Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system. As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. To manage personal health finances, patients-as-payors are increasingly willing to face trade-offs and change personal behaviors to lower health care costs, b

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Both CGM competitors announced integrations with Insulet yesterday during the Advanced Technologies & Treatment for Diabetes Congress in Madrid.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

You have probably never heard the term “insulin fibrillation” before or have even the slightest idea of what it means. But, if you are a type 1 pump user, odds are, this little-known chemical process affects you on a daily basis. And that is why the announcement that a new insulin compound that does not fibrillate is such a big deal. This newly synthesized insulin analog called ‘glycoinsulin’ has shown the same glucose-lowering effects of native insulin but without the complications caused by fi

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pear plans to roll Functional Solutions’ visual programming and custom fitness content into its enterprise SaaS.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Insurer Oscar Health announced Thursday it will cap the price on roughly 100 drugs, including high-cost products such as insulin, at only $3.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A study found that drug company payments to physicians led to a 4% uptick in prescriptions, a smaller impact compared to other research.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Endeavour Vision led the round with participation from Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Generator Ventures.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

UnitedHealthcare is putting a spotlight on the role that dental care plays in the crisis. Here's what they're doing it about it.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The system can complete a quantitative analysis of lung lesions in 2-3 seconds.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A technical error caused the Mayo Clinic’s medical school to mistakenly notify 364 students that they had been accepted.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The startup now plans to move into telemedicine and expand into other GCC countries.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Should you get a mammogram at age 45? Should you start taking a statin? Is now the time to get a hip replacement? You can go down rabbit holes trying to research these online, talk to friends about their experiences, or have a few too many opinions thrown at you in online communities. And when […].

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The University of California, Irvine, will start construction this month on its new nine-acre campus that it says will be a national showcase for integrative medicine.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Vyne, a market leader in health information exchange and electronic healthcare communication management, announced today that it has acquired Renaissance Electronic Services, LLC, an Indianapolis-based technology company providing EDI products and services to dental practices […].

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

A new survey has found that physician use of technology to provide telehealth or virtual visits has doubled since its previous study in 2016. This meshes well with other market research suggesting that a healthy cross-section of providers are preparing to get on board. However, despite the increased use of this technology, the absolute number […].

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Introduction While progress in medicine continues to astound us, it hides a modus operandi that hasn’t changed for decades – a bricks and mortar model of delivering healthcare reactively to treat illness and disease. Although highly lucrative for healthcare providers and Big Pharma, it is archaic, capital intensive and, in many ways, broken. Thanks to broad adoption of mobile computing and advances in technologies such as wearables and artificial intelligence (AI), we are now witnessing the begi

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Geonetric

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Attend our March webinar Register Now In January 2019, CMS rules went into effect requiring hospitals to share a file with chargemaster data for their services. On January 1, 2021, those requirements expand to include a consumer-friendly online presentation for at least 300 shoppable services. These rules force healthcare marketers to take a seat at […].

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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!

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The key to a successful implementation is remembering that the technology is the easy part, says Jamie Nelson, who talks about her team’s work at HSS. The hard part is the organizational transformation behind it. The key to a successful implementation is remembering that the technology is the easy part, says Jamie Nelson, who talks about her team’s work at HSS.

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InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

How Telehealth Can Reduce Costs and Improve the Quality of Pediatric Care. Studies show 86.3% of children from ages 5 to 11 are in excellent or very good health, but around 4.3% of children do not have access to regular healthcare. General pediatricians provide the majority of care for children, but for some families, this may not be enough. InTouch Health partners with Children’s Mercy Kansas City, a non-profit, independent children’s hospital serving Missouri, Kansas, and the surrounding regio

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The health system said it plans to continue it's "portfolio rationalization strategy" through mid-2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the EMR Specialist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by University of South Carolina and is in the Western US. Here’s a description of the position: The University of […].

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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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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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HealthStream

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Understand how to prevent the spread of the three most common blood-borne pathogens. Know the essential elements in the creation of a safety culture that will minimize the risks of exposure to blood borne pathogens for employees and patients.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Today or soon you will launch a boomer/senior, home health tech product or service, or maybe a caregiver advisory service. As your company gets ready to travel into battle or a booth with the sound of pitches all around, it is time to for you to revisit this guidance. Perhaps sometime soon, your new or existing company will officially launch a new product or service, or perhaps a long-awaited, over-described and much-anticipated offering will finally ship.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The Trump administration wants to keep a hip and knee replacement bundled payment model going for another three years.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. This poll underscores that whether Democrat or Republican, these are the top two domestic priorities among Americans above all other issues polled including immigration, trade agreements, infrastructure and regulations.

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