Current Headlines

1. Do Patient Portals Equal Patient Engagement?
   6/18/2013

   Stage 2 Meaningful Use will require physicians ensure patient access to electronic health records. Can patient portals accomplish that, or will they damage the doctor/patient relationship? By Lisa Kerner, contributing writer

2. The (Healthcare) Social Network
   6/17/2013

   Social media – Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook to name but a few – have been impacting healthcare for as long as they have been around. Now, instead of simply using existing social media, healthcare entrepreneurs are developing platforms designed specifically for the industry. By John Oncea, editor, Healthcare Technology Online

3. Why Physicians Prefer Apple Over Android
   6/17/2013

   Physicians have revealed in numerous articles the platform of choice when utilizing mobile devices are iPads and iPhones. What is it that makes these Apple products more popular than the Android operating system, and what are physicians using mobile devices for? By John Oncea, editor, Healthcare Technology Online

4. Ingenious Med Integrates Health Language To Enhance ICD-9 And ICD-10 Search
   6/13/2013

   Ingenious Med, Inc., the nation’s largest point of care charge capture solution, has announced the integration of Health Language from Wolters Kluwer Health to support its code search engine.

5. McKesson’s Clear Coverage Helps Payers And Providers Partner To Meet New Healthcare Demands
   6/13/2013

   Balancing the quality, accessibility and cost of care continues to be a struggle in healthcare. Progressive healthcare organizations, however, are taking a new approach that leverages smart automation and improved collaboration to help achieve this goal.

6. OnePartner HIE Leverages Allscripts dbMotion To Forge Collaboration And Population Health Informatics
   6/13/2013

   OnePartner Health Information Exchange (HIE) has extended its partnership with Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX), adding the dbMotion™ platform to support the HIE's growth. 

7. CHRISTUS Health Chooses McKesson For Comprehensive Document Management
   6/13/2013

   CHRISTUS Health, a major not-for-profit Catholic health system, has selected McKesson’s suite of documentation management solutions to manage clinical, demographic, billing and operational documents across 26 hospitals in seven states.

8. Vitera Healthcare Solutions Releases Vitera Medical Manager EHR For Current Medical Manager Customers
   6/13/2013

   Vitera Healthcare Solutions, the nation’s premier provider of ambulatory electronic health records (EHR) and practice management software and services, recently announced the release of Vitera Medical Manager EHR — a Web-based EHR, analytics and clinical transaction platform designed specifically for current Vitera customers.

9. MGMA Research Indicates Industry ICD-10 Readiness Lagging Association Calls On Practice Trading Partners To Release Implementation Plans
   6/13/2013

   MGMA research released recently suggests that the overall readiness of the industry to meet the Oct. 1, 2014, compliance date to adopt the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) continues to be slow.

10. WellDoc Launches BlueStar, First FDA-Cleared, Mobile Prescription Therapy For Type 2 Diabetes With Insurance Reimbursement
    6/13/2013

    Recently, at the 2nd annual Digital Health Summer Summit, WellDoc, a healthcare behavioral science and technology company, announced the launch of BlueStar, a new product in a novel class of diabetes therapy.