This Week's Healthcare Online News
Modern Healthcare.com
Doctor-approved:As health apps flourish, hospitals are beginning to sanction some for patients
Mar,23,2013
by+Jaimy Lee
Some hospitals are beginning to develop formulary-like lists of smartphone and tablet applications acceptable for use in clinical settings as more patients and physicians incorporate medical apps into their care regimens.
Carolinas HealthCare System, which owns, leases or manages 23 hospitals in North and South Carolina, and St. Luke's Episcopal Health System, a six-hospital system based in Houston, are both forming “app formularies” that will utilize an app certification program. The program was created by Happtique, a mobile health apps marketplace owned by GNYHA Ventures, the for-profit arm of the Greater New York Hospital Association.
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iHealthBeat
Report: Remote Patient Monitoring Market To See Continued Growth
Mar,25,2013
by:+Staff
The remote patient monitoring market grew by nearly 20% from 2011 to 2012, and the market is expected to continue growing over the next several years, according to a report by Kalorama Information, Clinical Innovation & Technology reports.
Details of the Report
For the report, researchers analyzed the market for remote patient monitoring-related technology, which includes:
Applications and equipment for data processing;
Applications and equipment for transferring patient monitoring data into electronic health records;
Wireless and remote patient monitoring systems.
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Med City News
Report: Obamacare family ‘glitch’ could price millions out of healthcare coverage
Mar,26,2013
By:+Tom Brown
MIAMI (Reuters) - Millions of Americans will be priced out of health insurance under President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul because of a glitch in the law that adversely affects people with modest incomes who cannot afford family coverage offered by their employers, a leading healthcare advocacy group said on Tuesday.
Tax credits are a key component of the law and the White House has said the credits, averaging about $4,000 apiece, will help about 18 million individuals and families pay for health insurance once the Affordable Care Act takes full effect, beginning in January 2014.
The tax credits are geared toward low and middle-income Americans who do not have access to affordable health insurance coverage through an employer. The law specifies that employer-sponsored insurance is affordable so long as a worker's share of the premium does not exceed 9.5 percent of the worker's household income.
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Modern Healthcare AM
Value-based insurance plans gain momentum
Mar,26,2013
by:+Jonathan Block
The movement among employers to push insurers to adopt health plan benefit designs that improve medical outcomes without raising costs is slowly gathering steam, according to an employer coalition pushing payment reform.
While only 11% of payments that commercial insurers made to in-network providers in 2012 were “value-oriented,” according to a survey from Catalyst for Payment Reform, that's more than halfway to its goal of 20%, which the group hopes to attain by 2020.
The numbers suggest there is reason to believe the insurance industry and providers can achieve the coalition's goal, said Suzanne Delbanco, executive director of the not-for-profit coalition of employer groups, which issued its first-ever National Scorecard on Payment Reform.
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