'Telegenomics' startup Genome Medical raises $23M Series B
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2019
The company's platform helps patients navigate care following testing, while also offering virtual expert consultations to doctors.
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Acupuncture May Help Relieve Symptoms of Chronic Illness and Pain
Continue Education Journal
JUNE 13, 2019
Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese medical practice dating back thousands of years. Even today, it is a critical component of traditional Chinese medicine. In the past few decades, traditional Chinese medicine, particularly acupuncture, has gained a following in the West. So much so, that studies have recently been conducted to test the validity of the widely praised practice.
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Experts share tips on turning datasets into useful machine learning algorithms
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2019
To take full advantage of AI, organizations need the right team, clear metrics and goals, and the right expectations about real-world accuracy.
Cyber Attacks In Medical Facilities
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 13, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Cyber terrorists have made the way into hospitals, and they are targeting ultrasound machines specifically. It appears there is a black market for this content, and people are paying good money for it. A big reason for this is health machines are running ancient software.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Seeking support for your innovation? Target quick wins to prove value
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2019
Internal projects yielding clear value can sway top-level decision makers, healthcare analytics experts speaking at today's HIMSS Media Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Healthcare conference said.
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Modern Fertility's mail-order test, app platform collects $15M
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2019
The Forerunner Ventures-led investment brings Modern Fertility's total backing to $22 million.
Variation in physician EHR documentation can put patient safety at risk: study
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2019
This variation—which leads to physicians searching different places in the chart for information or documenting the same information multiple times—is impeding safe and effective use of EHRs, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Orchestrating Healthcare At Scale To Enable Population Health Management
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 13, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Chris Hobson, chief medical officer, Orion Health. Health information exchanges (HIE) help care teams provide more informed patient care by supplying a complete longitudinal healthcare history of the patient to healthcare professionals, as well as enabling high quality reporting and analytics on the data.
Ohio medical practice hacked, pays $75,000 in ransom, news report says
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2019
An Ohio medical practice was allegedly hacked earlier this week and told to pay $75,000 in ransom money to unlock its computer system.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
Summer Advice from 3 Experienced Caregivers
Christina's Considerations
JUNE 13, 2019
This guest post comes from Scott, Kristen and Patrick offer their experienced advice on some ways that people can step up to help the caregivers in your life rest, recharge, and maybe even relax. They are part of the Embracing.
Doctors to lawmakers: Burden of medical school debt could have consequences for practices, primary care
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2019
Physicians headed to Capitol Hill this week to tell the House Small Business Committee about the burden massive student debt has put on them individually and on the industry at large.
House Votes to Remove Federal Ban on National Patient ID
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 13, 2019
On Wednesday, the U.S.
Doctors jump into political fray with advocacy group to protect Medicare, ACA
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2019
A group of more than 50 doctors from 14 states are launching a national effort and hope to mobilize other physicians and engage voters in a political advocacy campaign aimed at protecting Medicare and affordable healthcare.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
NVNA and Hospice expands telehealth pilot, cuts readmission rates
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 13, 2019
A pilot program from Massachusetts-based home health and hospice provider NVNA and Hospice offering telehealth and remote patient monitoring has led to a 40 percent drop in hospital readmissions among their palliative care patients. WHAT HAPPENED. The health system began the program in November 2018 in partnership with remote monitoring platform developer Health Recovery Solutions and has now expanded its telehealth services to more than 120 patients a month.
Only 18% of nonprofits offer group health insurance: report
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2019
Small nonprofits historically have barriers to employee healthcare, and only 18% of nonprofits have a group health insurance policy.
ASPPB Joins TBHI Practice Over State Lines Online Training
Telebehavioral Health Institute
JUNE 13, 2019
TBHI is delighted to announce that Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) CEO, Dr. Mariann Burnetti-Atwell, is joining Dr. Marlene Maheu in Telebehavioral Health Institute’s (TBHI’s) “How to Legally Practice Over State Lines with Telebehavioral Health & Telemental … Read more. The post ASPPB Joins TBHI Practice Over State Lines Online Training appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Cochrane Launches Network of U.S. Institutions to Promote Evidence-Based Healthcare
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 13, 2019
Among 11 new affiliates are Mayo Clinic Evidence-based Practice Center, Penn Medicine Center for Evidence-based Practice
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry 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!
