Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 3, 2019
A Rock Health report found that the percentage of female partners at digital health VC firms only rose from 12.2% to 12.6%, while deals closed by women-led startups rose 13.4% to 14%.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Gastonia, North Carolina-based, 435-bed CaroMont Regional Medical Center is the anchor facility of a five-county, two-state, not-for-profit health system and value-based care provider, CaroMont Health. The medical center features a Level III trauma center. THE PROBLEM. The hospital has approximately 250,000 patient encounters every year, and because of its location in the growing Charlotte region, continues to experience increases in patient volume.
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Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Roughly half of the 133 grants announced by the department, totaling $42.5 million, will help bankroll the deployment of telemedicine programs.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 3, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Khurram Mahmood, chief technology officer, Vineti. Personalized cell and gene therapies are expanding the frontiers of medicine. In the past two years, the FDA approved two autologous cell and gene therapies, Kymriah and Yescarta. These made history as the first commercialized therapies developed for individual patients using genetic material from the patients themselves.
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Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 3, 2019
While Dexcom reports that interruptions in the service are mostly under control, many customers are critiquing the company's poor messaging of the issue, which they say could be fatal.
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Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 3, 2019
To streamline accreditation, Atlanta-based Motivo pairs aspiring mental health providers with online clinical supervisors.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 3, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. 2020 predictions from Luma Health chief medical officer and co-founder, Dr. Tashfeen Ekram. As a country we’re expected to spend about $1.3 trillion for hospital care this year. With an average profit margin of 8%, hospitals have higher margins than the pharmacy or insurance industries.
Mobi Health News
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Conducted by AdhereTech and Avella Specialty Pharmacy, this is the first peer-reviewed study of adherence startup's eight-year history.
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 3, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Carrot Health, a provider of healthcare solutions powered by social determinants of health (SDoH), announced it has been named a finalist in the Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge – Health North America. Carrot Health was one of 13 companies to compete in the Boston regional round of the competition, which supports innovative technologies and drives creative […].
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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
DECEMBER 3, 2019
HCA Healthcare is facing a class-action lawsuit that alleges it charged exorbitant, undisclosed “surcharge” fees to patients who visited the emergency department at several of its Florida hospitals.
Digital Health Today
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Key Takeaways from the 2019 Connected Health Conference. I had the great pleasure of attending the HIMSS 2019 Connected Health Conference in Boston this past October. It was exciting to see the combination of startups and industry leaders pushing healthcare innovation to the next level. This conference featured several great presentations and demos that piqued my interest, given my background in Advanced Practice Nursing and entrepreneurship.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 3, 2019
UnitedHealth Group projected that it generated $242 billion in 2019 and is projecting a 7% to 8% increase in earnings in 2020 thanks to strong growth from its PBM division Optum.
Health System CIO
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Telehealth and patient monitoring have become so important within healthcare, and yet, growth has been surprisingly slow, says Adam Cherrington, who shares insights from KLAS’ latest report.
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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
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Patients in rural areas experience higher preventable hospitalization and mortality rates than those in urban areas. A new study suggests lack of access to specialists could be the main culprit.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
DECEMBER 3, 2019
The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. Click the image below to view the full PDF update.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Health IT company Cerner is deepening its partnership with Amazon Web Services with the goal of building new prediction tools and a virtual medical scribe for healthcare providers. At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, Cerner expanded that partnership by naming AWS its preferred cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning provider.
HealthStream
DECEMBER 3, 2019
National Handwashing Awareness Week provides the opportunity to bone up on hand health and put into practice a quick and easy way to cut back on germ and virus transmission.
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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
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Consumer wearables company Garmin is expanding into sleep health in partnership with Israeli app developer Sleeprate. The two companies developed a mobile self-help sleep assessment and improvement program that aims to help consumers sleep better, track their recovery and optimize workouts.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
DECEMBER 3, 2019
I will be giving the FHIR Privacy and Security tutorial again at Sydney HL7 meeting on Thursday afternoon (our normal Wednesday afternoon agenda slot). See [link] As always I welcome any suggestions for improving the slides. They can be viewed freely on my blog at : HL7 Tutorial - FHIR Privacy and Security Given that I have more properly registered my tutorial (rather than filling in at last minute); I will be removing some bulk from Part 1, and making Part 3 more prominent.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Humana is teaming up with Philips to offer remote monitoring services to select Medicare Advantage members.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 3, 2019
The following is a guest article by Troy Foster, Senior Manager of Communications Infrastructure. Like many healthcare IT professionals, I am regularly bombarded with emails and phone calls from prospective vendors touting their wares. Having spent years on both sides of the healthcare vendor and healthcare customer side of the fence, I’m sympathetic to the […].
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.
FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Several major medical groups are among those that have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Louisiana abortion law.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 3, 2019
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 12/6 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Jay LaBine, Chief Medical Officer at @naviHealthPAC on the topic “Seniors and Technology” The senior population is growing at an unbelievable pace. Every day, nearly 10,000 people are […].
Optimum Healthcare IT
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Read Time: 3 min Do you know how to prepare for change? Understanding your organization’s change readiness is essential to tailoring change to meet your needs. The post Change Readiness: Preparing for Change appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 3, 2019
As announced on May 14, 2019, the Board of Directors decided to investigate the sale of a part of Agfa HealthCare in the framework of the Agfa-Gevaert Group’s transformation process. Today, the Agfa-Gevaert Group announces that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with Dedalus Holding S.p.A. to sell a part of its HealthCare IT business […].
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FierceHealthIT
DECEMBER 3, 2019
The Medicare program has a rare opportunity to cut through the complexity of healthcare with a simple solution: Widespread implementation of ADT alerts.
ACA Times
DECEMBER 3, 2019
2 minute read: To kick off the holiday season, the IRS has issued Notice 2019-63, which extends the deadline for distributing Form 1095-C for the 2019 tax year to full-time employees as required by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The new deadline also applies for distributing Form 1095-B, used by employers with self-funded insurance programs, to employees.
Insulin Nation
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Heart disease kills more people in the developed world than any other condition. In America, about 1 in 5 women will die of heart disease while men succumb to the disease at a rate of about 1 in 4. Despite the fact that heart disease affects men at a greater rate and typically strikes males at a younger age, a new meta-analysis has found that women with diabetes are much more likely to suffer from heart conditions and artery blockages than men with diabetes.
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