Mon.Jul 02, 2018

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Security report details vulnerability across 3,000-plus apps, with health records at risk

Mobi Health News

A security vulnerability affecting more than 3,000 mobile apps is exposing more than 4 million protected health records that include prescription details and sensitive chat messages, according to a report from mobile app security firm Appthority.

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Diabetes and Independence Day: An Inflection Point for Rising Blood Sugar

Health Populi

In the USA, July 4th celebrates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776. For people with diabetes, July 4th is also an inflection point when blood glucose spikes and kicks off a rise in blood sugar levels through autumn to New Year’s Eve. The team at Livongo observed this by mining 20 million blood glucose measures among its community of people with diabetes.

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Blending high touch with high tech, Healthy Interactions adds diabetes, CVD modules

Mobi Health News

Healthy Interactions, a population health company that offers both digital and in-person programs for chronic disease management and education, announced last week that it has added two new programs, for cardiovascular disease and depression, to its portfolio.

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Artificial Intelligence and Dentistry

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Dental health has always been an important aspect of your overall well-being. While most people may perceive dentistry as a means to improve one’s aesthetic, this is but an extra perk of visiting your dentist regularly. There are a wide variety of diseases and they all function the same way —through infection.

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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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Online men's health platform Hims closes $50M funding round

Mobi Health News

Hims has recently gained a lot of traction for its business of discretely sending men’s health products and medications through the mail, and as of last week the San Francisco-based startup landed another $50 million in funding. According to Bloomberg, which first reported the funding, the money will be put towards growing its prescription drug business.

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NHS looks towards privacy, Nomad Health expands to the Midwest and other digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

The NHS is looking to ramp up its patient data security, after signing a contract with software company Privitar for its de-identification technology. The new technology will help prevent a person’s identify from being connected to their information.

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Senators press PBMs to clarify Azar's ‘extremely disturbing' drug pricing allegations

FierceHealthIT

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tina Smith, D-Minn., have sent letters to nine pharmacy benefit managers following HHS Secretary Alex Azar's comments that PBMs are preventing drug companies from lowering list prices. The lawmakers noted that Azar's comments "directly contradict" statements from the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association.

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It's time for a healthcare cybersecurity reality check

Mobi Health News

Toby Gouker, CISO at First Health Advisory Solutions, says the bad guys have decided to pick on the healthcare community, which means there is little time for the industry to shore up its defenses.

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VA looks to scrap Epic scheduling contract

Morning eHealth

ERs are getting more violent — MIPS news

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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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Pro tips: Security considerations for managing mobile devices in a hybrid cloud infrastructure

Mobi Health News

Winston Armstrong, CISO at the San Diego Super Computer Center, and Sandeep Chandra, director of health cyberinfrastructure at the same center, both tout the benefits of a hybrid cloud with medical devices in terms of security as well as analytics. But key safeguards are needed to keep it secure.

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Digital health funding shows no signs of tapering off with $3.4B invested in first half of 2018

FierceHealthIT

After a record-breaking year, digital health funding is showing no signs of slowing down, with $3.4 billion flowing into the industry during the first six months of 2018 drawing capital from more experienced investors.

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Joe Kvedar, Humanizing Healthcare through Connected Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Joe has a couple of books out, is an active blogger at The cHealth Blog , and chairs the Connected Health conference.

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Intermountain Healthcare to put $12M toward issues like housing, food insecurity

FierceHealthIT

Intermountain Healthcare is spearheading a new alliance with a focus on the social determinants of health. The Utah Alliance for the Determinants of Health will be led by the health system in Ogden and St. George, Utah, and it could expand to other regions if the initial pilot is a success.

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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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Joe Kvedar, Humanizing Healthcare through Connected Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Joe has a couple of books out, is an active blogger at The cHealth Blog , and chairs the Connected Health conference.

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CMS proposal builds remote patient monitoring into home health reimbursement

FierceHealthIT

Under a proposed rule released by CMS on Monday, home health agencies would be able to include remote monitoring equipment in cost reports that the agency uses to determine Medicare reimbursement rates, a move officials hope will incentivize providers to invest in new technology. Meanwhile, the agency also asked stakeholders to weigh in on an interoperability requirement.

