Wed.Jul 11, 2018

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In This Eroding Era of Trust, Consumers Look to Doctors Above Banks and Retailers for Trusted Sharing

Health Populi

In this moment post-Cambridge Analytica/Facebook, the launch of the GDPR, and the everyday-ness of data breaches, consumers most trust doctors for sharing personal information. I’ve mined, through my health economic lens, the U.S. data published in the insightful report, Data Privacy: What the Consumer Really Thinks , a global research study from Axciom and the Data & Marketing Association (recently acquired by the Association of National Advertisers) working with Foresight Factory.

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Nurx gets $36M for telemedicine for birth control, adds Chelsea Clinton to board

Mobi Health News

Online and mobile platform Nurx, which uses telemedicine to connect rural patients to contraceptives, has raised $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and Lowercase Capital. MobiHealthNews alum Heather Mack broke the news for the Wall Street Journal.

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Five Recent Caregiving Technology Offerings in 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

What newcomers have entered the market? Besides ‘longevity market new media’ like Stria (former Next Avenue) that provided a splash of cold water for startups and investors in the older adult space. Although there is little evidence that any investors are bullish about the general older adult market – despite AARP documentation and various books to the contrary, innovators continue to create new offerings to help older adults live better lives.

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Predictive health analytics company Lumiata brings in $11M, announces new CEO

Mobi Health News

Silicon Valley-based predictive health analytics company Lumiata has raised $11 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures and BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners. The round also included participation from Sandbox Industries, Intel Capital, and other unnamed investors. The new backing will primarily be used to accelerate deployment of the company’s health analytics offering, according to the funding announcement.

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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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Zesty Outpatient Portal : Digital Transformation for Outpatients

Lloyd Price

Empower patients to manage their own appointments, read their letters and provide pre & post visit information. It seems incredible, but today, the vast majority of NHS trusts still post paper letters to their patients. In fact, the average UK hospital sends over 1M paper letters to patients each year. Patients are informed of their appointments in a letter and have to call the hospital to make appointment changes.

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Hospital consolidation alone hasn’t delivered on promises of interoperability

FierceHealthIT

A new study shows only very specific types of centralized systems have been able to advance interoperability. Meanwhile, a separate study shows EHR adoption led to annual mortality rate decreases, but only after years of working out the kinks.

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Incentive-based health rewards platform Carepoynt scores $2M

Mobi Health News

Newport Beach, California-based startup Carepoynt, an incentive based health and wellness platform, has just closed a $2 million seed funding round.

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Healthcare Roundup—American Medical Association to support gun research effort; Pfizer backs off price hikes

FierceHealthIT

The American Medical Association has announced a new partnership to support gun research as a public health issue, plus Children's Hospital Los Angeles received a $20 million donation. Those and other healthcare headlines from around the web.

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Verily, ResMed team up for joint sleep apnea venture

Mobi Health News

Alphabet subsidiary Verily is teaming up with well-known sleep company ResMed to form a new venture that will focus on developing sleep apnea treatments and connected health products.

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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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Survey: More than 1 in 4 doctors sexually harassed by patients

FierceHealthIT

Many doctors have to deal with a source of sexual harassment beyond co-workers—their patients, according to a new survey.

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Following 2016 deal, UnitedHealthcare members using Medtronic insulin pumps saw fewer avoidable hospital admissions

Mobi Health News

In 2016, UnitedHealthcare and Medtronic cut a deal that established the latter’s devices as the preferred insulin pumps for United members with diabetes.

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Wilkie advances

Morning eHealth

DNA testing holding up family reunification — Chelsea Clinton joins startup board

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Spectrum Health System plans acquisition of Lakeland Health

FierceHealthIT

Officials said they intend to pursue a definitive agreement and due diligence over the next few months with an agreement expected to be finalized by Oct. 1.

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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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SEARCH2018 Symposium Brings Together Telehealth Researchers Focused on Proving the Benefits of Connected Health

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Abstracts deadline extended to July 20th for research in connected health programs. Little Rock, AR and San Diego, CA – July 11, 2018 – The 4 th Society for Education and the Advancement of Research in Connected Health (SEARCH) Telehealth Research Symposium will take place on October 24 th and 25 th , 2018 in San Diego, CA. The annual meeting brings together leading clinicians, researchers, administrators and thought leaders to discuss how telehealth can be used to improve healthcare delivery.

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Indiana benefits administrator sues Teladoc to recoup $450K in overcharges

FierceHealthIT

Key Benefit Administrators claims Teladoc notified them of the overcharge due to an accounting error but attempted to reconfigure the refund so it wouldn't negatively affect their financial statements.

