Date | Title | Description |
08.11.2024 | The Digital Health Revolution: Governance, Automation, and Smart Hospitals | The healthcare landscape is changing. Technology is no longer a luxury; it’s a necessity. The recent reports from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the launch of the Alliance for Smart Healthcare Excell... |
08.11.2024 | Alliance for Smart Healthcare Excellence Launches to Drive Smart Hospital Adoption | What You Should Know:
– A new organization dedicated to accelerating the creation of smart hospitals has been established: the Alliance for Smart Healthcare Excellence (the Alliance).
– The non-profit organization will champion the Smart Ho... |
05.11.2024 | 2024 CHIME Digital Health Most Wired Survey: Governance and Automation Shape Healthcare IT | What You Should Know:
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has released its annual Digital Health Most Wired (DHMW) survey report, providing valuable insights into the digital health progress of healthcare org... |
08.07.2023 | Financial Pressures Named Top Barrier to Digital Health Adoption, Xealth-CHIME Survey Finds | What You Should Know:
Majority 90.5% of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members have adopted digital health, despite nearly half (47.6%) cited financial pressures and staff resource constraints (19.1%) as top... |
28.02.2023 | Censinet Announces Webinar “The 5 Pillars of Successful Cyber Risk Management” for Healthcare Cybersecurity Leaders | CHIME Webinar for Healthcare CIOs, CISOs, and Risk Leaders to Focus on Key Strategies and Best Practices for Building a Successful Cyber Risk Program BOSTON, MA, USA, February 28, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Censinet, the leading provider of... |
06.10.2022 | Call it data liberation day: Patients can now access all their health records digitally | The American Revolution had July 4. The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders, can rally around a new turning point, October 6, 2022 — the day they got their health data back.
Under federal r... |
22.06.2022 | A national patient ID is essential for patient safety | Misidentifying patients can have tragic consequences.
Numerous catastrophic cases and near misses have been collected by Patient ID Now, a coalition of health care organizations we are affiliated with that is dedicated to advancing a nation... |
16.02.2022 | CHIME Launches Digital Health Insights as Digital Destination for Healthcare Industry Professionals | Digital Health Insights and its Digital Health Communities will offer virtual fireside chats, webinars, and podcasts as well as exclusive access to articles, white papers, case studies, community network discussion opportunities, research t... |
03.02.2022 | CORRECTION: ViVE Signs Rock-Star Cast of Health Technology Speakers to Launch Debut Event | For a nation and a world that needs the best and boldest minds of our time to give their energy to making health care available, effective, and affordable for all people, ViVE is a breath of fresh air.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (PRWEB) February 03, ... |
02.02.2022 | ViVE Signs Rock-Star Cast of Health Technology Speakers to Launch Debut Event | For a nation and a world that needs the best and boldest minds of our time to give their energy to making health care available, effective, and affordable for all people, ViVE is a breath of fresh air.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (PRWEB) February 02, ... |
19.01.2022 | CHIME Launches Online Graduate Programs in Digital Health Through New CHIME University | CHIME's two graduate programs at the master's and doctorate level are structured to provide the practical and conceptual expertise needed to assist learners to advance personal leadership in Digital Health.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (PRWEB) January ... |
13.12.2021 | Health systems are fighting back against the onslaught of email data breaches | The news: More than half of US healthcare providers say they’ve had a patient encounter in which the patient refuses to complete a telehealth appointment due to tech concerns with data and privacy, according to a cybersecurity firm Kaspersk... |
23.11.2021 | Interoperability Is Key To Care Coordination | President of Bamboo Health. 20+ years of healthcare/tech experience with leadership roles at McKinsey and Company, Anthem, and Healthways. |
28.09.2021 | Walmart taps Epic to double down on its digital health push | The news: Walmart Health selected Epic as its electronic health records (EHR) partner.
It will use Epic’s EHR platform to connect health records across all of Walmart’s healthcare services (including virtual care) and enable a more unified ... |
30.04.2021 | CHIME CEO: Digital acceleration fueling cybersecurity concerns | Even pre-pandemic, demand for digital healthcare was growing, but for a true revolution there needed to be an accelerant. Enter the Covid-19 pandemic.
The resulting digitally-focused healthcare landscape — which shows characteristics of a f... |
29.01.2021 | CHIME names Bruce Cerullo, Nordic’s Chairman of the Board, a Healthcare Hero | January 29, 2021 |
02.10.2020 | Value-Based Reimbursement Contracts Now Account for 26% of Hospital Revenue, KLAS Finds | What You Should Know:
– Value-based reimbursement (VBR) contracts now account for 26% of hospital revenue, according to a new report from KLAS research and CHIME.
