Digital Health

JANUARY 16, 2018

I missed the 2018 Computer Electronics Show this year (it overlapped with JP Morgan’s Healthcare Conference) so I had to rely on the kindness of friends and media to send me alerts on the weirdest digital stuff on earth. CES is chockablock with things no one needs and no one should have even thought to […].

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Mobile Health Matters

JANUARY 16, 2018

2017 was a roller-coaster ride for healthcare, marked by exciting innovation, damaging cyberattacks, periods of lulls and disruptive change. As we enter a new year, it is important to celebrate the industry’s successes in 2017, and reflect on the ways these changes, incidents, and regulations both pushed health IT forward and established a foundation for 2018.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 16, 2018

Guest post by SPM member Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, who is Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services at the University of WashingtonCenter for Pain Relief. We welcome guest posts from SPM members – see guidelines here. I joined the Society for Participatory Medicine because I believe patient participation is the only path forward for medicine. We live in an era of chronic illnesses like diabetes and chronic pain, when the patient must be the primary caregiver.

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American Well

JANUARY 16, 2018

It’s no secret consumers are embracing technology in nearly every aspect of their lives—even healthcare. As it turns out, according to a new study by the University of Rochester not only is telehealth access improving child health both in schools and at home , children are responding positively to it in all manner of settings. One of the most common childhood health concerns is asthma, with roughly 1-in-10 children experiencing it at some point in their lives.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 16, 2018

New guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) support efforts by certain individual states to test incentives that make participation in work or other community engagement a requirement for continued Medicaid eligibility or coverage. CMS said it was committing to support state demonstrations to see if these requirements assist beneficiaries in obtaining sustainable employment or other productive community engagement, and if this results in improved health outcomes.

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