Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
Walmart’s ongoing investigation of blockchain technologies seems to have intersected with its growing interest in joining the healthcare space, according to a patent application released earlier this week by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Clocktree
JUNE 19, 2018
The Business of Federal Technology reports on the June 11 launch date for a telehealth policy change referred to as “anywhere-to-anywhere,” which allows qualified practitioners to log in to Department of Veterans Affairs telehealth system and treat patients regardless of state licensing rules. Previously, a provider had to be licensed in the state where the patient resides.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
Medical tech company Medtronic is teaming up with Nutrino, an AI powered personalized nutrition platform. Nutrino’s FoodPrint Report technology will now be integrated into Medtronic’s iPro2 myLog app, a platform that connects with a continuous glucose monitor to help give users insights about their glucose levels. The new technology will enable doctors and clinicians to see the food that a person has logged during their iPro2 cgm evaluation.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
CMS is deploying inspectors to ensure health institutions are compliant with rules that require annual all-hazards risk assessments and two annual training sessions. These are the best practices for health facilities complying with the rules when it comes to workplace violence prevention planning.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
Last week the American Medical Association outlined a new set of recommendations on augmented intelligence, a type of technology that aims to extend, but not replace, a human medical expert’s insight and decision-making capabilities.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
Apple has announced a partnership with RapidSOS that will allow iPhones to more easily send detailed location data to first responders in the event of an emergency, the Cupertino tech giant announced yesterday. “Communities rely on 911 centers in an emergency, and we believe they should have the best available technology at their disposal,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
Only months before the critical 2018 midterm elections conservatives are pushing for yet another attempt at repealing the Affordable Care Act, and the new proposal looks very similar to last year's Graham-Cassidy bill.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
Ambient Clinical Analytics, a remote patient monitoring company that spun off from Mayo Clinic in 2013, has raised $1.5 million in a round led by Noaber Ventures, the impact investment arm of Noaber Foundation and the company’s first European investor. Existing investors Social Capital, Bluestem Capital, and Mayo Clinic also contributed to the round.
Morning eHealth
JUNE 19, 2018
HHS finalizes Common Rule Delay — Apple to help 911 find iPhone users
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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.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
This morning Vitals, maker of online healthcare transparency resources for patients, announced that it would be creating a data analytics division called Vitals 360. The new division will be dedicated to looking at data, quality, and predictive analytic technologies in an effort to expand Vital’s cost and engagement services. Specifically, the division will work with health plans to help build more effective and efficient strategies.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
The American Medical Association has come out against the planned merger between CVS Health and Aetna, warning that the deal could hurt patients by reducing competition.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
AI-based patient safety company MedAware has announced a partnership with Allscripts that will bring its medication decision support product to the latter company’s EHR system. With this, providers choosing a prescription for their patients in a live setting will receive notifications concerning medication-related risks, such as adverse drug events or opioid dependency, and can amend their recommendation if deemed necessary.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
If you don’t have a dress code at your practice, you might want to adopt one. Physicians should pay attention to what they wear because patients link attire to their satisfaction with care, according to a new study.
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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.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
Earlier this month Fitbit announced that Bill Zerella will be stepping down as chief financial officer. The wearable giant has tapped Ronald Kisling, who was perviously serving as the chief accounting officer, to fill the role. Kisling comes to position with 35 years of experience in financial leadership.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 19, 2018
The more things change… Life expectancy is long – tech attention span from investors and innovators can be short. Reviewing the past 10 years of blog posts ( from 2008 until 2018 ), in the beginning, consider the categories and innovations. To mitigate social isolation, for example, note the video phone and the printing mailbox. The objective was to communicate with grandma or grandpa, who might be bereft of email – or for that matter, WiFi, Skype, tablet, smartphone, PC or MAC.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
JUNE 19, 2018
A Telehealth Technology Summit (#TTS18) is planned on December 12-13 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. #TTS18 will feature presentations by telehealth experts and a technology showcase hosted by the National Telehealth Resource Center for Technology Assessment (TTAC). The showcase will include hands-on demonstrations of equipment that can make or break a telehealth program.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
CMS' readmissions reduction program isn't responsible for an uptick in observation stays, according to MedPAC. The group also reiterated its support for cutting payments to freestanding emergency departments.
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HIStalk Interviews
JUNE 19, 2018
John Talaga is co-founder and EVP/GM of OnPlan Health of Bannockburn, IL. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m a co-founder of OnPlan Holdings. I founded HealthCom Partners, which was acquired by McKesson in 2006. We developed introduced PatientCompass, which was the first online account management tool for hospitals. OnPlan Health addresses the market shift to high-deductible health plans.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
The National Business Group on Health recommended that employers discuss opioid use for pain management with their health plans and pharmacy benefit managers.
Lloyd Price
JUNE 19, 2018
A prescription app may not sound like the medical tech tool that will save your life but co-founder Stephen Bourke has high hopes. Founded in 2014 by Bourke, who has a background in digital health, and Sai Lakshmi, who worked at Apple, Echo wants to tackle one of the trickiest areas of healthcare: getting people to take their medication. “In the UK 50 per cent of medication isn’t taken as directed,” explains Bourke.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is planning a new inpatient hospital, the National Institutes of Health has called off a controversial alcohol study and more healthcare headlines.
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.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
JUNE 19, 2018
Law Urging DEA to Promulgate Rules for “Special Registration” Likely This Summer By Bradley S. Davidsen & Daniel Kim At first blush, the passage of House Bill 5483, entitled the “Special Registration for Telemedicine Clarification Act of 2018” (the “Bill”), appears to address the … Read more. The post DEA to Promulgate Rules for “Special Registration” appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Society for Participatory Medicine
JUNE 19, 2018
I know there are numerous initiatives along these lines so please circulate this widely. Help publicize and share what others are doing to incorporate patient perspectives in the present and future of healthcare! I’ve received the following request from Luke Slawomirski, head of the OECD ‘s PaRIS Patient Reported Indicators Survey : We’ve been asked to write a paper on how patient-reported measures are used to guide governance of health services or hospitals.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JUNE 19, 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.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2018
Physician groups are warning of “irreparable harm” to migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S. border; community health centers have seen a significant boost in patient visits over the past several years; plus more news.
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BHM Healthcare Solutions
JUNE 19, 2018
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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health
JUNE 19, 2018
The Center for Total Health was honored with a recent visit from Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General, who shared his efforts around community health, national security, and addressed the opioid crisis – with a personal story about how opioids have affected his family. Dr. Adams was at the Center to receive the Hero Award from Trust for America’s Health and the Healthy Schools Campaign during the Healthy Students, Promising Futures Learning Collaborative.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2018
BOSTON — Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Lahey Health, along with three other hospitals, are currently in the midst of a mega-merger to bring the organizations under one umbrella. But as with most providers, they’re operating with a wide range of EHR vendors and versions. There are three instances of Epic, three different versions of Meditech, athenahealth and Cerner, and the assumption is that we’ll rip and replace these versions and put in one monolith EHR, explained John Halamka, MD,
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