Mobi Health News
MAY 30, 2018
Emerging out of stealth mode, health tech startup Robin Healthcare has just announced its voice-enabled AI device that is designed to help doctors and clinicians write clinical notes. The device, which looks similar to an Amazon Alexa or Google Home voice assistant, will sit in a doctor’s office and draft notes from doctors' spoken conversations.
Health Populi
MAY 30, 2018
Two in 3 Americans haven’t heard the phrases “personalized medicine” or “precision medicine.” When the concept of therapies tailored to individual patients is explained, most people like the idea of diagnostic tools that can identify biological markers and marry to personal medical records data to help determine medical treatments that best fit them.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 30, 2018
About the author: Dr. Ebele M?g? is a doctor of public health with over 10 years of experience in designing, implementing and evaluating transformative public health projects. She is the principal of ERIM Consulting, which uses research evidence and business insights to advance public health impact.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 30, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Unlocking the genomic code to usher in a new era of medical technology. Founders’ story The core Shivom team came together after numerous meetings at blockchain and genomics conferences. During these, we frequently reached conclusions on how to solve the current issues in the medical domain, by combining the bleeding-edge of blockchain technology with genomic […].
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Mobi Health News
MAY 30, 2018
Ava, the San Francisco- and Zurich-based maker of a connected menstrual cycle tracking bracelet, today announced the closure of a $30 million series B funding round. The funding was led by the company’s existing investors — which include Polytech Ecosystem Ventures, Blue Ocean Ventures, Global Sources, ZKB, and Swisscom — with new investors btov and SVC also participating.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 30, 2018
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced an innovation challenge to address the national opioid epidemic.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
Since the healthcare industry is not losing its appetite for mergers, state regulators need to do more to get patients and consumers involved in the process, according to a new report. It could be key to flagging access or safety concerns, they said.
Mobi Health News
MAY 30, 2018
It's no secret that there is a demand for behavioral health providers in the country right now, and Denver, Colorado-based SonderMind is ready to cash in. A digital network of behavioral health providers, the startup has just raked in $2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Kickstart Seed Fund, with investments from Purple Arch Ventures, SpringTime Ventures, Service Provider Capital, and Lanoha Ventures.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 30, 2018
Skip the tech – listen to the experts interviewed – first robots. The good news – this week’s Health Care Technology supplement transcended the limits of doctors and hospitals – and dabbled in the dilemmas of elder care – included technology to assist those with dementia and mitigate loneliness. The bad news -- another in a long line of ‘robots and chatbots look after the elderly,’ with promotions of those oft-promoted Care.coach and ElliQ , adding Catalia Health’s cute Mabu.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MAY 30, 2018
Today, Madison, Wisconsin-based digital respiratory health company Propeller Health announced a $20 million funding round led by a $10 million investment from Aptar Pharma. Existing investors Safeguard Scientifics, Social Capital, Hikma, 3M Ventures, and SR One comprised the other half of the round.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
After a months of delays and stalls, the Virginia lawmakers have finally passed Medicaid expansion, which Gov. Ralph Northam will undoubtedly sign. National Democrats react.
Mobi Health News
MAY 30, 2018
Practice, practice, practice. Touch Surgery, a mobile surgical training platform, is collaborating with the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy to convert some of the society’s procedural videos into interactive mini-simulations at the Digestive Disease Week. ASGE members will get the chance to try out the mobile platform during the conference.
Morning eHealth
MAY 30, 2018
athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush admits to assault of ex-wife — Puerto Rico’s hurricane death toll larger than originally tallied
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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.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
Following research by the CBO and several private organizations, AHIP says that premiums will jump by double digits next year, mostly due to GOP policies.
HAY on FHIR
MAY 30, 2018
I was asked recently by a clinical colleague what an API is, and why it’s important. Let’s start with the technical answer. ‘API’ stands for ‘ Application Programming Interface ’ – it’s a way that one application (or a component of an application) exposes its services (which could be just data, or some operation against data) in a way that allows another application (often called the client) to use it.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
WellCare Health Plans has agreed to acquire Meridian Health Plans in Michigan and Illinois, as well as its pharmacy benefit manager, for $2.5 billion in cash. The acquisition includes 6,000 ACA plans, and CEO Ken Burdick hinted that the company could expand to other states if exchanges become stable.