– Report reveals providers are looking first to their electronic health recor... |
06.11.2019 | CHIME, Digital Health Canada Launches Chapter in Canada | – CHIME and Digital Health Canada launches an international chapter in Canada that will be operated by Canada’s Health Informatics Executive Forum (CHIEF).
– CHIEF brings together more than 150 CIOs and senior healthcare leaders from health... |
23.09.2019 | Houston hospital system recognized for patient care and technology | Houston Methodist has a couple new feathers in its cap. The hospital system was recognized with two different awards recently.
Houston Methodist was the only hospital system to have four hospitals receive a 2019 Vizient Bernard A. Birnbaum,... |
01.08.2019 | Managing medical device security risk: It takes a village | These devices are essential for patient care delivery, however, due to their high susceptibility to technical exploits combined with a weak security management plan, hospital operations and patient safety are at an increasingly high level o... |
12.02.2019 | Accelerators targeting digital health companies | They include Cedars-Sinai Accelerator, DigitalHealth.London and Launchpad Digital Health
For startups, there are numerous paths for getting their name out there. One way, which Vator has been covering recently, are startup competitions, but... |
18.10.2017 | Mainstream telehealth needs vendors to address pain points | Many of us are impatient for a future where telehealth reduces our visits to health professionals. Whether you are geographically isolated, tired of waiting hours in a waiting room for an overdue appointment or simply have felt the pain of ... |
11.10.2017 | KLAS-CHIME Report: Telehealth Adoption Increasing Among Providers Despite Concerns | Most healthcare organizations and providers plan to expand their use of telehealth programs, based on the benefits they have experienced so far, according to a study released today by KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information ... |
28.11.2016 | ‘Cybersecurity has become a full-time job’ in healthcare | If 2015 was supposed to be the “year of the hack” in healthcare, cybercriminals really were just getting started. This year, we have seen the rise of ransomware targeting healthcare organizations, plus continued phishing attacks and even so... |
28.06.2016 | MACRA responses hit CMS for short timeline, high reporting burden | Photo: YouTube user U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Telemedicine’s potential to provide healthcare to the world’s most vulnerable
Teladoc Health Head of R&D Yulun Wang highlights the impact of virtual care in under... |
31.05.2016 | Morning Read: Jazz Pharma makes $1.5B offer for Celator for acute myeloid leukemia drug | SV Life Sciences has raised $274 million in what will be its sixth fund to invest in life sciences startups. — Boston Business Journal
Amicus Therapeutics received a thumb’s up from the European Commission for its Fabry disease therapeutic ... |
31.03.2016 | Morning Read: FDA relaxes abortion drug label, hospice CEO said to order nurses to kill | The CEO of a Dallas-area hospice company is under FBI investigation for allegedly telling nurses to overdose patients in order to speed up their deaths. Charges have not been filed against Brad Harris, founder of Novus Health Care Services,... |
28.01.2016 | Patient mix-ups happen more often than you think. Why the easy fix isn’t easy at all | A California hospital misidentified a patient and harvested his organs, though he had never agreed to donate them.
A Rhode Island hospital misidentified a suspect police brought to its emergency room complaining of chest pains. It billed an... |
10.10.2015 | Scanadu CEO gets provocative: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | The main reason consumers need doctors? Prescriptions, De Brouwer said.
But if doctors simply delegate prescription information to the advanced algorithms that are currently being developed, that’ll cut down on patient face time with rote a... |
16.09.2015 | Morning Read: America hates Big Pharma again | Not surprisingly, pharma scored much better among those who consider themselves Republicans than those identifying as Democrats. — Gallup
LIFE SCIENCES
Another impact of the biotech bubble: pushing prices for medium-sized companies with exp... |
04.08.2015 | Senate committee to hear DeSalvo’s nomination Thursday | The potential change comes as HHS is preparing modifications to Stage 2 Meaningful Use as well as the final rule for Stage 3. The department is taking a lot of heat for both.
On Friday, 18 entities, including health IT vendors, industry gro... |
10.04.2015 | HHS proposes 90-day MU attestation period, easier patient engagement | Starting in 2016, the agency will puts hospitals and physicians on the same schedule in the EHR incentive program by switching hospitals to the calendar year, rather than the federal fiscal year that begins each Oct. 1. This will give hospi... |
10.03.2015 | More on the Apple Watch and ResearchKit, a withdrawn IPO and Ellen Pao takes the stand (Morning Read) | Drug spending was up 13 percent last year – thanks in large part to Hepatitis C drugs Harvoni and Sovaldi.
