KevinMD
JANUARY 18, 2019
With nearly 80 percent of internet users searching online for health-related information, it’s no wonder the catchphrase “Dr. Google” has caught on, to the delight of many searchers and the dismay of many real doctors. What’s received little attention from physicians or the public is the company’s quiet metamorphosis into a.Read more. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 16, 2019
The Fitbit BYOD program is the first digital health initiative launched within the NIH's project to build a longitudinal database of 1 million Americans.
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 17, 2019
The sensor-embedded pill will be used to treat and monitor colorectal cancer patients receiving care at Fairview Health Services.
Health Populi
JANUARY 18, 2019
I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks. We’ll start with the centerpiece that will provide the overall context for this post: that’s the ongoing research of Gerard Anderson and colleagues under the title, It’s Still
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Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 17, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Jayne Warwick, director of market insights, PointClickCare. The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is more than just a new name attached to Medicare payment reform. The shift from Resource Utilization Group (RUG) IV to PDPM moves the skilled nursing reimbursement model away from therapy provision as its main driver.
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 17, 2019
The collaboration will investigate heart health outcomes and medication adherence among seniors, and is scheduled to begin in 2019.
eVisit
JANUARY 17, 2019
What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 17, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Amy Sklar, SVP of advanced manufacturing communities, UBM. As reported by Rock Health’s Midyear Funding Review, 2018 got off to a roaring start with $3.4 billion for digital health funding in the first six months of the year. All indicators point to continued momentum in 2019, as startups and veteran companies alike work to […].
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 15, 2019
In May, Kaiser Permanente announced it was putting $200 million into projects to address homelessness as part of a broader strategy to confront some of the major social and environmental factors impacting health in its community. On Tuesday, officials unveiled its first projects.
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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.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 15, 2019
A healthcare and technology survey found that 80 percent of respondents would be more likely to visit a doctor or seek treatment if they could see out-of-pocket cost on their smartphone.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 17, 2019
CES 2019 – Gone but certainly not forgotten. Multiple blog posts and articles have surfaced since CES 2019 – including some offerings that should be recapped here. No doubt they would have been viewed in person with more time and better tennis shoes at the Sands Convention Center. There was ANOTHER convention center (LVCC) and various hotel events that remained sight unseen.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 15, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner, freelance writer. With new technology comes to new terminologies, like cybersecurity. Unfortunately, this new technology also spawns the creation of new methods to bypass security measures. And while data breach may not be a new term or even a new problem, in 2019, it’s become a massive issue, particularly in the healthcare […].
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 17, 2019
CareDox and Children's Hospital Colorado are betting on the increasing role of schools in healthcare by taking an in-school asthma management program nationwide. It could save lives and save the system a lot of money, they said.
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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.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 18, 2019
While the HIMSS Global Conference is often thought of as a health IT conference for physicians and CIOs, the annual event actually caters to a wide variety of stakeholders in healthcare including entrepreneurs, investors, informaticists, and a wide variety of clinicians and executives.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JANUARY 17, 2019
CES 2019 – Gone but certainly not forgotten. Multiple blog posts and articles have surfaced since CES 2019 – including some offerings that should be recapped here. No doubt they would have been viewed in person with more time and better tennis shoes at the Sands Convention Center. There was ANOTHER convention center (LVCC) and various hotel events that remained sight unseen.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 15, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell. The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 to give safety net providers — those that deliver a significant level of both healthcare and other health-related services to the uninsured, Medicaid, and other vulnerable populations — discounts on outpatient drugs to “stretch scare federal resources as […].
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 14, 2019
Insurance groups lauded a proposed move to give states more flexibility in determining network adequacy. However, they raised concerns about changes to federal rates setting standards.
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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!
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 18, 2019
Social determinants of health, platform plays, and big data were three standout trends.
TheraNest
JANUARY 15, 2019
When Can Client Confidentiality be Broken? As a therapist, your relationship with your clients has therapeutic, economic, and legal dimensions. These relationships are governed by laws which require confidentiality on your part as a therapist. Confidentiality is a legal construct which prevents the disclosure of the events of therapy. Therapist confidentiality gives the client the assurance they can share whatever they want with you.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 16, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. With AI increasingly playing a role in healthcare, and the cost of insurance continuing to rise, it’s no surprise that people might be feeling a little bit disillusioned and confused as to what to expect this year. However, as the pace of technology continues to accelerate, as does the political situation, it’s all the more […].
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 16, 2019
A new study mapping ICD-10 diagnostic codes to antibiotic prescriptions found that almost a quarter of prescriptions were likely inappropriate for the conditions noted. And that’s probably a conservative estimate.
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.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 15, 2019
Charlotte Yeh, chief medical officer at AARP, discusses the assets of age and which technologies could help address isolation and loneliness.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
JANUARY 14, 2019
The Telebehavioral Health Institute (TBHI) is honored to bring you the first of a series of video moments to advance your understanding of telebehavioral health, telemental health, and distance counseling. This first TBHI video training segment was recently recorded at one … Read more. The post Telehealth Reimbursement: Legally and Ethically Practicing Over State Lines Using a Consultative Model appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 16, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Now that it’s January gym memberships are bought by the thousands and cutting sugar becomes popular. And now that its January of 2019, times have changed. Technology has become advanced in ways that health-related resolutions have actually become more manageable. You no longer have to juggle the paper and pen while flipping through a booklet […].
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 15, 2019
UnitedHealth Group earned $4.5 billion in the fourth quarter, bringing full-year earnings to $17.3 billion, the company announced in its earnings report on Tuesday morning.
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 14, 2019
ClassPass will shut down GuavaPass' service in markets where the two companies were competing, and maintain the latter company's other operations under the ClassPass name "until further notice.
Lloyd Price
JANUARY 13, 2019
UK Medtech TestCard basked in the glory of star status at the world's most important (and biggest) trade fair this week; CES (Consumer Electronics Show). The company, which was exhibiting in Eureka Park, picked up the 'Top Emerging Technology' Award at the show, beating off competition from 4,500 exhibitors, as over 200,000 delegates descended on Las Vegas for the annual tech extravaganza.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 16, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Greg Waldstreicher, CEO, PHIflow. Healthcare organizations face unprecedented compliance challenges when it comes to managing business associate agreements (BAAs) amid frequent data breaches, heightened federal scrutiny and anticipated privacy legislation. Actions by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have clearly demonstrated stricter enforcement of HIPAA rules in recent years, and the industry has already […].
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