kevin Smith has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Sensium Healthcare, a global provider in wireless monitoring of vital signs. As CCO based in Boston, MA, Mr. Smith will be responsible for the development and execution of Sensium’s global commercial strategy. He will also directly oversee partnering with US hospitals and medical universities, to build clinical evidence for SensiumVitals, the first early warning detection device to be introduced by Sensium Healthcare to US
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Rise of Centralized Decision Making in Health IT
“Merger fever” and the prevalence of employed physicians has led to a predictable but significant shift in healthcare IT: centralized decisionmaking. Slowly disappearing are the days when departments in the same hospital or health system could select their own vendors to provide various services. Large health systems are now centralizing their purchasing and rolling the implementations out system-wide.
It’s a simple strategy, but the implications are far-reaching. CIOs, CMIOs and CNIOs are
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KPMG Survey: Only 11% Consider ICD-10 Transition A Failure
Only 11 percent of healthcare organizations described the ICD-10 transition as a "failure to operate in an ICD-10 environment," according to KPMG LLP survey. The survey of 298 attendees of the Nov. 9 Webcast, ICD-10: Just the Beginning, found 80 percent of organizations said the ICD-10 transition has proceeded smoothly. 28 percent stated the ICD-10 transition has been smooth and another 51 percent found "a few technical issues, but overall successful."
"While there seems to be a fairly smooth
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DICOM Medical Imaging Tablet to Untether Radiologists from Workstations
During this RNSA15 this week, IMAGE Information Systems unveiled MED-TAB™ -- the world’s first portable DICOM-calibrated medical image display. The tablet is expected to change teleradiology because for the first time, imaging specialists are not tied to their workstation for premium quality image analysis, measurement and reporting.
MED-TAB can be used for bedside image analysis, in surgery theaters, by on-call radiologists and in emergency situations. It was developed by a team of imaging
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