- Interoperability done in 10 years? (healthcareitnews.com)
Office of the National Coordinator for Healthcare Information technology puts interoperability front and center this week, comes a survey that shows healthcare professionals are skeptical it can be achieved in 10 years…"Interoperability in 10 years is unquestionably a worthy goal, but our experience has shown that this is a complex area and providers need secure universal solutions in the interim,"...
- Telemedicine market to soar past $30B (healthcareitnews.com)
global market for telemedicine is expected to be worth more than $34 billion by the end of 2020…Driving growth…is an increasing aged population, increasing incidences of chronic diseases and rapid rise in the software market… many healthcare systems are trying to reduce both the number of hospital visits and the length of stay …trend for patients to be monitored in their home environment..
- China’s much-hyped healthcare reform drive stuck in first gear (newsdaily.com)
Li Tiantian, a Chinese doctor turned tech entrepreneur, is a leading light of the country’s much-trumpeted healthcare reform drive. His medical networking platform DXY.com …has attracted funding from tech giants … reality is rather different… a lack of support by Beijing and obstacles working with China’s huge, fragmented public healthcare sector...
- Panel: Despite health industry advances, education remains in ‘Dark Ages’ (fiercehealthit.com)
Healthcare education is still "back in the Dark Ages," and as new advances in information and technology change the industry, the way the workforce learns and is educated also needs a reboot,...
- Various telehealth definitions, policies ‘confusing’ for providers (fiercehealthit.com)
48 states…all have definitions of telehealth or telemedicine written into …their Medicaid program, differences in those definitions are creating "confusing environments" for end users, .. 47 states have some form of reimbursement for telehealth… how it is reimbursed varies widely…16 states reimburse for remote patient monitoring… remote monitoring include only offering payments to home health agencies…limiting which conditions are reimbursed.