February 16, 2013 David Raths
blog
While mobile health has seen an explosion of innovation in the last few years, with apps that are growing increasingly sophisticated, it is still difficult to find a successful business model in the space, according to a panel of experts speaking at the 19th Annual Wharton Health Care Business Conference in Philadelphia.
February 12, 2013 David Raths
article
The health system consolidation is putting pressure on CIOs to deliver clinical integration and back-office efficiencies. And the potential acceleration in a parallel consolidation among health IT vendors holds many implications for the industry.
February 12, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
The Washington D.C.-based eHealth Initiative (eHI) has unveiled a resource guide, aiming to help cancer patients, their families, caregivers, and support networks better understand what digitals tools and technologies are available to treat and cope with the disease. The Health IT Cancer Resources Guide lists 76 tools ranging from mobile applications to web sites to social networks that aim to improve cancer care.
February 11, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Vitera Healthcare Solutions, a Tampa, Fla.-based provider of ambulatory electronic health records (EHRs) and practice management solutions, has announced that Kermit Randa will join the company’s leadership team as executive vice president, sales and marketing.
February 7, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
eClinicalWorks, a Westborough, Mass.-based EHR vendor, has announced it's launching a patient engagement-focused initiative on the back of a $25 million investment in the area over the next 12 months. eClinicalWorks, which boasts of eight million users for its patient portal, says it will focus on developing a mobile app for patients that gives patients access to their own and family electronic health records (EHRs).
February 7, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
According to a new report from the Austin, Texas-based software buying consulting firm, Software Advice, 21.89 percent of all meaningful use attestations for a complete EHR through October 2012 were done using a product from Epic Systems Corporation (Verona, Wisc.). The report says that in total Epic has 23,446 complete EHR meaningful use attestations, nearly doubling the next closest vendor, Allscripts (Chicago), which has 12,741.
February 5, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
According to a report from SearchHealthIT’s Don Fluckinger, Cerner Corp. (Kansas City) and McKesson (San Francisco) are in talks to form an alliance that would make their EHR patient data interoperable. SearchHealthIT cites unnamed sources and says that the announcement could come as soon as the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2013 annual conference, held March 3-7 this year in New Orleans.
February 4, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
On the heels of a Jan. 15 report by Pew Research Center revealing that 35 percent of Americans use the internet to figure out a medical condition, an independent survey conducted by medical marketing firm Vanguard Communications found that only one-third of physicians in three American cities offer direct website help to healthcare consumers trying to understand their symptoms.
January 30, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
EHealth Insider (EHI), a U.K. independent health IT news, research, and events firm, has announced that it has formed a partnership with Orem, Ut.-based research firm KLAS Enterprises.
January 29, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
According to a report from the Austin, Texas-based Mercom Capital Group, a communications and consulting firm, healthcare IT venture capital (VC) funding totaled nearly $1.2 billion in 163 deals in 2012, compared to $480 million in 49 deals in 2011 and $211 million in 22 deals in 2010.
January 29, 2013 Rajiv Leventhal
news
Alerts and reporting are two of the most challenging aspects of medical oncology, in addition to being the tools providers are least happy with overall, according to according to a new report from Orem, Ut.-based KLAS Research.
January 28, 2013 The Editors of HCI
article
Healthcare Informatics honors six teams of healthcare informatics pioneers who have leveraged technology to improve healthcare delivery and operations. Profiles of the award recipients will appear in the February issue of Healthcare Informatics.
