Tue.Apr 09, 2019

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3 Ways AI Will Soon Personalize Medicine

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Shivrat Chhabra, CEO, Dosis. Now more than ever, the healthcare industry is leveraging new technologies to provide patients with improved, innovative care. The innovation attracting the most buzz in the healthcare industry today is artificial intelligence (AI).

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Vuzix, VSee team up to try to bring back telemedicine via smart glasses

Mobi Health News

Smart glasses in healthcare were a hotbed of startup activity just a few years ago, but the trend seems to have fizzled out.

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3 Ways that Telehealth Improves the Patient Experience

iSALUS Healthcare

Providers are constantly searching for methods to increase patient engagement and improve the patient experience. When patients are actively engaging with their providers, they are involved in the necessary communication and collaboration it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle and improve health outcomes. Providers who are pursuing high levels of patient satisfaction see their revenue develop rapidly.

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Digital Health As A Basic Human Need – the Dentsu Digital Society Index 2019

Health Populi

We are all Homo informaticus these days , multi-channel, multi-platform beings using digital platforms. “Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living,” Nicholas Negroponte wrote in Being Digital. He said that in 1995. In that quarter-century since Negroponte made that prescient observation, we come to better understand that being a Digital Society has its upsides and downfalls, alike.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Healthcare's AI will be held to higher standard than other industries, advises Massachusetts governor

Mobi Health News

Governor Charlie Baker said that while AI has great potential it is important for healthcare to keep privacy and implementation hurdles top of mind.

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Morgan Stanley sizes up Apple's healthcare opportunity, predicts $15B to $300B by 2027

Mobi Health News

The investment bank's 54-page report includes speculations about the Cupertino giant's future.

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Getting Started On Social Determinants of Health

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bradley Hunter, research director of population health, KLAS Research. Over the last couple of years, social determinants of health (SDoH) have become increasingly important. I recently attended the 2019 Nineteenth Population Health Colloquium, and based on what I heard there, SDoH are definitely in vogue.

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With Pfizer deal, Concerto HealthAI notches another friend in pharma

Mobi Health News

The companies' partnership is yet another example of real-world data analysis coming to clinical trials.

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CDC clarifies opioid prescribing guideline, says doctors should use their 'clinical judgement'

FierceHealthIT

Under pressure from healthcare experts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has clarified the controversial federal guideline for prescribing opioids, which it issued three years ago in the face of the opioid epidemic sweeping the country.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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CMS' Seema Verma: Medicare for All is 'the greatest threat to innovation in healthcare'

Mobi Health News

Verma also discussed the new AI Health Outcomes Challenge to speed up innovations.

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Diameter Health Announces $9.6 Million in Series A-1 Funding Round

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Diameter Health announces a $9.6 million Series A1 funding round, led by new investor Optum Ventures, the independent venture fund of Optum. Optum Ventures joins existing Diameter Health investors Activate Venture Partners, Connecticut Innovations, Excelerate Health Ventures and LRV Health.

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Report: Roadblocks, successes of fledgling pharma-digital therapeutics partnerships will define industry’s future

Mobi Health News

Commitment to digital health varies across today’s leading pharmas, and many stakeholders are still waiting for the novel treatments to prove themselves with evidence and commercialization success.

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DOJ charges telemedicine executives, doctors in $1.2B Medicare fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

The U.S. Department of Justice filed charges against 24 telemedicine and medical equipment company executives and physicians for their alleged participation in a $1.2 billion healthcare fraud scheme.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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CMS's Seema Verma: Medicare for All is 'the greatest threat to innovation in healthcare'

Mobi Health News

Verma also discussed the new AI Health Outcomes Challenge to speed up innovations.

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AVANT Launches Inaugural State of Disruption Study Measuring Rate of Change In IT

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. AVANT Communications has released its inaugural State of Disruption study. The AVANT Insight Report is supported with sponsorship from 8×8, Flexential, HOSTING, Masergy, NICE inContact and Oracle Communications — all partners in the master agent’s growing portfolio of best-in-class solutions.

