Mobi Health News
JULY 5, 2018
Interest in digital health is now sprouting up all over DC, from the president’s announcement of a new AI task force to FDA Commissioner’s shout out to digital health in his budget request.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
As the healthcare system moves toward a more value-based model of care and payment, policymakers and other stakeholders will need to take steps to ensure the equity of these new models, according to a new report.
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Mobi Health News
JULY 5, 2018
This week, the acquisition everyone’s talking about is Amazon’s reported billion-dollar deal to buy pharmacy startup PillPack. But that deal was just the capstone on a busy quarter with 15 digital health mergers and acquisitions. The area of digital health shaken up the most by deal activity this quarter was certainly telemedicine. Both Teladoc and American Well picked up smaller telehealth firms to shore up parts of their offerings, and the world of enterprise telemedicine also saw a merger,
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
The American Association of Medical Colleges says a Trump administration reversal on consideration of race in university admissions could threaten efforts to improve the diversity of the physician workforce.
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Mobi Health News
JULY 5, 2018
The money continues to roll in the digital health space this quarter. During the months of April, May, and June, MobiHealthNews reported on roughly 70 funding announcements totalling upwards of $2 billion. Artificial intelligence and telehealth remain popular choices for funders to invest in.
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Mobi Health News
JULY 5, 2018
Interest in digital health is now sprouting up all over DC, from the president’s announcement of a new AI task force to FDA Commissioner’s shout out to digital health in his budget request.
Morning eHealth
JULY 5, 2018
Cyber doings — EHR implementations can hurt patients
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
While patients prefer a doctor in a traditional white coat, they don’t care if their doctors have tattoos or piercings, a new study found.
Christina's Considerations
JULY 5, 2018
ZDoggMD, AKA Dr. Damania, is one of the coolest of the cool docs around. It does make me happy to see him weighing in on the topic of medical marijuana. Let him guide you through the haze and watch! I.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
The future of Medicaid in Nebraska appears to be in voters' hands, as advocates claim to have collected enough signatures to put Medicaid expansion on the November ballot.
Lloyd Price
JULY 5, 2018
The first half of 2018 brought record numbers in digital health funding. More than $6Bn has been raised so far this year across 414 deals – the largest deal count we’ve seen to date. Globally, investors are on track to nearly double their 2017 investments, demonstrating their long-term commitment as well as the overall growth potential in the market.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
Sen. Marco Rubio is planning to unveil a "conservative solution" for paid family leave. The Florida Republican pushed for an increase to the child tax credit in the GOP's tax reform legislation, passed last year.
Christina's Considerations
JULY 5, 2018
ZDoggMD, AKA Dr. Damania, is one of the coolest of the cool docs around. It does make me happy to see him weighing in on the topic of medical marijuana. Let him guide you through the haze and watch! I.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
In order to treat more people addicted to opioids, primary care practices need to step up, according to doctors.
Lloyd Price
JULY 5, 2018
For many biotech companies, mergers and acquisitions have become a cornerstone in building a robust pipeline that can ensure positive growth for years to come. Although 2017 was slow for M&A activity, analysts have predicted 2018 could be a return to a spending frenzy. 2017 was considered to be a lean year for M&A in biotech. BioSpace reported in January that there were 101 deals, down from 166 in 2015.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
In a call with reporters on Thursday, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the agency was using DNA testing to find parents who have been separated from their children at the border. That and other health news from around the web.
Lloyd Price
JULY 5, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) in health care has become the subject of both great promise and great hyperbole. Beyond buzzwords and a plethora of venture capital investments, AI and other mathematical techniques are beginning to emerge in a second wave of domain-specific systems of intelligence. The key missing factor has been a business model in the payer-and-provider community that enables the “best” (aka: most validated, most clinically proven, most workflow-integrated) models to drive an econ
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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!
FierceHealthIT
JULY 5, 2018
Clinicians who participated in MIPS in 2017 can now view their MIPS final score and performance feedback, plus more physician practice news.
Lloyd Price
JULY 5, 2018
I remember my first day as a foundation year doctor, 10 years ago. I was in bright and early to take over a list of patients on a gastroenterology firm. I met my senior house officer that morning with my clipboard and stethoscope. She marched us on to a ward round that included over a hundred patients. We had been on-call the night before and had multiple admissions ranging from chest pain to leg swelling.
ACA Times
JULY 5, 2018
2 minute read: The Trump Administration has been vocal about what it believes are its successful efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). At a recent campaign rally in Nevada in support of U.S. Senator Dean Heller, who is up for re-election in that state in November, Trump reflected on the critical no vote cast by U.S. Senator John McCain on the Republican party’s proposal to repeal and replace the ACA.
Lloyd Price
JULY 5, 2018
Supporting entrepreneurs across the digital health spectrum, Rock Health has released its findings relating the upward trajectory in digital health. From traditional to non-traditional players, innovation continues to drive the transformation of the healthcare industry and secure increased investment. Healthcare has witnessed a number of vertical integrations in H1, such as CVS & Aetna, Optum’s acquisition of the DaVita Medical Group, Humana and Kindred Healthcare, Cigna and Express Scripts
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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