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DrFirst Acquires Myndshft Technologies to Revolutionize Medication Management by Addressing Both Pharmacy and Medical Benefits

Healthcare IT Today

Founded in 2018, Myndshft is the only unified platform that streamlines prior authorization and related services for both medical and pharmacy benefits. Managing PAs is a significant burden on medical practices because of time-consuming manual processes and lack of integration with electronic health record (EHR) systems. and Canada.

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Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

Health Populi

That magic wand would wish for clinicians to ask patients and caregivers about their lives, divining SDoH challenges to include in the full profile of the person in her/his EHR. To mitigate SDoH risks for older Americans, Medicare has begun to pay for services that promote coordinated care.

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Allscripts files trademark lawsuit against telemed platform CarePortMD

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the suit, the EHR giant argues that it has used the CarePort trademark since 2013 and that in 2018 the telemedicine company changed its name from ER at Home to CarePortMD. In 2018, CarePort Health took over management of AllScripts' Care Management technology to aid with acute-case management and post-acute referrals.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). GDP, in 2018.

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Where is the detailed survey of older people?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Perhaps smartphone designers are (still) not reading the testing and usability issues studied and reported by IEEE in 2018. These opportunities reflect insurance offerings, well understood by Medicare Advantage providers to 22 million that now have that product. How many people are not reflected in today’s surveys?

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Aprima belongs to CommonWell, has done some FHIR development, and Michael would like to see Congress condition Medicare reimbursement on real interoperability.

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