FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
According to ISACA’s recently released 2018 Digital Transformation Barometer, some of the most hyped technology also is perceived to hold the highest risk and the highest potential benefit. Contributor Susan Snedaker takes a look at how those technologies can be used to successfully transform healthcare organizations and patient outcomes.
KevinMD
OCTOBER 24, 2018
We have a new electronic medical health record system at our hospital. It was introduced with what I believe is a short and ineffective training program for physicians followed by a far too short on-location use of experts to help the doctors and nurses learn the new system. It is frankly a pain in the neck to access the computer from outside the hospital due to the multiple layers of.
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 24, 2018
One in three working-age people in the U.S. have seen a doctor about something stress-related. Stress is a way of American life, based on the findings in The United States of Stress , a survey from Everyday Health. Everyday Health polled 6,700 U.S. adults between 18 and 64 years of age about their perspectives on stress, anxiety, panic, and mental and behavioral health.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 24, 2018
The machine learning and women's cyclical health company said that it made the purchase to prepare for next year's launch of the Priya Personal Fertility Sensor platform.
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Go forth and network this fall. Especially for startups, but useful for long-time members of the field, going to events can reveal contacts that you may need or initiatives that you did not know existed. Over next few months, there are a number of events around the country that are worth attending if schedules permit and interest areas match. Useful, besides sessions themselves, are exhibit areas where vendors offer new and existing solutions for the target audiences of the attendees.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
The Health Care Cost Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have issued the first part of their series on the healthcare marketplace, and in it researchers document the wide regional variation in prices.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 24, 2018
The new company will combine Mingle Analytic's focus on CMS reporting with SilverVue's practice improvement tools.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
New findings from the American Medical Association and the RAND Corporation say that physicians, especially those in small practices, feel APMs are becoming too complicated, and they're not able to keep up with the whirlwind of regulatory changes surrounding them.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 24, 2018
The new app will give clinicians updates about patients' vitals and predictions about patient deterioration.
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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
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Carequality reported a spike in health information transactions over the last three months, but the organization has yet to make its connection with CommonWell generally available. Meanwhile, DirectTrust saw transactions increase among a portion of users, indicative of new use cases.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 24, 2018
The company plans to use the new money to develop its smart living integration platform K4 Community Works and expand its customer base.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
CVS-Aetna appeared to hit a snag last week when New York regulators criticized the deal's potential to raise premiums and reduce transparency. But Leerink analyst Ana Gupte said the rhetoric is just a "negotiating tactic.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Walabot Home uses low-power radio waves to montior a user's movements and can alert a family member if a fall is detected.
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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.
Health System CIO
OCTOBER 24, 2018
It’s not the technology piece that’s most challenging for CIOs, but the people and process piece, says Daniel Barchi, a presenter at the upcoming CHIME18 Fall Forum. “The more we can share insights with one another, the better off we are.”.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Nick Dougherty, managing director of MassChallenge HealthTech, is energized by all the pilots converting to broader implementation and is working on an assessment review to help innovators get over the security hurdles.
HIStalk Interviews
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Rachel Marano is managing partner and co-founder of Pivot Point Consulting of Brentwood, TN. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’ve spent my entire career in healthcare IT, almost 18 years. I’m a computer science graduate. I started my first job at Cerner, where I learned the healthcare IT industry through the Cerner consulting concept.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Also: Apple CEO warns of consumer data weaponization; Validic's platform integrates with Dexcom CGMs.
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Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Azar sees opioid crisis turning — Other conference dispatches
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Professor Sir John Bell has stepped down as chairman of clinical AI tech company Sensyne Health. Sir John's decision to leave his role was to avoid any potential conflicts of interest that may arise from his role advising the government on the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy. In this role, he authored the Life Sciences Strategy Document and has been instrumental in delivering a programme defined in the report to grow the life sciences sector in the UK.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Nine lawmakers from both sides of the aisle echoed arguments made by NAACOS and others that ACOs need more time to take on risk and deserve a 50% cut.
ACA Times
OCTOBER 24, 2018
3 minute read: The open enrollment period on HR.gov will run from November 1, 2018, to December 15, 2018, only 45 days, the same as the previous year’s open enrollment period. The major change for this year’s enrollment period is the knowledge that the tax penalty levied by the IRS for the Affordable Care Act’s Individual Mandate goes away on January 1, 2019.
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
OCTOBER 24, 2018
That $1 billion partnership between Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas announced over the summer is a smart strategy, according to a report from a top ratings firm. But it does come with risks.
care innovations
OCTOBER 24, 2018
At the recently concluded Connected Health Conference in Boston, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai delivered a keynote speech expressing his agency’s dedication to expanding federal funding for key telehealth initiatives, along with a few new proposals for accomplishing them. The goal of the expanded funding, Pai said in his keynote speech, is to help ensure rural communities are able to access essential healthcare services via technology-enabled healthcare delivery model
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
The FDA approved the drug Xofluza, Tesla boasts new employee health clinics and more healthcare headlines from across the web.
Advanced Medical Reviews
OCTOBER 24, 2018
It’s not unusual to see a friend, coworker or even stranger sporting some kind of fitness tracker. Though you might think such “gadgets” are only for runners and those trying to drop a few pounds, wearable technology is being utilized in numerous other ways, especially in healthcare. The global market for medical wearable devices is forecast to reach $12.1 billion by 2021, even beating out personal computers, tablets and laptops by the end of 2018.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 24, 2018
As President Donald Trump held a ceremony to sign a massive package aimed at combating the opioid crisis into law on Wednesday, the administration also announced commitments of support from large companies including Amazon, Cigna, CVS Health, Rite Aid, Walgreens and Walmart. Other companies making commitments include Google and Facebook. "Together we are going to end the scourge of drug addiction in America," Trump said.
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