DrFirst, a provider of in e-prescribing and medication management solutions, today announced the launch of iPrescribe, a mobile app that allows physicians to prescribe legend drugs and controlled substances while complying with state prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) requirements. The iPrescribe app can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.iPrescribe is the first mobile solution to optimize access to all the necessary tools physicians need to manage patients’
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Change Healthcare Acquires National Decision Support Company
Change Healthcare announced the acquisition of National Decision Support Company (NDSC), a cloud-based solutions that deliver medical guidelines to the point of care through leading electronic health record (EHR) systems. The addition of NDSC accelerates the efforts of Change Healthcare to leverage evidence-based clinical information and next-generation technologies to reduce cost and help ensure appropriate care. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. NDSC and the Change
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Healthcare Blockchain Startup Mint Health Unveils White Paper for Vidamint Tokens
MintHealth, a global decentralized health platform with a portable, secure, and self-sovereign personal health record (PHR) built on blockchain technology and designed to drive healthy patient behavior through the Vidamint™ token. MintHealth announces the immediate availability of the associated white paper behind a planned Vidamint (VIDA) token sale in Q1 of 2018. The company also announces the addition of Wyche “Tee” Green, III, founder and director of Greenway Health™, to the MintHealth Board
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What Dogs Can Teach Providers about Designing Care Plans
Several studies have shown that if dog owners are told to walk their overweight dog more often to improve the dog’s health, the dog owners will comply, and also lose weight themselves. Their concern for their dog’s health makes the goal of increased exercise an easy one to follow. The regimen combines the pleasurable activity of spending time with a pet with a healthy activity–walking. In this way, the dogs become accidental health coaches for the human patients, encouraging them to be more
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Kinsa Closes $17M in Financing to Develop Additional Digital Health Products
Kinsa, the company behind the world’s first FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer has closed $17 million in additional financing from GSR Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, FirstMark Capital and others. The funds will be used to develop additional smart products and services to further Kinsa’s mission to better track and stop the spread of illness. Features such as wellness tips, real-time fever guidance, medication reminders, connection to physicians, local health information and
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Survey: Providers & Patients Disagree on How Long It Takes Patients to Pay
Providers and patients disagree on how long it takes patients to pay, according to key findings from Navicure's first Patient Payment Check-Up. The recent survey conducted by HIMSS Analytics and fielded in January 2017 assesses differences in attitudes and behavior between those billing for healthcare and those paying for it. The survey reveals over half of providers (51%) say it takes their average patient more than three months to pay their full balance. Only 18 percent of patients claim it
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NHS’ Salford Royal Trust, Validic Partner to Integrate Patient-Generated Health Data Into EHR
The Royal Salford Trust of the NHS and digital health integration platform Validic have announced a partnership centering around innovation with health data, research & remote care services. The partnership will enable the integration of patient-generated health data from in-home medical devices, wearables and consumer health apps into the EHR. The goal of this initiative is to identify how the integration of this data yields a measurable difference in patient care, outcomes and
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Surescripts National Record Locator Service Now Able to Share 230 Million Patients in Real Time
Four major health systems, including Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (Conn.), Singing River Health System (Miss.), SLUCare Physician Group (Mo.) and WVU Medicine (W. Va.), went live with Surescripts National Record Locator Service (NRLS) to equip providers with fast and easy access to clinical records for 230 million patients and four billion nationwide patient visit locations. This latest expansion comes on the heels of recent deployments of Surescripts NRLS across eight large health
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Health Network of Missouri to Deploy Cerner’s Population Health Platform Enterprise-wide
The University of Missouri Health Care announced it will extend Cerner's HealtheIntentSM population health management platform across the Health Network of Missouri (HNM) to coordinate and manage care for residents of rural Missouri communities. HNM is a collaborative of six independent health care organizations that use different EHR systems. The HNM network, which includes an academic medical center, state employer and a group of hospitals, serves patients throughout central, northeast and
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Black Book: 94% of Physicians Find Digital Health Data Overwhelming, Redundant
94 percent of physicians find all that digital health data overwhelming, redundant and unlikely to make a clinical difference, according to Black Book’s recent consumer survey. Conducted from September through December 2016, the survey asked 12,090 adult consumers to evaluate the technology they were exposed to, know of or interacted with as an active patient in the last twelve months.The report revealed that 94 percent of consumers with health or activity trackers said their physician informed
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