Digital health tops $4.3 billion in funding in 2015, Rock Health says
When it comes to digital health funding, 2015 matched the record-breaking numbers of 2014 with more than $4.3 billion flowing into the industry, according to a Year in Review Report from Rock Health, a venture fund dedicated to backing digital health initiatives.
The report also saw consumerization in healthcare driving mergers or funding deals. Healthcare consumer engagement tools, personal health tools and tracking categories by themselves accounted for 23 percent of overall funding.
Mobile
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Beth Jones Sanborn Tags: Online Only Analytics Cloud Computing Medical Devices Mobile Source Type: news
Remote patient monitoring market booming amid readmission fines, doctor shortages, report says
Fear of readmissions penalties, an increase of chronic health conditions, looming physician shortages and mobile technology advancements are driving adoption of remote patient monitoring tools, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan that forecasts the market will grow 13.2 percent over the next five years.
"We appear to be at an opportune time for RPM systems to thrive," said Victor Camlek, health industry principal for Frost & Sullivan, said in a statement.
Medical Devices
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Medical Devices Mobile Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: news
FDA launches Web-based precision medicine platform for next-generation sequencing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday launched the beta version of precisionFDA, its new collaborative platform for the exploration of next-generation gene sequencing.
Cloud Computing
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Cloud Computing Decision Support Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Big Data Byte: Driving Real-Time Analytics
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Driving Real-Time Analytics
Adam Doyle and Alda Mizaku talk about Big Data technologies at work at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, MO, and the data architecture they've created to offer real-time analytics on patients at the facility.
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Eric Bailey Source Type: news
Bill would give ambulatory surgery centers EHR incentives for meaningful use
Congress on Wednesday will consider legislation to allow physicians working in ambulatory surgical centers to receive the same payment incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records as doctors in other settings.
Meaningful Use
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Susan Morse Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Health Information Exchange (HIE) Meaningful Use Policy and Legislation Workforce Source Type: news
Broward Health taps Cerner's population health, readmission prevention platforms
Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based Broward Health has tapped Cerner for its HealtheIntent population health platform, the company announced.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Henry Powderly Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: news
University of Washington Medicine pays $750,000 over security lapses tied to 2013 breach
The University of Washington Medicine will spend $750,000 to settle charges that it potentially violated the HIPAA Security Rule by failing to implement policies and procedures to prevent, detect, contain and correct security violations.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights, which is charged with upholding the HIPAA Privacy Rule, announced the terms of the settlement on December 14.
Specifically, OCR spotlighted insufficient risk analysis at UWM.
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Compliance & Legal Privacy Security Source Type: news
Supply chain issues costly for healthcare, Cardinal Health survey finds
Supply chain costs ranks second only to reimbursement problems as the issue top of mind for hospital executives today, according to a new national survey commissioned by healthcare services company Cardinal Health.
The supply chain is the second largest expense for healthcare providers, according to Cardinal Health, which also estimates $5 billion of annual waste in high-value medical devices alone.
Medical Devices
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 15, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Medical Devices Source Type: news
Tuberculosis scare hits Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's maternity ward
More than 1,000 patients – including 350 newborns and their mothers – could have been exposed to tuberculosis at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in California, the system announced last week.
"We are reaching out to moms who were in our Mother & Infant Care Center between mid-August 2015 and mid-November," the hospital wrote in a notice posted on its website.
Quality and Safety
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 14, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Quality and Safety Source Type: news
Healthcare breaches, cybercrime, ransomware to get worse in 2016, Symantec says
Symantec's security intelligence team has put together its top predictions for 2016 and the healthcare industry will see more and worse of just about everything ranging from cybercrime and data breaches to ransomware and attacks against infrastructure.
[See also: 7 largest data breaches of 2015.]
Here are the security vendor's 8 predictions for the coming year:
1. Internet of Things fuels need for more security
Privacy & Security
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 14, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Privacy & Security Source Type: news
Indegene acquires population health analytics platform SmartCare
Iselin, New Jersey-based Indegene will buy SmartCare, a population health analytics platform, from Vantage Point.
While terms of the deal were not announced, the company said it expects the addition of SmartCare to help it fill in potential gaps experienced when transitioning into the population health analytics space.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 14, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Jessica Davis Tags: Online Only Analytics Mergers & Acquisitions Population Health Source Type: news
Top CIOs target population health, patient engagement in 2016, expect investments to pay off
Whether they work at small rural hospitals or sprawling, multi-state health systems, staffers at the 21 winning Healthcare IT News' 2015 Best Hospital IT Departments are very busy folks.
They were busy in 2015, and they'll be busy in 2016 as the demands of delivering better technology-enabled care -- all under the watchful eye of an increasingly demanding federal government, wanting bigger bang for its reimbursement bucks -- continue to evolve.
Population Health
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 14, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Mike Miliard Tags: Online Only Electronic Health Records Interoperability Population Health Source Type: news
Cerner President Zane Burke talks defense deal, analytics and the Internet of Things
Cerner president Zane Burke is having a banner year, capped by a milestone contract win from the U.S. Department of Defense. A self-characterized "recovering CPA," Burke joined the firm in 1995 and now runs the company's solution direction and strategy, client relationships and sales.
Electronic Health Records
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 14, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Skip Snow Tags: Online Only Analytics Electronic Health Records Interoperability Meaningful Use Population Health Source Type: news
10 interoperability stories from 2015 you don't want to miss
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ONC reveals final interoperability roadmapONC on October 6 finalized its eagerly awaited interoperability roadmap. "Data needs to be free," said national coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD. "If we're going to change the care model we need an information model to support it." That thinking is at the heart of the report, Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, which DeSalv...
Source: Healthcare IT News - December 11, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Health Information Exchange (HIE) HL7 Interoperability Meaningful Use Source Type: news
KLAS: 3 traits keep Cerner at top globally
Cerner appears to garner more recognition and interest with healthcare providers outside the U.S. than any other health IT vendor, according to a new report by research firm KLAS.
Electronic Health Records
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Source: Healthcare IT News - December 11, 2015 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bernie Monegain Tags: Online Only Analytics Clinical Data Warehousing Electronic Health Records Interoperability Source Type: news
