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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

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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Modernizing Medicine To Pay $45 Million To Settle False Claims, Kickback Allegations

Healthcare IT Today

The US Department of Justice complaint alleges that from January 2010 to July 2017, the vendor engaged in multiple kickback schemes, including creating a partnership with a clinical laboratory, Miraca Life Science, through which ModMed received payments whenever its users sent lab orders to Miraca.

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Shaping the future of health technologies

Digital Leaders HealthTech

The best health tech powering our healthcare systems: 2010-2020. Whilst the earliest electronic medical records (EMRs) were created over 40 years ago, we’ve only seen the mass shift in health information go from analogue to digital in the past 10 years. More thought leadership. Digital health records. Originally posted here.

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Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Healthcare IT Today

We are in the midst of a major shift toward primary care returning to its leadership position, and Elation is honored to have a role in powering that change. Every patient deserves a primary care physician they can trust.”. For more information about Elation Health’s platform for primary care, visit elationhealth.com. About Elation Health.

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Weekender 8/10/18

HIStalk Weekender

DoD will be first in line once it’s ready, so as to exhibit “leadership,”right?) However once you hit “whole organization” level systems, as you do with an organization-wide EMR/EHR, putting a bit of distance between you and the primary vendor becomes important. CommonWell hooks itself up to the rest of the world! Brian Too ).

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