Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2018
Healthcare AI company Viz.ai announced today that it has raised $21 million in Series A funding. The investment was led by Kleiner Perkins, with additional participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures).
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 18, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Richard A. Royer, chief executive officer, Primaris. Back in the day – the late 1960s, when social norms and the face of America was rapidly changing – a familiar public service announcement began preceding the nightly news cast. “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?
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Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2018
Novartis is looking to digital storytelling as a way to help cancer patients and their families. Last week, the pharma company announced that it would be launching the Galaxies of Hope app, which lets patients, providers, and caregivers explore the challenges of coping with neuroendocrine tumor (NET) cancer through a multimodal approach.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JULY 18, 2018
Voice First is changing health and wellness offerings today. Already the predicted capability to speak a request or instruction without having to type or tap on a device – known as Voice First – has transformed how we interact with technology. If we can speak a command to play music, control the lights, or open the shades – benefits can accrue to the elderly living alone, to individuals who are blind or have macular degeneration, and those with disabilities.
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Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2018
Venture capitalists invested a total of $2.4 billion in digital health in the second quarter of 2018, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group.
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Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2018
Medical transcription tools have long been legacy products but as vendors inject modern technologies, notably automation and voice recognition, new data suggests that hospitals are going to deploy more of these products and services amid broader digital transformation work. Medical transcription is the process by which doctors and healthcare professionals process health records, which are then converted into a readable format from voice and text.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
CMS’ plans to update evaluation and management codes is either a good idea that will simplify documentation and free up doctors’ time to spend with patients or a bad one that will leave physicians who treat high-acuity patients underpaid.
Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2018
Centivo, a self-funded health plan supported by a digital platform, has brought in $34 million in a Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures, the company announced today. Other backers include F-Prime Capital Partners, Maverick Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Ingleside Investors, Rand Capital, Grand Central Tech Ventures, Oxeon Investments, and individual investors including Jim Foreman, Ken Goulet, and Kevin Hill.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
Dignity Health has partnered with UCSF Health to give the health system access to Dignity's proprietary cloud-based platform designed to “remove the friction points" for patients, according to Shez Partovi, M.D., the chief digital officer at Dignity Health.
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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.
Morning eHealth
JULY 18, 2018
Cyber attacks onslaught continues — Distracted?
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
The parent company of EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare has agreed to pay $19 million to resolve claims that company executives misled investors by inflating financial projections. The settlement ends five years of litigation which was being appealed to the Supreme Court.
Health Intersections
JULY 18, 2018
Here’s a contribution from a FHIR Implementer who says: I think this spreadsheet might be a useful HL7 training resource to understand this significant change from HL7v2 to HL7 FHIR timing.repeat message structure. Indeed, I think it’s pretty useful – so I’m posting it here so implementers can found it by search engine. HL7-Medication-Request-Dose-Timing-Frequencies-with-table-structure-20180704.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
BCBS Association Chief Medical Officer Trent Haywood, M.D., attributes the trend to not just educating providers but working with them to change their prescribing behavior.
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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.
HIStalk Interviews
JULY 18, 2018
Mudit Garg, MSEE, MBA is co-founder and CEO of Qventus of Mountain View, CA. Tell me about yourself and the company. Qventus is an AI platform. We work with hospitals and health systems to help them manage their day-to-day operations. I’m one of the founders and CEO of the company. My background for the last 10-11 years has been in healthcare operations, specifically in lean process improvement.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
Amid rumors that Walmart is in talks to buy Humana, the retail giant poached one of the insurer’s former vice presidents last week. Plus, two investigations suggest insurers and pharma are trying to dodge the law.
CMS.gov
JULY 18, 2018
CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Mohanraj.Balas…. Thu, 07/19/2018 - 00:03. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Topic. eHealth. Americans enjoy the benefits of the best healthcare providers and innovators in the world. Yet while the volume of care consumed by American patients has not increased dramatically comparative to similar economies, the cost of care in the United States has accelerated at an alarming pace.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services is considering changes to the Anti-Kickback Statute; emergency room physicians are asking a federal court to prevent Anthem from implementing a new policy that restricts coverage for emergency room visits; and more physician practice news.
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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!
Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2018
Israel is continuing to carve out its space as a digital health hub in the Middle East. Today the Israeli government announced a $33 million grant aimed at furthering the country's foothold in digital health, specifically in biotech and medicine, according to Reuters.
care innovations
JULY 18, 2018
With a focus on engaging consumers with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other healthcare technologies , the fifth-annual Connected Health Summit is set for August 28-30 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, with Care Innovations® Chief Information Officer Himanshu Shah enlisted as a featured speaker. “Regarding AI in health, artificial and neuro intelligence is changing how we diagnose, intervene and prevent medical conditions,” Himanshu has stated.
Mobi Health News
JULY 18, 2018
Multiplayer surgeries. Virtual reality surgical training app maker Osso VR today launched a feature that allows multiple surgeons to train and interact within a single VR space. The new functionality can bring team members together for training regardless of physical location, according to a statement, and comes with the other benefits of collaborative, team-based training over solo instruction.
Redox
JULY 18, 2018
There is a belief that by enabling direct access and control over their own health data, patients will be in a better position to drive their health and healthcare. As I discussed earlier in this series , industry outsiders are looking for ways to improve our problematic healthcare system by focusing on data as a key leverage point for making improvements.
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.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission has released the draft of its analysis of the planned merger between Lahey Health and Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization. The commission projects that the merger could lead to higher costs for patients.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 18, 2018
Food and Drug Administration Director Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced a Biosimilars Action Plan on Wednesday as part of the administration's broader plan to address costly prescription drug prices; lawmakers examined the Trump administration's reorganization proposal; plus other healthcare headlines from around the web.
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