Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
As the first prescription digital therapeutic approved by the FDA, the treatment will be distributed and supported by a specialist-staffed service center.
eVisit
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
When you made the choice to add telemedicine to your practice, what motivated you? Was it your desire to reduce patient wait times? Did you want a new venture to bring in new revenue? Whatever your motivation was, it brought you here.
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Lloyd Price
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Thanks to increased connectivity, data is fuelling our digital economy and creating new opportunities in a huge range of different areas such as agriculture, health and manufacturing to name a few. Data is valuable, which makes it an enticing commodity for legitimate and malicious parties alike. As technology becomes increasingly woven into the fabric of our lives, so too does the threat of cyber-attack.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Hazel Jones, NHS Digital's Apps & Wearables program director, talks about the wide range of healthcare apps that were put through a stringent assessment process before being showcased in the UK's NHS apps library.
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Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Christine Alfano, senior director of marketing, Vyne. Most practices are looking for ways to keep their chairs full by attracting new as well as continuing treatment with existing patients. Keep in mind that all of the things we’re going to discuss in this article, also apply to your existing patients.
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FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
The Department of Veterans Affairs is reportedly in discussions with Apple to put electronic health records on mobile devices, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
A recent study published by JMIR Mental Health showed only about 10 percent of mental health patients surveyed used apps.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
CVS expects to close its $69 billion acquisition of Aetna after the Thanksgiving holiday. The announcement comes weeks after executives said the deal would close before the holiday. But the companies are still waiting on approval from two states.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Boston-based Syntropy will create a digital platform that allows cancer researchers to share and analyze data from numerous different organizations.
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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
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Medicaid beneficiaries stand to benefit most from the latest health technology, but tech startups often pass them by in favor of seemingly more-lucrative payer partnerships. HealthTech4Medicaid wants to change that.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Dutch company NovioSense's eyelid sensor shows promise; other efforts are academic.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Less than six months after a court forced the agency to reconsider Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky, CMS has reapproved the program with a few small tweaks. A spokesperson said, "CMS believes that the Kentucky HEALTH program is likely to promote the objectives of Medicaid.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
A study in JMIR mHealth and UHealth investigated the barriers preventing Chilean women from being tested for cervical cancer.
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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
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Billionaire philanthropist Sean Parker explains why he's so bullish on cell therapy as part of his Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.
Morning eHealth
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
FDA floats prescription-and-app policy — IT champion Will Hurd clinches reelection
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
A newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accuses Molina Health of deceiving state and federal regulators by neglecting to provide mandatory nursing home care, which violated managed care contracts with the state of Illinois.
Health Intersections
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Yesterday, I spoke at the Wild Health Summit , along with John Halamka , Eyal Oren from Google, and other Australian Health IT leaders. During my talk, and in regard to how to move forward in regard to Interoperability, healthcare it, the MyHR, and the continued use of faxing in Australian healthcare, I spoke about the need for us to have courage. Today, as a follow up, someone asked me: “What kind of things should we do to have courage?
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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!
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
ECRI Institute has officially launched its database of clinical practice guidelines following the closure of the National Guideline Clearinghouse. But getting the database up and running wasn’t an easy task.
Lloyd Price
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Ten years ago, one doctor in 10 kept digital records on their patients. The other 90 percent made notes on paper and stored them in manila folders on shelves and in filing cabinets. Paper records had some obvious disadvantages. They took up space, they were difficult to share with other physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies. Patients switching doctors, hospitals, or places of residence could not easily bring their records with them.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
A new study found that just 45 minutes of education made a difference for patients with chronic diseases. Plus, we bring you more news we're following this week.
Insulin Nation
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Diabeloop has made rapid progress since its founding in 2015 and has achieved an important milestone with receipt of CE marking in Europe. This positions this closed-loop system for commercial release in 2019. “ With this certification, we’re getting closer to the market launch and will move towards a new funding round to support our international scaling and our ambitious R&D roadmap.
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.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Health insurer profitability is expected to remain stable in 2019, according to an analysis by Moody's Investor Services. With moderate membership growth and ACA stability, insurers will shift their focus to vertical integration and continued medical cost containment, while M&A will revolve around smaller deals.
Lloyd Price
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Patients’ medical data constitute a cornerstone of the big data economy. A multi-billion dollar industry operates by collecting, merging, analyzing and packaging patient data and selling it to the highest bidder. Data buyers range from health policy researchers to pharmaceutical companies and marketing corporations. While this industry has been quietly operating and accumulating profits for many years, patient advocacy groups have recently turned their attention to it.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
People with diabetes are more likely to delay care if they have a high-deductible health plan, a new study says. Meanwhile, Florida's AG added CVS and Walgreens to a long list of defendants in its suit over the opioid crisis.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
Former HHS Secretary Tom Price has a new job with incoming Georgia governor Brian Kemp's transition team, plus more healthcare headlines.
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FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
With a Texas judge set to make a ruling on the most-recent ACA case any day now, Democratic members of Congress are once again probing the Department of Justice's refusal to defend the law in court. Only now, they have to deal with Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker instead of Jeff Sessions.
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