PwC report: 54 percent of consumers willing to use digital treatment
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 31, 2019
Seventy-seven percent of doctor's have recommended an app or digital program to their patients.
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Telehealth vs conventional medical treatment: How telemedicine improves the patient experience and lowers patient costs.
eVisit
JANUARY 31, 2019
The United States spends $3.3 trillion every year on healthcare. This is more than any other developed nation in the world. The bulk of this goes to conventional medical treatments, e.g., regular visits to a healthcare facility to manage a chronic condition or the acute condition visit for a person who falls ill, or gets injured.
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The Future is Now: Robots at Work in Healthcare
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 31, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. From faster diagnosis to enhancing operations across care management, compliance and accounting, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the healthcare landscape. While AI is not a new concept, its adoption in the healthcare industry has lagged behind because of significant changes in technology and the exponential growth of data.
With Blue Cross grant, Duke taps patient partnership app to take on opioid abuse
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 31, 2019
Duke University has received about $500K out of a $2M multifaceted investment from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to battle the opioid epidemic.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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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.
Scribes save doctors time and hospitals money, new study finds
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
Scribes can benefit both doctors and hospitals, according to a new study. Using scribes increased emergency physicians’ productivity so they can care for more patients and ultimately saved hospitals money.
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How to make healthcare more like Amazon? It comes down to data and payer-provider collaboration
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
Anyone who has used an e-commerce site like Amazon knows how easy it is to get what you want. You press a button, and two days later, or even sooner, the item you ordered is on your doorstep. Contrast that with utilizing the healthcare system, and the differences are quite stark.
Customers can now get Narcan through telemedicine platform HeyDoctor
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 31, 2019
Customers will have a text chat-based consultation with a doctor through the platform, who will instruct them about when and how to use the medication.
Importance of Responsive Website in Healthcare
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 31, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Essentially, a responsive web design can detect the type of device that the user is using and hence change the layout of the website according to that device. All industries, especially healthcare, should adopt a responsive web design. In this digital world, patients are checking out providers’ websites before making a decision about their health. […].
Hypertension remote monitoring platform closes $2M funding
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 31, 2019
Sentinel Healthcare's connected blood pressure cuff and platform is currently providing care to more than 500 patients across three states.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
New Report: HIMSS Leaders See 2019 as a Breakthrough Year for Digitization
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JANUARY 31, 2019
A new report authored by HIMSS executives and other industry leaders predicts that the healthcare industry is entering a new period, one in which healthcare IT vendors will be held to higher standards of performance and outcomes
Most digital health unicorns lack peer-reviewed research data
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 31, 2019
Outcome Health, Oscar Health and GuaHao are among the worst offenders.
Uncertainty surrounds healthcare fraud enforcement. Here are some trends to watch in 2019
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
There’s plenty of uncertainty around fraud enforcement heading into 2019, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t stay a key focus for healthcare organizations, according to a new report.
Annum Health abruptly ends operations
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 31, 2019
The digital alcohol abuse support service, which was founded in 2016, raised $6.4 million and had recently announced a collaboration with Cigna.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
Sara Riggare is Swede of the Year in medicine
Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 31, 2019
Sara RIggare, one of the earliest members of our Society, has just received a great honor: Fokus magazine (“Sweden’s Time “) has named her “Swede of the Year” in medicine. In the photo from the award ceremony she seems appropriately thrilled.:-). A Parkinson’s patient, Sara is truly an exemplary e-patient. She blogs as “Sara the self tracker,” says she’s “not patient but im-patient,” and has long been a leader in the Medicine X
MannKind is Fixing Foundations to Build a Big Future
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 31, 2019
Michael Castagna, PharmD, is CEO of MannKind Corporation. Michael is a pharmacist by training and a turnaround expert with a strong record of healthcare innovation. He described the progress that MannKind has made since he joined the company in 2016. MannKind describes themselves a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutic products for patients with diseases such as diabetes.
Meditech reports 1.5% revenue growth in 2018, following previous year’s rebound
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
Meditech posted its best year since 2014 with $488 million in revenue in 2018, a 1.5% increase from the previous year’s $480 million, according to year-end financials reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
HHS setting up future reg moves
Morning eHealth
JANUARY 31, 2019
VA goes with Cerner scheduling software, and more — Day after in HCCI
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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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!
Study: Short-term health plans market themselves as ACA replacements—despite coverage deficits
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
While short-term insurance plans have considerably less coverage benefits than ACA-compliant plans, a new study finds that they often market themselves as equivalent—and consumers are believing them.
Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty
CMS.gov
JANUARY 31, 2019
Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 01/31/2019 - 15:23. Cara V. James and Tim Engelhardt. Director, CMS Office of Minority Health & Director, Federal Coordinated Health Care Office, respectively. Topic. Initiatives. Prescription drugs. Rural health. Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. As Poverty Awareness Month comes to an end this January, it’s a time for us to remember the strong relationship between poverty and health, and to consider the ongoing challeng
Physician Practice Roundup—41 doctors will leave Novant Health to join independent medical group
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
Another group of physicians has decided to leave employment with a hospital system to operate independently. A group of 41 physicians plan to break away from Novant Health, based in North Carolina, and will join Holston Medical Group in Kingsport, Tennessee.
Cigna reports strong fourth quarter, shrugs off potential impact of drug rebate rule proposal
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
Insurance giant Cigna posted strong fourth-quarter results following its merger with Express Scripts. Facing questions about the Trump administration's proposed rebate rule, Cordani said it would "not have a meaningful impact on our growth or earnings trajectory.
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.
Trump administration to eliminate safe harbors for drug rebates to PBMs
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 31, 2019
The Trump administration wants to eliminate safe harbor protections for drug rebates negotiated by pharmacy benefit managers, and instead offer those protections to discounts passed directly to consumers.
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