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Apple's immediate plans rumored to include hearing health, period tracking, medication adherence

Mobi Health News

In a new scoop, Bloomberg reports that the tech giant plans to launch a number of hearing-related technologies, including hearing aid support and accessibility features.

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A Culture of Learning: Why Today’s Nurses Deserve the Best Onboarding and Education Available

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, chief Nurse, Health Learning, Research and Practice, Wolters Kluwer. Have you thanked a nurse today? Or any day, for that matter? If not, you now have an entire week to make up for lost time.

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All of Us celebrates one-year anniversary with public launch of participant data aggregator

Mobi Health News

With more than 230,000 people across the US engaged in the program, the NIH and its partners detailed upcoming data analysis tools for researchers and the general public.

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How To Improve Staff Confidence During A Transition To A New Urgent Care EMR System

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Christina Boyd, vice president of client solutions, DocuTAP. Switching to a new EMR is never easy and can be a real challenge for urgent care providers. However, when the current system doesn’t align with your practice’s goals, you’ve got to take the plunge.

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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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Nutrition startup Noom rakes in $58M

Mobi Health News

The new money will be put towards growing the team and building the company's customer service capabilities.

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Trusted Health gets $20M to change how nurses find jobs

Mobi Health News

Craft Ventures led the Series A for the company, which employs contract nurses as full W2 employees and provides digital tools for job hunting.

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Andy Slavitt ran Medicaid. Now he’s teaming up with 28 health systems to fix it.

FierceHealthIT

Andy Slavitt ran the Medicaid program for two years as CMS Administrator and observed slow progress to improve care for the most vulnerable populations. He’s now leading a national effort to accelerate the adoption of digital health technologies with a focus on improving care and health outcomes for Medicaid patients.

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Pear Therapeutics' latest study will explore digital treatment for MS patients with substance abuse

Mobi Health News

Development of the Pear-006 digital therapeutic is a joint collaboration with Novartis.

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Violent environments cause health problems for children

FierceHealthIT

Children who live in violent neighborhoods experience more physical and mental health issues than the rest of the population.

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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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5G proliferation will help advance remote healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Some doctors were performing excessive skin cancer surgery. A 'Dear Colleague' letter helped curb the problem

FierceHealthIT

There are wide variations between surgeons when it comes to just how much tissue is removed when a patient has skin cancer, creating large cost differences for some patients and raising questions about the appropriateness of the care patients are receiving. A recent study looking to curb the use of this skin cancer surgery found a way to cut overuse of the procedure and save Medicare millions.

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How telemedicine is helping with the opioid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Members in exchange plans struggle to access mental health care: study

FierceHealthIT

The limited provider participation within Medicaid and in health insurance marketplaces poses barriers for people with behavioral health needs.

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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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HEALing Communities Study to Test Opioid Addiction Interventions

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Four academic medical centers to measure effectiveness of coordinated systems of care

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WellCare, VillageMD team up to offer in-home primary care to Houston seniors 

FierceHealthIT

WellCare and VillageMD are teaming up on a new primary care initiative in Houston.

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Silicon Valley’s health-tech start-ups need to stop getting in so much trouble

Lloyd Price

In Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg’s declaration that engineers have to “move fast and break things” has been adopted by many start-ups that are trying to shake up the status quo. But in health care, entrepreneurs are learning the hard way that such an approach can be quite destructive. This is an industry that, above all else, requires trust between companies, patients, practitioners and investors.

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AHRQ Goal: Cut Diagnostic Errors by 10 Percent

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Director Gopal Khanna describes three critical challenges AHRQ will address

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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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IHE ITI Spring 2019

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The IHE ITI, PCC, and QRPH workgroups met in OakBrook, IL this week at the RSNA Headquarters. We still are not meeting in Treviso Italy. , but we have heard that the July meeting will be in Sardinia Italy. Right before the big tourism time. Specifically we will be at the Facilities of Sardegna Ricerche at Polaris, Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico della Sardegna, in Pula (CA), Italy.

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CAQH CORE Outlines Five Areas to Improve Medical Documentation Attachments

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

About 84 percent of attachments are currently being sent manually, leading to misinformation and delays

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Week ahead: hearings, and more

Morning eHealth

HHS shuffling — Privacy developments

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AMIA Surveys Physicians Certified in Clinical Informatics Subspecialty

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Results will help ABPM align examination for the subspecialty with current practice

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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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Creating a 360-Degree View of The Continuum of Care

GlobalMed

We used to think of healthcare as a linear journey, with a doctor tracking each patient as they moved from minor issues to chronic disease to community-based care to end of life. But 21 st century healthcare operates more like a matrix, involving interactions with doctors, pharmacies, health plans, caregivers, therapists and nursing facilities – sometimes simultaneously.

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Covance: Why biosimilars could be large piece of the drug price puzzle

FierceHealthIT

For providers, payers and consumers, biosimilars hold hope for being a part of the solution to reduce drug prices.

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Tennessee to become first state to seek approval for Medicaid block grant 

FierceHealthIT

Tennessee legislators have approved a bill that would make the state the first to request approval from the Trump administration for a Medicaid block grant.

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