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Just a quick note the say that I’ve made a couple of changes to the SMART client. There’s now an option to start the login process in a separate tab. This is needed because a number of sites I’ve been testing won’t let the login page open in an iFrame (it’s a security thing). MORE
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. MORE
Weekly News Recap. Apple’s Watch 4 OS update includes the ECG app and arrhythmia notification capability. Meditech acquires its London-based partner Centennial Computer Corporation as part of its creation of Meditech UK. MORE
National health care spending growth slowed in 2017 to the post-recession rate of 3.9%, down from 4.8% in 2016. Per person, spending on health care grew 3.2% to $10,739 in 2017, and the share of GDP spent on medical care held steady at 17.9%. Healthcare spending in America is a $3.5 MORE
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The company's technology uses machine learning to identify any major changes in patients' vitals MORE
The deal is part of a five-year $993.5 million contract between the DoD, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon MORE
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Walz pushes Wilkie on Mar-a-Lago — FDA clears opioid use disorder app MORE
Data Lakes have been around since the early part of this decade as most Fortune 500 companies have a Data Lake or are building a Data Lake. The drive to lake data has predominately been driven by analytical use cases where Data Scientists can wrangle and prepare data for their study or model building. However, Perficient is seeing a significant shift from just deploying Hadoop to support analytics use case to using Data Lakes for operational data processing use cases. MORE
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 MORE
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. Samir Mitragotri of Harvard University ( bio ). MORE
A significant challenge in quality improvement is demonstrating the return on investment in such initiatives, but a prioritization framework may help MORE
Tommy and Melodie Sevilla share the story of their T1D daughter Gracie’s diagnosis, treatment, and achievement. “Gracie’s leg hurt again. It happened often. What could a little girl be doing to hurt her leg? Then she was thirsty and listless. Finally, we looked up her symptoms on the web and took her to the pediatrician. We felt so guilty when we confirmed that she had T1D. She had been suffering, and we didn’t understand. ”. MORE
The companies will be applying ActiGraph's CentrePoint data analytics platform to Garmin's sensor-carrying wearables MORE
Data-release for machine learning from HHS, VA — Elsewhere in the administration MORE
The new technology will provide users with an AI guide that will lead them through CBT. MORE
Last September I started a blog series on data integration for Healthcare. The problem, it is impressively difficult to integrate data from one or more EMR systems into a cohesive analytical database. MORE
Aspen RxHealth, a Tampa-based company using a gig economy model to connect patients with pharmacists, has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Flare Capital Partners. An additional investor was an undisclosed strategic partner, a health plan in the United States. What they do MORE
As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. MORE
The company claims it is the first to work with the SEC to figure out how consumers could exchange health data for equity. MORE
199 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. MORE
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. MORE
Most people in the U.S. believe that the Federal government should ensure that their fellow Americans, a new Gallup Poll found. This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%. MORE
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. MORE
Associations call for patient access overhaul — The business MORE
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. MORE
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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. MORE
Islet transplants offer the hope of a permanent cure for Type 1 Diabetes. After nearly six years in stealth mode, Seraxis has emerged as a front-runner in the race to clinical islet deployment. MORE
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The new technology can detect anemia with 97 percent sensitivity by analyzing photos of a user's fingernail MORE
Your Apple a day — Electronic money transfers get attention MORE
The third-party analysis compared 10 telehealth providers' Google Play and App Store downloads over a four-and-a-half year period MORE
199 Who can and will be talking to their technology? Quite a few people will, though it is hard to get a real number – which is ironic, since Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung, etc. all know how many they have shipped. And they also know how many devices are back-ordered. MORE
The Digital Health Evidence Review, released by the Australian Digital Health Agency, has found that Australia is one of the few countries that is leading the way in giving people personal control of their own electronic health records (EHR). MORE
Health Populi
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Nearly one-half of Americans are quite concerned they won’t have enough money to pay for medical care, according to the latest Gallup poll. Health insurance in-security is mainstream as of November 2018, when Gallup polled U.S. adults about views on healthcare costs.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Aspen RxHealth, a Tampa-based company using a gig economy model to connect patients with pharmacists, has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Flare Capital Partners. An additional investor was an undisclosed strategic partner, a health plan in the United States. What they do
Health Populi
DECEMBER 11, 2018
As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape.
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.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Islet transplants offer the hope of a permanent cure for Type 1 Diabetes. After nearly six years in stealth mode, Seraxis has emerged as a front-runner in the race to clinical islet deployment.
