Fri.Nov 02, 2018

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AI triage chatbots trekking toward a standard of care despite criticism

Mobi Health News

Savvy hospitals like Boston Children’s and NHS facilities are working with chatbot startups to create new ways to interface with patients seeking care.

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Telemedicine’s ‘big day’

Morning eHealth

Apple watch heart study tops 400,000 enrollees — A boost for PCORI?

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Key to innovation in healthcare

Mobi Health News

Claus Duedal Pedersen, Chief Innovation Officer for the Centre for Innovative Medical Technology at the Odense University Hospital in Denmark, talks about shortening the road from academic research to the practical world of the healthcare system.

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American Hospital Association plans to sue CMS over final site-neutral payment rule

FierceHealthIT

The hospital organization announced its intent to sue the administration for overstepping its boundaries just hours after the CMS released a rule implementing new site-neutral payments for clinic visits. However, physician groups applauded the agency for advancing value.

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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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Critical components for implementing AI

Mobi Health News

Douglas Reding, MD, chief medical officer for Ascension Wisconsin and practicing oncologist, talks about Ascension's journey with its precision medicine task force, the need for AI support and the future of AI and machine learning.

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EMIS bets on Blockchain with acquisition of Dovetail Lab as key part of Technology Roadmap

Lloyd Price

EMIS Group, the UK leader in connected healthcare software and services, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Dovetail Digital Limited ("Dovetail Lab"), a leading early stage UK technology business specialising in blockchain software for the healthcare market, for an initial consideration of £2.5m. The acquisition is in line with the Group’s strategy of identifying sustainable long-term market opportunities delivering connected healthcare systems.

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Federal judge shuts down Florida company that collected more than $100M for sham health plans

FierceHealthIT

A Florida court has temporarily shut down a sham health insurer that collected more than $100 million from consumers and left tens of thousands of people uninsured. The FTC is seeking a permanent closure.

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TeleMedicine, Interoperability and AI: DataArt predicts 2019 Healthcare and Life Sciences trends

Lloyd Price

DataArt , a global technology consultancy, predicts that 2019 will be dominated by one major trend – exponential information growth, which stems from the population increase and motivates data scientists to improve algorithms, making them faster and more accurate. As data is the locomotive that pushes AI-based healthcare forward, DataArt executives foresee the following three AI trends for the healthcare industry for 2019: Telemedicine will broaden reach.

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Coalition releases new guidelines for palliative care for all provider settings

FierceHealthIT

A new set of clinical guidelines for palliative care aims to emphasize its value to patients of all ages to boost access and quality.

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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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For Diabetes Month, be conscious that language matters.

Society for Participatory Medicine

Deborah Greenwood. Lifetime SPM member Deborah Greenwood is a diabetes educator who has long believed in patient empowerment and participatory medicine. SPM welcomes posts authored by our members – see the guidelines. November is Diabetes Awareness Month. And November 14, 2018 is World Diabetes Day. Help us spread the word that the language we use in healthcare matters!

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Healthcare Roundup—First cannabis-derived drug on market; Suit claims Anthem ignored Cigna merger risks

FierceHealthIT

GW Pharmaceuticals announces doctors can begin prescribing drug derived from cannabis; Anthem faces shareholder suit and more healthcare headlines from around the web.

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Metformin May Improve Vascular Health in T1D Adolescents

Insulin Nation

Cardio vascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in people with T1D. This relates strongly to insulin resistance and both lean and obese T1D adolescents have marked insulin resistance. Metformin is known to improve surrogate markers of insulin resistance in T1D. The University of Colorado hypothesized that 1) T1D adolescents have impaired vascular function, and 2) metformin would improve their insulin resistance and vascular dysfunction.

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Healthcare Roundup—Legislators call for price transparency for insulin 

FierceHealthIT

The Congressional Diabetes Caucus has offered 11 policy recommendations to bring down insulin prices, plus more healthcare headlines.

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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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The Funding Spree for Neuroscience Startups: Venture Capital, Angel Investors, and Big Pharma betting big on Neuroscience

Lloyd Price

In recent news, neuroscience startups are receiving multi-million dollar investments. Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary study of the brain and nervous system. According to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, there are over 600 diseases of the nervous system. By 2050, the number of people aged 60 years or over is expected to grow to 2.1 billion globally, according to 2017 estimates by the United Nations.

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Allscripts ramps up Netsmart sale as Q3 losses reach $36M

FierceHealthIT

Allscripts is accelerating efforts to unload its stake in the post-acute and behavioral health platform Netsmart, a complex process that impacted bookings in the third quarter. Net losses reached $36 million but CEO Paul Black insisted the company is well-positioned for a post-Meaningful Use environment that emphasizes value-based care.

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Weekender 11/2/18

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. A ProPublica investigative article questions the VA’s selection of Cerner, its management of the implementation, its choice of questionably experienced project leadership, and the gap between the original lofty goals and the reality of what Cerner is delivering. Allscripts and NextGen Healthcare turn in disappointing quarterly results that sent shares sharply down.

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Enhancing Accessibility of Breast Cancer Treatment in South Africa with Refurbished MRI Scanners

KB Dental Consulting

According to much medical information written, breast cancer is still the second leading cause of death in woman. It has been, found that one in four South Africans would be affected with at least one diagnosis of cancer in their lifetime. It seems that breast cancer is the very common cause of death reason in women period. Be advised though that clinical observations recently have demonstrated that early detection has decreased mortality rates up to 50%.

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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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CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system

CMS.gov

CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. keya.joy-bush@…. Fri, 11/02/2018 - 21:32. Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Topic. Coverage. Medicare Part C. Medicare Part D. November 2, 2018. Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. If your instincts tell you something is too good to be true, then maybe it is.