December 13, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Healthcare IT remains a hot investment sector despite concerns about these companies being overvalued, according to KPMG-Leavitt Partners 2019 Investment Outlook, a survey of health care investment professionals.
December 11, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Healthcare organizations report high satisfaction with their telehealth virtual care platforms, however there are significant differences in how broad the various platforms are and in the quality of the vendors’ service. What’s more, EHR integration is a key...
December 10, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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Just a few months after Allscripts said it would be selling its majority stake in Netsmart, the health IT company announced today that private equity firm GI Partners, along with TA Associates, will be acquiring the stake held in Netsmart.
December 6, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Emerging technologies, such as automation and artificial intelligence (AI), will redesign the way in which tech support firms function in healthcare, according to a Black Book Research survey.
December 6, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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Longtime Intermountain CMIO Stan Huff, M.D., recently chatted with Healthcare Informatics about all things interoperability, including the different types of data exchange that exist today, the greatest barriers, and pending regulations.
December 4, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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With the establishment of connectivity between CommonWell and Carequality, the ability to exchange patient records is within the reach of most provider organizations, according to KLAS Research.
December 3, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Healthcare organization leaders are expressing some initial skepticism about the merger of athenahealth with Virence Health Technologies, as a result of Veritas Capital and Elliott Management’s recent acquisition of athenahealth.
November 28, 2018 | David Raths, Contributing Editor
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The CARIN Alliance, a group of more than 60 healthcare and other stakeholders, has released the first draft of a voluntary code of conduct that entities not covered by HIPAA can self-attest to in order to access health data on behalf of consumers.
November 16, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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The majority of health care executives (91 percent) are confident they will see a return on investment (ROI) on artificial intelligence investments, although not immediately, and foresee the greatest impact of AI will be on improving health care, according to an...
November 14, 2018 | Pamela Dixon, Industry Voice
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In Moneyball, the shift from money driving decisions to information driving the decisions upended the World Series and, subsequently, baseball. Big data may similarly upend healthcare.
November 12, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Private equity firm Veritas Capital and hedge fund Elliott Management are acquiring athenahealth, the Watertown, Mass.-based EHR and practice management vendor, for $5.7 billion, according to a Monday announcement.
November 9, 2018 | David Raths, Contributing Editor
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GetWellNetwork, a Bethesda, Md.-based company offering a platform for improving patient engagement, has acquired Silicon Valley startup HealthLoop.
November 9, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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Geisinger Health System CEO David Feinberg has been tapped by Google to assume a leadership role over its healthcare initiatives.
October 30, 2018 | David Raths, Contributing Editor
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Cota Inc., a New York-based analytics company focused on complex diseases, has hired Michael Doyle as chief executive officer.
October 29, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Armonk, New York-based IBM announced Sunday plans to acquire Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat, a provider of open source cloud software, for approximately $34 billion.
October 18, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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AMIA questioned the "constrained scope" of the EHR Reporting Program, noting the program should be closer to a post-implementation surveillance ecosystem, not a government-sponsored "consumer reports."
October 10, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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The behavioral health electronic health record (EHR) vendor market has shown poor performance, to date, according to customers, who cite slow development, implementation challenges and lackluster customer support, according to a KLAS Research report.
October 9, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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While three-fourths of providers currently use some sort of clinical decision support (CDS) solution, more than half are using multiple solutions, which indicates there is still not one solution that is meeting all of providers’ needs, according to a Reaction...
October 9, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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The Department of Defense (DoD) is moving onto a second set of site locations for its Cerner electronic health record (EHR) rollouts.
October 5, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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Hospital business leaders are open, and even optimistic, about the benefits of innovation from non-traditional healthcare players, such as Amazon and Apple, according to a new report from Captains of Industry, a marketing consultancy.
September 26, 2018 | David Hanekom, M.D., and Pradeep Goel, Industry Voices
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How do providers get better access to patients, deliver the best possible care, and get paid for their services in an accurate and timely fashion? The answer could be found in blockchain.
September 20, 2018 | David Raths, Contributing Editor
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Town Hall Ventures, an investment firm built to address the healthcare challenges of the most vulnerable Americans, has closed its first fund at $115 million.
September 18, 2018 | Mark Hagland
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The ongoing drama over the future of EHR vendor athenahealth seems to have entered a new phase, with a development that potentially throws a monkey wrench into its business process
September 17, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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During a House subcommittee hearing, healthcare leaders voiced concerns that CMS' proposed changes to the MSSP ACO program will impede progress in the transition to value-based care.
September 17, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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Cigna, the Connecticut-based health services company, has announced the launch of Cigna Ventures, a corporate venture fund focused on investing in promising healthcare startups and growth-stage companies.
September 13, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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The executive director of Health IT Now, a coalition of healthcare and technology companies, is again criticizing the Trump administration for not yet publishing any regulation on information blockin
September 13, 2018 | Pete Rivera, Industry Voice
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Rural Community Hospitals are searching for replacements comparable to those used in the larger metropolitan medical center.
September 11, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Executive leaders at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital discuss the organization's journey to achieve HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 and meeting the healthcare needs of an underserved community.
September 10, 2018 | Heather Landi, Associate Editor
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Leading hospitals, medical groups, and health systems, as well as ACOs and health insurers are moving forward to address social factors impacting health with a number of different approaches.
September 7, 2018 | Rajiv Leventhal, Managing Editor
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Elliott Management is the favorite to win the athenahealth takeover bid now that Cerner and UnitedHealth have declined an opportunity to acquire the health IT company, according to a report.
