Mobi Health News

MAY 31, 2018

It's official — Eric Carreel, cofounder of French health tech company Withings, has bought back Nokia’s digital health division two years after it was sold to the Finnish tech giant. Carreel plans to relaunch the Withings brand by the end of 2018, according to a statement. “I am delighted to start working again with the brilliant teams that made the brand such a great success,” Carreel said in a statement.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2018

UnitedHealth wants at least 150 million members to see providers in value-based contracts by 2025, CEO David Wichmann said at Bernstein Research’s annual conference on Thursday. Wichmann also weighed in on the use of point-of-sale drug rebates and his support for universal healthcare.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 31, 2018

Riverside Medical Clinic is the largest physician-owned practice in California. It is a multi-specialty enterprise that has more than 170 providers and sees more than 400,000 patient visits a year. As such, it has a great need to communicate with myriad patients on a daily basis, no matter the location.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2018

The Food and Drug Administration has officially unveiled new guidance that aims to increase competition in drug markets. The guidelines would allow generic drug companies to apply for waivers to REMS programs, which they say brand-name companies can use to block their market entry.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 31, 2018

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that telemedicine services could lead to an increase in genetic counseling in community care centers, according to an abstract that will be presented tomorrow at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 31, 2018

Oshi Health, a digital startup focused on digestive health, has launched a mobile app specifically designed to help inflammatory bowel disease patients understand and manage their condition.

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CareWire

MAY 31, 2018

Pediatricians, family doctors and gerontologists alike know that getting people in for preventive care visits can have a big impact on health. Knowing about health risks early can give people time to make lifestyle changes to reduce them. And when health conditions are identified early, people tend to have better options for treatment. Yet Americans get only about half of their recommended preventive care 1 – a decision that can leave serious health conditions undiagnosed, lead to diminished tre

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Mobi Health News

MAY 31, 2018

Harvard Pilgrim announced today that it will be implementing Wellframe’s mobile-enabled care management product for its members. With the service, nurse managers will be able to more easily communicate with members through their smartphones, thereby enabling real-time interventions and improved engagement.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2018

Physicians knew what they are getting into. But added stressors they never counted on can lead to burnout.

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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.

Mobi Health News

MAY 31, 2018

Stamp of approval. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has just granted the diabetes management platform Omada Health a full recognition status. Companies that get the designation must first meet the CDC’s standards, which include getting approval of their curriculum, having a minimum percentage of patients entering the program with qualifying blood tests, having a certain level of patient engagement, and showing an average achievement of patient weight loss in accordance with CDC stan

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2018

Spending on emergency care has nearly doubled while utilization has remained flat over the past several years, according to a new report. The trend is instead driven by an increase in visits coded as severe, the Health Care Cost Institute found.

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Morning eHealth

MAY 31, 2018

FDA seeking tech — Elderly’s tech use

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2018

Seven major physician groups sent a letter to Immigration Services on Wednesday raising the alarm about how delays in processing visas may disrupt medical residents who are scheduled to start their training at hospitals across the U.S. on July 1.

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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.

Health Intersections

MAY 31, 2018

FHIR defines an extension to use to state the the value set a Coding was taken from: "coding": [{ "system": "[link] "code": "39065001", "display": "Burn of ear", "extension" : [{ "url" : "[link]. "valueUri" : "[link]. }] }]. This extension states that the SNOMED CT concept 39065001 was chosen from the value set “[link] There’s a lot of confusion about this particular extension and it’s correct use, which this post intends to clarify.

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Medical Mime - EHR

MAY 31, 2018

The New York Times published an article yesterday (30-May-2018) titled “ The Largest Health Disparity We Don’t Talk About ” by Dhruv Khullar. The finding of several studies is that: Americans with serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years younger than those without. One of the studies referenced in the article is a 2006 paper on causes of death, mortality rates and years of potential life lost by Craig Colton and Ronald Manderscheid.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2018

CMS wants to revive a home health demonstration that gives providers flexibility in a pre- and postclaims review. Plus a South Carolina court ruled that a former lab CEO and two employees must pay $114 million for a fraud scheme in which they paid physicians for patient referrals.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

MAY 31, 2018

Kaiser Permanente at the Housing Announcement Press Conference on May 18, 2018. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kaiser Permanente, the nation’s largest integrated health system, has joined forces with the de Beaumont Foundation, a leader in public health philanthropy, to help U.S. cities thrive through the CityHealth initiative. Created by the de Beaumont Foundation to promote practices that make cities healthier, CityHealth tracks and reports on proven policies, and works with cities to advance policies tha

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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

MAY 31, 2018

One patient’s death changed the course of Dr. Lilia Cervantes’ career. The patient, Cervantes said, was a woman from Mexico with kidney failure who repeatedly visited the emergency room for more than three years.

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CMS.gov

MAY 31, 2018

Quality Payment Program Exceeds Year 1 Participation Goal. keya.joy-bush@…. Thu, 05/31/2018 - 12:00. Seema Verma. Administrator, CMS. Topic. Billing & payments. Initiatives. Leadership. eHealth. Legislation. Physicians. Quality. Rural health. Safety. I’m pleased to announce that 91 percent of all clinicians eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) participated in the first year of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) – exceeding our goal of 90 percent participation.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 31, 2018

Participants in the Trump administration's new bundled payment model likely won't be scared away despite high readmission rates that reach 43% for some conditions. One expert tells FierceHealthcare that it may be difficult to push rates down in some instances, but a 5% bonus payment will draw providers in.

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