AliveCor ends sales of KardiaBand, its ECG accessory for Apple Watches
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2019
The news comes roughly eight months after Apple launched its own hardware and software ECG feature for the Apple Watch Series 4.
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AHIMA Partners with Area9 Lyceum To Offer Adaptive Learning Features In Health Information Management (HIM) Academic Programs
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 19, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is partnering with adaptive learning systems leader Area9 Lyceum to add an adaptive learning component to health information management (HIM) academic programs. This new technology is being added as an online component to AHIMA’s most popular textbook Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach, Sixth Edition and was
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Medtech and healthtech-specific co-working space launched in Singapore
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2019
Singapore-based medtech startup Aardvark Labs and Padang & Co, an innovation catalyst, joined forces to launch Catalyst, a co-working space which aims to creates new partnerships that deliver real health outcomes and meaningful business impact in the healthcare industry. At Catalyst’s official launch on August 19, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between Aardvark Labs and SingHealth, National Healthcare Group (NHG), and National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC).
IBM Study Shows Data Breach Costs On the Rise; Financial Impact Felt for Years
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 19, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. IBM Security released the results of its annual study examining the financial impact of data breaches on organizations. According to the report, the cost of a data breach has risen 12% during the past five years[1] and now costs $3.92 million on average.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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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.
Despite growing availability of APIs for patient health records, uptake remains low
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2019
According to a new study published in JAMA, researchers found that the rate of unique users downloading their health records through an API on a month-over-month basis was flat.
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Long-term care communications platform secures $330,000 seed round
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2019
SafeKeeping's platform integrates with a provider's EHR system to cut down on non-urgent communications eating up clinicians' time.
Payers face higher rates due to provider billing fights, new survey finds
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 19, 2019
While billing is primarily believed to be a provider-payment issue, a new survey finds that complications are spilling over and affecting payers.
UK Prime Minister urges social media giants to limit spread of vaccine misinformation
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 19, 2019
Over 230 measles cases were reported in the UK in the first quarter of the year.
Finally the Scanner I Started Looking for a Decade Ago
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 19, 2019
It’s nice to think that with an EHR in place, healthcare could finally be paperless. Besides the fact that the EHR is a paper printing machine, the amount of paper that’s brought through the door by patients is astounding. The obvious solution in every healthcare organization is to scan all of that paper into the […].
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
What Therapists Need to Know About HIPAA Compliant Communications
TheraNest
AUGUST 19, 2019
This post has been authored by Anabeli Fernandez, Marketing Manager at Hushmail, as part of our guest post series. Learn more about Katie at the bottom of this post. As a therapist, you have the privilege of being allowed into your clients’ private lives where you are entrusted with personal information that must remain confidential. Your clients need to feel a certain level of trust to benefit from your services, and a good part of this trust comes from knowing that the information they give yo
MA startup Alignment Healthcare aims to double its footprint in 2020
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 19, 2019
California-based Alignment Healthcare, an artificial intelligence-driven Medicare Advantage plan, is aiming to double its geographic footprint in 2020.
Thoughts on Amazon's journey into Healthcare
Lloyd Price
AUGUST 19, 2019
1) JPMorgan/Amazon/Berkshire deal - gives Amazon patient/user experience, access to big data sets and the opportunity to test and learn in one market in healthcare, employee health. Also only employees in the US, not globally. "The initial focus of the new company will be on technology solutions that will provide U.S. employees and their families with simplified, high-quality and transparent health care at a reasonable costs." AC Wellness Network - Apple is doing something very similar l
79 Percent of Doctors Are Burned Out. Can Virtual Care Delivery Help?
GlobalMed
AUGUST 19, 2019
A new study from InCrowd paints a disturbing picture about provider burnout and its effect on patient care. The survey of 320 PCPs and 319 specialists reveals that 79 percent of primary care physicians (PCPs) describe themselves as burned out, as do 57 percent of specialists. That’s a sharp rise from the 45 percent of doctors that reported burnout in an American Medical Association (AMA) survey in 2011.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
Is It Time For The Federal Government To Create A National HIE?
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 19, 2019
Earlier this year, ONC and CMS issued new draft guidelines requiring that all insurers and providers serving the Medicare population make their data available electronically by 2020. The new rules will establish penalties and fines for providers and health plans that don’t make health records available via a standard API by 2020 and as well […].
Healthcare Logistics & Supply Chain Management: Improving Patient Outcomes
Health Recovery Solutions
AUGUST 19, 2019
The essential mission of logistics and supply chain management is to efficiently plan, organize, and coordinate the movement of goods from a point of origin to a point of consumption. Analyzing and aligning supply chain goals with a patient-first approach enables healthcare organizations to reduce costs while improving patient outcomes. With PatientDirect, a care delivery solution from HRS, our in-house logistics team provides patients with the telehealth equipment they need when they need it.
What High Quality Resuscitation Means for the Care Continuum’s Future
HealthStream
AUGUST 19, 2019
When discussing the future of resuscitation for the healthcare continuum, Haynes spoke optimistically about a continued international focus on improving survivability and outcomes.
IRS Issues Letter 972CG to Employers for Late ACA Filings
ACA Times
AUGUST 19, 2019
4 minute read: The IRS has started to issue ACA penalties to employers who have filed their annual ACA information past IRS deadlines, another sign that the IRS is further intensifying enforcement efforts. First, a quick review. Letter 226J was the first penalty notice to be issued by the IRS. This penalty notice is sent to employers identified as having failed to comply with the ACA Employer Mandate, which requires employers with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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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!
Privacy and the New Health Ciitizen
Health Populi
AUGUST 19, 2019
Data security breaches, access challenges, and privacy leakages plague the current state of Americans’ personal health information (PHI). HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act that was legislated in 1996, isn’t sufficiently robust to deal with the nature of this health information 23 years after that law was first implemented.
Here's what hospital groups had to say about CMS' plan to update Star Ratings
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 19, 2019
The Trump Administration will finalize a new quality measurement methodology for its Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings in 2021, but will "refresh" the Star Ratings used on its Hospital Compare website in early 2020.
Slow start for EHR apps
Morning eHealth
AUGUST 19, 2019
Democrats take on broadband in 2020 race — E&C tech adviser heads to White House
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