Mon.Aug 12, 2019

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How voice technology could speed up EHR searches

Mobi Health News

Dr. Yaa Kumah, assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discussed the opportunities and hurdles for voice technology in provider organizations last week at Harvard Medical School.

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Magellan Health uses smartphone-based AI tech to help Hep C patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Magellan Health, a healthcare payer organization in Scottsdale, Arizona, needed to address adherence to oral medication therapy. THE PROBLEM. Non-adherence is one of the factors contributing to non-optimized medication use – the latter a term that describes all the reasons an individual doesn’t take medications including costs, lack of ability to pick up the prescription and many others.

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Menopause telehealth startup closes $4M round

Mobi Health News

Genneve, which has its roots in providing personal lubricants, also offers educational materials, online assessment tools, curated support products and message boards for community engagement.

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Telehealth use jumps at inpatient facilities while outpatient adoption remains flat: survey

FierceHealthIT

Telehealth adoption among hospitals and health systems is on the rise—up from 54% in 2014 to 85% in 2019—while adoption among outpatient healthcare facilities remains flat, according to two new reports.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Researchers develop wearable fetal heartbeat sensor from consumer-grade devices

Mobi Health News

In a recent study, the technology performed on par with recordings of fetal cardiotocography results.

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Experian Health acquires care coordination company MyHealthDirect

Mobi Health News

The deal closed last week, although financial terms have not yet been disclosed.

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Kaiser Permanente’s net income skyrockets to $2B in second quarter

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente’s net income soared to $2 billion in the second quarter of 2019, a dramatic increase over the $653 million posted the year before.

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Ro snags Buzzfeed's CTO, Dr. Andrew Trister moves from Apple to Gates Foundation and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

CommonSpirit Health appoints its first chief information and digital officer; Zero's new CMO, chief business officer.

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Report: Most Health Systems Still Lack Long-Term Digital Strategy

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The survey of CIOs and other executives examined digital health maturation and how patient care organizations are strategizing for the future

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.

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FDA shatters generic drug approval record

FierceHealthIT

The Food and Drug Administration has approved or tentatively approved 1,028 generic drugs since the end of July, ensuring another record federal fiscal year of approvals.

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Getting More Women Speakers in Radiology & Informatics

MedTech Boston

If you’ve ever been to a meeting or conference in healthcare, there may be something that you have noticed: the lack of. The post Getting More Women Speakers in Radiology & Informatics appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Patient handoffs to post-acute care providers still largely a manual process, hindering effective care coordination

FierceHealthIT

On the front lines of healthcare, the way patient information is shared remains largely a manual process done through a combination of faxes, emails and paper records, according to a recent study on transitions of care.

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Part 2 rule this week?

Morning eHealth

Unions split on 'Medicare for All' — Buttigieg: the latest telemed enthusiast

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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Kaiser Permanente: It's possible to reduce post C-section opioid use

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente released new research showing that changes in preoperative and postoperative processes can reduce opioid use for women following cesarean sections.

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Old and New Technologies Blur at EXPO.health Conference

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare Scene’s recent Boston conference, EXPO.health, walked the audience through numerous innovations in health IT, especially where analytics give a boost to patient care. Still, I detected at the show, next to the crisp digital images of modern technologies, a sepia-toned photograph of older practices. The two stood out against each other in some ways, […].

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UnitedHealth study: Hospital inpatient spending from commercial plans tops $200B in 2018

FierceHealthIT

A study from mega-insurer UnitedHealth Group found that inpatient spending in hospitals among employer-insured patients was more than $200 billion last year.

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Solving the Disconnections in Connected Care

GlobalMed

Imagine that you’re a surgeon in a large hospital network. A patient has presented to the emergency department with a ruptured ovarian cyst; before you operate, you use the surgical suite’s telemedicine platform to consult with the patient’s gynecologist, who provides valuable history. However, when the patient visits your clinic for a follow-up appointment, you’re unable to conference her gynecologist at this time – because the clinic uses a different virtual health solution.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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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Robotic process automation: The way to bring about healthcare efficiencies?

Lloyd Price

Reducing costs but not taking time away between a doctor and patient is one of the key aspects to RPA according to Leivo, as she examines what she describes as an unsustainable trend in healthcare. “If we want to maintain the high-quality healthcare that we have at the moment in the western countries, in the OECD countries, the only way we can maintain the high-quality healthcare is digitalisation.

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CMS: Unsubsidized enrollment drops 40% on ACA exchanges from 2016 to 2018

FierceHealthIT

CMS report found that 2.5 million unsubsidized customers dropped from the ACA exchanges from 2016 to 2018.

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Blue Heron Capital Invests in Largest Chronic Care Management Provider, ChartSpan

Healthcare IT Today

Blue Heron Capital, a growth equity firm based in Richmond, Virginia, has announced its investment in a Series A round in ChartSpan Medical Technologies, Inc. The firm is part of a five-investor syndicate. ChartSpan is the largest healthcare managed service provider of chronic care management programs in the U.S. ChartSpan offers healthcare providers a turn-key […].

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The IRS Is Intensifying ACA Enforcement Efforts

ACA Times

3 minute read: Originally published on August 7, 2019, in Accounting Today. Accountants may see some of their business clients getting caught up this summer in IRS activities to enforce the Affordable Care Act. The IRS has started issuing Letter 226J penalty notices for the 2017 tax year, along with other penalty assessments related to ACA enforcement.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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.

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Healthcare Regulatory Training Requirements Never Stop Changing!

HealthStream

Meeting regulatory requirements for mandatory annual education doesn’t have to be a headache, even when requirements keep changing.

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Updating a resource using patch

HAY on FHIR

We’ve received a bit of pushback from the community regarding our proposal to use custom operations for updating the Patient in NHI upgrade project. But the development team really isn’t keen on using PUT updates of the complete resource – the main reason being that of ‘accidental’ data changes when the updater doesn’t return the parts of the resource that should remain unaltered.

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Healthcare industry groups warn final ‘public charge’ rule could impact immigrant health, drive up costs 

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration on Monday finalized its “public charge” rule on immigration, and experts within the healthcare industry are warning about the potential negative impacts the regulation could have.

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