Mon.Nov 19, 2018

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Telehealth in Rural Areas: How Health Systems Deliver Better Access to Care

American Well

Approximately 62 million Americans —or one in five people—live in rural areas, while only nine percent of all physicians practice in these settings. This lack of care in rural communities is creating a huge healthcare access issue, resulting in patients driving long distances for care. To address these healthcare access issues, health systems across the country are implementing telehealth in rural areas to give patients better access to high-quality care.

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The interoperability 'Golden Spike'

Morning eHealth

Modest Medicare telemedicine increase — Yelp 'beats' CMS at nursing home rating

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Proposed framework lessens FDA's regulatory requirements for prescription drugs companion apps

Mobi Health News

The agency's proposal would classify the majority of software released by pharmas as "promotional labeling" that would not require premarket review.

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Data Privacy and Healthcare Access: Top Issues Shaping Consumers’ Societal ROI

Health Populi

Organizations that address consumers’ data privacy and access to healthcare create greater social brand equity, inspiring people to say nice things about the companies, recommend them as good employers, and be welcomed as businesses operating in peoples’ community. In The Societal ROI Index: A Measure for The Times We Find Ourselves In , Finn Partners and The Harris Poll measure U.S. companies’ reputations for social good, the project’s press release explains.

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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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L'Oréal launches wearable sun exposure monitor through Apple

Mobi Health News

Last week, L'Oréal announced that its La Roche-Posay My Skin Track UV—the first battery-free wearable electronic to measure UV exposure is available for sale through apple.com and select U.S. Apple Store locations.

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Proposed framework lessens FDA's regulatory requirements for prescription drug companion apps

Mobi Health News

The agency's proposal would classify the majority of software released by pharmas as "promotional labeling" that would not require premarket review.

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Report: Visits to primary care doctors decline, but more patients with employer plans are seeing NPs, PAs

FierceHealthIT

Fewer patients with employer-sponsored insurance are visiting their primary care doctors, but more are seeing other advanced practice providers, according to a new study.

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Nicklaus Children's deploys image-based clinical collaboration app from WinguMD

Mobi Health News

With integration provided by Dicom Systems, the app will allow nurses and doctors to easily share and upload clinical smartphone images.

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Sharing our Thanks in 2018

Arizona Telemedicine Program

The first American Thanksgiving took place in October -- not November --1621. Pilgrims still new to America wanted to celebrate their first harvest in their new country with the Wampanoag Indians, with whom they maintained peace and good will for many decades. New land meant new ways to do good for others, and themselves. Nearly 400 years have passed since that first Thanksgiving, and this year, those of us with the Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) are thankful for the opportunities we have to

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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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Convincing C-suite to fund cybersecurity

Mobi Health News

Shakira Brown, CEO of SMB Strategic Media, says that to get executive buy-in for cybersecurity funding, you must focus on business value, such as lowering costs, improving productivity, and increasing revenue.

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Doctors to NRA on gun violence: This is our lane

FierceHealthIT

A social media dust-up highlights changing perspectives about doctors’ role in advocating for policies related to public health.

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AI-powered kidney disease diagnostic Renalytix AI lands $29M

Mobi Health News

This latest funding news coincides with the company's announcement that it will now be publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange.

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Atrium employees sue over health and retirement benefits

FierceHealthIT

A group of former employees filed a federal class action lawsuit against Atrium Health, accusing the healthcare system of trying to swindle them out of their health and retirement benefits.

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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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AI-enabled cancer screening platform Ezra snags $4M in seed funding

Mobi Health News

The New York-based startup also launched a beta version of its prostate cancer screening program.

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4 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries expected to be on Medicare Advantage plans by 2028

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Advantage enrollment is expected to increase from 34% of the Medicare population in 2018 to 42% in 2028. Yet CBO forecasts that spending on those enrollees will grow from $200 billion to $580 billion over the same time period.

