Archives for April 2016
Pebble lays off 40 employees, shifts focus to health, fitness11 Apr 2016
Smartwatch maker Pebble, one of the first entrants into the space, has layed off 40 employees, or 25 percent of... Continue Reading
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April 11, 2016- Lessons From More Than A Decade In Patient Portals11 Apr 2016
DistilNFO Provider Advisory Monday Apr 11, 2016 Home | Subscribe Provider Advisory Weekly Top Stories State-run... Continue Reading
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UnitedHealth Makes Good on Threat to Pull Out of Obamacare11 Apr 2016
The Affordable Care Act suffered another jolt late last week with the news that UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health... Continue Reading
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State-run healthcare websites aren’t as secure as you’d think11 Apr 2016
Health insurance websites in California, Kentucky and Vermont apparently aren’t as secure as they should be. According to the Associated... Continue Reading
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New Google logos are for DeepMind Health, not Google Health redux04 Apr 2016
Two health-related Google logos that recently appeared in the US Patent and Trademark Office’s database are not for a resurrected... Continue Reading
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UMass Memorial closes in on Epic launch, stitching together electronic records systems04 Apr 2016
Tim Tarnowski has a big deadline looming. In a little more than a year, the team of coders, hardware experts... Continue Reading
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Cloud EHR vendor CEO Jonathan Bush hits health IT hot topics04 Apr 2016
Jonathan Bush, president, CEO and co-founder of cloud EHR vendor athenahealth Inc., has long been an outspoken advocate for the... Continue Reading
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NYC Health + Hospitals CEO: We’re being cautious with EHR rollout04 Apr 2016
Friday is the go-live date at the first two NYC Health + Hospitals facilities for the public health system’s $764... Continue Reading
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CMS Expands Scope of Enhanced Match for Promotion of Health IT04 Apr 2016
On February 29, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a State Medicaid Directors Letter (SMDL) that... Continue Reading
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Improved Patient Outcomes Linked to Specific Health IT Resources in Hospitals04 Apr 2016
The number of health information technology vendors has increased from 60 to more than 1,000 since 2008. However, many scholars... Continue Reading
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