FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Telehealth is touted for its potential to bring people care no matter where they are. But a location's laws can determine which telehealth services, if any, are available as well.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2018
This quarter's M&A action includes big names looking to move into digital health as well as more niche offerings absorbing their competitors.
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Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 5, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Most likely, in one of the few lucid moments you have in your hectic, even chaotic schedule you contemplate healthcare’s greatest problems, its most pressing questions that must be solved, obstacles and the most important hurdles that must be overcome, and how doing so would alleviate many of your woes.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Researchers look at the European EMR market share and UK efforts to make sense of the proliferation of apps in healthcare, while the European Commission starts its annual campaign to draw awareness to growing cybersecurity threats.
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Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here. (Our #SPM2018 series has more about the speakers and activities.). Angela Kennedy, EdD, and her daughter Grace have been speaking on the topic of data access and use since Grace, now 16, was 11 years old.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 5, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is ramping up its oversight of the organizations that inspect hospitals, healthcare providers and suppliers for compliance with the Medicare program. The changes come following a Wall Street Journal investigation last year found that some facilities with ongoing problems kept their accreditation, which pushed lawmakers to open an investigation of their own earlier this year.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 5, 2018
The investment, which is from an unnamed source, will go toward platform expansion as well as sales and marketing growth.
Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 5, 2018
CHIME gathers on the Hill — Life after opioids bill for Part 2?
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Massachusetts General and Catholic Health Initiatives teamed up with the American Hospital Association to find a way to better track and understand the dimensions of human trafficking. Here's more on the new ICD-10 codes they were able to get in order to do just that.
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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.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Hypoglycemia is a major concern. Symptoms can occur when blood sugar drops to dangerously low levels and can include blurry vision, shaking, fatigue, and seizures. Consistent with a plan first outlined in 2015, and contrary to the previous rule, the FMCSA will provide an assessment form to certified medical examiners for them to affirm a driver’s stable insulin regimen.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 5, 2018
A new class of insurers cut from the cloth of CVS-Aetna and Cigna-Express Scripts could face more pressure from large companies and coalitions fed up with the cost of healthcare. That means payers may have to start using Medicare Advantage profits to beef up their commercial offerings.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Company announces new partnerships, customers, and blockchain solution for the ultra-secure sharing of data among all healthcare 'things' with BlackBerry Spark BlackBerry today quickly followed the announcement of its flagship BlackBerry® Spark™ platform by announcing new partnerships and customer-driven projects that have a shared aim of transforming the global delivery of patient care enabled by the Enterprise of Things (EoT). "We are applying our expertise in security, data privacy, and c
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 5, 2018
CMS will pay Montana Health Co-op $1.2 million in missed CSR payments weeks after a key federal court ruling. But the final payment is less than a quarter of what the insurer said it was owed.
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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.
HIStalk Weekender
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Weekly News Recap. Cerner announces the partner companies that will serve on its VA EHR modernization team. Change Healthcare is reportedly preparing for a 2019 IPO that will value the company at up to $12 billion. A new Pew Charitable Trusts report on patient matching offers potential approaches that include unique patient identifiers that incorporate biometrics, placing more onus on the patient through verification via text message, and standardizing data elements.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Should they manage to retake the House, Democrats want to launch an investigation of the Trump administration's health policy. Plus, GOP senators are asking the CBO to re-estimate ACA figures using a new model and other news from the health payer world.
Health Intersections
OCTOBER 5, 2018
See over on the official FHIR Product Director’s Blog.
Health Populi
OCTOBER 5, 2018
In American health economics, there’s a demand side and a supply side. On the demand side, we’ve done a poor job trying to nudge patients and consumers toward rational economic decision making, lacking transparency, information symmetry, and basic health literacy. On the supply side, we’ve engaged in a medical arms race allocating capital resources to shinier and shinier new things, often without cost-benefit rationale or clinical evidence.
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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!
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