Stroke patients using VR show greater adoption when able to connect with others
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
In a small study, researchers found that 99% of patients given a multi-user version of VR therapy completed the treatment.
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Amazon rolls out new Alexa feature to let consumers refill prescriptions
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Amazon is rolling out medication reminders as a new feature of its Alexa device in partnership with pharmacy chain Giant Eagle. The new feature, announced Tuesday, could be the first step in the tech giant's broader effort to use the voice assistant to help consumers manage their medications.
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Opinion: ePublic Health - Where tradition meets innovation
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Vasileios Nittas, doctoral candidate at the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, looks at the impact of social media and digital self-tracking tools on public health.
Cambia Health Solutions invests in integrated mental health care with Quartet partnership
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Cambia Health Solutions is partnering with New York City startup Quartet to better integrate behavioral health care and primary care for regional health plan members. The Portland, Oregon-based health plan will first launch Quartet's technology and services to regional health plan members in Washington state and later expand to Oregon, Idaho and Utah.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Amazon launches new Alexa feature that reminds customers when to take meds
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The new feature will initially be available to Giant Eagle Pharmacy customers.
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Amazon Alexa launches new feature that reminds customers when to take meds
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The new feature will initially be available to Giant Eagle Pharmacy customers.
CMS accepting applications for new primary care alternative payment models
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Monday that is now accepting applications for new primary care alternative payment models. Called “Direct Contracting”, the program offered by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation will test an array of financial risk-sharing arrangements.
Former Outcome Health execs hit with grand jury indictments over ad fraud scandal
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The company's former CEO, president and CFO are each facing multiple counts of wire fraud, bank fraud and mail fraud, among other charges.
Prenatal app Babyscripts pushing further into Medicaid market with Aetna partnership
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Prenatal and postpartum mobile app Babyscripts is expanding its reach in the Medicaid market with a strategic partnership with Aetna's Medicaid managed care organization in Pennsylvania. Through its partnership with Aetna Better Health of Pennsylvania, Babyscripts will deliver pregnancy care solutions to plan members at participating WellSpan Health sites.
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.
Latest version of Eko's CORE stethoscope includes noise canceling capabilities
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The technology also includes a 10-hour battery life and recording capabilities.
Industry Voices— When it comes the opioid crisis, quality information and insights are needed
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Health networks and insurance companies must overcome the challenging structural dynamic of opioids being popular, relatively inexpensive and effective—while alternative pain treatments may be more obscure, initially more costly, and with less certain outcomes.
Thanksgiving with Type 1 Diabetes: 3 Blood Sugar Management Tips
Insulin Nation
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
It’s the holidays, and you should be able to enjoy the fun and yum that comes with the season. As people with type 1 diabetes, however, we have to plan ahead for a day that revolves around mashed potatoes, stuffing, and pie. Carbohydrate central! Chasing high blood sugars all day on Thanksgiving (and likely the day after) is not fun. But it isn’t your only option, either.
Industry Voices—How graph databases can help address healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Fraudulent activities clearly are helping fuel the opioid crisis. But, rooting them out isn’t easy. It’s a huge big data exercise that requires analysis of internal patient, opioid treatment center and referring physician data.
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.
EHR Training Improves Physician Satisfaction & Physicians Don’t Want to Make Time for EHR Training
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
While at the CHIME 2019 Fall Forum conference in Phoenix, AZ, I had a great chance to sit in on one of the CIO focus groups at the event hosted by Optimum Healthcare IT. The session discussed a wide variety of topics including EHR optimization, EHR training, and other related topics. While listening to these […].
Pennsylvania takes another step toward launching state-based insurance exchange
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Pennsylvania is one step closer to launching its own health insurance exchange.
Can Google “Restore the Joy of Caregiving”?
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
That’s quite an ambitious question. It’s a sentiment I’ve heard over and over from people who think that Google or Apple could enter healthcare and finally make the software a joy. However, what prompted the title of this article was Alvin Rajkomar, MD, Product Manager at Google Health who shared this as Google’s ambition in […].
Hospitals project gains at end of 2019 after recent performance improvements: report
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
U.S. hospitals are expecting moderate year-over-year gains as the calendar year winds down despite anticipating significant month-over-month decreases in their margins, according to a new report from Kaufman Hall.
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!
UnitedHealthcare Offers Health Data Support For Medicare Advantage ACO
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
UnitedHealthcare has struck a deal with national physician group Privia Health under which it will offer more and better data on patients enrolled in the payer’s Medicare Advantage plans. The agreement builds on the payer’s relationship with Privia’s ACO, which has been in place since 2017. Under the terms of the new agreement, starting January […].
Industry Voices—Improving price transparency, outcomes through pharma-provider partnerships
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
As patients lean harder on physicians for help, pharma-provider partnerships built on transparent information flow and improved collaboration around the patient will become increasingly important.
Introducing LeanIX Cloud Native Suite: Automated Multi-Cloud Transparency
LeanIX
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The 2019 LeanIX EA Connect Days kicked off today in grand style. After a keynote presentation on the “burnout epidemic” by Bruce Daisley, VP EMEA at Twitter and host of the Eat Sleep Work Repeat podcast, LeanIX CEO André Christ took the stage to share his company’s roadmap for the year ahead—a moment each of the event’s 450+ attendees had been anticipating.
BCBS of Massachusetts Grants $500K to 5 Nonprofits Addressing Social Determinants
MedTech Boston
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will grant $500,000 to five nonprofits as part of its Health Living Accelerator Grants initiative, The post BCBS of Massachusetts Grants $500K to 5 Nonprofits Addressing Social Determinants appeared first on MedTech Boston.
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.
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Takes Aim at a Complicated & Elusive Foe
HealthStream
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
World Pancreatic Cancer Day and Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month are here. Use this time to study your risks and see your physician for routine bloodwork and a checkup.
MRI, CT and PET – What Do They Mean?
KB Dental Consulting
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
There are so many advancements in the medical industry and there are also remarkable successes in the imaging field. Nowadays, doctors can see the human body from the inside perspective and see more precisely what happening there. The medical professionals have an increased possibility to see the entire body throughout different medical devices and all this comes with many benefits.
Introducing LeanIX Cloud Native Suite: Automated Multi-Cloud Transparency
LeanIX
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The 2019 LeanIX EA Connect Days kicked off today in grand style. After a keynote presentation on the “burnout epidemic” by Bruce Daisley, VP EMEA at Twitter and host of the Eat Sleep Work Repeat podcast, LeanIX CEO André Christ took the stage to share his company’s roadmap for the year ahead—a moment each of the event’s 500+ attendees had been anticipating.
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