Wed.Mar 11, 2020

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CVS Health program for PBM clients adds five new digital health programs

Mobi Health News

Livongo Health, Hinge Health, Hello Heart, Torchlight and Whil each underwent "rigorous clinical, data security and business evaluation" for inclusion in the program.

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Sentinel Healthcare debuts quarantine management platform for coronavirus, flu

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sentinel Healthcare, a digital-healthcare vendor that specializes in remote patient-monitoring, today has launched a real-time coronavirus and flu-tracking mobile application, Sentinel Fever Tracker, for ongoing quarantine management efforts. WHY IT MATTERS. The new product is designed to support health systems, government agencies, hospitals and employers in their quarantine-management efforts.

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Doctor with coronavirus turns to Twitter with his experience

Mobi Health News

As COVID-19 continues to spread across the US, healthcare providers and industry experts take to Twitter to dispel myths.

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Australia’s PrimaryClinic and HealthEngine introduce measures to tackle COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Australian GPs using the PrimaryClinic practice management software by software provider Global Health can conduct remote video conference consultations with patients showing symptoms for COVID-19, the company recently announced. Through Global Health’s video-conferencing platform, GPs can screen clients and avoid having them present to the clinic thereby reducing the risk of contamination.

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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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How the world of health and tech is looking at the coronavirus outbreak

Mobi Health News

The crisis is opening up new opportunities for health and tech, but it is also bringing new challenges.

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Employee behavioral health benefits platform Lyra Health closes $75M Series C

Mobi Health News

IVP led the round, which adds to the company's existing $100 million in equity investments.

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Here are 6 ways the ONC's new rules for opening health record access will impact the industry

FierceHealthIT

New federal rules around data-sharing will have huge implications for patients, providers, payers and health IT vendors. Here's what will change, according to industry stakeholders.

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Proov gets FDA nod for its at-home ovulation testing kit

Mobi Health News

The company plans to roll out a corresponding app this Spring.

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Providence St. Joseph Health offers coronavirus lessons from treating 'Patient One' in the U.S.

FierceHealthIT

Here are some of the details Providence St. Joseph Health's chief clinical officer Amy Compton Phillips shared about lessons learned treating the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the U.S. during a virtual event hosted by the HIMSS.

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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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Wearable Tech Could Help Us Learn More About Parkinson’s

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. Health-tracking wearables — which include monitoring devices like Fitbits and smartwatches — have entered the mainstream. They are providing both consumers and health care professionals alike with unprecedented amounts of […].

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Half of primary care doctors say they aren't ready for increase in Alzheimer's cases

FierceHealthIT

While they are on the front lines of diagnosing and providing care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, half of primary care physicians say the medical profession is not prepared to meet an expected increase in demands.

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Innovative offerings from 2020 (virtual) HIMSS

Aging in Place Technology Watch

HIMSS was canceled – but the briefings went on to shed a light on what’s new. When a conference of the scale of the largest annual health IT event HIMSS (possible attendance of 45,000 compared to 2019 ) is canceled, it sends shudders through the world of the entrepreneurs and providers they wanted to meet, solving thorny care delivery problems, finding customers and partners, gaining visibility to unusual and compelling solutions.

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CMS releases Part D payment model to offer lower cost-sharing on insulin

FierceHealthIT

CMS launched a voluntary payment model aimed at giving Part D plans more flexibility in cost-sharing for insulin, the price hikes of which have infuriated policymakers.

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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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CVOID-19 Related Codes

Health Intersections

This subject came up on a call I was on so here’s all the codes that I know about in various code systems that are related to COVID-19. Note: all of these codes are subject to licensing agreements if you want to use them – check that you have the right license. SNOMED CT. 840533007 SARS-CoV-2 840536004 Antigen of SARS-CoV-2 840534001 SARS-CoV-2 vaccination 840535000 Antibody to SARS-CoV-2 840546002 Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 840539006 COVID-19 840544004 Suspected disease caused by SARS-C

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How to care for critically ill coronavirus patients: Take 5 extra precautions to prevent transmission

FierceHealthIT

Doctors and other healthcare staff need to take some extra precautions when it comes to treating critically ill coronavirus patients, according to three health professionals. They recommend five additional precautions to prevent transmission of the virus.

