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    Doctor On Demand brings mobility to medicine

    This new telemedicine firm makes primary care visits available via smartphone.

    By • Jan. 31, 2014
  • Social media shows promise for chronic disease management

    Social media can help people better manage their conditions, a new report finds.

    By • Jan. 30, 2014
  • Trendline

    Agentic AI

    Agentic AI shows promise for alleviating healthcare tasks without requiring much human intervention. But the industry is still figuring out how to harness its independence without introducing undue risk.

    By Healthcare Dive staff
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    Massachusetts providers, payers partner on ICD-10 testing

    The tests will be done using a secure online testing portal allowing providers and payers to work together on the ICD-10 shift.

    By • Jan. 29, 2014
  • Free medical apps sell personal data to advertisers

    Data sold include healthcare professionals' names, area of practice and practice location.

    By • Jan. 28, 2014
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    Maine wants patients to have access to their health data

    The pilot program is part of a federally-funded state innovation model initiative.

    By • Jan. 27, 2014
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    Use of diabetes apps held back by poor usability

    Customers aren't using diabetes-related mHealth apps, in part because they're too hard to use.

    By • Jan. 24, 2014
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    HealthCare.gov issues pose threat to insurers

    A failure to fix HealthCare.gov's back end could expose the federal government and insurers to serious financial harm.

    By • Jan. 23, 2014
  • E-mails to doctors impose hidden costs

    The flood of mass e-mails could be costing millions of dollars.  

    By • Jan. 23, 2014
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    Security expert: HealthCare.gov is '100% insecure'

    A security expert exposed 70,000 HealthCare.gov records in just four minutes.

    By • Jan. 22, 2014
  • Telemedicine not ideal for palliative care, caregivers say

    Palliative care team members were concerned about ethical and practical issues arising from permanent telemonitoring in the patient's home.

    By • Jan. 21, 2014
  • CMS names McKesson, Meditech as 'designated test EHRs'

    Providers using the CMS-designed test EMRs must successfully conduct an exchange test with one of those systems during the EMR reporting period.

    By • Jan. 21, 2014
  • Most sensors may be implanted by 2018

    Wearable devices may make the transition from wrist-worn to completely embedded in and on a user's body by 2018.

    By • Jan. 20, 2014
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    Health information exchanges cut excess imaging in emergency rooms

    The study concludes that HIEs could save millions on redundant imaging.  

    By • Jan. 20, 2014
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    Hackers breach 4,200 individuals' health data

    Hackers gained access to Adobe software used to operate the company's website, and then coupled it with malware.

    By • Jan. 20, 2014
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    Government offers guidance for safer EMR use

    The toolkits are designed to help providers be safer use of EMRs and other health IT.  

    By • Jan. 16, 2014
  • Feds, healthcare companies to simulate cyberattacks

    The tests should determine whether federal and commercial health organizations can withstand hacking attacks.

    By • Jan. 15, 2014
  • Health IT companies raised $2.2B in VC funding last year

    VC funding for health IT companies nearly doubled from 2012 to 2013.

    By • Jan. 14, 2014
  • Accenture takes over HealthCare.gov operations

    Accenture replaces CGI Federal, whose three year contract will not be renewed when it expires on Feb. 28th.

    By • Jan. 13, 2014
  • What's holding telemedicine back?

    A wide variety of factors -- human, regulatory and technological -- are holding telemedicine back.

    By • Jan. 13, 2014
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    Self-care med devices market to expand dramatically

    This market should grow at a CAGR of  7% from 2013 to 2019, driven by the support of big biotechs.

    By • Jan. 9, 2014
  • Mass. launches next phase of HIE

    In its first year, the health information exchange connected 55 Massachusetts hospitals and medical centers.

    By • Jan. 9, 2014
  • Deep Dive

    How one telemedicine provider built their business

    "All  you need to know to access our service is to dial a phone," says Telecure CEO Garick Hismatullin.

    By • Jan. 9, 2014
  • HHS OIG says CMS isn't doing enough to detect EHR-based fraud and abuse

    The HHS OIG says that CMS hasn't done enough to looking into EHR-based fraud and abuse.

    By • Jan. 8, 2014
  • Online searches for health terms spiked during recession

    A new report found a total of 200 million excess searches for terms related to health problems over a three-year period.

    By • Jan. 8, 2014
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    Bill would require HIXs to notify data breach victims promptly

    The proposed bill would require HHS to inform consumers quickly about any breach experienced by the federal and state-operated health insurance exchanges.

    By • Jan. 7, 2014