Featured Health IT Job: Systems Specialist – Practice Manangement
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Systems Specialist – Practice Manangement position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, PA and is in Baltimore, Maryland. Here’s a description of the position: Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates, P.A. is hiring for a Practice Management Systems position. The Practice Management Systems Administrator will work with practice leadership, Revenue Cycle Management, and the IT team on the maintenance, support, and upgrade...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - September 7, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates PM Jobs Practice Management Jobs Source Type: blogs

Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 30, 2022.
This article explores thekey functions of the CISC as outlined on its website.-----https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/living-standards-at-risk-without-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence-20220823-p5bbyt.htmlLiving standards at risk without big data and artificial intelligenceByShane WrightAugust 23, 2022 — 10.30pmAustralian living standards could slip behind those of other countries if the government and businesses fail to use and analyse data or take advantage of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Productivity Commission has warned.As part of its broader examination of ways to lift the nation ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 30, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Commentators and Journalists Weigh In On Digital Health And Related Privacy, Safety, Social Media And Security Matters. Lots Of Interesting Perspectives - August 23, 2022.
-----This weekly blog is to explore the news around the larger issues around Digital Health, data security, data privacy, AI / ML. technology, social media and related matters.I will also try to highlightADHA Propagandawhen I come upon it.Just so we keep count, the latest Notes from the ADHA Board were dated 6 December, 2018 and we have seen none since! It ’s pretty sad!Note: Appearance here is not to suggest I see any credibility or value in what follows. I will leave it to the reader to decide what is worthwhile and what is not! The point is to let people know what is being said / published that I have come upon.-----h...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - August 23, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care
Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 million patients Elation Health, the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million. Generation Investment Management, a firm established in 2004 to back businesses driving sustainability, co-led the round alongside Ascension Ventures with participation from Threshold Ventures, Ascend Partners, and individual investors including Fay Rotenberg and Jonathan Bush. This new r...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Anthony Woolf Ascension Ventures Elation Health Generation Investment Management Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment John Kuelper Jonathan Bush Kyna Fong Source Type: blogs

Why doctors are increasingly investing in real estate
With many health care systems around the world an elaborate mess, real estate can be an efficient strategy for doctors to ensure their financial future after retirement. They can benefit from long-term appreciation and tax breaks by investing in real estate. As economies and technologies continue to evolve, many physicians have started buying real estate Read more… Why doctors are increasingly investing in real estate originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Finance Practice Management Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 18 July, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment.General Comment-----Aged Care had a good run this week with lots of discussion on just how useful it could be and where the priorities lay. Some fools were wittering on about how helpful the #myHR can be in this setting!Telehealth went and came back!The James Webb Telescope humbled us all with images for an age!-----https://itwire.com/science-news/he...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - July 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

Tebra Secures More Than $72 Million at Over $1 Billion Valuation to Expand Digital Healthcare Technology Platform
Investment Solidifies Tebra’s Position as the Digital Backbone for Independent Practices; Accelerates R&D to Power a New Era of Healthcare Tebra, the digital backbone for independent healthcare practices, today announced that it has closed more than $72 million in funding at a valuation greater than $1 billion. Golub Capital led the investment which includes both growth equity and debt financing. Late last year, Kareo and PatientPop, cloud-based leaders in clinical, financial, and practice growth technology, joined forces to form Tebra to support the connected independent practice of the future and modernize patien...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Ambulatory EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT CommonFund Dan Rodrigues EHR Funding EHR Investment Golub Capital Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HLM Venture Partners Kareo Montreux Equity Partners Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – July 10, 2022 – Sequoia Project releases TECFA identity verification documentation, IBM Watson Health is now Merative, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News The Sequoia Project has released additional documentation support the implementation of TEFCA, the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement for health IT interoperability. The documentation is a draft version of stan...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT AAMI eXchange ACAP AGS Health Association of Community Health Plans Bayer Calantic CenTrack Chicago ARC eCW Enara health Force Therapeutics Francisco Partners Gerry McCarthy Greenway Greenway Medical Coding He Source Type: blogs

