Wed.Jan 30, 2019

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

Most consumers would be willing to try an FDA-approved app or online to treat a medical condition, as well as receiving hospital care at home if would be less costly. We’ve reached an inflection point on the demand side among consumers for digital health options, PwC suggests in their report on the New Health Economy coming of age. The report outlines health/care industry issues for 2019, with a strong focus on digital health.

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Giblib launches VR app to stream pre-recorded, live operations

Mobi Health News

Designed for medical students, nurses and practicing surgeons, the videos seek to replicate what it would be like to observe a procedure from inside the operating room.

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Health IT Trends for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Healthcare technology continues to proliferate the sector, the developments almost too many to track. The sector abounds with innovation and push forward in the name of better – even the minutest – advancements of care and better care outcomes. The coming year will be no different.

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Cardiogram launches cross-platform features that let family members share data

Mobi Health News

Now Cardiogram users can share data with loved ones and physicians no matter if they are wearing using Apple Watches, Garmins or devices running Google's WearOS platform.

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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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Why Best of Breed Health IT Is Currently the Better, Cheaper Route to Interoperability

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Gevik Nalbandian, vice president of software development, NextGate If you wanted a clear snapshot of the progress we’ve made—or rather, haven’t made—in patient data sharing and exchange, look no further than a new report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and six other national hospital associations—America’s Essential Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges, Catholic […].

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Applications of Blockchain in Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Robby Gupta, head of US operations, TechJini. This digital age belongs to the consumer, and in this age of the consumer, it’s imperative that businesses are consumer-centric. All services and products must revolve around the customer instead of the organization providing or delivering them.

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Livongo buys behavioral health app MyStrength for north of $10M

Mobi Health News

The company has also hired the former VA head of mental health services and the former CEO of Ginger.io.

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Aetna launching new Apple Watch app to gather health data, reward healthy behavior

FierceHealthIT

Insurance giant Aetna, a CVS Health company, and Apple have collaborated on the design of a new app for the Apple Watch that will integrate wearers’ health history data and track their daily activity levels to provide personalized fitness and wellness goals.

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Medicare Advantage insurtech startup Clover Health raises $500M

Mobi Health News

The Greenoaks Capital-led round is expected to close within the next couple of weeks.

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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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Puerto Rico, other territories facing Medicaid 'cliff' with expiring ACA and disaster funds

FierceHealthIT

If the funding situation isn't fixed, the uninsured population in some of the U.S. territories could double, Kaiser Family Foundation wrote in a recent brief.

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Apple, Aetna execs stress personalization, privacy features in new Attain wellness incentive program

Mobi Health News

At yesterday's Attain launch in Boston, Aetna and Apple heads broke down how the program will work and stressed transparency in data sharing.

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VA releases proposed rules to make it easier for veterans to seek private care

FierceHealthIT

It may soon be easier for veterans to seek private healthcare after the Department of Veterans Affairs announced a proposed rule to change access standards for community care and urgent care.

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Edinburgh-headquartered Current, formerly known as snap40, signs partnership with NHS trust

Mobi Health News

The agreement with Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust was signed earlier this month.

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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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A son carries on father’s patient safety legacy with documentary film

FierceHealthIT

Growing up, filmmaker Mike Eisenberg didn’t know much about his prominent father’s work. He was only 17 when his father, John M. Eisenberg, M.D., a pioneer in the patient safety movement, died from a brain tumor. Now the son has made a film on preventing medical errors.

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More Stakeholder Comments Pour in on HHS’ Health IT Burden Reduction Strategy

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Healthcare groups weigh in on issues around quality reporting, documentation requirements, 42 CFR Part 2 and more

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Anthem moves up launch of its PBM to second quarter of 2019

FierceHealthIT

Anthem is planning to begin moving members into its new PBM, IngenioRx, in the second quarter of 2019, bumping up the projected launch from 2020.

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2019: What Technology Matters for Older Adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In 2018, technology utilization grew – so did frustrations. While Internet and social media technology use has plateaued over all age ranges, Facebook still has captured only 41% of the 65+. Pew’s data showed that smartphone ownership still has not overtaken cellphones among the 65+. In early 2019, AARP Research published a technology survey taken in 2018 which showed ownership of smartphones growing to 65% of the 65+.

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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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CMS planning to expand supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage for members with chronic illness 

FierceHealthIT

CMS is looking to further expand options for Medicare Advantage plans to provide supplementary benefits to beneficiaries with chronic conditions.

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Investors are pouring billions of dollars into Smart Home HealthTech in 2019

Lloyd Price

Enthusiasm for home health technologies continues to mount, fueled by the aging population, demands for personalized healthcare and convenience, population health efforts and the shift to value-based care. The global smart home healthcare market is set to hit $30 billion by 2023, up from $4.5 billion in 2017, according to ResearchAndMarkets. Of that, fall prevention and detection accounts for the largest share with 39% in 2017.

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Healthcare Roundup—NYU Langone cancer center gifted $75M for blood cancer program

FierceHealthIT

NYU Langone Health, and its Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Center, received an anonymous $75 million donation to establish a new center for blood cancers and other healthcare headlines from around the web.

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Discharged Patients From The Hospital -                    Telemedicine Can Assist With Their Treatment

eVisit

There are a myriad of reasons to utilize telemedicine in your organization, ranging from easier access to care, to reducing costs for your company. An oft-forgotten benefit of taking advantage of modern healthcare technologies is the safety of your patients — especially those just released after a hospital stay or a procedure.

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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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Ciitizen Raises $17M funding for Cancer PHR

Lloyd Price

[link] Ciitizen, a consumer health tech company working to build the leading platform that helps patients collect, organize, and share their medical records digitally, has closed $17M in new funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and included Section 32 and Verily. The company will use the proceeds to accelerate platform development and expand commercial operations.

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Payer Roundup—UnitedHealthcare leaves Health Care Cost Institute 

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealthcare will pull out of the Health Care Cost Institute research collaborative, plus more insurance headlines.

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FDA cyber workshop recap

Morning eHealth

HCCI loses key sponsor — Apple-Aetna app

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Health IT Roundup—Former National Coordinator for Health IT joins digital health venture firm; Artificial pancreas smartphone app proves safe

FierceHealthIT

Former National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo, M.D., is joining venture capital firm LRVHealth, scientists have developed an "artificial pancreas" smartphone app and more health IT headlines.

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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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An Economic Analysis of Telerehabilitation

Health Recovery Solutions

Patients with heart failure benefit from exercise and rehabilitation because these interventions increase exercise capacity, improve quality of life, and reduce the risk of cardiac related hospital readmissions. The ability to receive cardiac rehabilitation remotely grants greater access to these vital care interventions. Home based telerehabilitation has been proven to be as effective as in-person rehabilitation, yet the economic outcomes are unknown.

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SightCall helps Salesforce Digitize Home Hemodialysis Treatments for B. Braun

SightCall

In 2018, Salesforce and B.Braun began a partnership that relied on SOS. When SOS was discontinued, Salesforce turned to SightCall to provide the visual assistance technology that B. Braun needed. Today, SightCall and B. Braun today have successfully deployed live video assistance for the digital transformation of home hemodialysis care. Available for patients of B.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute Signs Channel Partnership with SimplePractice

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Telebehavioral Health Institute (TBHI) is pleased to announce its channel partnership with SimplePractice to ensure telehealth, telemental and telebehavioral professionals in the behavioral health and telehealth community receive an optimal return on their investment.This group of professionals can enjoy the … Read more. The post Telebehavioral Health Institute Signs Channel Partnership with SimplePractice appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.