Fri.Sep 06, 2019

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Digital Health: Show Me the Money? Evidence? Door?

Digital Health

This week I had the good fortune to return to Dublin, Ireland and see many of my international colleagues and friends who are associated in one way or another with HealthXL, the digital health intelligence platform and expert community, and Health Beacon, a very cool medication adherence company focused on specialty pharma. Health Beacon hosted […].

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How telemedicine intersects with AI, social media, and precision medicine

KevinMD

Telemedicine will eventually become a more prominent part of our clinical practice, with the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media and networks, and integration with precision medicine in electronic health records. As clinicians and scientists, we should be thinking about where and how these four innovative strategies intersect, so that we can continue […].

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From meditation to lab testing, can consumer digital health promote 'biohacking'?

Mobi Health News

Representatives from Oura Ring, Arc Fusion, FitnessGenes, Everlywell and Headspace will take the stage at Health 2.0 to demo products and discuss the future of consumer-focused digital health.

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3 Ways Care Coordination Saves Your Healthcare Organization Money

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Steve Simmons, marketing and business analysis manager, eCare Vault. Care coordination by definition is a strategy that is focused on bringing together the multiple parties of a patient’s care team to knock down barriers of communication in order to enable the best outcomes for your patients.

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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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Top 7 disruptive trends that will shape healthcare in 2020

Mobi Health News

Innovaccer CEO Abinav Shashank highlights healthcare policy and payment changes that will have major impacts across the industry.

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How Novartis is embracing the digital and data revolution

Mobi Health News

A look at the Swiss pharma giant's efforts to digitise operations.

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The ABC of Price Transparency Regulation: Everything You Need to Know

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. The healthcare circles in the United States are reeled up by debates around the need for price transparency. The federal agencies are coming up with regulations. Healthcare associations are weighing in their concerns.

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Boots UK teams up with Swedish startup LIVI to offer in-store digital GP service

Mobi Health News

An NHS service will initially be piloted in a Boots store in Surrey, followed by a private one in London.

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10 Predictions For The Growth of Blockchain in Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. There is much hype with regards to the use of blockchain technology in the field of healthcare due to its distributed ledgers. Many organizations have disappointed with the use of blockchain because of incomplete or partial knowledge. According to the experts, the blockchain development solutions are the future of the global healthcare industry.

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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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Applying tech solutions to healthcare problems that fall through the cracks

Mobi Health News

Health 2.0's Unacceptables panel zeros in on human trafficking, homelessness and maternal mortality.

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UnitedHealth study: Administering specialty drugs outside hospitals could save $4B

FierceHealthIT

Administering pricey specialty drugs in doctors' offices and patients' homes instead of hospitals could reduce drug costs by $4 billion a year for insurance plans, according to a study from insurance giant UnitedHealth Group.

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Side-by-Side Comparison Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

If you’ve ever been less than clear on the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, you aren’t alone. Even some people who have diabetes struggle to understand what makes these two diseases different. It doesn’t help that there are, indeed, quite a few similarities between the two or that they have deceivingly similar names. But T1D and T2D are actually very different diseases, with different causes, treatments, and outlooks.

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Fitbit executive Adam Pellegrini moves over to CVS to lead consumer health

FierceHealthIT

As CVS ramps up its strategy to be a force in the consumer health market, the retail giant has hired a former Fitbit executive to lead its consumer health efforts.

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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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UCLA Awarded Federal Grant to Pursue Digital Health Innovation

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

UCLA Health has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration to create a regional hub for the development of medical technology and digital health tools.Officials attest that the launch of the.

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OptimizeRx acquires RMDY Health for $16M to expand digital messaging platform

FierceHealthIT

OptimizeRx, a software company that enables digital health messaging between pharmaceutical companies and providers, plans to acquire New York-based RMDY Health, a software as a service platform for digital therapeutics products, for $16 million.

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Healthcare Value Unbounded

Healthcare IT Today

Creating a high-value conversation about Healthcare with Kathleen Aller at the Healthcare Leadership Conference by InterSystems. Kathleen Aller is on a mission to enable conversations between leaders in healthcare and information technology at InterSystems’ annual Global Summit in Boston later this month. In order to focus on problems rather than products, Aller and her team […].

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Congress comes back to work as providers make push for changes to surprise billing legislation

FierceHealthIT

Lawmakers are returning to work on Monday to a simmering fight over how to handle surprise medical bills, with the provider industry having spent the summer pushing hard for major changes.

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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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#091: Francesca Wuttke on Digital Transformation, Startups and Corporate Relationships

Digital Health Today

Our guest is Francesca Wuttke, PhD, the Chief Digital Officer of Almirall. Almirall is an international pharmaceutical company founded in 1943 and based in Barcelona – which is where Francesca is based. Francesca is responsible for developing and executing an end-to-end company-wide digital transformation. In her role, she is responsible for finding use cases to apply digital solutions and services across the business and bring efficiencies that save time, lower costs and open up new busin

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If You Had a Billion Dollars to Throw at Any US Health Related Problem – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Friday and that means it’s time to have a little fun. Although, ironically, this week’s Fun Friday came from what I think was probably a really serious question by J. Brian Byrd, MD, MS (@thebyrdlab): If you had a billion dollars to throw at any US health-related problem, how would you spend it? I'll […].

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Weekender 9/6/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Cerner lays off at least 250 employees.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Mobile Devices and Health was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Authored by Ida Sim, M.D., Ph.D who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). It’s exactly the type of papers we need to see more of so please read it at the NEJM website and share that link with your colleagues and social networks: [link]. mHealth Insights. “Mobile health — the application of sensors, mobile apps, social m

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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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Cyber-themed telehealth bill on the horizon

Morning eHealth

Planned Parenthood app ramps up to fight Trump administration restrictions — Experts say HIEs were ready to weather Dorian

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