The “wonder years” of health care
In the wake of medical home certification, meaningful use, the Cures Act, and the pandemic, it ’s clear that virtually all health care is now built on a digital foundation. EHRs are pervasive in the delivery system and are increasingly connected to practice management software, virtual visit, mobile capabilities, health information exchanges, and population health platforms.Read more …The“wonder years” of health care originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/martin-lustick" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Martin Lustick, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Health IT Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Weekly Roundup – June 25, 2022
Welcome to the first edition of the Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Is Larry Ellison’s Vision of a National EHR Database Even Possible? John Lynn decided to let the dust settle a bit before offering his thoughts on what the Oracle CEO called a “National EHR Database.” The goal is certainly lofty – a full longitudinal record for a patient is well nigh impossible, as it woul...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 25, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System 1upHealth Boomi Cerner Don Rucker Ed Macosky Erik Kling Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Joe Gagnon Larry Ellison Oracle Oracle Cerner Steve Hess Source Type: blogs

Private practice is the best defense for burnout
Most physicians choose medicine to care for others. The essential premise balances this selfless, optimistic objective that the physician is healthy and happy with enough knowledge, experience, and abundance to heal their patients. Unfortunately, our health care system thwarts us at every turn, with continual devaluation and reduction in reimbursements, paralyzing insurance and government regulations,Read more …Private practice is the best defense for burnout originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/brett-levine" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Brett Levine, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs

Harris Expands in California with the Acquisitions of Innovative Medical Management and MedBill IQ
Harris, a global vertical market software provider, expands in California with the acquisitions of Innovative Medical Management, LLC (IMM) and MedBill IQ, LLC. Together, IMM and MedBill IQ, with its Conexem Software product suite, offer full-service practice management, electronic health records and revenue cycle management services and software solutions focusing on Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury, […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Revenue Cycle Management Bassel Salloum Harris Health IT Acquisitions IMM Innovative Medical Management Jerry Canada MedBill IQ RCM Source Type: blogs

You Have To Really Wonder Whether This Will Really Work Long Term.
This appeared last week: Leidos-led consortium wins $329.6 million Australian Defence Force digital health platform contract Telehealth company Coviu and clinical and practice management software provider MediRecords join Leidos in the ambitious project. By Lynne Minion May 05, 2022 09:24 PM A consortium led by systems integrator Leidos has secured a $329.65 million contract to roll out a comprehensive new digital health capability for the Australian Defence Force by July 2028. Leidos and Australian companies MediRecords, Coviu and Nous Group joined in the consortium bid to ​​deliver the ambitious technologies, includi...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 11, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs

The Reckoning: What Happens to Digital Health After COVID?
By JEFF GOLDSMITH and ERIC LARSEN It has been a rough year so far for digital health. After an astonishing $45 billion poured into new digital health companies in 2020 and 2021, and an early 2021 peak in market valuations of publicly-traded digital health providers, valuations and multiples have collapsed. Once high-flying Teladoc, which traded at an eye-watering 42x revenues and commanded a $45 billion market capitalization, is now trading around 2.7X at about $5.7 billion. AmWell, the next largest telehealth player, has seen its stock drop more 90% from its high. Nor is the evaporation in market value is co...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 9, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech digital health Digital health investing Eric Larsen Healthcare bubble Jeff Goldsmith Source Type: blogs

Weekly Australian Health IT Links – 9 May, 2022.
Here are a few I have come across the last week or so. Note: Each link is followed by a title and a few paragraphs. For the full article click on the link above title of the article. Note also that full access to some links may require site registration or subscription payment. General Comment ----- Another quite busy week and lots of different things happening. Enjoy the browse. ----- https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/anz/leidos-led-consortium-wins-3296-million-australian-defence-force-digital-health-platform Leidos-led consortium wins $329.6 million Australian Defence Force digital health platform contract Telehealth...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - May 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs