Forbes
“Several large U.S. health insurance companies, including Aetna, WellPoint and UnitedHealth Group, currently offer mobile apps that help members find network providers and perform other simple functions.
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Olga Khazan, The Washington Post
“A new think tank launched in the District Monday with the goal of reducing the cost of health care through research and entrepreneurship. The West Health Policy Center is the latest project of Gary and Mary West, the two billionaire philanthropists behind the West Wireless Health Institute and the West Health Investment Fund, a pair of California-based organizations that develop and fund health technology products.
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Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“With ICD-10 there are over 148,000 codes so you would think that there must be a “code for that” — one that fits the patient’s problem. Again, no such luck. Sometimes there is a code that fits precisely, sometimes it’s close and often there simply isn’t any code that accurately describes your patient.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“The rapid movement toward electronic health records (EHRs) may unwittingly raise physician risk for malpractice lawsuits and push liability insurers to raise their premiums, a new report suggests.
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David Catron, The American Spectator
“While armies of attorneys battle the Justice Department over Obamacare’s constitutionality, and politicians hold forth about their strategies for repealing and replacing the unpopular law, bureaucrats at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have been working around the clock to assure that the President’s “signature domestic achievement” becomes a permanent fixture of your life. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her accomplice Donald Berwick have been promulgating regulations as quickly as their minions can get them written.
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AP, Fox News
“IBM’s supercomputer system, best known for trouncing the world’s best “Jeopardy!” players on TV, is being tapped by one of the nation’s largest health insurers to help diagnose medical problems and authorize treatments.
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Carl Natale, ICD10 Watch
“Science fiction writers have something in common with chief technology officers (CTO). They both spend a lot of time imagining the future. And the really good ones will see their visions take shape.
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Ann Tracy Mueller, Health Care Communication News
“Aetna has a new texting program to help its members who have diabetes control their condition and avoid complications more easily and successfully.
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Healthcare IT News
“Aetna has announced a collaboration with Mindbloom, a Seattle-based social media company, that will offer plan members an enhanced version of Life Game, Mindbloom’s online social game for personal wellness.
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Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare
“Under the government’s meaningful use guidelines, healthcare organizations must provide a patient with a copy of his or her medical data within 48 hours of their requesting it. To accomplish that, many healthcare organizations are deploying patient portals. And while they’re at it, they’re also building in other features, like appointment scheduling and messaging.
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E-Health-Com News
“Zum Jahresbeginn startete die AOK PLUS – die Gesundheitskasse für Sachen und Thüringen – ein neues Versorgungsangebot für Versicherte mit einer Herzschwäche. Mit „AOK-HerzAktiv“ bietet die Krankenkasse Patienten, die von einer schweren chronischen Herzinsuffizienz betroffen sind, unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen ab sofort eine telefonische und bei Bedarf telemedizinische Intensivbetreuung an.
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VGZ
“Research institute Novay and health insurer VGZ have developed an infrastructure to improve the quality and transparency of information related to health care. The Open Health Hub enables all parties in the health sector to access exactly the same data – for example, patient ratings.
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Leslie Scism, Mark Maremont, WSJ
“Life insurers are testing an intensely personal new use for the vast dossiers of data being amassed about Americans: predicting people’s longevity.
Insurers have long used blood and urine tests to assess people’s health—a costly process.
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Molly Merrill, Healthcare IT News
“A recent survey of hospitals and other healthcare providers designed to understand the capacity and use of telestroke care in the Northwestern United States found 88 percent of respondents believe their rural communities suffer from a lack of stroke neurologists.
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Nathan Golia, Insurance Technology
“When the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services announced its final rules and regulations for meaningful use of electronic health records in July, several health insurers launched programs to encourage EHR adoption among physicians.
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Madhu Pawar and Wayne E. Pietraszek, McKinsey Quarterly
“Periodically, a dramatic change in an industry enables CIOs to step up and play a decisive role in corporate affairs. We see such a seismic shift in the US health insurance industry, which faces the most sweeping changes in its half-century history.
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Jon Hoeksma, e-Health Europe
“IBM and US health-insurance giant Aetna have partnered on a cloud-based computing health data analytics service that analyses patient data stored in electronic medical records and administrative systems.
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Nathan Golia, Insurance Technology
“Stakeholders across the healthcare industry have long touted electronic medical records as a key component to a streamlined, more efficient healthcare system.
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IFAwebnews
“Independence Blue Cross (IBC) is offering its members more personalized online information about their health, a move it says coincides with health reform’s passage.
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Katherine Hobson, WSJ Health Blog
“Insurers including WellPoint and Aetna are experimenting with programs that allow heart-failure patients to transmit their vital signs and other indicators of health from home to a medical caregiver using electronic devices, the WSJ reports.
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