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Google patent indicates plans to develop EHR to predict patients' clinical outcomes

FierceHealthIT

Google has plans to develop its own EHR for clinicians that gathers patients’ medical records and then leverages machine learning to predict clinical outcomes, according to a patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week.

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Verily patent application offers new details on company's predictive EHR aggregation system

Mobi Health News

The AI system would aggregate and compile EHR data from multiple centers while using deep learning analytics to warn providers of upcoming clinical events.

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Data mongers have your number for opioid abuse

Morning eHealth

Google patent reveals plan for deep-learning EHR — Telemedicine for measles diagnosis?

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

Consumers put food front-and-center when thinking about their health. Viewing food-as-medicine is going mainstream for health consumers, who look beyond the “medicine” in that phrase toward a broader concept of personal well-being. This is the theme of a new report from the FMI Foundation called The Power of Health and Well-Being in Food Retail.

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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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New Tech Tonics Episode: Jerry Harrison & Brian Smith – Making Beautiful Music Together with Healthcare Entrepreneurs

Digital Health

An unlikely pair, Brian Smith and Jerry Harrison came together over their shared passion for music and science and helping entrepreneurs succeed. Together they are helping healthcare startups find their rhythm and chart a path to success through a new expert crowdfunding platform called RedCrow. Here’s the backstory and it’s a good one: Brian Smith, […].

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Predicting the Most Likely Takeaways From HIMSS19

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. This year looks to be one of adventure and excitement for healthcare technology, per usual, and according to a new report from HIMSS, 2019 Healthcare Trends Forecast: The Beginning of a Consumer-Driven Reformation, we’re about to get serious about the tangible results of digital health innovation.

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Google patent application offers new details on company's predictive EHR aggregation system

Mobi Health News

The AI system would aggregate and compile EHR data from multiple centers while using deep learning analytics to warn providers of upcoming clinical events.

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Why Lyft is making Medicare Advantage a key focus of its healthcare work

FierceHealthIT

Ride-hailing service Lyft has been in the healthcare space for the past several years, and it sees Medicare Advantage plans as a key demographic for its health platform.

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Former ONC chief to advise LRVHealth, AliveCor's CEO steps down, and more digital health hires and departures

Mobi Health News

Also: EverlyWell's first chief marketing officer; Livongo's mental health hires.

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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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9 Ways Your Patients Benefit from a Doctors Answering Service

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Mike Haynes, medical advisor and freelance writer. Doctors answering service may seem like an outdated service, yet they are just as important today as they were years back when they had just begun. The feel of a personal caregiver anytime, cannot be easily replaced by chat-bots or virtual robotic voices.

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Verily's rumored smart shoe, world_record_egg takes on mental health, and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Senseonics' Eversense is cleared for use during an MRI; Warby Parker's AR app update.

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MedStar, AMA Launch Campaign to Improve Poor EHR Usability

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Patients, providers, policymakers and vendors all can help the process, officials say

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Voter-backed Medicaid expansion hit snags in 4 states. Where are they now?

FierceHealthIT

Voters in several states approved Medicaid expansion in ballot measures in the 2018 election, but the progress on those programs has been decidedly slow.

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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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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from January, 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

January 2019 was a l-o-o-o-n-g month. And not the least because of travel to California, Nevada, Tennessee, and a hop through Atlanta. Most because it was difficult to absorb and rationalize so much tech news, hype, booths and convention center halls at the Digital Health Summit at CES 2019 – where a step counter status update may have been the most satisfying experience of all at the end of the day.

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ACIP overhauls immunization schedule to improve usability

FierceHealthIT

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) made relatively minor changes to the vaccines on its 2019 recommended adult immunization schedule. But it took huge strides in improving the presentation of the information.

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Study: Provider Experience Affects EHR Documentation Time

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

It’s been widely-referenced that physicians spend large chunks of their days documenting patient encounters using electronic health records (EHRs), and now a new study has pointed to provider experience being a key factor in just how much time.

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Providence St. Joseph Health launches business offering PBM service, population health expertise

FierceHealthIT

The Renton, Washington-based health system launched Ayin Health Solutions, a company that will offer services to help organizations transitioning from in-patient care to more cost-efficient ambulatory care and digital engagement.

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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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(Inter)National Health Service : the NHS is developing a profitable line in overseas consulting

Lloyd Price

In 2013 the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust was approached by two Emirati investors with a business opportunity. Six years later the trust now operates two clinics in Abu Dhabi, consults at Al-Amal hospital in Dubai and is developing plans to build a new inpatient facility, also in Abu Dhabi. Altaf Kara, the trust’s commercial director, puts the mission succinctly: “The reason we are in the Emirates is to make money to meet local [ie, London’s] needs.

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With IRS Staff Back, Expect A Flurry of ACA Penalty Notices

ACA Times

3 minute read: The government shutdown is over, at least for now, and IRS staff is back to work. Get ready for a flurry of Affordable Care Act penalty notices in the next couple of weeks. IRS staff indicates that the first priority for the ACA enforcement team is to catch up on the six-week backlog of activities that grounded to a halt with the government shutdown.

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Impact of Healthcare Business Model Transformation Is in Full Effect

David Chou

Check out this report as it identifies the major healthcare trends for 2019 that CxOs must have on their radar. Healthcare is the top industry driving the U.S. economy, followed by the technology sector. The intersection of healthcare technology coupled with experience is a winning combination for an organization to dominate and stay relevant in the industry.

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GlobalMed Virtual Care Platform Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

GlobalMed

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.— Feb. 4, 2019 — GlobalMed, a Microsoft Gold partner and one of the first Federal Independent Software Vendors (ISV) for Microsoft, today announced the availability of its virtual care platform as a service, eNcounter ®, in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Microsoft Azure.

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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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What the U.S. Opioid Epidemic and Global Financial Crisis have in common

Medical Mime - EHR

On Feb-1, 2019 Project Syndicate published an article titled “ How to Help Deflate America’s Opioid Bubble ” ( link ). In it the authors look at what policymakers can do to deal with the opioid epidemic in the United States. And they make what seems at first to be a non-intuitive suggestion: To figure out how to resolve it, policymakers should look for lessons in what may seem to be an unrelated episode: the 2008 global financial crisis.

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Payer Roundup—Moody's: Anthem’s accelerated PBM launch bad for Cigna

FierceHealthIT

Moody's Investors Service warned that Anthem's accelerated PBM launch could hurt Cigna's bottom line, plus more payer headlines.

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eVisit - See How We Simplify Healthcare Delivery to Everyone, Everywhere

eVisit

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Difference between Analog and Digital Mammography Equipment

KB Dental Consulting

Before introducing the features of the analog and digital mammography machines, let’s take a quick review of the mammography procedure. It is important to know that mammography is a type of breast imaging procedure that utilizes low dose x-rays for cancer detection. These medical devices continue to be the leading thing when it comes to the early detection and prevention of the breast cancer.

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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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Algorithms v's Privacy : health information is being sold and turned into ‘risk scores’

Lloyd Price

Companies are starting to sell “risk scores” to doctors, insurers and hospitals to identify patients at risk of opioid addiction or overdose, without patient consent and with little regulation of the kinds of personal information used to create the scores. While the data collection is aimed at helping doctors make more informed decisions on prescribing opioids, it could also lead to blacklisting of some patients and keep them from getting the drugs they need, according to patient advocates.