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Peerfit's fitness benefits platform is now courting consumers

Mobi Health News

The platform, which allows users to redeem tokens for fitness classes, previously was only available to employers.

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New Jersey physician charged in $20M telehealth scheme involving expensive pain cream prescriptions

FierceHealthIT

A New Jersey doctor has been arrested for fraudulently prescribing $20 million worth of compounded medications through an elaborate telehealth scheme that targeted Tricare beneficiaries. The arrest comes weeks after the CEO of a Florida telehealth company pleaded guilty to a similar scheme.

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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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Working on the snoring problem, one innovation at a time

Mobi Health News

Innovation Factory’s Alaa Chalabi talks using wearables to detect sleep disorders and snoring habits at WISH in Doha, Qatar last week.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Approved Separate Reimbursements for Non-Traditional Patient Visits

eVisit

One of the main barriers reported by HCPs for not embracing the powerful tool of telehealth has been the lack of reimbursement. November 1, 2018 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) made a significant step in overcoming this obstacle. It announced its finalization of “ Revisions to Payment Policies under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, Quality Payment Program and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2019 ”.

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Industry Voices—Why the app store model should be the guiding vision for healthcare interoperability

FierceHealthIT

Consumer app stores have all the ingredients for interoperability: competition, connectivity and choice. Healthcare's vision should be focused on an API-based EHR app store that allows innovators to race ahead to the bleeding edge, writes Sansoro Health's Dave Levin.

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Telehealth in Rural Areas: How Health Systems Deliver Better Access to Care

American Well

Approximately 62 million Americans —or one in five people—live in rural areas, while only nine percent of all physicians practice in these settings. This lack of care in rural communities is creating a huge healthcare access issue, resulting in patients driving long distances for care. To address these healthcare access issues, health systems across the country are implementing telehealth in rural areas to give patients better access to high-quality care.

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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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Theft and disclosures account for most healthcare data breaches. But hackers took 3 times as many records

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare data breaches due to theft or unauthorized disclosure have been far more common than hacking incidents, according to a new study. But cyber attackers made off with nearly 133 million patient records.

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IRS Releases New ACA PCORI Fees

ACA Times

2 minute read: The IRS has released new PCORI rate for health insurance plans that end on or after October 1, 2018 and before October 1, 2019. PCORI fees are imposed on issuers of specified health insurance policies and plan sponsors of applicable self-insured health plans to fund the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute ( PCORI ), which was established under the Affordable Care Act ( ACA ).

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Provider consolidation is causing premium hikes in rural areas, analysis says

FierceHealthIT

A lack of competition among providers, fueled by consolidation, is largely causing the rural-urban disparity. But consolidation shows no signs of slowing down, leaving some wondering if states should take matters into their own hands.

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Partners, Harvard Pilgrim put merger talks on ice

FierceHealthIT

Partners HealthCare and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care have tabled their merger discussions—for now, at least. Michael Carson, CEO of Harvard Pilgrim, said that the two will continue to explore “opportunities for collaboration.

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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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Oscar seeks preliminary injunction to bar Florida Blue from exclusive broker agreements

FierceHealthIT

A week after filing an antitrust lawsuit against Florida Blue, Oscar upped the ante by requesting a preliminary injunction on the company's exclusive broker agreements. The New York insurer says it has been able to sell "only a fraction" of exchange plans it expected in Orlando because of the Blue Cross Blue Shield plan's "monopolist" approach.

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Report: Employers need to ask these questions before they cover genomic tests

FierceHealthIT

There's a lot of hype around the still-emerging science of genomics. A new guide released by the Northeast Business Group on Health this week offered some guidelines for employers about how to figure out what's worth covering—and what might not be worth it.

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Healthcare Roundup—Eleventh child dies in New Jersey adenovirus outbreak

FierceHealthIT

An eleventh child has died in an adenovirus outbreak at a New Jersey rehabilitation facility, plus more healthcare headlines.

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