Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

At Health 2.0, experts and technologists explored tools for fighting physician suicide, opioid addiction, and eating disorders.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Robert Barras, vice president of health solutions, CTG Inc. There’s nothing like a good bandwagon to get everyone excited. Whether it’s the success of your favorite sports team, or a hot new restaurant in town, or a movie that’s breaking box office records, once something gets hot it seems everyone wants a piece of […].

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Companies like Medicalchain and Patients Know Best are offering people smartphone access to their health data. Smartphones leave you a fingertip away from your bank balance. But having on-the-go access to your medical records is still a work in progress. Public confidence in the safe storage of personal records has been undermined by stories about tranches of documents going missing, and the aborted £10 billion IT scheme to upgrade the entire NHS system.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Matt Park, the general manager of the Swiss-based Dacadoo Americas, explains how the company’s health scoring app works and their bet consumers also want to calculate their real time health risks with a new component of the open API.

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33 Charts - Digital Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Today Apple released the Apple Watch Series 4 watch. Later this year they will add functionality that allows users to record an ECG. This would make Apple Watch one of the first FDA-cleared over-the-counter devices with an electrocardiogram. Here are 5 reasons we’re not ready for this. 1. No bandwidth. Right now the idea of individuals taking personal tracings is all fun and games.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

HHS is pushing providers—particularly those in rural areas—to take advantage of telemedicine to increase access to medication-assisted addiction treatment.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Google, Nebula Genomics, take notice of consumer calls for control over data.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Soon, Airbnb hosts will be able to let patients stay at their places at no cost, and shared workspace company WeWork will begin offering "collaboration hubs" for researchers, patients, and advocates to meet together. They are among 57 companies and organizations making commitments on Friday during a summit hosted by the Biden Cancer Initiative.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Increasingly, health leaders are recognizing the need to utilize one or more approaches to the multifaceted problem.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The governor created a bipartisan work group to determine how to design a potential program. The announcement came as Maryland's ACA rates dropped 13% thanks to the state's reinsurance program.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The healthtech sector is currently one of the most dynamic in technology M&A. The market is responding to the perfect storm of financial, regulatory, technological and social change that is delivering significant challenges to health systems worldwide. Established healthcare providers struggle to respond to the reality of ageing populations, increasing patient demands, more expensive treatments, the rise of lifestyle diseases, data protection and security and immense pressure to reduce the c

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Kaiser and Aetna received high marks for their Medicare plans thanks to an emphasis on prevention. UnitedHealth, Humana and Cigna registered more mediocre ratings.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

TypeZero software is already part of the newly released Tandem Diabetes’ Basal-IQ Technology in their t:slim X2 pump. The t:slim X2 Insulin Pump with Basal-IQ Technology provides patients with the ability to predict blood sugar levels 30 minutes ahead of time and helps users in making treatment decisions without fingersticks for mealtime dosing. Medical device makers are bringing closed-loop insulin delivery systems (also known as an artificial pancreas) to the market.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Next Generation ACOs are teaming up to ensure that the model stays in place for the long term and continues to evolve.

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Morning eHealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

White House cyber strategy sparse on health — John Hancock says wearables aren’t a requirement

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Around this exact time last year, I shared the most amazing news. DeepMind Health had offered to sponsor my MSc studies, with an accompanying offer to join the company as an intern once my studies had finished. One year later, MSc completed and internship complete, it feels only fitting to complete this chapter as it started?—?with a blog post. This time, though, I’ll be sharing a brief reflection on my experiences from this year, from analysing complex health data for the first time to understa

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Vidyo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

“Just do it.” The popular Nike tagline urges the masses to achieve whatever they want to achieve. I love it because it’s so direct. Stop dreaming. Stop talking. Just do it. The same can be said about virtual health. The talk and theorizing about it has been going on for decades. The needed technology is Read More. The post It’s Time To Stop Talking About Virtual Health and Start Offering It appeared first on Vidyo Blog.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Join a small group of behavioral technology professionals for a casual evening of frivolity, good food, and camaraderie. You are cordially invited to meet with me at and “no-host” dinner, a community networking meetup, to connect with like-minded colleagues in … Read more. The post TBHI-NAADAC Community Networking Meetup appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Enthusiasm for an emerging digital health tool, the smart pill, is on the rise but a paper in the American Journal of Bioethics cautions health care providers and policymakers to slow down when it comes to allowing this technology in patient care settings. Smart pills, or digital pills, are prescription medications equipped with edible electronic sensors that send wireless messages to devices, like patches and smartphones or tablets, outside the body when they are ingested.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The healthcare venture backed by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway has reportedly hired Monitor Group, an arm of Deloitte, plus more healthcare headlines.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Technology often produces unintended consequences, and that’s certainly true of the electronic health record (EHR) systems used in hospitals and medical practices. These digital tools have increased the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care, but problems with their usability—how doctors, nurses, and other staff interact with them—have put patients in harm’s way.

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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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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Weekly News Recap. Pathologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center complain that its executives and board members received equity in pathology decision support company Paige.AI after MSKCC gave the company exclusive access to its archive of patient tissue slides. Boston Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital collectively pay $999,000 to settle patient privacy complaints related to the in-hospital taping of the TV show “Boston Med”.

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