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.
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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Perficient
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Last September I started a blog series on data integration for Healthcare. The problem, it is impressively difficult to integrate data from one or more EMR systems into a cohesive analytical database.
HAY on FHIR
DECEMBER 9, 2018
While FHIR is not a security standard ‘per se’, there are numerous references in the spec to security related matters – including a specific module in the specification. One of the recommendations made is about SMART – a defined way to use the OAuth2 Authorization framework in FHIR.
Health Populi
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Most people in the U.S. believe that the Federal government should ensure that their fellow Americans, a new Gallup Poll found. This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 11, 2018
The company claims it is the first to work with the SEC to figure out how consumers could exchange health data for equity.
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Associations call for patient access overhaul — The business
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.
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. Samir Mitragotri of Harvard University ( bio ).
Health Populi
DECEMBER 7, 2018
National health care spending growth slowed in 2017 to the post-recession rate of 3.9%, down from 4.8% in 2016. Per person, spending on health care grew 3.2% to $10,739 in 2017, and the share of GDP spent on medical care held steady at 17.9%. Healthcare spending in America is a $3.5
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2018
The companies will be applying ActiGraph's CentrePoint data analytics platform to Garmin's sensor-carrying wearables
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Data-release for machine learning from HHS, VA — Elsewhere in the administration
Aging in Place Technology Watch
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Who can and will be talking to their technology? Quite a few people will, though it is hard to get a real number – which is ironic, since Amazon, Google, Apple, Samsung, etc. all know how many they have shipped. And they also know how many devices are back-ordered.
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.
Story of Digital Health
DECEMBER 11, 2018
The Fourth Wave: Digital Health Newsletter — Dec 11, 2018 — No. My newsletter for Dec 11, 2018 is viewable here and inline text below, without images. Sign up for free, here. JOIN THE 65,000+ MEMBER DIGITAL HEALTH GROUP ON LINKEDIN!
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 10, 2018
The deal is part of a five-year $993.5 million contract between the DoD, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Your Apple a day — Electronic money transfers get attention
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 7, 2018
When people with Type 2 Diabetes start basal insulin treatment, the goal is to reach a lower fasting glucose target. Each person gets an initial insulin dose and the expectation is that this dosage will gradually increase until the fasting glucose target is reached.
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.
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.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 6, 2018
The new technology can detect anemia with 97 percent sensitivity by analyzing photos of a user's fingernail
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 11, 2018
Walz pushes Wilkie on Mar-a-Lago — FDA clears opioid use disorder app
HAY on FHIR
DECEMBER 12, 2018
Just a quick note the say that I’ve made a couple of changes to the SMART client. There’s now an option to start the login process in a separate tab. This is needed because a number of sites I’ve been testing won’t let the login page open in an iFrame (it’s a security thing).
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 11, 2018
A significant challenge in quality improvement is demonstrating the return on investment in such initiatives, but a prioritization framework may help
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Tommy and Melodie Sevilla share the story of their T1D daughter Gracie’s diagnosis, treatment, and achievement. “Gracie’s leg hurt again. It happened often. What could a little girl be doing to hurt her leg? Then she was thirsty and listless. Finally, we looked up her symptoms on the web and took her to the pediatrician. We felt so guilty when we confirmed that she had T1D. She had been suffering, and we didn’t understand. ”.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 12, 2018
The new technology will provide users with an AI guide that will lead them through CBT.
Morning eHealth
DECEMBER 7, 2018
VA promises telemedicine boosts — Apple ECG feature goes live
Perficient
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Data Lakes have been around since the early part of this decade as most Fortune 500 companies have a Data Lake or are building a Data Lake. The drive to lake data has predominately been driven by analytical use cases where Data Scientists can wrangle and prepare data for their study or model building. However, Perficient is seeing a significant shift from just deploying Hadoop to support analytics use case to using Data Lakes for operational data processing use cases.
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
Lloyd Price
DECEMBER 12, 2018
The Digital Health Evidence Review, released by the Australian Digital Health Agency, has found that Australia is one of the few countries that is leading the way in giving people personal control of their own electronic health records (EHR).
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 11, 2018
The company's technology uses machine learning to identify any major changes in patients' vitals
HIStalk Weekender
DECEMBER 7, 2018
Weekly News Recap. Apple’s Watch 4 OS update includes the ECG app and arrhythmia notification capability. Meditech acquires its London-based partner Centennial Computer Corporation as part of its creation of Meditech UK.
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