Wed.Feb 27, 2019

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Consumers’ Trust In Health And Personal Care Stores: The Growing Retail Health Ecosystem

Health Populi

CVS + Aetna have merged to evolve a new business model for health and medical care. Walgreen’s continues to add new services beyond the core pharmacy business, and Walmart is expanding telehealth and healthier food aisles in the grocery. More grocery stores added dietitians to their operations in 2018, as well. As people take on more self-care for health care, they are looking to access products and services in retail bricks-and-mortar and ecommerce channels in the same places they buy fo

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Healthcare’s Thought Leaders Offer their HIMSS19 Takeaways

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The cornucopia that is the annual HIMSS conference and tradeshow – healthcare technology’s biggest event – is behind us, but what’s left in the wake is wonderful, inspiring even, if not a bit overwhelming. The reactions to this year’s event have been overwhelmingly positive. Interoperability in the form of data sharing and a ban on […].

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Fitabase inks integration deal to make Dexcom data available to researchers

Mobi Health News

Dexcom is the third company to partner with the wearable-based research company, after Fitbit and Garmin.

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What’s Next for Health? HIMSS19 Sets the Stage

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. HIMSS today shared insights on what’s next in health on the heels of the HIMSS19 Global Conference & Exhibition. This year’s event – which saw more than 43,000 attendees from 90 countries around the world and featured nearly 500 education sessions on 24 education topics – highlighted current industry priorities and offered a glimpse of […].

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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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Study: In-home stroke rehabilitation comparable to clinician-guided therapy

Mobi Health News

Both study groups used an app-based therapy, and required a similar number of sessions to become proficient in specific rehabilitation tasks.

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UVA expands telehealth program, focus on chronic disease care

Mobi Health News

The program is funded by a $750,000 grant from the CDC and the Virginia Department of Health.

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Workplace violence bill would require hospitals to meet OSHA safety standards

FierceHealthIT

Advocates called on Wednesday for support for H.R. 1309, a bill introduced in Congress earlier this month that would require hospitals to meet national safety standards monitored by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

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Health IT company Medsphere Systems Corporation acquires Wellsoft to increase ED capabilities

Mobi Health News

Medsphere will now have access of Wellsoft's Emergency Department Information Systems product, designed to improve workflows in the ED.

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Google, Verily use machine learning to detect diabetic eye disease

FierceHealthIT

Physicians at Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, are using a machine learning-enabled screening tool developed by Verily and Google to screen for diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of preventable blindness in adults.

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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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WellSky acquires software maker for long-term care settings

Mobi Health News

Health Care Software's staff, office and services are still up and running, but will soon be integrated into WellSky's brand.

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Crossover Health expands into digital health delivery with Sherpaa acquisition

FierceHealthIT

Officials at Crossover Health, which provides on-site clinics for large self-funded employers, say Sherpaa's virtual primary care technology platform will allow them to reach remote workers—and new markets—with its health offerings.

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Florida Blue sister company Guidewell Connect acquires Onlife Health

Mobi Health News

The acquisition includes a range of member engagement tools such as Onlife's My Journey app.

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Collection, use of consumer data puts sensitive health information at risk, groups say

FierceHealthIT

The information that consumers share online, including sensitive health data, is being collected, shared with third parties and sold, often without consumers’ awareness, and that is putting consumers’ privacy and data at risk, according to many federal lawmakers and consumer groups.

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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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Primary care, insurance navigation platform Eden raises $10M

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the new money to expand its scope of care.

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2009-19 Market of Technology for Older Adults -- All change, all the time

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The more things change. This is the tenth anniversary of the launch of this Market Overview of technology for ‘Aging in Place’, to be published in March 2019 – the category of offerings that help enable older adults to remain longer in their home of choice. The launch of that first report was timed in conjunction with the What’s Next Boomer Business Summit of 2009 and offered a chance to speak publicly about a market category that had been largely ignored by tech industry analysts.

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Planning a nationwide rollout, primary care-focused startup Eden raises $10M

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the new money to expand its scope of care.

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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia spinoff investment pays off big with Roche acquisition

FierceHealthIT

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was among the winners when pharmaceutical giant Roche announced plans this week to acquire gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics for $4.8 billion.

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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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Medicare for All and more

Morning eHealth

RUSH Act back — Usability migraines continue

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KFF: Issuers denied 19% of in-network claims in 2017

FierceHealthIT

In 2017, 19% of in-network claims were denied by issuers and consumers rarely appealed these denials, reported the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).

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An Enterprise Architecture Framework for Cloud Adoption

LeanIX

A guide on how to perform Enterprise Architecture in cloud-based environments. Enterprise Architecture (EA) functions to assist enterprises in building structural foundations to match proposed business strategies. It captures the vision of an enterprise by integrating its dimensions to contextualize transformation strategies, organizational structures, business capabilities, data pools, IT applications, and all technology objects.

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Healthcare Roundup—Cedars-Sinai puts Alexa in patient rooms; California lawmakers push surprise bills measure

FierceHealthIT

Los Angeles-based Cedars Sinai Medical Center is piloting the use of an Alexa-powered platform in patient rooms and more healthcare stories from around the web.

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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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AHRQ Turns to Patient-Facing Use Case for CDS Connect

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Effort continues to create platform for shareable clinical decision support artifacts

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Medsphere acquires Wellsoft to enhance its emergency department capabilities

FierceHealthIT

Health IT company Medsphere Systems Corporation plans to acquire Wellsoft Corporation, which specializes in emergency department information systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Telehealth Grant Funding Expands

Health Recovery Solutions

Over the past several months, significant changes surrounding telehealth and its role in healthcare have taken place. Changes include, CMS’ new, more generous reimbursement policies and several state laws spurring the progression of telehealth programs to address the opioid crisis. These changes reflect the greater movement towards telehealth as an affordable option to improve healthcare access and quality of care.

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Health IT Roundup—UConn Health data breach impacts 300K patient records; Cedars-Sinai pilots Amazon Alexa in patient rooms

FierceHealthIT

UConn Health reports a data breach resulting from a phishing attack; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is piloting the use of Amazon Alexa in 100 patient rooms; 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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Portal Consolidation: The Hows

Health Portal Solutions

In our last blog , we explained what an integrated portal can do to consolidate a Payer’s technology and business. While that sounds great in concept, it may seem daunting to do. In this blog, we’ll talk about how portals do this consolidating and share some news that will bring you as a Payer a huge sigh of relief! Data Import. The primary way portals consolidate for you is by importing data from your various systems.

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Azar touts agency progress on growing insurance options

FierceHealthIT

HHS Secretary Alex Azar says that feedback from the front lines—like input from insurance underwriters—is crucial to forging ahead on policy goals.

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Guide to Telemedicine Prescribing for Providers

Enzyme Health

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