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Helath IT News Roundup: Fall Health IT Summits and Investments in Telemedicine

by Editorial Team
September 14, 2015
in Digital Transformation, Telehealth
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Future Healthcare Today cultivates the latest news and trends in the health IT industry, with a particular focus on health it. This week looks at the comings and goings of various fall summits on telemedicine as well as the continued investments entrepreneurs and inventors are making in the industry.

All of this and more in this latest health it roundup:

Teladoc Shares its Data on the Effectiveness of Telemedicine
CTel will host its Executive Telehealth Fall Summit this November in Washington, DC where Teladoc, one of the country’s first direct to consumer (DTC) telemedicine companies, will present its clinical results surrounding the effectiveness of telemedicine services. As the data continues to pour industry experts are getting to ask the burning question: Is a telemedicine visits as effective as an office visit?

Read more here.

Investments in Telemedicine at an All Time High
ATA’s Fall Forum in mid-September in Washington, DC will include a discussion on how investments in telemedicine are at a record high − Mercom Capital reported during the second quarter of 2015, companies in the health it and mobile health areas raised $366 million. Similarly, mergers and acquisitions are on the rise, driven by an influx of new players and an in interest in clinical consumer services.

Read more here.

Connected Health Conference Brought to You by HIMSS
Building on the success of the mHealth Summit, HIMSS is launching a new conference devoted to the issues involved in delivering healthcare in a connected world. The November conference, held in Maryland, outside of Washington, DC, will be split into three distinct summits, each addressing topics central to today’s changing healthcare landscape: the mHealth Summit−exploring what is new in mobile, health it and connected health; the Cyber Security Summit; and the Population Health Summit − how to provide patient-centered quality care across populations, price and quality transparency, and success factors that make up an effective population health management program.

Read more here.

ONC Tells It Like It Is – The Status of Interoperability
At a recent meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) reported on the current landscape of interoperability across non-federal acute care hospitals. One significant finding was the increase in the percent of hospitals using a certified HER system−up from 96.9 percent in 2014. In 2015, nearly all hospitals are now outfitted with the IT infrastructure necessary to enable information exchange.

An additional finding was the increase in hospitals’ exchange with outside ambulatory care providers and outside hospitals; however, rates of integrating care records are lagging. ONC reported top barriers to interoperability continue to involve technical, operational and financial issues.

Read more from the ONC’s report here.

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