How the FDA is shaping healthcare innovation
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
In the last year the FDA has taken steps to evolve its process for regulating software as a medical device, personal genomics and clinical decision support technology.
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Self-Care is Healthcare for Everyday People
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Patients are the new healthcare payors, and as such, taking on the role of health consumers. In fact, health and wellness consumers have existed since a person purchased the first toothpaste, aspirin, heating pad, and moisturizing cream at retail. Or consulted with their neighborhood herbalista, homeopathic practitioner, therapeutic masseuse, or skin aesthetician.
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Remote heart monitoring, management device maker Endotronix lands $45 million
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Endotronix lands $45 million to launch its Cordella Heart Failure System and further development of its Cordella Pulmonary Artery Sensory system.
Counties with greatest well-being for seniors cost Medicare thousands less, study finds
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Medicare spends nearly $1,000 less per beneficiary in counties where residents are not only healthy, but happy and satisfied with their lives.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Babylon will double its London team, target chronic disease with $100M investment
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Dr. Ali Parsa, CEO and founder of Babylon, made the announcement at an event organized this week at Babylon's headquarters in London.
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Former Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman: The future of innovation is patient empowerment not EHRs
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
The Livongo founder said that digital health makes people smarter, helps navigate healthcare and eases payments is where innovation will come from.
More than half of consumers don't understand basic aspects of the healthcare system, survey finds
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Ensuring that consumers understand their insurance could save billions in administrative costs, according to an Accenture analysis. The best way to do this? Simplify the system.
Who should reconcile differences in VA and DOD EHR?
Morning eHealth
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Minibus spending bill bumps up HHS budget — Health leaders say Stark Law blocks innovation in Medicare
FDA's Gottlieb on improving supply of new antibiotics? Subscription-based payments
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
As the Food and Drug Administration was announcing the launch of a new effort to address antibiotic stewardship Friday, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb also floated his support for changing business models to one he believes would better incentivize companies to create new antibiotics.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
Tarasoff and Telebehavioral Health
Telebehavioral Health Institute
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
TBHI Q&A #17: How should we deal with Tarasoff when practicing telebehavioral or telemental health over state lines? If a therapist is doing Telehealth with a patient/client and its originating site is in a state that follows the Tarasoff … Read more. The post Tarasoff and Telebehavioral Health appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Reducing the cost of specialty drugs needs to remain the priority for healthcare plan administrators
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Despite a flurry of potential state and federal legislative activity around controlling drug costs, healthcare administrators have relatively few means at their disposal in the short term. The best opportunities to do so may lie in how plans deal with specialty drugs.
New York HIPAA Fine
Telebehavioral Health Institute
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
$200K New York HIPAA Fine Issued by Attorney General A $200,000 fine has been issued for an alleged New York HIPAA violation perpetrated by a Buffalo-based behavioral health and social services nonprofit, Arc of Erie County. This is one … Read more. The post New York HIPAA Fine appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Report: Number of people receiving treatment for addiction jumps
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
The number of people receiving treatment for addiction increased notably between 2016 and 2017, according to a new report.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
Weekender 9/14/18
HIStalk Weekender
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Weekly News Recap. Cigna invests $250 million in a new corporate venture fund that will target companies working in the areas of care delivery and management, digital health and retail, and insights and analytics. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY) CMO José Baselga, MD comes under fire (ultimately resigning) after media outlets report he failed to disclose his financial ties to research journals in which he was published.
Humana's Brian Kane leaves door open for Walmart partnership in investor conference
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference on Friday, Humana CFO Brian Kane emphasized the "good relationship" the insurer has with Walmart, but said it was too early to determine how that partnership will take shape.
Burt Rosen on the #SPM2018 conference: “Fix this f$%(*$&’ing mess we call health care!”
Society for Participatory Medicine
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
I joined the board of the Society for Participatory Medicine (sorry, I have to shorten it to SPM) about one year ago. I joined because I honestly think health care is f$#%#’ed up and I want to make a difference. We all agree about the problems, but my views on the solutions are different and SPM aligns with those views. I’ve had a lot of conversations on what the fix looks like (#WTFix).
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