Tue.Jul 23, 2019

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Pinterest rolls out new tool aimed at helping users with anxiety, stress

Mobi Health News

The social media giant teamed up with researchers from the Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation to develop short digital exercises for stress.

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Marketing Health To Consumers in the Age of Retail Disruption

Health Populi

Today, I am speaking with marketing leaders who are members of CHPA, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association on this very topic. This is CHPA’s 2019 Marketing Conference being held at the lovely historic Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, DE. The gist of my remarks will be to focus on the evolving retail health ecosystem, with my HealthConsuming lens on health/care, everywhere.

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Opinion: eHealth success and why user preferences matter

Mobi Health News

Achieving sustainable impact remains a key digital health challenge, and carefully exploring the preferences of patients might be part of the solution, argues Vasileios Nittas.

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Amazon Web Services exec Partovi on where the biggest AI opportunities are in healthcare

FierceHealthIT

NEW YORK CITY—Amazon Web Services executive Shez Partovi, M.D., spoke with FierceHealthcare during the AWS Summit in NYC about the future of cloud computing, AI and machine learning and where he thinks AWS can make the biggest impact in healthcare.

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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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Walgreens adds Propeller Health, Dexcom's products to its health services connection tool

Mobi Health News

The web and mobile Find Care platform provides consumers with a localized list of partner providers and services meeting their healthcare needs.

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Flare Capital Partners' sophomore investment fund closes at $255M

Mobi Health News

The new fund will follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, targeting technology investment opportunities that drive value-based healthcare.

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Industry Voices—4 lessons to develop and implement a system telehealth strategy

FierceHealthIT

“Digitization is finally coming to healthcare.” For years, we have been hearing some version of this phrase. It's been slow coming, but healthcare systems are making progress when it comes to adopting telehealth.

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FDA releases mid-year update on PreCert's Test Plan

Mobi Health News

The organization reports it has completed retrospective testing and is in the process of prospective testing.

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Swinburne and Coviu partner to provide real time chat mental health support

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Swinburne University’s National eTherapy Centre has partnered with medtech startup, Coviu to allow Australians to access quality mental health services through encypted, real-time text chat sessions. The service is offered as part of Swinburne’s Mental Health Online , which is free for all Australians and provides access to treatment programs for common mental health issues including depression and anxiety.

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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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Health IT companies impacted by browser extension data leak: report

FierceHealthIT

Browser extensions, also known as add-ons or plug-ins, are commonly used by desktop Web surfers to do things ranging from blocking ads to remembering passwords to checking grammar. According to one security researcher, some extensions have been leaking and exposing browsing activity data, including patient data.

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Beyond the Four Walls: Using Technology to Address Your Patient’s Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Needs

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Hannah Landes, Senior Associate at NowPow, and Niko Skievaski, Co-founder and President at Redox. The U.S. healthcare industry has made a big investment in moving to a value-based care model, both in terms of reimbursement structure as well as medical practice. Implementing this model means that providers have more responsibility […].

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CVS announces new initiatives targeting the social determinants of health 

FierceHealthIT

CVS is looking to expand its work on the social determinants of health through its new Destination: Health platform.

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Helping Consumers/Patients Learn More About Healthcare IT – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/26 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Lisa Davis Budzinski (@lisadbudzinski) and Becky Brandt, RN (@bbhomebody) on the topic “Helping Consumers/Patients Learn More About Healthcare IT” Healthcare IT systems in 2019 are far more in […].

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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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Children's National, KenSci studying the use of AI to improve pediatric critical care

FierceHealthIT

Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C., is collaborating with technology company KenSci to study the use of artificial intelligence to improve pediatric risk scores in the intensive care unit.

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Painful Medicare Journey to get GGM/Pump Coverage

Insulin Nation

Tom Linn, retired Colorado attorney tells his story. We spoke with Tom Linn an attorney in Colorado who was diagnosed with T1D at age 69, 3 years ago. . This is his story. “My symptoms were classic yet I was first diagnosed as Type 2. My blood glucose never lowered and after 10 days with no improvement, my primary care doctor gave me a pile of syringes and a vial of Humalog and sent me home with few instructions. .

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Hospital-owned Civica Rx ahead of schedule with latest generic drug deal

FierceHealthIT

Civica Rx, the non-profit generics company launched last year by hospitals looking to prevent drug shortages, is ahead of schedule with planned production of new drugs.

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Provider-to-Patient Telehealth Usage Up Nearly $1,400%

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: Payers and providers have shed fears about the deployment of services. In addition to improving and expanding patient service, the vast financial benefits makes telemedicine consults a makes payers eager to gather more research on closing the telehealth gap. Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers integrate evidence-based best practices. .

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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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Sens. Grassley, Wyden unveil sweeping package aimed at drug prices

FierceHealthIT

The Senate Finance Committee has finally unveiled its long-awaited legislation on drug prices, and the bill includes a slew of changes across Medicare and Medicaid.

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Medicare Appeals Backlog Reduced 20%

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs) continue to do a poor job of maintaining accurate provider directories—and it’s landing some in hot water with the federal government. Can your claims review resources maximize the turn around time needed for complex claims? CLICK HERE and let us show how BHM’s economically maintain turn-around times and accuracy for new members.

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ACS develops new standards to improve surgical care for elderly patients

FierceHealthIT

It’s estimated that about 41% of all in-patient surgeries are performed on older adults—a number expected to grow as the population ages. With that in mind, the American College of Surgeons embarked on a project to develop new standards to improve surgical care for older patients.

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How to Stay HIPAA Compliant in the World of Social Media

TheraNest

How to Stay HIPAA Compliant in the World of Social Media. This post has been guest-authored by Atlantic.net as part of our guest post series. Learn more about Atlantic.net at the bottom of this post. While health companies need to take great pains to make sure they are in HIPAA compliance, which includes all the cyber and physical security mandates, one thing commonly overlooked is social media security.

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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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Small, rural hospitals not using bundled payment models: study

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals signing up for bundled payment options tend to be larger and better resourced than hospitals that are not enrolling.

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Q2 2019 Healthcare Data Breaches

Optimum Healthcare IT

Major health data breaches continued at a pace of more than one per day in Q2 2019. Are you doing everything you can to avoid a breach? The post Q2 2019 Healthcare Data Breaches appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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The Monetary, Clinical and Ethical Value of Patient Data – A View from the UK and NHS

Health Populi

There are about 55 million patient records held by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). Their monetary value to private sector companies would be £5 billion and nearly that much in patient benefits. Add in value for patient outcomes, and the total approaches £10 billion. In today’s UK:US currency exchange rate, 10 billion British pound sterling is worth roughly $12 billion.

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