Fri.Mar 01, 2019

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Big Data in Healthcare: Tapping New Insights To Save Lives

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Kurt Walker, editor and copywriter, Collegeessaywriter.com. The healthcare industry is enormous. It’s one of the largest industries in the world. It also happens to be more complex than most industries. To begin with, the amounts of data collected are mind boggling. Around the world, 16,000 hospitals collect patient data while nearly 5 million patients […].

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The 4 C’s of the disruptive digital health space

KevinMD

The United States spends more of their GDP on health care than any other developed nation, and yet it produces some of the poorest outcomes — notably in the field of maternal and infant health. The advent of digital health has presented the opportunity for a paradigm shift in the delivery of care, and support […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Infant, maternal mortality: How community input in tool development could save lives

Mobi Health News

Innovators are seeking new ways to address infant and maternal mortality rates, with a special focus on combating racial health disparities.

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Qolty: External Hospital Hub for Patient Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In today’s world of smart devices and advanced monitoring software, the field of healthcare is one of the main beneficiaries. Monitoring a patient’s activity and state as accurately as possible could be considered one of the pinnacles of modern healthcare, and there is plenty of technology on the rise to help us get there.

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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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Inside Lumeon's first direct partnership with an NHS trust

Mobi Health News

An interview with Lumeon founder and CEO Robbie Hughes.

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4 Things Your Elderly Parent Needs In Their Home

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In a world where everything has gone tech-savvy, even seniors are looking for ways to manage their health and safety through technological advances. Although tech gadgets are great for helping your elderly parents be safe in their own homes, there are a few things that you can get to prevent slips and falls as well, […].

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Why effective tech must be usable at the patient bedside

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: HIMSS19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Why effective tech must be usable at the patient bedside Featured Decision Content:

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AHRQ to Fund Up to 8 Patient Safety Learning Laboratories in 2019

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Seeking to address the opioid crisis, patient safety aspects of value-based care

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Industry Voices—How innovation could mitigate Puerto Rico’s Medicaid challenges

FierceHealthIT

The U.S. territories' Medicaid programs are set to regress to a state of permanent underfunding unless policymakers take action.

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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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Eight Organizations Form Medical Genome Initiative

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Consortium seeks to expand access to high-quality clinical whole genome sequencing for genetic diseases

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Association: 3 policy changes that would strengthen the individual markets 

FierceHealthIT

Bolstering the individual marketplaces could lead to an additional 4 million people gaining coverage, according to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.

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White House honors health tech team

Morning eHealth

Yet another privacy proposal — Rhode Island Department of Health backs away from punitive action

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NIH working group examining sexual harassment says agency has fallen short

FierceHealthIT

The National Institutes of Health needs to do a better job of tackling the underlying culture that enables sexual harassment in science, a working group assembled by the agency concluded during its first meeting.

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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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Strengthening Your Hospital Brand with a Co-Branded Telemedicine Platform.

eVisit

Congratulations! Your organization has just decided to include telemedicine into its treatment armamentarium, and it’s a powerful resource to have. It’s been shown to improve patient outcomes , and patient satisfaction. But, you’ve spent years building your company’s identity. It has a recognizable brand. Your patients and the community you serve know who, where and what you are.

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How policymakers can help Medicare Advantage plans maximize their potential 

FierceHealthIT

Even as Medicare Advantage plans grab an increasing share of the market, they’re not living up to their full potential, according to a new report.

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Five-Hospital Health System in Southeastern Pennsylvania

Hinduja Global Solutions

Five-Hospital Health System in Southeastern Pennsylvania. OBJECTIVE. Workers’ compensation billing and collections are still as paper intensive, cumbersome, and straddled with complex state-specific regulations as they were in 1984. In this example of our Workers’ Compensation Service delivery, our client, a five-hospital health system in Southeastern Pennsylvania, required assistance with resolving their workers’ compensation accounts receivables (A/R).

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Empowering Patients and Unleashing Innovation: eMedicare for Today and Future Generations

CMS.gov

Empowering Patients and Unleashing Innovation: eMedicare for Today and Future Generations. lisa.sokol@cms…. Fri, 03/01/2019 - 14:31. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Topic. Initiatives. Medicare Parts A & B. Public service is a privilege. My primary mission as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is to deliver on President Trump’s commitment to strengthen and modernize Medicare for the millions of Americans who depend on u

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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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Have you considered ROHS compliance for refurbished medical equipment?

KB Dental Consulting

Introduction. All medical managers of hospitals and other medical organizations must know how their medical system functions. They must be aware of all the risks of their work, especially from their medical equipment. They must be informed about all regulations and certifications not only related to medical professionals but also related to the medical devices and systems.

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Weekender 3/1/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. Medsphere acquires Wellsoft. WellSky acquires HCS. House VA committee Chairman Mark Takano (D-CA) chastises VA Secretary Robert Wilkie for failing to turn over documents related to the Mar-A-Lago trio’s influence on VA software purchasing decisions. Crossover Health acquires Sherpaa Health’s technology platform. More than half of surveyed home care clinicians say they can’t access the hospital EHR records of their patients to reconcile patient medications.

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It's official. Beth Israel Lahey Health emerges postmerger

FierceHealthIT

Beth Israel Lahey Health officially launched on Friday as the official result of the Massachusetts megamerger between Beth Israel Deaconess and Lahey Health.

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TeleHealth's Big Impact on the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To see the full Infographic click here.

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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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Payer Roundup—Moderate Democrats push back on 'Medicare for All'

FierceHealthIT

Centrists are pushing back on a new bill that would establish a single-payer health system, plus more insurance news.