KevinMD
AUGUST 21, 2019
I was reading an article in The New York Times entitled, "The Rise of the Virtual Restaurant." More and more people, particularly in urban settings, are using apps like Uber Eats, Grubhub, and DoorDash to bring fresh, warm food directly to their doorsteps. Mr. Lopez, the virtual restaurant owner featured in the article, had no chairs, no tables, and no […].
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 21, 2019
Fitbit announced yesterday that it will be collaborating with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) on a healthy population project in support of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative. The HPB is Singapore’s government agency that implements policy and programmes to improve the nation’s health, and a statutory board under the Ministry of Health (MOH).
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Health Populi
AUGUST 21, 2019
There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019. Better understanding this group of people will be critical to helping manage a fast-growing health care bill, and growing burden of chronic disease, for America.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 21, 2019
The novel approach seeks to sidestep the need for bulky batteries, allowing health wearables and sensors to become smaller and less restrictive for the wearer.
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FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
House calls are making a virtual revival—thanks to the rise of telehealth. As telehealth programs continue to expand, it’s crucial to understand how the future of facility management will shift with these technological advancements in healthcare.
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Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 21, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Do you frequently run out of breath or feel winded even when you’re not doing physical exercise? Have you noticed that your heart rate has been out of control lately and that you’re coughing and wheezing much more than normal? Maybe you’ve even noticed that your skin tone looks incredibly pale or flushed with red.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 21, 2019
The new effort will be focused on standardizing medical codes for social determinants of health.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
To help eliminate the friction that too many patients face when trying to get their health records, technology startup Ciitizen launched a scorecard? showing how providers comply with the HIPAA Right of Access based on patient requests.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 21, 2019
The provider-facing technology is expected to help predict when a person is drinking again.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
Fewer than 4 in 10 health systems can successfully share data with other health systems and these ongoing interoperability challenges are limiting strategic efforts to improve workflow, improve population health and reduce the cost of care.
Morning eHealth
AUGUST 21, 2019
Genevieve Morris running for Congress — Watchdogs rap VA scheduling and Medicaid data
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
Specialty drugs for treatments such as arthritis accounted for less than 1% of prescriptions for a major employer purchasing group but made up 40% of the group’s total drug spending last year, according to a new analysis.
MedTech Boston
AUGUST 21, 2019
You don’t have to be a big-name researcher for your chance to win $50,000 in an innovation challenge. In fact, Eli Lilly. The post Eli Lilly Launches IBD Digital Health Challenge appeared first on MedTech Boston.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
A collaboration between California payers and providers—the state’s largest physician quality improvement effort ever—yielded millions in savings and prevented thousands of unneeded ER visits and admissions.
GlobalMed
AUGUST 21, 2019
If you build a great telemedicine program, will they come? That’s the question at the heart of workplace telehealth. Just as Kevin Costner erected a baseball field that lured out the ghosts of dead baseball heroes in Field of Dreams , many companies offer onsite virtual care solutions in the hope employees will use them. There’s just one problem: staff tend to ignore them.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
Payers and providers have made significant investments in digitizing the healthcare system but have yet to see a return on that investment with improved interoperability, according to industry leaders.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
AUGUST 21, 2019
Search for the word ‘pilot’ on this site. That is an interesting historical search – pages and pages of Start Me Up pilots in tech, programs, initiatives large and small, all linked, no doubt to corresponding media spend and press releases. Think back on the cycles of tech deployment. Remember the Alpha test, when the product barely worked at all.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
Enrollment in the individual market in the first quarter of 2019 declined 5% compared to the same period last year, providing a glimpse into how the zeroing out of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate penalty is affecting sign-ups.
Morning eHealth
AUGUST 21, 2019
Genevieve Morris running for Congress — Watchdogs rap VA scheduling and Medicaid data
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s decision to block its plan to force drug companies to include list prices in television advertisements.
Synzi
AUGUST 21, 2019
PDGM 2020’s Therapy Impact Many home health agencies are currently struggling with how to address the compliance regulations which will be required under PDGM. One of the key concerns is how PDGM 2020 shifts home health reimbursement toward patient characteristics, … Read More. The post Addressing PDGM 2020’s Therapy Changes with Virtual Care appeared first on Synzi.
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.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
Six technologies have had the most positive impact on the operation of physician practices.
HIStalk Interviews
AUGUST 21, 2019
Steve Davidson, MD, MBA is retired as an emergency physician.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 21, 2019
Physicians certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine will soon have a new option that takes some of the pain out of maintaining their certification.
Insulin Nation
AUGUST 21, 2019
Tumor Discovered. “My tumor in my pancreas was discovered in February 2017 at Pronto Soccorso in Manduria Italy. I immediately flew to Sweden and was hospitalized at Karolinska/Huddinge Hospital in Stockholm. The news was not good. I was too old and the operation was too complicated according to most Swedish doctors. . Search for Options. Rather than give up, I contacted a lot of different hospitals in Europe for information including CNAO in Pavia, Italy about their Hadrontherapy program.
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 21, 2019
The technology arm of Catholic health system Mercy has launched what it calls a “data orchestration and insights network” allowing it to use and share clinical data more effectively. In so doing, it joins a growing list of healthcare organizations moving in this direction. Working in partnership with SAP, Mercy Technology Services is bringing together […].
ACA Times
AUGUST 21, 2019
2 minute read: Give the IRS credit. It is consistent. In 2017, the federal tax agency responded to an inquiry about waivers to business owners from U.S. House Representative Bill Huizenga. In 2017, Rep. Huizenga asked the IRS about the possibility of receiving the waiver of an ACA penalty for an employer that had not complied with the ACA by not offering required health insurance to employees for financial and religious reasons.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 21, 2019
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Prelude/Grand Central Analyst III 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: Texas Health Resources seeks […].
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