Wed.Feb 28, 2018

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ECG, smart stethoscope company Eko gets $5M, plans new trial

Mobi Health News

Berkeley, California-based smart stethoscope company Eko Devices has raised $5 million in new funding. Artis Ventures led the round, with additional participation from Strategic Partners, Dreamlt Ventures, 1812 Ventures, and Founder.org. This brings the company's funding up to $7.8 million — it last raised money in 2015.

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“Mom Guilt” and Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

My daughter and I are two of a kind. We look similar, share the same outgoing personality, enjoy the same type of activities, and have the same tastes in food, design, and hobbies. I adore her. She is exciting and full of life. The differences between us are few. She is beautifully optimistic, I call myself a realist. She has Type 1 diabetes, I do not. sponsor.

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How LensCrafters is using iPads to reinvent the eye exam

Mobi Health News

On Apple’s most recent earnings call, CEO Tim Cook didn’t talk much about the company’s various healthcare overtures. But he did make a passing mention of the company’s working with LensCrafters, a division of Luxottica that sells eyeglasses — and eye doctor visits.

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Cleveland Clinic’s new CEO Tom Mihaljevic aims to make the system ‘the safest place in healthcare, anywhere’

FierceHealthIT

Cleveland Clinic President and CEO Tom Milhaljevic said that while the system reduced readmissions, improved care coordination and increased hand-washing among caregivers in 2017, it needs to take patient safety initiatives further. “Hospital-acquired infections and serious safety events should never happen,” he said. “We will bring those to zero.

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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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Fitbit moves full steam ahead with health initiatives despite lackluster earnings

Mobi Health News

Fitbit reported its fourth quarter and full year earnings yesterday. Fourth quarter earnings continues to post a loss, with a reported $571 million in revenues and a net loss of $46 million, as did its full year report, in which the company reported a total revenue of $1.

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AI hospital logistics platform Tagnos raises $5M from investors

Mobi Health News

Tagnos, maker of an AI-powered logistics platform for hospitals and clinics, announced today that it has raised $5 million in investment funding from Benhamou Global Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, and Zebra Ventures.

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SEC’s updated cybersecurity guidance could have implications for healthcare M&A

FierceHealthIT

Updated interpretive guidance from the SEC requires public companies to report cybersecurity incidents and prevent executives from trading stocks before making a public disclosure. The guidance, which applies to all industries, has some trickle-down implications for private healthcare organizations, particularly those engaged in acquisition talks.

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UpToDate Advanced brings interactive decision making to Wolters Kluwer's reference tool

Mobi Health News

Netherlands-based Wolters Kluwer today announced the launch of UpToDate Advanced, a mobile-friendly physician tool that offers interactive guidance through clinical decision-making. The new offering builds on medical information and images collected within the company’s longstanding clinical reference information product UpToDate, which is used by 1.5 million physicians annually, according to the company.

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Industry Voices—The ACA is flawed, but a new legal threat could set the U.S. healthcare system back decades

FierceHealthIT

The Affordable Care Act needs "significant rehabilitation," writes FierceHealthcare contributor Jonathan Burroughs, M.D. But if a new 20-state lawsuit to overturn it succeeds, it will have significant consequences that politicians—and everyone else—must keep in mind.

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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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Teladoc taps IBM Watson machine learning for second opinion service

Mobi Health News

With the acquisition of Best Doctors last summer, telemedicine vendor Teladoc has been providing specialist consultations through its remote platform. A less-publicized outcome of the deal, however, is that the company has also absorbed and implemented the Oncology Insight With Watson machine learning-powered second opinion service for experts providing cancer care — and it will show that at HIMSS18.

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How Technology Can Help You Monitor the Safety of Your Aging Parents

VSee

Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. adults has provided care to a person with a long-term illness, disability, or aged family member in the past 30 days. While caring for aging parents can bring you closer together, it can also be a source of stress. Caring for loved ones can be challenging due to distance, job.

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Breast feeding app connects new moms with specialists

Mobi Health News

Being a new parent can be scary—even figuring out a baby’s eating schedule can be tough. But researchers at Purdue University and Purdue Polytechnic Institute have developed a new app that virtually connects breastfeeding mothers to pediatricians and lactation specialists. The new app, called Lactor, collects data, monitors patients, and provides consultation for moms currently breast feeding.

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Hospital, physician advocacy groups press Anthem for further changes to controversial policies

FierceHealthIT

Major physician and hospital advocacy groups say Anthem’s decision to repeal its planned “modifier 25” policy does not go far enough to address their concerns over recent changes in coverage policies. The American Hospital Association joined the American College of Radiology and the American College of Emergency Physicians to urge the insurer to rescind a set of coverage policies regarding emergency care and outpatient imaging.

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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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Collective Health announces $110M in funding, benefits platform launch, new partnership

Mobi Health News

Collective Health, an employee benefits platform that uses predictive analytics to match employees with programs, has raised $110 million in funding to scale operations. Participants in the financing round include existing investors NEO, Founders Fund, GV, and Maverick Ventures, as well as new investors Sun Life Financial and Mubadala Ventures.

