Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
News of the tool, currently in clinical pilots, comes a week after reports circulated that Google was working with healthcare system Ascension on a controversial project involving patient data.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
LeadingAge in San Diego and more. Entrepreneurs clearly see the opportunity for providing tech-enabled services to help care for older adults. Large events like Leading Age, Argentum, and sub-events within CES and HIMSS all point to the business potential that draws startups as well as new offerings from existing players – in what may become an increasingly crowded market.
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Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
MobiHealthNews sat down with Amy McDonough, senior vice presidnet & general manager of Fitbit Health Solutions prior to the news that Google was set to acquire Fitbit.
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Drew Ivan, EVP of Product and Strategy, Rhapsody and Corepoint Health. Healthcare is home to some of the most mind-blowing technological advances when it comes to diagnostics and therapies. At the same time, the healthcare system is responsible for many of the most head-scratching operational difficulties related to standard IT processes, such as those […].
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Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Astellas will be paying Welldoc $15 million up front for certain rights to the diabetes digital therapeutic, and will also be on the hook for milestones and royalty payments.
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Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The announcement was made at Slush, a startup event organised in Helsinki, Finland this week.
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Charles Holive, managing director, Sisense. The big data revolution has made today’s healthcare industry a vibrant hub of innovation in data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Recent decades have brought tremendous advances in not only the science of clinical and medical services, but also in the business strategy powering those services.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Patients treated at NCI-designated cancer centers were 10% more likely to be given these drugs than were patients treated in other settings.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Humana is seeing significant cost savings and reductions in unnecessary care through its value-based Medicare Advantage arrangements, the insurer said Thursday.
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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
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The online tool helps users raise funds and coordinate care from peers.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Next year, there will be an average of 4.5 insurers per state on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges, a slight increase from the 2019 coverage year, a new analysis finds.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The Tampere, Finland-headquartered company now plans to set up operations in the US and Asia.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The Senate on Thursday gave hospitals a month-long reprieve from $4 billion in cuts set to go into effect on Friday.
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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.
David Chou
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
It was a meeting of the minds as always with the Salesforce Dreamforce conference. There are lots of great announcements, and the event takes over all of San Francisco. From a healthcare perspective, the trend towards consumerization leaves patient-centric needs unmet. The abundance of healthcare information, availability of non-traditional solutions, and new models of care shift control from providers to patients.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The American Medical Association has adopted a new policy to help ensure residents and fellows who lose their jobs due to unexpected teaching hospital closures are financially and professionally protected. The organization's new policy, adopted during its 2019 Interim Meeting, comes on the heels of the recent closure of Philadelphia's Hahnemann University Hospital, which displaced more than 570 residents and fellows.
Synzi
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Patient-centered Care According to the NEJM Catalyst, patient-centered care means that an individual’s specific health needs and desired health outcomes are the driving force behind all health care decisions and quality measurements. Home health agencies deliver patient-centered care when they … Read More. The post How Virtual Care Helps A Patient Feel Like A VIP appeared first on Synzi.
MedTech Boston
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Earlier this month, the Boston University School of Public Health and Savonix launched a population health study to look at digitally. The post BU Launches Pop Health Study to Learn Factors that Increase Risk of Dementia appeared first on MedTech Boston.
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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
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
A new report by a security vendor says that it has seen a big increase in the volume of threats against healthcare organizations during the first three quarters of this year. The report, by Malwarebytes, says that it saw a 60% increase of threats at healthcare organizations when comparing all of 2018 with just the […].
Insulin Nation
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Amir Farzam, CEO of MontMed, is driven to reduce the complexity of diabetes management, through a combination of science and consumer behavior. We spoke with Amir Farzam, CEO of MontMed ( website ) about SiteSmart, a new color-based site rotation system for insulin pen users. Read his impressive bio at the end of the article. If you have type 1 diabetes are using insulin pens to control your blood sugar, you are probably vaguely aware that you should be rotating your injection sites.
Health Recovery Solutions
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
With the ever-evolving digital health landscape, wearable technology has integrated itself into healthcare. By accelerating patient insights to providers, wearables offer real-time data to payers and provider organizations, augmenting and informing medical care. A recent study by PwC found that 49% of the United States population owns a wearable device, including fitness bands, smartwatches, smart glasses, smart video/photo devices, and smartphones.
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.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Successful healthcare data archiving with minimal risk requires preservation of the legal medical record (as defined by the organization), data sets such as contextual audit trails, referenced data in ancillary systems, data change and version history, and even database metadata.
Optimum Healthcare IT
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutes Optimum Healthcare IT partners with Ellis Medicine for successful implementation of the Cerner Millenium EHR system. The post Cerner Millennium Implementation at Ellis Medicine appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.
HealthStream
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Lung Cancer Awareness Month is the perfect opportunity to learn more about how to prevent a disease that kills more women that breast cancer.
CMS.gov
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
For the third time in my tenure at CMS, I am excited to recognize National Rural Health Day and the work CMS is doing to advance the health of nearly 60 million rural Americans.
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