Mobi Health News
JULY 30, 2018
Amsterdam-based skin cancer screening app SkinVision has raised $7.6 million in new funding from existing investors Leo Pharma and PHS Fund, with additional contributions from undisclosed new backers described by the company as "high net worth impact investors.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
JULY 30, 2018
Have you been to any telemedicine meetings lately and wondered what’s happened to the basic research presentations? Surely it can’t be that we’ve solved all the challenges and finally proved to everyone that telemedicine really does have all the advantages we’ve been touting for years. No, there’s still a lot to discover and basic research is alive and well.
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Lloyd Price
JULY 30, 2018
Krishna Yeshwant, a doctor and investor with GV, Alphabet's venture firm, takes a lot of meetings with entrepreneurs that have lofty goals to fix health care. But different patients have different needs. So to help entrepreneurs empathize with their users, he came up with a simple, foursquare box that he'll scrawl on a napkin, in meetings. He drew it for me at HLTH, a major health conference, that happened in Las Vegas earlier this month.
Mobi Health News
JULY 30, 2018
Last week, the Medical Board of California launched an iOS app that aims to help consumers more easily learn of any changes to a practitioner’s license status, location of practice, or other records made available by the organization.
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Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 30, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Smita Deshmukh, research analyst, Transparency Market Research. Over the past few decades, healthcare information systems has been occupying an increasingly vital role in clinical and patient care and hospital operations across the globe. Their essential role includes capturing, storing, managing, or transmitting patient data and information related to the activities of healthcare organizations.
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FierceHealthIT
JULY 30, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is planning to eliminate a set of questions on pain management from its nationwide patient experience survey, just months after rolling out updates to the questions.
Mobi Health News
JULY 30, 2018
Look to the skies. A recent report by Nesta, a global innovation foundation, conducted in collaboration with five UK cities suggests that no small number of regulatory and infrastructural obstacles stand in the way of medical drone deliveries in the country.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 30, 2018
More than a year after agreeing to settle claims that it falsified EHR certification criteria, eClinicalWorks has been fined by the Office of Inspector General for not reporting patient safety issues in a timely manner, a violation of its corporate integrity agreement. Regulators issued the penalty after receiving "numerous reportable event notifications" from outside entities.
ACA Times
JULY 30, 2018
2 minute read: . Another wave of Letter 226J penalty notices have been issued by the IRS, and all indications that this storm of tax notices will continue for the foreseeable future. According to the latest TIGTA report, the IRS identified 318,296 organizations that qualified as Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) for 2015. (ALEs are employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, are required to offer minimum essential coverage to at least 95% of their full-time workforce a
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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
JULY 30, 2018
The Department of Energy violated its purpose statute by promoting an anti-Obamacare editorial, according to the GAO. And Harvard Pilgrim Health Care announces a new partnership with MyHealthMath. Plus, more payer news to start your week.
Docnotes
JULY 30, 2018
If your first question is “what’s Consumer Directed Exchange?” please feel free to google it and come back. Last week, Alliance for Better Health launched the first regional effort in the United States toward facilitating CDEx for Medicaid Members. Here’s my short (?) version of what/why/how. We consumers (people?) are becoming increasingly aware of the information that others have acquired about us.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 30, 2018
Six weeks after a devastating court ruling pulled the rug out from under a case involving $12 billion in the ACA's risk-corridor program, Moda Health and Land of Lincoln are asking the Federal Court of Appeals to rehear it.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JULY 30, 2018
Editor’s Note: Healthcare organizations are increasingly looking to adopt telehealth programs, but they face a number of policy barriers that hinder their plans, according to the Center for Connected Health Policy. Payers are rapidly becoming educated and are keen on closing the gap. Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers. . While nearly all state Medicaid programs provide reimbursement for some telehealth services, policies are not consistent across the U.S., and some states’
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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
JULY 30, 2018
The announcement followed two other recent acquisitions by the insurer to boost its MA population, as well as favorable growth in Medicare overall this past quarter.
HIStalk Interviews
JULY 30, 2018
Lillian Dittrick, MAAA is VP of actuarial and healthcare analytics at Health Alliance Plan of Detroit, MI and is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries. Tell me about yourself and your job. Henry Ford Health System owns a health insurance company called HAP, Health Alliance Plan. I am building for them both their actuarial and analytics function. I am an actuary and an FSA in the Society of Actuaries.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 30, 2018
ProMedica Health System and HCR ManorCare have finalized their merger, Medicare has dinged nursing homes for staffing issues, plus more healthcare headlines.
Waracle
JULY 30, 2018
What is digital healthcare? Digital healthcare represents the convergence of technology and life sciences. Digital healthcare is having a seismic impact on the deployment of new medicines and transforming markets all over the world. New technological advancements enable digital healthcare providers to process information and data relative to thousands (and often millions) of patients.
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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!
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JULY 30, 2018
Editor’s Note: For payers and policy-makers it can be a challenge to design effective opioid epidemic measures to control the rapid increase of overdoses as program effectiveness data is being accumulated. Staying abreast as to how opioid prescription control policies are evaluated for effectiveness, payers can be more efficient in their policymaking.
Lloyd Price
JULY 30, 2018
Israel based Healthy.io, the first company in the world to enable the smartphone camera to be used as a clinical grade diagnostic device, announced that it received Class II U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the first product of its expanding digital health product portfolio: Dip.io. Dip.io is a home-based, smartphone-enabled urinalysis kit that lets patients conduct clinical grade urine tests in the privacy of their own home.
Health Populi
JULY 30, 2018
**While Amazon and Google get lots of positive PR and media attention as major healthcare industry disruptors, don’t forget about the two big “W’s,” Walgreens and Walmart, in the healthcare innovator mix. I recently read The Four in which Scott Galloway explains the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook in consumers’ everyday lives. These four tech-behemoths each have their particular designs on healthcare innovation, or disruption in the eyes of, say, Epic and Cerner working on health
Morning eHealth
JULY 30, 2018
CMS releases Medicare Advantage data — Study predicts cancer deaths
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
JULY 30, 2018
Trump has selected a former Ernst & Young cybersecurity director to be the VA's assistant secretary for information and technology, and the Alliance for Better Health is launching a regional HIE targeting Medicaid beneficiaries.
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