Fri.Nov 22, 2019

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Roundup: 16 digital health studies, pilots and reviews from AHA 2019

Mobi Health News

From mobile ECGs to tele-rehabilitation to defibrillator delivery drones, a range of new data was on display at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2019.

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5 EHR Trends To Watch In 2020

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. Although electronic health records (EHR) are firmly established in the medical landscape, ongoing progress necessitates that providers keep up with emerging trends. Here are five of them. 1.

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Patient engagement IT market changing, slowly, with the imperatives of consumerism

Mobi Health News

As providers seek to improve the patient experience and engage patients for better health outcomes, a KLAS report explores how vendors' claims square with health systems' priorities.

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Why Walgreens wants to help consumers get better sleep

FierceHealthIT

Walgreens executive Giovanni Monti, who leads the company’s health services, has a keen interest in how pharmacists can deliver health outcomes by extending their role to broader healthcare. Monti, who also leads healthcare innovation at parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance, believes pharmacists can do this by engaging with customers and patients, not just in pharmacies and stores but digitally as well.

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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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Majority of parents say socioeconomic factors negatively impact their families' health

Mobi Health News

Most parents believe they have the resources to raise healthy children, but significant hurdles can pose a persistent challenge.

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Survey: Health benefit costs to rise by 6.8% globally in 2020 

FierceHealthIT

Health benefit costs are set to rise by nearly 7% globally in 2020, with insurers around the world especially concerned about the growing impact of mental health costs, a new report shows.

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Humana's Medicare Advantage value-based programs reduce healthcare costs by $3.5 billion, report shows

Mobi Health News

Humana's revenue is projected to increase on 17% rise in MA membership and premium increases, but return of HIF reduced workforce by 2%.

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VA put millions of people, including doctors, at risk of identity theft, agency audit finds

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) put millions of people, including medical professionals, at risk of identity theft by disclosing their social security numbers in copies of veterans' benefits claims, an agency audit found.

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Healthcare’s New Challenge: Mastering The Trifecta of Comfort, Cost and Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ryan VanDePutte, associate director, Bits In Glass. Each day in the U.S., about 10,000 seniors turn 65. By 2050, there will be 83.7 million seniors in the country, representing about one-fifth of its population. Even with the growing awareness of health and fitness, it’s a hard reality that about three-quarters of these older Americans […].

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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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Insulin Dosing Tips for Pizza, Chinese Food, Lasagna, and Cake!

Insulin Nation

Well, who said that just because you have type 1 diabetes means you can’t ever eat pizza or lasagna ever again? Cupcakes? . Dosing insulin around meals that are high in both carbs and high in fat can be very, very tricky. . You aren’t alone if you’ve tried to carefully calculate your insulin dose for pizza only to find your blood sugar plummeting two hours later…then spiking to 400 mg/dL 2 hours after that.

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What Functionalities Are Important for DCIM Solutions?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tools gather control, monitoring and allocation of assets, space, power, cabling, cooling and downtime in one place. This makes it much simpler to get and keep your arms around your facility. That is, assuming you know what functionalities are important for DCIM solutions when you acquire yours.

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Using Telehealth to Keep Tomorrow’s Future Healthy

American Well

Today’s children are truly our future. They will grow up to be the doctors, lawyers, teachers and leaders of tomorrow and it’s of the upmost important that we keep these precious lives safe and healthy. Unfortunately, access to the high-quality pediatric care is not always easily obtained. Between parents trying to schedule appointments around school and work, many children living in rural areas where care doesn’t readily exist, and pediatricians being overwhelmed by sheer demand, with over 71 m

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Industry Voices—Clinical data registries can be a unique resource for physician recruitment

FierceHealthIT

As healthcare employment trends change, hospitals are being forced to change their physician recruitment strategies, too. What many hospital leaders and recruiters don’t realize is they have a rich but underutilized recruitment resource available to confront this challenge: clinical data registries.

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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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We Should Keep An Eye On Healthcare AI Medical Liability Risks

Healthcare IT Today

Today, most health IT leaders seem sold on the potential healthcare AI deployment can offer, as its benefits are becoming clearer every day. It’s becoming almost a no-brainer to believe that AI can do great things for the practice of predictive analytics, for example. In a recent survey by medical malpractice insurer The Doctors Company, […].

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Payers, business groups roll out massive lobbying effort to get delay for ACA insurer tax

FierceHealthIT

Insurer and business groups are ramping up their efforts to delay a $16 billion tax mandated by the Affordable Care Act that is set to go back into effect next year.

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Using Telehealth to Keep Tomorrow’s Future Healthy

American Well

Today’s children are truly our future. They will grow up to be the doctors, lawyers, teachers and leaders of tomorrow and it’s of the upmost important that we keep these precious lives safe and healthy. Unfortunately, access to the high-quality pediatric care is not always easily obtained. Between parents trying to schedule appointments around school and work, many children living in rural areas where care doesn’t readily exist, and pediatricians being overwhelmed by sheer demand, with over 71 m

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DEA telemedicine rule slated for December, but don't hold your breath

Morning eHealth

VA’s plea for congressional help on 'seamless care' — Uber Health’s chief talks data, privacy and interoperability

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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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FHIR Consent mapped with BPPC

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Today on the FHIR Consent call we had a very useful discussion of how one would use FHIR Consent to do the same thing that BPPC does in XDS. Said another way, what is the degenerate form of FHIR Consent that is equal-to the functionality of BPPC, and what is the degenerate form of FHIR Consent that is compatible with BPPC. We did have a slight side discussion about APPC, but lets start simple.

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You might be an #HITNerd If…

Healthcare IT Today

You might be an #HITNerd If… you go surfing in the morning and then think it’s almost as fun to go to an IS Director Meeting later that day. Side Note: This is a verified #HITNerd Find all our #HITNerd references on Healthcare IT Today. If you have any suggestions for future “You Might be […].

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Six Tactics That Must Be Applied in Healthcare to the Opioid Abuse Epidemic

HealthStream

This blog post briefly describes six tactical options that need to be employed to go a good way towards supporting the opioid crisis and getting through it.

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Understanding the Value of Remote Patient Monitoring

InTouch Health

Why More Hospitals and Health Systems Are Investing in RPM. Remote patient monitoring (RPM), or monitoring the health of a patient from a remote location, is changing the way providers think about healthcare. Using a range of wearable devices and live video and audio, providers can use this technology to ensure their patients are adhering to prescribed treatment methods and recovering as planned.

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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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Mobile MRI Unit: Bringing MRI to Patient and Reducing Healthcare Budget

KB Dental Consulting

Magnetic Resonance Imaging is a type of imaging modalities that are characterized by the fastest growing. It is well known that the reducing of the healthcare budget is a trend with continuing action. This means that in most cases the installation of new or additional MRI imaging devices would be increased. The latest discussions are declaring that the technological advancements of MRI systems have a great development process in the past decade.

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Weekender 11/22/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap The American Medical Association calls for.

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How Should Doctors Adjust Their Practice for the Millennial Population?

Ortholive

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Longevity Stalls Around the World And Wealth, More Concentrated

Health Populi

Two separate and new OECD reports, updating health and the global economic outlook, raise two issues that are inter-related: that gains in longevity are stalling, with chronic illnesses and mental ill health affecting more people; and, as wealth grows more concentrated among the wealthy, the economic outlook around most of the world is also slowing.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Dems seek answers on HealthCare.gov tech issues as enrollment lags

FierceHealthIT

A group of House and Senate Democrats are demanding answers from the Trump administration on technical problems that have contributed to a slow start for sign-ups.

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