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Video selfies could be the future of blood pressure monitoring

Mobi Health News

A new study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging found that a smartphone camera combined with a transdermal optical imaging system could accurately predict blood pressure.

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Strategies To Engage Consumers In Data Sharing To Improve Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By George Mathew, chief medical officer, North America, DXC Technology Connected consumers, and their data, will play a critical role in transforming the next era of healthcare. In fact, global industry analyst IDC predicts that by the end of 2020, 25 percent of the data used in medical care will be collected and shared with […].

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Apple, Eli Lilly, Evidation Health joint study suggests device sensors can spot cognitive decline

Mobi Health News

These data provide a proof of concept that Apple products and other consumer devices can play a role in monitoring or identifying disease symptoms.

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Shift to value-based payment will require new staffing mix for primary care, analysis finds

FierceHealthIT

As they shift to value-based payment, primary care practices will need staff with a higher skill mix aimed at keeping patients healthy, according to a new analysis. Practices will need to add new staff such as behavioral health providers, social workers, nutritionists and pharmacist support, according to a white paper from Premier Inc.

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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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Plans to create £250m national AI lab for the NHS revealed

Mobi Health News

It is thought the new lab could improve cancer screening, support earlier diagnosis and personalised prevention, and automate routine tasks.

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Plans to create £250m national AI lab for the NHS in England revealed

Mobi Health News

It is thought the new lab could improve cancer screening, support earlier diagnosis and personalised prevention, and automate routine tasks.

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Industry Voices—50 years ago healthcare was a gig economy leader. So, what happened?

FierceHealthIT

Nearly 50 years ago, the healthcare industry implemented a freelance job market that provided a glimpse into the gig economy of today and marked it as a true innovator for its time. Progress has not kept pace with the rest of the world.

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LifeOmic launches chronic disease prevention app

Mobi Health News

Users earn points for tracking healthy behaviors and may redeem them at various vendors.

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Allscripts reports Q2 results, $145M settlement agreement with DOJ

FierceHealthIT

Allscripts has reached a tentative deal with the Department of Justice to pay $145 million to settle an investigation into Practice Fusion's compliance with the Anti-Kickback Statute and HIPAA, company officials said during a second-quarter earnings call on Thursday.

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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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Dadi's mail-order male fertility testing, sperm storage closes $5M round

Mobi Health News

The company will be expanding its customer services capabilities and expanding into the employer market.

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MA plans post higher gross margins than individual, group markets: KFF

FierceHealthIT

Average gross margins for Medicare Advantage plans were double those of plans in the individual and commercial group markets, with MA plans buoyed by bonus payments, according to a new analysis.

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DrChrono integrates OutcomeMD's tool into clinician workflows, Health Gorilla enables K Health lab orders and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Outcome Health signs content deal with Verywell; Blue Shield of California inks deal with Zillion.

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Highmark Health generates $627M in net revenue for first half of 2019

FierceHealthIT

Highmark Health reported earning $627 million in revenue over expenses for the first half of the year thanks to strong growth in the company’s commercial and government business.

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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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Delivering Compliance and Integration for Telemedicine Solutions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: AWS, Datica, Zipnosis Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Compliance & Legal Patient Engagement Quality and Safety Telehealth Resource Central: Upcoming Webinars External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Minneapolis-based Zipnosis sought a flexible, HIPAA-compliant architecture on which to build its telemedicine solution, with support for integrating virtual visit records and customers' HL7 data.

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Editor's Corner—Introducing FierceHealthcare's new Editorial Advisory Council

FierceHealthIT

In our effort to better tap into the wealth of knowledge out there, FierceHealthcare recently convened some of the top thought leaders across the healthcare industry.

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Why Is It So Hard to Define Value in Healthcare?

GNS Healthcare

One of the more discussed topics in healthcare over the past decade has been the transition to a value-based system. No doubt it's a worthy goal, however the road has been a bumpy one at best. One of the toughest challenges has been getting a handle on the concept of value: how to define it, how optimize it, how to price it and what value means across the healthcare ecosystem.

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Experian Health acquires online scheduling company MyHealthDirect

FierceHealthIT

Experian Health, the health information technology arm of global information services company Experian, has acquired MyHealthDirect, a Nashville-based startup that developed an online scheduling service for patients.

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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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Living a Longer Sweet Life

Insulin Nation

Less than a hundred years ago, being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes was practically a death sentence. Most people lived, on average, a few months, with a few lucky individuals surviving for over a year. Even just a few decades ago, someone diagnosed with T1D could expect to live a limited life that would end with a host of medical problems and an early decline.

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CommonSpirit Health taps Suja Chandrasekaran as first chief information and digital officer

FierceHealthIT

CommonSpirit Health has tapped former Kimberly-Clark Corporation CIO Suja Chandrasekaran as its first senior executive vice president, chief information and digital officer. She will play a key role in the health system's efforts to improve interoperability between the technology capabilities of the formerly-independent health systems.

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Featured Health IT Job: Cerner Advanced Reporting

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Cerner Advanced Reporting position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cordea Consulting and is available in Massachusetts. Here’s a description of the position: Required Experience: Previous experience with […].

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A look at network participation in TRICARE’s PPO plans

FierceHealthIT

A new study examines the network participation of TRICARE’s preferred provider organization plans—and the results, for the most part, are positive.

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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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In Health Tech, Beware of Getting Exactly What You Want

Healthcare IT Today

Last night, I watched a video about the rise and fall of disgraced biotech startup Theranos, which claimed to have invented technology that would dramatically change clinical blood testing worked. Though it apparently never came close to delivering what it promised, Theranos managed to raise more than $700 million in investments over the course of […].

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Data Loss Prevention

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Data Protection (Part V): Data Loss Prevention Behavioral health practices handle protected health information (PHI) regularly, and as such, must take precautions to safeguard the sensitive information. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommends ten practices that anyone … Read more. The post Data Loss Prevention appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Hot Topics for 2019 in Healthcare Compliance: Part 2

HealthStream

Where healthcare compliance professionals spend their time is changing as accrediting bodies and regulators find new areas that merit investigation. This blog post comes from our Part 2 round-up of important topics covered at the HCCA 2018 Enforcement Conference.

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Why Is It So Hard to Define Value in Healthcare?

GNS Healthcare

One of the more discussed topics in healthcare over the past decade has been the transition to a value-based system. No doubt it's a worthy goal, however the road has been a bumpy one at best. One of the toughest challenges has been getting a handle on the concept of value: how to define it, how optimize it, how to price it and what value means across the healthcare ecosystem.

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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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4 Questions with Jonathan Goldberg, Chief Information Officer, Arkansas Children’s Hospital

Optimum Healthcare IT

In this installment of our "4 Questions with series.", we have 4 questions for Jonathan Goldberg, Chief Information Officer, Arkansas Children's Hospital. The post 4 Questions with Jonathan Goldberg, Chief Information Officer, Arkansas Children’s Hospital appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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HIStalk Interviews Peter Smith, CEO, Impact Advisors

HIStalk Interviews

Peter Smith is CEO and co-founder of Impact Advisors of.

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