KevinMD
MARCH 14, 2019
An important part of advancing medical research and drug development is making participation in clinical trials easier and more inclusive. To develop treatments that work on men, women, and children of all ages and different ethnicities we need to have clinical trial data that represents our diverse population. Right now, when the FDA approves a […].
Mobi Health News
MARCH 14, 2019
OssoVR is working with Smith & Nephew to make a training program for robotic surgery, while FundamentalVR is working with VR glove-maker HaptX.
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019. The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 14, 2019
The free Cardio Ex game features more than 35 levels that test the player's vascular knowledge, spatial reasoning and decision making.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 14, 2019
Samitivej Hospital Group, a private hospital brand in Thailand with a network of eight hospitals and owned by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), recently announced the launch of their one-stop Virtual Hospital app, offering three key services: Teleconsultation – a remote telemedicine consultation service that provides a round-the-clock medical advice via a video call with Samitivej’s doctors and nurses.
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Imagine you could safely wield your medical data the same way you can use an ATM card at any store or cash machine anywhere, anytime. Founders’ story The American Medical Association (AMA) believes that one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today is securing, sharing, and using trusted health data in real time.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 14, 2019
The funding will fuel the company's international expansion as well as development of its analytics platform.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released its updated dashboards with new prescription drug pricing and spending data on Thursday. Among its findings, Medicare spending on prescription drugs grew by more than 10% between 2013 and 2017, while Medicaid spending grew by nearly 15%.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Heal announced the results of its 2019 first-time patient user survey. Having delivered more than 110,000 house calls since February 2015, Heal shared a voluntary survey with more than 6,000 patients who used Heal for the first time in 2018. Findings from the survey reveal substantial reduction in ER and urgent care overuse and pointed […].
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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 14, 2019
Despite all the headlines about physician burnout and dissatisfaction, a new survey found that doctors are generally happy in both their lives and their careers.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. InterSystems announces it has been selected by the eHealth Exchange, the largest nationwide health information network connecting the public and private sectors, as the technology partner powering the network’s latest expansion plans. The network will implement InterSystems HealthShare suite of connected health solutions to help deliver the initial enhancements.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
In the action on drug prices on Capitol Hill, House lawmakers on Wednesday examined several bills in subcommittee aimed at addressing generic competition. It's a shift in focus from efforts which, so far, have largely focused on issues such the lack of price transparency, on the role of payers such as Medicare in negotiating prices and on hidden financial arrangements involving pharmacy benefit managers.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
MARCH 14, 2019
Stanford Health Care’s Lisa Schilling says ambulatory safety is more important because increasingly complex care is being provided outside of hospitals
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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 14, 2019
Healthcare providers looking to prioritize their patient safety efforts should start by focusing on ensuring that information in electronic health records is accurate and complete, according to the ECRI Institute.
LeanIX
MARCH 14, 2019
How do they co-exist? At a glance: "DevOps" (Development + Operations) is an offset of the Agile revolution dedicated to increasing both time-to-market and quality-to-market. Enterprise Architecture (EA) ensures that DevOps teams are integrated in mutually beneficial manners to ensure that processes (especially those that are automated) are built using relevant technology and data sources.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
In a recent look at reinsurance programs across the country, Avalere found that reinsurance reduces individual market premiums by 19.9%, on average, in the first year.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 14, 2019
HHS budget gets second day of bad reviews — Other HHS matters
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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!
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
CMS rolled out new monitoring and evaluation tools for Medicaid section 1115 waivers on Thursday—the same day the controversial work requirements went before a judge.
HAY on FHIR
MARCH 14, 2019
So in a comment to the previous post on using Node-RED to create Tasks from Assessments, Michael suggested that I talk about some of the security considerations that you might have. There are a few ways you could make this more secure that I can think of. The simplest way would be to put the whole thing behind as API manager (such as APIgee or WSO2 ) and delegate security to that application.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
There are security gaps across U.S. Department of Health and Human Services networks that put systems and data at risk of a cyber attack, according to a recent report from the Office of the Inspector General.
Health Recovery Solutions
MARCH 14, 2019
Urgency as it relates to healthcare is nothing new. After all, who hasn’t complained about sitting in little more than a paper sheet for what feels like hours just to undergo a routine yearly physical? People want to know that they are healthy, and they don’t want to have to wait for the figurative green light before returning to daily life. As such, on-demand care has been a sought-after service for decades regardless of what you suffer from: strep throat, a broken wrist, or something chronic l
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.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
In December 2018, Congress passed a bill authorizing $60 million in funding over the next five years to support and create maternal mortality task forces in all 50 states. The goal of their research is to prevent maternal morbidity across the United States, one of only two developed countries with rising maternal death rates.
CMS.gov
MARCH 14, 2019
Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Topic. Initiatives. Leadership. Medicaid & CHIP. Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Two years ago today I was sworn in as CMS Administrator. One of my first actions when I began this journey was to send a letter to the nation’s governors in which I committed to ushering in a new era for the federal and state Medicaid partnership, granting states more freedom to
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
The much-anticipated Match Day for 2019 has come and gone for the country’s medical students. On Friday, March 15, thousands of medical school students across the country opened envelopes and learned where they will spend their residencies. What's next?
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating 12 companies that either sell or assisted in selling junk insurance plans, and more healthcare news from around the web.
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
A survey of 1,000 physicians found that most health plans are not making meaningful progress on reforming the cumbersome prior authorization process, according to the American Medical Association.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
States looking to experiment with innovative ways to offer health coverage can apply for ACA waivers—but many are looking beyond such waivers to boost the marketplaces, experts say.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 14, 2019
HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the Trump administration has been in talks with states that are interested in rolling out Medicaid block grant programs or per capita caps.
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