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CMS's 2019 proposal makes broad strides in telehealth, interoperability, documentation

Mobi Health News

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its new proposed Physician Fee Schedule and Qualified Payment Program updates for 2019, and the announcement includes some big strides forward in promoting digital health technology, including widened telemedicine coverage, an overhaul of documentation requirements, and a new focus on interoperability. (..)

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Fabric Secures $60M Series A to Streamline Care Experiences, Consolidating Fragmented Health Technology

Healthcare IT Today

Fabric streamlines virtual and in-person visits by employing intelligent adaptive interviews that automate symptom gathering and provider documentation, increasing provider efficiency 2-10x depending on the setting.

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Aging and Health Technology blog posts from January 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The report notes difficulty with financial and document management/editing – as well as limitations in using social networking and engagement technology. Issues have often been noted which act as as barriers to accessing services like telehealth for example.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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AAPC Expands Its Technology Solutions Portfolio with the Acquisition of Semantic Health

Healthcare IT Today

.” Based in Toronto , Semantic Health has made significant strides in streamlining manual auditing processes, reducing denials, and improving documentation quality for auditing teams. ” AAPC will work toward a seamless transition to continue supporting existing Semantic Health customers while growing the platform.

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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The Digital Health Corner

Relative to Ad specifically, I would reference the incredibly informative and moving award-winning film Alive Inside , documenting the response of patients with severe Ad to music relevant to their personal past. An intriguing interactive game/tool is Tovertafel , a Dutch technology which projects via suspended box visuals onto a table.

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Epic launches new telehealth service with Twilio

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. It was designed in collaboration with the nonprofit health technology organization OCHIN.