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Fosun Pharma acquires exclusive rights to ReNeuron cell therapies for Chinese market

Mobi Health News

ReNeuron, a UK-based stem cell research company, announced that it has signed an exclusive license agreement with Fosun Pharma, a Chinese listed pharmaceutical company, for the development, manufacture and commercialisation of ReNeuron's CTX and hRPC cell therapy programmes in China.

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AHIMA Foundation Launches New Department of Labor Recognized Apprenticeship Role

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The AHIMA Foundation is expanding its registered apprenticeship program to include an inpatient coding auditor role based on recent employer feedback. Registered apprenticeship, a proven strategy, ensures quality workforce readiness training by combining on-the-job learning with hands-on instruction to prepare exceptional workers for American industry.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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NHS App pilot report: Ordering repeat prescriptions easy, but appointment booking 'full of jargon'

Mobi Health News

The app was made available to the public on Google Play and the App Store at the end of last year.

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Hoy Health Raises Series Seed Preferred Investment To Serve Hispanics, Insured and Non-Insured

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Hoy Health LLC has completed a multi-million dollar first round of its Series Seed Preferred investment, led by 3 Ríos Ltd., RAAD Broadcasting Corp. and Ríos Commercial Corp. The new funds will be allocated to help build Hoy’s unique platform, leverage consumer data and insights into providing incremental products, value and price transparency, and build on […].

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Telemedicine linked to more antibiotic prescriptions for children, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Parents may like the convenience of direct-to-consumer telemedicine visits for their children, but a recent study found that telemedicine may be leading to the overprescribing of antibiotics to children with sniffles and sore throats.

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DirectTrust Achieves ANSI Accreditation, Issues Call for Participation

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. DirectTrust announces that it has received accreditation by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop DirectTrust Standards to enhance healthcare interoperability and identity using Direct exchange and trust frameworks. DirectTrust also issued a call for industry stakeholders to participate in the development of DirectTrust Standards.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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90% of claim denials are avoidable with help of tech tools

FierceHealthIT

Last year, 1% of all health revenue was lost to problems with charge capture and poor documentation, but a Waystar executive says 90% of denials are preventable and two-thirds are recoverable.

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Aaron Kowalski Appointed New JDRF President/CEO

Insulin Nation

Today, the JDRF announced the appointment of Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D., as the nonprofit’s President and Chief Executive Officer. A 15-year veteran of JDRF and the first person living with T1D to lead the research organization, Dr. Kowalski has a strong record of spearheading impactful strategic initiatives and forging new partnerships from his previous role as JDRF’s first Chief Mission Officer.

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Oak Street Health and Aetna team up to expand value-based MA coverage in Michigan and Indiana

FierceHealthIT

Under a new value-based network agreement, 1.6 million Aetna members will now have access to Oak Street Health’s locations in Indiana and southeast Michigan.

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Roadmap To Reducing Healthcare Costs

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: For payers, developing a new, collaborative payer provider model reinvents the role of payers as provider allies. BHM understands the special bridge between payers and providers because our they both are clients. Click HERE and discuss how BHM helps reinvent payers and build relationships. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has unveiled a roadmap to address healthcare affordability, and the plan begins with increasing hospital price transparency, according to the Colorado Times R

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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PBM execs to lawmakers: Ending rebates isn't the fix to push pharma to lower drug prices 

FierceHealthIT

As policymakers take a hard look at the impact of drug rebates in the pharmaceutical supply chain, pharmacy benefit managers warn that eliminating them puts little pressure on drug companies to drive down costs.

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Supporting the Medicare Advantage Quality Payment Relief Act

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. Can your claims review resources maximize the turn around time needed for complex claims? CLICK HERE and let us show how BHM’s economically maintain turn-around times and accuracy for new members.

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Physician Practice Roundup—25 physician and patient groups urge CMS to implement proposed step therapy safeguards

FierceHealthIT

In a letter sent yesterday, 25 physician and patient groups urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to immediately implement proposed step therapy safeguards to protect patient access to needed treatments.