Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Panelists at the Connected Health Conference in Boston spoke about the importance of digital health alliances and learning from countries sometimes ignored in the space.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
According to ISACA’s recently released 2018 Digital Transformation Barometer, some of the most hyped technology also is perceived to hold the highest risk and the highest potential benefit. Contributor Susan Snedaker takes a look at how those technologies can be used to successfully transform healthcare organizations and patient outcomes.
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KevinMD
OCTOBER 24, 2018
We have a new electronic medical health record system at our hospital. It was introduced with what I believe is a short and ineffective training program for physicians followed by a far too short on-location use of experts to help the doctors and nurses learn the new system. It is frankly a pain in the neck to access the computer from outside the hospital due to the multiple layers of.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 21, 2018
There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. The NHS celebrated its 70th anniversary in July this year. The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2018
Developed with brand consultancy firm Arcadia Group, the Choice product line will kick off with app-connected blood glucose and blood pressure monitors sold directly to consumers.
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Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 25, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Georgia Mitsi, PhD, MBA, senior director and head of digital healthcare initiatives, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. Innovation is not a choice but rather a growth mindset, which creates an environment for building a sustainable business. This mindset allows for objectivity and contributions towards a bigger shared purpose.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 24, 2018
One in three working-age people in the U.S. have seen a doctor about something stress-related. Stress is a way of American life, based on the findings in The United States of Stress , a survey from Everyday Health. Everyday Health polled 6,700 U.S. adults between 18 and 64 years of age about their perspectives on stress, anxiety, panic, and mental and behavioral health.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 23, 2018
The pharma company will also partner with Dexcom, Glooko, Roche and IBM Watson Health to help patients manage diabetes data.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Though digital technology has transformed nearly every corner of the economy in recent years, the health care industry seems stubbornly immune to these trends. That may soon change if more wearable devices record medical information that physicians can use to diagnose and treat illnesses at earlier stages. Last month, Apple announced that an FDA-approved electrocardiograph (EKG) will be included in the latest generation Apple Watch to check the heart’s electrical activity for signs of arrhythmia
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 25, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner, freelance writer, @faulknercreek. The proliferation of wearable mobile-connected devices has done a lot of good for people trying to lead healthier lives. People are able to gather data about their sleep to help them get better rest, track insomnia, stress, and exercise, and keep up to date on their own daily routines […].
Mobile Health Matters
OCTOBER 22, 2018
What is quality? The dictionary defines quality as “a peculiar and essential characteristic; an inherent feature; or a degree of excellence.” For many charged with leading quality in healthcare, quality is often measured as a success in certification, a successful audit, or decreasing rejections. Instead, quality should be measured by what is experienced directly by the customer, the “value added” of what was received, and/or the perception of provider that was involved in the interaction, as bo
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Speaking at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston, University of Texas System's Dr. Lynda Chin stressed the importance of connecting new technologies in addressing healthcare's failings.
Arizona Telemedicine Program
OCTOBER 23, 2018
There’s a lot of buzz in every industry around the Baby Boomer population these days. After all, this remarkably large group of adults is the biggest in history to face the issues of retirement and aging. That means aging Baby Boomers will bring challenges to our healthcare system over the next few years. One of the biggest issues at hand is the increasing shortage of healthcare professionals to meet this aging population’s needs.
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 23, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sudhir Singh, Coding Institute. Payers don’t accept deleted CPT codes, so your claims can’t succeed if your medical procedure codes are out of date. But do you know how often you need to update your CPT code set? It may be more often than you think. Here are some pointers to keep in mind to give your claims […].
Digital Health
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Dr. Carla Pugh does a lot of things. She is a trauma surgeon, entrepreneur, researcher and educator and is officially a professor of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine (she also went to UC Berkeley so Go Bears!). She is also Director of the Technology-Enabled Clinical Improvement Center at Stanford. Born into an entrepreneurial […].
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 23, 2018
The device maker's wearables and Fitabase's research platform are already being used in a Copenhagen University study on physical activity during pregnancy.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 23, 2018
More than 100 million people with pre-existing conditions could be facing an uncertain future if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, according to a new analysis by Avalere. Cardiovascular and mental health conditions were among the most prevalent diagnoses among those without a government-sponsored plan.
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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
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Experts say your data isn’t safe — Big data, meet fast machine
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 25, 2018
Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, also called gliflozin drugs, are a new class of diabetic medications. They work by reducing the absorption of glucose via the kidneys with the excess glucose urinated. The FDA has already approved Canagliflozin (Invokana, Invokamet, Invokamet XR) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Lexicon has completed Phase III trials for Type 1 Diabetes.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 25, 2018
On the Prince's trip to New Zealand and Australia he was seen donning the wearable which uses heart rate, motion and temperature sensors to track a user's sleep.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 26, 2018
A rule proposed late on Friday would enact several provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act, including one that would allow MA plans to offer more telehealth benefits than traditional Medicare.
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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Go forth and network this fall. Especially for startups, but useful for long-time members of the field, going to events can reveal contacts that you may need or initiatives that you did not know existed. Over next few months, there are a number of events around the country that are worth attending if schedules permit and interest areas match. Useful, besides sessions themselves, are exhibit areas where vendors offer new and existing solutions for the target audiences of the attendees.
Health System CIO
OCTOBER 24, 2018
It’s not the technology piece that’s most challenging for CIOs, but the people and process piece, says Daniel Barchi, a presenter at the upcoming CHIME18 Fall Forum. “The more we can share insights with one another, the better off we are.”.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 23, 2018
Researchers from Cambridge University found that an app that lets OCD patients watch themselves wash their hands or touch a dirty object helps reduce symptoms and cognitive flexibility.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 23, 2018
The FDA will hold a two-day public meeting in December, asking external advisers from the FDA’s Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committees to consider various options for increased naloxone availability.
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 22, 2018
? Consider CMS Five Star Rating system and how it ‘serves’ families. Rant on. No doubt you know someone who was baffled at how a terrible nursing home gets a 4 or 5 star rating from CMS’s Five Star Rating System , while a good one can appear to have a lower rating, applied from an inspection before management overhaul several years earlier. Why, you ask?
Telebehavioral Health Institute
OCTOBER 20, 2018
If you see a U.S. citizen and your communication channel is crossing state lines, say, New York to New Jersey through Pennsylvania to Ohio, none of the intermediate states count. You are not practicing in New Jersey or Pennsylvania. Ohio … Read more. The post Practicing Over State Lines with Telebehavioral Health & Telemental Health appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 25, 2018
The pair plan to develop a machine learning-based algorithm that can screen for a weak heart pump.
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