Mon.Oct 15, 2018

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Why healthcare data may be more secure with cloud computing

Mobi Health News

But like with most things in healthcare, organizations need to keep following up after choosing the right vendor and signing an airtight contract to best protect data.

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Executive Spotlight—DirectTrust CEO Scott Stuewe explains why interoperability has lost its meaning

FierceHealthIT

New DirectTrust CEO Scott Stuewe says interoperability has lost its meaning and "leaves providers cold." After more than two decades at Cerner, Stuewe will be tasked with leading an organization trying to solve that very problem.

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

Health Populi

When I asked my longtime colleague and friend Robert Mittman, with whom I collaborated at Institute for the Future for a decade, how he managed international travel and jet lag, he said simply, “The time zone you’re in is the time zone you’re in.” This lesson has stayed with me since I received Robert’s advice over twenty years ago.

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Remote Care: The new normal

Mobi Health News

Centralized care, with a hospital as the “hub,” is the standard in the U.S. today. But this familiar model is changing rapidly, as providers embrace remote care at scale. After decades of experimentation, why now?

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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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Health IT Startup: Relatient

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Relatient is passionate about assisting healthcare organizations with patient-centered engagement. Elevator pitch By helping organizations automate patient-centered outreach and messaging, Relatient helps practices, hospitals and health systems facilitate more compliant, and ultimately healthier, patient populations.

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In Need of Repair: Not-for-Profit Hospitals’ Finances

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ken Perez, VP of healthcare policy, Omnicell, Inc. Decreasing inpatient admission volumes, shifts in the re-imbursement mix from higher-margin commercial payers to lower-margin public payers, and pressures resulting from value-based care have been solid trends during the past several years.

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Digital therapeutics are moving toward a supplement-drug dichotomy

Mobi Health News

At the Digital Health Innovation Summit in Boston, experts said early digital therapeutics companies have an opportunity to sculpt the space.

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Telehealth company HealthRight charged in $1B fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

The CEO of the telemedicine company HealthRight was charged alongside several compounding pharmacies for a $1 billion fraud scheme that charged insurers for marked-up pain creams and marketed millions in bogus supplements to patients.

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Startup connecting seniors to college students for companionship, services lands $2.4M

Mobi Health News

Miami-based Papa's tech-enabled platform lets elders reach out to college students for transportation, household chores and companionship.

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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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A Quick Guide For Finding the Right Insurance Plan

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Getting the right health insurance is tricky. You need to mind a few things to assure you sign the right contract between you and the insurer. Following, we will discuss a few tips that will help you find the ideal insurance package according to your needs, budget, and the market landscape.

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Apple launches large orthopedic trial with Zimmer Biomet, Flo Health building new screening tool with Myovant Sciences, and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Advanced ICU Care signs with Penn Highlands DuBois; MobileHelp supports Indie Health's blood pressure monitor and weight scale.

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Industry Voices—Why are we treating social determinants of health as another healthcare fad?

FierceHealthIT

Academics and public health researchers have long understood the importance of social determinants of health. Insurers and providers have started to examine what they can do to address the persistent social gaps, but we can't afford it to become another quickly abandoned healthcare fad.

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Digital pathology startup Deep Lens raises $3.2M

Mobi Health News

Deep Lens enables pathologist to study a large number of digitized slides and make cancer diagnoses without the use of a traditional microscope.

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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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Anthem pays a record $16M settlement to HHS for 2015 data breach

FierceHealthIT

Anthem has agreed to pay HHS $16 million to resolve an investigation into a landmark 2015 breach that impacted nearly 79 million consumers. It's the largest data breach fine in the agency's history.

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NHS long term plan IT update, Babylon's £23.3m reported loss and more UK digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: UK ministers to organise roundtable with companies to explore the impact of technology on loneliness and Japanese hospital joins AI research project through five-year partnership with London-based DeepMind Health.

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Report: Catastrophic liability claims against hospitals on the rise 

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare liability claims are on the rise, and the sticker price for the most extreme or catastrophic claims is growing the fastest, according to a new report.

