Thu.Jul 12, 2018

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CMS's 2019 proposal makes broad strides in telehealth, interoperability, documentation

Mobi Health News

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its new proposed Physician Fee Schedule and Qualified Payment Program updates for 2019, and the announcement includes some big strides forward in promoting digital health technology, including widened telemedicine coverage, an overhaul of documentation requirements, and a new focus on interoperability.

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Custom Mobile Apps for Urgent Care: Pros and Cons

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Darya Danikovich, IT journalist, Softvelopers. As the healthcare industry is strongly focused on efficient workflow, mobile apps are what can help doctors and patients interact on the go. According to a survey, 90 percent of medical institutions already use or plan to use mobile apps for patient treatment and/or internal management.

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Medical booking company Doctolib acquires MonDocteur

Mobi Health News

This morning, Doctolib announced that it acquired fellow online medical appointment booking and management company MonDocteur.

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CMS promises to ‘restore the doctor-patient relationship’ with 2019 proposed rule

FierceHealthIT

CMS issued a proposed rule yesterday that makes what officials called “historic changes” to the Medicare program, including changes to E&M documentation requirements, new telehealth reimbursement opportunities and changes to the MIPS program.

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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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Senator and FCC commissioner propose telehealth pilot

Mobi Health News

Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr have teamed up to propose a new telemedicine initiative that aims to support people at home and prevent hospital readmission, specifically among low-income individuals. The pair are seeking $100 million for the new initiative, called the “Connected Care Pilot Program.” The program is designed to help people who are low-income, veterans, or living in rural areas get telemedicine care.

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Study: Immersive VR therapy reduces individuals' fear of heights

Mobi Health News

An investigation published yesterday in The Lancet Psychiatry found that automated cognitive intervention delivered via sessions with a consumer-grade virtual reality headset effectively reduced individuals’ fear of heights, and was generally well received by those participating in the study.

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Seema Verma defends cuts to ACA Navigator program, commitment to states’ ‘flexibility’

FierceHealthIT

During a 30-minute Q&A session with reporters on Thursday morning, the CMS administrator also said states should continue to expect “flexibility” despite a Kentucky court ruling limiting its Medicaid work requirements rules.

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Digital employee wellness service Spring Health brings in $6M

Mobi Health News

Spring Health, a digital wellness platform that connects employees to mental healthcare resources, has scooped up $6 million in seed funding, bringing the company’s total amount raised to $8 million. The round was led by Rethink Impact with additional participation from Work-Bench, BBG Ventures, and The Partnership Fund for New York City, as well as returning investors RRE Ventures and William K.

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DOJ expands focus to drug makers in efforts to curb opioid epidemic

FierceHealthIT

Under a new rule, the Drug Enforcement Agency may cut back the amount of a drug allowed to be produced in a given year if it believes a particular company’s opioids are being diverted for misuse.

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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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Innovaccer's new free online tool helps ACOs save

Mobi Health News

Healthcare data platform company Innovaccer has launched ACO Advisor, a new free online tool that uses publicly available data to advise Accountable Care Organizations on how to reduce costs and increase revenues.

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Patients on ACA at higher risk for surprise bills, physician coalition says

FierceHealthIT

Patients are at a higher risk of receiving surprise medical bills, as a new study found more health plans on the ACA insurance exchange markets offer restrictive networks.

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Lumiata's CEO, EverlyWell's chief technical officer, and other digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Lumiata has tapped Dilawar Syed as its newly appointed CEO. Syed comes most recently from a president position at the cloud-based software company Freshworks, and before that served as CEO of Yonja Media Group as well as head of platform operations at Yahoo.

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Doctors: Don’t blame me for high healthcare costs

FierceHealthIT

Lots of factors are at play when it comes to high healthcare costs. But doctors are sure of one thing: They aren’t to blame.

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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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Hands-On Technology Demos are the Focus of New Orleans Telehealth Technology Summit

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

A Telehealth Technology Summit (#TTS18) is planned on December 12-13 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. #TTS18 will feature a technology showcase hosted by the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Center (TTAC). The showcase provides an opportunity for conference attendees to interact with a variety of telemedicine medical peripherals. Throughout the event, attendees will participate in hands-on demonstrations led by TTAC Director, Doris Barta, and Telehealth Technology Specialist, Jordan

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American Renal Associates pays $32M to settle fraud accusations from UnitedHealth

FierceHealthIT

The settlement resolves two separate cases filed by UnitedHealthcare alleging ARA paid patient premiums to keep them on commercial plans with higher reimbursement for dialysis services, and later paid nephrologists to refer patients to out-of-network ARA facilities.

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Markup season

Morning eHealth

ONDCP nominee Jim Carroll on PDMP — FCC telehealth plan

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MedEvolve data breach exposed information of 200K urgent care patients

FierceHealthIT

MedEvolve, an Arkansas-based practice management software provider, has revealed a healthcare data breach that exposed the information of more than 200,000 patients of one of its customers.

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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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Novartis Becomes the Latest Pharma Company to Give Up on Antibiotics Research

Lloyd Price

Much like climate change, the growing emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial superbugs is a ticking time bomb that threatens our very way of life. It’s also a very expensive problem to tackle, and Big Pharma has struggled to find any promising solutions. On Wednesday, yet another major pharmaceutical—the Swiss-based Novartis—announced it is dropping out of the antibiotics game.

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Payer Roundup—DOJ expected to approve CVS-Aetna; Confusion over UnitedHealth's exchange entry

FierceHealthIT

DOJ may not block the CVS-Aetna merger despite opposition from the AMA, and UnitedHealth's re-entry into the Massachusetts ACA market causes confusion for the insurer.

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PwC invests in Healthcare Technology startup Perfect Ward

Lloyd Price

PwC has announced their investment in the health technology business that has developed Perfect Ward, an online inspection tool aimed at improving quality in healthcare organisations and systems. Perfect Ward typically halves the time it takes to do a manual audit and as soon an inspection is completed, the results are immediately available for everyone to see.

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Advocate Aurora Health partners with Foxconn to bring ‘smart city’ concept to healthcare

FierceHealthIT

Months after it finalized its merger, Aurora Advocate Healthcare has inked a partnership with the Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn to focus on sharing health data and investing in precision medicine.

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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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The Center for a Mental Health & Wellness Tour

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

Now that July, National Minority Mental Health Month, is in full swing, the Center for Total Health encourages you to join us in a new and thought-provoking tour focused on integrating mental health and wellness into everyday life. Through the power of storytelling, you will learn from a wide range of personas whose health is impacted by varying degrees of mental health issues or concerns.

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Physician Practice Roundup—Doctor played role in rescue from Thailand cave and more news

FierceHealthIT

A combination of talents led an Australian doctor to play a key role in the rescue of the 12 boys and their coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand. This and more physician practice news.

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