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

January 2, 2018 By HealthIsCool 23 Comments

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

Tech giants made a lot of money in 2017. Through most of the year, the five tech behemoths (FAANG) led the market with an average gain of almost 50% year to date. Tech giants also have massive cash reserves, most of which are stockpiled overseas. Where will tech giants spend ...

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Filed Under: 1, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, PHR Tagged With: AI, alphabet, amazon, Apple, CHR, Comprehensive Health Record, deep learning, EHR, Facebook, healthcare acquisitions, healthcare startups, Microsoft, Omada Health, overseas cash stockpiles, repatriated cash, tech giants

Digital health: Current state & future growth 2017-2025

October 25, 2017 By HealthIsCool 11 Comments

Digital health: Current state & future growth 2017-2025

Growth of the digital health market to reach $536 billion by 2025 In 2016, the global digital health market was at $179.6 billion, according to Transparency Market Research (TMR). Growth in this market is anticipated to rise at a CAGR of 13.4% between 2017 and 2025, reaching ...

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Filed Under: 1, EHR, EMR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Internet of Things, mHealth, telehealth Tagged With: "digital health", "mobile trends", 2025, consumer experience, digital health funding, digital health startups, digital health trends, healthcare information systems, mHealth, patient experience, personalized health, tech giants, tech giants in digital health, wearables

Empowered patient missing in medical claims process: Part 2

September 21, 2017 By HealthIsCool 2 Comments

Empowered patient missing in medical claims process: Part 2

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 facilitate one aspect of ...

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Filed Under: 2, e-patient, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, interoperability, mHealth, Patient Engagement Tagged With: Better claims app, empowered patient, John Stockdale, medical claims, Rachael Norman

Empowered patient missing in Revenue Cycle Management: Part 1

August 22, 2017 By HealthIsCool 3 Comments

Empowered patient missing in Revenue Cycle Management: Part 1

One of the most frustrating aspects of healthcare for patients, after receiving medical care, is dealing with an insurer and provider to figure out why a claim was denied, and how to navigate the system. The patient experience includes claims “It’s not that we’re just not ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration Tagged With: denial of healthcare claims, medical billing errors, medical claims, medical insurer, patient experience, revenue cycle management

The future of work in healthcare is liquid

July 21, 2017 By HealthIsCool Leave a Comment

The future of work in healthcare is liquid

A new report from Accenture highlights five major trends in digital health, and one may surprise you. The report, Digital Health Technology Vision 2017, looks at how innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IOT), mobility, blockchain and the cloud are all ...

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Filed Under: 3, EHR, healthcare innovation, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Internet of Things, Patient Engagement, telehealth Tagged With: "digital health", design thinking, digital health trends, future of work, gig economy, liquid workforce, OLC Innovate, skills economy, telehealth, virtual employees

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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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