Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By George Mathew, M.D., chief medical officer for the North American Healthcare organization, DXC Technology. In mid-February, nearly 45,000 health information and technology professionals, clinicians, executives and suppliers gathered to explore healthcare’s latest innovations at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Navigating the new digital healthcare landscape is challenging for everyone. The global healthcare landscape is rapidly changing with digital technologies becoming increasingly normalised into the everyday delivery of healthcare. But how does this change how healthcare organisations provide and deliver care? In the future, the digital landscape might span everything from patients to wider healthcare delivery organisations (Figure1).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What industry compels its “consumers” to wait longer and travel further for services more than any other in a person’s daily life? That would be health care, a report from Altarum notes. People travel further and wait longer for medical services than for veterinary care (second in this line-up), auto repair, banking, and household services.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The device's secure alert can be triggered automatically or manually, and uses location tracking services to pinpoint the wearer's exact location to family members or caretakers.

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Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Clocktree

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Georgia state Senate passed two bills today (SB115 and SB118) as part of their comprehensive healthcare reform aimed at reducing costs, increasing access, and enhancing quality care for Georgia residents. SB 115 allows for physicians outside of Georgia to be licensed as a telemedicine provider by the Georgia Composite Medical Board. This should improve access to Georgia residents in underserved communities by increasing the pool of available providers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The megalithic healthcare conference, HIMSS19, has come and has gone from the vast former swampland of central Florida. While I’m a relative newcomer to the show’s trajectory – I’ve been to four of the annual tradeshows since 2011 – this year’s version was, for me, the most rewarding and complete of them all.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The rumor jibes with recent comments Apple VP of Health Dr. Sumbul Desai made to MobiHealthNews about sleep.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even as healthcare transitions toward value-based payment models, physicians continue to be major drivers of hospital revenue, according to an analysis by Merritt Hawkins. Here's a look at which specialties earn the most.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The principles were created based on input from 30 industry professionals including executives, providers and researchers.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The current structure of reimbursement for drugs in the U.S. is “regressive” and ultimately hurting patients, pharmaceutical executives said Tuesday at a Senate hearing.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The digital homecare company will help bring its long-time partner to scale.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a district judge to give approval to the merger of CVS Health Corp. and Aetna as the final step to completion of the sale, which was officially sanctioned by the DOJ late in 2018.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Also: Blockchain for clinical trials; Peloton's upcoming IPO.

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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.

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The deal will help Crossover keep up with the rise of the remote workforce.

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GlobalMed

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Meditar in Argentina to deploy GlobalMed’s telehealth platform for direct-to-consumer telemedicine in South America. SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – February 26, 2019—GlobalMed, an international provider of virtual care solutions, announces a strategic partnership with Meditar , the premier healthcare network in Argentina and Latin America’s largest managed healthcare company.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The principles were created based on input from 30 industry professionals including executives, providers and researchers.

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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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LeanIX

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What's the connection? At a glance: Artificial Intelligence (AI) can only leverage information that has first been carefully structured. Information Architecture (IA) can prepare enterprises and their data for AI deployment to enact accurate and strategic analytic decision-making. AI systems require supervision, planning, and cleansed data.

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Carie Telehealth Insider

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The road to becoming a telehealth provider is not an easy one—you’ve jumped through hoops, spent valuable time and money to get here, and now here you are. Your first question as a new provider might be a pretty obvious one: what next? Marketing your new and improved business model to your patients is the most important part of the process. It is imperative that your patients know the nuances of your new online platform: how to access it, schedule appropriate visits as a telehealth consult, view

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Dallas-based healthcare giant reported a $5 million net loss from operations in the fourth quarter of 2018, a substantial improvement compared to a net loss of $230 million in the fourth quarter of 2017.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

No matter who is doing the counting, 2018 was an off-the-charts year for venture investment in digital health. Here’s a sampling of the tallies: Our good friends at Rock Health put the total investment at $8.1 billion – an impressive 42 percent increase over 2017’s total of $5.7 billion.The PwC/CB Insights MoneyTree Report posted an even higher total of $8.6 billion up from $7.1 posted in 2017.StartUp Health reported $14.6 billion in global investment in digital health, up nearly 150 percent fro

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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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Morning eHealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

ACT/CHI makes HHS requests— Sen.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The service's new clinical capabilities, smart referrals and comprehensive data platform look to remove barriers that keep patients from primary care.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Anthem's top attorney said in court on Monday that Cigna's sabotage ensured their merger's failure, plus more insurance headlines.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Editor’s Note: For payers, stable health insurance markets means stronger long-term growth because enrollment swings hamper revenue projections. Consistency in all phases of revenue cycle management, market penetration, and strategic planning means stable service delivery and insurance premiums. Click HERE and discuss how BHM helps payers succeed.

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Medical Mime - EHR

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

While researching the often cited physician burnout from EHR burdens, I came across the above nice infographic from Practice Velocity. It lists the 5 ways an EHR can benefit your practice. While written originally for urgent care ambulatory settings, much of this holds true for addiction treatment settings as well: Save Time : Whether it’s the various information captured during Intake or other important points during treatment, a well organized EHR workflow can streamline all the document

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Editor’s Note: For payers and policy-makers it can be a challenge to design effective opioid epidemic measures to control the rapid increase of overdoses as program effectiveness data is being accumulated. Staying abreast as to how opioid prescription control policies are evaluated for effectiveness, payers can be more efficient in their policymaking.

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