Wed.May 29, 2019

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How Consumers Look At Social Determinants of Health for Cancer, Diabetes and Mental Health

Health Populi

Enlightened health/care industry and public policy stakeholders have begun to embrace and address social determinants of health. These are the inputs that bolster health beyond health care services: they include economic stability like job security and income level (and equity), education, and access to healthy food, food security, safe neighborhoods, social support, clean environments (water and air), and in my own update on SDoH factors, access to broadband connectivity.

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What healthcare plans can learn from casinos

Mobi Health News

Harvard Business School professor and economist Gary Loveman discussed how strategies from the world of gaming could help health plans better engage their members with technology.

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Ohio Living achieves low readmission rates with telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ohio Living Home Health and Hospice earned a readmission rate of just 7.5 percent, nearly half of the state’s Medicare average, by introducing telehealth services. HOW IT WORKS. Patients have been equipped with 4G-enabled tablet devices provided by Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), which as well as additional Bluetooth-enabled devices that give patients the ability to record biometrics like their heart rate, weight and blood pressure.

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Getting radical: how innovation is transforming the face of healthcare

Mobi Health News

Digital health experts discuss how technology is being used in every situation from helping refugees to providing consultations in self-driving cars.

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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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The Value of Connected Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Susan DeCathelineau, vice president of global healthcare sales and services, Hyland Healthcare. Healthcare interoperability continues to be a critical topic facing healthcare technology leaders. There’s no question that achieving true healthcare interoperability is key to moving the industry forward by enabling the type of information exchange that can streamline workflows, inform clinical deci

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Wearable Heart Monitors Positioned To Detect Cardiac Anomalies In Athletes

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) remains the leading cause of death in athletes, with recent studies showing the condition occurs more frequently than historical estimates.[1] Currently, there are more than 350,000 SCA-related deaths each year.[2] Stuart Long, CEO of InfoBionic, a digital health company that created the MoMe Kardia Platform, confirms that remote cardiac monitoring that […].

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Pillo Health raises $11M Series A for conversational adherence, engagement platforms

Mobi Health News

The round was led by Stanley Black & Decker's investment group, with strong support from Samsung Ventures.

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Marketing Strategies For Head and Neck Surgeons To Gain New Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. An effective advertising and marketing plan for the head and neck surgeon can capitalize your diverse capabilities. Head and neck surgeon needs successful marketing strategies while strengthening and building their practice. With advertising and marketing, you can get the advantage of a widespread opportunity spectrum.

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Pokémon tackles sleep health with upcoming app, tracking device

Mobi Health News

Launching in 2020, Pokémon Sleep will feature gameplay that responds to the player's sleep habits.

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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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UCSF ends affiliation talks with Dignity Health following protests

FierceHealthIT

In the wake of protests, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) officials announced the school will end its pursuit of a stronger affiliation between UCSF Health and Dignity Health's four Bay Area hospitals.

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Blink Health brings on 3 Amazon vets, Omada's CCO hails from pharma, Mount Sinai creates chief data officer role and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Vivante Health, EverlyWell, Nurx and Facebook fill top clinical roles.

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WHO adopts price transparency resolution

FierceHealthIT

The World Health Organization’s Assembly announced a new resolution to improve the transparency of pricing for medicines, vaccines and other health products.

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Linkage – A rare survey of technology ownership among the oldest

Aging in Place Technology Watch

When there’s nothing else to buy. Funny about technology ownership among the oldest – generally there is no way to know whether they own any or if would they buy it. Neither Pew (in 2018) nor AARP (2019 technology ownership ) broke out upper age ranges. So Link·age Connect is an outlier that asks ownership questions and documents age breakdowns of responders, half of whom were age 75+.

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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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Blue Cross Blue Shield consortium picks Cricket Health as preferred kidney care provider

FierceHealthIT

Kidney care startup Cricket Health just got a healthy vote of confidence from a consortium of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans.

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Taking the Lead: How CIOs Can Help Shape Health IT Policy

Health System CIO

When it comes to health IT policy, leaders have two choices: get engaged in the process and help lead the discussion, or wait for regulators to set the rules and live with the consequences, according to Mari Savickis and Leslie Krigstein of CHIME.

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Industry Voices—Johnson & Johnson series on burnout: Lessons from the fish tank

FierceHealthIT

The ever-changing ecosystem is filled with quality metrics and reporting requirements, payment models and staffing shortages. As a result, at least half of all U.S. healthcare providers are experiencing one or more symptoms of burnout.

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7 Winning Telemedicine Resume Tips to Make the Best First Impression

Enzyme Health

If a recruiter spends an average of 15 seconds looking at your CV, what would yours get across? How can you make sure your telemedicine resume stands out for the right reasons? Make a strong first impression with these resume tips, plus leverage our physician resume template for your next application. Competition for health practitioner jobs can be stiff - in a traditional, onsite role, one physician position can bring in 100 resumes and CVs.

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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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SEC filings offer a look inside the Centene-WellCare merger talks 

FierceHealthIT

As Centene and WellCare gear up for a stockholder vote on their merger plans later this month, the two have issued joint financial documents that offer a look at how they came together.

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Improving Care for Patients with CHF

Synzi

Heart failure is a common clinical syndrome associated with high morbidity and mortality. It is a significant public health problem, with a prevalence of over 5.8 million people affected in the US according to the CDC. The prevalence is high … Read More. The post Improving Care for Patients with CHF appeared first on Synzi.

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Apple snags asthma startup

Morning eHealth

The financial cost of physician burnout — Early abortion bans could push more women to telemedicine

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UnitedHealthcare report: 57% of Americans say employer wellness programs have improved their health

FierceHealthIT

More than half of Americans enrolled in an employer wellness program report seeing improvements in their overall health.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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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New Society Created as Professional Home for Those Involved in Digital Medicine

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Nonprofit Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) to champion digital medicine as an evidence-based field

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Pennsylvania's Supreme Court sends UPMC, state attorney general spat to lower court 

FierceHealthIT

Pennsylvania’s top court has sent the ongoing feud between the state’s attorney general and healthcare giant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center back to a lower court.

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An Oregon Health System’s IT Project Governance Success: Lessons Learned

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

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NextGen CEO says regulatory environment impacting providers' health IT spending

FierceHealthIT

During NextGen Healthcare's quarterly and year-end earnings call, the healthcare technology company credited a significant increase in bookings and deal-size growth for its profit increase in the fourth quarter.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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OCHCH 2019 Annual Conference & Tradeshow (Ohio Annual Conference)

Synzi

Location: Columbus, OH Date: September 17 – September 18, 2019 Attend. The post OCHCH 2019 Annual Conference & Tradeshow (Ohio Annual Conference) appeared first on Synzi.

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Improving Portal Utilization

Health Portal Solutions

Portal utilization and ROI is driven by more than just the functionality; it takes intentional efforts to get your users online regularly. Thankfully, increasing portal utilization isn’t rocket science, and there are several things you can do to drive stronger utilization and ROI. Here are our top 5 suggestions: Assess Your Login Screen – How Many Clicks Does it Take?

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Why Employees Leave Healthcare Jobs for Better Work-Life Balance

HealthStream

Healthcare jobs can make the flexibility demands of a modern life too difficult to manage, unless they are paying attention to unhappy employees and giving them some options to adjust such components as schedules, travel demands, and commute issues.

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