Opioid bills still occupying Congress
Morning eHealth
MAY 23, 2018
Funding, other congressional matters — Athenahealth corporate maneuvering continues
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Google I/O 2018 highlights AI health projects
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Google has unleashed a tidal wave of product and feature updates through the ongoing Google I/O developers’ conference, and it’s no surprise that the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare was a recurring spotlight among them. Through keynote speeches and simultaneously released online blog posts, the company highlighted a handful of tech-driven healthcare efforts that seem to be bearing fruit.
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5 things that confuse me about health care today
KevinMD
MAY 23, 2018
Say we met ten years ago. And you asked me: Would health care delivery be more complicated in the future? I would've said, "No, it would be simpler!" Pointing you to technology trends, I would’ve told you that health care transactions will indeed become more automated, much simpler. Repeatable administrative tasks would be tech-enabled and algorithm-driven.
The Next Frontier in Health Tech: Improving the Patient Experience
Digital Health
MAY 28, 2018
This week I had the pleasure to give a talk about big data/AI and digital health (buzzword bingo alert) at the Stanford Big Data in Precision Health Conference in Palo Alto. While most of the very interesting speakers spoke about technology and fascinating uses for data, I chose to take a somewhat different tack and […].
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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How to Make Healthcare More Intelligent and Trustworthy: Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2018
Health Populi
MAY 29, 2018
“Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students. The origins of that three-word objective probably came out of Hippocrates’ Corpus , which included a few additional words: “to do good or to do no harm.”. The proliferation and evolution of digital technologies in health care have the potential to do good or harm, depending on their application.
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API’s and the World of Continuous Integration in Healthcare
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 14, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Rahul Patel, EVP of digital products and services, Persistent Systems. There is a growing interest among healthcare organizations to leverage actionable analytics solutions to derive valuable insights from data. Advanced, AI-driven predictive modeling is working to build healthier populations that meet the demands of value-based care, and new digital experiences are reaching providers and […].
Amazon rumored to start Alexa-focused 'health & wellness' team
Mobi Health News
MAY 11, 2018
After Amazon inked a deal with JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on employee health in January, it was clear the tech giant would be investigating the healthcare arena.
A Hippocratic Oath for technology
KevinMD
MAY 22, 2018
Modern technology needs to do better. This is the message delivered by every CEO after every Silicon Valley scandal in recent memory. This time, they should really do it. Medicine can show them how. Let's have the professionals building our future abide by industry-wide standards, just as doctors do. As both a startup founder and a physician, this idea makes intuitive sense to me.
Five Steps to Picking the Right Partner to Succeed in Value-Based Care Delivery
Mobile Health Matters
MAY 22, 2018
The march toward value-based care has prompted a seemingly endless number of vendors to claim they have the ‘secret sauce’ that will help health systems and vendor partners succeed in an ever-evolving market. With so many options, decision-makers must separate false promises from real opportunities and identify the companies that will have staying power.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
Consumers Shop Food for Health, But Cost Is a Barrier to Healthy Eating
Health Populi
MAY 17, 2018
One-third of Americans are following a specific eating pattern, including intermittent fasting, paleo gluten-free, low-carb, Mediterranean diet, and Whole 30, among dozens of other food-styles in vogue in 2018. It’s mainstream now that Americans are shopping food for health, with eyes focused on heart health, weight, energy, diabetes, and brain health, according to the 2018 Food & Health Survey from IFIC, the International Food Industry Council Foundation.
Moving at the speed of Eugene Borukhovich, Bayer’s Global Head of Digital Health Innovation — Harlow On Healthcare
Health Blawg
MAY 28, 2018
I caught up recently with Eugene Borukhovich, aka @HealthEugene. Eugene is Global Head, Digital Health Incubation and Innovation at Bayer. He sees himself as standing at the crossroads of several streams of innovation and human endeavor – the intersection of digital and genomics, online engagement opportunities for patients and consumers, the life sciences perspective of “hacking our bodies from the inside,” and the health IT work being done to understand, aggregate and connect silos of data in
What To Consider When Looking Into Cloud-Based EHR Software Systems
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 15, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Tim Scott, chief operating officer, American Medical Software. So you are having some difficulty deciding between cloud-based and client-server based EHR software – don’t worry, you are not alone. If you look at them side-by-side, they both certainly have their ups and downs. The determining factor ought to be how your practice operates.
