Mobi Health News
MARCH 2, 2018
From syringes to workflow management systems, healthcare is no stranger to adopting new technologies into standard care. As digital and connected technologies continue to stake their claim in the industry, the last few years have seen the rise of a new type of health technology product — one that promises measurable health outcomes validated by traditional clinical trials.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
Two new Senate bills introduced this week include mandates for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, data sharing and e-prescribing for controlled substances. Caleb Alexander, M.D., co-director of the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness at Johns Hopkins said the requirements were long overdue but won't cut to the heart of the opioid epidemic.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 2, 2018
Artificial intelligence has been working its way into the field of research. Now Precision Health AI, a company that specializes in applications of AI to oncology, has just launched a new platform, called Eureka Health Oncology, that uses EMR data to provide practical AI applications for real oncology use cases.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
Atrium Health has suspended merger negotiations with UNC Health Care after the two systems failed to reach an agreement. The announcement comes just over a week after UNC's CEO said the two sides were stuck on leadership issues.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 2, 2018
Finding ways to excersise in Siberia where weather is notoriously extreme can be difficult. But a recent study published by JMIR set out to see if an iPad-based exercise regime could help seniors living in Siberia.
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Morning eHealth
MARCH 2, 2018
Data breach at federal workers’ health plan — Gottlieb calls for national opioid prescribing system
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
A lack of alignment between payers and providers continues to hamper the drive to deliver high-value care, according to a new NEJM Catalyst survey. Respondents identified integrated payer-provider health systems such as Kaiser Permanente as the lone bright spot for innovation.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 2, 2018
I really like the work that Kantara is doing with Consent Receipt. I think they are doing what is needed. Specifically they are not trying to define an internal consent resource, nor one that would go from one data controller to another data controller. They are focused on giving the Individual something (a receipt) that is evidence of the Consent Ceremony, and contains the terms agreed to.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
A new KLAS report shows not all EHR vendors are created equal when it comes to offering "plug-and-play" records sharing. But a partnership between CommonWell and Carequality set to launch this summer could help providers exchange patient records "more efficiently than we ever have been before," says KLAS's Coray Tate.
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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.
CMS.gov
MARCH 2, 2018
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) Funding Opportunity: Measure Development for the Quality Payment Program. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Fri, 03/02/2018 - 16:30. Kate Goodrich, M.D., M.H.S. Director, CMS Center for Clinical Standards and Quality & CMS Chief Medical Officer. Topic. Billing & payments. Initiatives. Leadership. Legislation.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
Efforts by ride-sharing companies to help reduce patient no-shows have so far met with little success. That hasn’t stopped Uber and Lyft from continued efforts to crack the healthcare market, though. Uber’s latest attempt comes in the form of a HIPAA-compliant dashboard that providers can use to set up rides for patients, caregivers and staff.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
Avalere Health predicts that increased enrollment in association health plans would raise Affordable Care Act premiums; Sen. Orrin Hatch says the law's backers are "the stupidest" people; Tufts Health Plan reveals a breach; plus more health insurance news from around the web.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
Community Health Systems reported a $2 billion loss for the fourth quarter of 2017, and while it continues to sell hospitals, it has provided few details for its future beyond more such sales. CEO Wayne Smith said that the company was “strategically expanding outpatient services,” but did not provide any specifics in its earnings release or its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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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
MARCH 2, 2018
A small New Mexico insurer earned a partial court victory in its spat with the Department of Health and Human Services over the agency's risk-adjustment formula, a ruling that could have implications for how the Affordable Care Act's rules are applied in other states. U.S. District Court Judge James Browning ruled Thursday that HHS' practices were not illegal but should be re-examined and potentially reworked as they are "arbitrary and capricious.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission will continue to pursue antitrust enforcement; Geisinger Health System has a new chief financial officer, plus more healthcare finance news from around the web.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 2, 2018
The troubles are far from over for Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo., has renewed his call for Shulkin to resign in the wake of an inspector general report that found the VA head misused taxpayer money to partially fund a trip to Europe this summer.
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