Wed.Sep 18, 2019

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DeepMind's Health team jumps over to Google Health

Mobi Health News

Despite data sharing concerns of the past, DeepMind's health team will be merging with Google Health.

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3 Key Benefits of eConsults: A Doctor’s Perspective

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Emilie de Ocampo, MD, pediatrician, Golden Valley Health Centers. As primary care providers (PCPs), we’re increasingly trying to manage total patient care for more patients and facing worsening challenges in ensuring our patients can access the care they need.

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Bayer leads OneDrop's $40M Series B, companies ink commercial licensing agreement

Mobi Health News

The pharma giant will now be able to use OneDrop's chronic condition management app.

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CMS At AHIMA: Electronic Data Exchange Is the Future of Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Access to data and the interoperability of health information has the power to change the face of healthcare, according to Alexandra Mugge, deputy chief health informatics officer at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Addressing leaders in health information management (HIM) at the AHIMA19: Health Data and Information Conference, the American Health Information […].

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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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German health insurance group launches startup fund for digital health innovation

Mobi Health News

The Heal Capital fund will focus on apps, telemedicine, digital prevention and the digitalisation of care.

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Karuna Labs' $3M seed round will support clinical validation of its VR chronic pain programs

Mobi Health News

The funding will also support further development of the technology and new staff hires.

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Physician groups call court ruling on site-neutral payments 'bad news'

FierceHealthIT

Several physician groups lashed out that a federal judge’s decision to strike down site-neutral payments was “very bad news,” but not surprising considering other recent court losses.

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Improving the consumer healthcare experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Population Health Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Improving the consumer healthcare experience Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Report: Climate changes costing U.S. billions in health spending

FierceHealthIT

From deaths and injuries caused by extreme heat and stronger storms to longer growing seasons linked to an increased risk for in mosquito- and tick-borne illness and wildfires, the healthcare impacts of climate change are costing the U.S. billions, a new analysis found.

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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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#HITsm celebrates #NHITWeek – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/20 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Ashley Dauwer (@amariedauwer) on the topic “#HITsm celebrates #NHITWeek” Next week, Sept. 23 – 27, 2019, is U.S. National Health IT Week (#NHITWeek) — a weeklong celebration of […].

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16 doctors and medical professionals charged in fraud and opioid takedown in Texas

FierceHealthIT

Sixteen medical professionals, including six doctors and seven pharmacists, were among those charged in a Texas healthcare fraud and opioid takedown.

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Infermedica awarded VentureConnect prize for interoperable triage tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Infermedica awarded VentureConnect prize for interoperable triage tech Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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AMA, CHIME call for ONC to make major changes to data blocking regulation

FierceHealthIT

Seven healthcare industry groups have strong concerns about ONC's proposed data blocking regulation and the aggressive timeline proposed by federal policymakers. The groups would like to see the final rule delayed and softened enforcement.

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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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Infermedica awarded VentureConnect prize for interoperable triage tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Infermedica awarded VentureConnect prize for interoperable triage tech Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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Millennial women expected to be most impacted by OB-GYN shortage, report says

FierceHealthIT

There’s a growing shortage of obstetricians and gynecologists and millennial women starting families may face the biggest impact, according to a new report.

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Why Your Blood Sugar Spikes During & After Lifting Weights

Insulin Nation

It’s often assumed that adrenaline is the reason your blood sugar spikes while lifting weights, but in reality, your intense weightlifting workout probably isn’t triggering that a “flight or fight” response as it would during a car accident, a soccer game, or a Cross Fit competition. Your workout in the gym might be very intense, but the cause of that consistent rise in your blood sugar during and after is actually a different (yet very normal) physiological response to anaerobic exercise.

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Blue Shield of California pilots transportation program for healthcare ‘model of the future’

FierceHealthIT

Blue Shield of California is piloting transportation benefits with some of its members in Sacramento as part of a broader initiative aimed at building a healthcare “model of the future.

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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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Sepsis Quality Care: How Is the U.S. Performing?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, Chief Nurse, Health Learning, Research & Practice, Wolters Kluwer. Sepsis affects 1.5 million people in the U.S. annually, and it is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, attributing over $20 billion in annual hospital fees. As hospitals and […].

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Industry Voices—The DEA should consider most disadvantaged in teleprescription rules

FierceHealthIT

As the DEA proceeds with the rulemaking process for the Special Registration process, it is vitally important that the rule address important public health priorities and significant unmet medical needs.

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2019 Consumer Survey: Majority of Consumers are Willing to Use Telehealth but Use Varies by Age

American Well

The adoption of telehealth has continued to nearly double year-over-year for the past decade. According to our new consumer survey, 8% of U.S. consumers have tried it and while this may seem like a small number at first, it equates to millions of people. Furthermore, another 66% of consumers say they are willing to try it. This represents a massive opportunity and great potential for telehealth to be part of regular care delivery.

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Provider groups: Slow down info blocking rules

Morning eHealth

Cybersecurity…kills?

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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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2019 Consumer Survey: Majority of Consumers are Willing to Use Telehealth but Use Varies by Age

American Well

The adoption of telehealth has continued to nearly double year-over-year for the past decade. According to our new consumer survey, 8% of U.S. consumers have tried it and while this may seem like a small number at first, it equates to millions of people. Furthermore, another 66% of consumers say they are willing to try it. This represents a massive opportunity and great potential for telehealth to be part of regular care delivery.

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NYU Langone took a page from other industries' playbooks to improve care. Here's how

FierceHealthIT

Since 2018, NYU Langone has applied randomized A/B testing to improve everything from tobacco counseling to health worker interventions in the ED, according to a recent article published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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The 8 Elements of Good Telemedicine Training

GlobalMed

There’s no denying it: new technologies can force people out of their comfort zone. That’s especially true with telemedicine, where fear can be a major impediment to successful implementation. Providers may worry about reimbursement barriers or clinically shortchanging their patients ; healthcare leaders may worry they’ll waste their investment. That’s one reason telemedicine training and support is so critical, as we talked about a few days ago.

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How to Succeed When Google is Your Homepage

Geonetric

Attend our October webinar Register Now In fact, a recent study by Moz found that 64% of 1,411 surveyed local business marketers agree that Google is becoming the new ‘homepage’ for local businesses. Healthcare organizations must be investing in optimization efforts, but with so many areas to focus on including technical, on-page, and external search […].

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Network Facility and Ancillary Analyst – SWHR CIN

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Network Facility and Ancillary Analyst – SWHR CIN position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Texas Health Resources and is in Texas. Here’s a description of the position: […].

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How Real-time Communication Can Support the Recruiting and Retention of Clinicians

Synzi

Understanding the Demand for an Increase in Home Health Clinicians Employment of home health and personal care aides is forecasted to grow 41% from 2016 to 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This projected growth rate is significantly … Read More. The post How Real-time Communication Can Support the Recruiting and Retention of Clinicians appeared first on Synzi.

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How to Succeed When Google is Your Homepage

Geonetric

Attend our October webinar Register Now In fact, a recent study by Moz found that 64% of 1,411 surveyed local business marketers agree that Google is becoming the new ‘homepage’ for local businesses. Healthcare organizations must be investing in optimization efforts, but with so many areas to focus on including technical, on-page, and external search […].

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