Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Streamline Health® and Patientco Announce Strategic Partnership

ATLANTA, June 4, 2013 --  Streamline Health Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: STRM), a leading provider of SaaS-based enterprise content management, business analytics, computer assisted coding (CAC) and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) solutions for healthcare providers, announced today that it has entered into a joint marketing agreement with Patientco, the industry's most innovative provider of patient financial engagement solutions, with the intention to increase net revenue for healthcare providers by accelerating patient payments.

June 5, 2013

Medistar Home Health Now Part of UnitedHealthcare’s Care Provider Network

BATON ROUGE, LA, June 03, 2013 - Louisiana residents enrolled in UnitedHealthcare’s employer-sponsored, MedicareDirect and Evercare/SecureHorizons Medicare Advantage health plans now have access to care provided by Medistar Home Health.

June 3, 2013

More physicians enrolling in online MBA programs

Healthcare reform means a new business model for medicine that puts a premium on patient outcomes instead of services rendered. To gear up for the 2014 implementation of the Affordable Care Act, many physicians are enrolling in pricy online MBAs to prepare themselves for changing reimbursement models that are changing from risk-based to value-based, according to an American Public Media Marketplace report that aired on June 3. Listen to the full story below.

June 3, 2013

Physician-patient time continues to decline

Studies indicating that physicians are spending less time with patients than ever before are fueling the debate about whether EHRs and other IT systems are truly improving patient care or just helping providers rush through face-to-face encounters.

May 30, 2013

Greenway Earns Two U.S. Patents for Care-Coordination Technology

CARROLLTON, Ga.-- Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., which delivers innovative information solutions for healthcare providers, has been granted two new U.S. patents related to electronic quality-of-care data liquidity. Both patents cover the receipt and transmission of data from multiple electronic health record (EHR) systems, accessible directly or over the cloud, including data distributed across a vast patient population. Such data liquidity supports improved care coordination, quality, safety and cost-effectiveness.

May 23, 2013

DataTrade Solutions Unveils Mobile Charge Capture Application: iCoder MD

Collegeville, PA, May 23, 2013 -- With yet another Health IT innovation, DataTrade Solutions, Inc (DTS) recently released iCoder MD, a mobile charge capture application that is designed to work on any smartphone. iCoder MD is a web-based application that is designed to replace the paper procedure and diagnosis slips that doctors use to record charges while making rounds at a hospital, nursing home, or any other outside location away from their primary office’s electronic health record (EHR) and electronic practice management (EPM) applications. iCoder MD allows a doctor to use their smartphone to quickly submit charges to a administrative, back-end website that his/her billing staff will access to securely receive billing information while away from the primary office.

May 23, 2013

PracticeMax Announces Acquisition of ABC Medical Management

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-- PracticeMax, a national provider of medical practice management and technology services, today announced it has acquired ABC Medical Management (ABC) of Phoenix, Arizona. Under the direction of its President and Founder, Rick Jacobs, ABC has been a leading provider of billing and practice management services for anesthesia and pain management specialists for over 20 years.

May 22, 2013

2013 mHealth Summit Call for Presentations Now Open

ARLINGTON, Va., May 21, 2013  -- The mHealth Summit is pleased to announce that the 2013 Call for Presentations is now open and will close on June 7, 2013. 

May 21, 2013

Around the web

Half a year after President Biden officially directed federal agencies in the executive branch’s bailiwick to “seize the promise and manage the risks” of AI, the White House has posted a status report.

U.S. physicians often receive payments from medical device manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. New research in JAMA found a connection between receiving such payments and using specific devices—should the industry be concerned? 

Five of the largest U.S. medical societies focused on cardiovascular health are one step closer to seeing their paradigm-shifting proposal become a reality.

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