Author: trident50
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N.C. Senate GOP nominee calls for Obamacare repeal
In Massachusetts, former CMS chief Dr. Don Berwick’s campaign for governor calls for single-payer care, and Democratic candidates in Maryland’s race for governor clash over the insurance exchange. …read more
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Teaching people to self-manage diabetes leads to better results
Teaching people with diabetes how to control their blood glucose levels helps them achieve better results, finds a new study in Ethnicity and Disease. Surprisingly, providing intensive training to physicians of diabetes patients did not help patients achieve blood glucose control. …read more
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FCC Regulated Internet and Its Impact on Healthcare
As many of you know, I’m a regular reader of VC’s blogs (Yes, I know I’m a nerd). Nothing like a little casual venture capital blog reading. A number of the VC blogs I read regularly have been posting about the FCC rule making that could essentially regulate the internet. It would allow companies to…
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Morning Headlines 5/9/14
Flatiron Health Raises $130 Million Series B Round Led by Google Ventures and Agrees to Acquire Leading Cloud-Based EMR Company Altos Solutions Oncology analytics startup Flatiron Health raises a $130 million Series B round led by Google Ventures. The startup, which was founded by two 20-something ex-Googlers with no medical or health IT experience, is…
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News 5/9/14
Top News Google Ventures invests $130 million in oncology data platform vendor Flatiron Health, which will use some of the money to acquire oncology EMR vendor Altos Solutions. The two 20-somethings who founded Flatiron Health sold Google their online advertising platform for $81 million in 2010. They knew nothing about advertising or healthcare before starting…
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How To Get More Out of Your EHR: A Consultant’s Perspective
Aspen Advisors’ Fran Turisco talks with HCI about strategies for EHR optimization and the direction healthcare organizations are going in terms of getting more out of their electronic health records. A recent survey from the American Hospital Association (AHA) conducted between November 2013 and February 2014 found that hospital adoption of electronic health record (EHR)…
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There’s no difference between mHealth & telemedicine, come to ATA May 17-20 in Baltimore to learn more
I’ll be heading to the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference in Baltimore in a couple of weeks. To see what I might learn there I interviewed Jon Linkous, CEO of ATA. The first question I asked him was “what’s the difference between mHealth and telemedicine?” Basically nothing, he said — but, he noted that…
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Attesting to MU Stage 2: One Health System’s War Story
Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP), a three-hospital system headquartered in Covina, Calif. in the San Gabriel Valley, is one of the first (and only) provider organizations to have completed all of its reporting for year one of Stage 2. However, getting there was not easy. Two of the systems’ leaders explain the difficulties of meeting…
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Interest in Wearable Health Tracking Devices to Spike
A new survey of consumers of mobile health and fitness apps indicates interest in wearable tracking devices will continue to spike over the next few years. A new survey of consumers of mobile health and fitness apps indicates interest in wearable tracking devices will continue to spike over the next few years. read more …read…
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Increased med staff texting requires more security oversight
Pediatric doctors and medical staffers are embracing texting while at work, and the increasing practice means organizations must ensure data and messaging activity is properly secured given federal mandates and regulatory compliance rules, according to a new study. read more …read more