American Well

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Telemedicine enables health plans to deliver convenient, affordable, high-quality care to members. But to maximize its impact, health plans need to take full advantage of telehealth’s capabilities. Here are four ways top telemedicine health plans are enhancing their programs and delivering better care to members: Driving Member Awareness. Many members may not know what telehealth is, which means the first thing health plans should do is build awareness.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

From culture to travel, food and drink to retail and beauty, health will be baked into consumer goods and experiences in 2019. Welcome to The Future 100: 2019 from The Innovation Group at JWT. In the 100 emerging trends across ten categories, the future is clearly health-driven, according to the tea-leaf readers at JWT.a. Health is all over, Culture.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Freddie Tubbs, communication manager, Academized. So much has changed in terms of healthcare over the last decade. Technology has advanced and improved processes – what used to take hours can now take seconds. This means a lot both to the medical community and patients alike.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The platform will now let users share health records with pharma companies, health systems and insurers for remuneration.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell, Inc. As widely reported, based on exit polls, healthcare—not the economy—was the top issue on voters’ minds in the 2018 midterm elections. This was due in part to the nation’s sustained economic recovery of the past two years, resulting in the current healthy state of the […].

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Insurance startup Bright Health closed its largest funding round to date with an "oversubscribed" series C on Thursday. The company plans to use the latest cash injection to expand "at a pace expected to exceed Bright Health’s growth in 2019.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

According to manufacturer Electrocore, it is the first treatment of any kind to receive the indication.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It’s no secret that physicians are bogged down by EHRs. Now, the federal government says it has some solutions in the form of 42 draft recommendations aimed at documentation, usability and regulatory requirements.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Roche announced last week the launch of FoundationOne CDx, Foundation Medicine’s comprehensive companion diagnostic test for personalised cancer care in Singapore. According to the official media release, FoundationOne CDx supports clinicians in their decision-making by providing a clear, in-depth report that describes the unique genomic profile of a patient’s tumour as well as associated, approved therapies and relevant clinical trials.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Many patients had fewer choices last year as competition levels dropped in health insurance markets in half of the U.S. states, according to a new report. The report, released by the American Medical Association, found that half of all states had commercial health insurance markets that were less competitive in 2017 than in the previous year.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Giving patients control of their own data is essential, Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities, says, adding that smartphones are an indispensable tool for empowering the patient.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Health systems should have more clarity on a much-anticipated proposed interoperability rule "hopefully in the next couple of weeks," CMS Administrator Seema Verma told reporters on Tuesday. She also said adding data-sharing requirements to Medicare Conditions of Participation is "much easier, to some degree, for hospitals and physicians.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

nOCD will now have a section on its homepage devoted to educating people about ketamine and connecting them to resources.

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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

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Treating patients who are victims of human trafficking and other trauma requires providers to break free of a “linear” view of the healthcare journey, experts say.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Mycroft is pitching its new platform as more secure and customizable than voice assistants currently on the market.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Telemedicine enables health plans to deliver convenient, affordable, high-quality care to members. But to maximize its impact, health plans need to take full advantage of telehealth’s capabilities. Here are four ways top telemedicine health plans are enhancing their programs and delivering better care to members: Driving Member Awareness. Many members may not know what telehealth is, which means the first thing health plans should do is build awareness.

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Morning eHealth

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

CMS dropping interop hints — DOD/VA update

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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!

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The DOJ has handed down its first-ever ransomware indictment for attacks on several hospitals and an EHR vendor, Amazon has launched a medical language processing solution, and Magellan Health's CEO is out.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Sensyne Health, the clinical AI technology company led by Lord Paul Drayson, has today announced a strategic advisory services agreement with accounting firm EY. The deal will involve EY providing the listed company with 'design and build' specialist resources comprising strategy, analytics, cyber, valuation, risk and governance capabilities. Sensyne Health is on a mission to help healthcare providers and life sciences companies improve patient outcomes, reduce costs and accelerate research by c

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mHealth Insight

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

“Although telemedicine visits have increased sharply in the U.S. in recent years, the vast majority of American adults still receive care from doctors in person rather than via remote technology, a new study suggests. The goal of telemedicine is to help improve access to specialty care, particularly in rural, underserved areas of the country, researchers note in JAMA.

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David Chou

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As the population of China ages, the economy grows, and basic health insurance access increases, the healthcare market has seen significant expansions. Simultaneously, there have been notable reforms taking place in the healthcare market to ensure appropriate healthcare services to the entire population as well as increased quality and the ability to meet diverse patient needs.

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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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care innovations

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Although it’s steadily improving , reimbursement for remote and virtual care still isn’t as robust as it could be. Yet even so, many healthcare providers and leaders are optimistic about the future of these technologies, and are actively investing in implementing them. That’s according to a new survey from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ’s Center for Connected Medicine.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Humana expects as many as 800,000 members to drop off its standalone Medicare Part D plans next year, a 16% decline from 2018 membership numbers. But it also expects to add as many as 400,000 members to Medicare Advantage plans.

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KB Dental Consulting

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Mobile dental vans are a good alternative for delivering fast dental health care to all areas where it is hard to reach a dental professional. The managers of this type of project should consider the fact that the technology is growing fast including in the field of dentistry. This means that the need for high-quality dental care is widely spread and patients need more and more special dental care not only the general procedures.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

A coalition of patient groups is working to drum up opposition against the Trump administration's latest proposal aimed at tackling high prescription costs, saying the effort aimed at Medicare Part D's "protected class" of drugs could instead dramatically affect patient access to crucial therapies.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The Trump administration has yet to unveil its plan for overhauling safe harbor protections for drug rebates, but experts say the OIG has limits on what it can do through regulation.

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