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FDA grants digital therapeutic for Alzheimer's symptoms Breakthrough Device designation

Mobi Health News

Dthera Sciences, a San Diego-based developer of clinical and consumer digital therapeutics for individuals with neurodegenerative conditions, announced today that its development stage intervention, DTHR-ALZ, has been granted Breakthrough Device designation by the FDA.

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Slideshow—Meet the doctors of Congress

FierceHealthIT

There are 14 doctors in Congress. These M.D.s bring the medical perspective to Capitol Hill. Here's who they are and what they practice.

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PatientsLikeMe, FDA explore how patient-generated data could help event reporting

Mobi Health News

Online patient community PatientsLikeMe, which connects patients with different symptoms and conditions and collects patients' voluntarily submitted data for research, has teamed up with the FDA on a research study that could point the way toward a new channel for patient-generated health data for the agency. The study was recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

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The Telehealth Interoperability in Clinical Systems Imperative

Vidyo

Telehealth Interoperability in Clinical Systems Adding real-time video capabilities to your organization’s telehealth workflow can provide a wealth of benefits for both your patients and providers. In fact, we dedicated an entire section in our latest report, Making Telehealth Work for You: The Ultimate Guide, to infrastructure and interoperability.

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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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Verily researchers, former FDA commissioner call for device sensors, data analytics adoption in psychiatry

Mobi Health News

Psychiatry has long stood as one of the more subjective areas of care, but new technologies and large-scale data generation and analysis may offer a more quantifiable approach to mental health treatment. In a recently published perspective, a group of Verily researchers and Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf called for the psychiatric field to embrace digital sensors and the data sciences so that mental health practitioners can reduce the variability in outcomes that comes with intuition-

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Evidation Health, Tidepool use connected devices to study sleep and Type 1 diabetes

Mobi Health News

Evidation Health is teaming up with Tidepool to launch a connected device-powered study of nocturnal hypoglycemic events in people with Type 1 diabetes.

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NIH’s Collins to lawmakers: Agency is addressing conflict of interest concerns

FierceHealthIT

The National Institutes of Health is actively working to ensure it's vetting projects funded by private donations more thoroughly in the wake of several controversial studies.

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles innovation officer: Hospitals face numerous barriers when rolling out new tech

Mobi Health News

From digital therapeutics to virtual care and artificial intelligence, there are a number of novel advancements in healthcare technology offering providers an opportunity to revamp care for the better. But talking about healthcare innovation is easy — it’s the deployment and adoption that often trips up larger healthcare providers.

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Justice Department bars doctors accused of prescribing unnecessary opioids from writing prescriptions

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Justice took a first-of-its-kind legal action to stop two doctors accused of illegally prescribing opioids from writing any further prescriptions.

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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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Health 2.0's "Unacceptables" panel will tackle opioids, burnout, eating disorders, disaster response

Mobi Health News

Eight years ago, Eliza CEO Alex Drane came up with the idea for “The Unmentionables,” an annual panel at Health 2.0 where participants would address difficult but important topics in healthcare.

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Appropriations grind on

Morning eHealth

FDA matters — Andy Slavitt’s latest venture

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Blockchain Enabled Healthcare program : EU Innovative Medicines Initiative planning substantial Blockchain project with 9 big Pharma companies

Lloyd Price

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is planning a substantial health blockchain project. The breadth of reach extends from the pharma supply chain and clinical trials through to health data. The Blockchain Enabled Healthcare program aims to partner nine big pharma companies with a consortium of stakeholders. In addition to the healthcare community and patients, the consortium will include SME blockchain companies and universities.

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Virtual Health Mythbusting: Lack of State or National Reimbursement Policies

Vidyo

Whenever healthcare institutions are considering implementing a telemedicine program, it’s a given that they’ll ask: “How will our providers be paid?” It’s a valid question. They have committed time and funds to researching their telemedicine program, and their management and the “bean counters” want to be assured that there will be a return on any Read More.

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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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Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce issue joint statement for healthcare interoperability

Lloyd Price

Interoperability is an overlapping set of technical and policy challenges, from data access to common data models to information exchange to workflow integration – and these challenges often pose a barrier to healthcare innovation. Microsoft has been engaged for many years on developing best practices for interoperability across industries. Today, as health IT community leaders get together at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference here in Washington, DC, we’re pleased to announce that Mic

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BCBS NC inks value-based deal with UNC Health, driving down ACA premiums

FierceHealthIT

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has entered into an agreement with UNC Health that will drive down ACA premiums by 21% in some parts of the state. But it's also dropping a plan that included WakeMed and Duke, leaving 50,000 people to switch insurers to stay with their provider.

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Person-Centered Strategies: Health Savings Accounts

CMS.gov

Person-Centered Strategies: Health Savings Accounts. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 08/23/2018 - 12:29. Randy Pate. CMS Deputy Administrator and the Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. Topic. Affordable Care Act. Coverage. CMS BLOG [link]. August 23, 2018 By Randy Pate, CMS Deputy Administrator and the Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. .

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Physician Practice Roundup—Doctor sentenced to prison in $30M fraud scheme, and more news

FierceHealthIT

A New York doctor was sentenced to one year and one day in prison Tuesday for his participation in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid, and more physician practice news.

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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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Artificial intelligence in medicine: not ready for prime time

KevinMD

July was an interesting month for artificial intelligence in medicine. A study from MIT found when human doctors order tests on patients, they factor in something that artificial intelligence is not currently aware of. The authors analyzed charts of about 60,000 ICU patients admitted to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. By looking at physician progress notes with positive or negative sentiments in patient records, they derived scores which they correlated.

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GAO criticizes Trump administration's ACA outreach and enrollment efforts

FierceHealthIT

By not creating an enrollment goal and cutting outreach funding, the Department of Health and Human Services is weakening the ACA exchanges, says the Government Accountability Office in a new report.

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Democratic lawmakers say Medicaid work requirements could force families off coverage

FierceHealthIT

Democratic Reps. Elijah Cummings and Raja Krishnamoorthi have written to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and CMS' Seema Verma to express their concern over the Trump administration's stance toward work requirements—particularly in states like Mississippi that didn't expand Medicaid under Obamacare.

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