Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

Our desire for data liquidity has eluded us across the health/care ecosystem for too long, notwithstanding American taxpayers’ $35 bn investment in EHRs dating to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 that embedded the HITECH Act funding EHR adoption for hospitals and physician practices.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 9, 2023

The company also noted, by way of pushing back against the FTC allegations, that since 2009, it had reduced average e-prescribing transaction fees by 77% and that since 2016, it had improved accuracy of e-prescriptions by more than 200%, company leaders said.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We must remember that the big push to digital records launched by the HITECH act in 2009 gave billions of dollars to clinicians but didn’t reach the social service agencies that we now depend on for social determinants of health. Thus, the agencies have been trying to evolve and adopt 21st-century tools with little support.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Launched as Google Ventures in 2009, GV has over $8 billion in assets under management and 400 active portfolio companies across North America and Europe. Notable investment outcomes include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, Duo Security, Flatiron Health, Verve Therapeutics, and One Medical.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018. The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by the pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The federal government has been haranguing vendors and clinicians to make interoperable systems since the HITECH act was passed in 2009. A Process in Urgent Need of an Upgrade Clearly, prior authorization is crying out for standardization and interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Bill Charnetski, EVP, Health System Solutions & Government Affairs at PointClickCare Traditionally, long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) facilities have not benefited from the same health IT investments or funding as other care sectors. Since the U.S.

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ACA Times

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Overall, health care spending grew 1.2 percentage-point increase in the health spending share of gross domestic product – from 17.3% In the decade prior to the ACA (2000-2009), health care spending grew by an average of 6.9% from 2000-2009. from 2000-2009. annually, 2.8 percentage points faster than GDP.

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Meaningful HIT News

JULY 9, 2017

Neal Patterson in 2009 (Cerner photo). Neal Patterson, co-founder, CEO and chairman of health IT heavyweight Cerner, died today at the age of 67. We have what I believe is the best management team in health IT, and we have associates who think as much about the future as they do the present. “He has done that.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Email , lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk , HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Global Alliance for Women's Health (GAWH): Launched in 2009, GAWH promotes research and investment in women's health globally.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 10, 2023

Thier Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Health Information and Innovation Officer at Partners Healthcare System in Boston (now Mass General Brigham). He also served as the United States National Coordinator for Health Information Technology from 2009 to 2011. Paul Hennessy is the CEO at Shutterstock.

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Medicine and Technology

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me highlight a few key points and reflections I jotted down as I sat through several presentations about Meaningful Use (MU) and the future of clinical informatics: Health IT is about improving clinical workflow efficiency and patient care. The HITECH Act was signed in 2009. How far have we come?

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Yes, it was Topol who dropped his stethoscope in the trash on stage at TEDMED 2009 and suggested that the handheld ultrasound should become the standard of care by the time the 200th anniversary of the stethoscope rolled around in 2016. This is not the first time we have heard this idea. A new one will still set you back $7,900.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Health Blawg

AUGUST 20, 2018

Micky is the president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative , a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company ( @MAeHC_org ), and is a nationally recognized leader in health information technology. Micky is bullish on interoperability, both over the near term (the next 12-18 months) and the long term.

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Medicine and Technology

MAY 8, 2013

In 2009, Johns Hopkins released a now famous statewide study that demonstrated the benefits of hospitals using paperless technologies. Hospitals and patients could greatly benefit from the conveniences an upgraded IT system could provide. This isn’t wishful thinking or guesswork. The benefits for hospitals and patients have been proven.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 6, 2018

Since the dawn of the iPhone App Store, there have been various third-party fitness trackers and health goal apps available to Apple consumers: calorie counters, quit-smoking apps, medication reminders. Built directly into Health, it first was available to patients of a limited number of leading health institutions.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

After years of doing this blog in fits and starts — particularly the two-year gap while I was essentially prohibited by a full-time employer from writing about health IT here or anywhere else but that company’s site — I have decided to refocus on healthcare consumers rather than industry insiders. Attention, kind readers.

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Chilmark Research

JULY 1, 2014

Well, what if there was a platform that could help millions to become healthier by encouraging them to take charge of their own health? To be fair, the show and the content are not otherwise awful.The website is fueled by content from Sharecare, the website/startup run by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and branded by Oz since 2009.

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cutler Law Group moved to Houston, Texas in 2009. Bill Oldham, MBA is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor and consultant who supports growth industries and high value clients across health, technology, and energy industries spanning both public and private sectors. a company in Baytown, Texas specializing in green energy technologies.

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HIStalk Weekender

MAY 18, 2018

The doctor had been reprimanded by the state in 2009 for excessive ordering of lab and radiology tests. Health IT from the Investor’s Chair 5/14/18. The photo above is of his patients’ medical records that were stored in “an unsecured and dilapidated barn” where he tried to hide them from Medicare. News 5/16/18.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. Their portfolio is very diverse ranging from genetics to telemedicine.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 7, 2022

Ultimately, we need to figure out how to innovate around that one thing– or at most, a bucket of things– for each individual to get him or her back to health. But today it is just as hard to get a mental health appointment or a detox bed in DC as it was back when this happened in 2009.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This task won’t be solved by any single organizer or sector; the AMIA calls on providers and health systems, Health IT vendors, and policy and advocacy groups to join the effort. The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. Follow the money.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health. Paths to Interoperability A recent article exposes the woeful silo-ing of public health: Data often has to be faxed and re-entered into new systems manually. This article summarizes their responses.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

For readers who haven’t tracked my career – I’ve worked in health IT for nearly 30 years – and (yes) I agree wholeheartedly that robust IT is an essential part of a healthy New York. . Goal #4: Creating Statewide Digital Health and Telehealth Infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Learn more at pearlhealth.com About Andreessen Horowitz Founded in Silicon Valley in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. a16z has $35B in assets under management across multiple funds.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 15, 2018

Health IT & Revenue Cycle Management. Allscripts serves 2,500 hospitals, 45,000 physician practices and 180,000 physicians with its open health IT platform. To help employees strike a positive work-life balance, Women’s Hospital offers a child development center and on-site employee clinic. Allscripts (Chicago).

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