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The FDA issues final guidance for mobile medical apps, saying it will exercise “enforcement discretion” (meaning it will not enforce requirements under the Federal Drug & Cosmetic Act) for the majority of health and wellness apps since they pose little risk for consumers. Examples of  low risk apps include those for self-managing a disease or condition and apps for the self-tracking of health information, exercise, or diet. Oversight focus will be on apps that present a greater risk to patients if they do not work as intended, such as those used as a medical device accessory (such as viewing a medical image on a smartphone) or as a mobile platform as a medical device (like an app that allows a smartphone to be used as an ECG to detect abnormal heart rhythms.)


Reader Comments

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From The Fixer: “Combining Greenway and Vitera. I think the deal makes sense given that Greenway has more of a healthcare IT platform than Vitera does and Greenway is much more well run than Vitera. Over time, they will migrate all Vitera clients to Greenway’s platform and realize tremendous cost savings and synergies by leveraging Greenway’s infrastructure.” Perhaps they will head in that direction, but Matt Hawkins and Tee Green kept their plans pretty close to the vest when I talked with them Monday evening. Green noted that “maintaining multiple platforms probably isn’t going to be the long term strategy because that doesn’t create value for your customers and your team,” while Hawkins stressed that Vitera would continue to support, maintain, and update its various product platforms. Both declined to say who would lead the company going forward, but my money is on Hawkins taking the top spot.

From InsideOutsider: “Culture clash. Greenway has long had a reputation for its strong, family-oriented corporate culture. Kudos to Vitera for recognizing that and for trying to leverage Greenway’s better reputation and brand. Meanwhile, Greenway employees better hang on for the pending culture shock.”

From Upon Further Review: “Re: HIS Junkie’s statements about ONC systems. PopHealth is still an active project and has nothing to do with certification. Cypress had bugs, but it’s still being refined.”

 


HIStalk Announcements and Requests

9-24-2013 8-25-41 PM

Welcome to new HIStalk Gold Sponsor Summit Healthcare. The company offers application integration tools that include Summit Express Connect (the industry’s most powerful integration engine) and the Summit Scripting Toolkit that can automate any process (budget updates, point-of-care device integration, patient self registration.) The company has been a Meditech integration leader since 1999. Summit Provider Exchange allows patient information to be exchanged between hospitals and physician EMRs, while the Summit Downtime Reporting System gives users access to a patient data snapshot for managing  scheduled or unscheduled downtime. Thanks to Summit Healthcare for supporting HIStalk.


Acquisitions, Funding, Business, and Stock

9-24-2013 10-11-21 PM

Practice Fusion raises $70 million in a series D round, bringing total funding to $134 million and valuing the company at an estimated $700 million.

9-24-2013 10-12-33 PM

PatientSafe Solutions closes an investment from EDBI, the investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board, bringing its total Series C funding to $27 million.

Mobile medication management solution provider MediSafe raises $1 million in funding, co-led by TriVentures and lool Ventures.

Online patient billing company Simplee raises $10 million in Series B funding, led by Heritage Group.

Inga interviewed the CEOs of Greenway and Vitera about their impending shared ownership on HIStalk Practice.


Sales

9-24-2013 10-15-55 PM

St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center (NY) selects PeriGen’s PeriCALM Tracings fetal surveillance system.

University Health System (TX) licenses iSirona’s device connectivity solution for its 24 clinics, hospitals, and outpatient facilities.

South Jersey Family Medicine will replace its Alteer platform with e-MDs Solution Series EHR, PM, and patient portal solutions.

Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative selects ArborMetrix’s registry solution to create a statewide database and reporting system for spinal surgeries.

Imaging Specialists of Charleston and Charleston Radiologists (SC) select Merge Healthcare’s Outpatient Radiology Suite and Honeycomb Archive platform.

The Houston City Council approves a $1.6 million contract with Oregon Community Health Information Network to implement an EHR for the city’s Department of Public Health and Human Services.

 


People

9-24-2013 9-02-35 AM

SyTrue hires Ketan Patel, MD (US Pain Management Corp.) as CMO.

9-24-2013 11-28-48 AM

Healthcare Data Solutions names David M. Thomas (IMS Health) to its board.

9-24-2013 11-35-20 AM

Transcription and coding solutions and services provider Amphion Medical Solutions appoints Subbu Ravi (Symphony Data Corporation) COO.

9-24-2013 10-30-10 PM

CORE Security names Eric Cowperthwaite (Providence Health & Services) as VP of advanced security and strategy.


