KevinMD
MARCH 26, 2018
It is all too common for a section in a progress note to look something like this: # Aspiration pneumonia: Continue vancomycin 1 g bid. Continue Zosyn 3.325 g q6h. Follow-up blood cultures. Follow-up sputum cultures. MRSA nares screen negative. Blood cultures negative. Discontinue vancomycin. Yesterday, a version of this note (lines 1 to 5 to be precise) had my name on it.
Digital Health
MARCH 5, 2018
For a skydiver who’s motto is “Just jump out and go”, the journey from chasing down Sandanista kidnappers to driving Disney strategy to genomics pioneer sounds sort of rational. Lisa Alderson, founder and CEO of Genome Medical, is one of those special someones who thrives on adrenaline and channels it to great effect. Lisa went […].
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
The Mayo Clinic has just released the results of a new study, which show an 80 percent increase in enrollment of clinical trials for breast cancer when using IBM’s Watson for Clinical Trial matching system. The Watson system uses artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured information and pull out insights from the data.
Health Populi
MARCH 27, 2018
Health care in America is such a scary experience that more people are afraid of paying for care than the actually getting sick part of the scenario. The patient is the payor, and she is afraid…more afraid of the paying than of the illness, according to a survey conducted among U.S. health consumers from WestHealth Institute and NORC, Americans’ Views of Healthcare Costs, Coverage, and Policy from WestHealth and NORC.
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Clocktree
MARCH 9, 2018
Consumers continue to wish for more virtual care options, creating better overall access to healthcare. According to a 2018 survey conducted by Ernst and Young, more than 50% of 2500 consumers are already using the telemedicine technology available to them through their healthcare providers. However most of these patients do not have access to all the telehealth options they are hoping for.
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KevinMD
MARCH 20, 2018
At the start of the transition to electronic health records (EHRs), I was totally on board as one would expect of a millennial doctor. I, along with my fellow millennials, grew up alongside the internet. We can type with our eyes closed, navigate pop-ups in a jiffy and intuitively know how to manipulate electronic charts to serve our purposes. But, I did find myself in a unique position in the millennial.
Digital Health
MARCH 11, 2018
I was in Las Vegas at HIMSS this last week, which, for the uninitiated, is a veritable orgy of health information technology (HIT). Someone from HIMSS leadership told me that over 42,000 people had shown up and they were expecting closer to 45,000. It’s a long way from 1998, I’ll tell you. Back then HIT […].
Mobi Health News
MARCH 26, 2018
The average cost of development for a mobile health app from conception to launch is approximately $425,000, with nearly half of this expense outsourced to third-party app development agencies or freelancers, according to new research data recently released from a Research2Guidance survey of 2,400 mobile heal
Health Populi
MARCH 15, 2018
The U.S. spent nearly twice as much as other wealthy countries on healthcare, mostly due to higher prices for both labor and products (especially prescription drugs). And, America spends more on administrative costs compared to other high-income countries. What do U.S. taxpayers get in return for that spending? Lower life spans, higher maternal and infant mortality, and the highest level of obesity and overweight among our OECD peer nations.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 15, 2018
There’s been no slowdown in the trend toward physician employment, as new data shows that hospitals acquired 5,000 independent physician practices in a 12-month period. Those practices were bought up by hospitals between July 2015 and July 2016, according to data released by the Physicians Advocacy Institute.
eVisit
MARCH 29, 2018
The thought of visiting with a doctor in real-time via video would have seemed out of this world only a few years ago. But today, telemedicine has become an increasingly popular means of giving and receiving care.
KevinMD
MARCH 4, 2018
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke that has escalated to alarming rates in recent years, affecting nearly 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. In an attempt to reduce its prevalence, the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC-8) released a set of hypertension management guidelines. However, various concerns arose regarding the recommendations and as a result, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and.
