Fri.Jul 26, 2019

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Indonesia’s Halodoc raises close to a total of $100M after latest funding round

Mobi Health News

Indonesia-based healthtech platform Halodoc announced that it has secured additional funding from strategic investors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Allianz X and Prudential. Allianz and Prudential provide insurance services in Indonesia and are users of Halodoc's services. The funds will be used to further Halodoc's commitment to simplify healthcare through technology in Indonesia.

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Data, Data Everywhere, But It’s Still Confined In Silos

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By B.J. Boyle, vice president and general manager of post-acute insights, PointClickCare. As every nurse, physician, clinical case manager, and healthcare IT professional knows well, we have passed the stage in which locking up patient data is an effective care practice.

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New PBM programs offer road to validity, adoption for digital therapeutics

Mobi Health News

Vetting digital health products for distribution and reimbursement is another step forward for novel digital treatments hoping to stand alongside traditional biologics.

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How the Digital Transformation Is Changing What Is Required of Healthcare Professionals

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. The healthcare industry has long been known for its lengthy processes and difficult paperwork hoops. Much like the federal government, it has lagged behind other industries in updating technology to meet the expectations of modern system users.

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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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MassBio talks what digital health can learn from biotech

Mobi Health News

MassBio's Luba Greenwood also discusses her decision to leave Verily in order to pursue teaching the intersection of life science and technology at Harvard.

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Luba Greenwood leaves Verily to teach digital health leaders at Harvard

Mobi Health News

Greenwood, Verily's head of strategic business development and corporate ventures, discussed the importance of teaching the next generation about the convergence of industries within digital health.

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Avoiding Delays in Neurological Diagnosis - The 1.0 Version

Christina's Considerations

It is commonly reported that Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (AIDP), Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) and other variants are rare conditions. Data on the numbers of cases diagnosed are used to create rates among the general.

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VA to spend $4.9B maintaining EHR over next decade as it rolls out Cerner replacement

FierceHealthIT

A Government Accountability Office official told members of Congress that the VA doesn't have a firm grasp on how much it is going to cost to maintain its current home-grown electronic health record system over the next 10 years while it's also rolling out a $10 billion Cerner EHR system, a GAO official said.

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Using data and tech to give patients care they need

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using data and tech to give patients care they need Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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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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HHS awards $42M to expand health centers' IT to support value-based care

FierceHealthIT

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded close to $42 million in funding to expand the use of health IT at thousands of federally funded health centers across the country.

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What NHS tells us about health IT

Morning eHealth

More on Klobuchar, Murkowski’s health data bill — Cerner Millennium won’t initially have all veterans’ data

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With Physician Burnout Rising, EHR Optimization Takes Center Stage

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Health systems turn to informatics groups to alleviate stress on clinicians

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Cigna, Memorial Sloan Kettering team up to coordinate care for chemotherapy patients

FierceHealthIT

Cigna is teaming up with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to provide more coordinated care to patients undergoing chemotherapy.

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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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IHE Profiles on FHIR R4 now have conformance resources available

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This week the ITI and PCC face-to-face meeting approved new/updated FHIR conformance resources (ImplementationGuide, StructureDefintion, CapabilityStatement, ValueSet, CodeSystem, and OperationDefinition) for publication. These have been aligned with FHIR R4. * PIXm -- supplement soon to be released to Public Comment * NPFS -- supplement soon to be released to Public Comment * (mACM) -- supplement soon to be released to Public Comment * MHD * NPFS * mCSD * ATNA * QEDm * DCP * DCTM * PCS More det

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What Hourly Rounding is NOT and Why It Often Fails

HealthStream

From patient satisfaction to leader accountability, HealthStream analyzes what hourly rounding is not, why it often fails, and differences from traditional practice.

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Verma attacks public option with same ferocity as attacks on 'Medicare for All'

FierceHealthIT

CMS Administrator Seema Verma said that a "public option" for the ACA would reduce consumer choice and cause private plans to flee the ACA's exchanges.

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Never Stop Improving: The Importance of Nurse Competency

HealthStream

Learn how the importance of always improving nurse competency is paramount to cultivating a positive patient experience, from HealthStream.

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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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More Evidence That Healthcare Cybersecurity Could Stand To Be Tightened Up Quite A Bit

Healthcare IT Today

Not long ago, I shared the results of a survey concluding that healthcare organizations generally felt pretty confident about the state of their cybersecurity defenses, despite having had WannaCry wipe the floor with them just two years before. Now, another survey has come out which underscores just how misplaced that confidence might be. The survey, […].

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Patient Safety In Nursing: The Nurse's Role

HealthStream

Learn how patient safety in nursing depends on understanding how and why we are treating patients and how that treatment affects our patients, from HealthStream.

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Telehealth Serving the Underserved – Small Town, USA Benefits From Access to Care

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

According to National Public Radio, “a growing number of Americans [are] turning to telehealth appointments with medical providers in the wake of widespread hospital closings in remote communities, and a shortage of local primary care doctors, specialists, and other providers.”. “Remote communities” is an all too relatable term when it comes to the South Central Region (i.e.

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5 Reasons Why Lifelong Learning is Essential in Healthcare

HealthStream

Here are 5 strong reasons lifelong learning in nursing is a long term career need in healthcare to ensure that employees stay abreast of advances in healthcare.

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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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Access Management

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Limiting PHI Exposure (Part IV): Access Management Behavioral health practices handle protected health information (PHI) regularly, and as such, must take precautions to safeguard the sensitive information. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommends ten practices that anyone … Read more. The post Access Management appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Effects of Poor Communication Patterns Between Nurses & Providers

HealthStream

Learn how the effects of poor communication in healthcare between nurses, healthcare professionals, and providers occur for a variety of reasons from HealthStream.

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New Epic EMR Parody Announcement – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

If you don’t follow the Gomer Blog, then you’re missing out. For those not familiar with it, it’s basically the “Onion” of healthcare. It can sometimes whiff a little on the humor, but when they hit they hit it out of the park. This was how I felt with their recent post called “Epic announces […].

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Lifelong Learning in Nursing Is Vital

HealthStream

Learn why an interest in lifelong learning in nursing is considered to be an element of professionalism for anyone working in healthcare, from HealthStream.

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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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Partners HealthCare’s Joe Kvedar, M.D., to Serve as American Telemedicine Association President

MedTech Boston

Change is coming to the American Telemedicine Association (ATA). The organization yesterday announced Joseph Kvedar, M.D., of Boston-based Partners. The post Partners HealthCare’s Joe Kvedar, M.D., to Serve as American Telemedicine Association President appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Training for Active Shooter in a Hospital: Best Practices

HealthStream

The times we live in call for a more active role in our personal safety and that of hospital patients and staff to be prepared for an active shooter.

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Ciox Secures Equity Investment from Merck Global Health Innovation Fund

Healthcare IT Today

Ciox Health, the nation’s leader in clinical data exchange, today announced a $30 million equity investment to enhance its core capability of providing clinical data liquidity to reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of patient outcomes. New investor Merck Global Health Innovation Fund (Merck GHIF) and private equity owner New Mountain Capital led the […].