Health Populi

MARCH 28, 2019

As more mobile app users — consumers, patients, and caregivers — use these handy digital health tools, much of the data we share can be re-identified and monetized by third parties well beyond those we believe we’re sharing with. This compromised health data privacy scenario comes out of research published this month in the BMJ , Data sharing practices of medicines related apps and the mobile ecosystem: traffic, content, and network analysis.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2019

A new report from PwC predicts that new and proposed FDA regulations could open up doors for pharmaceutical companies looking to develop digital tools.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 28, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO and co-founder, Innovaccer. What makes Super Bowls, banking transactions, and online search results altogether more special? As an ardent supporter, concerned customer, and curious observer, I keep witnessing all three of them in real time.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 28, 2019

The new trend – tech/services for older adults, not just tech. When the 2009 Market Overview was completed a decade ago, there were gadgets galore, most introduced with maximum enthusiasm and a shoestring of cash. Today, perhaps due to pending boomer bulge, innovators and their funders may be having a somewhat easier time, at least in some market categories – health, home care, transportation come to mind.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2019

Biolinq's new funding was led by JDRF T1D Fund, Aphelion Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2019

While Scanwell is still expanding its consumer telehealth offering, it's also working to position itself as a broader "diagnostics as a service" partner to the healthcare industry.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

MARCH 28, 2019

Nurses find that EHR functionalities such as integrating with outside organizations still are sorely lacking, however

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2019

Biolinq's new funding was led by JDRF T1D Fund, Aphelion Capital and LifeSci Venture Partners.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 28, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Scott E. Rupp, publisher, Electronic Health Reporter. On March 21 HIMSS representatives vice president of government affairs, Tom Leary, and senior director of federal and state affairs, Jeff Coughlin, hosted a roundtable with members of the media to peel back a few layers of the onion of the newly proposed ONC and HHS rules […].

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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

MARCH 28, 2019

The insurtech startup announced $500 million in new funding just a few months ago.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

Medicare made more than $23 billion in improper payments in 2017 due to insufficient documentation, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The GAO also found that Medicaid paid out more than $4 billion for services that were not fully or properly documented.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 28, 2019

According to a new survey conducted by Castlight and the National Business Group on Health, 87 percent of employers would give themselves a C grade or worse on their current benefits personalization efforts.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a challenge competition focused on using predictive analytics to forecast healthcare utilization.

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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 28, 2019

VA telemedicine expanding — Checking in on Congress

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

A collection of some of the top policy groups with a stake in alternative payment models are calling for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to improve transparency around its Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) payment models.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

MARCH 28, 2019

Plan outlines 19 clinical decision support tools and five detailed patient scenarios

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

Clover Health will cut 140 jobs, about a quarter of its workforce, in a bid to add more clinical and insurance expertise to its team.

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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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Health Intersections

MARCH 28, 2019

The Australian Digital Health Agency is working hard on replacing faxing with secure messaging. Peer MacIsaac discusses one of the ancillary challenges this causes in Pulse IT today : The second barrier to successful cross-transfer of messages is that the messages sent by almost all health services do not comply with Australian messaging or vocabulary standards.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule tweaking the rebate calculation formula in Medicaid for line extension drugs—an adjustment that could save Medicaid $1.64 billion over five years and $3.95 billion over the next decade.

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Insulin Nation

MARCH 28, 2019

We spoke with Cyndi Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Quin — [link] — about their Insulin Intervention Taxonomy and how these data sets produce better T1D insulin dosing recommendations. Quin believes that self-care T1D insulin-dosing strategies derived from each individual’s previous experiences are way ahead of general medical science and practice. .

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

A federal judge’s ruling Wednesday that blocked Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas has limited implications in states where similar programs have also been approved—at least, for now.

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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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CMS.gov

MARCH 28, 2019

New Part D Policies Address Opioid Epidemic. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 03/28/2019 - 14:14. Kimberly Brandt. Principal Deputy Administrator for Operations. Topic. Medicare Part D. Opioids. Safety. New Part D Policies Address Opioid Epidemic. Early last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a roadmap outlining our efforts to address the national opioid epidemic.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

Ongoing measles outbreaks have prompted a New York county to declare a state of emergency and ban unvaccinated children from public places. In California, lawmakers are considering a bill that would crack down on doctors providing false medical exemptions for childhood vaccinations.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 28, 2019

Intro to TestCard TestCard.com is a UK domiciled startup revolutionizing the direct to consumer healthcare diagnostics market. The company has innovated a delivery mechanism that allows conditions to be diagnosed immediately in the comfort and convenience of home. TestCard enables an individual to take ownership of their health, making laboratory level information accessible and painless and thus enfranchizing the individual and ultimately democratizing healthcare.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

Doctors with multiple paid malpractice claims against them are more likely to stop practicing medicine or move to a smaller practice, including going solo, according to a new study.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 28, 2019

A federal judge has rejected the Trump administration's attempt to expand association health plans.

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