Mon.Feb 11, 2019

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HHS Proposes New Rules to Improve the Interoperability of Electronic Health Information

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today proposed new rules to support seamless and secure access, exchange and use of electronic health information. The rules, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), would increase choice and competition […].

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How a voice assistant can be a constant companion for hospital-bound patients

Mobi Health News

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital will soon pilot a purpose-built smart speaker.

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Report: What the health plan of the future looks like

FierceHealthIT

What form will the “health plan of tomorrow” take? Experts say it will be tech- and consumer-focused.

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Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

Health Populi

In the health care world, it is now commonly accepted that genes contribute less than half of the influence on peoples’ health status. Other issues play starring roles in overall well-being, including environmental factors, health care services, and social determinants of health (SDOH). These inputs include education, personal economics (like job security and financial stability), physical built environments (think: transportation access, safe and healthy housing), food and nutrition, and

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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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How Samsung platforms are supporting health tech’s toolmakers

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS19, the electronics company is discussing its partnerships for digital brain health tools and its long-term efforts toward data-driven health insight.

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Through many small bets, Geisinger aims to radically redesign care

Mobi Health News

Geisinger CIO Karen Murphy says complexity in healthcare can hide providers’ underlying empathy.

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Key Takeaways From CMS/ONC Officials Regarding New Interoperability Proposed Rule

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Following the release of its proposed new rules designed to improve the interoperability of electronic health information, members of leadership from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a call to provide additional detail about the proposed rule, and to answer questions from the media.

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Apple Health Records will soon be deployed to US vets

Mobi Health News

Apple's partnership with the VA will bring the mobile personal health record platform to more than 9 million veterans.

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HIMSS19: ONC unveils long-awaited information blocking rule

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday morning released a hotly anticipated rule aimed at boosting interoperability. CMS also issued a rule, proposing a plan to publicly list providers who engage in data blocking.

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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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Disrupt or be disrupted

Mobi Health News

Healthbox President Neil Patel breaks down how incumbents in the healthcare space can also be part of the innovation.

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The Importance of Protecting Medical Cannabis Patient Records

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. As of 2019, the voters in 33 American states have passed some form of legislation allowing the use of medical marijuana. 10 of them have gone so far as to legalize the recreational use of the drug. In late 2018, the U.S. government re-classified hemp — the subspecies of cannabis lacking significant concentrations of the […].

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MDLive launches asynchronous virtual assessment service

Mobi Health News

After submitting details on their condition, MDLive Go users receive a provider-generated care plan within two hours.

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Medicare, Medicaid better than private insurers at containing costs, study finds 

FierceHealthIT

Medicare and Medicaid are better than private insurers at keeping spending per beneficiary low, a finding that has crucial implications for the current health policy debate, according to a new report.

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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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Qualcomm Life acquired by PE firm Francisco Partners, will spin off under new name

Mobi Health News

The wireless health pioneer will take on the name of its 2015 acquisition Capsule Technologies.

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Firearm Safety and a Dementia Diagnosis

Christina's Considerations

The US Census Bureau estimates that older people will outnumber children for the first time in US history by 2035. So, it makes sense that we will see a corresponding increase in the more common “older people” conditions over the.

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Five partners selected for NHS login pilot

Mobi Health News

These are: Tiny Medical Apps, eConsult, Helm, Audit and Transparency Summary Care Record and Digital Child Health.

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Surgeon General Jerome Adams calls on physicians to take a more proactive role in opioid crisis

FierceHealthIT

Amid new evidence on how prescribing patterns have affected the opioid crisis, healthcare leaders are asking physicians to re-evaluate how they prescribe the drugs—and to whom they prescribe them.

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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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Spok expands communications platform with multidevice workflow support

Mobi Health News

The Spok Go and Spok Conduct products are available now, with Spok Navigate coming in the future.

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Assistant Director of Outreach Now On Board With SCTRC

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

South Central Telehealth Resource Center Welcomes New Assistant Director of Outreach, Joe Schaffner. For nearly 15 years, Joe has worked in the public health sector at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock Wastewater, and the Arkansas Department of Human Services. At each of these organizations, Joe took advantage of numerous opportunities for growth and development in all areas under the outreach umbrella: communications, public speaking, media, event coordination, coalition building, com

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Salesforce launches three new features on its Health Cloud system, focusing on social determinants of health, in-home care, patient journey

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS19, Salesforce Health Cloud unveiled three new capabilities aimed at providing better, more integrated care.

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Imprivata, Google Cloud Partner to Enable Single Sign-On Access for Providers

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Imprivata a Lexington, Mass.-based healthcare IT security company, has announced this week at HIMSS19 that it is partnering with Google Cloud to enable Chrome devices to work with its single sign-on and virtual desktop access platform for.

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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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Veritas Capital closes acquisition of Athenahealth, says combined company will have 'transformational impact'

FierceHealthIT

Veritas Capital finalized its acquisition of Athenahealth for approximately $5.7 billion in cash on Monday and will combine the company with Virence Health under the Athenahealth name and brand.

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Key Healthcare Trends We’ll See in 2019

Carie Telehealth Insider

As 2018 has come to a close, a new year has begun and with it new trends in the healthcare industry. The US healthcare system has begun to adopt a value-based model over volume-based. What does this mean for providers, patients and the industry as a whole? Here are a few key trends in this medical paradigm shift for 2019: Shifting to wellness rather than illness.

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Long-awaited rules drop-kick HIMSS

Morning eHealth

ONC offers few exemptions from info blocking ban — House Vets committee goes after Mar-a-Lago 3

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Virtual Visits: Come face to face with the future—now

In Hand Health

It’s hard to believe a little more than a decade has passed since the iPhone was hitting our soon-to-be-mind-blown worlds. Twitter and a kind of college social network called Facebook were beginning to infiltrate our vocabulary. And a selfie? What was that? Today, it’s hard to remember a world without these. Just last year, we took 1.5 trillion selfies, posted about 6,000 tweets every second, and watched almost five billion YouTube videos.

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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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Who’s Your TRC?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Do you know your TRC (i.e. Telehealth Resource Center)? Do you know what services and assistance they can provide not just to your community but across communities and borders? Well, a good place to start is the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers (NCTRC). Check out their website: www.telehealthresourcecenter.org. There you will see a conglomeration of fourteen TRCs nationwide who work together to provide assistance to their respective states as well as states belonging to othe

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HIMSS19: GlobalMed Announces New Microsoft Gold Partnership, Azure Availability, and Industry-First Virtual Care Business Model

GlobalMed

White House telehealth provider also to share insights from deploying on Air Force One. ORLANDO, Fla. —Feb. 11, 2019—GlobalMed® announces its Microsoft Gold Partnership as well as an innovative business model, Cost Simplified , designed to help healthcare organizations easily and affordably implement evidence-based telemedicine. The announcement coincides with HIMSS19, the largest gathering of health IT professionals in the world, taking place Feb. 11-15 in Orlando, Fla.

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CORE HEALTH & FITNESS STRENGTHENS CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE WITH AR-POWERED VIDEO ASSISTANCE

SightCall

SAN FRANCISCO (FEB 12, 2019) – SightCall, the global leader in remote visual support, is pleased to announce a partnership with Core Health & Fitness, an industry leader in commercial fitness products, to provide AR-powered live video support to boost equipment uptime, enhance first call resolution and digitally transform the customer experience.

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