KevinMD
JULY 24, 2018
How smart do we want our electronic health record to be? Somewhere between as dumb as a piece of paper and a pen, and too smart for our own good. Many, many years ago, before we spent the majority of our office visit staring at a flatscreen LED and typing away, our charts were simple manila folders with those bendy metal bars that allowed you to insert new pages, separated into multiple.
Mobi Health News
JULY 26, 2018
Walgreens Boots Alliance has launched a new digital platform, available through its mobile app and website, called Find Care Now. The service is designed to be a curated way to connect customers to a range of healthcare providers that Walgreens has partnered with, including telemedicine companies, digital-enabled house call companies, and more traditional providers.
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Digital Health
JULY 23, 2018
Owen Tripp, Founder and CEO of Grand Rounds, was brought up by parents who taught him that you could do whatever you chose to do and that there was not one clear path to the right door. Owen has taken this to heart, starting adult life as a Spanish major and working his way through […].
Health Populi
JULY 27, 2018
Only 17% of Americans over 50 years of age shopped for groceries online by mid-2018. But older people in the U.S. have underlying demands and needs that could nudge them to do online grocery shopping, unearthed in a survey from AARP Foundation and IFIC , the International Food Industry Council Foundation. Typically, older Americans who shop online tend to be college-educated, work full-time, and earn higher incomes.
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Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 26, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Paddy Padmanabhan, founder and CEO, Damo Consulting, and author of “The Big Unlock“ “We’re sad to say goodbye.” That was the subject line of the message from Lantern, a behavioral health startup whose app and coaching services I had used for a while.
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
JULY 25, 2018
You saw the headline – America is running out of family caregivers. The numbers are daunting. Says Ken Dychwald in the WSJ article : “We’re going to have to look to nontraditional care,” says Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave, a consulting firm. "Older adults, he says, may have to take in boarders, who can help with shopping and repairs, or rely more on monitoring devices and delivery services.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 26, 2018
The House passed two bills this week that would expand the use of HSAs and delay the health insurance tax for two years, an issue insurers have frequently fought against.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 27, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Shawn Yates, director of product management, Ontario Systems. Impossible projects, crazy deadlines and short staffing present a bigger challenge than their own resolution: They draw focus away from important revenue cycle functions that maintain positive margins. Caring for the patient is, of course, the healthcare provider’s core mission.
Mobi Health News
JULY 25, 2018
Tel-Aviv, Israel-based Healthy.io has secured FDA 510(k) clearance for Dip.io, a home-based urinalysis kit that turns a smartphone into a clinical-grade diagnostic device. It’s the first smartphone-based urine test to secure clearance as a Class 2 device.
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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.
Mobile Health Matters
JULY 25, 2018
Gender inequality in the workplace is a systemic phenomenon that remains tough to crack, despite societal pressures driving increased scrutiny. Healthcare is no exception. In the past year and a half since we last reflected on the status of women in healthcare , statistics show more women in leadership roles. According to Rock Health Research, the number of female executives at Fortune 500 healthcare companies increased from 20 percent in 2015 to 22.6 percent in 2017.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
Google Cloud is partnering with NIH to help the agency create a "biomedical data ecosystem," according to NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak, Ph.D. The partnership is part of the agency's broader effort to improve data accessibility for medical researchers.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 24, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Chris Byers, CEO, Formstack. Patient satisfaction surveys are growing in popularity among healthcare organizations as the United States health system continues its transition to value-based care. A well-designed and distributed survey can help you discover hidden issues or gems in your organization’s care system.
Mobi Health News
JULY 23, 2018
Plano, Texas-based MediLynx, the US subsidiary of Poland's Medicalgorithmics, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its PocketECG CRS Mobile Cardiac Rehabilitation System.
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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.
Morning eHealth
JULY 25, 2018
21st Century Cures hearing on tap — New telemedicine bill introed
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
The nation's largest chiropractic association was joined by more than two dozen state and regional associations in calling on UnitedHealthcare to reverse a decision not to cover spinal manipulation for patients with migraines. ACA says the change is "fundamentally flawed" and ignore existing evidence.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 23, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors handle a variety of cases and prescribe treatments based on what’s readily available. As technology continues to evolve and impacts the healthcare industry in not too subtle ways, ENT doctors will need to learn about new methods and approaches in their practice.
Mobi Health News
JULY 25, 2018
23andMe on Wednesday announced that GlaxoSmithKline has invested $300 million to gain exclusive access to the genetic testing startup’s DNA database.
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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 Blawg
JULY 23, 2018
Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 23, 2018
A survey conducted by Forrester found Kaiser leading the pack of insurers in customer experience, followed by Humana and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield. Meanwhile, Centene's Health Net received poor marks because "many customers seem both confused and frustrated.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 23, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Win Whitcomb, MD, chief medical officer, Remedy Partners. The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced initiative is a new advanced alternative payment model (APM) that will go live October 1, 2018. The successor to the 2013 BPCI program, BPCI Advanced is CMS’ most significant episodic payment reform proposal to date, indicating the government’s […].
Mobi Health News
JULY 23, 2018
Dignity Health and the University of California San Francisco Health are teaming up to create a new navigational platform for patients. The organizations are working to create a platform that will help walk patients through all different care settings including primary, acute and specialist care.
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.
Health Blawg
JULY 23, 2018
Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 23, 2018
In a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers showed reduced mortality in patients where a sepsis protocol was followed within an hour's time. But as with all studies, it comes with a caveat.
Morning eHealth
JULY 23, 2018
ONC group seeks to narrow interoperability focus — Drug blueprint not obvious to most Americans
Mobi Health News
JULY 25, 2018
Telemedicine is getting a cameo on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. Set to premier tomorrow night, the show "Sharkwrecked" is set in shark infested waters of the Bahamas and features a pair of “survival experts” who agreed to spend two days on an inflatable boat without food or water. Needless to say, the situation prompted a host of medical concerns, from dehydration to drowning.
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Health Blawg
JULY 23, 2018
Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 22, 2018
With indoor and outdoor gardens and multicolored lighting along its balcony-lined atrium, the 300,000-square-foot Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida was recently recognized as the Most Beautiful Hospital in the U.S. Take a look.
care innovations
JULY 27, 2018
After many years in the telehealth business, with much of it spent out in the field working directly with our customers, I noticed a trend out of the most successful ones. The attribute that makes them successful is one of the same attributes that make any program successful — strong leadership. More specifically, I believe the common denominator in successful programs is courageous leadership.
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