Wed.Oct 17, 2018

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Koen Kas, the Gardener of Health Tech Delights

Health Populi

The future of healthcare is not about being sick, Prof. Dr. Koen Kas believes. Having spent many years in life sciences in both research and as an entrepreneur, Koen now knows that getting and staying healthy isn’t about just developing medicines and med-tech: optimally, health requires a tincture of delight, Koen advises in his breakthrough, innovative book, Your Guide to Delight.

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AMA launches Digital Health Implementation Playbook

Mobi Health News

The new playbook will include a step-by-step approach to implementing digital health tools, as well as best practices and other resources.

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FDA updates medical device premarket guidance to include cybersecurity recommendations

FierceHealthIT

Updates from the FDA add new cybersecurity recommendations to medical device premarket guidance, including a "bill of materials," that build on the "total product lifecycle approach to device safety," according to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.

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HIPAA lets providers text patients, but is it secure?

Mobi Health News

As texting between patients and providers becomes more common, it’s imperative that providers consider the right platform to use and other security features to protect patient data.

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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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What business do hospitals have addressing gun violence? Plenty, doctors argue

FierceHealthIT

A small army of providers is trying to mobilize U.S. healthcare systems around addressing firearm violence the way they would if a new disease resulting in life-altering injuries and death swept the nation.

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Study: Virtual physical therapy could significantly reduce postsurgical costs 

FierceHealthIT

Physical therapy is a crucial part of recovery after orthopedic surgery, and a new study suggests that patients may do just as well meeting with a virtual therapist.

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UK Health and Social Care Secretary outlines plans to introduce mandatory open standards

Mobi Health News

Digital services and IT systems in the NHS will have to meet a new set of open standards and existing solutions will have to be upgraded, according to a new policy paper released by the Department of Health and Social Care.

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The kids are not all right: How to integrate behavioral health into pediatric practices

FierceHealthIT

Nearly 1 in 5 children in the U.S. have a diagnosable mental health illness. Pediatric practices are integrating behavioral healthcare to help ensure children have access to the services they need.

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Medical device vulnerabilities will impact patient safety, infrastructure

Mobi Health News

Despite the healthcare sector’s awareness of medical device flaws, many are still focused on whether a patient has been harmed. But to UC San Diego researcher, emergency medicine provider Christian Dameff, it’s more about retaining patient trust and ensure the technology doesn’t fail.

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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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Engaging Your Consumer: The New Wave of Healthcare Business

Mobile Health Matters

One of the major transformations in healthcare today centers on the development of the patient as a consumer. Patients are driving a demand for increased connectivity with their providers, and have a growing expectation for convenient and customizable care. As the consumerization of healthcare continues to evolve, the patient will play a larger role in overall healthcare IT strategy.

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Athenahealth alums’ tech-enabled ‘payvidor’ startup, Devoted, lands $300M Series B

Mobi Health News

The startup, headed by entrepreneurs Todd and Ed Park, also announced that it has begun enrolling Medicare beneficiaries living in certain Florida counties.

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AMA issues 12-step 'playbook' for digital health implementation

FierceHealthIT

A new "living document" unveiled by the American Medical Association on Wednesday provides physicians with step-by-step considerations for integrating new digital tools, including remote monitoring technology.

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Pharma-provider messaging company OptimizeRx acquires patient messaging firm CareSpeak for $9M

Mobi Health News

The deal allows OptimizeRx to include CareSpeak's adherence-boosting patient engagement features into its larger platform.

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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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Catholic Health Initiatives-Dignity Health megamerger gets green light from Vatican

FierceHealthIT

While state regulators still need to weigh in on the planned merger, these health systems cleared a major hurdle with the approval.

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Cyber work

Morning eHealth

Todd Park-DJ Patil startup takes in gonzo bucks (and other health tech) — WH touts health deregs

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Report: Hospital executives hew to tradition and miss valuable areas for cost cutting

FierceHealthIT

Hospital leaders may not be looking in the right places as part of cost-cutting initiatives, according to a new report.

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HIStalk Interviews Rizwan Koita, CEO, CitiusTech

HIStalk Interviews

Rizwan Koita is CEO of CitiusTech of Princeton, NJ. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m the founder and chief executive officer of CitiusTech. We founded the company in 2005. This is my second company — I started a tech support company. Before that, I spent about five years with McKinsey & Company. When you and I spoke last in 2015, CitiusTech was about 1,600 or 1,700 people strong.

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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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Industry groups sound off on ACO program changes, but half of participants say they will stay

FierceHealthIT

A new survey from NAACOS shows that nearly half of ACOs would leave the program if proposed changes are finalized, and 60% said they wouldn't join if they were new to the program. NAACOS and others pushed CMS to not enact other changes like cutting shared savings in half.

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Survey: Remote Patient Monitoring Reduces Hospital Visits, Improves Patient Satisfaction

care innovations

A new survey conducted by KLAS Research and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) on the implementation of remote patient monitoring (RPM) within the U.S. healthcare industry has yielded some interesting findings, including: RPM is “highly successful at reducing hospital visits” and can improve patient satisfaction, among a list of other operational benefits.

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Consumer-facing Medicare plan tools are inaccessible and inaccurate, experts say

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Plan Finder frustrates many seniors, and there's a lot of confusion over what star ratings mean, said multiple speakers at AHIP's National Conference on Medicare.

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Is Fraud the biggest driver of telemedicine revenues?

mHealth Insight

Seven companies and four men have been charged with involvement in a $1 billion telemedicine fraud scheme involving allegedly filed false claims for payment and misleading doctors and patients in order to defraud private health benefit programs. I think people are going to soon realise that type of insurance fraud is just this is the tip of an iceberg and the sooner regulators do their job and prevent this from being possible ( or the success of Apple’s mHealth strategy kills off the Healt

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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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Moody's: Children's hospitals outperform adult hospitals even as expenses rise

FierceHealthIT

A new report from Moody's Investors Services said children's hospitals in the U.S. will continue to hold their financial advantage about 3-4 percentage points over adult hospitals over the next year due, in part, to strong patient demand and limited competition.

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IRS Letter 226J for 2016 “In the Mail”

ACA Times

3 minute read: It’s confirmed. The IRS will begin issuing Letter 226J for the 2016 tax year in the next few weeks. IRS staff has indicated that the penalty notices for 2016 are ready to start being issued as they have completed the final batch of Letter 226J notices being issued for the 2015 tax year. The IRS sent more than 30,000 Letter 226J notices to organizations it believed did not comply with the ACA for the 2015 year, issuing penalty assessments of more than $4.4 billion.

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Physician Practice Roundup—AMITA Health will cut outpatient locations in half; HHS awards $293M toward primary care workforce

FierceHealthIT

AMITA Health, a Catholic health system in Illinois, plans to cut its ambulatory care locations in half; HHS is offering a funding boost to the primary care workforce; and more physician practice news.