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With 89% revenue growth in 2017, Teladoc looks to deepen partnerships with large insurers

FierceHealthIT

With double-digit growth in revenue, membership and visits, Teladoc says it is in discussions with several large insurers to make virtual care a strategic priority. CEO Jason Gorevic also pointed to a boost in awareness from a historic flu season along with federal payment changes that will drive growth moving forward.

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Big opioids bill coming

Morning eHealth

Info blocking going to take care of itself? — VA: More for your money?

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DOJ abandons much of its Medicare Advantage fraud suit against UnitedHealth  

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Justice has abandoned much of its False Claims Act lawsuit against UnitedHealth, another setback in the feds' efforts to prosecute the insurer for its Medicare Advantage billing practices.

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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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Ten Little Known Facts About Elliott P. Joslin

Insulin Nation

Before (and after) Frederick Banting there was Dr. Elliott P. Joslin, founder of the famous Joslin Diabetes Center. Here are a few pieces of trivia about this famous physician taken from Chris Feudtner’s Bittersweet: Diabetes, Insulin, and the Transformation of Illness. 1. Dr. Joslin readily professed his Christian beliefs when conceptualizing diabetes, and he often directed patients to scripture.

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Google affiliate Verily may enter health insurance market

FierceHealthIT

Verily, an Alphabet subsidiary focused on life sciences, is looking to move into the insurance market, according to a new report. The company is meeting with insurers to discuss a possible care management program, sources told CNBC.

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It’s Crunch Time! IRS Deadlines for ACA Informational Filings Start Today

ACA Times

It can sneak up on employers quickly. Today is the IRS deadline for employers to provide paper filings of forms 1094-C and 1095-C as part of the required ACA information filing for the 2017 tax year. Other dates are fast approaching! March 2, 2018. Deadline to furnish 1095-C schedules to employees (extended from January 31). April 2, 2018. Deadline to file 1094-C/1095-C schedules if electronic filing.

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Unnecessary surgeries harm elderly patients’ quality of life

FierceHealthIT

A surgery that improves a younger person’s quality of life could easily do the opposite for an elderly patient. Nevertheless, almost a third of Medicare patients undergo surgery in the year before their passing. “We have a culture that believes in very aggressive care,” says Rita Redberg, M.D.

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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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The move to value-based care is inevitable, says AMGA’s new president Jerry Penso

FierceHealthIT

Jerry Penso, the new president and CEO of the American Medical Group Association, talked about the future of value-based payment models and the importance of coordinated care during an interview with This Week in Accountable Care. Among his predictions: The industry will eventually have a pluralistic delivery system with many different types of healthcare organizations.

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Lifespan in talks with Partners, Care New England about merger

FierceHealthIT

Partners HealthCare and Care New England merger plans may include another healthcare system. The two organizations announced they have approached Lifespan—the largest hospital system in Rhode Island—and will begin a “formal discussion” to explore how all three healthcare providers can work together.

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Psychiatrists, internal medicine doctors see biggest jumps in compensation packages

FierceHealthIT

Physicians in two in-demand specialties—psychiatry and internal medicine—saw the biggest jumps in compensation packages offered in 2017. Psychiatrists, the ninth most frequently placed provider by The Medicus Firm, showed the greatest jump in total average compensation package offers accepted by physicians placed last year, according to the national healthcare recruiting company.

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AEHIS asks OIG to exempt cybersecurity donations between healthcare providers from fraud enforcement

FierceHealthIT

Echoing a recommendation made last year by the HHS Cybersecurity Task Force, the Association for Executive in Health Information Security requested OIG carve out an exemption for providers that donate cybersecurity training, education and technology to assist under-resourced physician groups.

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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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These 4 strategies helped Southern California Permanente Medical Group reduce opioid prescriptions by 30%

FierceHealthIT

In an exclusive interview with FierceHealthcare, Michel Kanter, M.D., medical director of quality and clinical analysis for Southern California Permanente Medical Group, explains how the practice was able to cut opioid prescriptions by 30%. While every practice will handle various aspects differently, he says certain factors that made the Permanente initiative successful can work elsewhere.

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Idaho legislators spike plan to allow non-ACA compliant insurance, but state officials report HHS is 'sympathetic'

FierceHealthIT

A healthcare plan proposed by the governor of Idaho—which would expand short-term insurance plans in the state—was spiked in the state's legislature this week, but officials say they have a "sympathetic" ear for the plan in Washington after meeting with HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CMS Administrator Seema Verma.

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Anthem scraps policy that cuts payments for same-day services, but provider groups want more

FierceHealthIT

Physician groups earned a victory when Anthem revealed it would roll back a controversial policy that would reduce payments for certain same-day services, while the American Hospital Association has joined the chorus calling for further changes to the insurer's ER payment policies. Anthem has also taken heat from providers for a policy that marks monitored anesthesia as "not medically necessary" for routine cataract surgery.

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