Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Google has unleashed a tidal wave of product and feature updates through the ongoing Google I/O developers’ conference, and it’s no surprise that the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare was a recurring spotlight among them. Through keynote speeches and simultaneously released online blog posts, the company highlighted a handful of tech-driven healthcare efforts that seem to be bearing fruit.
Clocktree
MAY 9, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the agency’s first Rural Health Strategy this week, to help improve access to high quality, affordable healthcare in underserved rural communities. One of the key components of the strategy is to advance telehealth and telemedicine. “Telehealth has been proven to be a successful tool to improve access to care and help meet the needs of rural areas that lack sufficient health care services.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
A new overview of systematic reviews of published randomized control trials of mobile health apps found just 23 RCTs of currently-available apps have been conducted, and less than half of those showed a positive health effect from the app in question.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2018
A new report shows that more medical devices were recalled in the first quarter of 2018 than in any other quarter dating back to 2005. Attorney Bethany Hills tells FierceHealthcare that's likely to continue as more complex software is integrated into devices.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Healthcare data company Innovaccer has just announced that it landed $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Westbridge Capital with participation from Lightspeed Ventures.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
MobiHealthNews Editor Jonah Comstock speaks with Tina Joros, general manager of the open business unit at Allscripts, about "creating a new mentality of innovation" to improve workflows and enhance patient engagement.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 9, 2018
April showers, daffodils and other flowers. Depending on where you went in April you could experience spring multiple times – each time buds and birds emerging. With them, much news about technology, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the smug – not sure that so much time to look at and listen to Mark Zuckerberg’s confession felt like a positive. It did make one wonder how long Facebook has known which of its “2 billion users” are the 87 million fake profiles – and are those counted in the data
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Patients often have a long and difficult road to recovery following a stroke, but now developers are turning to virtual reality to assist in their therapy. Rehabilitation research group the Kessler Foundation and immersive interactive technologies company Virtualware are teaming up to develop a VR-based treatment for spatial neglect in stroke patients.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2018
A new law passed earlier this year significantly expanded the use of telemedicine. Here’s a status report on what providers and patients need to know.
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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
MAY 9, 2018
This morning, Boston-based Akili Interactive Labs announced the closure of a $55 million Series C funding round. The investment was led by Temasek, with participation from Baillie Gifford, Amgen Ventures, M Ventures, JAZZ Venture Partners, Canepa Advanced Healthcare Fund, and Brooklands Capital Strategies.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2018
The former CMS officials were asked what their advice would be for the current administrator as they sat down together to talk policy at the American Hospital Association conference this week. This is what they had to say.
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Ben Schilens, chief revenue officer at Orbita, and Jonah Comstock, editor of MobiHealthNews, discuss the opportunity developers have to improve patient engagement by tying voice to their applications.
Waracle
MAY 9, 2018
Data is at the heart of everything in technology, particularly mobile app development. Processing this data responsibly has always been crucially important and the introduction of The General Data Protection Act (GDPR) seeks to put more rigor around data management. Like all companies, we have been reviewing our data management processes ahead of GDPR coming into effect.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
WeDoctor, an online healthcare services company serving the Chinese market and backed by Tencent Holdings, has raised $500 million from investors in a private share sale that places its value at $5.
American Well
MAY 9, 2018
ATA’s New Guidelines for Treating Stroke Patients: What you need to know. As the fifth most common cause of death and the leading cause of long-term adult disability in the world, strokes pose a widespread public health dilemma. And while many studies have proven the viability of using telehealth services to rapidly address patient needs, providing cohesive care between facilities is a critical component that needs to be addressed.
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Healthcare data company Innovaccer has just announced that it landed $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Westbridge Capital with participation from Lightspeed Ventures.
American Well
MAY 9, 2018
ATA’s New Guidelines for Treating Stroke Patients: What you need to know. As the fifth most common cause of death and the leading cause of long-term adult disability in the world, strokes pose a widespread public health dilemma. And while many studies have proven the viability of using telehealth services to rapidly address patient needs, providing cohesive care between facilities is a critical component that needs to be addressed.
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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!
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
This morning Murj, developer of a digital data collection platform for implantable cardiac devices, announced that it raked in $8.5 million in a series B financing led by Longitude Capital, with participation from True Ventures and other existing investors.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2018
A Pennsylvania hospital agrees to settle on Medicare fraud claims. Also, Nevada gubernatorial candidates rally around Medicaid expansion.
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Slavitt's new gig. Former CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt is heading up Town Hall Ventures, a new healthcare investing group that officially launched yesterday. Slavitt will be joined by Trevor Price, founder of Oxeon Holdings, a retained executive search and investment firm; and David Whelan, who managed Oxeon's previous firm Oxeon Ventures. The firm already has several investments including Cityblock Health, Somatus, Welbe Health, and Aetion.
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.
Mobi Health News
MAY 9, 2018
Santosh Mohan, head of athenahealth's More Disruption Please labs, tells MobiHealthNews Editor Jonah Comstock about the potential open platforms bring to healthcare and he shares a few details on the EHR company's work with Apple.
Insulin Nation
MAY 9, 2018
sponsor. Thanks to the increasing prevalence of Type 1 diabetes worldwide, the charity groups raising funds for diabetes-related causes are on the rise. To stand out in this sphere, you should know how things work. Here are five ideas for succeeding as a diabetes charity: Organize Fundraising Events. Fundraising events are a crucial activity in the work of diabetes charity organizations.
ACA Times
MAY 9, 2018
2 minute read: A recent blog post from Robert Sheen discussed the IRS’s continuing efforts to enforce the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate. On an annual basis, )applicable large employers (ALEs), organizations with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees, are required to offer minimum essential coverage to at least 95% of their full-time workforce (and their dependents) whereby such coverage meets minimum value and is affordable for the employee or be subject to I
care innovations
MAY 9, 2018
Is a remote patient management (RPM) program better suited for treating long- or short-term episodes of care? In a video from the Care Innovations® RPM Academy , our panel of telehealth experts weighs in on just what the type of care episode is best suited for remote care. Remote patient management “can really vary in the length of episode of care” for which it’s utilized, Care Innovations Chief Financial Officer Bryan Pruden says in the video.
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FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2018
ONC has pushed back its highly anticipated information blocking proposed rule to September. Meanwhile, UnityPoint Health is facing a class-action lawsuit for failing to accurately report information about a data breach.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2018
Walmart sets new limits on opioid medications at its in-store pharmacies; drug executives testify before Congress about the opioid crisis; plus other health industry news.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 9, 2018
Officials at the Miami area are revamping the building of the local public health system, plus more news from health systems and hospitals.
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