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mHealthIntelligence | March 09, 2020

The healthcare industry notoriously lags behind other industries when it comes to adopting new technologies. Moving to the cloud is no exception. Though there has been some uptick in cloud adoption among healthcare organizations in general, we’re still a pretty cautious bunch when it comes to the cloud. As we creep into 2020, though, momentum is building around the cloud. Healthcare IT leaders are starting to overcome two of the big arguments they’ve had against moving to the cloud &...

mHealthIntelligence | January 13, 2020

Teladoc Health is looking to combine telehealth and telemedicine with a major acquisition announced over the weekend. The Texas-based developer of consumer-to-provider telehealth solutions is adding provider-to-provider services with its planned purchase of InTouch Health. Announced prior to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference this week in San Francisco, the $600 million deal shakes up the upper echelons of connected health and pushes the industry even further toward integrated, enterprise-lev...

mHealthIntelligence | February 04, 2020

The Center for Connected Health Policy has unveiled a telehealth billing guide, aimed at helping healthcare providers navigate the confusing waters of connected health reimbursement. With roughly three-quarters of the nation’s hospitals and health systems now using telemedicine or mHealth technology, “it is not surprising then that the question of billing is the foremost question heard by telehealth resource centers, followed by ‘will I get paid?’” CCHP officials po...

EHRIntelligence | March 16, 2020

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has put the importance of health data exchange and interoperability under a microscope. Niam Yaraghi, a fellow in governance studies at the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings Institution, penned an op-ed to explain why he thinks the US lacks health information technologies to stop or contain the COVID-19 epidemic. The pandemic has shattered our common beliefs about the type and scope of health information exchange (HIE), wrote Yaraghi. “It has...