KevinMD
JULY 24, 2018
How smart do we want our electronic health record to be? Somewhere between as dumb as a piece of paper and a pen, and too smart for our own good. Many, many years ago, before we spent the majority of our office visit staring at a flatscreen LED and typing away, our charts were simple manila folders with those bendy metal bars that allowed you to insert new pages, separated into multiple.
Mobi Health News
JULY 24, 2018
Things are tough for women working in healthcare, according to a new report by RockHealth. The report, which includes a mix of online sources and survey responses of hundreds of women in the industry, found the percentage of women represented in digital health leadership particularly lacking.
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Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 24, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Chris Byers, CEO, Formstack. Patient satisfaction surveys are growing in popularity among healthcare organizations as the United States health system continues its transition to value-based care. A well-designed and distributed survey can help you discover hidden issues or gems in your organization’s care system.
Mobi Health News
JULY 24, 2018
Rideshare services have been making their name in the non-emergency medical transport (NEMT) industry, and it seems as if the partnerships health organizations are making with these companies are paying off.
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FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
Google Cloud is partnering with NIH to help the agency create a "biomedical data ecosystem," according to NIH Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak, Ph.D. The partnership is part of the agency's broader effort to improve data accessibility for medical researchers.
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FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
The nation's largest chiropractic association was joined by more than two dozen state and regional associations in calling on UnitedHealthcare to reverse a decision not to cover spinal manipulation for patients with migraines. ACA says the change is "fundamentally flawed" and ignore existing evidence.
Mobi Health News
JULY 24, 2018
Mountain View, California-based sleep tech company Beddr has closed $5.6 million in Series A funding and unveiled its flagship product, the Beddr SleepTuner. The funding round was led by Three Leaf Ventures, with additional participation from the Stanford-StartX Fund, Delta Dental Washington Seed Fund, IT Farm, and other unnamed individuals.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
Addressing all angles of the opioid crisis is a priority for policymakers, and at a hearing on Tuesday, experts weighed in on a crucial component: how addiction recovery is marketed to patients.
Mobi Health News
JULY 24, 2018
Putting yourself in someone else's shoes. High school students are learning about living with Alzheimer's disease in a new VR experience that simulates the experience for teens. The program, which was presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference yesterday, has multiple different storylines for students to explore. The experience lets students see what it is like to live with macular degeneration and hearing loss as well as dementia.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
Even though more women are taking on positions of power in healthcare, they're not exactly optimistic about the future of gender equality in the industry. Five percent of respondents to a recent survey said they believe gender parity in healthcare will never be achieved.
Mobi Health News
JULY 24, 2018
Canadian digital employee health benefits company League has just landed a whopping $47.5 million ($62 million Canadian dollars) in a Series B funding round led by Telus Ventures with participation from Wittington Ventures, Omers, Infinite Potential Group, RBC Ventures, Real Ventures, and BDC Ventures.
Morning eHealth
JULY 24, 2018
Senate unlikely to meet timetable for opioid bill — NIH to ramp up AI work
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
A new study found that doctors give patients only an average of 11 seconds to explain the reason for their visit before interrupting them, and more physician practice news.
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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.
Redox
JULY 24, 2018
She is standing in her bathroom, brushing her teeth while catching up on the morning news and weather, when the heads-up display in her mirror alerts her that her son is running a fever. She goes to his room and finds that yes, he is feeling sick. She calls her family doctor and he shows up immediately via her telehealth app. She learns the doctor is already aware of her son’s illness because he’s already been notified of the fever.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
Medical practices can follow six key principles to reduce opioid prescriptions and decrease patient misuse of the drugs, including using alternatives to treat pain.
Christina's Considerations
JULY 24, 2018
As a blogger, I increasingly receive offers of sample products to review and find the number promoting their "natural" ingredients to be striking. I don't request samples unless it is really something that is interesting or useful to me. Today.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
"Until a deal is done, it's not done," Centene CEO Michael Neidorff said during an earnings call Tuesday in response to a question about inorganic Medicare growth. Company executives appeared unfazed about the current risk adjustment freeze and looming competition on the ACA marketplace.
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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!
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JULY 24, 2018
Editor’s Note: Given the rapidly changing health care environment, it is critical to quantify the economic impact physicians have on society. BHM watches health trends and understands the importance of improving and changing with the industry. Click HERE to learn more about how BHM helps your organization address opportunities. The AMA’s latest National Economic Impact of Physicians report provides data that can be used by key health care policymakers, legislators and thought leade
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
The average salary for medical residents has continued to climb this year, up about 7% in the last three years.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JULY 24, 2018
Editor’s Note: BHM watches health trends and understands the importance of improving and changing with the industry. Click HERE to learn more about how BHM helps your organization address opportunities. When older adults who are critically ill frequently move between the hospital and other settings, compassion from physicians during care transitions can go a long way, a study examining patients’ and caregivers’ experiences with these transitions found, according to Kaiser Heal
Christina's Considerations
JULY 24, 2018
As a blogger, I increasingly receive offers of sample products to review and find the number promoting their "natural" ingredients to be striking. I don't request samples unless it is really something that is interesting or useful to me. Today.
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.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
Centene has added $14.2 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2018 thanks to growth in the Affordable Care Act marketplace and the company's acquisition of Fidelis.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
In collaboration with another participant, the plan seeks to coordinate care for some of California's most vulnerable residents, beginning in San Francisco this summer.
FierceHealthIT
JULY 24, 2018
The Trump administration will release billions in risk adjustment payments to insurers this fall, ending a relatively short-lived freeze that generated pushback from payers and providers alike.
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