New DrFirst medication adherence platform, Patient Advisor Delivers $21M in Prescription Savings for uninsured patients in first three months. DrFirst, a provider of healthcare IT solutions designed to improve clinical outcomes for patients, announced today during HIMSS 2014 that its new pharmacy savings program offered within the company’s Patient Advisor℠ medication adherence platform has delivered an estimated $21 million in prescription savings opportunities in its first three months of
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Verizon Converged Health Management Receives New FDA Clearance, Adds Two New Biometric Devices
Verizon’s Converged Health Management, a remote patient-monitoring medical platform designed to help clinicians and patients manage patients’ health in between doctor visits, just received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance to run on the iOS (Apple, Inc.) mobile operating system. Patients and clinicians now will be able to access Verizon’s solution on their iPhones and can use their iPads to access the Converged Health Management portal. In addition, Converged Health
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DrFirst Partners with Greenway to Bring Controlled Substance E-prescribing to Greenway Users Nationwide
DrFirst, a leading provider of healthcare IT solutions designed to improve clinical outcomes for patients, today announced a partnership to bring electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) to Greenway’s network of thousands of healthcare providers across primary care and more than 30 specialties. U.S. providers are increasingly prescribing controlled substances electronically in order to improve safety, efficiency and security. Controlled substance e-prescribing, which is now
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Hearst Health Ventures Invests in Mobile Health Startup Tonic Health
Hearst Health Ventures, a unit of Hearst Corporation, and Tonic Health today announced a venture investment by Hearst in Tonic Health, a patient engagement and medical data collection company. The joint announcement was made by Steven R. Swartz, president and CEO of Hearst Corporation; Richard P. Malloch, president, Hearst Business Media, the group that includes Hearst Health Ventures; and Sterling Lanier, CEO and co-founder of Tonic Health. Financial terms of the investment were not
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CommonWell Health Alliance Expands Interoperability Services with Tenet Health
CommonWell Health Alliance – the health information technology (HIT) vendor-led interoperability effort has announced that Tenet Healthcare Corporation, with 77 hospitals in 14 states, has signed a letter of intent to use the Alliance services. This comes two months after the announcement that participating providers from Chicago; Elkin and Henderson, NC; and Columbia, SC joined the initial launch of CommonWell’s interoperability services. “We are excited to expand the rollout of CommonWell’s
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CareFirst BCBS Commits $1.3M to Telemedicine Projects Expanding Behavioral Healthcare To Underserved Areas of Md., D.C.
CareFirst BCBS commits $1.3M in telemedicine projects to fund expansion of behavioral health services in underserved areas of Md., D.C. CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) has pledged to invest more than $1.3 million in four initiatives designed to expand the use of telemedicine to treat patients with behavioral health care needs in underserved urban and rural areas of Maryland and Washington, D.C. Lack of Qualified Providers Demonstrate Need for Telemedicine Services In some
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Deloitte Launches ConvergeHEALTH To Support Value Based Personalized Healthcare
Deloitte Consulting LLP announces the launch of ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte, a business unit that supports the data-driven transformation of health care through the application of insights derived from new data, analytics, transformational services and collaborative business models. The formation of ConvergeHEALTH is one part of a $150-200 million investment Deloitte is making in life sciences and health care analytics, which comes at a critical time as health care and life sciences organizations
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Former ONC Chief Farzad Mostashari, M.D Joins Get Real Health Board of Directors
Farzad Mostashari, M.D., has been appointed to the Get Real Health board of directors, effective February 17, 2014. Dr. Mostashari brings unique experience, knowledge and insight into Health Information Technology in the US and around the world. He joined the board in part to amplify his message about the central importance of patient engagement and its transformational power in healthcare — and to stand behind the company that provides the leading-edge patient engagement solution:
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ColumbiaDoctors Selects Wellcentive for Population Health Management Deployment
ColumbiaDoctors, the multi-specialty clinical practice of New York's Columbia University Medical Center, will deploy Wellcentive's full suite of products and services to support current and future population health management initiatives. ColumbiaDoctors will extend Wellcentive's platform to its 1,100-plus membership, coupled with an expanded, centralized ColumbiaDoctors' population health management team, to optimize clinical and financial outcomes in shared savings and bundled-payment
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Survey Reveals Business Intelligence Adoption Lagging in Healthcare
TEKsystems survey reveals business intelligence adoption lagging across healthcare organizations TEKsystems, provider of IT staffing solutions, IT talent management expertise and IT services, today released the results of a survey that explored the current state of business intelligence (BI) system deployments among healthcare organizations. Despite the acknowledged benefits that healthcare organizations would realize from business intelligence , the study finds that 58 percent have yet to
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