Health IT
-
PwC: 'New Health Economy' finding its feet, but challenges remain
Providers are embracing digital treatments, with 77% saying they have suggested an app or digital program to a patient, according to the industry trends report.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 12, 2018
-
Investors still fired up about HIT despite valuation worries
Care management, home health and retail clinics are also on healthcare investors' minds, according to a KPMG-Leavitt Partners survey.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 12, 2018
-
Pear's digital treatment for opioid abuse gets FDA nod
The app is a medication-assisted treatment that provides cognitive behavioral therapy to increase care retention rates for adults with opioid use disorder.
By Maria Rachal • Dec. 12, 2018
-
Health coaching could boost value of wearables: HIMSS report
HIMSS surveyed 101 healthcare IT and hospital administrators for the Fitbit-sponsored report, which found that half of hospitals and health systems planned to connect patients with a health coach or were already using health coaching.
By Susan Kelly • Dec. 12, 2018
-
Hospital beds from Hill-Rom get sensor tech
Sensors continually check patients' heart and respiratory rates and alert providers if their vital signs change.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 11, 2018
-
Lawmakers impatient for ONC interoperability rule
"It is hard to explain to people that Congress provided the tools necessary for doctors and patients to better coordinate their care through the sharing of patient data, but nothing has changed," Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, said at a House health subcommittee hearing.
By Rebecca Pifer • Dec. 11, 2018
-
Allscripts to sell stake in Netsmart for $525M
The EHR vendor said the sale will allow it to pay back long-term debt and invest in other areas.
By Samantha Liss • Dec. 11, 2018
-
No single telehealth vendor meeting all customer needs, KLAS says
Recent consolidations within the sector, however, could aid the effort to achieve all-purpose vendors, according to the report.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 10, 2018
-
Provider interest in RCM tools growing, survey shows
More than half of providers plan to adopt web payments technology in the coming year, Billing Tree reports.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 10, 2018
-
VA invests in medical messaging system, brings services to Walmart
The country's second-largest government agency has also reportedly been in talks with Apple on a deal that would see the tech giant build software for veterans to access their EHRs via their mobile devices.
By Tony Abraham • Dec. 10, 2018
-
Virtual visits led to uptick in overall visits at Massachusetts ACO, study shows
Participants tended to be younger, white and commercially insured, raising concerns that virtual visit programs could increase disparities in access to care.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 07, 2018
-
7 in 10 doctors report HIT-related stress
Primary care physicians have higher levels of HIT stress than other specialties, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 07, 2018
-
Uber hires 2 healthcare insiders to help grow NEMT business
The new additions include a longtime industry consultant and a member of rival Lyft's health team.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 06, 2018
-
Telehealth for substance abuse growing quickly, but lags behind mental health usage
A Health Affairs report calls for increased use to address the opioid epidemic, calling low rates a "missed opportunity" to help recovering addicts.
By Rebecca Pifer • Dec. 06, 2018
-
Aetna, Ascension join industry blockchain pilot to improve network directory data
Nearly half of Medicare Advantage directories contain at least one provider location error, according to CMS.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 05, 2018
-
Patient portals still largely unused, Health Affairs finds
Nonusers tend to be male, on Medicaid, lack a personal doctor and have less education than users, according to the report.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 05, 2018
-
Telehealth uptake surprisingly low among physicians, AMA finds
Large and specialty practices are more likely to use telehealth, suggesting that implementation costs are a barrier, according to a new study in Health Affairs.
By Meg Bryant • Dec. 04, 2018
-
Dive AwardsThe Healthcare Dive Awards for 2018
The awards recognize the healthcare industry's top disruptors and innovators. These executives and companies are transforming the industry and shaping the future.
By Healthcare Dive Team
-
Dive AwardsExecutive of the Year: David Feinberg, Geisinger (outgoing) Google (incoming)
The Geisinger CEO made headlines this year after turning down a job to lead the still-unnamed Amazon-J.P. Morgan-Berkshire Hathaway venture only to leave his integrated health system for Google.
By Tony Abraham • Dec. 03, 2018
-
Amazon partners with life sciences group, adapting its 1-Click tech
Called Ping, the thumb-sized device allows pharma and biotech companies to engage physicians and patients who use their products.
By Meg Bryant • Nov. 30, 2018
-
Open Health launches blockchain-enabled feature to incentivize patient data sharing
PatientSphere lets users upload personal health data from wearables, EHRs and mobile health apps to researchers and healthcare companies.
By Meg Bryant • Nov. 30, 2018
-
M&A trends in 2019: Will the biotech bubble burst?
New technologies have driven higher valuations in pharma, biotech and health IT, yet some big bankers are uncertain how long that trend will hold.
By Jacob Bell • Nov. 30, 2018
-
HHS outlines broad plan to reduce EHR burden
The 74-page draft strategy, required by the 21st Century Cures Act, focuses on reducing time and effort tied to regulatory reporting requirements and increasing functionality and user-friendliness of EHRs.
By Meg Bryant • Nov. 29, 2018
-
Telemedicine use among commercially insured skyrocketed since 2005
Driven by payer coverage for direct-to-consumer telemedicine, annual visits increased by 52% annually from 2005 to 2014 and a whopping 261% from 2015 to 2017, according to a JAMA study.
By Rebecca Pifer • Nov. 29, 2018
-
Study highlights discrepancy in hospital rankings
Top-ranked hospitals had higher readmissions for heart failure than nonranked hospitals, according to the report in JAMA Cardiology.
By Meg Bryant • Nov. 29, 2018