Interoperability, cloud, consumerization were hot topics at HIMSS19
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Patient engagement and the consumerization of health also held court this week in Orlando.
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HIMSS19: Loud and clear message from feds on patient data: It belongs to patients
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Federal healthcare officials put industry stakeholders on notice this week that patient data belongs to patients, and efforts to block patients' access to their data will not be tolerated.
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Telemedicine: An Ideal Solution for Native Americans with Diabetes
eVisit
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Indian Health Services (IHS): A Quick Primer. Prior to 1849 the responsibility for providing healthcare to the Native American population fell to the War Department. After 1849 that duty went to the newly created Bureau of Indian Affairs, the federal department in charge of managing the over 55MM acres of federal lands held in trust for Native Americans and Alaskan tribes.
Retail uses tech and data to engage its consumers — why can't healthcare?
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Humana's chief medical officer said that healthcare already has the tools it needs to anticipate patients' needs and close gaps in care.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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VR Re-invents Empathy, Hospitalization and Vision Loss Treatment
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Tatyana Shavel, technology analyst, Iflexion. The essential purpose of virtual reality or VR is to shut down the real world and immerse a person into a different environment, be it a fantasy or just a place far away. While it is mostly used in entertainment, this technology gets wide adoption across other industries, including construction, […].
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CMS looks to expand Medicare coverage to CAR-T therapy
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to cover an emerging immunotherapy for cancer patients, it announced on Friday. CMS intends to allow Medicare to pay for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, in which oncologists use a patient’s own immune system to attack a tumor.
VR flythrough helps surgeons, patients alike prepare for surgery
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
At Hoag Hospital in California, the same technology is paying dividends for patient engagement and surgical outcomes.
Study: Payers slowly migrating toward value-based reimbursement
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
A recent survey shows payers migrating toward a value-based reimbursement model, but clear discrepancies exist among adoption rates.
Smart Life Finland programme for health and wellbeing to be launched in March
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Business Finland is setting up a four-year programme to support the country’s companies and research organisations create novel services for health and wellbeing and expand internationally, offering a total of €80m-€100m in funding for research, development and innovation projects. It is the agency’s second initiative in this space, following a programme that aims to create new opportunities for international business and innovation around individualised healthcare platforms.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
Costly specialty drugs drive higher spending on provider-administered treatments, study finds
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Spending per member in commercial plans on medical pharmacy drugs increased by nearly 20% between 2016 and 2017, due in part to the growing number of emerging therapies with high price tags.
Looking for that one story: Not Impossible Labs founder on making the impossible, possible
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Mick Ebleing, founder of Not Impossible Labs, talked about his journey from video producer to healthcare innovator at HIMSS19.
HIMSS19: Mayo Clinic expands voice capabilities to provide care, potentially diagnose disease
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Mayo Clinic continues to innovate with voice assistant technology to provide healthcare services while also exploring the potential to use voice as a diagnostic tool for telemedicine.
CMMI’s new emergency treatment experiment
Morning eHealth
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Upcoming anti-vaxxing hearings — FTC negotiating privacy fine with Facebook
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
KFF: ACA significantly narrowed disparities in coverage for people of color—but those trends may be reversing
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has significantly narrowed the disparities in coverage experienced by people of color, according to a study released by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
Wave a Wand to Improve T1D Awareness
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
We spoke with Sequilla who is 17, lives in Victoria BC, and has had T1D since she was 2½ years old. Sequilla was featured in a recent newspaper story when she was told by a BC Transit driver on the way home from school to put her fruit away after her glucose monitor started beeping indicating her blood sugar had dropped. “I embrace my Diabetes and tell most of my friends about it.
HIMSS19 Q&A: Surescripts CEO Tom Skelton on efforts to take on high prescription drug prices, interoperability
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
When it comes to addressing some of the biggest issues in healthcare from prescription drug prices to interoperability, e-prescribing company Surescripts has a big potential role to play. And the software company has been working to grab that mantle.
10 Books Every New Therapist Should Read
TheraNest
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Best Therapy Books. Books are a great way to learn from an absent teacher. Though there are an abundance of books intended for therapists, the best books for beginning therapists are those which help to make their clients feel better. Foundational knowledge about the human condition and a broad view of the techniques which can alleviate suffering go hand-in-hand, which means that books for therapists in training are often great reads for lay people too.
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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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!
Judge allows House Democrats to join defense of ACA in Texas case
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
A federal appeals judge is allowing Democrats to join the legal defense of the Affordable Care Act. “In the absence of any other federal governmental party in the case presenting a complete defense to the Congressional enactment at issue, this court may benefit from the participation by the House,” said Circuit Judge Leslie Southwick.
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