Thu.Oct 04, 2018

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Genomics startup bets on blockchain for data sharing platform

Mobi Health News

Kamal Obbad, Co-founder and CEO of Nebula Genomics, is working to help consumers understand consent and the risks to consider before giving someone access to their data based on a blockchain model.

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Healthcare’s Most Pressing Problems, According To Its Leaders (Part 1)

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Most likely, in one of the few lucid moments you have in your hectic, even chaotic schedule you contemplate healthcare’s greatest problems, its most pressing questions in need of solving, obstacles and the most important hurdles that must be overcome. And how solving these problems might alleviate many of your woes.

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Solv's urgent care booking app adds video telemedicine support

Mobi Health News

Solv Video Telemed allows patients booking an urgent care visit the option of immediate or scheduled video encounters, while providers can use the service to more easily manage visit volume.

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Update your Clocktree profile

Clocktree

We have made some recent design changes to Clocktree profiles, making them more visible to your clients. Please take a moment to make sure your information is up to date and complete. While you are completing your Clocktree profile, remember to include important keywords in your practice description in the “About” section. These keywords should match what consumers are searching for online when they are looking for a healthcare provider like you.

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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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BlackBerry launches Spark platform for secure connectivity, announces healthcare security products

Mobi Health News

BlackBerry' new healthcare-related security products include a blockchain system for medical data and operating system for secure medical devices.

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Senate passes bill to address opioid crisis, expands telemedicine scope

Mobi Health News

The bill will also modify the provision regarding electronic prescription and post-surgical managment.

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ABA and IT: The Best Strategy for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Drs. Will Brandon, PhD., president and CEO of Learning ARTS, and Michael Harrington, PhD. About one in 59 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to recent estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.

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VisualDx launches Aysa, a consumer-facing dermatology app

Mobi Health News

The app uses machine learning to identify skin conditions and make treatment suggestions.

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Four Technology Health and Aging Blog Posts from September 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

September always seems like a short month. Not just because of the calendar, but because of the pace of return to California dreamer and tech breathless launches and device announcements , Facebook’s 50 million user data breach – the usual. Interestingly, healthcare data breaches are largely caused by insiders and cost $400+ per user data record breached.

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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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Population health management often starts with a ride

Mobi Health News

Gyre Renwick, vice president at Lyft, is leading the company’s healthcare team to develop partnerships and find solutions to address the major social determinant of health that impact people’s lives – getting to the doctor before an emergency.

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Opioids package passes (and what it means)

Morning eHealth

The latest at the VA — Elsewhere in the Senate

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Basis launches consumer mental health counseling app with $3.75M investment

Mobi Health News

The app offers 45-minute counseling sessions with trained (but unliscensed) mental health specialists for $35 per session.

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As UnitedHealth negotiations intensify, Envision targets surprise billing with new marketing blitz

FierceHealthIT

Envision, which has been embroiled in controversy over surprise billing launched what one policy experts called a "ballsy" marketing campaign that sought to shift the blame for surprise billing to insurers. The campaign comes as Envision continues negotiations with UnitedHealthcare.

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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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Healthy Aging – It’s never too late to start

Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

It’s never too late to take your health in your hands and implement healthy practices to prevent common problems encountered as you age. Keeping in mind that the key the healthy aging is a healthy lifestyle, below are few tips to keep you on track no matter where you are in your aging journey: Keep your body moving. Whether it’s walking outside, taking a yoga class or going for a swim, doing something active everyday that you enjoy is important to maintaining your strength, balance, flexibility

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NAACOS: Proposed rule changes to ACO program are 'deal breakers'

FierceHealthIT

Proposed changes to the federal accountable care organization (ACO) model—namely, a cut in the shared savings rate from 50% to 25%—would cut the knees out from under the program, board members of the National Association of ACOs said on Thursday.

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Cybersecurity and HIPAA Compliance

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Cybersecurity and HIPAA Compliance Go Hand in Hand: Here’s Why HIPAA compliance (adherence with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) entails meeting a broad set of guidelines, including ones related to being able to transfer healthcare coverage … Read more. The post Cybersecurity and HIPAA Compliance appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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CVS promises to keep Aetna HQ in Connecticut for the next decade

FierceHealthIT

A dozen CVS and Aetna executives pleaded their case before the Connecticut regulators, promising to keep Aetna's headquarters in Hartford and arguing that the $69 billion merger would reduce costs and improve patient care.

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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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Investors bet heavily on Automated Insulin Dosing

Insulin Nation

Tandem Diabetes secured FDA approval in June for the solution that couples its insulin pump with the Dexcom G6. It percentage stock price increase has led all other companies in the last year. Shares in Dexcom Inc. skyrocketed 51.8% in August according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Dexcom sales and earnings outpaced the expectations of industry watchers, and newly introduced products had a very positive outlook.

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Healthcare Roundup—Opioid package heads to Trump's desk; deductible and premium hikes eat employees' wage growth

FierceHealthIT

A massive package of legislation aimed at addressing the nation's opioid addiction crisis is heading to the president's desk, increases in healthcare costs exceed employee wage growth and other healthcare headlines from around the web.

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