Fitbit announces new partnerships, focus on chronic disease management, overall health
Mobi Health News
MAY 7, 2018
Fitbit has announced a slew of new digital health apps and clock faces that were born out of partnerships with major players such as Dexom, Humana, and Walgreens. The apps, which were built on Fitbit’s software development kit, are aimed at helping people manage chronic conditions and improving overall health.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
An old technique to detect atrial fibrillation via smartphone
KevinMD
MAY 18, 2018
When I was a cardiology fellow back in the 1980s, I learned about a variety of early tools for evaluating heart health that had been displaced by the modern standards of electrocardiography (ECG, or EKG for the Deutschephiles) and echocardiography. One such technique – ballistocardiography – stuck with me, and may be making a comeback. Ballistocardiography is based on the observation that the mechanical action of the heart leads to subtle.
Health insurance CEOs earned $342.6M in 2017
FierceHealthIT
MAY 4, 2018
We took a deep dive into financial filings of the country's top eight insurers to break down exactly how much CEOs brought home last year and how that compares to employee salaries.
A Tale of Two America’s for Health
Health Populi
MAY 15, 2018
Disparities in Americans’ health vary among people living in each of the 50 states. These differences in health status generally fall into two regions: north and south, found in the Commonwealth Fund’s 2018 Scorecard on State Health System Performance. The map shows this stark geography-is-health-destiny reality: the worse-than-average states, the Fund found, run from Nevada southeast to Arizona, through New Mexico and Texas all the way to Atlantic Ocean and the Carolinas, then north
Trump’s health chief channels boss’ combative approach
Morning eHealth
MAY 29, 2018
FDA clears AI tool for detecting wrist fractures — Watson layoffs at IBM
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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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!
Health IT Startup: Shivom
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 30, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Unlocking the genomic code to usher in a new era of medical technology. Founders’ story The core Shivom team came together after numerous meetings at blockchain and genomics conferences. During these, we frequently reached conclusions on how to solve the current issues in the medical domain, by combining the bleeding-edge of blockchain technology with genomic […].
In-Depth: Therapeutic VR in 2018 is no longer just a distraction (therapy)
Mobi Health News
MAY 18, 2018
Although it hasn’t yet established its place as a mainstream treatment modality, virtual reality has grown from an interesting diversion into a frequent topic of conversation within digital health.
Blockchain technology can dramatically transform health care delivery
KevinMD
MAY 16, 2018
Blockchain technology has the potential to dramatically transform health care delivery by facilitating data exchange between providers and electronic health record (EHR) systems. A decentralized and transparent platform, blockchain technology provides an authenticated platform that applies a consensus-driven approach to facilitate the interaction of multiple entities through a shared ledger.
4 million lose coverage as insurance gains under ACA start to reverse
FierceHealthIT
MAY 4, 2018
Coverage gains made by the ACA are eroding as more Americans are now uninsured compared to 2016. The problem is likely to only get worse next year thanks to the GOP's repeal of the individual mandate.
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.
Personalized Medicine: Consumer Concerns About Coverage, Affordability and Privacy
Health Populi
MAY 30, 2018
Two in 3 Americans haven’t heard the phrases “personalized medicine” or “precision medicine.” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them.
Experts chime in on VA's next steps for Cerner deal
Morning eHealth
MAY 21, 2018
Scholars say health IT can increase gap between haves and have-nots
Health-Care tech for seniors – not well served by the Wall Street Journal
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 30, 2018
Skip the tech – listen to the experts interviewed – first robots. The good news – this week’s Health Care Technology supplement transcended the limits of doctors and hospitals – and dabbled in the dilemmas of elder care – included technology to assist those with dementia and mitigate loneliness. The bad news -- another in a long line of ‘robots and chatbots look after the elderly,’ with promotions of those oft-promoted Care.coach and ElliQ , adding Catalia Health’s cute Mabu.
Study: Smartphone app effective in treating serious mental illness
Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2018
A recent study published by Psychiatric Services found that mobile health interventions were as effective in treating patients with serious mental illness compared to an in-person group therapy.
How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp
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Landmark VA Telehealth Rule Allows Interstate Practice: Telemental Health Across State Lines
Telebehavioral Health Institute
MAY 11, 2018
Telehealth Across State Lines Just last week, the U.S. Veterans Administration (VA) announced a much-anticipated licensing rule that allows telehealth across state lines for specified practitioners serving VA patients. The new telehealth interstate practice rule now permits telehealth to be … Read more. The post Landmark VA Telehealth Rule Allows Interstate Practice: Telemental Health Across State Lines appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Trump unveils 'American Patients First' plan to bring down drug costs
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2018
President Donald Trump has unveiled the administration's policy plan to tackle the rising cost of drugs. The "American Patients First" blueprint builds on the president's 2019 budget proposal and calls for changes in Medicare Part D alongside a focus on price transparency.
The Big Squeeze: Ergonomic Tube Squeezer
Christina's Considerations
MAY 10, 2018
There was a time when I could hardly squeeze toothpaste out of the plastic tube, but that was nothing compared to the metal tube of my favorite hand cream. So, I started thinking and researching. In the process I learned.
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