Mon.Jul 08, 2019

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New Tech Tonics Episode: Imran Haque – Grounded Data Scientist

Digital Health

A computational biologist by training, Imran Haque has managed to achieve the near-impossible: embracing the promise of data science in medicine while retaining his critical faculties. He may well be just the sort of innovator required at the intersection of medicine and big data. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Imran says he grew […].

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UCB, DEARhealth team up on epilepsy initiative

Mobi Health News

The companies will be using DEARhealth's platform, which integrates AI into EHRs to predict health outcomes.

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Understanding and Overcoming Barriers To Precision Medicine

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Assaf Halevy, founder and CEO, 2bPrecise, LLC. Few healthcare leaders doubt that insights made available through precision medicine and genomics have the potential to vastly improve care and outcomes. But the industry struggles to overcome numerous barriers that, at first glance, seem to obstruct providers’ ability to fully leverage precision medicine.

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AdhereHealth deploys 'Papa Pals' to seniors, Providence St. Joseph Health adopts Microsoft's tech and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Varian's Noona app comes to Tennessee Oncology; DiA Imaging Analysis and Konica Minolta Healthcare Americas team up on unified offering.

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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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AI Is Not The Future, It’s Now

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Springer, senior vice president of healthcare solutions, CitiusTech; and Fernando Schwartz, vice president of data science and consulting, CitiusTech. As consumers, we experience artificial intelligence (AI) every day. In fact, we’ve come to expect the consumer experience it enables, such as Amazon’s highly personalized suggestions for additional items we might like.

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Why Mobile Wayfinding Is a Must Have For Patient Engagement

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joshua Titus, CEO and founder, Gozio Health. The role of mobile wayfinding solutions for hospital systems has quickly evolved from a novel service offered to an essential component of a patient-centric approach. The catalyst has been the growing importance of patient experience to meet both care and competitive standards.

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Security, control of data seen as key barriers to cloud adoption by pharma

Mobi Health News

There's continued resistance from many pharmaceutical industry executives, who think it's never possible to safely store sensitive data in the cloud.

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Kaiser Permanente develops machine learning tool to predict HIV risk

FierceHealthIT

Researchers at Kaiser Permanente developed a machine learning algorithm that more effectively identifies people at risk of contracting HIV compared to other HIV risk prediction tools. The analytical tool enables more at-risk patients to be referred for preventive medication.

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OpenNotes Hits New High, with 40 Million Patients Able to Access their Notes

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The OpenNotes organization has announced that 40 million U.S.

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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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Industry Voices—10 tips for safeguarding patient data properly

FierceHealthIT

Although threats are very real to all industries including critical infrastructure, government, financial services and others, healthcare has the biggest target on its back today. Here are 10 future-proof cybersecurity tips for healthcare organizations.

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Thoughts about updating Registries

HAY on FHIR

In New Zealand we are lucky enough to have had a national patient registry for some years which serves as a unique identifier of patients in New Zealand – the National Health Index or NHI. The Registry is an instance of an EMPI (Enterprise Master Patient Index) and currently exposes a SOAP interface that can be accessed by clients across a protected network.

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Providence St. Joseph Health, Microsoft form strategic alliance to leverage cloud, AI technology

FierceHealthIT

Providence St. Joseph Health has formed a multiyear strategic alliance with tech giant Microsoft to modernize its health IT infrastructure across its entire system and leverage cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to improve health outcomes and reduce the total cost of care.

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E-health in Korea: Moving care beyond the hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: E-health in Korea: Moving care beyond the hospital Featured Decision Content: Sponsor: KHIDI

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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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Global EHR market hits $31B but faces usability, interoperability challenges

FierceHealthIT

The worldwide electronic health records market faces intensifying criticism related to usability and interoperability as well as slowing growth due to market saturation. Despite these challenges, the EHR market topped $31 billion in 2018, according to a report from market research firm Kalorama Information.

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How VRI (Video Remote Interpretation) Is Improving Healthcare Quality in Acute Care Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by David Fetterolf, President of Stratus Video. The need for language services in healthcare is widespread. Each day, providers are encountering a larger number of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Both the frequency and number of languages requested have increased significantly in recent years. The Agency for […].

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3 things to know as federal appeals court prepares to weigh in on ACA's perilous future

FierceHealthIT

A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments this week on a case that could upend the entire Affordable Care Act. Here's what you need to know about where the case stands.

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Net Health to Acquire Optima Healthcare Solutions, Expanding Its Purpose-Built Electronic Medical Record Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Net Health, the leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for specialized outpatient care, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Optima Healthcare Solutions (Optima), the premier provider of cloud-based electronic medical record software for contract therapy companies, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, outpatient therapy clinics, home health therapy providers and […].

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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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ONC deputy national coordinator stepping down to take Salt Lake City VA post

FierceHealthIT

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's deputy national coordinator, Jon White, M.D., is stepping down from the agency's leadership position in August, according to agency chief Don Rucker, M.D. in an email to staff on Monday.

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Fertility tracking apps: hyped and inaccurate?

Morning eHealth

Q&A with gerontologist Louise Aronson — Obamacare arguments: week preview

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UC Health appoints first chief data and analytics officer

FierceHealthIT

Cincinnati-based UC Health has tapped Michael Legg as its first chief data and analytics officer for the health system to accelerate data-driven decision making across the health system.

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Measuring Satisfaction in Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 14

Healthcare IT Today

For the 14th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Measuring Satisfaction in Healthcare. We all know a great experience when we see it, but measuring it across an organization is a really hard thing to do. Thus, we thought it would be a great topic for a podcast. In this episode, we […] Measuring satisfaction in any industry is a challenge.

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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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Monthly ACA Compliance Can Help Employers Avoid IRS Penalties

ACA Times

4 minute read: As the IRS rolls out Letter 226J penalty notices for the 2017 tax year, those of you who have a monthly compliance process in place to address your organization’s responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act should be glad you took the time to put such a process in place. It is likely that those organizations with a monthly process in place will not be receiving IRS penalty notices.

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6 Ways to Drive Higher Medicaid Reimbursement with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

Almost a third of physicians don’t accept Medicaid patients. Most offer the same reasons: Medicaid reimbursement rates are typically lower than other insurers and the documentation requirements can be burdensome. Many providers also find their Medicaid patients are more medically complex and often fail to comply with treatment. Because many have unstable employment, transportation and housing situations, they tend to have the highest rate of no-shows, costing the United States as much as $150

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Reducing Readmission Rates in Healthcare

HealthStream

Hospital readmissions affect staffing, revenue and care quality. But, readmission rates vary greatly by hospital and by state, providing us with an indication that we might have the opportunity to reduce rates by improving hospital processes. Learn more.

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Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

eVisit

Our team at eVisit is always trying to keep up with the latest healthcare news, trends, and issues that matter to physicians. Needless to say, this requires a lot of time reading and doing information gathering on the web. Before you scroll ahead why not request a demo to see the benefits of eVisit's enterprise virtual care engagement platform? The blogs listed below are in no ranking order.

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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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Trump hints at executive order to create 'favored nation' clause to tie drug prices to low prices paid overseas

FierceHealthIT

President Trump hinted on Friday that the White House will soon deliver an executive order to create a “favored nations” clause to ensure the U.S wouldn’t pay more for drugs than other countries, but he could need Congress’ help.

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