Livongo's voice chatbot for hypertension, Apple's William's talks health, and more digital health briefs
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Also: An app for Daylight Saving Time adjustment; VR soccer game simulates vision impairment.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Also: An app for Daylight Saving Time adjustment; VR soccer game simulates vision impairment.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
With the massive amounts of patient and provider data that healthcare organizations are now managing, the analytical uses and opportunities for monetization are seemingly boundless, making the chief data officer an important and evolving role.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Dexcom announced a slew of announcements this morning including an integration with Google Fit, a feature that lets users share their readings with 10 people and a technical inquiries feature.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Speaking during a panel session at the recent AFR Healthcare Summit , Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) President Dr Harry Nespolon said the way remote healthcare and telehealth is offered has changed little since the 1960s. “Doctors still need to see patients in front of them to dispense care. It hasn’t changed much over the last 50 years.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
China’s one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform, Ping An Good Doctor, yesterday announced its first annual results since listing: the company recorded a revenue of RMB 3.34 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 78.7%. The three key indicators of the company – registered users, monthly active users (MAU) and monthly paying users (MPU) continued to grow at a rapid rate in 2018.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
The CGM giant also redrafted its agreement with Verily, whose tech will now be incorporated into their core product line.
Morning eHealth
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
CMS names Mark Roche as its chief health information officer — Social media are spreading measles, CDC and NIH officials tell a House committee
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
The longtime player in the home ECG space may be shoring up to compete with the likes of Apple.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
We spoke with Ajit Shah, PhD and Peter Thompson, PhD about their research which has just been published in Cell Metabolism. This UC San Francisco study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 diabetes (T1D). The findings flip current assumptions about the causes of the disease on their head and demonstrate a promising new preventative strategy that dramatically reduced disease risk in laboratory animals.
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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
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Sales hires, product updates and market expansion are all on the table.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Vanguard agreed to pay more than $18 million to resolve a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Justice Department and the state of Tennessee for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Judges praised Nutrimedy's patient-dietitian connection platform and BreathResearch's connected lung health analysis device.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Telehealth company Teladoc saw revenue grow 79% for the year to $417.9 million while total visits in 2018 were up 80% to 2.6 million, and the company also reduced its losses.
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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.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this week on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) EHR modernization project progress, Congressman Will Hurd (R-Texas) stated that the latest update encouraged him “for probably the first.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
A bipartisan group of policymakers has introduced a bill that would delay the ACA’s health insurance tax until after 2021.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
The University of Virginia Health System announced it would be expanding its telehealth offerings to help treat diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. Through the UVA Center for Telehealth, the organization will also develop training courses for healthcare providers that help them identify and treat chronic diseases. For example, UVA researchers will assess existing health and fitness apps to determine which are most helpful as well as determining how to incorporate elements of gam
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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
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced on Thursday it released updated hospital performance data on the consumer comparison website and is looking for feedback on how it can improve how it conducts the rankings.
SightCall
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Medical device manufacturers, healthcare organizations and operators are tasked with keeping their assets working efficiently, while reducing the cost of maintenance and time-sensitive repairs. This is a constant challenge considering the ever-increasing demand for state-of the-art medical imaging equipment. How does a company meet expectations of innovation while simultaneously maintaining a high degree of profitability?
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
In the first nine months of 2018, 29.7 million people in the U.S., 9.2%, were without health insurance.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
The IHE ITI, PCC, and QRPH workgroups met in OakBrook, IL this week at the RSNA Headquarters. This is the usual place. Which was a big disappointment as we all were expecting we would be meeting at this time in Treviso Italy. , where it is (+12°C). So we got stuck with dirty snow and (-12°C) temperature. I think we all had a good week. There was an amazingly diverse set of participants: I participate mostly in ITI.
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.
Lloyd Price
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Sam Cavaliere, a San Diego tech worker, considers himself in average health, though the 47-year-old admits, "I can always stand to lose a little weight." Like a lot of iPhone owners, he uses Apple's Health app to keep track of his weight, his exercise routines and how many steps he takes in a day. Now the app is also storing his health records.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
The owner of a Florida home health company was sentenced to prison for his role in an $8.6 million Medicare fraud scheme, plus more insurance news.
New Age Healthcare
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
T he technological developments of the past years are bringing on a new age in medicine. This is one of the primary fields where tech can be applied to open an entirely new set of possibilities. To give you an idea of just how much technology can impact the medical field, we have includes a few of the areas where it will have the largest influence: Investigations.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
A Texas doctor and a former hospital owner were found guilty by a federal jury in a $20 million healthcare fraud scheme, plus more practice news.
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FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Universal Health Services has $123 million in reserve for a future settlement with the Department of Justice.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
As public health officials call on doctors to counter misinformation about vaccines, one California physician is speaking out loud and clear. A YouTube video in which pediatric intensive care physician David Epstein, M.D., debates with people who were opposed to vaccines had almost 1.5 million views in just one week.
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