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Healthcare Cloud Market to Hit $5.4 Billion by 2017
The global market for cloud computing in healthcare is expected to reach $5.4 billion by 2017, according to research firm MarketsandMarkets. Read More »
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Healthcare Corp. Approved For EHR Incentive Payment
The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. stands to get $1.4 million within a month as incentive payment for its electronic health record project after it received drawdown approval over the weekend. Read More »
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Healthcare Crowdfunding Gets Hatched: Passion Is The Possibility Of Health Tech Hatch
Fund next year’s Post-it notes. You can. Through crowdfunding; which seems to have become one of the market’s hottest concepts... Read More »
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Healthcare Emergency: Shortage Of Nurses Will Impact Patient Care : Infographic
Healthcare reform is here; this coupled with the aging population of the United States, all evidence points to the extraordinary need of advanced Nurse Leaders for today, and into the future. Currently Registered Nurses make up the largest segment of professional healthcare workers in our nation. However, these nurses are not immune to aging. Read More »
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Healthcare Isn't A Free Market, It's A Giant Economic Scam
You hear stories about crazy medical bills, but what very few people realize is that the reality of hospital bills can often be orders of magnitude more crazy than what most people expect. [...] Stephen Brill has a very long, but absolutely gripping, detailed analysis of the insanity of medical billing for Time Magazine... Read More »
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Healthcare IT News: Act II
The healthcare IT scene has changed radically since the first issue of Healthcare IT News hit your desks in December 2003 and President George W. Bush mentioned electronic medical records in his State of the Union address in January 2004. Read More »
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Healthcare IT Spending to Grow by Triple Digits: Black Book HIE Survey
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) hold boundless potential for improving the efficacy and safety of healthcare delivery by moving critical patient data to the point of care, through healthcare communities. The crucial role of HIEs to accomplish a health care organization’s move to patient-centric accountable care is undeniable, however, 97% of US physicians and 80% of hospitals are meaningfully unconnected. A small group of HIE vendors rise to the top of a sweeping early adopter satisfaction survey.
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Healthcare IT VC Funding Doubles To $2.2 Billion
Last year was another banner year for venture capital funding for healthcare IT--it doubled from $1.2 billion to $2.2 billion, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group. Read More »
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Healthcare IT VC Funding Is On Pace To Exceed $2 Billion In 2013
Healthcare IT VC funding is on pace to exceed $2B in 2013 according to report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the Healthcare IT sector for the second quarter of 2013 by Mercom Capital Group, LLC. Read More »
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Healthcare Just Sucks For Technology Startups
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, and rest all compete for online ad dollars totaling something like 180B a year in total market value. Healthcare on the other hand consumes 2.8T or 15 times larger. Meanwhile, the number of pure Health technology companies that have a valuation of something close to a billion (outside of EHR's) is under a single handful.
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Healthcare Must Open Its Eyes To Open Source
Recently I attended a product demonstration at my local Apple store where we were presented with an iPad-based EHR solution. There were lots of oohs and aahs as the demonstrator did a fictional patient visit, recorded the symptoms and automatically generated a bill [...]. Read More »
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Healthcare Quality Metrics 'Abysmal,' Senate Panel Hears
Quality experts, including the CEO of the National Quality Forum and a former CMS administrator, caution members of the Senate Finance Committee that healthcare quality measures must be better coordinated to be effective. Read More »
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Healthcare Reform To Boost Growth In Telehealth Market By 55 Percent In 2013
From 2010 to 2011 usage of remote patient monitoring, or telehealth, increased by 22.2 percent as the number of patients enrolled worldwide reached 241,200. However, telehealth device revenues only grew by 5.0 percent from 2010 to 2011; and 18.0 percent from 2011 to 2012. Read More »
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Healthcare System Wastes Up to $800 Billion a Year
The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by fixing some of the most obvious inefficiencies, preventing mistakes and fighting fraud, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Monday. The U.S. Read More »
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Healthcare Uncertainty Reigns Supreme
I usually don’t reference studies conducted exclusively by health IT vendors in my columns. [...] However, I’m breaking this self-imposed rule this week by highlighting data from a recent study conducted by Greenway Medical Technologies titled Healthcare Information Technology: Trends And Transformations. Read More »
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