Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Joel Syder, business analyst, Academic Brits. There are many uses of information technology in healthcare. In the previous years, these implementations have developed more than anyone could anticipate. They boost efficiency, improve the quality of care and security and control costs.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Triage and patient engagement chatbots are on the rise, but speakers at the upcoming Connected Health Conference are describing additional implementations viable in the near future.
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Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Most physicians feel some level of burnout, hassled by electronic health records and lost autonomy. No wonder, then, that a majority of doctors favor some type single payer health system — one-quarter fully single payer, a la Britain’s National Health Service; and another one-third a single payer combined with a private insurance option, discovered in the 2018 Survey of America’s Physicians report on practice patterns & perspectives, published by The Physicians Foundation.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
From design to validation to deployment, any novel health tech innovation comes with a number of challenges and considerations that requires a coordinated effort from every stakeholder.
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Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Somatix is a leader in wearable-assisted gesture detection for real-time health intervention and well being enhancement. Elevator pitch Somatix is a leader in wearable-assisted gesture detection for real-time health intervention and well being enhancement. Somatix derives physical and emotional symptoms from simple hand gestures, utilizing sensors built into a range of wearables to remotely detect, […].
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Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. After more than two days of thought leadership discussions during its 30th Anniversary Annual Forum, executive participants of the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) voted on and ranked the 2019 HCEG Top 10 critical challenges, issues and opportunities they expect to face in their organizations in the coming year.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
The company plans to enter the UK market this year, starting with a UTI test.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Consider the Apple Watch fall detection age default. Rant on. By now, and for most, no big deal, you may know that the Series 4 watch has fall detection. The setup includes your ‘emergency contacts’ acquired from your Medical ID, assuming you have Wrist Detection turned on. Still with me? And perhaps you have also turned on the Health app (somewhere) and entered your birthdate.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
aktiia, a Swiss startup that makes wristband continuous blood pressure monitoring devices, has just scored $4.1M in funding.
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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.
Morning eHealth
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
On the Hill today: Senate rural health hearing — White House quantum meeting skips over health
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
StartUp Health, a group that support and fosters digital health startups, has just landed another $31M in funding to help grow its portfolio.
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The American Medical Association (AMA) announced the release of the 2019 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set. There are 335 code changes in the new CPT edition reflecting the CPT Editorial Panel and the healthcare community’s combined annual effort to capture and describe the latest scientific and technological advances in medical, surgical and diagnostic services.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
A health system that is part of hospital giant Community Health Systems Inc. agreed to pay more than $262 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Binary Fountain released the findings of its second annual “Healthcare Consumer Insight and Digital Engagement” survey with the goal of getting an updated view into how patients search, evaluate and share their experiences with their physicians. The survey shows an increase in patients’ dependence and reliance on online ratings and review sites to make informed […].
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has discovered it made mistakes calculating payments to some physicians in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System and has made corrections. Here's how CMS found those errors.
Hinduja Global Solutions
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
3 Ways Health Plans Can Improve Risk Score Accuracy. By Krithika Srivats, Vice President, HGS Healthcare Practice Office and Krishna Dharani Daliparthi, Associate VP, HC. The transition to value-based care has shed light on areas of critical opportunity for financial and quality improvement, and risk adjustment is at the top of the list for payers.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Two longstanding laws designed to limit fraud are becoming problematic for rural health providers, experts told lawmakers during a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday. Changes could ease digital health adoption and help with physician recruitment.
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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!
Society for Participatory Medicine
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Here’s the latest in a 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. Register here. Healthcare is complex. It’s complex for policy makers, for clinicians, for administrators, for vendors – and it’s definitely way too complex for patients, who are the very consumers of healthcare.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Humana is donating $15 million to a new medical school set to open next year at the University of Houston with a curriculum that is focused on social determinants of health and value-based care.
Insulin Nation
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
You can even connect your smartwatch to access real-time data on your blood sugar levels; hence, you can see live readings by merely glancing at your watch. CGM technology is critical for parents with kids/teens; living with diabetes is enough stress for a person and even more for a parent whose child has diabetes. The responsibility of parenting a child with diabetes is very demanding.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Hospital groups are warning that CMS’ plan to institute site-neutral payments could lead to access problems and cancelled services—and the change may not be within their authority to make, anyway.
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.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Editor’s Note: Health Insurance Plan Ratings compare the quality and services. BHM is proud to play a key role for our clients through our claims review services. Click HERE and discuss how BHM helps payers succeed. National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is releasing its 2018 Health Insurance Plan Ratings. These ratings provide consumers with a more accurate picture of how health insurance plans perform in the key quality areas of consumer satisfaction, prevention and treatment
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
A new California law, intended to protect patients, will require physicians to tell patients if the state medical board has placed them on probation for sexual misconduct or other wrongdoing.
19 Labs
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
19Labs, the leader in telehealth point-of-care solutions, announced today the availability of GALE Digital Health Centers. “On-site – for every site. GALE Digital Health centers enable employers to offer the benefits of on-site care to all of their sites as well as expand the services and utilizations of large on-site care locations,” says Ram Fish, 19Labs' Founder and CEO.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
A report from U.S. News & World Report and Aetna explores the role that geographic factors play in patients' health status, plus more healthcare headlines.
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19 Labs
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
19Labs, the leader in telehealth point-of-care solutions, announced today the availability of GALE Digital Health Centers. “On-site – for every site. GALE Digital Health centers enable employers to offer the benefits of on-site care to all of their sites as well as expand the services and utilizations of large on-site care locations,” says Ram Fish, 19Labs' Founder and CEO.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
Officials are speaking out after a New Jersey doctor was allowed to keep his medical license after allegedly overprescribing opioids to patients.
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
How much damage does a single healthcare data breach cause? Consider who was attacked, when and how, says a new study by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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