Fitbit to wade into care management in pilot this year

The fitness tracker giant also announced it is launching a premium service and plans to develop wellness reports allowing users to share data with their physician.

By Rebecca Pifer • Updated Aug. 29, 2019

CMS updates Medicare Plan Finder following stakeholder pressure

The first iteration has been criticized by myriad stakeholder groups, including the Government Accountability Office, since its 1998 launch.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 27, 2019

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Interoperability

Interoperability is a long term-challenge for the healthcare industry, but the Trump administration has big ambitions to improve data sharing and patient access — even though its plans so far have few details.

By Healthcare Dive staff

Phishing scam at Presbyterian exposes 183K patients' data

New Mexico-based Presbyterian Healthcare Services said the breach may have included Social Security numbers, birth dates, and clinical and health plan information.

By Linda Wilson • Aug. 27, 2019

Americans largely don't trust payers, providers to secure their health data

While personal physicians get higher marks than health systems, a poll of 1,000 people suggests recent breaches have eroded public faith in security.

By Ron Shinkman • Aug. 26, 2019

Allscripts touts deal with Apple Health Records

Despite reports of rising tensions and turnover among Apple's health team, the tie-up suggests the tech behemoth is still bullish on healthcare.

By Ron Shinkman • Aug. 23, 2019

Giant launches pharmacy app

Users can request refills, transfer prescriptions, view pharmacy history and access a library of health information with the new tool.

By Lauren Manning • Aug. 23, 2019

Q&A: ONC chief Don Rucker on bringing the app economy into healthcare

"Most of our health data is actually not in the medical record or in HIPAA or even generated by providers. Most of the available inference on health is sitting in things like the GPS of our phone," the health IT chief told Healthcare Dive.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 22, 2019

Tidepool CEO talks Pre-Cert era, interoperability

Amazon and Pixar software veteran Howard Look spoke to MedTech Dive about working through FDA's software development evaluation pilot and the implications of an insulin dosing app that works with many brands' devices.

By Maria Rachal • Updated Aug. 16, 2019

ONC in talks with Congress, White House on third-party health app privacy

Potential solutions the government is debating include forcing apps to explicitly disclose to the patient every single entity that will receive their secondary information, or having patients give the apps explicit consent to do so.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 21, 2019

EHRs fuel burnout but don't blame it all on them, study says

In a finding not likely to surprise providers, researchers found electronic health record systems create "information overload" for many clinicians.

By Ron Shinkman • Aug. 19, 2019

Mercy expands RWE program to capture data from other providers

The expansion of the network follows real-world evidence deals with BD, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic.

By Nick Paul Taylor • Aug. 16, 2019

EHRs linked with smartphones spur patient interest, study shows

Though health systems and IT vendors are doing little to market their efforts to improve health record access, researchers found more patients are viewing their info through APIs.

By Shannon Muchmore • Aug. 15, 2019

Federal 'hack back' bill back on table, but critics wary of blind spots

The latest iteration of the bipartisan bill challenges private entities' response to cyberattacks. Critics argue it lacks guidelines of when or why a company should hack back.

By Samantha Schwartz • Aug. 12, 2019

Allscripts reaches $145M settlement with DOJ over subsidiary business practices

The Chicago-based health IT vendor reported a $145 million charge to settle claims that its Practice Fusion unit falsified EHR certification and violated anti-kickback laws.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 9, 2019

Apple, Eli Lilly research whether devices can detect dementia signs

The two companies, along with health tech startup Evidation, found promising initial results but concluded additional research is needed.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 8, 2019

Healthcare AI funding hits new high as sector matures

Startups in the sector raised $864 million across 75 venture capital-backed deals and financing during the second quarter, beating the previous quarterly high by about $100 million.

By Nick Paul Taylor • Aug. 8, 2019

Telehealth use jumps at inpatient settings

Both outpatient and inpatient providers are planning to invest in the technology, with 90% slated to do so in the next 18 months, according to a pair of surveys by Definitive Healthcare.

By Shannon Muchmore • Aug. 6, 2019

How smart homes are becoming the self-care hubs of tomorrow

Progress in virtual reality, patient monitoring and other futuristic tech make it more likely the initial site of primary care and wellness will be the home, argues the vice president of R&D Innovation at pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline.

By Ian Marks • Aug. 5, 2019

Data breaches in 2019 already double all of last year

The single largest data breach stemmed from a hack of a major medical collections agency working for companies including Quest and LabCorp, the report from Protenus found. Twenty million patient records were affected.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 2, 2019

FCC revamps telecomm program for rural healthcare providers

The agency simplified how funding is distributed to favor providers if the area they serve is particularly rural or medically underserved.

By Ron Shinkman • Aug. 2, 2019

Still not profitable, but Teladoc reports healthy Q2 membership, visit growth

The company is in late-stage contracts with several Fortune 500 companies and deal volume is expected to ramp up in the latter half of the year, CEO Jason Gorevic told investors.

By Rebecca Pifer • Aug. 1, 2019

DirectTrust developing trusted instant messaging standard for providers

The coalition aims to allow users to share information in real time, both within an organization and across multiple organizations using disparate technology platforms.

By Linda Wilson • Aug. 1, 2019

DeepMind AI shows potential to accelerate kidney injury diagnosis

The sister company of Google trained its AI to identify when patients are likely to develop acute kidney injury within the next 48 hours.

By Nick Paul Taylor • Aug. 1, 2019

Amazon, Cerner team up on AI, machine learning

The announcement comes roughly a week after Cerner unveiled a plan to develop a monetizable distribution model for patient data it's picked up in the EHR business.

By Rebecca Pifer • July 31, 2019

Intermountain spinoff Castell CEO: Providers need nudge en route to value-based care

Rajesh Shrestha spoke to Healthcare Dive about the newly created company, how it might generate revenue and potential partners.

By Shannon Muchmore • July 29, 2019