Fri.Jul 19, 2019

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An overview of APAC’s healthtech landscape – the first half of 2019

Mobi Health News

Much has happened in the healthtech landscape in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in the first half of 2019 – according to Galen Growth Asia’s latest report for that period, APAC healthtech funding hit $2.5B across 140 deals. In this article, MobiHealth News looks at the healthtech landscape in APAC for the first half of 2019 across three broad areas: healthtech accelerators, notable funding rounds of healthtech startups/companies and government-funded healthtech projects/collaborations.

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Transforming How Hospitals Identify and Manage Drug Shortages

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Patrick Yoder, PharmD, co-founder and CEO, LogicStream Health. Prescription drug shortages are an epidemic across the U.S health care system. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), shortages continue to increase. They have grown more persistent and long-lasting (some active drug shortages have lasted for more than eight years), and the intensity […].

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FDA sought new PreCert participants, cleared new digital health products and more during Q2 2019

Mobi Health News

The agency also warned consumers of unregulated diabetes products and outlined plans for AI device regulation.

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Telehealth services expand at state level, but adoption barriers remain

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Expansion of telehealth coverage and reimbursement at the state level has grown since 2017, according to the latest American Telemedicine Association. The report indicates that while states are realizing the many benefits of telehealth and are implementing policies that advance utilization, some states still lack the authority or resources needed to fully deploy telehealth across the state.

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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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Deals, program launches headline digital health payer news during Q2 2019

Mobi Health News

News from CMS, UnitedHealthGroup, Livongo and others.

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Phreesia has strong public debut as second digital health IPO in 2019

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare software company Phreesia closed its first day of trading as a public company on Thursday about 40% above its set price. Phreesia is the second digital health company to go public in 2019 following Change Healthcare's initial public offering in June.

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EU's lessons for digital medicine

Morning eHealth

Feinstein to co-chair Senate Judiciary tech task force — AHA: Nation-state spies are targeting health care

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Kamala Harris’ drug prices plan targets tax breaks for pharma advertising

FierceHealthIT

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., would get rid of the tax credit that pharmaceutical companies get for direct-to-consumer advertising and would tax companies that set drug prices above a ‘fair price.

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EHR Analogies and Comparisons – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Friday and so we like to have a little more fun here at Healthcare IT Today. This week’s Fun Friday comes from the entertaining (and sometimes brutal) @EpicEMRParody account. If you’re not familiar with the Epic EMR Parody account, it’s an account that highlights many of the funny, ironic, challenging, frustrating, etc things about […].

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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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With lessons from hospitality and tech, Forward expands primary care footprint on East Coast

FierceHealthIT

WASHINGTON, D.C.—San Francisco-based startup Forward has dubbed itself the primary care of the future. Here's a look at their latest location.

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The Complexity of Genomics

Healthcare IT Today

I came across this relatively old Twitter thread from the amazing Eric Topol about genomics. The following tweet in this thread really stood out to me. In retrospect, it was naïve to think that we could understand the uniqueness & medical essence of human beings just by knowing their genome sequence. There's many more important […].

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When should docs prescribe medication for opioid addiction? New guide released to help

FierceHealthIT

The National Quality Forum and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association have teamed up to launch a new playbook aimed at growing access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction.

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$50M Investment in Jump ARCHES Could Fuel New Generation of MedTech Research

MedTech Boston

An additional $50 million investment in a partnership between OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger. The post $50M Investment in Jump ARCHES Could Fuel New Generation of MedTech Research appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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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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Preventing a Cascade of Nursing Actions That Can Lead to Errors

HealthStream

The first step in preventing adverse patient events is to ensure that there is a culture of safety in hospitals and organizations. Adverse events need to be viewed as both a learning opportunity and a new opportunity to use a systems approach to patient safety and error prevention.

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Report: U.S. Among Leaders in EHR Use, but Lag Behind on AI, Telehealth

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

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Three Suggestions for Improving Healthcare Conflict of Interest (COI) Management

HealthStream

To establish a baseline for COI compliance programs, HCCS surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about their programs. Using the results, here are three suggestions HCCS offers to improve COI Management effectiveness across the healthcare industry.

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Weekender 7/19/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. Ellkay acquires X-Link. John Muir Health outsources IT-related functions to Optum and transfers 540 employees to the company. A study finds that follow-up is often not performed for patients with poor kidney function, with EHR configuration changes recommended to close care gaps. Livongo Health’s updated IPO filing values the company at up to $2.4 billion.

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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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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 4: The Human Aspect of Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

This is Part 4 of a four part series, introduced Monday , based on my family’s experience with our mother’s unexpected and dramatic ICU stay and bilateral lung transplant. [ Go to Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 ] [ Download the Complete Family’s Guide as a PDF]. As you move along in your ICU journey, it’s important to remember that care is driven by and provided to people.

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Innovations in primary care will make smartphones a powerful tool for improving health worldwide

Lloyd Price

Smartphones will make the world healthier. This audacious statement is based on the convergence of three realities: First, smartphones have become incredibly powerful and ubiquitous amongst the world’s population. Second, primary care meaningfully improves one’s health and longevity by virtue of prevention, early treatment and effective on-going management of acute and chronic issues.

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A dip in new arrivals of ACOs have some in the industry concerned of a new trend

FierceHealthIT

Some ACOs are worried that a dip in participation this year could be the start of a worrisome trend due to major changes made to the program by the Trump administration.

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Judge denies challenge to Trump administration's short-term plan expansion

FierceHealthIT

A federal judge struck down a lawsuit to curb the Trump administration’s 2018 rule to expand short-term health plans, disagreeing with the lawsuit that the rule violates federal law

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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.