Wed.Mar 20, 2019

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Google Helps You Plan Ahead, and So Should Your Healthcare Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. Let’s imagine for a second. Jane Smith, a 53-year-old diabetic patient, goes to her kitchen to grab a glass of water when she suddenly feels dizzy. She grabs her portable, battery-operated blood glucose monitor to check her blood sugar level and finds it is higher than usual.

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Simplifying the Telehealth Industry: Types of Telemedicine Companies

Enzyme Health

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Utilizing Telehealth to Improve Home Dialysis

Health Recovery Solutions

Of the nearly 500,000 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing dialysis, only 12 percent receive dialysis in-home despite it being preferable and cost-effective to both patients and payers. [i] In a recent speech to kidney disease patients and advocates, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Alex Azar, stated that Medicare was making a concerted effort to expand the utilization of At-Home Dialysis, including expanding telehealth services.

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Nvidia focuses on AI, radiology, genomics as it carves out its spot in health

Mobi Health News

MobiHealthNews sat down with Nvidia's VP of Health Kimberly Powell to talk AI, radiology and what health tech can learn from self-driving cars.

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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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FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy. While that likely means good things for patients and outcomes, it also drives more sharing, more data and more risk of losing your privacy.

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Health IT Industry Outlook Survey Reveals Six Key Leadership Trends for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In the seventh annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc., 42 percent of health IT leaders rate updating technology to improve the patient experience as the top objective for 2019, followed by measuring improvement in patient care (33 percent).

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Johns Hopkins spinout Vixiar gets $1.5M for tablet-based cardiac measurement system

Mobi Health News

Vixiar's system measures left ventricle end-diastolic volume by walking the patient through a special breathing exercise.

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Three Ways Healthcare Insurers Can Engage Younger and Diverse Populations

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Meghan Marx and Jenna Phillips, healthcare experts, PA Consulting. Now that the 2019 health insurance Open Enrollment period has concluded, healthcare industry stakeholders are watching closely for any shifts in consumer behavior regarding enrollment and the overall uninsured rate.

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Dr. Eric Topol talks AI's potential to personalize medicine, curb mistakes, bring back the human touch

Mobi Health News

Yesterday at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Topol discussed the potential of AI and how it could fit into care.

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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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Impact of Value-Based Care On How Community Oncologists Think About Treatment Choices

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. New data on the state of value-based care in oncology has found that while community oncologists are optimistic about the beneficial potential of value-based care, they see a conflict between the need to decrease episode costs and the rising prices of the most innovative novel therapies.

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Peerfit raises $18M from Virgo Investment Group

Mobi Health News

Along with expanding its brand and business, the new funding will also go toward support of the company's Medicare Advantage product, Peerfit Move.

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Florida pharmacist gets 10-year prison sentence in $121M pharmacy fraud scheme 

FierceHealthIT

A Florida pharmacist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in a compounding pharmacy scheme to defraud Medicare, Tricare and private insurers out of more than $100 million.

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Doctolib gets €150M more as it focuses on telehealth, growth, expansion

Mobi Health News

With €1 billion valuation, the French healthcare software company is now a unicorn.

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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: Physician uptake of advanced payment models under MACRA outpacing goals

FierceHealthIT

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new report that offers a look at how physicians fared in the first year of its Quality Payment Program.

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Ro tackles menopause, Peloton hit with $150M lawsuit, and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Family support coaching app raises $27.5 million; Key components of a dementia care robot.

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Industry Voices—It’s time to reimagine primary care with virtual tools

FierceHealthIT

If everyone had access to high-quality primary care, the outcome would be healthier lives and dramatic cost savings. Despite the benefits, 30% of American adults and nearly half of millennials don’t have a primary care physician.

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Jefferson Health to launch pilot of post-operative remote monitoring tech

Mobi Health News

The 90-day pilot of MegesHealth's iPostOp platform will determine whether Jefferson will broaden the rollout to the rest of its system.

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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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Doctolib : French Startup to Book Doctors Appointments Is Now Worth $1.1 Billion

Lloyd Price

Doctor-appointment booking app Doctolib has been valued at more than a billion dollars after raising new funding, adding to the surge of interest in health-care startups. Founded in 2013, Doctolib operates a doctor’s appointment-booking app and related management software, and has been growing services of video-based consultations and digital prescriptions, similar to Britain’s Babylon Healthcare Services Ltd., and Doctor On Demand Inc. in the U.S.

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Hello Heart taps LifeScan for glucometer integration in diabetes management program

Mobi Health News

The company hopes the well-known consumer brand will make it program more accessible.

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Survey: Improving Patient Experiences a Top Priority for HIT Leaders in 2019

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Health IT leaders rate updating technology to improve the patient experience as their top objective for 2019, according to the seventh annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc.For this year’s survey, more.

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Focus on: Aging and the Silver Tsunami

Mobi Health News

HIMSS Media's information brands Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News, MobiHealthNews and HIMSS TV are diving into one of the most pressing issues facing healthcare today – baby boomers and their swelling demands on our system. We'll look at the challenges, opportunities, emerging technologies, and other tactics hospitals, health systems and payers are deploying to manage the needs of the aging-population wave.

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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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Experts: Industry players shouldn't fear rise of consumerism in healthcare

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare players shouldn't fear rapid industry change and the growing emphasis on consumerism, experts said.

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Doctolib gets €235M more as it focuses on telehealth, growth, expansion

Mobi Health News

With €1 billion valuation, the French healthcare software company is now a unicorn.

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Community partnerships key to future of care delivery, experts say

FierceHealthIT

In an increasingly competitive environment, the healthcare system needs to evolve to better meet the needs of communities.

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Medical data firm Diaceutics announces AIM float with expected £53m valuation

Mobi Health News

Funds will be used to acquire more data sets and develop AI analysis.

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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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Q&A with 'physician data scientist' Aziz Nazha

Morning eHealth

WHO panel calls for gene editing registry — More comments on cyber premarket submissions

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New CEO named to lead University of Pennsylvania Health System

FierceHealthIT

Penn Medicine officials went with an internal candidate to lead the $7.8 billion organization, pointing to his history of leading major projects at the organization including a major inpatient facility.

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Nvidia and Their Journey In Healthcare

David Chou

Nvidia is working on how they can gain traction in the healthcare market by focusing on their AI solution targeting the radiology department. Here is a recap of their event in San Jose.

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