The $290 billion costs associated with poor medication adherence has led to some interesting collaborations between pharmaceutical companies and providers to boost patient engagement, such as Merck and Geisinger Health System, payers and digital health startups. It’s also spurred partnerships between startups such as MediSafe’s collaboration with Wealth Taxi to create more intelligent pill bottle […]
IT solutions that have helped doctors in the fast-paced emergency department and intensive care unit at Mayo Clinic make more informed care decisions are coming to other hospitals via a new startup. Ambient Clinical Analytics is publicly launching today with $1.1 million in seed funding from The Social+Capital Partnership, Rock Health and Mayo Clinic. The […]
Across the nation, state-based health insurance exchanges are searching for ways to better serve their communities while making enrollment easier, more personal, and more accessible for everyone.
The approaching March deadline for individuals to enroll in a health insurance plan is a useful reminder that provisions of Obamacare will continue to roll out this year. The Affordable Care Act and related legislation are putting a huge demand on the health system, from accelerating the shift to electronic medical records to creating a […]
“Digital Health” is often centered on EHRs and Meaningful Use to the detriment of many other technologies that can help improve patient satisfaction. To help make sure that we don’t forget how useful modern technologies are to actually getting paid for medical services, I invited Jay Fulkerson, president and CEO of Health Payment Systems (HPS), […]
The window for public comments on Meaningful Use Stage 3 criteria for electronic health records closed this week as part of the HITECH Act. Now four health IT groups, including the American Telemedicine Association and Telecommunications Industry Association are calling on Congress to ensure that interoperability and remote monitoring are part of the criteria. In […]
EMR systems need substantial investment, and with the technology expanding and the rules changing, most users know they will need to replace theirs eventually. A 2013 survey by Black Book confirms that 81 percent of practices accept that their initial installation will become antiquated. Of those who indicated an upgrade was inevitable, most said […]
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Electronic medical record companies face plenty of challenges as healthcare reform impacts the medical landscape. Hospitals are absorbing physician practices and health systems are acquiring other health systems. That means electronic health record companies are seeing a certain amount of turnover as clients are lost and gained. Then you have the gains and losses of […]
The debate goes on about the cost benefits of EHR software and whether it really lives up to the hype. A number of recent studies address this very question as the focus shifts towards lowering patient costs. According the HealthIT.gov, EHR requires both a financial and time investment but the benefits make it worthwhile. A limited number of […]
"No matter how well you investigate an EMR, it’s possible that the product won’t be as usable as it seemed when you first tested it. But that’s not the only EMR risk your hospital or medical practice needs to address. Steven Fox, Principal with Post & Schell, told us about several other EMR contract gotchas […]
PatientKeeper CEO Paul Brient was a technology and business whiz kid when I met him 20 years ago at business school and then worked with him at the Boston Consulting Group. So I’m not at all surprised to see his company churning out award winning software. Still, I’m impressed that the PatientKeeper computerized physician order […]
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
Courtesy of: referralMD While healthcare payments get bundled, the EMR industry appears to be coming unbundled. Brian Manning, the director of strategic sales at ZocDoc, pointed out in a recent blog post that the same phenomenon happening to mega consumer internet sites like Facebook and Craigslist is happening to the electronic medical records market, too. […]
While many still worry about patient privacy and the security of medical and health information, a former diva’s medical records prove technological progress is not at the center of medical privacy invasion. Marilyn Monroe’s x-rays and medical records are up for auction at Julien’s Auctions, and are expected to sell for $20,000 to $30,000, Vanity […]
In Harris County Texas, there are more than 69,000 pairs of people who share the same names and birth dates, according to entrepreneur David Batchelor. That’s the kind of thing that’s causing so much “dirty data” in hospitals’ medical records systems. “Right now there’s no way for an individual registration clerk to know that it […]
Missy Krasner landed at Google Health in April of 2006 — a time she calls pre-social, pre-quantified-self and pre-internet-of-things. Google wanted to create a central repository for consumers to collect and store their health records, and make the APIs available for developers to build on top of. We all know how that turned out: Google […]
For all of the personal health record companies out there, one called ChartSpan Medical Technologies caught my eye today. Its claim to fame is that it’s a “fully automated PHR app.” By that, the company means that users can upload email files or photos of their health records to the app, and it converts the […]