Fri.May 31, 2019

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How Consumers’ Belt-Tightening Could Impact Health/Care – Insights from Deloitte’s Retail Team

Health Populi

Over the ten years between 2007 and 2017, U.S. consumer spending for education, food and health care substantially grew, crowding out spending for other categories like transportation and housing. Furthermore, income disparity between wealthy Americans and people earning lower-incomes dramatically widened: between 2007-2017, income for high-income earners grew 1,305 percent more than lower-incomes.

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Rucker talks ONC rules in Boston: What they mean and why they matter for innovators

Mobi Health News

A panel of innovators joined Rucker to examine the news and to invite comments in the last few days.

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Healthcare Hacking Profitability and Prevention

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Lynch, founder and CEO, Reciprocity Labs. For decades now, hackers have been cashing in on financial data. The routine has been constant. A hacker finds their way into a site, steals financial information belonging to the site’s visitors then uses their personal information to create fake credit cards.

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Feebris secures £1.1m in seed funding

Mobi Health News

This includes a grant from the Innovate UK agency and investment from 24 Haymarket.

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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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Microsoft's Peter Lee, Greg Moore on the role of tech giants in healthcare

FierceHealthIT

Microsoft healthcare executives Peter Lee and Greg Moore, M.D., talk about the company's work in pediatric research, its partnership with Walgreens, and the role Microsoft can play in healthcare.

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Health executives may be in denial when it comes to drug diversion: survey

FierceHealthIT

Nearly 85% of healthcare leaders and providers say drug diversion is a problem in U.S. health facilities, and it may be fueling the opioid epidemic, according to a survey released Tuesday.

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Lobbying groups tell ONC to start over on info blocking rule

Morning eHealth

Don’t lean too much on PDMPs, federal task force says — More on dwindling abortion access

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Optum: 5 drugs set to have the biggest impact on payers and patients 

FierceHealthIT

There are plenty of drugs in the development pipeline, and a new report from OptumRx highlights five products that it expects to make a big splash in the market.

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FHIR Bundle Visualizer

HAY on FHIR

So a little while back I wrote about an app I developed during the WGM Connectathon to send an HL7 v2 message to a converter app, and display the response (a FHIR Bundle ) in a number of visualizations after validating it using the community supplied validation tool (actually, exposed by the reference servers via the $validate operation). It occurred to me that this visualization might be of use to implementers who are developing query applications – such as the CSIRO Primary Care project for ex

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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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Prices for top-selling drugs appear immune to common market forces: study

FierceHealthIT

When it comes to concerns over the rising costs of prescription drugs, it's not just an isolated few that should be grabbing the headlines.

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Remote Prescribing - The Role of Telehealth

Health Recovery Solutions

In January, HRS published a blog post advocating for the use of remote prescribing to combat the opioid crisis and provide needed medications to patients struggling with opioid use disorders (OUDs). Today, HRS reviews the background of remote prescriptions and the role of telehealth to treat multiple conditions.

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Video games heighten risk of gun violence among children: study

FierceHealthIT

Video game violence raises the odds of unsafe behavior around firearms among children. That makes education and parental vigilance key elements of the wide-ranging effort to curb gun violence.

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Johns Hopkins Spin-Out Seeks to Integrate Earlier Cancer Detection into Routine Clinical Care

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Thrive receives $110 Million in financing to fund commercialization of CancerSEEK liquid biopsy test

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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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Study: Medicaid enrollees may struggle to access buprenorphine

FierceHealthIT

A recent study found that buprenorphine was underused in states with high opioid-related mortality rates, especially for patients with Medicaid coverage.

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Trends in Healthcare AI Marketers Should Know

Geonetric

In April 2019, Amazon announced their voice search partnership with six healthcare brands to deliver Alexa voice assistant skills aimed to help patients and users with their healthcare needs. However, this wasn’t a shock to those who knew about the pilot program Amazon had initiated. Take the Cedars-Sinai pilot in Los Angeles, CA. for starters. […].

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Cigna, Santa Clara County IPA partnership lowers medical costs, readmission rates

FierceHealthIT

A care collaboration between Cigna and the Santa Clara County Individual Practice Association is saving participants 18% on medical costs.

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Remote Prescribing - The Role of Telehealth

Health Recovery Solutions

In January, HRS published a blog post advocating for the use of remote prescribing to combat the opioid crisis and provide needed medications to patients struggling with opioid use disorders (OUDs). Today, HRS reviews the background of remote prescriptions and the role of telehealth to treat multiple conditions.

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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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Study: Adults impacted by Medicaid work requirements struggle to sustain employment 

FierceHealthIT

The people targeted by Medicaid work requirements are also those likely to struggle with barriers to employment, according to a new report.

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Weekender 5/31/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. The latest funding round of precision medicine platform vendor Tempus values the company at $3.1 billion. Cerner initiates a $0.18 quarterly dividend for shareholders, its first. Cincinnati-based Bon Secours Mercy Health announces plans to sell its majority share in a revenue cycle management subsidiary, netting $1.2 billion on its 2016 investment of $60 million.

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Healthcare organizations ask CMS to expand Next Generation ACOs

FierceHealthIT

A group of 10 healthcare industry organizations is asking the Trump administration to grow the Next Generation ACO model.

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