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Carrot's smoking cessation program helped 32% of study participants quit, reduced others' daily use

Mobi Health News

Carrot's Pivot program consists of an app, an FDA-cleared carbon monoxide breathalyzer, human coaching and pharmacotherapy encouragement.

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Health Care Providers Grow Consumer-Facing Muscles Driven by Retail & Tech-Health Competition

Health Populi

As patients continue to morph into health care payers, they’re increasingly expecting value-for-money, transparency, and customer experiences that show respect, bolster trust, and deliver quality services. Is that so much to ask from health care providers? Sure is, as it turns out, based on this year’s annual report from Kaufman Hall, the 2019 State of Consumerism in Healthcare: The Bar is Rising.

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Chinese insurtech startup Carevoice lands roughly $10M

Mobi Health News

LUN Partners Group co-led the round with participation from DNA Capital, SoSV and Artesian Capital.

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Industry Voices—Survey shows 83% of patients want virtual health, but there's a problem

FierceHealthIT

Virtual care, remote monitoring, telehealth and other technologies have long been on the “nice to have” list for healthcare. However, 83% of patients say they are interested in receiving virtual care, yet only 17% reported they have access to it.

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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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Genetic counseling available to All of Us participants in the future

Mobi Health News

The NIH has tapped digital genetic counseling company Color to provide the service.

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Health 2.0 Fall Conference to look back at a breakout year for digital health, ahead to its exciting future

Mobi Health News

From Monday's Provider Symposium to Wednesday's Launch! session, the annual event will cover a wide swath of hot topics in health tech.

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New HL7 FHIR Accelerator Project Aims to Improve Interoperability of Social Determinants of Health Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in health information technology, and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the only medical society devoted solely to primary care, are pleased to announce that the Gravity Project is now part of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program.

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Application deadline for Launchpad programme approaching, national push to adopt sepsis digital systems revealed, and more UK news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: NHSX updates, event news, and a new partnership between workforce software providers.

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AMGA Endorses CMS Data-Sharing Initiatives

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. AMGA has endorsed two new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiatives that are designed to ensure providers have access to claims data. Expanding access to administrative claims data for providers and their patients has been a longstanding AMGA priority.

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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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Abernethy: FDA working with ONC on universal unique device identifier linked to EHR patient data

FierceHealthIT

The Food and Drug Administration is in discussions with multiple stakeholders to create a universal unique medical device identifier to be stored in electronic health records and linked to patient outcomes to improve medical device surveillance, FDA principal deputy commissioner Amy Abernethy, M.D. said on Thursday.

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Definitive Healthcare Survey: 2019 Outpatient Telehealth Adoption Remains Flat While Overall Adoption Remains Flat

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Definitive Healthcare released results from its 2019 Outpatient Telehealth Study. In this survey, Definitive Healthcare polled physicians and healthcare administrators to determine to determine telehealth adoption trends, technology, and services. • Adoption Remains Flat 2018 to 2019: Adoption rates of telehealth solutions/services by outpatient physician practices remained relatively flat from

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Research: EHRs Prove Effective in Creating Registries for Prediabetes Patients

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The study also helped lead to Medicare coverage of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-recognized lifestyle-change programs

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HHS proposes overhaul of privacy rules for addiction treatment patient records

FierceHealthIT

HHS is proposing revisions to federal regulations governing the confidentiality of patient records created by federally-assisted substance use disorder treatment programs to support better care coordination and reduce provider burden while maintaining privacy safeguards for patients, HHS officials said.

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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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DirectTrust Working on Standard For Secure Instant Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

In recent years, instant messaging has taken its place alongside texting as a platform for quick ‘n dirty business communication. The thing is, instant messaging platforms generally haven’t been built for the privacy-critical information healthcare professionals share. To address this gap, DirectTrust – the alliance behind the Direct Secure Messaging protocol – has starting developing […].

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ACA reduced racial, ethnic coverage disparities, with Medicaid expansion states faring the best: report

FierceHealthIT

The Affordable Care Act reduced racial and ethnic disparities in insurance coverage and states that expanded Medicaid saw the biggest declines, according to a new analysis.

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DEFCON from a Healthcare CISO Perspective

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest write up by Mitchell Parker, MBA, CISSP (@mitchparkerciso), and Executive Director, Information Security & Compliance at Indiana University Health. We asked Mitch to share some insights and perspectives on the DEFCON conference that just happened in Las Vegas. DEFCON is known as a hackers conference, so we wanted to share a healthcare CISO […].

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Oscar Health plans to grow ACA exchange footprint to 6 more states in 2020 

FierceHealthIT

Startup insurer Oscar Health is planning to add six new states and 12 new markets to its Affordable Care Act exchange footprint in 2020.

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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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AI Finds Hidden Atrial Fibrillation in Subtle Beats of the Heart

MedTech Boston

Atrial fibrillation, the fleeting arrhythmia of the heart, is hard to catch. Elusive and intermittent, it’s often overlooked during a seconds-long electrocardiogram. The post AI Finds Hidden Atrial Fibrillation in Subtle Beats of the Heart appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Los Angeles pharmacy owners found guilty in $35M fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

Two Los Angeles-area pharmacy owners have been found guilty for their role in a $35 million scheme to defraud Medicare.

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Redesign Connects Patients to a Growing Health System

Geonetric

Like most healthcare organizations face at one time or another, North Mississippi Health Services (NMHS) had outgrown their web presence. Not only was it not responsive, but it was also too focused on their flagship hospital North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS. The organization, whose volumes have grown tremendously over the last few years, […].

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In California and Arkansas, two doctors charged in patient deaths over opioid prescriptions, misdiagnosis

FierceHealthIT

A former VA pathologist and a California neurosurgeon are both facing criminal charges in the deaths of patients.

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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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Nurse Staffing: The Ideal Candidate

HealthStream

Finding the perfect nurse for your team may be impossible, but by looking for some basic qualities, you can find the right person and make the most impact.

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AHIP finds ranks of in-network specialists rose following passage of California surprise billing law

FierceHealthIT

California legislation to prevent surprise billing did not result in a reduction of in-network doctors—at least among physicians outside the Kaiser Permanente network, a new study from the top insurer group found.

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FHIR Scaling to a Nation

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Most discussions about FHIR are simple interaction diagrams like this: Many Sources (n != 1) The Real story needs to consider that the "Source" above is a single box representing 10,000 potential source systems that hold data about the patient: (map is a static view of CareQuality network) More important is that the above map only represents Clinical sources.

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Diabetes Burnout vs. Depression: What’s the Difference?

Insulin Nation

It is a massive understatement to say that diabetes can be “stressful”. Living with any type of diabetes is a non-stop chore that inevitably takes a toll on your emotional wellbeing. . Some days the toll it takes is subtle and easy to dismiss. Other days that toll feels so heavy and insurmountable that you feel like you’d be better off giving up. And there are days that easily fall somewhere in between. .

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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.