VSee
MARCH 21, 2018
Mark Carol, MD is the CEO of SonaCare – a radical surgery technology company. He started as a neurosurgeon and became widely known as the “father of IMRT” as well a a household name in Radiation Oncology. Dr. Carol is also an avid soccer player. Dr. Carol joined our TFSS video podcast from Charlotte, North.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 23, 2018
Just about everyone agrees in the basic vision for telemedicine: When a person gets sick, instead of jumping in the car to drive to a doctor’s office or urgent care center, they can pick up a phone or tablet instead, and get in touch right away with a doctor.
Health Populi
MARCH 1, 2018
“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics. Health is determined by many factors in our own hands, and in forces around us: physical environment, built environment, and public policy.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 26, 2018
After being placed on administrative leave last year, two cybersecurity officials at HHS are demanding answers about their reassignment and pushing back on claims that they were under investigation by OIG. Meanwhile, Deputy Cybersecurity Information Officer Leo Scanlon, who is still on administrative leave, says the HCCIC is "derailed.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MARCH 29, 2018
The 2018 Boomer Business Summit, now in its 15 th year, built this year’s conference as the ‘Blueprint for the Longevity Economy’. That blueprint depends on the enthusiasm and foresight of innovators and leaders of technology companies that focus on the boomer-senior market, increasingly offering Voice First interfaces to new capabilities. Here are Six offerings from companies whose founders are passionate about serving the needs of older adults, those who care for them and those who serve them
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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!
Morning eHealth
MARCH 1, 2018
White House interoperability meetings — Spate of eHealth bills
Insulin Nation
MARCH 16, 2018
My son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2003, when he was six years old. We were told that a cure was “right around the corner—like, five years out.” Believing this, we faithfully attended all the walks and conventions in our area. Well, needless to say, we are still waiting on said cure, but we did receive a lot of advice about parenting a child with the condition.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 16, 2018
A smartphone app developed the University of Turku, Finland, detected Turku University Hospital patients’ atrial fibrillation with 96 percent accuracy, without the need for additional phone attachments, according to a study recently published in the journal Circulation.
Health Populi
MARCH 20, 2018
There’s a potential large obstacle that could prevent the full benefits of the current go-go, bullish forecasts for artificial intelligence (AI) to help make healthcare better: a decline in consumers’ willingness to share their personal data. Along with the overall erosion of peoples’ trust in government and other institutions comes this week’s revelations about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica , and the so-called Deep State.
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.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 21, 2018
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill Wednesday that would increase subsidies offered to people buying insurance on the ACA exchanges and would impose tighter controls on private payers. "So long as private health insurance exists, there is no reason to allow our healthcare to be held hostage by insurance companies that refuse to do better," Warren said.
Society for Participatory Medicine
MARCH 28, 2018
Introduction. SPM member, Danny van Leeuwen, Health Hats, introduces a new blog sponsored by the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support-Learning Network: Patient Expertise : Sharing and informing choices to connect research and clinical experience. Patient expertise provides a platform for the Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support (PCCDS) Learning Network ( @pccdsln ) to offer current perspectives in the field (via a blog hosted by Danny van Leeuwen, updates on breaking news, and a twi
Morning eHealth
MARCH 8, 2018
Struggles at VA continue — Conference notes
Insulin Nation
MARCH 14, 2018
Medtronic’s stand-alone continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system, Guardian Connect, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. Unlike existing stand-alone CGM technology, this device is predictive. It can alert users of a high or low blood sugar between 10 and 60 minutes before the event occurs. sponsor. Currently, the FDA has only approved the device for use among users between 14 and 75 years of age.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 16, 2018
The cost of healthcare in the United States is a burden for many living in the country but some congressional representatives are looking to change that with more innovation in the space.
Health Populi
MARCH 7, 2018
As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 19, 2018
After seeing a demonstration for a new asthma app launched at the beginning of the year, a top cardiac surgeon at Nemours Children's Health System lobbied the IT team to speed up development of the app and a suite of digital tools aimed at newborns with a rare but often deadly heart defect that requires constant monitoring.
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