Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2018
Yesterday’s announcement that Apple would open the API for Health Records in iOS 12 will likely spawn a whole host of integrations with digital health companies in the coming months. But one company has the distinction of being named in the announcement, and of having its Health Records integration already complete: Medisafe.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
Apple is opening up its Health Records platform to app developers, providing a new seamless connection to patient data that will "reduce the friction" for developers and help researchers evaluate the effectiveness of digital health apps.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2018
When it comes to the challenges of raising an up-and-coming young company into a major player in its industry, former Apple and Pepsi CEO John Sculley is no spring chicken. A serial entrepreneur and investor across numerous industries ranging from consumer technology to data management to telecommunications, Sculley has set his sights on the healthcare and currently serves as the chairman of hopeful PBM disruptor RxAdvance.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 6, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and president, Innovaccer. Consider a situation where healthcare is not just an industry term — a situation where EHRs are not an integral part of physicians schedule but just a support to providing care. All considered, imagine a situation where patient-centric care actually involves the patient, and patient engagement is not […].
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2018
It's not uncommon for doctors to tell patients that they need to relax, but now one company is aiming to develop a digital meditation product that can be prescribed by physicians. Headspace, maker of a mindfulness and meditation app, announced that it is a digital health subsidiary called Headspace Health. The goal of the subsidiary is to create a new prescription meditation app by 2020.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2018
Stakeholders across healthcare are beginning to weigh the benefits and challenges digital therapeutics could bring to their businesses, and pharma is no exception. During an afternoon roundtable session held yesterday at BIO 2018 in Boston, a panel of digital medicine and pharmaceutical representatives discussed the impact that these novel medicines has had, and could have, on drugmakers, regulators, and those prescribing the medications.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
While testifying before a House committee on Wednesday, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said there wouldn't be enough time to turn new regulations around for a rule against silver loading.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2018
Athenahealth announced Wednesday morning that founder and CEO Jonathan Bush is leaving the company and that the board will consider “strategic alternatives.” Those include hiring a new chief executive officer as well as a “sale, merger or other transaction involving the company as well as continuing as an independent company,” athenahealth said in a statement.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
It appears congressional Republicans have received new ammo in their long-term quest to reform the Medicare program following a recent trustees report which found the program has a shorter shelf-life than previously thought.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2018
Genealogy and DNA testing service site MyHeritage is notifying 92,283,889 users that their account information was compromised.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
Athenahealth's founder and longtime CEO Jonathan Bush has stepped down after 21 years, the company announced on Wednesday. The board of directors is also exploring "strategic alternatives" including a "sale, merger or other transaction.
Morning eHealth
JUNE 6, 2018
Azar on interoperability: Not a micromanager — Cerner deal marches on
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
National patient safety initiatives have made great strides in reducing hospital-acquired conditions. But providers still have plenty of work to do, experts say. Heres how many HAI's were avoided between 2014 and 2016.
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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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 6, 2018
It’s Not About Your Grandmother – 10 Steps Before Launching! You want to launch a boomer/senior, home health tech, caregiving, product or service. Or other. Your new company gets ready to travel into battle for west coast networking , or you're back from San Francisco or Silicon Valley , consider this guidance, now that cards have been exchanged and follow-up emails sent.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
As the Trump administration plans to institute a so-called gag rule on family planning providers domestically, a new report sheds light on the impact of the international version of the policy.
Lloyd Price
JUNE 6, 2018
The smartphone, smartwatch, digital music, tablet, software, and computer giant Apple is continuing its potentially-disruptive march into the healthcare world with a newly-announced application programming interface (API) suite. Apple hopes that the feature will help researchers and developers build health management and insight applications—and it’s a logical evolution for the company’s health offerings.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
In good news for hospitals, U.S. Immigration Services appears to have cleared the way for issuance of visas for non-U.S. international medical graduates set to begin work as residents in less than a month.
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HIStalk Interviews
JUNE 6, 2018
Thomas Charlton is chairman and CEO of Goliath Technologies of Philadelphia, PA. Tell me about yourself and the company. I started my career talking to surgeons about the benefits of minimally invasive surgery and the impact on patient care. Way back then, 25 years ago, health IT was an afterthought. Now I’m back talking to health systems and the IT departments about the impact on patient care from an IT perspective.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
Pennsylvania's insurance commissioner says incoming ACA premium requests include a modest 4.9% markup, but she notes that state efforts to combat federal policy changes have shielded the state from big hikes. Meanwhile, Democrats are eager to make healthcare a focal point during August's canceled recess.
care innovations
JUNE 6, 2018
As a recent report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) emphasizes, when it comes to the ongoing digitalization of America’s healthcare system , a not-insignificant number of facilities and patients are being left behind. Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance wi
Christina's Considerations
JUNE 6, 2018
During my long healthcare career, I've worked with chemical dependency programs in acute, residential and outpatient settings. It was during this career that I saw the rise and fall of various addictions and heard The Joint Commission proclaim pain as.
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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.
Lloyd Price
JUNE 6, 2018
Push Doctor, the UK’s largest digital health provider, opens a new Digital Health Campus to act as a focal point for the development of digital health in the UK. As part of its investment made possible by the largest Series B funding round in Tech North, Push Doctor is investing over £3 million into the local economy. Push Doctor has grown rapidly from four employees in January 2016 to 118 today, and is expected to reach 170 by the end of 2018.
Christina's Considerations
JUNE 6, 2018
During my long healthcare career, I've worked with chemical dependency programs in acute, residential and outpatient settings. It was during this career that I saw the rise and fall of various addictions and heard The Joint Commission proclaim pain as.
Lloyd Price
JUNE 6, 2018
For Jim Lecinski, innovating in healthcare is about a lot more than new products and services. For the former VP of Sales at Google, it’s about a healthcare experience. Specifically, it’s about embracing our digital age to create a sense of magic. Here we’ve distilled Lecinski’s strategies (taken from his address at the 2018 StartUp Health Festival) into three lessons — and a simple equation — on how to add a bit of “Google Magic” into your company’s product experience.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2018
Yet another poll shows doctors are frustrated with their EHR, even as two-thirds say the systems have generally led to better patient care. Meanwhile, the FCC has proposed a boost to rural telehealth funding and a VA telehealth licensing change was signed into law.
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Lloyd Price
JUNE 6, 2018
Orbita, Inc. has announced a collaboration with AARP to study remote patient monitoring and reduce social isolation. As participants in the 2018 Pulse@MassChallenge accelerator, the organizations will study new digital approaches for leveraging natural language processing to new enable hands-free, digital experiences for the 50-plus population. The work will guide ongoing development of solutions providing intuitive in-home access to information and tools to improve self-care among adults.
Health Populi
JUNE 6, 2018
Doctors have a complicated relationship with electronic health records (EHRs): two-thirds of primary care providers (PCPs) see value in digital records (EHRs), but at the same time believe the technology has weakened relationships with patients, detracted from clinical effectiveness, and lack streamlined user experience. That deficiency is, in three words, lack of interoperability; that challenge has required one-half of physician-users to use work-around’s to make their EHR investments mo
Lloyd Price
JUNE 6, 2018
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