Wed.Feb 20, 2019

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Segmenting Sensitive Health Topics

Healthcare Exchange Standards

In my last article I outlined the need to recognize that health data have various kinds of sensitivity, which informs various types of Privacy rules of access, to support the goal of Privacy. Thus Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P). Here I am going to explain some current thinking of how an Access Control Enforcement engine can tell sensitive data from normal health data.

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Prescription Drugs Are Ground Zero for AI Innovation In Patient-Centric Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Leslie Swanson, president and CEO, eXalt Solutions. We are quickly moving to a patient-centric world in healthcare where treatment is coming to the patient, the patient is treated more like a customer, and medical facilities of all types must use technology from the business sector.

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UnitedHealthcare, Peerfit push deeper into Medicare Advantage markets, and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Smoking cessation app trial wins $2.7 million research grant; favorable study results for One Drop.

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Cost and Convenience Underpin Patient Demands As Health Consumers

Health Populi

Across generations, from younger to older patients, cost, transparency and convenience drive consumer satisfaction, Accenture’s latest health consumer survey found. I had the opportunity to brainstorm the study’s findings in real-time on the day of survey launch, 12 February, with Dr. Kaveh Safavi, Brian Kalis, and Jenn Francis at HIMSS19.

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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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Samsung adds health-focused smartwatch, fitness tracker to its Galaxy lineup

Mobi Health News

Both the Galaxy Watch Active and Galaxy Fit automatically detect and begin tracking a user's activity, with the former boasting a blood pressure monitoring feature courtesy of a UCSF research partnership.

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Novo Nordisk's new insulin pens will integrate with Abbott's Freestyle Libre system

Mobi Health News

Abbott joins Dexcom, Glooko and Roche as a data-sharing partner for the as-yet-unlaunched device.

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Audio: CMS Administrator Seema Verma Speaks To the Healthcare Media at HIMSS19

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. During her trip to HIMSS19, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Service administrator Seema Verma spoke with registered members of the media to preview her keynote speech and answer questions about her department’s newly released proposed interoperability rule. The rule dictates that data generated by patients while in the scare setting is theirs to own, transfer […].

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Pfizer, Ochsner Health team up for clinical trial innovation

Mobi Health News

The pharma company and health system are looking to create digital tools to help make clinical trials easier for patients, clinicians and researchers.

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Whatever Happened to Tech-Enabled Home Care?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

So much VC money, so little resulting change. Past venture capital investment in home care technology boggles the mind. It seems only yesterday that Tech-Enabled Home Care was published – with that wonderful Forbes graphic “Why VCs Care More About Home Care”. The article noted the $200 million invested just in 2016 -- with the big money that year of $60M in ClearCare , with $46 million in Care.com and $42 million in Honor next in line.

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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: Consumers open to digital psychotherapy treatment, but lean toward in-person care

Mobi Health News

Cost was highlighted as a major barrier to in-person care, while efficacy, access and confidentiality were cited as arguments against digital.

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Guide to Practicing Telemedicine While Living Abroad

Enzyme Health

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Only 20% are listed here. Sign Up to see them all. Blog Work for Enzyme Refer a Friend Team Login Signup ??

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Microsoft, Takeda, Eurordis take on rare diseases in children with report, pilots

Mobi Health News

The three companies announced a slew of pilots employing machine learning, collaborative digital tools and blockchain technology.

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Industry touts data sharing while federal officials admonish for lack of progress. What's with the disconnect?

FierceHealthIT

We spoke with industry veterans at the recent HIMSS Conference in Orlando, Florida, about the impact of the recent information blocking rule and why we still don't have true interoperability in healthcare.

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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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Third Eye Neurotech and Newcastle University break fresh ground for people with autism

Mobi Health News

Immersive virtual reality is playing a key role in the provision of NHS services to help treat anxieties and phobias.

