Health Populi

JANUARY 21, 2019

Have you read the life changing magic of tidying up , or Spark Joy , books by Marie Kondo ? Her new Netflix series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo debuted on January 1, and has enjoyed passionate early viewership by consumers in America who are among the world’s major hoarders. If you opened any pop culture magazine or newspaper in the past week, you probably saw the results of a PR blitz promoting KonMari, the trademarked name for Marie’s clean-out method.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2019

A recently published study found the toilet seat's readings to align with those measured through more conventional means.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

HIPAA governs much of the healthcare industry, but it doesn't protect healthcare data that is stripped of personally identifiable information. That distinction has caused some concern, and a new bill in Oregon is moving to ban the sale of such data without patient consent.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2019

The Fitbit Inspire and Fitbit Inspire HR aren't too different from the company's existing fitness trackers, but as of now are unavailable for consumer purchase.

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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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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

Despite all the hype about blockchain's future in healthcare, it's hard for smaller players like private practices to build such systems themselves. Kadena is aiming to fix that by putting an easy-to-set-up blockchain platform on Amazon Web Services.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

A patchwork effort has emerged among healthcare providers and other private businesses to provide relief for government workers who have already missed one paycheck and are due to miss a second paycheck in a few days due to the partial shutdown. More than 800,000 workers nationwide have been impacted.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2019

Ping An Good Doctor, a one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform from China, recently announced that their “Voiceprint Login System” (“Voiceprint Lock”), jointly developed with Unisound, an intelligent voice and language technology company in China, has achieved a login success rate close to 99%. The breakthrough came after several model optimisations and upgrades.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

Adventist Health Policy Association, an affiliation of five Seventh-day Adventist healthcare systems, is building up the first Washington policy shop and establishing a stronger national voice for the faith-based nonprofits among federal agencies and congressional offices.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2019

The company plans to use the money to expand its reach in the US, including a expanding to a New York office and more clinical studies.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2019

Big-name healthcare organizations are asking CMS to push back the application for its new accountable care organizations, allowing interested providers more time to account for complex changes.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2019

The game has now been licensed through the University of Cambridge's technology transfer arm to app developer Peak.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

We caught up with Mayer at the 7th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. Here’s what he had to say about the goal of zero preventable patient deaths and the ROI of safety.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2019

Ping An Good Doctor, a one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform from China, recently announced that their “Voiceprint Login System” (“Voiceprint Lock”), jointly developed with Unisound, an intelligent voice and language technology company in China, has achieved a login success rate close to 99%. The breakthrough came after several model optimisations and upgrades.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

To treat patients with multiple chronic conditions well, clinicians will need to move away from disease-focused metrics and toward patient-centric ones.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

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HIStalk Interviews

JANUARY 21, 2019

Eric Widen is co-founder and CEO of HBI Solutions of Palo Alto, CA. Tell me about yourself and the company. I have a long background in healthcare, over 25 years now. I’ve worked and focused on solving problems in healthcare, typically using data. We started HBI Solutions with a more sophisticated bent on using data and data science techniques to solve problems in healthcare.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 21, 2019

Chatbot apps are changing the way consumers seek medical treatment. But despite their potential to alter the way the healthcare industry is connecting with consumers, a report found that customers do not trust the apps. Key findings of the report also revealed that chatbot apps do a poor job of handling complex conditions and that basic usability issues detracted from the experience.

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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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eVisit

JANUARY 21, 2019

How important is the hospital in today’s healthcare environment? The American Hospital Association (AHA) reports close to 57 million Americans “rely on the hospitals in their rural or non-urban towns for medical care.” So the answer is: very important, especially to those 57 million Americans! Around 65% of U.S. hospitals use telemedicine in one form or another, and 53% have “ fully implemented at least one form” of telemedicine.

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ACA Times

JANUARY 21, 2019

2 minute read: The IRS has started to issue a new round of ACA penalties that focus on failure to distribute 1095-C forms to employees and to file 1094-C and 1095-C forms with the federal tax agency by required deadlines. These are penalties in addition to penalties for not offering the required healthcare coverage. In the final days of 2018, the agency started assessing penalties to organizations that failed to file forms 1094-C and 1095-C with the IRS or furnish 1095-C forms to employees under

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 21, 2019

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is leading the charge to delay the health insurance tax's rollout to 2022, plus more insurance headlines.

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Henry Kotula

JANUARY 21, 2019

[link]. Ripple effects from 2018 will continue well into the new year as players deal with some massive policy and business shifts. The coming year for healthcare will see the industry reckon with some of the massive changes set in motion last year, such as megamergers like CVS-Aetna and Cigna-Express Scripts and a judge’s declaration that the Affordable Care Act is no longer constitutional.

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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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