Wed.Mar 27, 2019

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Digital Health Trends To Watch In 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology is the new creed that has literally touched almost every aspect of our life. Be it communication, traveling, or exercising, we are always interacting with technology. However, healthcare has always been considered a very conservative area in terms of technology deployment.

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Interoperability rules need some fine-tuning, experts tell Senate Committee

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare stakeholders agree with the direction of HHS' proposed interoperability rules but are concerned about an increased burden on providers, the timeline for implementation and risks to patient data privacy.

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With IoT, patients can get continuous health monitoring anywhere, anytime

Lloyd Price

Remote patient monitoring is gaining momentum as healthcare providers strive to deliver more services on tighter budgets. With the population aging and facing greater health issues, the pressure on healthcare services is rising and will continue to do so. Providers are grappling with lower reimbursements and a significant trend toward payments for value rather than volume.

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Study finds new program using Google Glass, AI helps children with autism interpret emotions

Mobi Health News

Published in JAMA Pediatrics, the investigation found that children using the new system showed significant improvements in socialization skills.

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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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A Single Source of Truth: Data Management In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bill Kotraba, vice president, healthcare solutions and strategy, Information Builders. Data has long been a popular topic in healthcare and is even more so after this year’s HIMSS. The industry is buzzing about the joint CMS and ONC announcement, which proposes a framework to improve interoperability and support seamless and secure access of health […].

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UA Telehealth Nurse Researcher Collaborates with Universidad Mayor in Chile

Arizona Telemedicine Program

Phase One: Using Simulation Labs to Teach Future Telehealth Providers. For 15 years, I was a home hospice nurse who went out on emergency nighttime visits to patients who were experiencing symptoms that terrified their family. The travel distance added to the anxiety and suffering of family and patients. I always thought that just because a family chooses to live in a rural area, they should not have to accept suffering as “the price they have to pay.”.

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Digital health prescription platform Xealth raises $11M Series A

Mobi Health News

The Providence-St. Joseph Health spinoff's platform allows clinicians to prescribe apps and other digital tools to patients through their normal EHR workflow.

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Pediatric practice faces attacks from anti-vaxxers: 'We decided to take a stand,' says doctor

FierceHealthIT

It all started when a Pennsylvania pediatric practice posted a video on its Facebook page urging parents to get their children vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV), which can protect them from a variety of cancers. It then found itself under attack on social media, the target of anti-vaccine activists.

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Cancer care management platform OncoLens lands $1.35M in seed funding

Mobi Health News

The round was led by BIP Capital and Atlanta Technology Angels.

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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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Petya Ransomware: Hackers Learn From Their Mistakes To Create the Next Big Cyber Threat

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jacob Denton, chief information security officer, Mosaic451. Unless your security team has been living in a cave in one of the last remaining places on the planet where you can still unplug, you have certainly heard about the Petya and NotPetya ransomware attacks and the chaos caused by them.

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PatientPoint tackles chronic disease with AMA, Sutter Health adopts Suki and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Dictum Health and Complete Telehealth Solutions partner up; Washington University School of Medicine study features SilverCloud's digital intervention.

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CMS offers up to $1.6M in AI challenge for better healthcare prediction tools

FierceHealthIT

Details are finally out about a new artificial intelligence challenge aimed at creating tools to better predict patient health outcomes. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced on Wednesday it is launching the CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge with the potential for projects to win up to $1.65 million.

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My Gene Counsel, Ambry Genetics team up to offer re-testing for certain D2C genetic test users

Mobi Health News

A study last year showed that D2C tests have a false positive rate as high as 40 percent.

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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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Sue Murphy, Chief Experience Officer, UChicago Medicine, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

The way not to teach care providers how to show empathy and incorporate it into their workflow? By mandating it, says Sue Murphy, who believes it should be less about checking a box, and more about understanding what others are feeling. The word ‘audit’ has never conjured up a positive image. No one wants to be audited — especially nurses, who already face a tremendous burden being the front line of patient care.

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Majority of employers have no program for opioid use, suicide prevention: report

FierceHealthIT

A majority of employers have no plans to focus on opioid abuse or suicide prevention, despite the growing rates of deaths connected to these risk factors, according to a new report.

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Time to make telehealth strategies more personal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: HIMSS19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Time to make telehealth strategies more personal Featured Decision Content:

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Centene to purchase WellCare in $17.3B deal

FierceHealthIT

Centene Corporation will purchase rival insurer WellCare Health Plans in a deal valued at $17.3 billion, the companies announced early Wednesday.

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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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Duke to Pay $112.5M to Settle Fake Health Research Lawsuit

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The whistleblower in the case will receive $33.

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Express Scripts: Value-based programs increasing adherence, lowering drug costs

FierceHealthIT

A new analysis from Express Scripts reveals that value-based programs are keeping costs down while also improving care and outcomes for patients.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

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Patients file lawsuit against UConn Health over data breach impacting 300K patients

FierceHealthIT

The first lawsuit stemming from a February announcement that the University of Connecticut Health Center suffered a data breach impacting patient data has been filed in federal court.

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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 process of shared decision-making: What it is, when it’s not, and what it should be

Society for Participatory Medicine

This is a guest post by SPM member, heart patient and author Elizabeth Rankin, BScN. Some background: one of the most-discussed topics on our blog is shared decision-making (SDM), with pages and pages of posts (75 in the category) , dating back to 2010’s Salzburg Global Seminar on the subject. It’s of course an essential aspect of participatory medicine.

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Federal judge strikes down Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky, Arkansas

FierceHealthIT

A federal judge has struck down Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas.

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Partnership Recommends Strategies for Safer Opioid Prescribing

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

ECRI Institute, HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association combine patient safety organization analytics, developer expertise

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CMS approves Florida Medicaid waiver to pilot housing assistance program 

FierceHealthIT

CMS will allow Florida to test a program in Medicaid that would offer greater behavioral health services and housing access to beneficiaries with severe mental illness or substance use disorder.

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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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Senate HELP hearing headlines

Morning eHealth

Changing of the DOD guard — Agency updates

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Health IT Roundup—UCLA Health reaches $7.5M settlement over 2015 data breach

FierceHealthIT

UCLA Health will pay $7.5 million to settle with the 4.5 million patients whose records were impacted in a May 2015 data breach; a study finds hospital employees susceptible to phishing emails; plus more health IT headlines.

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Israel-based computational pathology startup Ibex raises $11M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

Ibex Medical Analytics, an Israel-based startup founded in 2016 which is developing their own AI-driven computational pathology cancer diagnosis system, recently completed an $11M Series A funding round led by aMoon Fund. Additional investors in the round include Kamet Ventures, an investment arm of AXA Insurance, one of the largest global health insurance providers, 83North, a global venture capital fund and Dell Technologies Capital.

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