Mobile Health Matters
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Recent trends in the business literature show a significant focus on the mechanics of the culture of organizations. Annual training reinforcing the quality and compliance requirements of organizations is a common end-of-year task. To provide some context for the training, it is important to look at the synergy between the cultures of compliance and quality, and how that synergy supports customer satisfaction.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2018
The companies will be applying ActiGraph's CentrePoint data analytics platform to Garmin's sensor-carrying wearables.
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Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Another stab at a privacy bill — Insulin dosing app project gets $6M
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 11, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. MedTrainer is the creator of an all-in-one compliance management suite that encompasses all the tools healthcare professionals need to manage processes, increase departmental collaboration and simplify compliance. Elevator pitch The MedTrainer all-in-one compliance management suite combines a learning management system (LMS) with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and provider credentialing to make compliance management acce
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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.
Lloyd Price
DECEMBER 8, 2018
Genetic Testing sites like 23andMe are rapidly emerging as the new Social Networks. Over the last 10 years, millions of people across the world have submitted their DNA for testing and eagerly waited the results, including me back in May 2016. How are genetic testing sites becoming the new Social Networks? People are completing their DNA testing, receiving their results and then opting in to receive contacts from others with a similar genetic profile to them.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 14, 2018
On Friday, Centene CEO Michael Neidorff said he has been pushing the company's new PBM, RxAdvance, to find a way to shift from rebates to net pricing. That's something CVS has already started doing, and more PBMs are likely to follow, according to analysts.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 13, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By David Conejo, CEO, Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services. The statistics are terrifying. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Alcohol poisoning kills six people every day. Of those, 76 percent are adults ages 35 to 64, and three of every four people killed by alcohol poisoning are men.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Shall we take this WSJ article at face value? Rant on. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal – pops up a dramatic headline, The Loneliest Generation , describing how baby boomer Americans, more than ever, are aging alone. Did you know that ‘social isolation’ has become a named baby boomer health condition spiking Medicare costs by an additional $134 per enrollee – tucked into the list that includes arthritis (+$117 of cost) and diabetes (+$270), source AARP?
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 14, 2018
From Amazon's acquisition of PillPack to Best Buy's purchase of GreatCall, over $7.5 billion were spent on digital health acquisitions this year.
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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
DECEMBER 10, 2018
As part of the U.S. Navy’s Spiral 3 Wireless and Telecommunications Services contract, T-Mobile announced it will provide the VA with 70,000 lines of service in order to advance telehealth initiatives.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 12, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Karim Babay, CEO, HealthSapiens. One of the primary problems existing in healthcare is the many barriers to access and delivery of care and treatment. Access to healthcare is centralized to a limited number of intermediary players in a way that is costly, non-transparent, and inefficient.
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 10, 2018
VA rolls out FHIR-based APIs — NHS to ban fax machines
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 11, 2018
The third-party analysis compared 10 telehealth providers' Google Play and App Store downloads over a four-and-a-half year period.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Federal prosecutors have intervened in a newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accusing Sutter Health of submitting unsupported diagnosis codes to Medicare Advantage plans, which inflated payments. The lawsuit comes weeks after DaVita's medical group paid $270 million to resolve similar allegations.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Oral delivery of insulin has been actively researched for decades. Injections are painful and inconvenient. People often delay starting insulin therapy because they don’t want injections. Oral therapy would increase patient compliance. Oramed and Rani Therapeutics are early leaders in the oral delivery of insulin. They take very different approaches with each having their own challenges compared to the food additive path envisioned by Dr.
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 10, 2018
My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 10, 2018
The prescription digital therapeutic will give users interactive therapy lessons to be use by patients under a clinician's supervision.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 11, 2018
The idea of a single-payer health system has been gaining ground among the general U.S. population and among doctors. However, a new study focused on the long wait times that Canadians face between the time they see a primary care doctor and can get an appointment with a specialist for follow-up.
Vidyo
DECEMBER 13, 2018
The pace of technological change rarely has a rapid and dramatic impact on large swaths of industries. For example, it took over a dozen years for the rise of the internet to so dramatically change the shape of the home entertainment industry that the digital world put the old business model to bed. Blockbuster famously Read More. The post What Will Your Job Look Like in Three Years?
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 10, 2018
My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Come take a photo tour of virtual fish tanks, iPad-controlled lights and so many Moomins.
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
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Accountable care organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Programs have saved Medicare $2.7 billion to date, including $859 million in 2016, according to a new analysis commissioned by NAACOS. That's $1.1 billion more than CMS estimates.
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Data-release for machine learning from HHS, VA — Elsewhere in the administration
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 10, 2018
My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2018
A new government-funded initiative officially launched in Belgium this year to help medtech and eHealth projects get access to the support needed to advance their work, called HealthTech.Belgium. The project is a collaborative effort of three industry associations: the Belgian Federation of Technology Companies (Agoria), the Belgian Federation of the Medical Technology Industry (beMed-Tech), and the Belgian Association of Hospital Managers (ABDH).
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FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Doctors may have heard a lot about MACRA, but not so much about new patient relationship categories and codes. But they may ultimately be tied to physicians’ payment adjustments under MIPS.
Lloyd Price
DECEMBER 8, 2018
Human Longevity Inc. raced to a billion-dollar plus valuation on the hopes that it could apply advances in genomics to improve medicine. A drastic “down round” financing this week suggests investors have questions about its own longevity. The funding round values the company—co-founded by genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter in 2014—at around $310 million, according to a Human Longevity regulatory filing obtained by Lagniappe Labs LLC, whose Prime Unicorn Index tracks valuations of privately held co
Health Blawg
DECEMBER 10, 2018
My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
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