Health Populi

JULY 27, 2018

Only 17% of Americans over 50 years of age shopped for groceries online by mid-2018. But older people in the U.S. have underlying demands and needs that could nudge them to do online grocery shopping, unearthed in a survey from AARP Foundation and IFIC , the International Food Industry Council Foundation. Typically, older Americans who shop online tend to be college-educated, work full-time, and earn higher incomes.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 27, 2018

About the Author: Adam H. Greene, JD, MPH, a partner and co-chair of Davis Wright Tremaine’s health information practice, and former Senior Health Information Technology and Privacy Specialist at the HHS Office for Civil Rights, where he was responsible for applying the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules to health IT.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 27, 2018

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Shawn Yates, director of product management, Ontario Systems. Impossible projects, crazy deadlines and short staffing present a bigger challenge than their own resolution: They draw focus away from important revenue cycle functions that maintain positive margins. Caring for the patient is, of course, the healthcare provider’s core mission.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 27, 2018

Online fitness membership platform ClassPass has scored $85 million in a Series D funding round led by Singapore company Temasek, with participation from L Catterton's Growth Fund.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 27, 2018

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee want the FTC to conduct a retrospective review of three PBM mergers worth a combined $68.3 billion to see if they did indeed bring down healthcare costs.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 27, 2018

Here's a look at what else the AARP/University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging identified when it comes to the management of opioid prescriptions among older adults.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 27, 2018

As more and more hospitals are deploying a range of smart and connected technologies to improve care and efficiency, it's increasingly important to preserve and highlight the human side of care. That's the overarching theme of the upcoming HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston: "Balancing Technology and the Human Element".

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 27, 2018

The United States may be the most dangerous country in the developed world in which to give birth, according to a new report, as many hospitals routinely fail to perform basic safety practices.

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care innovations

JULY 27, 2018

After many years in the telehealth business, with much of it spent out in the field working directly with our customers, I noticed a trend out of the most successful ones. The attribute that makes them successful is one of the same attributes that make any program successful — strong leadership. More specifically, I believe the common denominator in successful programs is courageous leadership.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

JULY 27, 2018

Pathologists often find their labs relegated to the nether regions of a hospital. But with its latest project, Michigan Medicine officials said they looked to IT companies and even cooking schools for inspiration as they looked to rethink the way their diagnostic departments would do business in a precision medicine age.

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Morning eHealth

JULY 27, 2018

Schiff demands HIPAA update from HHS — ONC heads’ financial disclosures revealed

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 27, 2018

Community Health Systems posted a significant loss in the second quarter amid decreasing admission rates but still beat analysts' expectations. CHS posted a second-quarter loss of $110 million.

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Health Intersections

JULY 27, 2018

Question: I am looking for HL7 messages by which I can identify the vendor and type of devices I have in my network (e.g. Medlink – Xray, Alaris – IV pump). Are there specific messages I should be looking at to achieve this? Are the PRT segment and OBX-18 the relevant sources of information? Answer: HL7 V2 does not have a specific message to just identify which devices are on the network.

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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.

Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 27, 2018

How to Stay Out of Hot Water: Telehealth Documentation! (Easy 3-Part TBHI Online Webinar Series) 6 CE Hours Available Have you updated your telehealth documentation to address recent state and association specific requirements? Reviewing your documents has never been easier. … Read more. The post Telehealth Documentation appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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HIStalk Weekender

JULY 27, 2018

Weekly News Recap. CMS proposes site-neutral payments in which hospital-owned practices won’t earn higher rates for billing as a hospital outpatient department. Internal IBM documents indicate that Watson Health has made unsafe treatment recommendations. The White House reverses its decision to halt ACA risk adjustment payments, citing the need to keep small insurers solvent and participating in the exchange markets.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 27, 2018

In addition to provisions written in the Affordable Care Act and the Employment Retirement Income Security Act, the complaint alleges the Department of Labor violated fundamental legal concepts, including separation of powers and legislative intent.

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