Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 7, 2018

A cadre of Canadian digital health startups were at the forefront of a special HIMSS session organized by the Canadian government’s department of foreign affairs, trade, and development. Each of the six featured startups was a graduate of the Canadian Technology Accelerator for Health IT in Philadelphia, and tackled healthcare challenges ranging from medication adherence to inelegant data analysis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2018

I greatly appreciated the opportunity today to attend a luncheon at the HX360 meeting which convened as part of the 2018 HIMSS Conference. The speaker at this event was Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics 10 years ago and today is an iconic op-ed columnist at the New York Times And Distinguished Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY).

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 7, 2018

HIMSS on Friday revealed that it has acquired Healthbox for its innovation consulting and fund management services. "Healthcare organizations look at us asking if we can help them think through concepts around digital health or how to bring innovation into their systems," said Hal Wolf, HIMSS CEO. Healthbox, in fact, specializes in two sets of services: innovation consulting and fund management.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

Given the national debate on healthcare, now is the time to address patient issues that go beyond good medical care, including poverty and other social needs that impact health, doctors say. Those social needs are central to any effective healthcare system, write Walker Ray, M.D., president, and Tim Norbeck, CEO, of the Physicians Foundation.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

UCSF's Robert Wachter expressed some optimism about the direction of the health IT industry, highlighting several bright spots where new tools have improved care workflows. But he said widespread digitization in healthcare will take longer than other industries.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 7, 2018

Employee wellness is not a new idea, but new ideas from digital health companies like Castlight Health and Fitbit, as well as incumbents like UnitedHealthcare, are reimagining and reinvigorating the space.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

The latest data from the CDC show a spike in ED visits for opioid overdoses. The rising trend held across genders, regions and age groups and comes on the heels of a report of a troubling rise in hospital admissions for opioid ingestion by pediatric patients.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 7, 2018

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services pledged to share more data between federal departments and with the public, HHS Chief Technology Officer Bruce Greenstein said at HIMSS18 on Wednesday.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

Senior officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT offered full-throated support for new CMS initiatives geared towards getting patients their health data. Officials said the notion that health data is too complex is "nonsense" and represented a "paternalistic" attitude by providers.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 7, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has joined the bandwagon of government agencies looking for outside innovators to help update its health technology systems. In February, it became easier for private citizens to become involved when the department launched Lighthouse, an API that allows developers to create digital technology to build mobile and web apps that serve veterans.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

The Trump administration wants to include several policies favored by conservatives—such as charging old people higher premiums—in ACA stabilization legislation, according to an internal memo obtained by several news outlets. Though the memo backs an initiative it just rolled out, an HHS spokesperson told FierceHealthcare that the agency does "not comment on alleged, leaked documents.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 7, 2018

Teams looking to AI and machine learning as a solution to their system’s problems should be reminded that the technologies are not a magic bullet, Leonard D’Avolio, cofounder of Cyft and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital, said on Monday at HIMSS18.

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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.

Morning eHealth

MARCH 7, 2018

23andMe secures further FDA authorization — Contact lens duel at FTC

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

Eliminating the protected classes of medications for Medicare Part D plans could give insurers more leverage to negotiate rebates but may have a limited financial payoff, according to a new analysis.

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Health Intersections

MARCH 7, 2018

Last weekend, in the lead in to HIMSS in Las Vegas, several of the FHIR team met with a number of block chain specialists, most particularly including David Huseby from the Hyperledger project at the Linux Foundation. We discussed various use cases for use of blockchain, with the intent of understanding what – if anything – HL7 should do to support blockchain adoption through the standards process.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

"If there's one thing American's are good at, it's shopping," ONC National Coordinator Donald Rucker told a HIMSS18 crowd during a fireside chat on Tuesday evening. But that hasn't been the case with healthcare, in part because consumers haven't had the data to make sound purchasing decisions.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Basis, who is known among The CW Television Network (CW) fans for his long-running portrayal of the ingenious and comical J.T. Forbes on all four seasons of the sci-fi drama Beauty and the Beast, is looking to raise funds for a personal project spotlighting and empowering characters that have been traditionally sidelined in the entertainment industry’s massive, growing universe of comic book heroes.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

Amvets and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs launched a new program aimed at improving veterans' access to mental health services. The new program will be called HEAL, based on its component parts: healthcare evaluation, advocacy and legislation.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 7, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Susan Baumgartner’s upcoming book, Diabetes Warriors, a guided journal for people with Type 1 diabetes. This excerpt has been slightly modified for clarity. My parents were strong, hard-working people from the American Midwest. They were born in 1925, right into the effects of the Great Depression, and reached maturity through and beyond World War II.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

Despite the controversy and pushback already generated by insurance giant Anthem’s decision to more closely evaluate emergency department claim submissions, another big payer has made similar moves. UnitedHealth has introduced a new policy to scrutinize high-cost ER claims and perhaps downcode or reject them entirely.

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ACA Times

MARCH 7, 2018

The Affordable Care Act’s ( ACA ) Health Insurance Marketplace has evolved over the years as a necessary evil for some healthcare providers. Some have withdrawn from it, citing profit losses and a growing number of unhealthy participants. However, new reports suggest that 2018 may be a better year for health insurance companies. CNBC reported that in the second quarter of 2017 the nation’s top six health insurers combined reported $6 billion in adjusted profits for the second quarter, up about 2

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

Health insurers are reinvesting windfalls from the tax overhaul in a number of areas, with some initiatives benefiting members and others focusing on the payers' employees.

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mHealth Insight

MARCH 7, 2018

Nathan Ratner, a third-year medical student at the University of Minnesota and third-place finisher in last year’s Elsevier Hackathon in Finland, talks to Eric Wicklund at mHealth Intelligence, about the promise of mobile health technology. mHealth Insight. “ The ability to look up information in an efficient and targeted way is critical to getting the right information, right when I need it.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the flu season has peaked; the Joint Commission releases its 2017 sentinel event data; plus more healthcare news from around the web.

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mHealth Insight

MARCH 7, 2018

There’s no livestream from #HIMSS18 but in a classic example of what happens when you let pesky Patients come along to medical conferences: they point their mobile at the presenter, video what they see and share it. Thank you “ e-Patient Dave deBronkart ” for so generously sharing this talk by Dr Ricky Bloomfield, Apple’s Clinical & Health Informatics Lead. mHealth Insight.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

Older patients often disagree with their physicians as to whether they really need a medical test or medicine, according to the findings of a new poll of Americans over age 50. The findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging point to the need for improved communication about the mismatch in opinions, which might reduce the use of unneeded tests and procedures and ultimately reduce healthcare costs.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

A trip to Tanzania during her senior year in college set the direction for Raegan McDonald-Mosley, M.D.’s professional life. Working in a country where complications from unsafe abortions were the leading cause of maternal mortality, she decided to become a doctor to improve reproductive health outcomes for people in communities of need.

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