Fri.Aug 24, 2018

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59 health tech companies share their 2017 revenues to land on Inc 5000 list

Mobi Health News

It's become an annual tradition for MobiHealthNews to parse Inc. Magazine's Inc 5,000 list of fastest growing companies in America, calling out the digital health and health tech companies that made the list. We found more companies than ever on this year's list, some you'll recognize and some you may not.

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Multimorbidity In the US – Obesity As A Key Driver of Health Spending

Health Populi

In the U.S., the growing prevalence of multi-morbidity is contributing to increased mortality and healthcare cost growth in America. Underlying this clinical and economic phenomenon is obesity, which primary care doctors are challenged to deal with as a chronic condition along with typically co-occurring comorbidities of hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidemia.

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23andMe to shut down API for third-party data users; clinical research agreements unaffected

Mobi Health News

23andMe has emailed developers a warning that an API permitting use of anonymized customer datasets for third-party app development will be shut down in approximately two weeks, CNBC reports.

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5 Tips for Maximizing Electronic Health Record ROI

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Zachary Blunt, manager of product management population health, Greenway Health Electronic health records (EHRs) were expected to revolutionize healthcare practices, making them more efficient, reducing costs and enabling them to provide more coordinated care. But ask healthcare providers about the EHRs they’ve deployed, and the results are far from what was expected.

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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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Sorry, hospitals. Spending on brand promotion apparently doesn’t inspire patient loyalty

FierceHealthIT

Patients don’t necessarily seek out large health networks or systems. Here's what a new survey from NRC Health found about what the strongest brands are getting right.

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Senior health IT official Genevieve Morris resigns from her positions at ONC, VA

FierceHealthIT

Genevieve Morris, who served as the principal deputy national coordinator for health IT at ONC, and the acting chief health information officer at the VA, announced her resignation from both agencies Friday. "Over the last few weeks, it has become clear to me that VA’s leadership intends to take the EHR modernization effort in a different direction than we were headed," she wrote in her resignation letter.

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Health IT amendments in Senate spending bill

Morning eHealth

ONC wants input in EHR reporting program — FDA recommends dialing back placebos in cancer trials

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Clover expands Medicare Advantage plans to 6 more markets

FierceHealthIT

The insurer believes it can attract customers and partner with health systems in six additional cities across the country. Plus, a Taiwanese company wants to use its predictive technology.

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'My Patients Won’t Use That Technology!'

care innovations

That was true 20 years ago when I first started developing telehealth technology designed for the chronically ill elderly. At that time, people in general had no experience with technology, other than a telephone, and therefore were fearful of trying to use a computer, or plug cables into a box, to check their vital signs. That's why the telehealth vendors had to get into the manufacturing business — so they could build devices that were easy to use, and which required no experience with a compu

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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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Cigna, Express Scripts shareholders approve $67B deal

FierceHealthIT

Cigna's purchase of Express Scripts cleared a key hurdle, gaining approval from shareholders in both companies after a public spat with activist investor Carl Icahn. The deal now faces clearance by federal antitrust regulators.

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Marketing Your Telehealth Services

TheraNest

How to Market Your Telehealth Services. You’ve read our Complete Telehealth Guide and have finally figured out your state regulations. You’ve talked to your insurance companies and you’ve chosen your secure video conferencing tool –you’re officially a telehealth providing therapy practice. Now what? Making the decision to start offering online therapy sessions is only the first step.

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Healthcare Roundup—Senate approves massive HHS appropriations bill, including drug price amendment

FierceHealthIT

The Senate OK'd a 'minibus' package of bills that includes HHS appropriations on Thursday and more healthcare news from around the web.

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Try Telehealth in TheraNest

TheraNest

The Feature You’ve Been Waiting For. We’re excited to announce that Telehealth has officially launched in TheraNest. You can start scheduling secure, HIPAA compliant video conferencing sessions with your clients right from your TheraNest account. Telehealth in TheraNest eliminates the need for multiple tools that don’t work together. Our new Telehealth feature is fully integrated with TheraNest and our Client Portal.

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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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Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden charged with sexual abuse 

FierceHealthIT

The former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was charged Friday with sexual abuse, police said.

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Weekender 8/24/18

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. Medicaid Transformation Project signs up 17 leading health systems to develop solutions to improve the healthcare and social needs of the 75 million Americans who are on Medicaid. Employer-focused primary care clinic operator Paladina Health gets a $165 million investment. A New Yorker article describes the hostile shareholder attack launched last year on Athenahealth by activist investor Paul Singer’s Elliott Management and the company’s history of using shady tactics to pres

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Try Telehealth in TheraNest

TheraNest

The Feature You’ve Been Waiting For. We’re excited to announce that Telehealth has officially launched in TheraNest. You can start scheduling secure, HIPAA compliant video conferencing sessions with your clients right from your TheraNest account. Telehealth in TheraNest eliminates the need for multiple tools that don’t work together. Our new Telehealth feature is fully integrated with TheraNest and our Client Portal.

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As midterm approaches, 10 Republican senators introduce bill to protect consumers with pre-existing conditions

FierceHealthIT

As written, a newly introduced bill would prohibit discrimination based on a variety of “health status-related factors.” But it would still give insurers a lot more wiggle room than the Affordable Care Act does, experts say.

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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!