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Practice Fusion, a free, Web-based electronic medical record (EMR) platform, announced Wednesday its acquisition of 100Plus, a personalized health prediction startup that uses data analytics and game mechanics to show how small changes in behavior can lead to better health.
When it comes to healthcare analytics, hospitals and health systems can benefit most from the information if they move towards understanding the analytic discoveries, rather than just focusing on the straight facts.
Call it a post-reelection prediction: On the day after President Barack Obama secured a second term at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, an attorney for a prominent healthcare law firm suggested that even Republican governors would succumb to the lure of expanding Medicaid on the federal dime.
Call it a post-reelection prediction: On the day after President Barack Obama secured a second term at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, an attorney for a prominent healthcare law firm suggested that even Republican governors would succumb to the lure of expanding Medicaid on the federal dime.
Aetna is now marketing its population health and information technology businesses and products under a new division, called Healthagen, with the aim of expanding provider collaboration and offering patients mobile health tools.
More than half of employers have not calculated the cost and impact of healthcare reform on their benefit packages for employees, even though most employers want to avoid cost increases for their group health plans, according to a survey released by the Willis Human Capital Practice, a unit of insurance broker Willis Group Holdings.
Hospital administrators in Washington, D.C., are furiously lobbying against a bill modeled on a California law that would require them to maintain a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio at all times.
A new survey has found that 70 percent of healthcare professionals are skeptical that the state and/or federal health insurance exchanges (HIX) will be ready to launch by the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline.
An accountable care initiative comprising insurer Independence Blue Cross, local provider group Abington Health and St. Louis-based tech firm Lumeris, will be among the first of its kind in greater Philadelphia, with doctors having a 360-degree view of a patient's care across specialists and physicians, hospitals and clinics from all networks.
An analysis of some recent telemed initiatives and interviews with thought leaders in the field suggest that telemedicine can transform U.S. healthcare into a cost effective system.