Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Panelists at the Connected Health Conference in Boston spoke about the importance of digital health alliances and learning from countries sometimes ignored in the space.
Mobile Health Matters
OCTOBER 22, 2018
What is quality? The dictionary defines quality as “a peculiar and essential characteristic; an inherent feature; or a degree of excellence.” For many charged with leading quality in healthcare, quality is often measured as a success in certification, a successful audit, or decreasing rejections. Instead, quality should be measured by what is experienced directly by the customer, the “value added” of what was received, and/or the perception of provider that was involved in the interaction, as bo
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Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Though digital technology has transformed nearly every corner of the economy in recent years, the health care industry seems stubbornly immune to these trends. That may soon change if more wearable devices record medical information that physicians can use to diagnose and treat illnesses at earlier stages. Last month, Apple announced that an FDA-approved electrocardiograph (EKG) will be included in the latest generation Apple Watch to check the heart’s electrical activity for signs of arrhythmia
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Speaking at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston, University of Texas System's Dr. Lynda Chin stressed the importance of connecting new technologies in addressing healthcare's failings.
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Digital Health
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Dr. Carla Pugh does a lot of things. She is a trauma surgeon, entrepreneur, researcher and educator and is officially a professor of surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine (she also went to UC Berkeley so Go Bears!). She is also Director of the Technology-Enabled Clinical Improvement Center at Stanford. Born into an entrepreneurial […].
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
While Anthem has characterized its policy of "retrospectively denying" emergency department claims as a way to discourage unnecessary visits, a new study published in JAMA shows that if the policy was applied nationally, 1 in 6 commercially insured adults would be denied coverage.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Fifteen of 419 Dot app users experienced an unplanned pregnancies over six menstrual cycles, all from incorrect use.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
New payment models can drive tech innovation, experts say—that is, if developers can access the data they need to make new tools useful to patients and providers.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Karl West says the shift is being mandated by related trends toward consumerization and the cloud.
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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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 22, 2018
? Consider CMS Five Star Rating system and how it ‘serves’ families. Rant on. No doubt you know someone who was baffled at how a terrible nursing home gets a 4 or 5 star rating from CMS’s Five Star Rating System , while a good one can appear to have a lower rating, applied from an inspection before management overhaul several years earlier. Why, you ask?
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Also: One Drop hires former Roche business leader; Clarify, FundamentalVR and League add new executives.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Comments flooded in regarding ONC's EHR Reporting Program. Among them, AMIA called on the agency to push the program beyond just a Consumer Reports-style resource, while vendors and providers worried about adding new reporting burdens.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Join Telebehavioral Health Institute Faculty (TBHI Faculty) and Coding Leader as they present a telehealth reimbursement webinar entitled, “Telemedicine Mental Health Services: Finally Get Paid.” Learn how to get paid with telehealth, telemedicine, telemental health, or telebehavioral health. Dr. Marlene … Read more. The post Coding Leader & TBHI Faculty: Telehealth Reimbursement Webinar appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
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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
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Administrator Seema Verma says allowing states to “fundamentally restructure” their individual markets and shift consumers to short-term and association health plans won't hurt people with pre-existing conditions, but some policy analysts aren't so sure.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 22, 2018
The ultimate goal of Automated Insulin Dosing (aka artificial pancreas) requires sensing BG levels, then calculating and delivering insulin in an ongoing feedback loop. There is a wide range of approaches to achieving this, and one would think that it’s a relatively new innovation in recent devices, but that is not the case. The idea for such a system was pioneered in 1964, and the first commercial device, the Biostator, was introduced in 1977.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
After buying Pathways Health for $200 million in 2015, Molina is selling the behavioral health business for a "nominal" price to a private investment firm.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
The number of payments tied to value-based models continues to grow, but there’s more work to be done to drive providers to take on risk, according to a new report.
Christina's Considerations
OCTOBER 22, 2018
I play the lottery when it gets exciting and consider it a little extra support for the schools. This round of Mega Millions and Power Ball seems especially exciting, so it has got me thinking about what I should do.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
IBM Watson Health CEO Deborah DiSanzo stepped down last week after three rocky years leading the company. Plus, researchers at Boston Medical Center show that EHR alerts can reduce unnecessary testing, and a new survey of health insurers indicates automation is top of mind.
ACA Times
OCTOBER 22, 2018
1 minute read: . IRS staff has confirmed that the agency will begin issuing Letter 226J penalty notices for the 2016 tax year in the next few weeks. If you receive a Letter 226J, you have 30 days to respond. The process your organization undertakes to develop your response needs to be focused and efficient. Last year we issued an infographic to help employers navigate their response to Letter 226J for the 2015 tax year.
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
OCTOBER 22, 2018
Health and Human Services is seeking to create a legal definition of gender; the University of Southern California reaches a settlement with women who accused a former student health center gynecologist of sexual assault and more healthcare headlines.
Henry Kotula
OCTOBER 22, 2018
[link]. Private payers, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, were bilked out of about $174 million in the compounding pharmacy scam, which inflated prices for invalidly prescribed pain creams and other drugs. KEY TAKEAWAYS. Seven compounding pharmacies were indicted along with their owners in the scheme. The scam affected tens of thousands of patients around the country.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
A study out of Boston shows EHR alerts can reduce tests without reducing quality, ProMedica's eyeing another acquisition and more healthcare news from around the web.
KB Dental Consulting
OCTOBER 22, 2018
There are parts of the world which are far away from the possibility to have medical or dental care. The people in these areas need medical and dental care as are other people in the world. To satisfy the needs of every person, some governments and medical centers are thinking about buying a medical or dental clinic. The main goal of these mobile trailers is to deliver medical and dental care to everyone.
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CMS.gov
OCTOBER 22, 2018
New State Relief and Empowerment Waiver Guidance Gives States Tools to Help Fix Broken Health Insurance Markets. keya.joy-bush@…. Mon, 10/22/2018 - 16:57. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Topic. Affordable Care Act. I accepted this job as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with a clear vision from President Trump: make health insurance more affordable and accessible by expanding choice, reviving competition, and deregulating
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 22, 2018
The Trump administration plans to release a proposed rule on Tuesday morning allowing businesses to provide employees with money to purchase health insurance on the individual marketplace, according to senior officials. The change is expected to add 7 million people to the ACA exchange over the next 10 years.
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