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Doctors skeptical about CMS's virtual check-in provision

Mobi Health News

Some say the measure would force patients to pay for phone calls that are currently free.

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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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Penn Medicine’s new transformation project looks to fill the ‘middle space’ between EHRs and clinicians

FierceHealthIT

A new project launched by Penn Medicine last week will take on the monumental task of EHR usability. David Asch, M.D., the executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care Innovation, told FierceHealthcare that health systems need to set the pace for that transformation and called the effort a "call to arms" for the rest of the industry.

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Cybersecurity strategy: Hackers have one, do you?

Mobi Health News

During October, we talk to infosec executives and experts about the problems and practical steps to securing sensitive data, advice about what to do (and what not to do) during and after a security incident.

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HHS to require drug price listings

Morning eHealth

ONC challenge for safer EHRs — Google AI tool for breast cancer metastasis detection

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Ruchin Kansal and Strategic Partnerships: To Go Far, Go Together – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This edition’s topic is strategic partnerships, and I had the chance to speak about them with Ruchin Kansal ( @kansalruchin ), the Digital Business Strategy leader for Healthcare, Insurance and Life Sciences at Virtusa. He has also worked in healthcare strategy consulting at Big Four consulting firms and as executive in charge of business innovation at Boehringer Ingelheim.

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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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At #SPM2018, Ivan Handler (with @MightyCasey) Wants to Put the Care Back in Healthcare

Society for Participatory Medicine

Here’s the last in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Last chance: register here. (Our #SPM2018 blog series has more about the speakers and activities.). In the segment of the SPM conference called “Data: I’ll Share Mine if you Share Yours,” you’ll find co-presenters who surely will spark conversation

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Ruchin Kansal and Strategic Partnerships: To Go Far, Go Together – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This edition’s topic is strategic partnerships, and I had the chance to speak about them with Ruchin Kansal ( @kansalruchin ), the Digital Business Strategy leader for Healthcare, Insurance and Life Sciences at Virtusa. He has also worked in healthcare strategy consulting at Big Four consulting firms and as executive in charge of business innovation at Boehringer Ingelheim.

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Send us your nominations for Fierce 15 awards

FierceHealthIT

Do you know an influential startup that's flying under the radar? Tell us how they are changing the healthcare industry as we know it by Nov. 15 for consideration in our Fierce 15 awards.

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Ruchin Kansal and Strategic Partnerships: To Go Far, Go Together – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This edition’s topic is strategic partnerships, and I had the chance to speak about them with Ruchin Kansal ( @kansalruchin ), the Digital Business Strategy leader for Healthcare, Insurance and Life Sciences at Virtusa. He has also worked in healthcare strategy consulting at Big Four consulting firms and as executive in charge of business innovation at Boehringer Ingelheim.

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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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T1D Teens: Good Habits are Critical

Insulin Nation

This transition time is typically a high-risk period in teen lives with frequent BG excursions due to poor sleep habits, exercise, alcohol, and irregular meals. The study published in Diabetes Care shows that higher executive function predicts better glycemic control in teenagers with Type 1 Diabetes during the transition period between late adolescence and early adulthood.

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Ruchin Kansal and Strategic Partnerships: To Go Far, Go Together – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

This edition’s topic is strategic partnerships, and I had the chance to speak about them with Ruchin Kansal ( @kansalruchin ), the Digital Business Strategy leader for Healthcare, Insurance and Life Sciences at Virtusa. He has also worked in healthcare strategy consulting at Big Four consulting firms and as executive in charge of business innovation at Boehringer Ingelheim.

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What to Measure, Track and Record Under the ACA [UPDATE]

ACA Times

7 minute read: It’s always interesting to look back and see how regulation develops. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is no exception. I wrote a five-part series about the ACA for “Construction Business Owners Magazine” in 2015. I found it interesting to revisit these articles. I share this third article in that series, with some updates, to provide some perspective on the ACA for those of you who are involved with ACA compliance.

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