Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Drew Ivan, EVP of product and strategy of Rhapsody. It was generally recognized by 2009 that the health care industry was long overdue when it came to adopting electronic systems for storing patient data. At the time, hospital adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems was at about 10 percent while electronic record keeping […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2019

Developed by providers, payers and other stakeholders, each of the new voice-based services is designed to conveniently bring health knowledge and management into the home.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2019

There are two trends going on in healthcare. More care is taking place in outpatient settings than physician offices and there’s a higher price for those services, according to an HCCI analysis.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2019

As part of the deal Advantia Health will now be able to offer its members video chats with lactation specialists and registered nurses.

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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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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2019

Advantia Health, a women’s health group with locations in the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, has acquired Pacify, a telehealth company that provides virtual care for new and expectant moms and parents.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As the addiction epidemic continues to plague even the smallest of communities throughout the country, substance abuse treatment specialists from coast to coast have embarked on a unified effort to raise the tide to improve the continuum of care for individuals struggling to break the cycle.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2019

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has flagged the company's Chinese ownership as a potential threat.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Non-clinical factors can account for up to 80 percent of the health outcomes for patients. Such factors, including socioeconomic conditions, healthy behaviors, and physical environment, may vary drastically for each patient and can significantly impact health outcomes such as poor medication adherence, frequent visits to the ED, and more.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2019

The company has plans to work on new, streamlined design systems for the future.

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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.

Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Amy Perry, director of product marketing, OpenText. The pace of technological transformation today is increasing rapidly, with more industries jumping on the bandwagon to adopt new digital technologies that transform workflows. New solutions powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling machines to handle processes that were once bogging down employees.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2019

Watch the headlines and they are full of alarming stories of doctors and other healthcare professionals charged with healthcare fraud. But there are lessons healthcare practitioners can learn from the mistakes of their peers, says a former prosecutor.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 4, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Protein-based drugs are a quickly growing pharmaceutical sector, providing treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases, among others. Obviously, efficient, accurate lab results are desirable. The goal is the development of compounds that have a stability measured in years.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2019

MedPAC plans to focus heavily on value-based payment in the coming months, and at its meeting Thursday the commissioners weighed what a Medicare without fee-for-service might look like.

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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.

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

APRIL 4, 2019

Clinician resistance, interoperability issues cited as top barriers

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Health Intersections

APRIL 4, 2019

Last week I spoke at the CSIRO e-Health consortium. During my presentation, I said: Open source products are the worst thing in the market. Seth Godin. You might find that to be a shocking claim. I certainly did the first time I heard it (which was from Seth Godin giving a keynote at EclipseCon in about 2007 – I can’t find no link now).

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 4, 2019

In DWP Digital we design, build and deliver a range of services that provide financial support for people with health conditions or disabilities. Two of those services, Tell us Your Patient is Terminally Ill and Send Your Fit Note , are currently in public beta and help health professionals and citizens provide information about health conditions digitally, securely and quickly.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2019

The top priorities of Medicare enrollees include navigating Part B, appealing Medicare Advantage denials and affording medications, according to a new report.

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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!

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Morning eHealth

APRIL 4, 2019

Contentious approps hearings — Warren bill: jail for privacy violations?

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2019

MedPAC voted to approve a set of recommendations to Congress aimed at boosting the accuracy of Medicare Advantage encounter data.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 4, 2019

How Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Center and Haifa's Rambam Medical Center look to innovation to generate revenue.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 4, 2019

A Pennsylvania judge has ruled that the UPMC-Highmark consent decree will indeed end in June, and more healthcare news from around the web.

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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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Insulin Nation

APRIL 4, 2019

Many people with diabetes have developed a love-hate relationship with insulin. This life-saving, wallet-shrinking, high-fixing, low-causing, pain-to-dose wonder molecule is a mainstay of diabetes care. There are many flavors of insulin out there so let’s start by breaking down the longer acting (basal) insulins. How They Work. All insulins work the same once they reach their target cells all around the body.

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