Category: eHealth

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has been slow to act on data it has collected that could help it implement a technical solution for removing Social Security numbers from Medicare cards, a newly released Government Accountability Office report concluded. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/gao-pushes-removal-social-security-numbers-medicare-ids/2013-10-18?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Is digital health all talk and no action? One Forbes contributor fed up with one wearable technology invention after another, thinks so. read more Source: Digital health: Too much duplication

Researchers have developed an open-source platform for creating software applications that make complex data understandable and accessible to those without sophisticated informatics expertise…. read more Source: Toolkit designed to make biomedical data exploration easier

The Cleveland Clinic named its top 10 medical innovations of 2014 at the hospital’s annual Innovation summit yesterday, held at the newly opened Global Center for Health Innovation, and health information technology has a solid presence on the list. read more Source: Decision support tool, med devices among Cleveland Clinic’s top ‘medical innovations’

HIMSS Analytics’ Autumn 2013 report, “Essentials of the U.S. Hospital IT Market,” highlights the market potential and projected accelerated growth for virtualization software and speech recognition. read more Source: HIMSS Analytics: Virtualization, voice recognition markets to watch

While some, such as venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, have predicted that as much as 80 percent of a doctor’s job could be replaced by computers in the decades ahead, the split in duties likely will end up more equal, a commentary published this week in National Journal argues. read more Source: Technology in healthcare: Why…

After struggling for many years to find sustainable roles in the health care system, health information exchanges, both public and private, seem to be a natural fit for the world of accountable care. Where care coordination is essential, HIEs bring disparate information about one patient together. After struggling for many years to find sustainable roles…

Are the real hurdles to using big data in healthcare social and not technical? A report authored by Gina Neff, a professor in the department of communication at the University of Washington in Seattle argues just that, saying that big data won’t cure us because although data-intensive modeling has immense potential, figuring out how to…

Venture capital funding for the healthcare IT industry is on pace to double up last year’s totals, according to Mercom Capital Group’s most recent report. In the third quarter of 2013 alone, more than 150 deals accounted for $737 million raised in VC funding, while year to date, that total is $1.85 billion. read more…