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Death by 1,000 clicks: Where electronic health records went wrong

KevinMD

The pain radiated from the top of Annette Monachelli’s head, and it got worse when she changed positions. It didn’t feel like her usual migraine. The 47-year-old Vermont attorney turned innkeeper visited her local doctor at the Stowe Family Practice twice about the problem in late November 2012, but got little relief. Two months later, […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Data Liquidity: 3 Challenges To Preventing the Simple Exchange of Health Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David A. Watson, chief executive officer of Akiri, and former CTO, Kaiser Permanente. The American Medical Association (AMA) identifies one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today as the secure sharing and use of trusted health data in real time across the complex U.S. healthcare ecosystem.

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Depression, smoking cessation apps fall short on privacy and data sharing transparency

Mobi Health News

Researchers found that 33 out of the 36 apps studied shared data with third parties. However, around half of those apps failed to properly disclose the transmission policy.

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Latest Tech Tonics Podcast: From Farm to Negotiating Table – James Dromey of the Murdoch Royal Children’s Institute

Digital Health

Dr. James Dromey was supposed to be a farmer in County Cork, Ireland and has the milking experience to prove it. But apparently cows were not his destiny, even though he was a farm family’s only son. Instead, James left the farm for the teeming metropolis of Galway and never looked back. Today he is […].

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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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Study: Speech recognition technology combined with AI could help detect PTSD

Mobi Health News

In a recent study published in the journal of Depression and Anxiety, a voice-analyzing AI was able to detect, with 89% accuracy, if a subject presented with PTSD.

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Virtual, brick-and-mortar combination fertility focused startup Kindbody raises $15M

Mobi Health News

RRE Ventures and Perceptive Advisors led the round with participation from Green D Ventures, Trail Mix Ventures and Winklevoss Capital.

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Industry Voices—Where is PT in the national debate over pain management and opioids?

FierceHealthIT

As a safe and nonpharmacological form of treatment, physical therapy (PT) has the potential to become one of the many risk-free alternatives to opioid-based pain management regimens.

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Ending siloed medical software is a joint responsibility

Mobi Health News

Although providers and vendors have fallen short so far, each will need to cooperate if new healthcare technologies are to proliferate.

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Emergency department visits, hospitalizations of uninsured down post-ACA: study

FierceHealthIT

Following the rollout of the Affordable Care Act, emergency department and hospitalizations by uninsured patients have decreased, a new study shows.

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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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NHS trust expands use of robot technology for medicine dispensing

Mobi Health News

The trial was initially launched at the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust last year.

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CBO: More than 1M have lost health coverage since 2016

FierceHealthIT

More than 1 million people have lost health coverage since 2016, a trend that is due in part to a substantial decline in the number of people buying off-exchange plans, according to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office.

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Surgical support software maker ExplORer raises $5M

Mobi Health News

ExplORer Surgical's platform offers support for providers and medical device makers alike.

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Industry Voices—How to rethink benchmarking to achieve performance transparency in healthcare

FierceHealthIT

To keep up with progress in data, benchmarking needs software automation that removes subjective bias, delivers a broad array of insight types in shareable English and uncovers relevant context that can guide evaluation and subsequent decision-making and action. Here's a look at how.

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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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Tufts, Eskenazi to investigate blood clot wearable, Australian university using Coviu's telehealth tech in class and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Sutter Health, UPMC, DNAnexus launch genomic multiple sclerosis study; Health iPass joins athenahealth's Marketplace.

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Industry Voices—5 things the government should do to clear the path for value-based rebate arrangements

FierceHealthIT

How do value-based arrangements survive, much less proliferate, in Medicare Part D if rebates other than point-of-sale price reductions are no longer protected under the safe harbor regulations? Here are some ideas of what HHS needs to do.

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Healthcare Trend Watch — Digital healthcare organizations are emerging

HealthStream

Digital transformation requires rethinking business processes of all kinds. It’s fundamentally about using digital technologies and data to put the customer/patient at the center of your business.

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Industry Voices—So we're charging doctors for their role in the opioid crisis. What about employers?

FierceHealthIT

The majority of employers have been unknowingly contributing to the opioid crisis. They spend nearly $20,000 for family healthcare coverage per employee, and instead of taking a closer look at what exactly they’re paying for, most just accept whatever their insurance carriers put forward.

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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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HHS extends interoperability comment window

Morning eHealth

Will DEA rulemaking delay telemedicine medication-assisted treatment?

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A New Normal - Administrator to Patient & Beyond

Christina's Considerations

Three years ago, I decided it was time to walk away from my healthcare career and find something new. I was no longer being challenged and the long daily commute was wearing on my aging body. It was a hard.

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Medicare trustees: Hospital fund set to run out by 2026 

FierceHealthIT

Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is set to run out in the next seven years, according to a new report.

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How Telehealth Is Revolutionizing Mental Health Care

InTouch Health

Increase Access to Mental Health Services with Telehealth Technology and Services Mental illness continues to be a major concern in the United States and across the globe. These conditions are debilitating for some patients, forcing them to miss out on work and life experiences. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S. and globally, anxiety and depression account for an estimated $1 trillion in lost economic activity.

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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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CMS announces new primary care models payment models aimed at greater shared risk

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration has unveiled a new set of payment models aimed at boosting value in primary care, which it plans to launch next year.

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CMS Report Shows a Stabilizing ACA

ACA Times

2 minute read: The latest open enrollment period report for the 2019 plan year from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) shows that the Affordable Care Act marketplace is actually stabilizing, despite the removal of the ACA’s Individual Mandate penalty starting this year. The 2019 Exchange Open Enrollment Period Final Report issued by CMS found that the average total premiums for plans dropped by 1.5%, the first decline since 2014 when the exchanges first opened.

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HHS' Giroir on administration's HIV effort: Funding awards to begin as early as this summer

FierceHealthIT

Federal officials expect efforts to reduce new HIV infections to begin in earnest as early as this summer following President Donald Trump's announcement of a public health initiative aimed at bringing an end to the HIV epidemic in the U.S. within 10 years.