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While new models of care have emerged, none are easily replicable. That’s challenging in an industry where spending is uncertain but providers and policymakers can look to the most expensive patients as an opportunity to drive innovation.
Wellcentive complements Philips’ health IT portfolio with cloud-based IT systems to manage clinical, claims and financial data to help providers deliver care that meets new quality requirements and reimbursement models, Philips said.
Population health management, EHRs and biosensing technologies were also among the top investment areas.
Mitch McConnell, Donald Trump, Jr., Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson and other Republicans chipped away at Hillary Clinton on healthcare during the RNC.
William Yasnoff, MD, has developed a personal grid format that can prevent hackers from accessing an entire database full of patient records. Hospitals or IT vendors can use the tactic – for free – to force cybercriminals to decrypt one record at a time.
Health and Human Services said in a new report to Congress that current regulations are not keeping pace with consumer engagement tools, including fitness trackers, social media, mobile health apps and wearables.
Google’s artificial intelligence technology is working on health issues but its reliance on large troves of health data has some CISOs, physicians and patients concerned.
Cigna launches CareAllies IT and analytics services firm to help hospitals transition to value-base…
The insurer said its new subsidiary will work with health systems to create necessary core capabilities for alternative payment models or to hone those already in place for more effective physician alignment and clinical integration.
ONC names first winners of data sharing app challenges to leverage FHIR for easier patient and prov…
The Consumer Health Data Aggregator and Provider User Experience challenges focus on easing access to information for patients and clinicians, using open APIs and the FHIR interoperability standard.
Officials from Oregon Health and Science University said that one of the incidents was because of a stolen laptop, while the other involved a cloud storage service business associate.