Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Mobile technology not only increases patient autonomy and engagement, it can lower costs and improve outcomes for those with chronic conditions.
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 10, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Bethany Durst, writer, Decisive Data. Ever increasing computational power, advances in artificial intelligence, and the lower of the cost computation (because of cloud computing service, such as Azure and Amazon Web Services) has enabled healthcare systems – often laggards in quality improvement and technology adoption – to rapidly implement analytics systems.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
NHS Digital introduces new mental health data hub, Babylon creates new Healthcheck feature, institute launches £3m competition paving the way for a UK-wide infrastructure for health data research and EY releases preliminary findings from survey on digital health attitudes.
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 10, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Richard Taylor, executive managing director, JLL Healthcare Solutions. Healthcare delivery is being transformed as we speak, from technological breakthroughs and regulatory change to changing patient demographics and consumer expectations. As the healthcare landscape evolves, forward-looking healthcare providers are seeing their real estate in a new light.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
NASA will now be piloting the clinical decision support tool UpToDate, which gives users access to thousands of clinical resourcers, on the International Space Station.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The FDA’s Pre-Cert program has fallen under new scrutiny as the agency received an open letter today from three senators: Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.).
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
As Hurricane Michael descended on the Florida panhandle Wednesday morning, HIEs in surrounding states were preparing to activate an emergency data sharing infrastructure to ensure clinicians have updated medical information on displaced patients.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The Botnar and Gates foundations are backing Berlin-headquartered Ada's expansion after launching a new Global Health Initiative to improve access to healthcare.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Kevin Pho, M.D.—best known as “KevinMD" on social media—shared his advice on how to harness social media to help transform healthcare.
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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
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Recently granted patents show a shopping cart that monitors your heart rate, Alexa listening for coughs
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Federal antitrust regulators approved a $69 billion CVS-Aetna merger on Wednesday on the condition that Aetna sells off its Part D business to WellCare.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Bettina Experton, MD, and CEO of Humetrix, talks about the history of CMS’s Blue Button project and how 53 million Americans covered by Medicare will now have access to their data through an API to ensure patient safety and interoperability.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday two bills that would ban so-called “gag clauses” at the pharmacy counter.
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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.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The ingesitble sensors will let providers look at adherence habits, activity levels and resting heart rate within a younger patient population.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Kaiser's Medicare Advantage plans averaged an overall score of 4.8, boosted by four five-star plans. The remaining large insurers received average star ratings in the mid- to high 3s.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The app monitors heart rhythms via the smartphone's camera and uses AI to identify irregularities.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Solving big problems for many people is the kind of opportunity that both entrepreneurs and investors love. Like recent Brazilian investment booms focused on fintech innovation and new on-demand business models, there’s been a recent explosion in healthtech startups in Brazil. With tens of millions of the country’s people impacted by gigantic inequities in access to health services, some serious quality problems, burdensome costs and inefficiencies on all sides, entrepreneurs’ plates are full in
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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!
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The Barcelona-based company recently posted 91.3 percent accuracy in a 1,000-patient study.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Despite some legal hurdles, Centene—like many insurers—has done very well financially on the individual market over the last year, paving the way for a 2019 expansion into four new states.
Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Walz pressures VA for info on Mar-a-Lago troika — Report: Patients like unique identifiers, hate smart cards
Society for Participatory Medicine
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct. 17 in Boston, attached to the prestigious Connected Health conference. Register here. (Our #SPM2018 blog series has more about the speakers and activities.). Where’s the future of medicine?
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.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Pfizer has appointed a chief digital officer because of the growing importance of digital technology in R&D and business process, as part of a boardroom shake-up. Last week Pfizer announced that Ian Read is to step down as CEO, with chief operating officer Albert Bourla taking the helm. Following the change of leadership, Pfizer is also revamping its executive team, with the appointment of new chief digital and technology officer Lidia Fonseca the most notable change.
Health Intersections
OCTOBER 10, 2018
I’m very honoured to make a guest today from Mike Morris, who I met at the HL7 FHIR Applications Round Table in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago. Mike is a cancer patient who is using FHIR improve his own treatment. Cancer Rears Its Ugly Head. October 18, 2014. I’ll never forget that date. We all have one of those. For me it was waking up from a colonoscopy to find a doctor hovering over me.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Providers, both long-standing ones and new entrants, are devising ways to better care for seniors, but fee-for-service Medicare stands in the way, experts say.
care innovations
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Population health management is more than just an industry buzzword: It’s an increasingly effective way to manage the outcomes of a broad group of patients in a way that’s both effective and cost-efficient — no small accomplishment in an era where the risk of chronic disease is still trending upwards with “no sign of abating,” per a brief from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Three Democratic senators question whether the FDA is going beyond its statutory limitations with its Software Pre-Cert program; VA and DOD leaders pledge accountability in EHR modernization; and a former OCR head gets a gut punch on medical records requests.
Henry Kotula
OCTOBER 10, 2018
[link]. With workers harder to find and Obamacare’s tax on generous coverage postponed, employers are hitting pause on a feature of job-based medical insurance much hated by employees: the high-deductible health plan. Companies have slowed enrollment in such coverage and, in some cases, reinstated more traditional plans as a strong job market gives workers bargaining power over pay and benefits, according to research from three organizations.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 10, 2018
The president attacked a Medicare-for-all proposal in an opinion column on Wednesday, and the senator who introduced that bill hit back. Plus, a study suggests for-profit nursing homes are sending patients to therapy at the end of their lives to make more money.
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