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John Talaga is co-founder and EVP/GM of OnPlan Health of Bannockburn, IL. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m a co-founder of OnPlan Holdings. I founded HealthCom Partners, which was acquired by McKesson in 2006. We developed introduced PatientCompass, which was the first online account management tool for hospitals. OnPlan Health addresses the market shift to high-deductible health plans. MORE
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The Medical Futurist
JUNE 19, 2018
Verily, Calico, Deepmind, more than 150 patents in life sciences and countless collaborations with pharma companies. The search engine’s parent company, Alphabet takes its move into healthcare and medicine seriously. We looked thoroughly at what Google in healthcare looks like.
Health Populi
JUNE 20, 2018
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KevinMD
JUNE 20, 2018
Wouldn't it be cool if. ? Wouldn't it be better if. ? Wouldn't it be much easier when we see patients if. ? How come we can't. ?
Clocktree
JUNE 19, 2018
The Business of Federal Technology reports on the June 11 launch date for a telehealth policy change referred to as “anywhere-to-anywhere,” which allows qualified practitioners to log in to Department of Veterans Affairs telehealth system and treat patients regardless of state licensing rules. Previously, a provider had to be licensed in the state where the patient resides. This lifts that requirement, vastly expanding the reach that a healthcare provider has to serve VA patients.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 18, 2018
UK-based digital mental health company Healios has just closed a $2.9 million (£2.2 million) funding round led by Albion Capital and Spice Capital. The platform connects patients to mental health professionals for assessments, treatments, and wellbeing check-ins.
Design for Health
JUNE 14, 2018
A great podcast on Self-Awareness on HBR Ideacast: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hbr-ideacast/id152022135. “80% of us are lying to ourselves about whether we are lying to ourselves.” ” -Tasha Eurich. podcasts
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2018
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will reverse a longstanding unpopular position on reimbursement for smartphone-connected continuous glucose monitors, CMS announced yesterday
Telehealth Blog
JUNE 19, 2018
A Telehealth Technology Summit (#TTS18) is planned on December 12-13 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. TTS18 will feature presentations by telehealth experts and a technology showcase hosted by the National Telehealth Resource Center for Technology Assessment (TTAC).
Health Populi
JUNE 18, 2018
The daily life of a person managing diabetes feels many costs: at work, on relationships, at play, during sleep, on time, on mental health, and to be sure, on personal finances. The True Cost of Diabetes report from Upwell details the many tolls on the person with diabetes.
Morning eHealth
JUNE 20, 2018
Congress at work — Cracking the code
Story of Digital Health
JUNE 20, 2018
I made this announcement to 63,460 members of the Digital Health group on LinkedIn. If you’re on LinkedIn, please do join the group , which allows you to opt in to receiving these announcements in addition to connecting with thousands of other global stakeholders in digital health.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
AI-based patient safety company MedAware has announced a partnership with Allscripts that will bring its medication decision support product to the latter company’s EHR system.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 19, 2018
The more things change… Life expectancy is long – tech attention span from investors and innovators can be short. Reviewing the past 10 years of blog posts ( from 2008 until 2018 ), in the beginning, consider the categories and innovations.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
When it comes to healthcare costs, lines that decline over time are generally seen as good news. That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0%
Morning eHealth
JUNE 13, 2018
FDA releases draft patient-experience data guidance — Giroir sings tech’s praises
Perficient
JUNE 18, 2018
Our healthcare team has been working with the University of Colorado over the past couple of years to overcome critical data challenges in healthcare… and the results are exciting.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2018
A little bit of cash paired with a wearable activity tracker could be key in motivating people with ischemic heart disease to stay active.
Affle
JUNE 19, 2018
As we are well aware a popular trend for current businesses and leading technology companies is the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence), and it’s not too different for the Mobile App Development services business.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
Taking a page out of Hippocrates, “let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” consumers are increasingly shopping for groceries with an appetite for health, found in research published this week by the International Food Information Center cleverly titled, An Appetite for Health.
Morning eHealth
JUNE 19, 2018
HHS finalizes Common Rule Delay — Apple to help 911 find iPhone users
HitPoint Blog
JUNE 18, 2018
Consumer technology giants Apple, Amazon and Google are poised to put heavy footprints on the healthcare technology environment, at the same time new reports of patient dissatisfaction with current hospital EHR solutions are coming out.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 15, 2018
In the last few years consumer genomics has grown in both its offerings and legitimacy. The industry that was once best known for telling clients if they were Italian or Hungarian is now securing its foothold within the healthcare space.
HIStalk Weekender
JUNE 15, 2018
Weekly News Recap. GPB Capital acquires Maryland-based RCM/EHR vendor Health Prime International. Inspirata acquires Caradigm from GE Healthcare.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JUNE 13, 2018
Those implementing or improving their XDS or XCA community are the intended audience of this Handbook. As a Handbook, it strives to inform on critical aspects of Metadata management. Please review and comment. Please forward to those with experience. IHE IT Infrastructure Handbook Published for Public Comment The IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee has published the following new handbook for public comment in the period from June 13 through July 13, 2018: Document Sharing Metadata - Rev.
Morning eHealth
JUNE 18, 2018
OMB attacks CMMI's work — Epic Supreme Court ruling draws rebuff in Washington state
HIStalk Interviews
JUNE 19, 2018
John Talaga is co-founder and EVP/GM of OnPlan Health of Bannockburn, IL. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m a co-founder of OnPlan Holdings. I founded HealthCom Partners, which was acquired by McKesson in 2006. We developed introduced PatientCompass, which was the first online account management tool for hospitals. OnPlan Health addresses the market shift to high-deductible health plans.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 14, 2018
Benchling, which offers a software suite for improving collaboration and productivity among life sciences and biotech researchers, has raised $14.5 million in series B funding. Benchmark led the round, with additional participation by F-Prime Capital and returning investor Thrive Capital
HitPoint Blog
JUNE 13, 2018
IT outsourcing is literally a very “big deal” for hospitals: it represents a significant multi-year financial investment, potentially great benefits — and certain risks.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 20, 2018
Atul Gawande, M.D., was officially named chief executive officer of the three-way partnership's newly formed company to address U.S. employee healthcare
Morning eHealth
JUNE 15, 2018
OCR pushes new personal data guidance — More opioid bills get House approval
Perficient
JUNE 14, 2018
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a single sign on (SSO) for your daily work routine? How many moments would be spent helping a patient, instead of staring at a screen trying to remember usernames or password credentials? Take a moment and consider this. How many applications, websites, and dashboards do you have to sign on to in a day? Sometimes once, and other times multiple due to security or session time-outs.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 14, 2018
Mindstrong Health, a company that uses phone activity to measure mental health and behavior, has just closed a $15 million Series B funding round.
Healthcare Informatics
JUNE 15, 2018
Perhaps the greatest telemedicine impact has been felt within the cancer community through the continued development of teleoncology
HitPoint Blog
JUNE 19, 2018
For the second year in a row, Phoenix Health Systems has been recognized by healthcare market research firm Black Book Research as first among the nation’s hospital IT outsourcing companies for customer satisfaction and experience. Expanding upon its September 2017 Survey, Black Book increased the total number of responding hospital executives and managers to 4,595 for its May 2018 report.
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