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What Will It Take To Build The Uber of Medical Records? 3 Critical Steps to Consider

by Josh Douglas, Chief Technology Officer, Bridge Connector 12/20/2019 Leave a Comment

What Will It Take To Build the Uber of Medical Records? 3 Critical Steps to Consider

Our healthcare system has struggled with data silos and clumsy, antiquated data sharing practices forever and a variety of stakeholders will need to work together to achieve anything close to an “Uber of medical records.” It’s well documented and understood that the healthcare industry has historically been slow to adopt new technology while other business sectors have welcomed it with ease. For example, while most industries abandoned the fax machine in the 1990s, as recently as 2017, fax
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How Innovations in Regional Nerve Blocks Are Helping Anesthesiologists Combat the Opioid Epidemic

by Dr. Armen Chalian M.D., Allied Anesthesiologist 11/25/2019 Leave a Comment

How Innovations in Regional Nerve Blocks Are Helping Anesthesiologists Combat the Opioid Epidemic

Opioid abuse — as you know — has now become a national crisis, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating a $78.5 billion annual burden on the American economy. What can be done? Advancing better practices for pain management is a key strategy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) plan for addressing this epidemic. This is where healthcare providers come in. If we can start our patients along a track that does not include the heavy use of opioids for
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HHS Launches $1.5M Second Phase of KidneyX Prize Competition to Redesign Dialysis

by Fred Pennic 11/20/2019 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches $1.5M Second Phase of KidneyX Prize Competition to Redesign Dialysis

- KidneyX launches the $1.5 million second phase of the Redesign Dialysis prize competition.- Redesign Dialysis Phase 2 seeks prototype solutions or components of solutions, that can replicate normal kidney functions or improve dialysis access.- The competition calls on researchers, innovators, patients, and investors with expertise in nephrology, biotechnology, bioengineering, and medical devices to submit solutions.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the American Society
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Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance

by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) 11/08/2019 Leave a Comment

Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance

- Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019 During the month of October, Health IT continued its evolution into an amorphous market that is increasingly trending away from a specialized niche of healthcare and into a key component of larger sectors such as Enterprise Software, HR Administration, Insurance, Care Delivery, Suppliers, and BioPharma. The
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4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health

by Jill Seidman Vice President, Provider Solutions, AVIA 09/19/2019 Leave a Comment

4 Ways to Improve Mental Health Through Digital Health

Mental health care is undoubtedly one of the most pressing challenges that our national health system faces. Years of insufficient payment, infrastructure erosion, provider deficits, and stigma have created a fragmented patchwork of weak, under-coordinated and under-reimbursed treatment capabilities. Meanwhile, communities face an expanding crisis: - 44.7 million American adults – including 10 million adults covered by Medicaid – experienced a mental health illness as of 2016, a number that is
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HHS Announces 2 Leap in Health IT Awardees Focused on Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 09/10/2019 Leave a Comment

HHS Launches EHR Innovations for Improving Hypertension Challenge_HHS Funded Health Care Innovation Award Projects to Watch

- HHS announces San Diego Regional Health Information Exchange and The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) as awardees of the LEAP in Health IT funding opportunity. - Awardees projects will focus on advancing health IT interoperability to improve healthcare for patients nationwide.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced two awards under the Leading Edge Acceleration Projects in Health
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ONC Awards The Sequoia Project to Serve As Recognized Coordinating Entity to Support Interoperability

by Fred Pennic 09/03/2019 Leave a Comment

ONC Awards The Sequoia Project to Serve As Recognized Coordinating Entity to Support Interoperability

Quick Glance- ONC awards The Sequoia Project a cooperative agreement for the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement to support advancing nationwide interoperability of electronic health information- The RCE will be responsible for developing, updating, implementing, and maintaining the Common Agreement component of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA)- RCE will collaborate with ONC to designate and monitor Qualified Health Information Networks (QHIN), modify and
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3 Ways to Protect Hospital Data from Email Spoofing Attacks

by Eyal Benishti, CEO & Founder of IRONSCALES 06/03/2019 Leave a Comment

3 Ways to Protect Hospital Data from Email Spoofing Attacks

Picture this: you are a first-year nurse with an unusual case that you and your colleagues have never seen at your hospital. To expedite the formulation of a treatment plan, you turn to a private Facebook group for nurses to which you belong. Since joining the 8,000-person closed group, you’ve witnessed your peers share information - with important details withheld - as to not break privacy laws, but as a means to generate group think on analysis and recommendations. You’ve seen first-hand how
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Why Medicare For All Is Not Going to Happen In America

by Margalit Gur-Arie 05/10/2019 Leave a Comment

Why Medicare For All Is Not Going to Happen In America

I am going to make a prediction here. No matter who we elect in 2020, Bernie or Trump or anything in between, Medicare For All is not going to happen in America. One can run an electrifying campaign on the promise of Medicare For All, or indignantly against it, but this is pure theater on both sides. I don’t know if God can make a rock so big and heavy that even He can’t lift it, but I do know that government can make corporations so big and powerful that even government itself can’t break
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HHS Should Be Careful Not To Go Too Far Too Fast on New EHR Rules

by Jasmine Pennic 05/08/2019 Leave a Comment

HHS Should Be Careful Not To Go Too Far Too Fast on New EHR Rules

Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday said, “The administration should not move too far, too fast on implementing new rules on electronic health information.”Improving the access, use, and exchange of electronic health information is important to this committee,” Alexander said. “In March, the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two proposed rules to implement
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