Fri.Nov 09, 2018

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5 ways AI is already being used in healthcare today

Mobi Health News

Here’s a look at how organizations are deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning for uses cases ranging from doctors assistants to social media and more.

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Medicaid proposal paves way for telehealth

Morning eHealth

Report: Google Health gets a new boss — Tech titans keep eyes on Washington

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Slow thinking and machine learning in medicine

KevinMD

Recently, several high-profile institutions have called attention to the issue of inclusion and equity when artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are applied in medicine. Leaders from the law, medicine, social sciences and computer sciences are speaking out about the challenges of using smart algorithms to solve social problems. While this topic might easily be dismissed as […].

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Physicians Don’t Talk Enough with Patients About Non-Medical Needs

Health Populi

Most patients wish their doctors would have a conversation with them about non-medical issues. The Doctor-Patient Conversation , a survey conducted for the Samueli Foundation by the Harris Poll, examined how patients feel about their health, healthcare, and relationships with physicians. The Samueli Institute, has several missions including integrative health with a focuses on evidence-based practices for healing, wellbeing and resilience.

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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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Five unique ways AI is being used to promote health

Mobi Health News

Here’s a look at how organizations are deploying artificial intelligence and machine learning for use cases ranging from doctor's assistants to social media and more.

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NHS issues guidance on using instant messaging tools and more UK digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

New guidance for NHS staff on using instant messaging services during emergencies. NHS England, NHS Digital, Public Health England and the Department of Health and Social Care have issued new guidance to help staff securely use instant messaging tools in acute clinical settings during emergency situations.

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Jury pins Aetna with $25.5M verdict for denying cancer treatment

FierceHealthIT

The insurer refused to cover "the best and only treatment" for an Oklahoma woman's stage 4 cancer. With their verdict, jurors said it's up to Aetna to fix the broken healthcare system.

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Beyond EMRAM: Models for achieving digital maturity

Mobi Health News

John Daniels, VP of HIMSS Analytics, says there is more to digitizing an organization than installing EMR functions, and discusses other adoption and maturity models including AI, continuity of care and infrastructure.

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Why providers need to consider patient perspective when addressing diagnostic errors

FierceHealthIT

Diagnostic errors are a significant contributor to patient harm. To address the problem, providers need to spend more time listening to patients’ experiences, according to a new study.

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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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Clinical buy-in critical to digitizing healthcare

Mobi Health News

Dzulkefly Ahmad, Malaysia's minister of health, says that even if an organization has a good program and system set up, digitizing healthcare will not succeed if there is no clinical buy-in underpinned by training.

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WellCare, Spectrum Health join new blockchain effort focused on provider credentialing, directories

FierceHealthIT

Several large payers and providers are joining a new pilot project that plans to find out just how much well blockchain can shave time off the monthslong credentialing process and improve the accuracy of provider directories.

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Google picks up Geisinger's CEO, Greenway Health names new president and other digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Justin Nelson to join AristaMD as VP of sales; Barry Gutwillig named VP of sales and marketing for Patient Keeper.

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MACPAC urges Azar to pause, re-evaluate Arkansas' Medicaid work requirements

FierceHealthIT

Amid CMS' encouragement of work requirements in state Medicaid programs, MACPAC told HHS Secretary Alex Azar that Arkansas' implementation of the policy was too crude and hasty. It urged the state to pause disenrollments and reconsider certain parameters of the policy.

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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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It takes a Tribe: A new model of type 1 diabetes care in Australia

Insulin Nation

With a focus on building community, peer-led information exchange, creative health programs, and social support, the Family Centre does diabetes differently and represents a new model of care for people with type 1 diabetes. More than a diabetic medical facility. Opened in 2015, the Family Centre facility was built by a team personally impacted by type 1 diabetes and motivated to change diabetes care in Australia by prioritizing connection and community.

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Quest Diagnostics becomes 2nd national lab to join Apple Health Records

FierceHealthIT

Just over a week after its competitor LabCorp announced it would make test results available through Apple’s Health Record app, another national laboratory is doing the same. Quest Diagnostics has also updated its portal to allow consumers to order tests directly.

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Getting Your Doctor to Really See You

Society for Participatory Medicine

Doctors are regularly deluged with advice on how to engage patients. But how can you, as a patient, get your doctor to truly engage with you as a person? Your health and even your life could depend upon it. By “engage,” I don’t mean just the doctor not interrupting after 11 seconds. That’s the average time a patient talks before the doctor interjects, said a study published earlier this year , down sharply from the “leisurely” 18-23 seconds patients on average spoke uninterrupted in studies fro

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Google taps Geisinger CEO David Feinberg for healthcare post; names interim chief

FierceHealthIT

The health system announced Jaewon Ryu, M.D., J.D., as interim president and CEO as Feinberg departs for tech giant.

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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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HIPAA ePHI

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Understanding HIPAA ePHI HIPAA regulation identifies a national set of standards meant to protect the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI). When that PHI is maintained in an electronic or digital format, that’s called electronic protected health … Read more. The post HIPAA ePHI appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Industry Voices—Payers: Expand your partnership mindset

FierceHealthIT

The U.S. spends more on healthcare per capita than any other developed nation yet is at the bottom of the spectrum in patient outcomes. This means something isn’t working. Leaders need to do more to gain the trust of patients.

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Weekender 11/9/18

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. Google hires Geisinger President and CEO David Feinberg, MD, MBA to develop its healthcare strategy across its business units. Bedside patient engagement company GetWellNetwork acquires HealthLoop, a Silicon Valley-based developer of automated messaging for follow-up care. A study of EHR-related medication events in pediatric hospitals, of which 18 percent appear to have caused harm, finds system usability as the cause 36 percent of the time.

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Refurbishment Can Save Your Medical Equipment Impacted by Natural Disaster

KB Dental Consulting

Hospitals play an important role in delivering medical care and, they offer support to the victims in the aftermath of the occurred disaster. Because of this reason, both, the managers of the hospitals and the medical staff are very sensitive to the types of operations and medical devices that are necessary to support this important and vital role. Even though the initial point is the treatment and the careful arrangement of the patient, perhaps, a crucial aspect in the creation of the medical c

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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.