FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
A new analysis from Morgan Stanley, an investment bank and financial services company, also found that nearly 20% of hospitals are not operating in a "healthy" way. Here's more on why.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 27, 2018
Indianapolis, Indiana-based Community Health Network wanted to up its hiring game. It wanted the best clinical and administrative employees it could find in Indiana. To help with this goal, the health system turned to a text message-based recruiting platform to find not only nurses but also master-level social workers, housekeepers, security personnel, patient services representatives, cooks, environmental services staff and others.
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Lloyd Price
AUGUST 27, 2018
Blockchain is transforming medical healthcare around the globe- will the UK be next? Gina Clarke takes a look at what the NHS can learn from blockchain initiatives in other countries. Medical tourism isn’t a new phenomenon, so it is perhaps no surprise that other countries are looking at utilizing blockchain for their own health needs. In the US, with spiraling medical costs, steps are being offered to establish a platform where patients, doctors and clinics can connect worldwide.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 27, 2018
Eighty-seven percent of Americans used at least one digital health tool in 2017, up from 80 percent in 2015, according to a new survey out from Rock Health. For the past three years, Rock Health has surveyed 4,000 U.S. adults about digital health use and perceptions.
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Health Populi
AUGUST 27, 2018
Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters. Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity.
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Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 27, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. CarePort Health provides post-acute care management solutions for hospitals, payers, ACOs and post-acute providers to better manage patient care across the continuum. Elevator pitch CarePort Health bridges the data gap between acute and post-acute care to help improve patient outcomes.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 27, 2018
In May, a pair of studies were published in the journals Autism Research and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) that evaluated Cognoa’s artificial intelligence-based tool for early identification of autism in children. While both investigations suggest that the tool’s performance significantly exceeded those of other standardized screeners, comparing the two studies shows a sizable difference in the reported accuracy of the company’s offering.
Christina's Considerations
AUGUST 27, 2018
Who knew navigating a bathroom could be so frustrating and potentially unsafe. Well, I did, at least I thought so until I had my own experiences in 2017 and into 2018.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 27, 2018
This morning, virtual physical therapy platform Reflexion Health announced that it has inked a deal with BevCap Management, a program manager for captive insurance companies. This marks Reflexion’s first deal in the insurer market. As part of the partnership BevCap’s clients will have access to Reflexion’s Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant (Vera) as well as Reflexion’s cloud-based clinical services network, which lets patients using Vera get care through video check-ins and follow-ups fr
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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
AUGUST 27, 2018
Humana plans to add 250 jobs at "Studio H" to develop digital tools that help members receive better care and ultimately, improve their health. The company also created a new chief digital health and analytics officer position to oversee those efforts.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 27, 2018
Last week healthcare-focused intelligence and analytics software company Mediware announced that it is acquiring Rock-Pond Solutions, an analytics software company dedicated to the home infusion, home medical equipment, and specialty pharmacy industries. The terms of the acquisition were undisclosed.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
Although some providers are reluctant to take on more risk, a report shows new two-sided ACOs can succeed, too. But NAACOS argues that most of those ACOs were experienced and had time to transition to a value-based model.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 27, 2018
This morning, virtual physical therapy platform Reflexion Health announced that it has inked a deal with BevCap Management, a program manager for captive insurance companies. This marks Reflexion’s first deal in the insurer market. As part of the partnership BevCap’s clients will have access to Reflexion’s Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant (Vera) as well as Reflexion’s cloud-based clinical services network, which lets patients using Vera get care through video check-ins and follow-ups fr
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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
AUGUST 27, 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services has released its long-promised request for information on reforming anti-kickback statutes.
ACA Times
AUGUST 27, 2018
5 minute read: It’s always interesting to look back and see how the contours of a law changes in time. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is no exception. I wrote a five-part series about the ACA for “Construction Business Owners Magazine” in 2015. I found it interesting to revisit these articles. I share this first article in that series, with some updates, to provide some perspective on the ACA for those of you who are involved with ACA compliance.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
There are many lawmakers who made their names in healthcare, seeking to usher through historic changes to a broken system. John McCain was not one of them.
iSALUS Healthcare
AUGUST 27, 2018
The many different components of telehealth are becoming something familiar and frequently utilized within the healthcare industry. Whether it be remote monitoring or a telehealth mobile app, telehealth is becoming a very constant part of how health care is delivered to patients across the country. One of the main aspects of this tool is the telehealth virtual visit.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
One Medical's CEO says its primary care plan will cut costs by 10%, while Indiana University Health says healthcare workers can sport their tattoos.
Society for Participatory Medicine
AUGUST 27, 2018
From SPM Lifetime Member Josh Rubin : Fellow S4PMers, I am elated to report that on Monday, August 20, 2018, The Health Care Blog (THCB) re-posted my S4PM guest blog post titled, “ Biomedical Knowledge Must Be Mobilized to Save Lives, Not Privatized in the ‘Last Mile’ “ This post on THCB may be found here. THCB also announced this post via Twitter.
Lloyd Price
AUGUST 27, 2018
Basel, August 27, 2018. Novartis today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved Kymriah® (tisagenlecleucel, formerly CTL019). The approved indications are for the treatment of pediatric and young adult patients up to 25 years of age with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) that is refractory, in relapse post-transplant or in second or later relapse; and for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory (r/r) diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) after two or m
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
The combined company will operate under the Cotiviti name and go from public to private. The acquisition comes months after Veritas Capital bought GE Healthcare's IT business line for $1 billion.
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.
Lloyd Price
AUGUST 27, 2018
This article is brought to you thanks to the strategic cooperation of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. More Africans are now dying from cancer than from malaria. Like most other nations in the world, many African countries are contending with rising rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The World Health Organization reports that NCDs are responsible for 71% of deaths globally, rising in number as infectious disease deaths fall, people live longer and adopt poor lifestyle ha
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
A long-overdue RFI asks some critical questions around interoperability, security and usability. But one health IT policy expert says there are some subtle discrepancies with the 21st Century Cures Act.
HIStalk Interviews
AUGUST 27, 2018
Mike Linnert is founder and CEO of SymphonyRM of Palo Alto, CA. Tell me about yourself and the company. The team and I have been doing customer relationship management solutions for large consumer service brands for 15 to 20 years. We’ve had the privilege to work with some of the biggest brands in the country, such as American Express, AT&T, Wells Fargo, and Verizon.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
Hospitals are spending big bucks on advertising. Here's a look at the cost of eight advertising campaigns from the past year.
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Health Populi
AUGUST 27, 2018
After eight years of decline, more U.S. employers offered health insurance to workers in 2017, EBRI reports in its latest Issue Brief. In 2017, 46.9% of U.S. companies offered health insurance to their employees, up by 1.6 percentage points from a low of 45.3% in 2016. For perspective, ten years earlier in 2008, 56.4% of employers offered health insurance, shown in the first bar chart (Figure 1 from the EBRI report).
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2018
A group of Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate is asking the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to finalize regulations around drug ceiling prices and penalties for manufacturers that overcharge the 340B program.
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