Mobi Health News
JUNE 18, 2019
Healthcare digitisation is a niche topic? No way. For four years in a row now, the Finnish digital health services have ranked among the top three of the most valued internet brands in Finland.
Continue Education Journal
JUNE 18, 2019
The opioid crisis has severely affected the country, particularly in rural areas. The epidemic has been traced back mainly to doctors legally administering high doses of powerful pain medication, such as oxycontin. Patients quickly become dependent on painkillers and develop an addiction. When their medication is no longer available, patients often resort to illicit means to satisfy their new dependency.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 18, 2019
The Protecting Personal Health Data Act would establish sensitive data standards alongside a national task force for concerns on cybersecurity and privacy.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 18, 2019
As the lines between payers and providers blur, payers are increasingly becoming more responsible and aware of what they can do to prevent unnecessary care, extra ER visits and high spend. THE PROBLEM. According to a recent report from Premier, “Ready, Risk, Reward: Improving Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions,” unnecessary ER visits just for members with chronic conditions account for $8.3 billion annually in extra costs.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 18, 2019
Flywheel Sports, Hydrow, NordicTrack, NormaTec and Hyperice products will hit more than 100 stores by the year's end.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 18, 2019
Also: Livongo's latest board addition to lead its audit committee.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
According to a new report from the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and Manatt Health, CHIP and Medicaid are important for social and emotional development of children.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 18, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Talbot, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Ascom. More than 4,900 U.S. hospitals participate in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey (HCAHPS), including 3,529 that received star ratings in the most recent quarterly update.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
Adopting additional tax credits and provider payment caps in the individual Affordable Care Act markets could make coverage more affordable for consumers while also cutting federal spending, according to a new report.
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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.
MedTech Boston
JUNE 18, 2019
In clinics and hospitals nationwide, healthcare providers are seeing the impacts of growing technology and are being forced to. The post Healthcare Automation: Do Robots Have a Place in Medicine? appeared first on MedTech Boston.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
New York City-based behavioral health technology company Quartet Health has expanded to two new states with a growing focus on supporting Medicaid beneficiaries with mental health conditions.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 18, 2019
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Theresa Moss (@theresajmoss) from @FormFast on the topic “We Live in the Future. Why Is Patient Registration Stuck in the Past?” It’s 2019. We use our phones to […].
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
Terminally ill patients who request that physicians make decisions for them get more aggressive end-of-life treatment and interventions, according to a new study.
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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.
Synzi
JUNE 18, 2019
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Synzi, a leading virtual care company, has announced that George C. Grape Community Hospital (Grape), will be using its virtual care communication platform to deliver remote medical care to its community significantly affected by recent flooding in … Read More. The post Grape Hospital Partners with Synzi to Enable Patient Care During Record Flooding appeared first on Synzi.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
Officials from UNC HealthCare said in a statement they plan to create an advisory board of external medical experts and "pause the most complex heart surgeries" until that board and regulatory agencies review the program.
Health Recovery Solutions
JUNE 18, 2019
As the applications of technology in healthcare continue to grow, training for telemedicine must take center stage in the education of future clinicians.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
Maine has become the eighth state in the country to legalize physician aid-in-dying. While gaining more acceptance, medical aid-in-dying remains controversial. At its annual meeting in Chicago, the American Medical Association reaffirmed its opposition to the practice by a large margin.
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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!
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 18, 2019
When Colorado-based integrated health system UCHealth set out to reduce the burden their Epic EHR imposed on clinicians, it started by prioritizing improvements that affected the largest number of clinicians possible, along with distributing EHR tip sheets and holding training sessions. None of these approaches had the kind of impact they had hoped to see.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reached a settlement with inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in disputes over denied Medicare claims to allow those hospitals to settle denied claims at almost any level of administrative appeal, it was announced Tuesday.
Healee
JUNE 18, 2019
When doctors hear about Telehealth, they often have in mind one of the last steps of the process – the consultation with the patient which usually means the exchanged messages... The post The pros and cons of the different approaches in Telehealth appeared first on Healee.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
While most industry groups support the goals of this initiative, they say the framework is still too broad and does not provide clarity as to how it will be implemented. Groups also are concerned about the timeline and increased burden on providers.
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.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 18, 2019
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FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
As Senate lawmakers examined a sweeping piece of legislation aimed at curbing runaway health costs on Tuesday, some of the solutions to addressing surprise medical bills remained key sticking points.
Insulin Nation
JUNE 18, 2019
Neovacs — www.neovacs.fr — is a French biotech company focused on the development of Kinoids®, therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of autoimmune, inflammatory diseases, allergies, and cancer. They presented pre-clinical results for T1D its therapeutic vaccine, IFN? Kinoid, during an ADA poster session on June 9th in San Francisco. Dr. Noemie Caillot, PhD (Neovacs), presented results of studies conducted in collaboration with Dr.
Hinduja Global Solutions
JUNE 18, 2019
3 Ways Collaborative Care Can Drive Better Outcomes. By Krithika Srivats, Vice President, HGS Healthcare Practice Office . The rising cost of healthcare is dinner-table talk at households across America. And it’s clearly high on the agenda of challenges for payers and providers. In response, there has been a widening scope of emerging analytics and reengineering solutions created primarily to reduce operational effort and hopefully, cost, through highly automated digital innovations led by inte
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BHM Healthcare Solutions
JUNE 18, 2019
Editor’s Note: For payers, developing a new, collaborative payer provider model reinvents the role of payers as provider allies. BHM understands the special bridge between payers and providers because our they both are clients. Click HERE and discuss how BHM helps reinvent payers and build relationships. Boston Children’s Hospital earned the No. 1 spot on U.S.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 18, 2019
VirtualHealth, provider of HELIOS, the leading SaaS platform for care management and population health, today announced it has closed a Series B financing round bringing the total amount raised by the company to more than $25 million. Led by Edison Partners and existing investors, the latest funding provides strategic capital to fuel the company’s rapid […].
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JUNE 18, 2019
Editor’s Note: Increasing costs for prescriptions is creating a long-term financial impact on Medicare Part D and its beneficiaries. Can your claims review resources maximize the turn around time needed for complex claims? CLICK HERE and let us show how BHM’s economically maintain turn-around times and accuracy for new members. Post-discharge opioid use is far more likely among patients who are given opioids during their hospital stay compared to patients who do not receive opioids
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