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Joe Kvedar, Humanizing Healthcare through Connected Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Joe has a couple of books out, is an active blogger at The cHealth Blog , and chairs the Connected Health conference.

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Allscripts seeks arbitration in class-action ransomware suit

FierceHealthIT

Allscripts has asked a federal judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit filed after January's ransomware attack. In a court filing last week, the company said the dispute should be resolved in arbitration and took a dig at Surfside for not having the appropriate contingency plans in place.

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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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Joe Kvedar, Humanizing Healthcare through Connected Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Joe has a couple of books out, is an active blogger at The cHealth Blog , and chairs the Connected Health conference.

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How an Ohio health system says it cut opioid prescriptions for acute pain by 62%

FierceHealthIT

The public health system in the Cleveland region also said it was able to reduce opioid prescriptions for chronic pain by 25%.

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Joe Kvedar, Humanizing Healthcare through Connected Health — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

I had a wide-ranging conversation with Joe Kvedar, VP, Connected Health at Partners Healthcare in Boston, where he is leveraging personal health care technologies to improve health care delivery and help providers and patients manage chronic conditions, maintain health and wellness and improve adherence, engagement and clinical outcomes. Joe has a couple of books out, is an active blogger at The cHealth Blog , and chairs the Connected Health conference.

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Humana, private equity firms complete acquisition of Kindred Healthcare

FierceHealthIT

Humana, along with TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson Anderson and Stowe, closed a $4.1 billion deal for Kindred Healthcare. Humana now owns a 40% stake in the new standalone business Kindred at Home, which combines the Kindred's home health, hospice and community care businesses.

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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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No Longer On the Margins: Increasing Diversity One Story at a Time

Insulin Nation

At seventeen, Ariel Smith began to experience increased thirst, frequent urination, and weight loss, which she first interpreted as a sign of “getting fit.” It was only after a trip to visit her older sister at college that she thought there might be something wrong, based on how uncomfortable she felt during the entire trip. She sought medical attention and was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

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Atlantic Health System joins forces with MedExpress to expand access to urgent care

FierceHealthIT

New Jersey-based Atlantic Health System is teaming up with MedExpress to coordinate care between urgent care centers and the integrated delivery system. The collaboration is part of the industry's growing focus on strategic partnerships and nontraditional outpatient sites of care.

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What is Telehealth?

iSALUS Healthcare

Time and time again it is said that technology has transformed healthcare. Members of the medical community have seen telehealth inch its way into the field over the years and it is not going anywhere any time soon. While care providers are familiar with the terms telehealth, it is important to fully understand what exactly it is, how it’s weaving its way through health care and how it can be used to better a practice.

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Health IT Roundup—Amazon gets health data with PillPack purchase; HIPAA criminal charges on the rise

FierceHealthIT

Beyond an online pharmacy, Amazon's acquisition of PillPack offers up a trove of new data, which comes with new compliance concerns. Plus, HIPAA criminal prosecutions are on the rise and Cerner settles another lawsuit tied to overtime pay.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Goldman Sachs : Why healthcare is finally chasing consumers

Lloyd Price

From consumers’ growing influence and vertical consolidation to the shift to value-based care and questions around drug pricing policy, there’s a lot going on in the healthcare industry. Jo Natauri, global head of healthcare investing in Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, joins us in the studio to discuss what corporations and investors are focused on. "Operating-wise, these businesses are performing really well,” Natauri says.

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Healthcare Roundup—Patients to have more—and more expensive—options on ACA exchanges

FierceHealthIT

Consulting firm Avalere Health projects that plans sold on the exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act will cost more this year. That and other headlines from around the web.

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What the Pew Data on Americans’ Views on Technology Means for Healthcare

Health Populi

Most Americans say that pharmaceutical manufacturers, banks, advertisers, energy firms, and tech companies have too much power and influence in today’s American economy, according to Public Attitudes Toward Technology Companies , a research report from the Pew Research Center. A plurality of Americans says labor unions and farming and agriculture have too little power, along with a majority of people who believe that small business lacks sufficient power in the current U.S. economy.

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