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CMS: Government payers’ share of healthcare spending to reach 47% by 2027 

FierceHealthIT

CMS' Office of the Actuary released its annual health spending projections, and it says increased Medicare enrollment is the trend to watch over the next decade.

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Four health systems lead $3M strategic investment in NarrativeDx

Mobi Health News

The startup uses AI to turn patient feedback into actionable insights.

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How states can take the lead on mitigating surprise out-of-network billing

FierceHealthIT

There are policy options, at the state level, which could help mitigate the costs of surprise out-of-network billing, according to the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy.

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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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Basic DS4P - How to set the confidentialityCode

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I have covered the vision of Data Segmentation for Privacy (DS4P) concept, and outline how a Security Labeling Service (SLS) would enable this grandiose vision of DS4P. However, there are stepping stones: The following is a slightly update on an article I wrote in July 2015 on how to set the confidentialityCode. I have used bold/underbar to indicate where I enhanced the original text.

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CVS boasts strong Q4 as it looks to begin rollout of new PBM contracting model in 2019

FierceHealthIT

CVS Health released its fourth-quarter and year-end financials on Tuesday morning, and it showed boosted revenues for the end of 2018. Looking ahead, the company said it plans to redesign its PBM contracting model.

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How to Start TOGAF With an Enterprise Architecture Tool

LeanIX

Building your dream architecture in the digitalized, agile world. TOGAF—The Open Group Architectural Framework—has been used by Enterprise Architects (EAs) as a common language to plot development strategies for more than 25 years. It’s big. Version 9.2 big. But with TOGAF’s evolving library of definitions and symbology comes the unavoidable struggle to implement its powerful framework in an agile way.

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Will tuition-free medical school help students ‘follow their dreams’ at Kaiser Permanente and NYU?

FierceHealthIT

When Kaiser Permanente announced Tuesday that it won approval to open its new medical school in California, the news that caught headlines was its decision to offer free tuition to all the medical students in its first five graduating classes. Skeptics wonder if free tuition for all will actually increase the number of doctors going into primary care.

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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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What is DS4P?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Privacy advocates continue to push for better support of Privacy. The goal is to have easy and implementable systems that enable a Patient to control where, when, and to whom their data is accessible. When the data are all considered equal in the eyes of Privacy, they can all be covered by simple rules of "Permit all access.", or "Deny all access." This would result in a much more simple world of yes or no.

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Undocumented immigrants significantly more likely to be uninsured: KFF

FierceHealthIT

Non-U.S. citizens are significantly more likely to be uninsured than citizens, according to a recent study from Kaiser Family Foundation. And recent changes in immigration policy have the potential to lead in further declines in coverage among immigrant families.

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HITAC meeting today

Morning eHealth

E&C wants Facebook answers — FDA: About that young blood

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Telehealth on the Front Lines of the Refugee Crisis

Health Recovery Solutions

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), there are currently 68.5 million displaced persons globally as a result of conflict, war, ecological devastation and human rights violations—the highest level ever recorded. [1] As a result, refugee settlements and other forms of shelter for the displaced have proliferated rapidly around the world, forming the backbone of a global humanitarian crisis.

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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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Payer Roundup—Insurance brokers offered gifts, cash for selling employer health plans

FierceHealthIT

Insurance brokers are being offered gifts and cash for selling employer health plans and more healthcare news from around the web.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

Patient portals and personal health records (PHRs) have both received considerable praise for their role in increasing patient engagement. However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. Patient portals give users an online view of their health data, as do PHRs.

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Provider Database Management: Getting it Right

Hinduja Global Solutions

Provider Database Management: Getting it Right. By Priya Sabharwal, HGS Practice Leader, Network Operations; and Priyankar Bhattacharya, Senior Manager, Business Excellence. The nearly 8.8 million Americans who purchased healthcare coverage during the latest ACA enrollment season—along with the tens of millions who got coverage through other means—will be using their insurer’s network directories to find a provider.