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Partnership Highlights Growing Role of RPM in Chronic Condition Management

care innovations

The recently announced partnership between Care Innovations® and Swiss multinational healthcare company Roche is shining a new light on the power of remote patient management (RPM) to achieve breakthroughs in chronic care management — not only throughout the United States, but around the world. With the groundbreaking Health Harmony RPM platform as its key asset, Care Innovations isn’t just a leading telehealth services provider, but a true pioneer: In 2014, the company worked with the Universit

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Humana, private equity firms finalize $1.4B Curo acquisition

FierceHealthIT

Combined with Kindred at Home, the acquisition will create the country's largest hospice provider, of which Humana will own 40%.

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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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The Mayo Clinic, University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: new partnership strategy emerging in healthcare to deliver triple aim and create IP?

Lloyd Price

The Mayo Clinic recently announced it is entering into a transatlantic partnership with the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to collaborate on improving healthcare and making scientific discoveries. As part of the new agreement, Mayo and Oxford will share a physical location in London expected to open in early 2019 as an independent business subsidiary.

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House subcommittee debates need for 340B oversight amid host of new bills

FierceHealthIT

A GAO report that concluded HRSA has failed to audit 340B sufficiently generated strong sentiments on both sides of the aisle as lawmakers grappled with how to provide more oversight to the program.

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Doctolib acquires MonDocteur to create the leading e-Health business in Europe

Lloyd Price

What do you do when you’ve raised nearly $100 million and you want to grow as quickly as possible? In Doctolib’s case, the startup is acquiring its main competitor MonDocteur. Together, the two companies work with tens of thousands of doctors and get tens of millions of unique visitors every month. Doctolib has developed an online scheduling platform for all sorts of doctors, from your physician next door to the hospital in the big city.

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HIStalk Interviews Dan Burton, CEO, Health Catalyst

HIStalk Interviews

Dan Burton is CEO of Health Catalyst of Salt Lake City, UT. Tell me about yourself and the company. Health Catalyst was founded by a couple of folks from Intermountain Healthcare. We provide a data platform that’s really good at aggregating data from lots of different sources. We analyze the data and we have a layer of analytics apps that pinpoints opportunities for improvement clinically, financially, or operationally.

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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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The Dumb Side of Artificial Intelligence and its Impact in Health

Lloyd Price

Quick question: If you were really sick how would you feel about having a doctor that is brilliant at the “science” of medicine but unable to explain why they are recommending a treatment, clueless about how to listen and understand what you are feeling and not adept at managing the “softer side” of care delivery? Such is the case with Artificial Intelligence (AI) today.

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Zebra Medical Vision receives its first 510(k) clearance for coronary artery calcification algorithm

Mobi Health News

Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel-based deep learning startup Zebra Medical Vision announced that it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for an algorithm that helps physicians quantify a patient’s coronary artery calcification. From a ECG-gated computed tomography (CT) scan, the Coronary Calcium Scoring algorithm automatically calculates a calcification rating equivalent to those derived using the Agatston Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring method.

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Technology in Healthcare is moving from mainframes to iPhones

Lloyd Price

New technologies are often first manifested in behemoth machines that may take up entire rooms, only to be miniaturized as the technology matures. We have witnessed this shift over the last 70 years in computers, and an analogous trend is now underway in healthcare. Startups across the world are transforming capabilities that were once relegated to specialty labs with large, expensive capital equipment and highly trained technicians.

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Trump administration cuts funding for ACA enrollment efforts again

FierceHealthIT

On Tuesday evening, officials announced that planned funding levels for grants to assist Affordable Care Act enrollments would be drastically cut.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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The Social Determinants of Food for Health, Farms, and the Economy

Health Populi

America’s agricultural roots go deep, from the native Patuxet tribe that shared maize with Mayflower settling Pilgrims in southern New England, to biodynamic and organic winemakers in Sonoma County , California, operating today. In 2016, 21.4 million full- and part-time jobs were related to agriculture and food sectors, about 11% of total U.S. employment.

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House lawmakers take aim at family separations during HHS appropriations bill markup

FierceHealthIT

Both Republicans and Democrats proposed amendments during an appropriations markup on Wednesday to address the concern of migrant children being separated from their parents at the border.

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More Americans Paying for ACA Health Plans

ACA Times

2 minute read: It’s no secret that replacing the law is a top priority for President Trump and a majority of Republicans in Congress. Recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid say otherwise. The figures from the 2017 ACA open enrollment are in and they indicate that Americans, now more than ever, are purchasing health insurance from the ACA marketplace.