Announcements and Implementations

9-24-2013 10-19-20 PM

The board of Greenville Hospital System (SC) approves a $97 million expense to implement Epic, replacing GE Healthcare and Siemens Soarian.

EClinicalWorks and Epic develop bidirectional interoperability between their EHRs.


Government and Politics

9-24-2013 2-46-58 PM

Seventeen GOP senators ask HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for a one-year extension for Stage 2 MU to give providers extra time to meet the new requirements. The lawmakers agree that providers who are ready to attest to Stage 2 should be able to do so consistent with the current policy.


Other

MyMedicalRecords files a complaint for patent infringement against Allscripts, alleging that its Jardogs FollowMyHealth technology violates MMR’s PHR patents.

9-24-2013 9-31-53 AM

A KLAS report finds that EHR replacement rates are up in the small practice (1-10 physician) market. Athenahealth, SRSsoft, and Practice Fusion are having the most success delivering quick and easy implementations of value-based products. Pediatrics-specific EHR PCC earned the top performance score among 27 vendors, while customers of McKesson, GE Healthcare, Allscripts, and Vitera expressed the highest levels of dissatisfaction based on unmet product expectations, poor upgrade releases, and inadequate relationships.

Senior hospital IT executives say that exchanging patient information in robust, meaningful ways and budget and staffing limitations are the biggest barriers for health information exchange between other hospitals, according to a HIMSS Analytics report.

John Lynn of EMR and HIPAA will interview Mandi Bishop of Adaptive Project Solutions Thursday from 1:00 to 1:30 on “Healthcare Big Data and Meaningful Use Challenges.” The Google+ Video Hangout will stream live, with the recording available afterward.

Zirmed earns  the highest customer satisfaction rating from large hospitals and academic medical centers in a Black Book research report on the RCM industry. Among small / rural and community hospitals, SSI Group scored highest, while Relay Health earned the highest marks from hospital systems, IDNs, CINs, chains, and ACOs.

Weird News Andy finds more weirdness: a man who had just used a university’s computer lab to Google symptoms of pain, tightness of chest, and sweating is found dead in his car in the parking lot.

 


Sponsor Updates

  • Elsevier launches SimChart for the Medical Office, a competency-based, simulated EHR that gives medical assisting students hands-on practice performing business and clinical skills.
  • Visage Imaging announces upgrades to Visage 7 Enterprise Imaging and Visage Ease.
  • VMware announces the GA of VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 and VMware vSphere with Operations Management 5.5. VMware also makes VMware Virtual SAN available for download and trial via a public beta program.
  • Oracle awards NTT DATA the 2013 Oracle Excellence Award for Specialized Partner of the Year – North America in Health and Life Sciences for demonstrating outstanding and innovative solutions based on Oracle products.
  • Intellect Resources President Tiffany Crenshaw talks about what’s behind the growth of her company after taking top honors in The Business Journal’s 2013 Fast 50 awards.
  • Craneware EVP of Revenue Integrity Operations Karen Bowden will lead a session on preparing for audits at next month’s 2013 CH100 Leadership and Strategy Conference in Greensboro, GA.
  • Orion Health offers scholarships and graduate recruitment programs through the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in an effort to attract talent and encourage more IT graduates.
  • Hayes Management Consulting offers two white papers to help organizations improve clinical optimization.
  • Nuance launches Clintegrity 360 | ICD-10 Education Services, an ICD-10 readiness program for physicians, coders, and clinical documentation specialists.
  • Capsule’s business development manager Elizabeth Skinner will discuss medical device integration at this week’s McKesson’s Insight365: 2013 Annual Conference in Orlando.
  • Caradigm introduces new versions of Caradigm Single Sign-On and Caradigm Context Management products, which feature tightened integration with virtual desktop technologies, simplified security compliance, and accelerated clinical workstation deployment.

Contacts

Mr. H, Inga, Dr. Jayne, Dr. Gregg, Lt. Dan, Dr. Travis.

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Currently there are "3 comments" on this Article:

  1. Mr. H I was wondering if you or one of your readers could comment on Clinical Natural Language Processing and the impact on healthcare big data? All I found online was one company, Clinithink. I know a couple of behemoth organizations are considering build or buy so I’m wondering what you know about this company.

  2. Big data deal,
    There are not many NLP vendors today in HC market. One I do know of is Health Fidelity who has licensed the IP from Columbia Univ. they have a very competent team -worth taking a look.

  3. Chuckled at the typo in this sentence – can you find it? “MyMedicalRecords files a complaint for patient infringement against Allscripts, alleging that its Jardogs FollowMyHealth technology violates MMR’s PHR patents.”







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