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Future of Pharma: Building the Right Environment for AI Success

GNS Healthcare

What does the future of pharma look like through the eyes of a technologist’s background? We were fortunate enough to find out at last month at our 2 nd annual GNS Forum. Shahram Ebadollahi, PhD, MBA who is the Global Head of Data Science and AI at Novartis AG, joined us to share his thoughts on how to bring the promise of AI to fruition for biopharma.

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The Monetary, Clinical and Ethical Value of Patient Data – A View from the UK and NHS

Health Populi

There are about 55 million patient records held by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). Their monetary value to private sector companies would be £5 billion and nearly that much in patient benefits. Add in value for patient outcomes, and the total approaches £10 billion. In today’s UK:US currency exchange rate, 10 billion British pound sterling is worth roughly $12 billion.

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Opinion: eHealth success and why user preferences matter

Mobi Health News

Achieving sustainable impact remains a key digital health challenge, and carefully exploring the preferences of patients might be part of the solution, argues Vasileios Nittas.

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Study shows more physicians are embracing telemedicine, especially in metro areas

Clocktree

The number of US physicians who list telemedicine as a skill doubled from 2015 to 2018, according to a recent study done by Doximity , a network of healthcare professionals. The study also reports significant growth in telemedicine patient visits, which increased annually by 261 percent between 2015 and 2017. Interestingly, this growth is not attributed solely to Millennials and young professionals, but is spread evenly among age groups.

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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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New Tech Tonics Episode: Sumit Nagpal,  At the Crossroads of Tech and Healthcare

Digital Health

Sumit Nagpal was born to a pair of healthcare entrepreneurs and raised in Kashmir, India. When he was 13, he came to the United States where he saw diversity for the first time. Sumit followed his parents into the Ivy League, starting at Brown, but left to follow his muse, Steve Jobs, at NeXT, where […].

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Indonesia’s Halodoc raises close to a total of $100M after latest funding round

Mobi Health News

Indonesia-based healthtech platform Halodoc announced that it has secured additional funding from strategic investors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Allianz X and Prudential. Allianz and Prudential provide insurance services in Indonesia and are users of Halodoc's services. The funds will be used to further Halodoc's commitment to simplify healthcare through technology in Indonesia.

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Reducing Medical Errors with A Nationwide Unique Patient Identifier

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health information management leaders told members of Congress today that removal of a nearly two-decade ban on the use of federal funds to adopt a nationwide unique patient identifier would allow collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the private sector to identify solutions for reducing medical errors and protecting […].

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UnitedHealth: Healthcare could save $32B annually by diverting avoidable ED visits

FierceHealthIT

One of the biggest contributors to the rising costs of healthcare is avoidable visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs), according to a new brief from UnitedHealth Group.

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Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386

Health Populi

This year, an employer-sponsored PPO for a family of four in the U.S. will cost $28,386, a 3.6% increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). Based on my annual read of this year’s Index, the PPO costs roughly the same as a new Dodge Charger or a year attending the engineering school at Alfred University. The Milliman MMI team has updated the methodology for the Index; the chart shown here is my own, recognizing that the calculations and assumptions beneath the 20

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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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New PBM programs offer road to validity, adoption for digital therapeutics

Mobi Health News

Vetting digital health products for distribution and reimbursement is another step forward for novel digital treatments hoping to stand alongside traditional biologics.

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Data, Data Everywhere, But It’s Still Confined In Silos

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By B.J. Boyle, vice president and general manager of post-acute insights, PointClickCare. As every nurse, physician, clinical case manager, and healthcare IT professional knows well, we have passed the stage in which locking up patient data is an effective care practice.

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Mounting battle between Amazon's PillPack and Surescripts over access to patient data

FierceHealthIT

When tech giant Amazon acquired online pharmacy PillPack last year it was considered a shot at the traditional drug supply chain. Now, it seems, incumbent players in the pharmacy industry are pushing back.

