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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Healthcare is a $3 trillion+ industry wrought with waste and middlemen.Two insurers, UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, are among America’s largest firms by revenue, bringing in $200 billion and $185 billion respectively in 2017. By June more than 500 hospitals were connected to the Health Records app representing 50 health systems.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

When a PHR is connected to the patient’s legal medical record it is protected under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule.” A patient may have one portal for their primary care physician, as well as two more for their optometrist and dermatologist. Source : [link]

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Five Healthcare Industry Changes to Watch in 2020

Henry Kotula

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. The average number of plans a beneficiary has access to this year will be 28, up by a whopping 50% from 2017.