How Finland is teaming up with pharma to identify genetic variants in disease
Mobi Health News
JULY 12, 2019
The country's FinnGen Project seeks to use its unique population bottleneck and cohesive health records to drive genetic insights.
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The Perils of Making Your Health Data Available Online
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 12, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s easier than ever to put health data on the Internet. Fitness trackers, health apps and other connected devices can give people a lot of insight into their health. Unfortunately, that’s not the only way that their health data ends up getting used.
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KFF: 1 in 5 employers may face the ACA's 'Cadillac' tax on high-cost health plans
FierceHealthIT
JULY 12, 2019
About 1 in 5 employers will have to pay the Affordable Care Act’s 40% excise tax on high-cost healthcare plans when the tax goes into effect in 2022, according to a new analysis.
My MultiBriefs: Auto-Generated Email Messages From EHRs Can Contribute To Physician Burnout
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 12, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The time physicians spend on desktop medicine appears to be increasing compared to the amount of time they can spend with patients. The cause of this switch is likely the obvious current enemy of healthcare: electronic health record (EHR) documentation.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Health IT Workarounds – Funny or Insanity?
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 12, 2019
Healthcare is full of workarounds. Many of them show an extreme amount of creativity. It’s just unfortunate that all of those creative juices are spent on workarounds and not the core problems. While many of the health IT workarounds out there are about health IT people doing what they need to in order to get […].
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Congress Chimes In: “We need to shake up the system.”
Health System CIO
JULY 12, 2019
The most effective way for CIOs and other leaders to continue to drive for change in health IT policy? To share your stories, say Congress representatives Doris Matsui, Bill Johnson, and Bill Foster, who discussed their involvement in telehealth, patient matching, and other key areas.
Industry Voices—4 ways to minimize costs through safe patient handling
FierceHealthIT
JULY 12, 2019
Having a safe patient handling program is one way to reduce the risk of workplace injuries in hospitals and, by doing so, cut down on costs.
Some say data sharing incurs patient risk
Morning eHealth
JULY 12, 2019
Another study deems telemedicine abortion safe — Boehler departing CMMI
CMS: Number of docs in APMs doubles in 2018, but challenges for smaller practices remain
FierceHealthIT
JULY 12, 2019
The number of doctors participating in advanced payment models nearly doubled in 2018 to 183,306 compared to 99,076 doctors participating in 2017, according to new data.
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.
A Look at the Health IT Software Development Lifecycle – Fun Friday
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 12, 2019
It’s Friday in the heart of summer. Hopefully you’re able to be out there on the beach, at the pool, or enjoying the beautiful mountains somewhere. We know you’ll have your phone with you anyway when you get this email, so hopefully we can offer you a bit of health IT entertainment as you enjoy […].
Industry Voices—The lifesaving approach to organ transplants that every hospital should implement
FierceHealthIT
JULY 12, 2019
Living donor chains increase the number of quality live organs available to patients who need them. The president's latest initiative can help, too.
ACA’s Annual PCORI Fees Are Due to the IRS by the End of July
ACA Times
JULY 12, 2019
2 minute read: . The annual PCORI fees are due by the end of the month from health insurers and plan sponsors offering self-funded health insurance plans. On July 31, these employers must pay the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund Fee using Form 720 , otherwise known as the Quarterly Federal Excise Tax Return. According to the IRS, the fee should be paid using the Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS).
Premera Blue Cross to pay $10M to 30 states over 2014 data breach
FierceHealthIT
JULY 12, 2019
Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurance company in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country.
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.
The Nursing Transition from Classroom to Clinical Floor Involves a Risk of Mistakes
HealthStream
JULY 12, 2019
The transition from the classroom to the clinical floor can be extremely challenging for new graduate nurses, and it is easy for them to unwittingly make serious mistakes.
Siemens, UM System, MU Health Care launch $133M precision medicine alliance
FierceHealthIT
JULY 12, 2019
German health care technology company Siemens will provide $133 million worth of medical technology and equipment for the University of Missouri’s health research initiatives with a focus on advancing precision medicine.
Weekender 7/12/19
HIStalk Weekender
JULY 12, 2019
Weekly News Recap. Corepoint Health and Rhapsody merge. Waystar acquires Digitize.AI. OmniSys acquires Strand Clinical Technologies. Provident St. Joseph Health and Microsoft announce plans to turn a Seattle-area hospital into a Microsoft-powered “hospital of the future.”. IBM closes its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat. ONC announces that Executive Director Steve Posnack, MS, MHS will become deputy national coordinator when Jon White, MD steps down in mid-August.
Waystar continues buying spree with acquisition of prior authorization company Digitize.AI
FierceHealthIT
JULY 12, 2019
Revenue cycle management technology company Waystar has acquired Chicago startup Digitize.AI, a company that applies artificial intelligence to the prior authorization process. The deal comes amid rumors of Waystar's own impending sale by private equity firm Bain Capital.
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!
CMS.gov - Untitled Article
CMS.gov
JULY 12, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is deeply committed to ongoing data transparency and creating a patient-centered healthcare system, where clinicians are challenged to lower costs and increase the quality of care they provide.
Americans’ Financial Anxiety Ties to Personal Cash Flow and Health Care
Health Populi
JULY 12, 2019
“The Dow Jones Industrial Average was on the brink of claiming a thousand-point milestone for the first time since January 2018, ending the longest period without crossing such a psychologically significant level since the blue-chip benchmark crossed the 19,000 threshold three weeks after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016,” Mark DeCambre of MarketWatch wrote yesterday morning.
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