KevinMD
JUNE 10, 2019
Your bed could be watching you. OK, so not with a camera. But if you have any of a variety of “smart beds,” mattress pads or sleep apps, it knows when you go to sleep. It knows when you toss and turn. It may even be able to tell when you’re having sex. Sleep Number, […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 10, 2019
Caesarea, Israel-based Itamar Medical received FDA 510(k) clearance last week for a new disposable home sleep apnea test (HSAT) called WatchPAT One. The device is smartphone-connected; patients pair the wearable to their phone before sleeping with the device, which straps around the wrist but also includes a sensor that goes over the tip of the finger and another that affixes to the chest, both physically connected to the wrist strap by wires.
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Health Populi
JUNE 10, 2019
Social, mobile, analytics and the cloud now underpin the health care industry. We’ve been SMAC’ed, and Accenture’s Digital Health Tech Vision 2019 believes we’re in a post-digital era ripe with opportunity. Five trends comprise the Vision: DARQ Power, the acronym for D istributed ledger technology, A rtificial intelligence (AI), extended R eality, and Q uantum computing.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 10, 2019
Ping An Good Doctor, a one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform from China has launched a ‘Private Doctor’ service within their Ping An Good Doctor App. What’s it about The newly launched Private Doctor service caters to the needs of adults, the elderly and children by appointing dedicated doctors to conduct one-on-one consultations. The system operates round the clock to satisfy holistic medical and healthcare demands, such as real-time medical consultations and offline appointments for outpatie
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 10, 2019
Look back to remind us where we are. Ten years ago, the tech product choices designed for older adults were few and rudimentary. The intent was simplification of the basics for the tech-reluctant – sending email, looking at information online. As an analyst migrating from the IT industry , it was startling how limited the capabilities of the offerings Presto the Printing Mailbox (used, eBay), Celery (printing mailbox – gone), Mailbug (device to send-receive email – still on Amazon ), and Big S
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David Niewolny, director of healthcare, Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI). We live in a world where medical errors are the third leading cause of death behind cancer and cardiac disease, leading to more than 200,000 preventable deaths every year. We have an aging population growing at an unprecedented rate: 8.5 percent of people worldwide (617 […].
Mobi Health News
JUNE 10, 2019
Onduo, Livongo, Abbott and others also shared news at the show.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO, Innovaccer. While healthcare leaders uniformly agree that transitioning to value is the way healthcare is going to be in the coming days, it is unclear to most how they can make the transition without negatively impacting their cost outcomes.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 10, 2019
Tune in to HIMSS TV right now to watch a live stream of interviews with healthcare IT industry luminaries, thought leaders and innovators from the event.
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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
JUNE 10, 2019
While there is no immediate financial impact for Quest and LabCorp, the breach is credit negative for the companies because it exposes them to reputational risk and shines a spotlight on how they select and assess their vendors, according to a major credit rating service.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
JUNE 10, 2019
The majority of Americans, particularly in the southern United States, receive their healthcare through rural health facilities. These facilities often include rural or critical access hospitals, rural health clinics and/or community health centers, and other rural providers. Statistics show that rural health is less expensive with greater quality care measures than its urban counterparts, yet the stigma behind rural health is still seen as inferior to urban healthcare.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 10, 2019
Using smartphone apps and a web-based research platform, researchers at Stanford University are building a cohort for the first large-scale, long-term study to improve the health of LGBTQ people.
MedTech Boston
JUNE 10, 2019
The 2019 Prime Health Innovation Summit in Denver, Colorado, got something big right: Organizers brought together the innovation and entrepreneurial spirits. And. The post 5 Key Takeaways from Prime Health Innovation Summit appeared first on MedTech Boston.
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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.
GlobalMed
JUNE 10, 2019
In any dialogue about telemedicine, you’ll hear a lot of talk about access to care. But there’s another conversation that needs more attention: what kind of care does telemedicine offer? See, while GlobalMed can already connect patients to EKGs, ultrasounds and advanced teledentistry , we’re also opening the door to even more advanced breakthroughs in medicine.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 10, 2019
Overall care costs were similar or lower at teaching hospitals versus non-teaching hospitals for Medicare beneficiaries undergoing common procedures.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 10, 2019
RxRevu’s SwiftRx platform considers patient's medical history, individual insurance coverage, out-of-pocket costs
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 10, 2019
A new tool could be on the horizon for identifying drugs that have similar names in order to help cut prescription drug errors caused when they are mixed up.
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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!
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 10, 2019
The UK’s National Health Service is rolling out a digital health initiative at one of its leading hospitals to transform the way it triages and routes patients in its system, in an effort that leverages chatbots and telemedicine services. According to a piece in The Guardian, changes underway at the University Hospitals Birmingham trust are […].
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 10, 2019
California Democrats have approved a budget plan that would extend Medicaid coverage to young people regardless of immigration status, and essentially reinstate the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate.
Morning eHealth
JUNE 10, 2019
One more batch of comments — Teleabortion study
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 10, 2019
CVS Health has launched a new platform that will allow its pharmacy benefit management clients to more effectively manage contracts for wellness services and other supplemental benefits.
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.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 10, 2019
I don’t know about you, folks, but I read a lot of statements from trade groups which challenge a proposed law or regulatory action. This time, the group is the EHRA (Electronic Health Record Association), a HIMSS-backed vehicle representing EHR vendor interests, and its comments target a new proposed rule which it says would cause […].
HealthStream
JUNE 10, 2019
There are many reasons to standardize privileges across all medical staffs—improved program management, compliance, alignment with contemporary clinical practice, and to manage clinical competence. Here’s how a typical project to standardize privileges may proceed successfully.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 10, 2019
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CMS.gov
JUNE 10, 2019
Health care: American’s favorite debate topic. While there is much to debate, we can all agree that the patient-provider relationship has been strained by unnecessary regulations and reporting requirements.
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