Thu.Jul 11, 2019

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How can data analytics to improve the care and outcomes of cancer patients?

KevinMD

I want to share some thoughts about artificial intelligence, or as I prefer to call it “data analytics.” Fundamentally: How can we capture the capability of analytics to improve the care and outcomes of cancer patients? And more importantly: How can we harness this technology to help bring back the human touch in cancer care? […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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The New Drug Companies Aren’t Drug Companies At All

Health Populi

The health/care ecosystem continues to morph as the stakeholder groups themselves are blurring across and outside of their core businesses. Today’s example of this is Clover Health, which launched Clover Therapeutics this week. This research organization will develop medicines targeting older adults — which makes sense because Clover Health’s target consumer market is Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.

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How digital therapeutic company Omada Health has taken a cue from life sciences

Mobi Health News

CEO Sean Duffy discusses clinical validation, digital therapeutics and the new opportunity for a digital provider.

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Redefining Adaptive Radiotherapy And The Future of Cancer Treatment?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Yves Archambault, strategic initiative director, Varian. It’s hard to imagine what it can be like to go through cancer treatment, even when being treated with the latest adaptive therapy technology. You walk into the clinic, lay perfectly still inside a long, narrow tunnel-like machine…for about 45 minutes or so, as your clinician uses an […].

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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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FCC advances, seeks public comment on $100M rural telehealth pilot

Mobi Health News

The program would provide an 85% discount on telehealth connectivity expenses for health organizations serving rural communities.

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Hims & Hers picks up new chief medical officer, 23andMe's chief scientific officer steps back and more digital health hires and departures

Mobi Health News

Also: Hinge Health, Fitbit vet joins Lark Health; Podimetrics hires new VP of enterprise health services.

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How digital tools can alleviate the stigma of mental health issues

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How digital tools can alleviate the stigma of mental health issues Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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NHS partners with Amazon to provide health information through Alexa

FierceHealthIT

The U.K.’s National Health Service has partnered with tech giant Amazon to enable patients to access verified health information using Alexa devices. The NHS touts the initiative as particularly helpful for those who cannot access the internet.

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Burnout is Prevalent, but Clinicians Believe Health Systems Don’t Properly Address It

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

92 percent of respondents said they believe that burnout is a public health crisis

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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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Study finds that shortening residents’ hours didn’t affect doctor performance

FierceHealthIT

Reforms that shortened residents’ work hours did not have a negative impact on patients, a new study found. A move that capped residents’ work hours at 80 hours a week in 2003 did not make a difference in terms of patient mortality within 30 days of being hospitalized, readmissions or inpatient spending, according to the study published in the BMJ.

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Why On Earth Are Physicians Still Collecting Patient Data Using Paper Forms?

Healthcare IT Today

As part of its “Patients over Paperwork” effort, CMS recently issued a Request for Information seeking new ideas on reducing levels of administrative burden. The initiative seems to be making a serious impact. According to CMS, reforms identified by Patients over Paperwork since it launched in late 2017 should save roughly 40 million hours and […].

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Mount Carmel Health CEO resigns in wake of investigation into fatal overdoses

FierceHealthIT

The Ohio health system also announced it terminated 23 employees following its investigation into a physician charged with fatal overdose deaths.

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Real-World Evidence is What Pharma Needs Now to Help Cure Lung Cancer

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Julie Krommenhoek from Ciox. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is a designation that accounts for more than 80 percent of lung cancers diagnosed, and it has emerged as a new hotspot for investment by pharma manufacturers. Globally, the NSCLC therapeutics market is expected to rise to a […].

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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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1 in 3 misdiagnoses results in serious injury or death: study

FierceHealthIT

One-third of malpractice cases that result in death or permanent disability come from a misdiagnosis or a delayed diagnosis.

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Corepoint and Rhapsody Merge to Advance Interoperability in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Rhapsody, a global leader in healthcare data interoperability, today announced that the company will merge with Corepoint Health, the supplier of the Best in KLAS® healthcare integration platform. The transaction will bring together two companies at the forefront of interoperability and create a dynamic combination of technology, talent, services, and trusted customer relationships to address […].

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AMA, medical organizations tell SCOTUS that discrimination jeopardizes health of transgender individuals

FierceHealthIT

The American Medical Association and more than a dozen other organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect transgender individuals from employment discrimination.

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Then and Now: My Personal Journey and the Evolution of Melanoma Treatment

GNS Healthcare

My dermatologist looked at me somberly from across her desk. “I’m not sure we have a lot of options for you,” she said finally. “I’m very sorry.” I was in the prime of my life with two small children and my doctor was basically handing me a death sentence. I was devastated. I had had a mole removed a week earlier, and tests revealed it to be melanoma.

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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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Amazon executive: IT experts "should be embarrassed" about data beaches

FierceHealthIT

At an Amazon Web Services conference in New York City on Thursday Amazon Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels urged technologists across all industries to take responsibility for cybersecurity.

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Digitisation of Healthcare: A conversation with Innopsis

Exponential_e

The digitisation of the NHS (one of the biggest employers in the world) is a huge task, and it begins with the opening up of the organisation's underlying data network. Over the past year, the NHS's N3 network has been being migrated to a new network: Health and Social Care Network (HSCN). HSCN has been built by a number of co-operating suppliers, including Exponential-e.

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Clover Health launches drug development subsidiary

FierceHealthIT

Startup Medicare Advantage insurer Clover Health has launched a new drug development subsidiary called Clover Therapeutics.

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Breaking Down Next Gen ACO’s and the Telehealth Waiver

Health Recovery Solutions

Fierce Healthcare recently reported a study revealing 67% of physicians indicated their willingness to incorporate telehealth into their patients' care plans, a nearly 10% increase from just three years prior. The rapid increase confirms clinicians' preference for telehealth into patient care. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Next Generation ACO telehealth waiver allows for the expansion of telehealth implementation across the United States, regardless of geographic location.

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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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House subcommittee advances legislation on surprise medical bills, DSH cut delay

FierceHealthIT

A House panel advanced a bipartisan bill to tackle surprise medical bills, but key differences with a Senate version remain over how to handle billing disputes.

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What Are the Levels of Hospice Care?

HealthStream

Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.

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How to Connect Tools and Data Using Enterprise Architecture

LeanIX

The variety of data repositories required by the average Enterprise Architect to inventory and maintain IT landscapes is enough to put the value of LeanIX’s integrations into perspective. Since most organizations employ a multiplicity of processing and storage tools to carry out specific enterprise functions, one of the most time-consuming tasks for Enterprise Architects is consolidating information from these disconnected sources to accurately see how IT is situated in a business.

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What Are the Levels of Hospice Care?

HealthStream

Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.

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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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Then and Now: My Personal Journey and the Evolution of Melanoma Treatment

GNS Healthcare

My dermatologist looked at me somberly from across her desk. “I’m not sure we have a lot of options for you,” she said finally. “I’m very sorry.”. I was in the prime of my life with two small children and my doctor was basically handing me a death sentence. I was devastated. I had had a mole removed a week earlier, and tests revealed it to be melanoma.

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Azar: Drug rebates’ ‘days are numbered’ despite rule setback 

FierceHealthIT

Though the Trump administration has withdrawn its plan to eliminate legal protections for drug rebates in Medicare Part D, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the White House has not changed its stance on the practice.

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CMS seeks to roll back Medicaid rule it says is burdensome to states

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration proposed rolling back a 2015 rule that requires states to document whether Medicaid fee-for-service payment rates were enough.

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