From accessing medial records from your iphone, to a wearable, real-time wellness app that can diagnose what stresses you out, here are the latest healthcare apps hitting the internet stores for patients and doctors including apps from Apple, Spire, BBMK Technologies and Royal Solutions Group.
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Check out the latest announcements made from companies and organizations on the hiring and appointments in the healthcare and health IT industry. New board positions at HIMSS and MiHIN, MassChallenge gets a new program director, and BridgeHead Software strengthens its engineering team.
Welcome to Talent Tuesday. Check back each week as we highlight job opportunities and tips from the healthcare IT recruitment specialists at Greythorn. Today’s opportunity is Applications Systems Specialist, EPIC.
By Andy Slavitt & Patrick Conway – We have historically invested far more in treating sickness than we do in maintaining health. The result of this imbalance is not only poorer health, but more money spent in institutions, hospitals, and nursing homes. The road to a better health care system means correcting this imbalance.
Published in the Federal Register on July 14, 2016, new CMS proposed rule for Medicare reporting programs includes changes to the EHR Incentive Program. Changes cover eligible hospitals, CAHs, and EPs for reporting periods 2016 and beyond. Comment period ends on September 6, 2016.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published the 2017 CMS Quality Reporting Document Architecture (QRDA) Hospital Quality Reporting (HQR) Implementation Guide (IG), Schematrons, and sample file.
Here are updates being reported from selected State health information exchanges. Included news from Delaware Health Information Network, Health Access San Antonio, Greater Houston Healthconnect, and Coordinated Care Oklahoma. And check out upcoming events.
By Bob Grant – A former respiratory therapist was convicted of wrongly accessing individually identifiable health information by a federal jury on June 23 of this year. The charges claimed that the therapist was using the information to seek, obtain, or use intravenous drugs.
Who doesn’t like a good list? Whether you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to read the list. Here are some interesting lists I think deserve sharing starting with the Digital Health 2016 Top 100 Influencers and Brands and the Best and Worst Places to Practice.