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My HIMSS19 Takeaway: Mind the Gap

Electronic Health Reporter

While I’m a relative newcomer to the show’s trajectory – I’ve been to four of the annual tradeshows since 2011 – this year’s version was, for me, the most rewarding and complete of them all. The megalithic healthcare conference, HIMSS19, has come and has gone from the vast former swampland of central Florida. This could […].

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Telemedicine 2010 & 2011 Part 2 - TECHNOLOGY

LinkousThink

In 2011, mergers and acquisitions in mHealth are sure to be news. A lingering concern that may be addressed next year is interoperability between both high-end and medium level videoconferencing technologies. Last June I wrote about how mHealth is close to the top of the hype cycle (It’s mHealth but will it be a Revolution?).

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The future of Health Startups remain linked to Enterprise-scale players, reports Rock Health

Lloyd Price

Since 2011, the number of digital health deals has risen steadily, from $1.2bn spent within 92 deals, to $3.4bn over 193 deals in 2018. Healthcare has witnessed a number of vertical integrations in H1, such as CVS & Aetna, Optum’s acquisition of the DaVita Medical Group, Humana and Kindred Healthcare, Cigna and Express Scripts and others.

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

I was on the developer side of this work from ~2006 – 2010 during the when CCHIT was the only certification path, and then for ONC’s first iteration of certification (2010 – 2011). Indeed, the imperfection of the program was a motivating factor for me to join the government in 2011.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

The project includes identifying and defining high level architecture for the health domain in Rwanda, identification of appropriate standards, functional requirements and interoperability profiles across multiple business, and foundational domains. "Everyone is involved nowadays; it is part of the medical practice.

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HIStalk Interviews Helen Waters, EVP, Meditech

HIStalk Interviews

We saw an opportunity in 2011 and 2012 to build a brand new EHR, and in particular, emphasize the provider experience. We’ve built a robust interoperability strategy. The interoperability messaging has been critical for us. We started with the ambulatory system. We had a lot of great choices then.

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Submission to the Senate inquiry on My Health Record

Health Intersections

In response to these trends, in 2011 I created the FHIR specification, to allow the use of Web APIs in healthcare. In the last decade, these technologies and standards have transformed whole industries. Recommendation.

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