Mon.Sep 09, 2019

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Singapore’s Doctor Anywhere signs landmark agreement with Vietnam’s Bao Minh insurance

Mobi Health News

Under the partnership, more than 7 million Bao Minh customers will have access to Doctor Anywhere's suite of digital healthcare solutions.

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How asynchronous telemedicine saved SSM Health 18 minutes per visit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SSM Health, a health system that serves Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, is always looking for ways to reduce the cost of healthcare while increasing access for the patients it serves. THE PROBLEM. As most in healthcare know, many of the low-acuity conditions for which patients seek treatment do not necessarily require an in-person visit.

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Health Recovery Solutions closes $10M for enterprise remote monitoring platform

Mobi Health News

The company's EHR-integrated services has yielded 75% year-over-year growth within the last year.

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Telemedicine CEO pleads guilty to role in $424M Medicare fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

The CEO of telemedicine company has pleaded guilty for his role in one of the largest healthcare fraud schemes the feds have ever investigated.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Aural Analytics raises $4.3M for voice-based cognitive health monitoring

Mobi Health News

The company was also the recipient of a recent NSF research grant.

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UCSF, Cornell working on Android health record app to rival Apple

FierceHealthIT

UC San Francisco and Cornell Tech are leading a project to create an open-source platform to enable Android phone users to access their health records in the same way iPhone users can using Apple's mobile health records feature.

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Call to action! Second annual Doc Tom award nominations now being accepted!

Society for Participatory Medicine

Our Society’s 2nd Annual “Doc Tom” Awards are now open for nominations! Spread the word, and join us at our annual conference on October 15 for the announcement of our award recipients! Doc Tom Ferguson was the founder of the e-patient movement. To promote his values, SPM wanted to highlight the work that others do that promotes and commemorates Doc Tom’s overall values and beliefs.

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AMA report: Insurers should follow Medicaid's lead in mitigating opioid epidemic 

FierceHealthIT

Health insurers looking to do more to address the opioid epidemic should look to what’s working in Medicaid, according to a new report from the American Medical Association and consulting firm Manatt Health.

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The Future of Fax in Healthcare Is Paperless

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by The Fax Guys. Confidentiality Is A Cornerstone of the Healthcare Industry. Inspired by ethical tradition, HIPAA guidelines mandate that patient information be stored and communicated securely. That critical requirement has far-reaching technology implications. Tools such as email, widely used in most industries, lack essential compliance and security […].

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.

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HHS delivers first fine under new information blocking initiative to Florida hospital

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Health and Human Services fined its first hospital under an initiative to combat information blocking, charging that a Florida hospital took too long to fulfill a patient's record request.

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Book Review: Choosing Joy with Alzheimer's

Christina's Considerations

"Joy and woe are woven fine." - William Blake There is a wonderful book for caregivers that offers expert advice. from a caregiver. It is focused on her experience caring for someone with Alzheimer's, however, the experiences and advice.

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Department of Defense rolls out Cerner EHR at four new sites in California, Idaho

FierceHealthIT

The U.S. Department of Defense rolled out its Cerner EHR at four new sites: Naval Health Clinic Lemoore at Naval Air Station Lemoore and U.S. Army Health Clinic Presidio of Monterey, all in California, and 366th Medical Group at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

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Four tech and aging blog posts from August, 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The last gasp of August and Labor Day's hurricane Dorian is behind us. Note how a devastating Hurricane Dorian already has become a past tense Wikipedia entry (!). Now we must contemplate the fall season of tradeshows and events, rev up anticipation for impending technology announcements, consider that technology anti-trust investigations are launching in multiple states.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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7 Ways School-Based Telemedicine Helps Kids

GlobalMed

While most people associate telehealth services with clinical settings, telemedicine is revolutionizing an unexpected environment these days: schools. Virtual health solutions are becoming standard in both the traditional nurse’s office and school-based health centers (SBHCs) and they’re treating a rising number of children. Here’s why telemedicine programs are so effective in schools.

