KevinMD
JANUARY 7, 2020
A recent study published in Science, one of the world’s leading academic journals, found that a predictive health care algorithm discriminated against black patients. The tool, created by Optum, was designed to identify high-risk patients with untreated chronic diseases, thereby helping administrators re-distribute medical resources to those who’d benefit the most.
Health Populi
JANUARY 7, 2020
The presence of health and medicine is growing at CES, the annual conference of all-things-tech for consumers. At this week’s Show in Las Vegas, we see that the Internet of Healthy Things (a phrase coined by Dr. Joe Kvedar ) has taken hold and gone mainstream in remote health monitoring, wearable tech, and heart rate tracking which is now embedded (and expected by health-seeking consumers) in wristbands.
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2020
A new case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine runs through how astronauts employed telemedicine to get the right medications to a patient in space.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 7, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Kristin Simonini, vice president of product, Applause Healthcare has long been looked at as a laggard when it comes to adopting digital services. Part of that is due to the stringent regulations of the industry and the sensitivity surrounding personally identifiable information.
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2020
New agreements with five different tech companies and research organizations aim to expand and flesh out the digital therapeutics maker's product pipeline.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2020
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan led the round, bringing the Swedish company's fundraising total to roughly €219.1 million.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
When we, the healthcare community, talk about the lack of access to care in rural America, the focus is very often on physicians. However, to truly solve the rural access crisis, we need to consider every possible solution, including the number of rural advanced practice providers such as physician assistants.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2020
The latest round was led by Atlanta Technology Angels and the Robbins Fund.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
LAS VEGAS—Here's a look at some of the most interesting technology products, from wellness-focused to just plain wacky, FierceHealthcare spotted at CES 2020.
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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.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 7, 2020
The seed funding round was led by Activate Venture Partners.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
Hospital payment rates to private insurance have grown much faster compared to Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new study that comes at a time when Washington is considering how to rein in healthcare costs.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 7, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu season is going to be bad this year. There have already been more than 7 million Americans sick with the flu, and we’re still only in January. Do you want to avoid getting the flu and steer clear of other health conditions as well?
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
Despite changes to expand access to medication treatment for patients with opioid addiction, only 10% of primary care providers in the U.S. are certified to prescribe buprenorphine, a new study found.
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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.
LeanIX
JANUARY 7, 2020
Yesterday’s Enterprise Architecture is no longer enough for competitive digital businesses. Digital transformation enabled by cloud technology has emphatically disrupted what our profession does—or, at least, what we’ve spent the past decade thinking it did—and requires us to again explore and adopt new methodologies and tools to manage IT.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
Out-of-pocket costs related to maternity care grew significantly over the past decade—despite an ACA mandate that such services are covered, a new study shows.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 7, 2020
An alarming number of Americans are “perpetually dehydrated” according to the Institute of Medicine. And if you’re one of them, chances are that dehydration is affecting your blood sugars and other more subtle aspects critical to your daily health. Water is the transport mechanism for swallowing, digesting, and moving nutrients to and within cells, regulating body temperature, and flushing waste.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
A new study found Medicare’s hip and knee replacement bundled payment models didn’t lead to a decrease in quality of care and also saved Medicare money.
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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!
American Well
JANUARY 7, 2020
From the ability to immediately connect an individual with a physician based on a smart watch’s detection of irregular heart rhythm to virtual group counseling to aid in our country’s opioid crisis, advancements in technology and new approaches to care are pushing the boundaries of telehealth far beyond a sore throat or rash. Telehealth visits continued to surge in 2019, driven by expanding reimbursement measures that are increasingly positioning telehealth as a highly attractive care option
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
Geisinger's Chief Innovation Officer Karen Murphy discusses the organization's innovation efforts and her advice for other health systems.
GlobalMed
JANUARY 7, 2020
Limited access to specialty providers and internet connectivity continues to be a barrier to quality healthcare for rural communities worldwide. Rural patients typically have less income than those in urban areas, limiting their ability to afford care even if they can manage the travel to an urban location. Combine this with limited internet access in remote areas, the healthcare outlook for rural communities looks dismal.
FierceHealthIT
JANUARY 7, 2020
Alphabet, the parent company of Google and Verily Life Sciences, continues to bolster its ranks of healthcare experts with the latest hiring of Vindell Washington, M.D. Verily Life Sciences has hired Washington as its new chief clinical officer as part of its health platforms team, Verily Life Sciences representative Kathleen Parkes confirmed to FierceHealthcare Tuesday.
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.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 7, 2020
The following story concerns a small slip in discharge planning — really, a tiny issue in the grand scheme of things. But since I’m the patient affected by the slip, you won’t be surprised to learn that it feels pretty important to me. Also, given the extent to which niggling IT issues played a role, […].
HealthStream
JANUARY 7, 2020
A positive outcome of using data to make learning assignments is better employee retention, which reduces operational expenses and helps achieve institutional goals more quickly.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 7, 2020
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 1/10 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) on the topic of “Healthcare Regulations” We all know that regulations are a major part of healthcare and that’s not going to change any time […].
American Well
JANUARY 7, 2020
From the ability to immediately connect an individual with a physician based on a smart watch’s detection of irregular heart rhythm to virtual group counseling to aid in our country’s opioid crisis, advancements in technology and new approaches to care are pushing the boundaries of telehealth far beyond a sore throat or rash. Telehealth visits continued to surge in 2019, driven by expanding reimbursement measures that are increasingly positioning telehealth as a highly attractive care option
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Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 7, 2020
Ride Health, providing smarter transportation for every patient need, announced the closing of a $6.2 million seed funding round led by Activate Venture Partners. The capital raise is joined by Newark Venture Partners, Anthro Ventures, BioAdvance, Leading Edge Ventures and Startup Health. Ride Health will use the funds to support its mission of ensuring that […].
Waracle
JANUARY 7, 2020
Surgical robots, digestible sensors, digital pillboxes and virtual caregivers … Once the domain of Bones’ medical box of tricks, today on the inventory of many healthcare enterprises, digital health innovations have found their way into mainstream healthcare and made their way to a place where we’ll likely all benefit from their promises someday. We’re already enjoying smart devices and wearables.
Optimum Healthcare IT
JANUARY 7, 2020
Read Time: 2 min With 2020 now upon us, here is a compilation of the top 5 most popular blog posts from the Optimum Healthcare IT blog in 2019. The post Optimum’s Top 5 Blog Posts of 2019 appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.
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