Communication issues in a providers’ care transition points can ramp up healthcare costs, according to a survey evaluating hospital IT security released this month. Trying to locate a physician to sign off on a discharge order for a patient or to follow up on an abnormal test result can mean the difference between a smooth […]
Washington, D.C., has an emerging startup scene, but most of its entrepreneurs still struggle to raise investment from local firms. Grotech Ventures is one of the leading venture capital firms funneling money into the region. Today, the Vienna-based firm announced the close of its eighth fund at $225 million. It brings GroTech’s total capital under […]
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Finding it hard to focus on work or counting the minutes until 5? Take a work-related Pinterest break. Paul Sonnier, the founder of the Digital Health group on LinkedIn, has collected more than a dozen infographics on this board. I get several e-mails every day asking me to “Check out this great new infographic!” We […]
I recently read an article that raised the question of who owns your health data. By ownership, I am referring to who has the power to either access or give someone access to your medical information. There are many interested parties in knowing all about you for valid reasons: Your PCP wants to know what […]
With less than a month to go until the annual rendezvous of creativity, medicine and technology that is TEDMED, the event’s organizers have revealed the final list of presenters, and it’s loaded with familiar faces. In its third year under Priceline.com founder Jay Walker, TEDMED is shaping up this year much like in years past […]
An electronic health record company that provides clinical information systems for wound care clinics, Net Health Systems, has acquired a specialist electronic medical record firm that gives the combined companies business with 1,000 U.S. wound care clinics, a little more than 50 percent, according to a company statement. The value of the deal was not […]
Healthcare payments are no longer about transactions. It’s about controlling the revenue cycle. And increasingly, that control is not sitting with ISOs.
A company is working to replace the “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” image of aging in place technology with a more modern “e-mail alert: you’re mom’s been out of bed for more than 30 minutes and a dispatch has been sent” message for caretaker mobile devices. The technology for BeClose is designed to […]
A competition from Philadelphia regional payer Independence Blue Cross seeking ways to improve health and wellness selected two companies that signify big trends in healthcare technology — telemedicine and ways to reduce the number of people using emergency rooms for nonemergency needs. As the winners of the IBX Game Changers Challenge, 1DocWay, QuickSeeMD, and a […]
It may be warmly embraced by healthcare professionals as a way to improve efficiencies to reduce medical errors and improve patient care, but a survey by Xerox (NYSE:XRX) claims only about 1-in-4 people want medical records to be digital. Why? About 63 percent of respondents say they are concerned personal information could be stolen by […]
Pennsylvania is hoping an offer of free software and a new customer reward will get smaller healthcare providers to turn off their fax machines and to switch to secure, encrypted email to share patient information. It’s part of a national program designed to provide a halfway point for providers that can’t afford the infrastructure to […]
A healthcare IT business that works with primary care physician practices to provide patients access to electronic medical records has inked a deal with a Blueprint Health accelerator graduate to allow physicians to provide third-party access to medical records. The deal integrates New York-based Hello Health’s HIPAA-compliant system used by primary care physicians with 5 […]
Clinical decision support acquisitions accounted for the most merger and acquisition deals in healthcare information management in the second quarter, beating out electronic health record and electronic medical record companies combined. That was just one of the interesting findings of a report from Mercom Capital exploring healthcare IT funding and M&A in the second […]
Telemedicine for behavioral health, a service to give rides to cancer patients in treatment and a program to reduce readmissions are among the 15 finalists for payer Independence Blue Cross’s innovation challenge. A full list of the finalists is provided on the the IBX Game Changers Challenge website here. The challenge seeks to develop health […]
Venture capital fundraising for early stage funds doubled in the first half of the year to $3 billion compared with the same period last year, according to a report by Dow Jones. Among the firms that have raised funds were Felicis Ventures, a well-respected early stage investment group with a new $70 million fund targeting […]
As part of the Summer of Compliance, we completed our first prioritization meeting. We reviewed more than 50 risks in detail and devised a process to prioritize them. After much discussion, we decided to assign 3 workgroups the task of intensively reviewing the risks as follows. Teams There were fifty-five items in the list. […]