Wed.Jan 23, 2019

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NHS App being rolled out across England

Mobi Health News

The NHS App is now being rolled out across England, NHS England announced this morning, following private testing between September and December with over 3,000 patients from 30 GP practices.

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What Should We Expect for Healthcare in 2019? Three Predictions for the Year Ahead

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Dr. Giovanni Colella, CEO and co-founder, OODA Health. 2018 was another year of rapid changes in the healthcare industry. Over the past twelve months, I’ve had fascinating conversations with executives in the provider and payer community and they have described the challenges they face and their visions for the future.

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Startup moves

Morning eHealth

From the Hill — FDA finalized guidance

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Must-have medical apps for primary care

KevinMD

Earlier this year, we put together a list of what we thought were the best medical apps for health care providers. Now at the end of 2018, we’re augmenting that list to give you a full picture of what we think are must-haves medical apps for those in primary care. