Fri.Jun 21, 2019

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How to improve adoption of genetic testing into provider workflow?

Mobi Health News

Flare Capital Partners offers an overview of sequencing options, opportunities for integration into clinical workflow and the companies making that happen.

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Healthcare Costs Inspire Employer Activism and Employee Dissatisfaction – What PwC Found Behind the Numbers

Health Populi

In the U.S. each year between 2006 and 2016, employees’ healthcare cost sharing grew 4.5%. In that decade, Americans’ median wages rose 1.8% a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. Medical cost trend is the projected percent growth in healthcare costs over a year based on an equivalent benefit package from one year to the next.

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How one doctor took on digitising care for mums and babies

Mobi Health News

An interview with Dr Sunita Sharma, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.

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Healthcare software company Phreesia preparing for $125M IPO

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare software company Phreesia, based in New York City, filed a preliminary prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday for a $125 million initial public offering (IPO).

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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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UK, Singapore companies encouraged to apply for share of funding in £1m competition

Mobi Health News

Up to £350,000 are available for each project.

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Advancing Physical Therapy with Telehealth

Health Recovery Solutions

“I don’t have to make sure my house is clean, or my hair is done and I have makeup on as when the physical therapist comes to the house. I can do my exercises in my housecoat.” - Yale School of Medicine Telerehabilitation Study Participant.

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UnitedHealthcare agrees to $3.2B deal to acquire payments firm Equian

FierceHealthIT

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group plans to buy health care payments firm Equian LLC from its private equity owner for about $3.2 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Bill Would Regulate Handling Of Consumer-Generated Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

Call it a HIPAA reboot for the wearables age. A pair of senators have filed a bill which would impose new regulations on how companies manage data generated by consumer technologies such as health apps, wearables and direct-to-consumer genetic tests. The Protecting Personal Health Data Act, which was filed by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and […].

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AHIP19: Healthcare likely to be center stage in 2020 election

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare was arguably the defining issue of the 2018 midterm election, and it’s shaping up to be central to the 2020 campaign too, analysts said.

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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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Health IT leadership shakeup

Morning eHealth

Baby steps for FCC’s telehealth pilot — BadRabbit strikes 4 hospitals

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Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, Brown launch initiative to reduce adverse drug events 

FierceHealthIT

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island and Brown Emergency Medicine are teaming up on a pilot program that aims to reduce adverse drug events, particularly among seniors.

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You might be an #HITNerd If…

Healthcare IT Today

You might be an #HITNerd If… you are excited for the Promoting Interoperability final rule to be published while reading the information blocking rule and pondering on the implications of TEFCA… on a beach. Find all our #HITNerd references on Healthcare IT Today. If you have any suggestions for future “You Might be an #HITNerd…” please […].

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31% of employers rank expanding health benefit choices as top priority: report

FierceHealthIT

When it comes to healthcare, employers ranked offering choices and decision support tools as their top healthcare priority in 2019, according to a new report from Willis Towers Watson.

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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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IRS Limiting Length of Extensions for Responding to ACA Penalty Notices

ACA Times

3 minute read: Employers that receive IRS Letter 226J penalty notice for failing to comply with the Affordable Care Act will be limited to one 30-day extension for each IRS notice received in the penalty process. An apparent misinterpretation of the extension allowance policy had IRS staff granting longer extensions, up to 90 days, to provide employers additional time to respond to Letter 226J beyond the standard 30 days.

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Kaiser takes top spot in MA satisfaction rankings

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente ranked as the highest in overall satisfaction for the fifth year in a row in the J.D. Power 2019 Medicare Advantage Study.

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Website Accessibility & Healthcare

Geonetric

Attend our July webinar Register Now Accessibility on the web matters. And it matters even more for the healthcare industry, as access to care is your top priority. As your organization works to enhance the user experience, it’s important to put a plan in place to ensure people with disabilities – such as those with […]. Read Website Accessibility & Healthcare at Geonetric.com.

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Mix of online and live training, in-course skills assessment add value to resuscitation

HealthStream

In addition to offering both live, online, and mobile platforms, resuscitation courses should also allow students to test out of material they already know, or remain for a review if they choose, in order to offer the most value.

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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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CMS.gov - Untitled Article

CMS.gov

One of our priorities at CMS is to identify innovative approaches to improving care for our beneficiaries. Too often we’ve heard about the challenges beneficiaries, families, and caregivers face navigating health care, especially when it comes to transitioning between care settings.

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Weekender 6/21/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. A private equity firm acquires EHR/PM vendor Nextech for $500 million. A group of health and technology organizations develops open source cancer data standards and specifications that can be incorporated into EHRs via FHIR. Drug maker Sanofi and Google announce plans to for a virtual innovation lab that will use analytics to study disease and patient treatment response.

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