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17 Coronavirus (Covid-19) Actions for Healthcare CIOs

Healthcare IT Today

Hard to believe it was only 9 days ago that we first wrote about the coronavirus and Health IT (now more officially called Covid-19). Seems like much longer, but that could be due to HIMSS cancelling and the threat of coronavirus swirling over us. No doubt it’s been a tense time for everyone as we […].

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Industry Voices—Decisions to slash Medicare lack transparency while putting patients at risk

FierceHealthIT

Physical therapy is a safe, effective and preferred treatment for millions of American seniors. But unfortunately, a series of new federal policies threaten to dramatically reduce access to the valuable services Medicare beneficiaries rely on.

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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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Interop rules aftermath

Morning eHealth

Coronavirus: Telemedicine update — The future of insurers

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Blue Shield of California to cover rapid whole genome sequencing for critically ill children 

FierceHealthIT

Blue Shield of California will cover rapid whole genome sequencing for children with unexplained medication conditions, becoming the first health plan in the country to do so.

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Bringing Outside Tech Expertise to Healthcare – Braid Health

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most common comments we get here at Healthcare IT Today is “Why Doesn’t [Insert Big Tech Company] get into healthcare and fix healthcare?” That’s often followed by something about their favorite tech devices or application and how easy it is to use and how challenging many of the EHR and health IT […].

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Custom Implementation Guide templates

HAY on FHIR

As you’ll likely be aware, FHIR uses Implementation Guides (IG) to describe how to use FHIR for specific scenarios or use cases. In the past it has been technically challenging to create these guides, but this is changing – in large part due to new tooling/approaches like shorthand and sushi , but also because the FHIR community (and especially Lloyd ) have been working on a template based publisher.

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Epic Project Principal

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Project Principal – Epic position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by MultiCare and is available in Washington. Here’s a description of the position: The Project Principal for Epic […].

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Machine Learning: Connecting Data to Outcomes

Health Recovery Solutions

There are innumerable ways in which machine learning and big data are starting to impact the healthcare industry. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can ease clinician workload by helping aid decision-making. This can include predicting which patients are most at-risk of a readmission, detecting anomalies like tumors in imaging data, and/or predicting heart conditions from smart watch data.

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Improving Patient Safety with Better Patient Engagement

Synzi

Understanding Risks to Patient Safety Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual recognition event designed to advance the importance about patient safety. Not every case of harm results in death, yet they can cause long-term impact on the patient’s physical … Read More. The post Improving Patient Safety with Better Patient Engagement appeared first on Synzi.

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Marie Curie, the Two-time Nobel Prize Winner

Digital Health Today

This article is part of our celebration of Women’s History Month where we feature stories of remarkable women who have shaped our world. In this article, we give tribute to Marie Curie. Marie Curie 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934 Profession: Physicist, Chemist and Nobel Prize Winner. Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish-French chemist whose immense contributions to the field of nuclear physics garnered her not one but two Nobel Prizes.

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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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The Future of Learning and Talent Development in Healthcare – Survey Results (Part 1)

HealthStream

To evaluate healthcare industry perceptions about talent management, learning, and development, HealthStream surveyed leaders about the strategic use of learning within talent management programs. Here we discuss findings about 2020 priorities and decision-making.

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Winners of the Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge Announced

MedTech Boston

After several months of voting and a live pitch-off at Google’s campus, Boston Scientific announced the winners of its fifth annual Connected. The post Winners of the Boston Scientific Connected Patient Challenge Announced appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Decentralized Epic Go-Live Success at Scripps Health

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 2 min Scripps Health successfully implements the Epic Enterprise EHR system across 1,440 Sq. Miles with Optimum Healthcare IT. The post Decentralized Epic Go-Live Success at Scripps Health appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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