Modern Healthcare Staff Rachel Z. Arndt Former reporter / Chicago Rachel Arndt covered technology for Modern Healthcare. Her work has appeared in Popular Mechanics, Quartz, Fast Company, and elsewhere. She has MFAs in nonfiction and poetry from the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s degree from Brown. See All Staff Page Recent Stories Health systems fire up business incubators Hospitals and health systems are launching their own incubators and partnering with existing organizations to gain access to entrepreneurs' innovative ideas. Patient-matching standards must be improved, government report shows Providers, vendors and others told the Government Accountability Office they still struggle with correctly matching patients to their records, which can theoretically put patients in danger. HIMSS Analytics sells vendor data business to Definitive Healthcare Definitive Healthcare will combine the data from HIMSS Analytics with its existing data sets. Cerner co-founder Cliff Illig resigns from the company Illig is leaving the company to focus on "outside interests," including his professional soccer team. ONC adds to its interoperability standards advisory The ONC continually revises the interoperability standards advisory, a set of standards and specifications it encourages the industry to adopt in the quest for greater interoperability. Week Ahead: Earnings season slowly kicks into gear Following a successful third quarter, UnitedHealth Group will report its fourth-quarter earnings for 2018. Prior authorization goes digital Hoping to cut out some of the inefficiencies of prior authorization, payers and providers are trying digital versions of the process. FDA launches new office to rethink how drugs are reviewed Speaking via livestream at the J.P. Morgan Conference, FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced a broad restructuring of the Office of New Drugs to make the approval process more structured, with data coming from the cloud. Do digital tools fail to show impact in high-risk, high-cost populations? The top-funded private digital health companies in the U.S. tended to look at healthy populations in their studies published in peer-reviewed journals. HL7 releases new version of FHIR standard The new release adds stability to several parts of the standard, giving developers confidence to make data-sharing tools using FHIR. In 2018, interoperability remained just beyond the horizon Interoperability remained top of mind in 2018, with players big and small, entrenched and untraditional, joining the cacophonous call for a health system in which patient data can move between providers and, sometimes, even move via the patients themselves. Telemedicine regulations tighten restrictions on medication abortion Nineteen states ban medication abortion performed through telemedicine. Opponents of the bans say they restrict access, while proponents say they promote patient safety. Teladoc CFO resigns after misconduct allegations Mark Hirschhorn is stepping down from his dual role as CFO and COO after a report claimed that he and another Teladoc employee engaged in insider trading. Providence St. Joseph Health hires Microsoft exec as CIO B.J. Moore will join the health system in January, after spending more than two decades at Microsoft, most recently in its cloud and AI division. Rucker: New rules will promote patient access to health data ONC head Dr. Don Rucker did not tell lawmakers when the information-blocking rule will be released, but he suggested that it would expand interoperability. Load More Sponsored Content
Modern Healthcare Staff Rachel Z. Arndt Former reporter / Chicago Rachel Arndt covered technology for Modern Healthcare. Her work has appeared in Popular Mechanics, Quartz, Fast Company, and elsewhere. She has MFAs in nonfiction and poetry from the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s degree from Brown. See All Staff Page
