Health System CIO
OCTOBER 12, 2018
When six industry veterans reflected on their experiences in the provider, vendor, and consulting worlds, several common themes emerged, according to Sue Schade, who reveals what she learned through these interviews.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Experts speaking at next week’s Connected Health Conference discuss the importance of technology adoption and how new tools can encourage stronger patient-provider relationships.
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Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 12, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Leslie Sanchez, clinical educator, Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Active shooter training was initially seen as cumbersome and just “more training” to complete in our emergency department. However, after staff received the active shooter education which included statistics, active shooter profiles, videos of active shooters in action, and recorded interviews with victims and […].
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 12, 2018
At next week's Connected Health Conference, doctors from Harvard and UPMC will tackle the question of whether telemedicine's costs outweigh its benefits.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 12, 2018
In an agreement with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, seven insurers agreed to eliminate prior authorization for medication-assisted therapy for substance abuse disorder, a change that the AMA has been advocating for some time.
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Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 12, 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 blog series has more about the speakers and activities.). It is increasingly evident that we needed to focus on actionable solutions to delivering participatory medicine, not just talking about it.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Simone Orlowski, senior user experience researcher at Partners Connected Health Innovation, talks designing for behavior change, leading up to next week's Connected Health Conference in Boston.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 12, 2018
With the backdrop of the U.S. Capitol Building through a wall of windows behind him, Nemours Children's Health System's newly minted CEO made his case for why the nation's top healthcare leaders and lawmakers need to pay more attention to pediatric hospitals in the push for a value-based payment system.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 12, 2018
The Department of Health and Social Care estimates that the WannaCry cyber attack from May 2017 cost the NHS £92m.
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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
OCTOBER 12, 2018
FierceHealthcare talked to marketing expert Justin Wartell of Monigle about why expanding branding beyond the marketing department is so important, how it’s changing the industry and best branding practices in the healthcare industry and beyond.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 12, 2018
European Investment Bank supports the implementation of Ireland's eHealth programme with a €225m loan.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 12, 2018
In an unusual enforcement action, the Texas Department of Insurance fined Humana for canceling a contract with anesthesiologists. The action underscores the need for a layered approach to surprise billing enforcement, according to one expert.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Managing blood glucose is difficult even with the current array of insulin options. ‘ Rapid-acting and long-lasting analogues still feature the steep dose-response curve that is the key shortcoming of conventional insulin. That makes for the fine line between an effective dose and one that sends blood glucose levels too low … ‘ said Harry Destecroix, CEO of Ziylo, which was just acquired by Novo Nordisk.
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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.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Antidote Technologies, the digital health company that connects patients with medical research, today announced that Dr. Laurent Schockmel has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer. He will assume day-to-day leadership of the company and will also join Antidote’s Board of Directors. Founder and former CEO, Pablo Graiver, will continue to support the company as President.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 12, 2018
C-section rates worldwide have nearly doubled over the past decade, plus more healthcare headlines.
HIStalk Weekender
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Weekly News Recap. Athenahealth is reportedly choosing from its options to accept acquisition bids from previously rejected suitors, sell out to NThrive, or continue as a going concern. Several hospitals evacuate patients and suffer damage from Hurricane Michael. The VA promotes Paul Tibbits to executive director for the Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Anywhere from 2.1 million to 4.9 million children and adults could discontinue their enrollment, a trend that would have countless public health and economic implications, says a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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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!
Health Populi
OCTOBER 12, 2018
CVS Health’s acquisition of Aetna was approved this week by U.S. Federal regulators after months of scrutinizing the antitrust-size-market control implications of the deal. I wrote this post on the deal as an inflection point in American healthcare on 3rd December 2017 when CVS and Aetna announced their marriage intentions. This post updates my initial thoughts on the deal, given the morphing US healthcare market on both the traditional health services front and fast-evolving retail health envir
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