Mobi Health News

JULY 24, 2019

Australian digital health company PainChek recently announced that the United States Patent Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for its pain assessment invention. This means that patent prosecution has been successfully completed. The US patent, when granted, gives PainChek exclusive rights to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing the invention for 20 years from the filing date in the US (February 17, 2017).

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. WakeMed is the first health system in central North Carolina to launch an mobile wayfinding and patient engagement app. The health system announced today that the platform – the WakeMed All Access App – is now live and available for patients and visitors to download for free to their smartphones via the App Store and […].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 24, 2019

The tool, called Destination: Health, was built from a collaboration with social services-focused software maker Unite Us, and will roll across certain Aetna plans later this year.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Rochester RHIO has released its inaugural population health study—the Community Health Indicators Report—based on the analysis clinical data points from more than 600,000 screenings. The report provides a glimpse into residents’ well-being across New York State’s Greater Finger Lakes region, for which Rochester RHIO is the secure electronic health information exchange (HIE).

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Mobi Health News

JULY 24, 2019

The investments will help Tivic Health Systems market its recently-cleared device prior to its commercial launch in September.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 24, 2019

Also: ONCOassist unveils partnership with MSD; new vice chair for the Academic Health Science Network in England is appointed; NHS England and NHS Improvement name deputy chief people officer.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 24, 2019

A new study dives into healthcare spending trends among the people who regularly incur the highest costs.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 24, 2019

Sweden-based Flow landed $1.5 million in funding from Khosla Ventures.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 24, 2019

The dual-leadership arrangement was created after the health system was formed through a merger of Advocate Health Care and Aurora Healthcare in April 2018.

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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.

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 24, 2019

It’s a given -- Voice First will be even more pervasive in 2020. The rapid growth of the market for voice-enabled technologies has been a phenomenon within the past two years that can understand spoken requests and commands, answer questions, and even offer scheduled alerts. Industry firms like Gartner expect that the combination of natural language processing, AI, and speech recognition are driving significant growth in adoption of voice technology across multiple dimensions.

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Enzyme Health

JULY 24, 2019

We sat down with well-respected emergency and sports medicine physician (and newly minted telemedicine provider) Dr. James Kyle to hear his thoughts on the future of telemedicine, what makes for a good telemedicine provider, and why he sees patients return to telemedicine again and again. Distinguished MD Dr. James Kyle has had an enviable career. From solo practice and the rural ER to international travel and the Olympic games, he’s - quite literally - been around the block and seen it twice.

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Insulin Nation

JULY 24, 2019

Your low blood sugar habits can have a big impact on several aspects of your life. The foods you choose, the amount you eat and how you handle the rebounding high from overeating can lead to exhausting roller coaster blood sugars, weight gain, difficulty reaching your goal A1c, and a tumultuous relationship with food in general. . If you think that highs after binge-eating during one low blood sugar every day or every other day isn’t impacting your A1c, think again. .

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 24, 2019

The announcement is the culmination of a yearslong process for the Dallas-based health system giant to divest itself from Conifer.

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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.

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JULY 24, 2019

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 24, 2019

Anthem reported its second-quarter earnings Wednesday, and it showed an 8% boost in profit.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2019

Not long ago, CNBC published an article describing an unusual partnership between Microsoft and the Providence St. Joseph Health System. Apparently, the two are building a tech-centered “hospital of the future.” Among other things, the facility will feature a streamlined EMR designed to make it easier for clinical providers to find and share information.

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Synzi

JULY 24, 2019

The Alzheimer’s Association reports that over 16 million family members and friends provide 18.5 billion hours of unpaid care to people with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. 86 percent of these unpaid caregivers have provided care for at least the past … Read More. The post How A Virtual Care Platform Can Coach Alzheimer’s and Dementia Caregivers appeared first on Synzi.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 24, 2019

Health Care Service Corporation announced Wednesday that its CEO Paula Steiner will depart the company.

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GlobalMed

JULY 24, 2019

If you had to guess which group used telemedicine the most, what would your answer be? If you guessed mothers, you are correct. According to CNBC , telemedicine leaders report that women and mothers make up the majority of their customers. There’s no mystery why – children get sick a lot. Kids younger than 15 years old in the United States have an estimated 71 million office visits annually.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2019

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Managed Services Senior Analyst – HIM position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cumberland Consulting Group and is in the Midwest. Here’s a description of the position: […].

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HealthStream

JULY 24, 2019

Hartford HealthCare employed HealthStream’s Initiative Management to successfully train employees on and implement a new EMR roll out across the organization, working with HealthStream’s Professional Services Implementation team.

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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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Geonetric

JULY 24, 2019

Over the last few years of administering the Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey, digging into what challenges healthcare marketers face has proven to be an important piece in understanding the state of digital marketing. Traditionally, “lack of time” and “lack of budget” have always been at or near the top of the barriers list. In […].

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HealthStream

JULY 24, 2019

Credentialing and privileging are two very different things when it comes to resuscitation training; are your medical professionals properly prepared for emergency situations?

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Morning eHealth

JULY 24, 2019

Congress mulls budget and drug pricing draft — Business updates

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 24, 2019

Mount Sinai requested approval for its new Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai that are part of a larger $1 billion revamp.

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ACA Times

JULY 24, 2019

3 minute read: . President Trump announced his intent to make administrative changes to the Affordable Care Act in 2017 as part of this executive order, “Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States.” None of these changes, however, affected the law’s Employer Mandate. Here’s the latest on these changes. State Relief and Empowerment Waivers guidance.

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