Wed.Apr 03, 2019

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Telemedicine Coverage Through Medicare

VSee

Being able to get to and from doctor visits can become challenging the older we get, especially if it’s a specialist visit out of town. This is unfortunate since as we age, we may require visits more often. Thankfully, Medicare has made strides to help seniors get the doctor visits they need, even if.

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Telemedicine Is Ready For A Disaster.  Is Your Healthcare Organization?

eVisit

Disaster strikes! Is your health system prepared for the inevitable hurricanes, the nameless twisters of spring, the floods and wildfires that seem to happen anytime and anywhere, or this thing called a Polar Vortex? How are you measuring up?

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The Future of Healthcare Is Innovation, Not Excel Sheets and Check Boxes

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO, Innovaccer. U.S. healthcare is nowhere near what technology made us dream of a decade back. Healthcare technology was meant to act as a means of reducing costs, eliminating burnout, and making care delivery patient-centric.

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The Best, Most Affordable Places to Live in the US for Telemedicine Providers

Enzyme Health

With a job in telemedicine, you too can become a digital nomad. And you don’t have to leave the country to enjoy a new environment with a low cost of living. Explore some of the best affordable places to live in the U.S., suited for any type of climate or set of interests. With the increase in remote medical positions available, and telehealth becoming a growing industry, you may be thinking about moving somewhere else or becoming a digital nomad.

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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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FDA takes first steps toward new guidance for adaptive medical AI

Mobi Health News

An exploratory whitepaper dropped yesterday lays out a framework that the FDA hopes to present in a future draft guidance.

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AIA and Singtel collaborate to drive wellness in Singapore

Mobi Health News

AIA, the largest public listed pan-Asian life insurance group and Singtel, the largest mobile network operator in Singapore, yesterday announced a partnership to promote consumer wellness.

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Inanovate Inc. Secures $3.1 Million Investment To Support Breast Cancer Detection Technology

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Inanovate, Inc., a life science company specializing in the development of blood tests for cancer and autoimmune diseases, has secured an initial closing of $3.1million on a Series C financing round. The investment, led by South Dakota Equity Partners, Mr.

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Giblib gets $2.5M to bolster VR, 4K medical education streaming service

Mobi Health News

Giblib, a medical education streaming service with offerings including both VR and traditional videos of medical lectures and surgeries, has raised $2.5 million in seed funding, with participation from some notable strategic investors. Those include Mayo Clinic, the Venture Reality Fund, Wavemaker 360, USC Marshall Venture Fund and Michelson 20MM.

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Black patients less likely to gain transplant eligibility than white patients—study

FierceHealthIT

While black and Hispanic patients are now receiving almost an equal amount of deceased donor kidney transplants as white patients, there is still a race and ethnicity discrepancy when it comes to gaining active status on the transplant list for patients who are highly sensitized.

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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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For developers, it's important to consider social power imbalances when innovating

Mobi Health News

Vanessa Mason, director of the Institute for the Future, discussed areas of opportunity for health technology and the pitfalls of bias when innovating.

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Christiana Care Recognized As A National Leader In Healthcare Technology

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. For the third year in a row, Christiana Care Health System has earned the Most Wired designation from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, recognizing healthcare organizations that exemplify best practices through their adoption, implementation and use of information technology.

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Rock Health, Startup Health's Q1 numbers show expected slowdown in digital health investment

Mobi Health News

Rock Health tracked just under a billion dollars in investment for the quarter, while Startup Health's more expansive methodology had the figure at $2.8 billion.

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Creating A Physician-Centric Work Environment Makes Business Sense For Healthcare Systems

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Christopher Maiona, M.D., SFHM, chief medical officer, PatientKeeper, Inc. The news on physician burnout lately has been mixed. A 2018 Massachusetts Medical Society/Harvard report received considerable attention – it proclaimed physician burnout has become a crisis, widespread in the medical profession, driven by rapid changes in health care and physicians’ professional environment.

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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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Digital tools can help patients, but prescribing the right app is no simple feat

Mobi Health News

At HXD 2019, a team from Kaiser Permanente described their efforts to build and populate a mental health app ecosystem for their clinicians.

