Neil Versel
Neil joined MedCity News in April 2015, writing about healthcare technology. He covers how hospitals, health insurance companies and other parts of the medical industry leverage cutting-edge technologies: from health IT to telemedicine to healthcare social media.
He has been covering healthcare IT since 2000, across a wide range of publications. He specializes in health information technology, mobile healthcare, healthcare quality, physician practice and hospital management and healthcare finance.
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Could the answer to healthcare privacy lie in the Hippocratic Oath? (Watch)
“Current privacy laws like HIPAA don’t protect us. The privacy protections we have don’t match the real-world privacy risks,” cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier said in a newly released video from TEDMED 2016.
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Trump lays out health insurance reform plan, calls for streamlined FDA
Trump also called for reforming the “slow and burdensome” FDA drug approval process.
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Jorie Healthcare CEO Shares Why Automation is Critical to Revenue Cycle Management
The revenue cycle management business is using AI tools to automate cumbersome tasks to help hospitals operate more efficiently. It’s beginning to attract the attention of major healthcare organizations.
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Kaiser Permanente CIO: Time for fundamental rethinking of business models
At HIMSS17 last week, Richard Daniels spoke about healthcare transformation via a consumer-driven model.
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Trump doesn’t have a clue about healthcare
In a press briefing Monday morning, President Donald Trump said, according to multiple news outlets, that, “Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.”
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‘Shark’ Herjavec gets health IT, O’Leary wants to but has reservations
The two investors capped a long week with an entertaining keynote to close HIMSS17.
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Reform healthcare payment while interest rates are low, says ex-HHS Secretary Leavitt
If and when rates rise again, the cost of debt service will be competing with healthcare and a couple other major components of the federal budget for ever scarcer dollars, Leavitt explained at HIMSS17 this week.
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Things I learned at HIMSS17
There’s only so much HIMSS conference a publication like MedCity News can cover, so it’s impossible to know everything that has gone on here in Orlando, but let’s give it our best shot.
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Houston EMS gets to ‘mobile integrated healthcare’ with telemedicine triage
The program outfits EMTs with 4G-enabled tablets that connect to 9-1-1 services, the University of Texas Health Science Center, a nurse help line, a network of primary care clinics (for the purpose of getting people into medical homes) and even to a taxi service for transportation.
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Regenstrief commercializing NLP with help of Health Catalyst
Health Catalyst, of Salt Lake City, announced the commercialization agreement Tuesday at HIMSS17 in Orlando, Florida.
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Navigating Healthcare’s Data Revolution: Priorities, Opportunities, and Challenges for Health Systems
Arcadia recently partnered with HIMSS Market Insights to survey executives, IT, technology, and clinical leaders. Here’s what we found.
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Philips gets FDA clearance for inpatient continuous monitoring system
This was but one of several pieces of news the Amsterdam-based technology company discussed Monday at HIMSS17.
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IBM’s Rometty: ‘Cognitive healthcare is mainstream, it’s real and it’s here’
“Competitive advantage in healthcare will not come from digitization,” Rometty said. “It’s going to come from cognitive.” But there must be transparency.
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At HIMSS17, Integra Connect emerges from stealth with, um, 1,400 employees
Perhaps only at something as large as the annual HIMSS conference can an entity with more than 1,400 employees emerge from “stealth” mode, but that’s what Integra Connect is announcing Monday morning.
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As Rometty prepares to open HIMSS, M.D. Anderson walks away from Watson
A giant elephant just entered the Valencia Ballroom at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
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What will become of MACRA, Obamacare, health IT? HIMSS boss weighs in (podcast)
HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, who is retiring at the end of 2017, is preparing to depart at a time when health IT at a crossroads.
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Before the #HIMSSanity, McKesson tries a little levity
The only known treatments for #HIMSSanity are an extended weekend off after HIMSS, a couple of nights out during the event and, of course, a lot of laughter.
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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Applying Remote Patient Monitoring to Surgery Prep and Recovery, Oncology and Women’s Health
Join us to learn about the latest trends in remote monitoring and how to extend its benefits beyond chronic conditions to more patients – all while using fewer staff resources.
