Mobi Health News

MAY 25, 2018

This past quarter, Castlight Health continued to see a growth in revenue, as it looks forward to the release of its “Castlight Complete” platform, which offers customers an integrated digital health platform. Castlight announced that its total revenue was $36.5 million in Q1. That was an increase of 32 percent year-over year. The total year’s revenue is still expected to be between $150 and $155 million, according to the earnings call.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 25, 2018

Every three minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer like leukemia or lymphoma. Despite the growing use of transplant to cure blood cancers and other blood disorders, CMS continues to dramatically underfund the cost of cell acquisition and transplant for Medicare patients.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 25, 2018

Dexcom started out the year strong following the FDA clearance of its integrated continuous glucose monitor the G6. In its Q1 earnings call, the company reported a 30 percent increase in revenue compared to Q1 of 2017, bringing its total revenue to $184 million. When the FDA gave Dexcom the nod for the G6 it became the first interoperable CGM to get the designation.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 25, 2018

When a shooting happened right outside Mount Sinai Hospital's doors in Chicago in the summer of 2017, administrators scrambled to figure out the best way to determine what went wrong and assure both staff and patients of their safety. Those lessons learned were tested earlier this month when they faced the worst again: another shooting.

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Morning eHealth

MAY 25, 2018

Judiciary committee advances opioid bills — Senate appropriators endorse FDA hike

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

MAY 25, 2018

Episode 19 features Rosalyn Perkins, MNSc, CNP, WHNP-BC, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Director of Operations for the Center for Distance Health ANGELS Telemedicine program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Listen as Mrs. Perkins discusses how a childhood injury inspired her career as a nurse and ultimately her role in caring for pregnant women in the most rural areas of Arkansas through telemedicine.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 25, 2018

Insurers are already excited about a bipartisan-supported effort to delay the health insurance taxes until 2021. The taxes cost insurers billions per year, but another delay could mean $14 billion in lost revenue for the feds.

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Christina's Considerations

MAY 25, 2018

I thought I'd share one of my early Facebook Page posts from August 2017. Zippered baggies are still creating challenges, especially those sealed baggies for prepared foods, such as, sliced cheese and sandwich meats. Back then, I only had so.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 25, 2018

The seemingly never-ending litigation over Aetna's multiple HIV privacy breaches got another wrinkle last week when the insurer sued the plaintiff firm and the advocacy group that initially brought a class-action suit. Aetna claims the organizations are on the hook for $20 million because they oversaw the mailing that led to the second breach.

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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.

Christina's Considerations

MAY 25, 2018

I thought I'd share one of my early Facebook Page posts from August 2017. Zippered baggies are still creating challenges, especially those sealed baggies for prepared foods, such as, sliced cheese and sandwich meats. Back then, I only had so.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 25, 2018

One insurer is taking a deeper drive into value-based care with a new, exclusive arrangement with Quest Diagnostics that includes collaboration on "a variety of value-based programs" for lab testing.

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David Chou

MAY 25, 2018

Check out my linkedin post on population health tools. I would be interested in your opinion on this. What criteria are you using for your system selection and why?

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 25, 2018

Interns have a rosy view of working for Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic is planning a new biobank, and more healthcare headlines.

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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.

HIStalk Weekender

MAY 25, 2018

Weekly News Recap. A KLAS report on hospital EHR market share finds that most new sales in 2017 were to hospitals of under 200 beds, Epic led by far in overall net hospital count change, and CPSI and Allscripts lost more than 30 net hospitals each last year. Epic tells the Illinois Procurement Board that no conflict of interest existed in University of Illinois-Chicago’s choice of Epic over Cerner, saying Epic was cheaper, state law required Cerner to be excluded from demonstrating because it sc

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