2017

7.1M Patients Use Remote Monitoring, Connected Medical Devices

7.1M Patients Use Remote Monitoring, Connected Medical Devices

More patients than ever are using connected medical devices to engage in remote monitoring and virtual healthcare. More than seven million patients […]

Cloud healthcare: The connection economy’s next frontier

Cloud healthcare: The connection economy’s next frontier

Welcome to the connection economy: a commercial world based on relationships in which who and what you know beats out tangible assets […]

How Payers Could Assist Primary Care Docs with Value-Based Care

How Payers Could Assist Primary Care Docs with Value-Based Care

By sharing timely data, healthcare payers could help primary care practices succeed in value-based care. “One of the things I hear from […]

Key Challenges and Solutions of Healthcare Payment Reform

Key Challenges and Solutions of Healthcare Payment Reform

Payers will need to support their provider networks when advancing healthcare payment reform. Healthcare payment reform is becoming more common across payers […]

How Payers, Providers Could Streamline Medical Claims Management

How Payers, Providers Could Streamline Medical Claims Management

Payers and providers may need to boost training and medical documentation processes while reducing denial rates to streamline medical claims management. Successful […]

Health Information Technology Allows Payers to Share Data

Health Information Technology Allows Payers to Share Data

CMS partnered with private payers to improve primary care delivery using health information technology and data exchange. The Centers for Medicare & […]

Three reasons telemedicine will grow in 2017

Three reasons telemedicine will grow in 2017

Healthcare information technology in 2017 Regardless of changes on Capitol Hill and the ensuing impact on healthcare policy, there are reasons to […]

Connected medical devices put healthcare at risk for sophisticated malware attacks

Connected medical devices put healthcare at risk for sophisticated malware attacks

Is your healthcare facility at risk? Healthcare is one of three industries facing the highest risk of a cyberattack in 2017, particularly […]

Top 10 healthcare technology advances for 2017, according to ECRI

Top 10 healthcare technology advances for 2017, according to ECRI

Liquid biopsies, opioid addiction biosensors and AI top ECRI’s annual list of technologies that will transform the industry this year. As the […]

Patients don't trust health information technology

Patients don’t trust health information technology

A whopping 96% of consumers worry about the security of their financial information as data passes from providers to payers. More than […]