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Survey: Telehealth on the rise in New Zealand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is increasingly being used to connect clinicians within and between New Zealand’s hospitals and to reach into people’s homes, a new survey revealed. The Telehealth Leadership Group’s most recent stocktake questionnaire was sent to all 20 District Health Boards (DHBs) in October 2018. Telehealth Leadership Group programme lead Patricia Kerr says the group is still doing a detailed analysis of results, but initial findings show there has been a general increase in the

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WhatsApp use in the NHS a ‘privacy and clinical safety timebomb’

Mobi Health News

Concerns are being raised about the use of instant messaging apps in the health service.

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Lawmakers ramp up scrutiny over VA’s IT challenges, including joint program with DOD

FierceHealthIT

During two separate congressional hearings Tuesday, lawmakers examined the challenges and progress of VA’s IT initiatives, following a highly critical report from the U.S. Digital Service about a flawed software tool that the VA is building to support the Mission Act.

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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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Policy action on aging and technology – let's expect results

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Should we expect change from aging-related tech policy initiatives? The answer is yes. Many are chosen, ideas are circulated from a long list of participants -- good ideas are collected and then the initiative is disbanded. Maybe it is because the government changes a year later, but the net result is that recommendations appear, but measurements of status or success may not.

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Industry Voices—Supercharging revenue cycle management with AI-fueled workflow automation

FierceHealthIT

Much of what’s happening with AI is clinical. But what we’re not doing, especially in ambulatory settings, is using AI to make our financial workflows smarter. This is a problem because revenue cycle management (RCM) is growing more complex as payers adjust to value-based care models.

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VA faces scrutiny over IT

Morning eHealth

FDA mulling new tech — New push on Part 2 overhaul

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With a lens focused on three practitioners, new documentary tells the story of rural health crisis, opioid epidemic

FierceHealthIT

A new documentary, The Providers, which will debut on PBS on April 8, tells the story of three healthcare practitioners, the nation's rural health crisis and the opioid epidemic.

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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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Policy action on aging and technology – then and now

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Should we expect change from aging-related tech policy initiatives? The answer is yes. Many are chosen, ideas are circulated from a long list of participants -- good ideas are collected and then the initiative is disbanded. Maybe it is because the government changes a year later, but the net result is that recommendations appear, but measurements of status or success may not.

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Chambers of commerce remain bullish on association health plans, despite judge’s ruling 

FierceHealthIT

Despite a judge’s ruling last week that left association health plans in flux, state and local chambers of commerce are still committed to pushing forward with such plans.

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Hampshire College: Convergence?

Docnotes

Yahoo! It’s Spring! Wow. It’s been too long since I’ve posted here. I’ve been busy with my day job. and writing elsewhere (some recent stuff referenced here). Now. the topic of today: Hampshire College. It’s not in a good spot. Lots of history here. and here. and here. Yesterday’s Boston Globe article is a short summary of the most recent events.

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Industry Voices—Addressing flaws within CMS' Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program

FierceHealthIT

Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has long been credited with lowering risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals. However, these reductions appear to be grossly overstated.

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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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3 Tips to Starting a Personalized Marketing Strategy for Healthcare

Geonetric

Healthcare consumers are familiar with the personalized marketing approach that is becoming more and more the standard across industries. No longer does the typical batch-and-blast email to all patients signed up for your newsletter generate the kind of engagement and conversion you need. Creating unique healthcare consumer experiences that competitors can’t easily duplicate and building […].

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Industry Voices— How leveraging established organizations can lead to healthcare startup success

FierceHealthIT

Startups are scrappy by nature. But moving too quickly, especially in the healthcare space, can lead to a startup’s untimely demise. From networking to research and development, successful startups need to strategically utilize available resources to drive sustainable growth and bolster success. Those resources are often available right in your own backyard if you know where to look.

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Avoid These ACA Filing Errors to Prevent Getting IRS Letter 226J Year After Year

ACA Times

5 minute read: They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. We’ve seen many employers repeatedly make the same mistakes in their annual ACA filing submissions with the IRS. This is resulting in these employers receiving consecutive IRS Letter 226J penalty assessments for the 2015 and 2016 tax years. If these employers don’t make any changes to their ACA compliance process, these employers can expect the receipt of an ACA penalty notice from the IRS to beco

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