Based on its ongoing analysis of the telehealth services market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes American Well with the 2014 North American Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award for providing a turnkey telehealth service that connects healthcare providers such as hospitals, ambulatory care practices, and other care delivery networks with patients. The company works directly with healthcare payers and employers to bring telehealth solutions to their members/employees.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 18, 2014 -- Telehealth and the impact that it can make on reducing cost, improving patient access and increasing quality care will be the focus of discussions with Legislators at the Ohio Statehouse by advocates of Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) on April 3rd.

As the October deadline for switching to ICD-10 comes ever closer, health care organizations are looking to their peers and to their payor partners for real-world practical advice. Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, health benefits company serving primarily members in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, shared its lessons learned from ICD-10 implementation at the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium’s March 10 conference on ICD-10 planning.

Everyone involved in health care that has access to controlled substances, whether they be a doctor or medical staff, should be subject to random drug tests opines Daniel R. Levinson, the inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Erika T. Broadhurst, the OIG special agent on a 2013 case involving a fentanyl addicted technologist who infected more than 40 people with Hepatitis C by replacing fentanyl needles he stole with his own dirty needles filled with saline.

The patient-centered medical home model seems to make intuitive sense as a way to reduce waste in health care. Therefore, it came as a shock to many when the Journal of the American Medical Association published research showing that adopting this model actually didn’t make much of a difference in costs or outcomes.

In a significant development signaling the world-wide growth of telemedicine, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) today announced it will co-host the first telemedicine technology exhibition at the Binhai International Convention and Exhibition Center in Tianjin, China, outside of Beijing, Oct. 28-30, 2014. Over 5,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors are expected to attend this inaugural event. The meeting has official approval of the government and is co-hosted by the Municipal Government of Tianjin Binhai New Area as well as the Tianjin Public Health Bureau and Medical Association. Information on registration and exhibiting will be available May 2014.

(March 5, 2014 - MILWAUKEE, WI) The VNA Institute of Technology invites all healthcare IT professionals to Challenges and Opportunities of Clinical Interoperability, an informative IT symposium in San Francisco, CA on Monday, March 24th.  The event brings together notable IT leaders from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and The Advisory Board Company to discuss key issues in clinical image interoperability across the enterprise.  Radiologists, cardiologists, hospital executives, CIOs, IT managers and more will attend this unique event.  Attendees are not required to belong to VNAIT to attend, but may subscribe to VNAIT.org by Clicking Here to earn free CPHIMS CE hours.

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