Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. While telehealth has been around for years, virtual care technology is emerging as a powerful tool that goes beyond the traditional telehealth model. What will it take to reach the tipping point of virtual care adoption? To become the “next generation” of telehealth, virtual care will need to improve access, […].

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Digital Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In the last month I have spoken at an event about digital therapeutics and been invited to speak at 5 more unrelated events on the same topic (note: I am not doing them all). In my world view, this constitutes a trend, particularly since I haven’t been asked to speak on this topic repeatedly before. […].

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Buoy Health’s chatbot for patient health education and Sober Grid's social addiction support platform each received top honors after pitching their platforms live at Health 2.0.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Many patients who are prescribed medications fail to take them appropriately—or at all—and addressing this problem could lead to significant cost savings and better care management, according to a new report.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Born directly from its acquisition of Twine Health earlier this year, Fitbit Care is a connected health platform for health plans, employers, and health systems.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Panelists at Health 2.0 in Santa Clara, California talk about the world wide innovation culture and why its important to look toward emerging markets for new health technologies.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Prices went up at a rate more than twice what would ordinarily be expected when drugs go into shortage, according to a new study. Drug shortages are a frequent source of blame for rising costs.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

HIMSS Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Steve Wretling says developers need to build the experience healthcare hasn’t had yet.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Can making investments in companies that serve vulnerable populations be a lucrative proposition? The venture capital firm started by former Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt is making that bet, and just closed its first venture fund at $115 million.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

And there’s already one in the JASON Report from 2014 that was eclipsed by the industry’s excitement about open APIs.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A long-awaited proposed rule defining information blocking is at the Office of Management and Budget for review, but it could still be another several weeks before it's publicly available.

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American Well

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

One of the questions many health systems ask when considering telehealth is whether the patient will use the service. To help health systems answer that question, American Well conducted a nationally projectable survey in 2017 —a telehealth patient satisfaction survey—to measure patient perception and experience with telehealth. Here is a summary of the results of the 2017 survey.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Recovery audit contractors (RACs) returned $214 million to the Medicare program in fiscal year 2016. But that represents less than 0.1% of Medicare expenditures, and one organization says the program is hampered by limits on documentation requests.

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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.

American Well

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

One of the questions many health systems ask when considering telehealth is whether the patient will use the service. To help health systems answer that question, American Well conducted a nationally projectable survey in 2017 —a telehealth patient satisfaction survey—to measure patient perception and experience with telehealth. Here is a summary of the results of the 2017 survey.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A majority of doctors now use speech-recognition software to interact with EHR systems, according to a new report. Nevertheless, as accuracy and integration improve, some signs suggest the market may still have substantial room to grow.

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Morning eHealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

E&M proposal draws docs’ ire — Cavalry coming for VA?

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The fall of two prominent researchers raises concerns about how medical journals enforce conflict-of-interest disclosures and assure the validity of research.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Apple has launched the Apple Watch Series 4 at its annual showcase event in Cupertino, Silicon Valley. The latest iteration of its wearable device focuses on health-tracking and wellbeing, with particular relevance for senior and boomer demographics. The new Apple Watch is the first device from the company to include an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court's ruling tossing CliniComp's protest of a $10 billion contract between the VA and Cerner, effectively killing the legal challenge.

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ACA Times

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

3 minute read: . Employers who have not yet received a 2015 ESRP penalty notice should not breathe a sigh of relief yet. The IRS identified 49,259 employers at risk for compliance action by the IRS for the 2015 tax year. Exact information is hard to come by, but we know that so far more than 30,000 Letter 226J penalty notices have been sent leaving another 19,000 that could be issued for the 2015 tax year.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Large hospital systems are keeping more affordable options out of their contracts with providers. Plus, a Texas county's public insurance program could soon close, and a group of NFL Hall of Famers are demanding the league provide them badly needed health insurance.

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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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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

There are still a few months to go in 2018, yet this year is already shaping up to be arguably the most eventful and important for the proliferation of remote patient management (RPM). In less than 10 months, a variety of major developments have combined to lead to a significant expansion of the technology not just in the United States, but also in global RPM delivery.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

OODA Health, a startup focused on eliminating waste and inefficiencies from healthcare administration, announced on Tuesday that it had raised $40.5 million in a series A funding round. Among other investors, Blue Shield of California made a sizable contribution of $1.5 million to advance a solution for real-time claims processing.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Livongo CEO Glen Tullman explains that moves by businesses like Amazon and CVS are pushing the traditional healthcare system model because ready or not, consumers want to make their own healthcare decisions.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Omada Health's diabetes prevention program is going national, California's insurance regulator has raised kickback issues about Humira and more payer news from around the web.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Kaiser Permanente was the leading health care sponsor of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, and CEO Bernard J. Tyson addressed the conference Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018, during a session called, “Healthy Planet, Healthy People.” Tyson discussed Kaiser Permanente’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2020 — and how we are already on our way at 30 percent of that goal.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The prices of medicines prescribed in outpatient settings rose, on average. 10.3% in 2018. Wages increased about 2.6%, and consumer prices, 1.3%, based on the 2019 Segal Health Plan Cost Trend Survey. Segal forecasts that medical cost trends will moderate for 2019, lower than 2018 rates. But to the patient, now feeling like a consumer dealing with high-deductibles and the growing sticker shock of specialty drug prices, a so-called “moderate” trend still feels like a big bite in the h

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33 Charts - Digital Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Should healthcare be inconvenient by design? And should slow medicine be the default option in some circumstances? Slow medicine is a movement calling for change in medical practice which is inspired by the slow food movement. “Like for the slow food movement, slow medicine is a call to balance over-emphasis on fast processes which reduce quality.”.

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