Health Populi
AUGUST 13, 2018
The two top stressors in American life are jobs and finances. “My weight” and my family’s health follow just behind these across the generations. Total Well-Being , a research report from Fidelity Investments, looks at the inter-connections between health and wealth – the combined impact of physical, mental, and fiscal factors on our lives.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 13, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC – A broad coalition of technology giants took the stage in an unscheduled session at the Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference here in the White House.
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FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 13, 2018
The CEOs of some of the country's largest nonprofit health systems earned millions—even as hospitals' spending on charity care is on the decline. FierceHealthcare reviewed tax filings for the 10 biggest nonprofit systems in the U.S. and found that all but one CEO took home more than $2 million in salary and other compensation in 2015.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 13, 2018
The astronauts currently on the International Space Station rely on telemedicine for everything from coughs to bruises. But as Dr. Shannan Moynihan, deputy chief of space and occupational medicine at the NASA Johnson Space Center, said in a presentation at HIMSS18, telemedicine has its limits for caring for astronauts.
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FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 13, 2018
FierceHealthcare reviewed the compensation of healthcare executives at publicly traded health systems in 2017. Here's a look at how much they made and how it compares to an average employee's salary.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 13, 2018
Researchers with the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team altered the data flowing from a patient monitor to a central monitoring station, an attack that could lead to patients receiving the wrong medication or extending a hospital stay.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 13, 2018
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and NHS Foundation Trust will be rolling out HoloLens mixed reality headsets to support its operational theater, according to a recent release from Microsoft. Alongside the technology company and Black Marble, a software design and consultancy firm, the hospital will be developing an app for the technology to help surgeons better access information about their patients during an ongoing procedure.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 13, 2018
Policies that address out-of-network billing issues have mostly targeted "surprise billing": when a patient isn't able to know a provider is out of network until they receive the bill. But a substantial amount of out-of-network billing comes through mental health or substance abuse treatment providers that patients seek out intentionally, which suggests other fixes may be in order, according to a recent brief by Kaiser Family Foundation.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 13, 2018
Online pharmacy and delivery service Capsule has landed a whopping $50 million in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital and Brook Capital Partners. The company, which defines itself by its same-day delivery policy, is now looking to expand its New York-based business to a national market.
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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
AUGUST 13, 2018
Amazon joined Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce and Oracle in a pledge to remove the barriers of interoperability using open standards, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 13, 2018
Bankrupting docs? Patient booking platform Zocdoc is putting providers in a sticky situation, CNBC reports. The platform, which lets patients book and cancel appointments, is changing its business model. Now instead of charging providers a flat annual rate per doctor, it proposes to charge a lower annual rate as well as a booking fee for each new customer.
Morning eHealth
AUGUST 13, 2018
What CMS proposal means for health IT — Why a bad health app could get great reviews
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 13, 2018
The Justice Department selected the cities for the Strike Force's newest division due to the prominence of fraud, including illegal opioid distribution, in the region.
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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.
Lloyd Price
AUGUST 13, 2018
The Japanese government is teaming up with businesses and academia to set up hospitals enhanced by artificial intelligence, seeking to allow short-handed doctors to spend more time on patient care while curbing medical spending. The government is expected to invest more than $100 million in the effort over half a decade, with a target of establishing 10 model hospitals by the end of fiscal 2022.
David Chou
AUGUST 13, 2018
There is a trend currently as to who is leading the innovation department in the health systems. When you start exploring the role of the chief innovation officer, we are starting to see leaders without any technology background. Is that the right trend as some are out there buying new solutions and calling it "innovation" My observation is in the video below.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 13, 2018
The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced some upcoming leadership changes; providers are offering plenty of incentives to draw in advanced practice clinicians; plus more healthcare headlines.
HIStalk Interviews
AUGUST 13, 2018
Rich Berner is CEO of MDLive of Sunrise, FL. Tell me about yourself and the company. I approach this as technologist, having grown up programming computers since fourth grade. I got into healthcare about 15 years ago, working in a variety of roles across a number of the big EMR and population health management companies. While I come at this as a technologist, I spend most of my day with teams and clients, getting them to focus on the outcomes versus technology.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 13, 2018
New Mexico Health Connections has asked a court to immediately strike down a final rule issued by CMS last month that reinstated $10.4 billion in risk adjustment payments, arguing the agency's justification for bypassing a mandated comment period doesn't "hold water.
Lloyd Price
AUGUST 13, 2018
There are several significant issues facing blockchain technology and cryptocurrency platforms today. Right now, the most pressing issue facing established cryptocurrencies is scalability. However, interoperability of blockchains presents an entirely new structure for the ecosystem. While scalability solutions continue to develop, there are some important forward-thinking projects, technologies, and obstacles facing the interoperability of distributed ledger systems that are worth evaluating.
ACA Times
AUGUST 13, 2018
3 minute read: . The Trump administration has made repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act a top priority. What’s interesting, however, is that as the White House continues to undermine the law, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to approve Section 1332 waivers for reinsurance programs that will lower the cost of insurance premiums for those who most need help.
Lloyd Price
AUGUST 13, 2018
The way blood-cell counts and diagnostic blood tests are done hasn’t changed in years: Your blood gets drawn into one vial for each type of test and sent to a lab, where technicians prepare slides from each samples and examine them under a microscope. Results arrive in hours or days – and then only if you’re in a place with the necessary infrastructure.
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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