Wed.Nov 13, 2019

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Care collaboration tech reduces hospital’s ED-to-bed wait time by 97 minutes

Mobi Health News

Calls to the administrators on duty decreased from 274 before electronic notifications to 149 since implementation at Catawba Valley Medical Center.

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The impact of digital transformation in hospital care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Today’s healthcare system is facing many challenges globally, including growing aging populations, a rise in chronic conditions and co-morbidities, and increasing constraints on the healthcare workforce. As the industry works towards achieving the quadruple aim to help address these issues – the goal of better patient outcomes and improved patient and clinician experiences, all at a lower cost – there is a great need to optimise resources and increase efficiencies.

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Elektra Labs launches connected health tech catalogue alongside $2.9M in seed funding

Mobi Health News

Called Atlas, the tool helps healthcare and research organizations vet wearables and health monitoring devices by their features, validation, usability, security and more.

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Survey of 20,000 Registered Nurses Finds Workplace Pressures Growing In The Decade Ahead

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Millions of registered nurses face growing pressures on their professional and personal lives in the new decade because of increased demand for services, nursing shortages, and structural changes in the healthcare industry, according to a newly released survey of nearly 20,000 RNs by AMN Healthcare.

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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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Eisia rolls out new Amazon Alexa skill geared at children with rare form of epilepsy

Mobi Health News

The platform provides games, music and meditation tools.

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State of Massachusetts taps innovation centers at Brigham and Women's, MIT, Baystate Health for R&D sandbox

Mobi Health News

The program, which was officially launched in April, will give startups access to the innovation center's affiliated sandboxes.

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Google’s partnership alarms patients, privacy advocates, HHS

Morning eHealth

Colorado opens up new front in PDMP privacy fight — Research data policies bloom

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Former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini talks about CVS, the Amazon experience and how insurers stay relevant

Mobi Health News

"What's needed is to start with the patient, and the patient as a consumer, and add in the relevance of issues outside of a medical conditions.

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Baystate Health and Life Image Announce Partnership To Develop AI Innovations For Improved Treatment and To Match Cancer Patients to Clinical Trials

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Baystate Health, the premier integrated health system serving more than 800,000 patients in western New England, announced a partnership with Life Image, the largest medical evidence network providing access to points of care and curated clinical and imaging data, to develop novel artificial intelligence tools that would help advance technical innovations in radiology, neurology and […].

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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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Medical device manufacturer Phillips-Medisize opens a global innovation and development centre in Copenhagen

Mobi Health News

The new office will support the firm’s plans for advanced injection, wearable devices and connected health technologies.

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Experts: Transparency key to avoid controversy generated by Google-Ascension data deal

FierceHealthIT

As payers and providers seek out tech giants to move their health data to the cloud, experts warn that they need to be more transparent after a secret deal between Google and Ascension generated controversy.

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FitbitOS update to come with improved heart rate tracking, sleep health support, plus Wellness Reports for subscribers

Mobi Health News

The update is slated to go live on December 3.

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CMS to implement new appropriate use criteria for advanced diagnostic imaging in 2020

FierceHealthIT

There’s a change coming for advanced diagnostic imaging services furnished in a physician’s office, hospital outpatient department or ambulatory surgery center.

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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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Big Tech: Is Apple’s Healthcare Confidence Justifiable?

Healthcare IT Today

A few months ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook made an amazing claim. During his September appearance on CNBC’s Mad Money, he suggested that while Apple’s hardly going to stop doing other things, healthcare may represent the brass ring. “If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question: ‘What […].

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CDC: More people dying from antibiotic resistance than previously believed

FierceHealthIT

More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the U.S. every year and more than 35,000 people die as a result of those infections, according to a newly released Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

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Adventures in T1D: Summiting Your Fears

Insulin Nation

When I was in college, a coworker and I began planning for the ultimate hike. We wanted to climb Longs Peak, a fourteener located in the Colorado Rockies not far from where we lived. We were both avid hikers, but this was a challenge, unlike anything we had faced before. Longs is ranked as the 15th most difficult summit out of the 58 high-altitude peaks in the state whose elevation exceeds 14,000 feet.

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Blues plans to launch high-performance network nationwide in 2021

FierceHealthIT

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association revealed this week that its member plans would offer Blue HPN beginning in January 2021.

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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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Finger Pointing is Easy in Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

I’ve regularly talked about how in healthcare there’s always a reason available not to do something. Basically, if there’s something you don’t want to do, you can come up with a reason not to do it. If all else fails, just call out the word HIPAA and everything grinds to a halt. It’s sad, but […].

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AHA, Concord Health Partners close $50M health tech venture round

FierceHealthIT

The American Hospital Association closed a $50 million strategic venture capital fund with Concord Health Partners aimed at investing in early-stage healthcare companies.

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Featured Health IT Job: Mgr Operational Reporting

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Mgr Operational Reporting position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Prisma Health and is in South Carolina. Here’s a description of the position: This position will manage and […].

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The Look-Back Measurement Method Can Help Prevent ACA Penalties

ACA Times

4 minute read: Determining the accurate full-time employee count during a calendar year is important for Affordable Care Act compliance. Classifying employees incorrectly can lead to inaccurate information being submitted to the IRS in annual information filings. This can result in receiving an ACA penalty notice from the IRS. When trying to determine whether employees are considered to be full-time under the ACA, employers must use one of two measurement methods mandated by the IRS: the Monthly

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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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Celebrating and Supporting Caregivers with Virtual Care

Synzi

Honoring Family Caregivers for their Round the Clock Care Each November, family caregivers are honored as the month is recognized as National Family Caregivers Month. This year’s theme is “Caregiving Around the Clock” which highlights the challenges that family caregivers … Read More. The post Celebrating and Supporting Caregivers with Virtual Care appeared first on Synzi.

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Privileging Telehealth Providers

HealthStream

The credentialing and privileging of telehealth providers is something many healthcare providers are still figuring out.

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Celebrating and Supporting Caregivers with Virtual Care

Synzi

Honoring Family Caregivers for their Round the Clock Care Each November, family caregivers are honored as the month is recognized as National Family Caregivers Month. This year’s theme is “Caregiving Around the Clock” which highlights the challenges that family caregivers … Read More. The post Celebrating and Supporting Caregivers with Virtual Care appeared first on Synzi.

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Sheba Medical Center Becomes The First Fully VR-Based Hospital In The World

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, a provider of extended reality and therapeutic applications, and Sheba Medical Center, ranked by Newsweek at the 10th best hospital in the world, are partnering to create the first fully VR-based hospital, utilizing XRHealth’s technology throughout each department.

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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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Project Nightingale : Google's four pillars for their secret patient data partnership

Lloyd Price

Introduction to Project Nightingale Project Nightingale is a data sharing project financed by Google and Ascension, a Catholic health care system comprising a chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors’ offices and other related facilities, in 21 states, with tens of millions of patient records available for processing health care data. Ascension is one of the largest health-care systems in the United States with comprehensive and specific health care information of millions who are part of its system.