Payer groups form coalition to push surprise billing reforms
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2019
Two of the biggest insurance industry groups have teamed up to advocate for policies related to surprise billing.
US Government Ban on National Patient Identifier Voted to Be Lifted by House
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 13, 2019
The big news coming out of Washington yesterday was the house’s vote to strike down the long time ban on federal funding for a national patient identifier. Here is a tweet that highlighted the vote. By voice vote, House amends appropriations bill to strike down longtime ban on federal funding for national patient identifier. Not […].
Bringing Health Care to School Children
Health Recovery Solutions
JUNE 13, 2019
Telehealth programs are traditionally used to bring care to older patient populations who, for various reasons, have difficulty making frequent trips to the doctor. As the field grows, telehealth is becoming a viable care option for all age groups. School-based telehealth programs keep the cost of care down, encourage students to engage in the healthcare field, and allow campuses to provide effective care to large student populations.
#FHIR DevDays: Smart Scopes
Health Intersections
JUNE 13, 2019
One of the subjects we discussed at DevDays in Redmond Seattle (2019) was starting to plan what changes to make for scopes in v2 of the Smart App Launch specification. The scopes are used as the language for the user, the resource owner, and the application to negotiate how much access the user wants to grant to the application. The current scopes are fairly simple : In principle, these are simple: read and/or write resource to all or particular resources, and do so as the patient, or as a regul
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.
Blood glucose-dependent insulin delivery to simplify treatment
Insulin Nation
JUNE 13, 2019
We corresponded with Jingqiang Wang and Professor Zhen Gu of UCLA Engineering about their research on glucose-responsive insulin analogs ( ref ). The goal of their research is a simple-to-administer system that delivers insulin in a blood glucose-dependent manner. Q1 : Is subcutaneous injection the only delivery mechanism? R1 : Subcutaneous injection is effective in this study and is our first studied delivery method.
Why Is Software Not Enough to Ensure Data Collection In the OR?
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 13, 2019
The following is a guest blog post by Shlomo Matityaho, CEO of LogiTag Systems. So, you’ve invested in technology, trained the medical staff, upgraded to an EHR system, updated the hospital SKUs – and still the compliance rate of usage reporting inside the operating room is low, the reports are inaccurate, the charges are missing, […].
XDS sha-1 is still okay
Healthcare Exchange Standards
JUNE 13, 2019
I get the following question about every other month. Here is the version I just responded to: In this project I encountered a requirement to use SHA-256. Apparently this was in reaction to the SHA-1 collision vulnerability ( [link] ) from late 2017. IHE XDS requires the hash to be SHA-1. Have you heard of any requests to change that? There is no requirement in IHE that a Document Consumer must check the size+hash against the document they have received.
Palliative Care Vs. Hospice Care—How They Differ
HealthStream
JUNE 13, 2019
Palliative care and hospice care are often mentioned together, which can lead to confusion about what each one entails. Lack of knowledge, especially about palliative care, may hamper the many benefits of these services for those who most need them.
How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp
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Do We Need Wearables? Ask My Mom.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 13, 2019
The following is a story about love, wearables and daytime TV. Recently, I got a call that blew my mind. My technophobic mom, who doesn’t even know how to send an email, was pitching me on buying a Fitbit. After connecting via video (using Duo is her latest smartphone accomplishment), the conversation went something like […].
Wound Care Pilot Improves Outcomes, Reduces Cost for AccentCare
Synzi
JUNE 13, 2019
The post Wound Care Pilot Improves Outcomes, Reduces Cost for AccentCare appeared first on Synzi.
Democrats introduce bill to make birth control available over-the-counter
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2019
Congressional Democrats introduced legislation in both chambers on Thursday to require insurance to cover any birth control pills approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and to make it available over-the-counter without a prescription.
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