The major aim behind this is to streamline interoperability between public health agencies and private systems for the purpose of disease monitoring and rapid outbreak response. A collaboration of healthcare, health information technology and public health organizations […]
Trump administration has stated that the burden such programs have placed on the doctors and medical practices has resulted in provider-hospital consolidation that lessens competition and increases prices. The recently released Economic Report of the President by the White House has contended that meaningful use and quality metrics reporting has overly burdened independent and small [...]
Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced his company’s high ambitions of contribution in the health-care sector. He hinted that it the new contribution will move beyond wellness devices and applications just like the step-tracking Apple Watch. At the Apple’s annual shareholders meeting in California, […]
Radiology practices such as RadNet has carefully deployed natural language processing tools in order to help them in tackling over-utilization along with performing tasks that are quite challenging for humans. All players in the US healthcare industry know that 2019’s positive or negative Medicare payment adjustments […]
A new report has placed U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, MD under heavy fire for misusing government funds to cover his wife’s airfare for a European trip and wrongly accepting tickets to Wimbledon. The report revealed that the 11-day trip cost a staggering $122,000 […]
Athenahealth EMR software CEO Jonathan Bush revealed that the goal of the new tech was to remove the tedious work that doctors had to do every day. According to reports, athenahealth is all set to demonstrate new offerings developed to address multiple pain points that physicians face today at the upcoming HIMSS18. [...]
The 2019 budget proposal developed by Trump Administration is reported to make steep cuts to the Office of the National Coordinator, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and the Office of Civil Rights. This raises many eyebrows as the cuts have been while Trump […]
US president Donald Trump has so far been unable to repeal and replace Obamacare. It was a promise he made to the US citizens during his electoral campaign and has so far been unable to fulfill it. Interestingly, this hasn’t stopped President Donald Trump from citing protests over healthcare funding in Britain in order to [...]
The new technology will be called Samantha and it will save providers and clinicians eight hours per week in EHR documentation. Samantha will be available via athena’s marketplace and speed up charting time through automation. […]
The new Health IT Company would give people greater transparency and more control over their healthcare in order to drive down costs and improve satisfaction. The universal online store Amazon has revealed that it is joining hands with the American investor, business magnate and philanthropist Warren Buffet, […]