Nearly 1 in 4 millennials hasn't had a physical in 5 years, survey says
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 20, 2019
A new survey from Harmony Healthcare IT shows 23-to-38-year-olds eschewing traditional care and flocking to WebMD.
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Sanford Health’s Push to Reduce Unwarranted Clinical Variation—and Why it Matters
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Rather than develop and continuously update its own clinical practice guidelines, leaders at Sanford Health turned elsewhere for an up-to-date “source of truth”
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Dutch startup secures €1.4m for digital sleep coaching platform
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 20, 2019
In a survey from Philips published earlier this year, 44% of adults said their sleep had worsened in the past five years.
As digital disruptors make inroads, pharmacy giants shifting to health services, J.D. Power executive says
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
There is a retail pharmacy war brewing between industry incumbents CVS Health and Walgreens and new digital disruptors like Amazon’s PillPack. There are big changes coming to pharmacy and the traditional industry players will need to innovate and pivot to health and wellness to stay ahead, according to industry experts.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Telemedicine care yields comparable results to in-person care for medication abortions
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 20, 2019
A new study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology found fewer than 1% of women had clinically adverse events after a remote or in-person procedure.
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Discord within Apple's health team, benefits from brain training games and more digital health news briefs
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 20, 2019
Also: Why digital medicine requires data interoperability; Portable smartphone tool quickly detects cholera in the field.
HHS awards $107M to support quality improvement in 1,200+ health centers
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Federal health centers across the country will receive nearly $107 million to support quality improvement efforts. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the quality improvement awards Tuesday to 1,273 federally funded health centers.
ATENTIV, Children's Specialized Hospital look to infuse digital behavioral therapy into primary care
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 20, 2019
A new 10-year partnership between the two groups will investigate how best to deploy the ATENTIVmynd video game therapy to young ADHD patients receiving care.
Signify Health, Remedy Partners announce merger to create unified value-based payment platform
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Signify Health, a technology company that supports in-home care and provides care management services announced plans to merge with Remedy Partners, a software company that collaborates with healthcare organizations to launch bundled payment programs.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
MIPS Quality Scores Are Now Public
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 20, 2019
It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives. In all the time we’ve been writing about it, we’ve often echoed our […].
Cigna mulling sale of group benefits insurance business: report
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Cigna may sell off its group benefits business as it continues to focus on its healthcare options, according to a new report from Reuters.
Comment on My next chapter by Health IT Appointments and Hires - HITECH Answers: HIPAA, MIPS, EHR, Cybersecurity News
Health Blawg
AUGUST 20, 2019
[…] David Harlow’s Next Chapter Attorney David Harlow and host of Harlow on Healthcare is joining Insulet Corporation effective August 19. He will be in the newly-created position of healthcare compliance counsel, with a broad range of responsibilities in the healthcare, data and compliance domains. Read about his next chapter. […].
OIG: CMS must expand Part B price substitution to get more savings
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Medicare could have saved its beneficiaries nearly $3 million a year if it adopted a stricter policy for lower prices for Part B drugs, a Department of Health and Human Services watchdog found.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
Diabetic Ketoacidosis: When Can it Happen and How to Know if You’re at Risk
Insulin Nation
AUGUST 20, 2019
Diabetic ketoacidosis, or DKA, is something most diabetics understand, at least on the surface. You’ve probably heard your doctor ask you once or twice or a hundred times if you have ketone strips at home and if you regularly use them when you are sick or experience blood sugars over 250mg/dL. If you have a newer pump, you have probably even seen a “check ketones” message pop up on the screen.
CVS, Pill Club dispute sparks calls to boycott healthcare giant
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
A spat between CVS Caremark and a birth control subscription service led to a social media firestorm, with calls to #BoycottCVS trending on Twitter.
Keys to Maximizing Business, Clinical and Operational Efficiencies in the World of Remote Patient Monitoring
care innovations
AUGUST 20, 2019
Is remote patient monitoring (RPM) a good fit for your organization? Choosing an RPM program can be an exciting time. Providing RPM elevates you as a leader in the industry and tells the world that you're looking for the most innovative, efficient, and effective healthcare experience for your patient and member populations. But before you take this step, your organization must first evaluate whether it will be a good fit for your patients, staff, and leadership.
Aetna, Centene protest managed care bid loss in Louisiana, charge process was flawed
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Aetna and Centene's Medicaid managed care plans charge that Louisiana's selection process for 2020 bids was flawed and should be revised.
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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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!
Protecting Health Data Outside of HIPAA: Will the Protecting Personal Health Data Act Tame the Wild West ?
E-CareManagement
AUGUST 20, 2019
by Deven McGraw and Vince Kuraitis. In the previous post of our series we described the “ Wild West of Unprotected Health Data.”. Will the cavalry arrive to protect the vast quantities of your personal health data that are broadly unprotected from sharing and use by third parties? Congress is seriously considering bipartisan legislation — the “Protecting Personal Health Data Act” — to better protect the privacy of consumers’ personal data.
Applying AI, Machine Learning and Automation to Reduce Redundancies in Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 20, 2019
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/23 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Linda Stotsky (@EMRAnswers) from @Bossoft on the topic “Applying AI, Machine Learning and Automation to Reduce Redundancies in Healthcare” Healthcare has historically been behind the eight ball when […].
ACOs Lowered Spending in Rural, Underserved Areas
BHM Healthcare Solutions
AUGUST 20, 2019
Editor’s Note: The success factors of ACOs center on certain best practices including the development of internal best practices addressing efficiencies and increasing member value. CLICK HERE to learn more about how BHM helps your organization. Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs can lower Medicare spending in rural areas, suggests a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Healthcare ERP System Selection
Optimum Healthcare IT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Considering replacing your Healthcare ERP system? Selecting & implementing a new ERP solution is not a small undertaking & making the right decision involves many factors. The post Healthcare ERP System Selection appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.
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.
Survey Shows Consumers Less Willing to Share Personal Data
BHM Healthcare Solutions
AUGUST 20, 2019
Editor’s Note: In the coming year, cyberattacker activity will branch out into new territories. Payers and Healthcare networks must stay ahead of trends to protect against cybersecurity threats. Click HERE for how BHM develops high level protection for your data, addresses the c-suite cyber-security concerns, and proves it with HITRUST CSF. .
Custom Build Mobile Dental Vehicles to Meet Unique Needs of Your Dental Practice
KB Dental Consulting
AUGUST 20, 2019
Dental offices, led by dentists, offer so many dental treatments to provide great healthcare to their patients. Many dental specialists can be united in one dental team and treat the patient with competitive knowledge in each dental field. Depending on the population needs, the dental manager will organize the dentists in one group. To succeed in his idea, he must create a special place, more exactly, a mobile dental trailer that will meet the requirements of the dental team.
Using a Single Source to Identify All Your Healthcare Regulatory Training Requirements
HealthStream
AUGUST 20, 2019
Making sure your mandatory annual healthcare training meets all regulatory requirements is not as impossible as it seems, even when different requirements are buried in multiple sources and overlapping regulatory agencies.
Planned Parenthood withdraws from Title X program over abortion ‘gag rule’
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 20, 2019
Planned Parenthood Monday withdrew from the Title X federal family planning program rather than comply with a new Trump administration rule prohibiting providers from referring women for abortions.
How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp
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