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30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

by Fred Pennic 12/30/2020 Leave a Comment

30 Executives Share Top Healthcare Predictions & Trends to Watch in 2021

As we close out the year, we asked several healthcare executives to share their predictions and trends for 2021. Kimberly Powell, Vice President & General Manager, NVIDIA Healthcare Federated Learning: The clinical community will increase their use of federated learning approaches to build robust AI models across various institutions, geographies, patient demographics, and medical scanners. The sensitivity and selectivity of these models are outperforming AI models
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Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance

by Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) 09/10/2020 Leave a Comment

Analysis: August Health IT M&A Activity; Public Company Performance

– Healthcare Growth Partners’ (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health mergers & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of August 2020. M&A is back and the velocity of the rebound has outpaced all expectations.  The recovery quickly worked its way across the spectrum from large to small-cap, beginning with the larger cap NASDAQ rally of nearly 80% from lows in late March (only to soften in recent days), followed by multi-billion
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Telehealth Platforms: 5 Pillars of Patient-Centric Design

by Ed Adamson, Director of Strategy & Insight at Star 07/30/2020 Leave a Comment

Telehealth Platforms: 5 Pillars of Patient-Centric Design

Ed Adamson, Director of Strategy & Insight at Star To accelerate the adoption of telehealth services and remote health platforms, the patient-centric design is a must. By paying attention to five key areas, you can develop a telehealth solution that works for the most important users: the patients. There are several universal challenges in delivering telehealth solutions, including a lack of patient adoption. It’s a reasonable reluctance:  - Healthcare has always been delivered
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CentralReach Acquires ABA Data Collection Platform Thread Learning

by Fred Pennic 02/26/2020 Leave a Comment

CentralReach Acquires ABA Data Collection Platform Thread Learning

- CentralReach acquires Thread Learning, an applied behavior analysis (ABA) platform designed for center-based clinics and schools to extend its leadership position within the ABA provider market. - The acquisition will add solutions for the education and international ABA markets and supplement its industry-leading platform with Thread’s rapidly-growing, highly-rated, intuitive mobile data collection. CentralReach, a Pompano Beach, FL-based provider of electronic medical record (EMR)
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How Do We Make Dignity the Animating Principle in Healthcare?

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 02/19/2020 Leave a Comment

Medsphere CEO Talks Affordable Healthcare IT and Future of EHRs

Irv Lichtenwald, President & CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation Dignity-focused organizations are not easy to define, but also not hard to recognize. Justice Stewart It’s all about the patient. Well, unless that patient has been to particular hospitals for treatment and is having trouble paying the ensuing bills. Then it’s about the hospital and collections agents and wage garnishments and such. For this approach to providing care, the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan think tank
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The Evolution of EHR Workflows: From Counterintuitive to Intuitive Tools for Care

by Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, Chief Medical Officer at NextGen Healthcare 12/11/2019 Leave a Comment

The Evolution of EHR Workflows: From Counterintuitive to Intuitive Tools for Care

Dr. Betty Rabinowitz, Chief Medical Officer at NextGen Healthcare I recall a patient who was drinking heavily, who I was unable to meaningfully convince to reduce his alcohol consumption.  He felt that his drinking was no different than his work colleagues and that he did not need to make any changes. When his labs returned, not surprisingly, his GGT and AST were elevated.  I turned the screen and showed him the results as well as the upward trending of the result’s graph. He didn’t
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Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety

by Jasmine Pennic 09/04/2019 Leave a Comment

Vocera Vina Smartphone App Launches to Optimize Patient Safety

- Vocera Vina smartphone app launches to help improve clinical communications and enhance patient safety by reducing the clerical burdens that lead to burnout. - The customizable communication app presents prioritized patient-centric calls, secure messages, and alerts in a unified inbox, and provides an intuitive user experience for clinicians inside and outside the hospital. - Drawing from the hospital EHR, this the vendor-agnostic platform works alongside all other Vocera
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Why Hospital M&A Activity Must Include Plans for EHR Data Integration

by Erica Garvin 07/17/2019 Leave a Comment

How to Solve the Hospital M&A Crisis

John Walton, Sr. Solution Architect, CPG John Walton, a data expert who worked under Ross Perot, shares his insights on how organizations can successfully come together without coming undone. Data—it’s the thread that promises to tie merging healthcare entities together, but more often than not, it can feel more like the primary source of its unraveling. So why are newly merged and acquired health organizations, particularly hospitals, feeling so threadbare? Despite the belief that such a move
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Haves vs. Have-Nots in Healthcare: Why The Haves Are Still Winning

by Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation 05/09/2019 Leave a Comment

Haves vs. Have-Nots in Healthcare: Why The Haves Are Still Winning

Already flush, the haves of healthcare become the have-mores Ideology is a beguiling mistress. When she winks and showers rewards on the faithful, they’re much more likely to focus on successes over failures moving forward, even if the latter vastly outnumber the former. My use of the word ‘ideology’ here is intentional. I come from rather humble beginnings and have experienced the benefits that a market-based capitalist system offers to those willing to work hard and color inside the lines.
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Utilizing Blockchain in Healthcare: 3 Lessons Learned from Abroad

by Bo Vargas, CTO and co-founder of BitMed 11/26/2018 Leave a Comment

FDA Approves Blockchain/IoT Pilot to Track Specialty Prescription Drugs Across 3 States Blockchain in Healthcare_Next Stop for Data-driven Healthcare: Blockchain

According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, America is suffering from a serious trust issue, and one of the areas which Americans seem to have the least faith in is their healthcare system. According to a recent New York Times article, in 1966, more than three-fourths of Americans had great confidence in medical practitioners, compared to as little as 34 percent today.Many argue that the US healthcare system is deeply flawed and is designed to benefit medical providers and insurance carriers
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