Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 1, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Vikash Kumar, manager, Tatvasoft. A relentless parade of fronts from communication to banking, shopping seems to be unfolded, all thanks to the emerging technology. But somehow healthcare used to stay behind because many of you believed it was too complicated to be fixed. Well, that’s just not true!
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Called GYFT Baby, the package includes prenatal vitamin shipments, an education app and a motion tracking wearable.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
A pervasive lack of trust among healthcare companies is a hurdle to widespread implementation of blockchain technology, but immediate benefits could be found in back-end data exchange around physician credentialing and supply chain management.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Consenting patients booking appointments through Heal may now opt to have their personal health records automatically and securely shared with a house call physician.
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KevinMD
OCTOBER 1, 2018
The California Department of Justice mandate to consult CURES (Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation) prior to prescribing, ordering, administering, or furnishing a Schedule II, II or IV controlled substance becomes effective on October 2, 2018. The law states that CURES must be consulted the first time a patient is prescribed, ordered or administered a Schedule II, III or IV controlled substance.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
A medical care group that is part of dialysis giant DaVita Inc. will pay $270 million to resolve claims it provided inaccurate information that caused Medicare Advantage plans to receive inflated Medicare payments.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Amazon's Alexa Fund and the Google Assistant Investment Program have both poured money into the LA-based hands-free patient assistant tool.
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 1, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Nate Marks, writer, Unitek College. Without a doubt, medical assistants play a vital role in healthcare. Not only do they assist physicians and allow them to see more patients, but they also interface with various groups on a regular basis. More often than not, they are the first and last face a patient will see […].
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
New platform EngageRate will let life insurance companies' members track their activity and give feedback, as well as collect userss data for payers.
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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
OCTOBER 1, 2018
It’s the big question on the minds of many in the physician practice world: Will the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issue a final rule in the coming weeks that includes a controversial proposal to consolidate evaluation and management (E/M) billing codes? Critics say the change will leave physicians who treat high-acuity patients underpaid.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
UK regulator fines health insurer Bupa after an investigation found "material inadequacies in the way Bupa safeguarded personal data".
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
For all the work involved, the highest-scoring physicians ended up with a 2.02% payment adjustment, leaving them disheartened with the MIPS program.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
The UK will release official guidance setting social media time limits for young people following increasing concerns around the impact of these platforms on mental health.
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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
OCTOBER 1, 2018
In the latest provider megamerger, two Texas health systems—Baylor, Scott & White Health and Memorial Hermann Health System—announced they have signed a letter of intent to combine.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
The new product adds night-time alarms, making the low-cost 14-day CGM more useful.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Calling the growing problem of maternal mortality "ridiculous," Rep. Robin Kelly is seeking to rally support around legislation that would require protocols in hospitals for protecting new mothers and standardize data collection to help health officials better track the issue.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 1, 2018
While many readers are optimistic that healthcare will make progress on consumerism in one to three years, others said it will take between five and seven to actually happen.
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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
OCTOBER 1, 2018
The medical world has declared zero tolerance for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), but it is a massive problem to address. Thankfully, health systems already have a powerful weapon that can make a major dent in infection rates: electronic health records.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Companies are building platforms based on blockchain technology to let individuals control and directly profit from their genomic and medical information. Even if you’ve never heard of IQVIA, the company most likely knows some things about you—if only in anonymized form. As Harvard University fellow Adam Tanner documents in his 2017 book Our Bodies, Our Data, IQVIA (formerly IMS Health), along with other companies such as IBM and Lexis-Nexus, regularly pay health care providers, pharmacies, clin
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Remote access exploits topped ECRI's annual tech hazard list for 2019, indicating significant concern about the security of providers' remote access systems. By infiltrating a network this way, a malicious actor could cause any type of havoc, from installing ransomware to stealing data.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 1, 2018
History of Group. The Diva Diabetics Mentoring/Support group started in 2008 with 6-7 of my former patients. I worked at the diabetes practice for 10 years that included endocrinologists, NP, RD, and myself. We also had a PT department at the time within our building with PTs and Assistants, a part-time Psychologist and an ADA Recognized Education program.
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
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Ten years ago, Mel Robbins says her life was a mess until she stumbled on what she calls the five-second rule. As doctors struggle with burnout, her solution can help with anxiety, she says.
TheraNest
OCTOBER 1, 2018
DSM-5 Codes Changes in 2018. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a federal agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that oversees the ICD-10-CM, has released the 2019 updates to the ICD-10 codes. A total of 473 changes have taken place. There are 279 new codes, 143 revised codes, and 51 deactivated codes. You can view all of the code changes here.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
The agency says new online tools can help beneficiaries across the country choose the plan that's best for them, though they may not reach all seniors.
Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 1, 2018
CMS/ONC seek API help — NIH reaches out to young investigators
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
A new study published in the October issue of Health Affairs finds that immigrants with private insurance coverage paid 12.6% of overall premiums, but only accounted for 9.1% of insurer expenditures.
ACA Times
OCTOBER 1, 2018
5 minute read: . Starting this fall, employers should expect Letter 226J penalty notices to be issued to organizations determined by the IRS to have failed to comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the 2016 tax year. You should expect more of these notices to be issued and for them to contain much higher penalty assessments than that levied by the IRS for the 2015 tax year.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 1, 2018
A new report pegs healthcare payments company nThrive as a possible suitor for Athenahealth. Plus, ONC says 87% of hospitals are using EHR platforms with FHIR capabilities.
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