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Tech giants and repatriated cash, more health acquisitions in 2018?

January 2, 2018 By HealthIsCool 23 Comments

Tech giants made a lot of money in 2017, and have massive cash reserves – most of which are stockpiled overseas. Where will tech giants spend their money in 2018? Might the recently passed tax reform for repatriated cash drive more money into healthcare acquisitions and medical research?

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Healthcare gets into the merger/acquisition game

Healthcare gets into the merger/acquisition game

September 22, 2017 David Chou Leave a Comment

There is a rapidly growing trend in the healthcare industry toward mergers and acquisitions, but not so much for financial reasons as most expect. Since 2010, there have been 561 hospital mergers, with the result being that healthcare markets are becoming ...

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Empowered patient missing in medical claims process: Part 2

Empowered patient missing in medical claims process: Part 2

September 21, 2017 HealthIsCool 2 Comments

Why is it hard to find an app to help patients with medical claims? “Neither insurance companies nor large healthcare providers are incentivized to save patients' money,” says Rachael Norman, CEO and co-founder of a new app, – Better – designed to ...

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Empowered patient missing in Revenue Cycle Management: Part 1

Empowered patient missing in Revenue Cycle Management: Part 1

August 22, 2017 HealthIsCool 3 Comments

One of the most frustrating aspects of healthcare for patients, after receiving medical ...

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Wasting the day away: EHRs continue to be a time suck

Wasting the day away: EHRs continue to be a time suck

August 17, 2017 Edgar Wilson 2 Comments

To discuss EHRs is to discuss time. From their inception, EHRs were lauded as a ...

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Patient-centered medical records with blockchain

Patient-centered medical records with blockchain

August 9, 2017 David Chou 10 Comments

Co-authored with Bill Wellman, adjunct faculty at Harvard University, where he teaches ...

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The future of work in healthcare is liquid

The future of work in healthcare is liquid

July 21, 2017 HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

A new report from Accenture highlights five major trends in digital health, and one may ...

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Medical device security: More questions than answers for healthcare CIOs

Medical device security: More questions than answers for healthcare CIOs

July 12, 2017 David Chou 2 Comments

Pacemakers that suddenly quit working; medication pumps that push too much or not enough ...

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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