Clocktree
MARCH 9, 2018
Consumers continue to wish for more virtual care options, creating better overall access to healthcare. According to a 2018 survey conducted by Ernst and Young, more than 50% of 2500 consumers are already using the telemedicine technology available to them through their healthcare providers. However most of these patients do not have access to all the telehealth options they are hoping for.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2018
Predictive analytics platform Clew Medical has recently announced its partnership with WakeMed for its clinical trials in the eICU to detect patient deterioration in realtime. Clew uses machine learning algorithms and customized physiological models to help clinicians make decisions with actionable clinical, operational and financial insights. The company’s AI system will give WakeMed access to predictive analysis of clinical indicators and will identify the potential for patient decline.
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
Effective leadership in healthcare often means getting knowledge out of caregivers’ heads so organizations can act on it. Intermountain Healthcare found a way to do that daily, in 15-minute increments.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2018
According to Dr. Ed Martinez, CIO of Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, one of the biggest problems with EHRs is that they’re not patient-focused systems.
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
An innovative program run by the University of Pennsylvania Health System uses a patient-centric focus to extend care beyond hospital facilities and into local communities. The key to the program’s success lies in sending its community health workers into disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia and asking patients what kind of support they need to improve their health.
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
Every state faces steep individual marketplace premium increases in 2019 and beyond, due at least in part to ongoing uncertainty about health policy on the federal level. Covered California estimates that 17 states face "catastrophic" increases of up to 90% or more between 2019 and 2021.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2018
Compliance is important to any developer looking to create a healthcare app. But sometimes getting the right compliance for multiple products in several different countries can be a bit like running through an obstacle course. Cloud-based platform for digital health Datica has recently announced its next generation platform to manage HIPAA compliance on top of AWS and Microsoft Azure.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
Healthcare organizations are trying new ways to attract and retain nurses, not only offering to pay their tuition but also reimbursing college tuition for their children. Others are turning to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico to recruit nurses as more U.S. nurses from the mainland get set to retire.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2018
MobiHealthNews spent the last week at the HIMSS18 annual global conference in Washington DC. You can see all our HIMSS coverage on our website, but we don't always have time to write all the news from the show. Read on for some additional comments, case studies, and launches from the show.
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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
MARCH 9, 2018
The closure of rural hospitals and fiscal pressures on the remaining facilities has reshaped how and where women in those communities give birth, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In rural counties that lost hospital-based obstetrical services, births at hospitals without an obstetrics unit rose more than 3%.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 9, 2018
Photo Credit: Terry Pierson, Riverside Press-Enterprise/SCNG. There are a lot of misconceptions about Type 1 diabetes—for instance, that is lifestyle-related and that it is easy to control with diet and exercise. As numerous advocates have argued, such misinformation is not harmless, since popular opinion has the potential to significantly shape public policy.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
Multispecialty medical groups and health systems operating accountable care organizations or participating in Medicare Advantage plans will find some new tools for managing this patient population if they look closely at the provisions of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, which includes the Chronic Care Act.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 9, 2018
Tech might be last of VA’s EHR concerns — Cerner CEO’s first month
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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.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
A$67 billion merger between Cigna and Express Scripts would make data-sharing between payers and providers easier and would improve drug price transparency, Gurpreet Singh, partner and U.S. health services leader for PwC, tells FierceHealthcare. It could also decrease competition and put even greater pricing pressure on pharmaceutical companies.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
In a move that takes value-based care to the next level, Geisinger says it will cover the lifetime costs associated with orthopedic surgeries. “What we’re saying to our patients is that the level of service we’ll provide will be so exemplary that if there’s a problem tomorrow or 20, 30 or 40 years from now, we’ll take care of it," says Michael Suk, M.D.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
Thomas Frist, Jr., co-founder of HCA, is the richest doctor in the world; FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says that a "rigged" system prevents new generic medications from reaching the market and leads to higher drug costs; The Walt Disney Company announced it will donate at least $100 million to children's hospitals around the world, plus more healthcare finance headlines from around the web.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
CMS spiked Idaho officials' plans to offer insurance that doesn't comply with the Affordable Care Act, saying such a move would be illegal. Meanwhile, House Democrats are urging HHS Secretary Alex Azar to reject state requests to impose Medicaid lifetime coverage caps.
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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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