The "What's Covered" app is free to download on both the iOS and Google Play stores and will allow users to see if specific items or services are covered under their traditional Medicare Part A and Part B benefits
CMS has recruited more than 100 organizations to join the CMS Medicare Blue Button 2.0 developer preview program, which was announced at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas this week.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
During a Tuesday morning session at HIMSS, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the MyHealthEData initiative, a government-wide project aimed at giving patients more control over their health information. She also said the agency is planning "a complete overhaul of the Meaningful Use program for hospitals."
In this audio recording, former Veterans Affairs CTO Peter Levin, who led development of Blue Button, discusses why patient engagement and interoperability of health information have been so difficult outside of the closed VA system.
Advocates of greater patient access to health data are using Mother’s Day as an opportunity to encourage consumer to demand copies of their own health data by launching an awareness drive and online petition. “Mom is the health CEO in many families,” explained Lygeia Ricciardi, former director of the Office of Consumer eHealth in the […]
Whither patient engagement? Artist and patient-rights advocate Regina Holliday shared her latest, perhaps most inflammatory addition to the "Walking Gallery," while two health information exchange groups released a new video explaining Blue Button.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
The initial success of the OpenNotes program is well-documented. As MedCity News reported, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine at the beginning of 2014 found widespread enthusiasm about the idea of opening unedited primary care clinician notes to patients at three test sites. After the first year of OpenNotes, 99 percent of the […]
South Carolina-based mobile health startup ChartSpan Medical Technologies would like you to quit wasting so much paper. Although recycling and avoiding waste is obviously important for environmental reasons, for ChartSpan this is more about giving patients a way to store, manage and transport health records (from many providers and sources) in a comprehensive way. Its way […]
App developer Humetrix said its iBlueButton will be used by California Direct and its physicians hoping to create better lines of communication with patients. It’s the first mobile foray for California Direct, a health information exchange run by Santa Cruz-based Axesson that works with hospitals, ACOs and other providers throughout the West Coast on issues […]
As part of the BlueButton government program to help people access their personal health records, Humetrix is testing its mobile ios and Android iBlueButton apps with providers connected to the San Diego Regional Health Information Exchange. Humetrix CEO Bettina Experton responded to emailed questions about the pilot with the National Association for Trusted Exchange includes […]
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Regina Holliday is a well-known patient advocate, activist and artist. A widow and mother, she fights for patient empowerment through her paintings, writing and even her Twitter. (Follow her. You won’t regret it.) She is also the mind (and paintbrush) behind the Walking Gallery, a movement devoted to patients and healthcare leaders wearing their stories […]