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Marketing Health To Consumers in the Age of Retail Disruption

Health Populi

Today, I am speaking with marketing leaders who are members of CHPA, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association on this very topic. This is CHPA’s 2019 Marketing Conference being held at the lovely historic Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, DE. The gist of my remarks will be to focus on the evolving retail health ecosystem, with my HealthConsuming lens on health/care, everywhere.

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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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PainChek pain recognition app granted US patent for pain assessment invention

Mobi Health News

Australian digital health company PainChek recently announced that the United States Patent Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for its pain assessment invention. This means that patent prosecution has been successfully completed. The US patent, when granted, gives PainChek exclusive rights to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing the invention for 20 years from the filing date in the US (February 17, 2017).

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How the Digital Transformation Is Changing What Is Required of Healthcare Professionals

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. The healthcare industry has long been known for its lengthy processes and difficult paperwork hoops. Much like the federal government, it has lagged behind other industries in updating technology to meet the expectations of modern system users.

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Healthcare data breaches cost an average $6.5M: report

FierceHealthIT

A healthcare data breach comes with a hefty price tag—$6.45 million on average. Healthcare organizations continue to have the highest costs associated with data breaches, more than 60% higher than the cross-industry average, according to IBM.

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Avoiding Delays in Neurological Diagnosis - The 1.0 Version

Christina's Considerations

It is commonly reported that Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and other variants are rare conditions. Data on the numbers of cases diagnosed are used to create rates among the general.

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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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Pinterest rolls out new tool aimed at helping users with anxiety, stress

Mobi Health News

The social media giant teamed up with researchers from the Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation to develop short digital exercises for stress.

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Empowering patients in the UK

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Empowering patients in the UK Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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Why supplemental benefits in MA mark a 'turning point' for Medicare policy 

FierceHealthIT

It’s crucial that the rollout of early supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage is done carefully to set a strong foundation to build from. A new report aims to help industry stakeholders do just that.

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WakeMed Goes Live with Interactive Mobile Wayfinding Platform

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. WakeMed is the first health system in central North Carolina to launch an mobile wayfinding and patient engagement app. The health system announced today that the platform – the WakeMed All Access App – is now live and available for patients and visitors to download for free to their smartphones via the App Store and […].

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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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MassBio talks what digital health can learn from biotech

Mobi Health News

MassBio's Luba Greenwood also discusses her decision to leave Verily in order to pursue teaching the intersection of life science and technology at Harvard.

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Joe Kvedar is new president-elect of American Telemedicine Association

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar to be its next president. He'll start a year-long term in April 2020. WHY IT MATTERS. Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and also served on its board for several years.

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More medical students than ever, but more residency slots needed to solve physician shortage, AAMC says

FierceHealthIT

While U.S. medical school enrollment has increased, averting a physician shortage now depends on more residency training slots, according to the results of an annual survey from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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Stella Technology’s Prism Analytics Platform Powers Inaugural Rochester RHIO Population Health Report

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Rochester RHIO has released its inaugural population health study—the Community Health Indicators Report—based on the analysis clinical data points from more than 600,000 screenings. The report provides a glimpse into residents’ well-being across New York State’s Greater Finger Lakes region, for which Rochester RHIO is the secure electronic health information exchange (HIE).

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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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Luba Greenwood leaves Verily to teach digital health leaders at Harvard

Mobi Health News

Greenwood, Verily's head of strategic business development and corporate ventures, discussed the importance of teaching the next generation about the convergence of industries within digital health.

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What NHS tells us about health IT

Morning eHealth

More on Klobuchar, Murkowski’s health data bill — Cerner Millennium won’t initially have all veterans’ data

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Amazon Web Services exec Partovi on where the biggest AI opportunities are in healthcare

FierceHealthIT

NEW YORK CITY—Amazon Web Services executive Shez Partovi, M.D., spoke with FierceHealthcare during the AWS Summit in NYC about the future of cloud computing, AI and machine learning and where he thinks AWS can make the biggest impact in healthcare.

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