Some cold water recent IPO announcements: AltheaDx withdrew its $60 million IPO.
Read the details of Ellen Pao’s testimony in the Kle... |
13.01.2015 | Healthcare Leaders Praise Bipartisan Support for Increasing Meaningful Use Flexibility | Strong, Bipartisan Support for Increasing Meaningful Use Flexibility
Healthcare leaders praised the reintroduction of the Flexibility in Health IT Reporting (Flex-IT) Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill granting the nation’s healthcare providers... |
- | Scanadu CEO gets provocative: 5 must-read stories from MedCity News this week | It’s healthcare conference season – so we spent this week’s MedHeads chatting about the forthcoming College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) meeting in Orlando. We likened ICD10 coding to the Y2K hype, as well as inte... |
- | Morning Read: FDA relaxes abortion drug label, hospice CEO said to order nurses to kill | TOP STORIES
The FDA has relaxed labeling requirements for abortion drug Mifeprex. In most states, this will reduce the number of doctor visits women need to make and extend the window for receiving the drug from 49 to 70 days from an indivi... |
- | Morning Read: Jazz Pharma makes $1.5B offer for Celator for acute myeloid leukemia drug | TOP STORIES
Jazz Pharmaceuticals has made a $1.5 billion offer for Celator to gain access to its drug Vyxeos, which is used to treat acute myeloid leukemia. Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted breakthrough ther... |
- | Who is speaking at HLTH and CHIME’s newest conference ViVE? | The ViVE conference, scheduled for March 6-9 in Miami Beach, is a new conference from HLTH and CHIME that seeks to merge the leadership of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) with the digital marketplace of H... |
- | MACRA responses hit CMS for short timeline, high reporting burden | The public comment period on proposed rules for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, better known as MACRA, closed Monday at 5 p.m. Eastern time.
MACRA, which many called the “doc fix,” replaces the hated M... |
- | Senate committee to hear DeSalvo’s nomination Thursday | With a mere 461 days until the 2016 election, the partisan divide is as acute as ever, but here’s a hopeful sign that Washington occasionally works: Dr. Karen DeSalvo will get a hearing this week on her nomination to be assistant secretary ... |
- | Walmart taps Epic to double down on its digital health push | The news: Walmart Health selected Epic as its electronic health records (EHR) partner.
It will use Epic’s EHR platform to connect health records across all of Walmart’s healthcare services (including virtual care) and enable a more unified ... |
- | Morning Read: America hates Big Pharma again | TOP STORIES
After a brief uptick last year, Americans’ perceptions of the pharmaceutical industry have turned negative once again in 2015, according to a Gallup poll.
Just 35 percent of the more than 1,000 people surveyed last month indicat... |
- | A preview of the ViVE conference agenda | The ViVE conference, a new conference from HLTH and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) that seeks to merge the leadership of CHIME with the digital marketplace of HLTH, has released a preliminary agenda. It ... |
- | CHIME CEO: Digital acceleration fueling cybersecurity concerns | Even pre-pandemic, demand for digital healthcare was growing, but for a true revolution there needed to be an accelerant. Enter the Covid-19 pandemic.
The resulting digitally-focused healthcare landscape — which shows characteristics of a f... |
- | ‘Cybersecurity has become a full-time job’ in healthcare | If 2015 was supposed to be the “year of the hack” in healthcare, cybercriminals really were just getting started. This year, we have seen the rise of ransomware targeting healthcare organizations, plus continued phishing attacks and even so... |
- | More on the Apple Watch and ResearchKit, a withdrawn IPO and Ellen Pao takes the stand (Morning Read) | The Morning Read provides a 24-hour wrap up of everything else healthcare’s innovators need to know about the business of medicine (and beyond). The author of The Read published it but all full-time MedCity News journalists contribute to it... |
- | Health systems are fighting back against the onslaught of email data breaches | The news: More than half of US healthcare providers say they’ve had a patient encounter in which the patient refuses to complete a telehealth appointment due to tech concerns with data and privacy, according to a cybersecurity firm Kaspersk... |
- | HHS proposes 90-day MU attestation period, easier patient engagement | With most of the health IT universe getting ready to converge on Chicago this weekend for the annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference, federal officials on Friday issued some pleasant news for many of... |
- | Managing medical device security risk: It takes a village | This year, there will be an estimated 14.2 billion connected devices used in hospitals and healthcare provider offices across the country. This includes a vast amount of legacy medical equipment which typically requires frequent operational... |