Fri.Mar 08, 2019

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Healthcare Biometrics Booms With Collaborations And New Product Launches

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Pratik Kirve, writer, blogger, and content writer, Allied Analytics. Healthcare providers have been considering data confidentiality more than ever. It has become a part of patient experience as the implementation of biometric technology to safeguard patient information adds a layer of trust and confidence.

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Commentary: FDA’s website has wrong information about the scope of its software regulation — and that's a big problem

Mobi Health News

Ironically, the agency that goes after companies for false and misleading claims is making them about its own policies.

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HL7 Launches FHIR Accelerator Program

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Health Level Seven International (HL7), announces the launch of the HL7 FHIR Accelerator Program. The program is based on a model piloted by the HL7 Argonaut Project and, more recently, the HL7 Da Vinci Project. The goal is to strengthen the FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard and enhance market adoption through a programmatic approach […].

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Facebook, Instagram to limit spread of vaccine misinformation

Mobi Health News

Pages, groups and ads whose content includes "verifiable vaccine hoaxes" will be taking a backseat.

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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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New Technology In Hospitals Helping to Keep Kids Healthy and Healed

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner, freelance writer; @faulknercreek. Being rushed to the hospital is a traumatic event in a child’s life, yet a staggering 25.5 million children are taken to the emergency room each year. The reasons for these ER trips range from poisonings and infections to mental health conditions and diabetes, plus a host of terrifying […].

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How HCA Healthcare cut bloodstream infections among patients with central lines, drains by 30%

FierceHealthIT

In a massive trial that took place among 330,000 patients at 53 hospitals, Nashville-based hospital giant HCA Healthcare found it could achieve a more than 30% cut in hospital-acquired bloodstream infections in the general population of patients that had central line catheters or drains.

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Call for Proposals: HIMSS Machine Learning & AI Event

Mobi Health News

Submissions for the June event are closing soon.

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Study: High-deductible health plans aren't making members better healthcare consumers

FierceHealthIT

Though high-deductible health plans have proliferated, members don’t act as empowered, discerning consumers of care, which can lead to delays in care, according to new research.

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AMA: Extension Needed On Comment Period To Proposed Interoperability/Info Blocking Rules

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The American Medical Association delivered the following comment letter to ONC National Coordinator Donald Rucker, MD and CMS Administrator Seema Verma urging a 30-day extension to the comment periods for the two proposed federal rules regarding interoperability and information blocking.

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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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Chicago health system Rush eyeing merger with independent Swedish Covenant: report

FierceHealthIT

The Rush System for Health—an academic health system that includes Rush University Medical Center—and Swedish Covenant Health are reportedly eyeing a deal.

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Hospital consolidation doesn’t necessarily mean EHR savings

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Facebook, Google to combat vaccine misinformation — Grassley alarmed by watchdog report on NIH data sharing

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Industry scrambling to digest and respond to proposed 'information blocking' rules

FierceHealthIT

The American Medical Association has joined with electronic health record vendors in calling on federal policy leaders to extend the comment period on the dual information blocking and interoperability rules dropped last month.

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Is the Link Between Hospital Mergers and EHR Consolidation Overstated?

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Healthcare researchers also pondered if hospital consolidation has a spillover effect on EHR vendor consolidation

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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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MedPAC weighs bundled payments for post-acute care 

FierceHealthIT

Post-acute care may not be the optimal space for bundled payments—at least not yet, MedPAC commissioners said Friday.

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Could a chat with a bot help improve mental health?

Digital Leaders HealthTech

To hear someone say we are facing a crisis in mental health is perhaps common to the point of cliché but it is a very real issue. The point is that demand for mental health services is far outweighing the available resources. Those who desperately need the support are faced with lengthy delays for appointments and the opportunities for early intervention are often missed and often sadly progress into more significant mental health issues.

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3 takeaways from Oscar Health's work in 2018

FierceHealthIT

Six years in, the technology-driven insurance company Oscar has seen its personalized concierge teams, virtual care and in-house platforms bear fruit, according to its annual year-end report.

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Weekender 3/8/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. Livongo’s planned Q3 IPO could bring in $1 billion. Carestream Health sells its health IT business to Philips. Northwestern Memorial Hospital fires dozens of employees for looking at the EHR records of actor Jussie Smollett. Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase name their healthcare venture Haven. FDA Commissioner and digital health advocate Scott Gottlieb, MD resigns.

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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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Healthcare Roundup—Chicago hospital staffers reportedly fired for looking at Jussie Smollett records

FierceHealthIT

Dozens of employees have said they were fired for looking at EHR records for Jussie Smollett, plus other healthcare headlines from around the web.

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Payer Roundup—Connecticut Democrats introduce public option bill

FierceHealthIT

Connecticut Democrats are introducing the idea of public health for those that can't afford ACA plans, and more insurance news from around the web.