Mon.Aug 26, 2019

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The New Employer Wellness Lens Includes Mental Health, Telehealth and Women’s Health

Health Populi

U.S. employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future. Four in five medium, large and jumbo companies expect their spending on health and wellness programs will increase over the next three years.

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Apple Health Records comes to certain Allscripts EHR suites

Mobi Health News

The integration has already been tested among a number of the EHR vendor's clients.

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Fax Reliability Is Key In Data-Driven Healthcare Industry

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Solis, senior product marketing manager, eFax Corporate. The survival of highly regulated industries such as healthcare depend on secure information exchange. Healthcare organizations, or “covered entities,” as they’re known, exchange large volumes of sensitive data daily: billing and medical records, prescriptions and refill requests, lab requisitions, clinical field trial results, patien

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Visibly's Online Refraction Vision Test recalled

Mobi Health News

According to the recall document, the company didn't have FDA authorization to market the product.

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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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Solving the Patient Engagement Equation: A Personal Touch and The Right Technology

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Geeta Nayyar, chief medical officer at Greenway Health. As a physician, one of the most rewarding parts of my job is building relationships with my patients. In developing this connection, I’m able to better understand their healthcare challenges and frustrations, which enables me to ultimately help them achieve their health goals.

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HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf: Healthcare industry has turned a 'significant corner' on interoperability

FierceHealthIT

With 35 years of experience as a healthcare and informatics executive, Hal Wolf has observed the evolution of interoperability and has a glass-half-full perspective on current progress.

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Pediatric virtual therapy platform scores $1.2M in seed funding

Mobi Health News

The new round was led by CMI Ventures.

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Patients don't think payers, providers can protect their data, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Patients are skeptical of healthcare industry players’ ability to protect their data—and believe health insurers to be the worst at doing so, a new survey shows.

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Study Says Telehealth Claims Up 624% Over Four Year Period

Healthcare IT Today

The use of telehealth services climbed dramatically over the four years between 2014 and 2018, according to new research based on healthcare claims data. To get a look at telehealth’s impact on healthcare overall, FAIR Health analyzed more than 29 billion healthcare claim records. Their analysis concluded that the number of claim lines related to […].

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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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Judge grants preliminary injunction blocking former CVS executive from joining PillPack

FierceHealthIT

A U.S. District Court judge sided with CVS Pharmacy in granting a preliminary injunction to enforce CVS’ noncompete agreement blocking the executive who ran its Caremark retail network from joining Amazon’s online pharmacy PillPack.

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What Your Legacy EHR Data Is Waiting to Tell You: How Harmonizing Legacy Data Supports Analytics, Machine Learning, and Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by George Florentine, Vice President of Technology, Flatirons Digital Innovations Inc. Every year since 2014, there have been more than 100 M&A transactions in healthcare (Source: Kaufman Hall). While M&A is done to reduce costs and maintain competitivity in a fierce market, an offshoot is EHR complexity. As […].

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Poll: 70% support adding dental coverage to Medicare

FierceHealthIT

A new poll found that 70% of people agree dental benefits should be included in Medicare, as few Medicare Advantage plans include it as an extra benefit.

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Align Your Business Needs with Your Compliance Solution for Determining Regulatory Training

HealthStream

Compliance training, regulatory training compliance, regulatory education, core regulatory training, healthcare compliance training, annual healthcare training, annual healthcare training planning, healthcare compliance

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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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Industry Voices—3D location technology brings 'paging Dr. Smith' into the 21st century

FierceHealthIT

By being able to pinpoint a doctor’s location with 3D location technology, patients’ needs can be attended to much quicker, improving operational efficiency, enhancing patient care and helping save lives.

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Compliance Includes Preventing Criminal Healthcare Fraud Cases

HealthStream

Compliance officers must work to prevent criminal healthcare fraud cases, especially given the expansion of DOJ focus areas for investigating possible fraudulent action.

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UC Irvine Medical School gifts Butterfly handheld ultrasounds to its whole class of 2023

Mobi Health News

Normally $2,000, the devices were free for the 104 newly-minted members of the class of 2023.

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CMS launches overhaul of Medicare Plan Finder aimed at improving usability 

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration is launching a large-scale overhaul of its Medicare Plan Finder tool with the goal of making it easier to use and better at arming consumers with information on their options.

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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!