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Infrastructure, regulations key to improved interoperability, report finds
Two healthcare policy groups pointed to the 21st Century Cures Act and new rules surrounding electronic health information as positive developments.
By Les Masterson • Feb. 21, 2019 -
Q&A
Google Cloud's head of healthcare on data silos, cybersecurity and APIs in the age of the cloud
Greg Moore met up with Healthcare Dive at HIMSS19 to break down some of the most pressing issues of the day — and how Google wants to be a part of the solution.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 20, 2019 -
Trendline
Artificial intelligence
Amid mounting interest and investment in the space, it's clear AI’s applications in healthcare will only continue to grow.
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HIMSS19: Doctors don't know what to do with data from wearables
"If you present this data and bring in your device and say 'Here, I have this heart rate data from the last month,' we're going to say, 'That's great, but we don't know what it really means,'" a Mayo Clinic medical director said.
By David Lim • Feb. 20, 2019 -
No. 1 word in online negative hospital reviews is 'told'
Providers need to learn to communicate with patients through "caring language," the authors of a new Penn Medicine study said.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 19, 2019 -
Cybersecurity, privacy top healthcare leader concerns
The share of hospitals with a senior information security officer rose 14% during the past year, according to the new HIMSS survey.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 15, 2019 -
CMS emergency transport model supports telehealth, non-hospital venues
The five-year demonstration project — scheduled to kick off early next year — also encourages the creation of medical triage lines for low-acuity 911 calls.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 15, 2019 -
HIMSS19: Lyft looks at nutrition amid population health focus
The strategy would expand the car-hailing firm's focus on addressing social determinants of health.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 15, 2019 -
Deep Dive
4 main takeaways from HIMSS19
Digest the biggest health IT conference of the year with this roundup of what grabbed the attention of more than 43,000 health execs, policymakers and academics.
By David Lim , Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 15, 2019 -
Q&A
Allscripts CEO on interoperability, Lyft and social determinants of health
Healthcare Dive sat down with Paul Black to discuss what's in store for the EHR and practice management tech giant.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 15, 2019 -
HIMSS19: CMS innovation center could jumpstart interoperability models
CMMI chief Adam Boehler said Wednesday the industry could expect such proposals as soon as the next few months, but that any such models could be staggered across participants, types and time.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 14, 2019 -
Accrediting group updates widely used quality metrics
Medicare Advantage plans use NCQA quality metrics to measure the performance within their provider networks, any changes to those measures will be closely watched as MA plans now cover 22.4 million seniors.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 14, 2019 -
HIMSS19: CMS plans to host AI challenge, innovation chief says
The goal of the initiative is to spur private interest in the tech, improve the government's grasp on healthcare data, eliminate unnecessary care and cut costs, Adam Boehler said.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 14, 2019 -
HIMSS19: Digital health 'at peak investment cycle,' expert says
Last year's record level of investment into U.S. digital health companies came despite a lull in initial public offerings.
By David Lim • Feb. 14, 2019 -
Mayo, Intermountain set partnerships for new tech hubs
The two separate pacts come as health systems seek expertise on the outside.
By Susan Kelly • Feb. 14, 2019 -
HIMSS19: Grassley presses CMS on recovery of improper EHR incentive payments
CMS Administrator Seema Verma told Healthcare Dive she continues to monitor efforts to recover the improper payments, but noted they occurred prior to President Donald Trump taking office.
By David Lim • Feb. 13, 2019 -
Deep Dive
HIMSS19: Private sector catch-up, patient matching and standard APIs dominate first full day
Support for the HHS rules (but some concern over implementation) was the focus at the start of health IT's biggest week.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 13, 2019 -
HIMSS19: Verma touts Blue Button 2.0 apps, though uptake still low
Only a few thousand Medicare beneficiaries have elected to share their claims data with production developers, the CMS administrator said.
By David Lim • Feb. 13, 2019 -
HIMSS19: New API coming for Medicare ACOs
The application programming interface builds off Medicare fee-for-service's API, Blue Button 2.0, but is much wider in scope.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 13, 2019 -
Data breaches compromised 15.1M patient records last year
The number of affected records was up sharply from the year before, when nearly 500 breaches affected 5.6 million records, according to Protenus.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 13, 2019 -
HIMSS19: CVS, Cigna execs tout pharmacies amid pricing debate
The PBM leaders made the pitch they are well-placed to help drive down costs, given patients interact far more often with pharmacists than other healthcare providers.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Feb. 13, 2019 -
Provider groups wary of major changes to HIPAA
In response to an HHS request for information, AHA, AMA and others urged maintaining the status quo when it comes to potential amendments to the privacy law to better accommodate for value-based payment models.
By Shannon Muchmore • Feb. 13, 2019 -
Providence St. Joseph snaps up blockchain-powered RCM platform Lumedic
The deal makes Providence St. Joseph the first integrated provider-payer system with a scalable blockchain tool for RCM, the nonprofit system said Monday at HIMSS 2019 in Orlando, Florida.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 12, 2019 -
Athenahealth's $5.7B acquisition finalized
The cloud-based health IT vendor will combine with Veritas Capital's Virence Health Technologies to form a new company under the athenahealth brand.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 12, 2019 -
Data blocking, standard APIs targeted in long-awaited EHR rules
The AHA is pushing back against a proposal that electronic event notification be required to take part in Medicare and Medicaid.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Updated Feb. 12, 2019 -
Lyft eyes bigger role in nonemergency medical transport, MA plans
The rideshare giant is upgrading its Concierge product and starting collaborations with Blue Cross Blue Shield Institute and LogistiCare to reach more Medicare Advantage members.
By Meg Bryant • Feb. 8, 2019
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