Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Kenneth Evans, content marketing specialist, Top App Development Companies. Mobile technology is amazing. With the available technologies, anyone can see a doctor using smartphones. The impact of app developers and mobile app developers is increasing in healthcare. They make this possible by developing and releasing telemedicine and telehealth apps.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Epstein Becker & Green's Bradley Merrill Thompson says the FDA's much-touted program is riddled with unseen costs and unanswered questions.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A group of healthcare organizations have teamed up to build a new payment model designed to promote long-term addiction recovery.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

US and China-based Driver boasts a network of more than 30 cancer treatment centers, and also offers a separate post-care management service.

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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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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The FDA on Friday issued new guidance to hospital purchasing departments and healthcare providers warning them to use enteral devices with connectors to avoid misconnections—a known risk for patient injury. Since 2011, the FDA has received reports of two deaths, 24 serious injuries and 32 device malfunctions related to enteral misconnections.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

I presented these same slides at the FHIR DevDays. The overall goal is 15 Minute presentations that build first explaining general Document Sharing (XDS, XCA, etc), then Mobile access to Health Documents (MHD), and finally the Mobile Cross-Enterprise Document Data Element Extraction (mXDE) which orchestrates Query Element Data for Mobile (QEDm). The slide deck is also available to View and download.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Hackers are constantly innovating attack methods and organizations need to follow suit, by following trends and choosing cybersecurity tools that fit their business needs.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

On Friday, a D.C. judge invalidated a 2014 rule that required Medicare Advantage insurers to report and return overpayments associated with incorrect diagnosis codes. The ruling could have a huge impact on an ongoing case against UnitedHealth and a federal investigation into Anthem's MA plans.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Also in hires: Voice assistant AI startup Notable appoints VC partner Annie Lamont to its board, and DarioHealth taps Olivier Jarry as its next CCO and president.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Kaiser Permanente is making significant investments in green energy and is set to be carbon neutral by 2020. The health system announced Monday it reached a power purchase agreement to acquire 180 megawatts of clean energy that it will use to power 27 of its 39 hospitals. The agreement will also help establish new solar and wind farms and one of the largest battery energy storage facilities in the U.S.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The new test lets consumers renew a prescription in less that 15 minutes.

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Morning eHealth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Report: Cerner and UnitedHealth pass up Athena — Senate to vote on opioid package

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the final day of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a stream of witnesses offered their perspective on why—or why not—Judge Brett Kavanaugh belongs on the Supreme Court.

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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.

Society for Participatory Medicine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The Society for Participatory Medicine advocates for transforming the culture of care, so we watch for signs that the culture is changing. A newly released peer-reviewed article hints at progress: formally introducing patient perspectives into not just the practice of medicine but into the framework of competencies by which new physicians are measured and certified.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center official did not report millions in payments from companies, a House committee OK'd legislation to address "gag clauses" and more health news from around the web.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

In the last article I show how PDQm can be made Asynchronous by using the FHIR Subscription. This is just one step in the overall interaction that one does with a Cross-Community Document Exchange (XCA). It is however the one that typically has the largest delay. Baseline using Synchronous API Here is a simplified view of a Consumer requesting through a synchronous API to do a Patient Discovery (PD), Query for Documents (QD), and Retrieve Documents (RD).

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Cigna is offering up $20 billion in senior notes to fund its purchase of Express Scripts, another indication that the deal may be close to finalizing.

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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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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Weekly News Recap. Athenahealth prepares to take second-round bids as inside sources report that Cerner and UnitedHealthcare have passed on buying the EHR vendor. Theranos tells shareholders it will dissolve and will work to pay off its creditors with remaining cash on hand. Atul Gawande, MD taps former Comcast digital health GM Jack Stoddard to be COO of the still unnamed joint healthcare venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The commissioners debated its details, but overall, they were enthusiastic about a proposal to redesign Medicare's hospital quality reporting system.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Epstein Becker & Green's Bradley Merrill Thompson says the FDA's much-touted program is riddled with unseen costs and unanswered questions.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The Senate will vote on its opioid crisis response legislation, plus more health headlines from around the web.

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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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