Thu.Feb 28, 2019

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Livongo's voice chatbot for hypertension, Apple's William's talks health, and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: An app for Daylight Saving Time adjustment; VR soccer game simulates vision impairment.

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Industry Voices—The rise of the chief data officer marks ongoing evolutions in the C-suite

FierceHealthIT

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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Dexcom G6 users can ask Siri to read their glucose level

Mobi Health News

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.

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Rethinking approaches to remote health and telehealth in Australia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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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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Ping An Good Doctor expands reach to 265 million registered users in 2018

Mobi Health News

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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Dexcom broke $1B in revenue in 2018, plans to outsource some customer support

Mobi Health News

The CGM giant also redrafted its agreement with Verily, whose tech will now be incorporated into their core product line.

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FDA plans to link claims data to EHRs in its Sentinel safety database

Morning eHealth

CMS names Mark Roche as its chief health information officer — Social media are spreading measles, CDC and NIH officials tell a House committee

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CardioComm gets FDA nod for smartphone app, new ECG device

Mobi Health News

The longtime player in the home ECG space may be shoring up to compete with the likes of Apple.

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A New Paradigm for Type 1 Diabetes Origin

Insulin Nation

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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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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Rightway Healthcare raises $8M to expand its care navigation platform

Mobi Health News

Sales hires, product updates and market expansion are all on the table.

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Vanguard to pay $18M to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare, Tennessee Medicaid

FierceHealthIT

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.

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Boston Scientific, Google's contest winners highlight patient engagement, data's role in digital chronic care

Mobi Health News

Judges praised Nutrimedy's patient-dietitian connection platform and BreathResearch's connected lung health analysis device.

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Teladoc CEO says company should be cash flow positive for first time in 2019

FierceHealthIT

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’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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Is the VA-Cerner EHR Project Showing Progress?

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

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.

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Bipartisan bill seeks to delay health insurance tax by 2 years

FierceHealthIT

A bipartisan group of policymakers has introduced a bill that would delay the ACA’s health insurance tax until after 2021.

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Protected: Texting in Behavioral Health as Professionals

Telebehavioral Health Institute

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Texting in Behavioral Health as Professionals appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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UVA Health System expands telehealth offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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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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CMS asks for feedback with release of Hospital Compare data—and the industry is already not pleased

FierceHealthIT

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.

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Reduce Medical Device Downtime with AR-Powered Visual Assistance

SightCall

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?

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Report: Uninsured rate hangs at about 9% in first half of 2018

FierceHealthIT

In the first nine months of 2018, 29.7 million people in the U.S., 9.2%, were without health insurance.

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IHE ITI Winter 2019

Healthcare Exchange Standards

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.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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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Storing Health Records On Your Phone: Can Apple Live Up To Its Privacy Values?

Lloyd Price

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.

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Payer Roundup—Florida home health company owner sentenced in $8.6M fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

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.

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New Age of Technology in Medicine

New Age Healthcare

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.

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Physician Practice Roundup—Doctor, former hospital owner convicted in $20M fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

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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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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UHS reports its DOJ fund reached $123M, is 'close to an agreement'

FierceHealthIT

Universal Health Services has $123 million in reserve for a future settlement with the Department of Justice.

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2.1M views and counting: Physician goes viral in his defense of vaccines

FierceHealthIT

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.