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5 Improvements You Can Make to Your SEO Strategy

TheraNest

This post has been authored by Dr. P. Forrest Talley as part of our guest post series and is Part II in a series to help therapists get the most out of their marketing and SEO strategy. Learn more about Dr. Talley at the bottom of this post. After reading part I of this series , you’re probably ready to start implementing an SEO strategy to get more traffic to your site.

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Group Brings SDOH Coding Effort To HL7 FHIR Program

Healthcare IT Today

For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts. In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data. Now, in another sign that […].

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Google in crosshairs

Morning eHealth

Cerner rollout in DOD — Week ahead preview

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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!

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Virtual Care Across the Continuum with HRS Telehealth

Health Recovery Solutions

In recent years, the healthcare industry has been undergoing a paradigm shift from volume-based to value-based care. With this shift, there is a clear call for innovative solutions that expand access to care across all patient populations—solutions where transportation, provider shortages, geography, and finances are not a hindrance to the delivery of quality and efficient health care.

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IRS Renews Insurer Fees

ACA Times

1 minute read: The IRS has released Notice 2019-50, which outlines the Applicable Fee amount for the 2020 tax year. This is the fee to be charged to health insurance providers under Section 9010 of the ACA as the IRS continues to enforce the provisions of the health care law. The 2020 fee of $15,522,820,037 is a fixed amount that is allocated to health insurers in proportion to their relative market share as determined by each health insurers’ net premiums written for 2019.

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Who Pays for Uncompensated Kidney Care in the U.S.?

MedTech Boston

An estimated 6,500 undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are living with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), according to a study published in. The post Who Pays for Uncompensated Kidney Care in the U.S.? appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Medical Researcher: Mobile Devices’ Potential Seen Hindered By Data, Workflow, Regulatory Issues

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Ida Sim., M.D., Ph.D.

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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.

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HIStalk Interviews Ken Misch, President, Medhost

HIStalk Interviews

Ken Misch is president and CFO of Medhost of Franklin,

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Telemedicine CEO pleads guilty in $424 million Medicare fraud scheme

Henry Kotula

[link]. The owner of telemedicine company Video Doctor Network on Friday pleaded guilty for his role in what the Justice Department is calling one of the largest healthcare fraud schemes prosecuted to date in the U.S. Lester Stockett, 52, a resident of Colombia, agreed to pay $200 million in restitution to the U.S. as part of his plea agreement. The Justice Department in April brought charges against 24 defendants including Stockett for their role in a $424 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare

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Use Clocktree on an iPhone or iPad

Clocktree

One of the benefits of Clocktree telehealth is that it’s portable! Providers and Clients can connect for a video appointment from just about anywhere using a mobile device. You can use Clocktree on both Android and iOS devices, but this blog post is specifically for iPhone and iPad users. Use Safari Browser. There is no special software or app to download.

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Meet Melissa Felton, Care Innovations Strategic Accounts Manager-West

care innovations

Welcome to our series celebrating the women of Care Innovations, where we're meeting some of the key leaders and team members working hard to drive our success. Today, we're talking to Melissa Felton, our Strategic Accounts Manager-West about her history, inspiration, advice for young professionals, and more. How has your prior life experience prepared you for your position here at Care Innovations?

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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CMS: Hospitals Must Post Rates; Hospitals Not Interested In Doing So

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In healthcare, it seems that nothing is easy — technology, regulation, privacy, and security. And now, pricing. Efforts are underway to make prices more transparent; this is a tentpole issue for the Trump administration, which wants hospitals to begin posting “shoppable” prices online in 2020.

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Home health agencies demand CMS halt 8% cut based on perceived misbehavior

FierceHealthIT

Home health agencies are imploring the Trump administration to hold off on a potential 8% cut to Medicare reimbursement rates, saying the cuts punish an entire industry for a few bad apples.