American Well
MAY 30, 2018
Healthcare professionals may be asking themselves, “Who can I help through telehealth?”. In some ways the field is limited only by your ingenuity, but a few markets are ready made. The three biggest are schools, employers, and correctional facilities. These groups also have the benefit of being able to see the same patients for years in a row. And, if a telehealth professional sets up an agreement with a statewide agency, you can work with the same system over a much larger area, which helps sta
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FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
The Community Oncology Alliance filed the lawsuit on Wednesday against HHS and OMB to stop them from applying Medicare's 2% sequester cut to Part B drug reimbursement.
American Well
MAY 30, 2018
Healthcare professionals may be asking themselves, “Who can I help through telehealth?”. In some ways the field is limited only by your ingenuity, but a few markets are ready made. The three biggest are schools, employers, and correctional facilities. These groups also have the benefit of being able to see the same patients for years in a row. And, if a telehealth professional sets up an agreement with a statewide agency, you can work with the same system over a much larger area, which helps sta
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
Henry Ford Health System and Wayne State University have been engaged in affiliation talks for more than 18 months, and a letter of intent is forthcoming, according to a new report.
care innovations
MAY 30, 2018
Much has been written about the benefits of telehealth services like remote care within the healthcare system. Time and again, remote patient management has been shown to improve patient satisfaction and lower operational costs , as perhaps best demonstrated by the success of the Mississippi Diabetes Health Network. It’s of little surprise, then, to learn that the benefits offered by remote care also extend to employee health plans.
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.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
With Meaningful Use incentives dried up, EHR vendors are finding some success among smaller hospitals that don't have the capital for a massive EHR overhaul but need to keep pace with tech advancements. Companies like Athenahealth and Meditech are finding a groove, even with large systems gobbling up hospitals and forcing them to adopt a uniform EHR.
HIStalk Interviews
MAY 30, 2018
Ron Remy is CEO of Mobile Heartbeat of Waltham, MA. Tell me about yourself and the company. Mobile Heartbeat has been in existence since 2009. The current product was introduced in 2011. It’s my second project working together with the technology team that started the company. I’ve been in technology my whole career. I was an early employee of Sun Microsystems, going all the way back to 1985, so I’ve been in the technology industry for a long time.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
During a signing ceremony at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump signed Right to Try legislation into law and promised drug companies will announce voluntary drops in drug prices within the next few weeks. A look at that and other healthcare news from around the web.
Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
MAY 30, 2018
SEATTLE — Combining data from electronic health records with results from standardized depression questionnaires better predicts suicide risk in the 90 days following either mental health specialty or primary care outpatient visits, reports a team from the Mental Health Research Network, led by Kaiser Permanente research scientists. The study, “Predicting Suicide Attempts and Suicide Death Following Outpatient Visits Using Electronic Health Records,” conducted in five Kaiser Permanente regions (
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FierceHealthIT
MAY 30, 2018
FDA launches an addiction innovation challenge and approves an AI-based tool to identify wrist fractures; Omada Health secures milestone recognition; Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush apologizes for past misconduct; plus more health IT news of note.
iSALUS Healthcare
MAY 30, 2018
Patient engagement is a buzzword constantly circulating the medical field. Making sure patients are playing an active role in their personal care is crucial to ensuring they live their healthiest life. Patients engaged in their health increases positive health outcomes, the likelihood that symptoms are addressed to the provider and overall betters the patient-provider relationship.
Health Populi
MAY 30, 2018
The communications team at Sanofi, the France-based global pharmaceutical company, quickly responded to a tweet by Roseanne Barr issued this morning about how her use of Ambien was related to her offensive tweet lobbed yesterday on Twitter about Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s senior advisor. Barr’s comment on Twitter late last night was that, “I was ambien tweeting.” Ambien is Sanofi’s prescription drug used by patients to deal with insomnia and sleeplessness.
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