Tue.Feb 18, 2020

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The Ill Health of Rural Hospitals in Four Charts

Health Populi

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years. Rural U.S. hospitals are in poor fiscal health. “The accelerated rate at which rural hospitals are closing continues to unsettle the rural healthcare community and demands a more nuanced investigati

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Nebula Genomics launches $299 direct-to-consumer whole genome sequencing

Mobi Health News

Nebula is pitching this new product as a more secure and informative alternative to mainstream consumer genomic products.

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Healthcare CEOs say AI progress stymied by high costs, privacy risks

FierceHealthIT

Executives are bullish on the potential of artificial intelligence to improve healthcare. But they say adoption is not happening quickly enough and called out several reasons why, according to a survey by KPMG.

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Philips' Cindy Gaines talks changing role of population health, advice to women in health tech

Mobi Health News

Gaines discusses how the primary care provider's role is rapidly changing to include managing more aspects of the patient's life.

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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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Industry Voices—How microgrids can keep healthcare facilities open during grid outages

FierceHealthIT

You're probably thinking: I already have backup for that. As our grid ages and emergency power requirements remain critical to hospital tools and operations, the current standard of care must innovate and adopt reliable and resilient power systems.

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2019 broke record for most rural hospital closures: report

FierceHealthIT

A record-setting 19 rural hospitals closed last year, as researchers aim to pinpoint the leading indicators that a facility will shutter.

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Oklahoma Heart Hospital IT lead: Follow the "digital golden rule" to improve outcomes, engagement

Mobi Health News

The hospital, along with appointment reminder vendor Relatient, will present at HIMSS20 about lessons learned from a successful implementation.

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Private equity firms are acquiring more physician practices. Which specialties are in highest demand?

FierceHealthIT

As Congress considers efforts to rein them in, private equity firms increased their acquisition of physician practices from 2013 to 2016, according to a new study that also looked at which specialties were targeted.

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Medtech conglomerate Medtronic purchases Digital Surgery in bid to expand their Surgical Robotics arm

Mobi Health News

The deal was announced earlier this month.

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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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Industry Voices—Helping emergency departments operate as intended: for emergencies 

FierceHealthIT

Skills shortages and financial constraints mean that increased ED staffing levels are rarely a suitable solution. Here's what can be done to reduce ED crowding.

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Newly Diagnosed: How T1D Changes Your Body and Mind

Insulin Nation

Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is like having to relearn how to live all over again. Suddenly there are new rules for eating, exercising, and even sleeping. It can take a lot of time to adjust to all these new demands. But diabetes doesn’t just change how you have to live. It can also have a huge impact on your physical and emotional self. Weight gain is a common phenomenon in T1D people just starting insulin treatment.

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Express Scripts reveals drug classes that are driving spending growth

FierceHealthIT

Express Scripts released its annual look at drug trends. Here are the classes the PBM giant says are driving higher spending.

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Usability in Health IT – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Bennett Lauber (@uuAbility). The ISO 9241 standard presents the definition of usability as Effective Efficient and Satisfying in a specified context of use. Almost every App, Website, or […].

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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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Industry Voices—How to make your physician practice more attractive to private investment firms

FierceHealthIT

Knowing what investment firms are looking for when evaluating a potential investment can help founder-practitioners prepare and improve their prospects in advance of pursuing an outside investment.

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Patient Matching Errors Continue To Be Common

Healthcare IT Today

Patient matching problems are persistent across healthcare organizations and continue to pose patient safety risks, according to a new survey addressing these issues. The survey, which was conducted by the eHealth Initiative and commissioned by NextGate, included 118 respondents, roughly two-thirds of which were providers. Just over one-third were C-Suite executives, 31% were upper or […].

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Survey: Many Medicare beneficiaries fear receiving a surprise medical bill

FierceHealthIT

A majority of Medicare beneficiaries are worried about getting a surprise medical bill as Congress ponders how to handle the issue.

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Insurance Carriers Embrace Telehealth Part I — Medicare Advantage

Ortholive

20 million Americans enrolled in Medicare beneficiaries are about to embrace telehealth. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 takes effect this year, and with it, Medicare Advantage customers will have access to telemedicine services to improve their lives.

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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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Understanding the Difference Between Telemedicine Integration and Interoperability

GlobalMed

Introducing GlobalMed’s New Interoperability Tools. If you’ve been around the telehealth world , you may have experienced a bait and switch when it comes to integration promises. Often vendors will assure you they can integrate with your EHR and workflows. It sounds so efficient; you envision clinical data and PHI flowing between different facilities and systems.

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The Importance of Clinical Content Standardization

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 3 min It doesn’t matter which EMR software you use, the benefits of clinical content standardization far outweigh not doing so. The post The Importance of Clinical Content Standardization appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know About the Coronavirus COVID-19 (Part 2)

HealthStream

If encountering patients who potentially have been infected with the coronavirus, healthcare professionals should use the following guidance—identify, isolate, and inform. This blog post includes recommended isolation precautions.

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Industry Voices—ONC is trying to regulate a market into existence. It's not the right way to achieve interoperability

FierceHealthIT

With these interoperability policies, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is attempting to regulate a market into existence—and with this approach comes a ripple of negative effects standing to undermine the very result the ONC is trying to achieve.

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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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The European Commission funds the launch of the EU mHealth Hub

mHealth Insight

The European mHealth Hub is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under the action “Establishing EU mHealth Hub including evidence for the integration of mHealth in the healthcare systems” (Grant Agreement No 737427) and is a project promoted by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union and the World Health Organisation that has been developed by the Andalusian Agency for Healthcare Quality and has already attracted 19 partners

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CMS.gov - Untitled Article

CMS.gov

Last April, I was proud to announce the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) five-part strategy to help ensure safety and quality in America’s nursing homes. The strategy is multi-faceted, focusing on Strengthening Oversight, Enhancing Enforcement, Increasing Transparency, Improving Quality, and Putting Patients Over Paperwork. We’re examining each of these topics more closely so we can provide transparent, detailed information about how CMS is keeping nursing home patients and resid

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