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Innovation dashboard: How to prepare for and monitor app and medical device projects

Mobi Health News

As innovation becomes a constant process in the enterprise, it’s important to make sure resources are being used as effectively as they can be.

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Doctors orders: How Ali Parsa plans to make digital health startup Babylon the "Google of Healthcare"

Lloyd Price

For the latest installment of our Big Interview series where we catch up with some of the world’s most exciting business leaders, The Drum makes an appointment with Ali Parsa – founder and chief exec of digital health startup Babylon – to find out about his plans to become the Google of healthcare. “I was in Brussels for a speaking engagement when I got very ill, with a high temperature.

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OMB holds health IT's future

Morning eHealth

CFR 42 Part 2 still up in the air — Immigration rule could lead to corrupt EHRs

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Will artificial intelligence ever replace doctors?

KevinMD

Increasingly, we see functions executed by machines that were formerly performed by living breathing human beings. Examples range from the mundane to the preternatural. Order food and drink from an iPad. No server needed. Driverless auto travel. This may lead to a resurgence in prayer. Pilotless air travel. Hard times ahead for the Airline Pilots Association.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

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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Bridging the disconnect between technology and care delivery

Mobi Health News

Beth Kutscher, senior news editor for healthcare at LinkedIn, explains how the social networking platform is developing digital health content and what it believes it can do to address the disconnect between technology and care delivery.

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Ro lands $88M, expands services beyond erectile dysfunction to smoking cessation

Mobi Health News

Previously focused on erecticle dysfunction, Ro is using its latest funding to work on a multipronged smoking cessation platform.

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Medicaid spending hit $581B in 2016. Here's how it's projected to grow over the next decade

FierceHealthIT

Total Medicaid spending grew 4.9% between 2015 and 2016, and the program enrolled 72.2 million people in 2016. Here's a look at how CMS projects those figures to grow through 2026.

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Meditation platform Muse acquires Meditation Studio

Mobi Health News

Muse, maker of an EEG headband and accompanying meditation app, will acquire fellow mindfulness app Meditation studio.

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How People Without Health Insurance Can Still Afford Medical Services

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Despite the best efforts of the government, there are still millions of US citizens who don’t have healthcare coverage. This translates into a large percentage of the population forced to forego preventative care and even emergency healthcare services. While bureaucrats continue to rewrite laws and introduce legislation that might make health care more affordable, more […].

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.

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CareStack lands $16M, Sload Kettering responds to criticisms, and other digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Digital education videos could improve patient consent; Tempus launches new app for physicians.

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With support from health IT groups, a new ‘wizard’ looks to streamline patient medical records requests

FierceHealthIT

As hospitals navigate the digital age, medical records requests are still stuck in the past. A group of health IT organizations wants to change that with a medical request "wizard" designed to streamline the process of getting access in electronic formats.

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Teladoc Health announces 'worldwide' virtual care service for multinational customers

Mobi Health News

The Teladoc Global Care service supports remote care in more than 20 languages.

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Intermountain further solidifies research reputation with new innovation center

FierceHealthIT

Intermountain Healthcare has opened a new 120,000-square-foot innovation center aimed at accelerating care transformation. It will house institutes for research and leadership development.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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Healthcare matchmaking: Bridging the disconnect between technology and care delivery

Mobi Health News

Beth Kutscher, senior news editor for healthcare at LinkedIn, explains how the social networking platform is developing digital health content for foster connections among startups, CIOs and clinical staff to address the tech/care delivery disconnect.

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Industry Voices—Right to Try law provides a license to cash in on patient fears

FierceHealthIT

While well-intentioned, the Right to Try law could create opportunities for hucksters and snake-oil salesmen to prey on those who are vulnerable. As the Food and Drug Administration develops its protocols for right-to-try, the agency must ensure that patients are protected from anyone trying to game the system.

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Mediation platform Muse acquires Meditation Studio

Mobi Health News

Muse, maker of an EEG headband and accompanying meditation app, will acquire fellow mindfulness app Meditation studio.

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The next evolutionary step for SPM: a manifesto

Society for Participatory Medicine

Here’s the latest in a series of interviews with outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston. Register here. And see this blog’s #SPM2018 series for more about, or by, the speakers and activities. Attending a participatory medicine event means that you yourself participate.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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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CIO's guide to creating a dashboard for tracking innovation projects

Mobi Health News

The key performance indicators, measurable processes, implementation data and demonstrable value are what makes an effective innovation dashboard.

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Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal joins WellCare's board

FierceHealthIT

Former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, a staunch opponent of Medicaid expansion and government-run insurance plans, has been appointed to the board of WellCare, a company that derives most of its revenue from Medicaid plans.

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Innovation requires multi-year commitment, say execs from HIMSS Healthbox

Mobi Health News

Whether developing new digital tools, making strategic investments or partnering with tech startups, hospitals have plenty of ways to innovate.

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Working While Receiving State and Federal Disability Benefits

Christina's Considerations

Disability insurance is available at both the state and federal levels to assist workers who become disabled, and unable to work. Learning the qualifications/disqualifications and self-advocating to ensure effective communications are occurring are two challenges many will experience. Another, often.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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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CFO's guide to creating a successful innovation dashboard for healthcare

Mobi Health News

The core of a dashboard is information as systems track the development and efficacy of innovation projects.

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Healthcare Roundup—Hospital removes gender from patient wristbands; NIH adds sites to Undiagnosed Diseases Network

FierceHealthIT

Children’s Hospital Colorado has removed gender designation from its patient wristbands, an idea that came from its gender diversity task force, plus more healthcare news from around the web.

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Telehealth Risk Management Checklist

Telebehavioral Health Institute

For the sake of our own sanity and the well-being of the loved ones who might rely on our earning potential, telehealth risk management needs to be at the forefront of our decisions. As we have suggested, our risk management … Read more. The post Telehealth Risk Management Checklist appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Payer Roundup—CMS reviews Alabama work requirements; Drug prices are still climbing

FierceHealthIT

CMS will review a waiver request from Alabama to implement Medicaid work requirements. Plus, more drug companies are raising prices than are making cuts, and UnitedHealth's Envision contract is on thin ice.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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The Biggest Trend You’ve Probably Never Heard Of: A Status Report on 138 Healthcare ICOs

E-CareManagement

You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin, but we doubt you’ve heard of Dentacoin, MedTokens, or Curecoin. These are healthcare specific cryptocurrencies born from Initial Coin Offerings or ICOs. Over on The Health Care Blog , my colleague Robert Miller and I have written an article analyzing financial returns of 138 healthcare ICOs. The results are enlightening, but disappointing.

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Health IT Roundup—New interoperability rule under review at OMB; Memorial Sloan Kettering’s AI dustup

FierceHealthIT

A new interoperability and patient access rule ends up at OMB; Memorial Sloan Kettering fights off controversy around its AI partnership; and CHIME weighs in with IT suggestions for Congress' opioids package.

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An ACA Penalty Risk Assessment May Help Employers Avoid IRS Penalties

ACA Times

3 minute read: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is complex and complying with the law’s Employer Mandate can be challenging for organizations. Under the ACA’s Employer Mandate, Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), organizations with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees, are required to offer Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) to at least 95% of their full-time workforce (and their dependents) whereby such coverage meets Minimum Value (MV) and is affordable for the employee

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