KevinMD
MARCH 11, 2019
Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first bits of the history have been presented, the wise old cardiology attending turns to the gathered medical students who are just starting their first clinical […].
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2019
Frustrated with the design and usability of inpatient EHR systems, hospital care teams frequently use handwritten notes and verbal comments to communicate patient information, posing a threat to patient safety and the quality of care, a study finds.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2019
The tool considers vascular changes and individual risk data to make its predictions.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 11, 2019
The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center at Mount Sinai Hospital had been relying on traditional office visits to connect with patients. THE PROBLEM. These visits present patients with several barriers to care, however, including the inconvenience of travel and time off from work or school to visit their doctor. "Our patient population has chronic digestive disorders and so diarrhea and abdominal pain often prohibit them from making appointments at the last
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2019
Reactions to the news are mixed, with some experts saying the test is unlikely to make much of a difference.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2019
The US Venture Partners-led Series B round will help HealthJoy expand its staff at home and abroad.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 11, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Sage Growth Partners (SGP) recently announced survey findings on how clinical surveillance is prioritized and managed by healthcare delivery organizations. The survey of healthcare executives from hospitals across the U.S. was commissioned by VigiLanz, a clinical surveillance company, to assess their progress in the journey to higher value care and how they are using data […].
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2019
The company's technology could be incorporated into steering wheels, wearables and more.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 11, 2019
Released from IHE is an update of 5 Profiles that represent a basic API to health data. The subset of IHE profiles that leverage HL7®FHIR® Release 4. The remainder of the IHE profiles that leverage HL7® FHIR® are expected to be upgraded to FHIR® Release 4 later in 2019. IHE published the following updated supplements for trial implementation as of March 6, 2019 IHE Appendix Z on HL7® FHIR® - Rev. 2.1 Mobile Access to Health Documents (MHD) with XDS on FHIR® - Rev. 3.1 DocmentReference (DocumentE
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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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2019
Also: Lyft integrates blockchain platform for medical transports; Owkin's new funding, hire.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2019
An analysis of more than 1.8 billion claims shows wide variation in medical spending and frequency of services depending on the region of the country.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
MARCH 11, 2019
How Telehealth is Changing the Field of Oncology Today telemedicine is used throughout the medical field in order to help provide better care to patients. Telemedicine is a fast-growing healthcare segment and is estimated to grow 50 percent annually in … Read more. The post Oncology Telehealth appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2019
New research shows that veterans enrolled in dual-system care are two to three times more likely to die from unintentional opioid overdose than those enrolled in only one system.
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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
MARCH 11, 2019
Walking into any large group for the first time can be intimidating as well as exciting – different faces, different personalities, different ideas. And as time goes on, you start to see the deep connections between the group… you start to see where you might have a hopeful future in this group. This is me walking into the 2019 National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers Spring Meeting at Heifer International’s Heifer Village in Little Rock, AR.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2019
Medicaid work requirements will again go before a judge this week. Oral arguments in lawsuits against such requirements in Kentucky and in Arkansas will begin on Thursday.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 11, 2019
Regulatory comments boiling — Presidential campaign plans
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2019
Hill-Rom Holdings has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Voalte for $180 million, the average cost of cybercrime for the healthcare industry dropped 8% to $11.8 million last year, and more health IT headlines.
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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!
Digital Leaders HealthTech
MARCH 11, 2019
The hack’s back. In DWP Digital, we’re continually looking at how we collaborate across government, and beyond, to improve what we do for the benefit of the department, and the citizens who use our services. Later this month, we’re running a two-day hack event to look at how we can work with partners to address some of the challenges in connecting digital health services.
ACA Times
MARCH 11, 2019
3 minute read: Originally published on March 6, 2018, in Accounting Today. Lost amid the confusion of the federal government shutdown this year was a new set of penalties the IRS began to issue as part of the agency’s ongoing enforcement of the Affordable Care Act. In the final days of 2018, the agency started issuing notices to assess penalties against employers that failed to file Forms 1094-C and 1095-C with the IRS or to furnish 1095-C 1095-C forms to employees under IRC Sections 6721 and 67
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders has added long-term care coverage to his Medicare for All proposal, and more healthcare news from around the web.
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2019
“The Fourth Industrial Age,” Dr. Abraham Verghese writes, “has great potential to help, but also to harm, to exaggerate the profound gap that already exists between those who have much and those who have less each passing year.” Dr. Verghese asserts this in his forward to Deep Medicine , Dr. Eric Topol’s latest work which explores the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and robotics — three legs of the Fourth Industrial Age stool.
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.
HIStalk Interviews
MARCH 11, 2019
Guillaume de Zwirek is founder and CEO of Well Health of Santa Barbara, CA. Tell me about yourself and the company. I founded Well almost precisely four years ago. My background is not in healthcare. I started my career as a classical musician. Then I worked at Google for four years, then afterward at a big data company that we sold to Amazon. I started a healthcare company because I found myself in a hospital one day and I was just so frustrated with my experience.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2019
The White House is calling for a significant cut in funding to HHS, even as it plans further investments in HIV research, the opioid epidemic and other policy priorities. Here are six healthcare takeaways from the Trump administration's 2020 budget plan.
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