Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The round was led by Khosla Ventures with participation from Founders Fund, Green Innovations, Lachy Groom, Vesalius Biocapital and Faber Ventures.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Millions of Americans have to work 53 weeks to cover a year’s worth of household expenses. Most Americans haven’t saved much for their retirement. Furthermore, the bullish macroeconomic outlook for the U.S. in early 2020 hasn’t translated into individual American’s optimism for their own family budgets. (Sidebar and caveat: yesterday was the fourth day in a row of the U.S. financial markets losing as much as 10% of market cap, so t he global economic outlook is being revised downward by the like
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
An interview with Patrik Sundström, head of digital health at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), collaborating with industry stakeholders, has ushered in a standard for artificial intelligence in health care. CTA is the membership organization for companies that innovate, manufacture and market consumer-facing tech like big-screen TVs, slick new autos, video games and voice assistants. So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care?
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Caravan has acquired the startup's tech, staff and customers.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Mumbai-based healthcare AI startup Qure.ai announced that has raised $16 million in funding led by Sequoia India and was supported by MassMutual Ventures Southeast Asia. The fresh funds will be used for geographical expansion, product portfolio expansion and to support regulatory clearances.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Key lawmakers are fed up with what they see as poor VA leadership over the roll-out of a Cerner EHR system and vowed to take tighter control of the project. Here's when the VA says it expects the go-live date for its first site will be.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
For a fee, the company's app also connects users to live practitioners for text-based consultations.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Eighty-five percent of healthcare facilities have used locum tenens in the past year to fill gaps caused by a shortage of physicians, according to a new survey. There's several factors behind why virtually every hospital in the U.S. now uses locum tenens doctors.
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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.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Also: Snapchat to surface mental health resources during user searches.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The latest report from The Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital safety watchdog group, looked specifically at surgical volumes of 2,100 hospitals as well as the standards those hospitals require surgeons to meet in order to gain privileges.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
This profile shows how to build a Document Sharing Exchange using IHE profiled FHIR® standard, rather than the legacy IHE profiles that is dominated by XDS and HL7® v2. This profile will assemble profiles and define a Document Registry. The MHDS Profile specifies how a collection of IHE profiles can be used by communities for exchanging health information.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
It’s been almost 10 years since the Affordable Care Act became law, and U.S. physicians are still divided about its future. And they gave their views on other critical healthcare issues.
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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.
Docnotes
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
I’ve had a few conversations recently with elected state officials, and I’m reminded that speaking plain language always helps. Here goes: We all agree that fire stations are a good thing, right? And we agree that we don’t want them to be busy … . So if the firefighters are always watching Three’s Company reruns, that would be good.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee demanded Cigna and Optum produce critical documents over the pricing of insulin, with a subpoena threat looming.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The following is a guest article by Heather Haugen, PhD and Darshan Nandi from Atos. Cloud isn’t as complex or risky as we like to believe for healthcare, but it does have far-reaching impacts across IT, business, and clinical operations. Many healthcare leaders remain hesitant about moving application or data to a Cloud platform but […].
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Patient confusion about insurance coverage can often translate into delayed billing and increased cost of collections. High-deductible health plans can exacerbate those challenges.
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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!
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Frannie Raede, MPH, PhD, program manager, commercial development, Pillo Health. In the U.S., 25% to 50% of all adults fail to take their prescribed medications on time, contributing to poor health outcomes, over-utilization of […]. The article Solving America’s Other Drug Problem appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
CMS has tapped more than 200 participants for its new payment model for emergency transport, which aims to pay ambulance crews even if they don't take a Medicare patient to the hospital.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
This was exactly my attitude toward my illness. It worked for a bit. I never walked into a room, a job interview, or a First Day and made an announcement. Sometimes someone would notice the pager-like device I wear on my hip, or the Nicorette-like patch on the back of my arm (not a Nicorette patch) and ask me questions. I responded gracefully, happy that someone noticed and was interested in learning more – or appeared to, anyway.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
A record number of patients—as well as a record-setting $261 million gift—helped boost Cleveland Clinic to more than $390 million in operating income last year.
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.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
I remember when I first fell in love with an Apple computer – the day I brought home a Macintosh Performa. I opened the box, plugged it into the wall and dove into it with a passion. By today’s standards, its 33 MHz processor, 4 MB of RAM and 250 MB hard drive seems laughable, […].
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Hopefully, not many healthcare organizations will need to use it, but there’s now an ICD-10 code for treating patients with coronavirus.
InTouch Health
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
A Prime Example of the Future of Telehealth Legislation. States around the country are creating new legislation to increase access to telehealth services , but one state is going above and beyond when it comes to enacting meaningful change within the healthcare system. Kentucky is in the process of crafting a new bill that would not only strengthen the state’s existing telehealth legislation, it would also create a cabinet-level department committee that would be responsible for overseeing and s
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
A newly diagnosed cancer patient could face significant out-of-pocket costs if they’re enrolled in a short-term health plan, according to a new study.
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Optimum Healthcare IT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Read Time: 3 min Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare has been gaining traction in the last two years and will continue to be popular as the technology grows and evolves. Here are a few of the top ways that healthcare can benefit from AI and machine learning. The post Benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.
HealthStream
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Effective healthcare leaders come in all shapes and sizes, and they are far from cookie-cutter people, so knowing what some common traits are is helpful when exploring what type of person will work best at a facility.
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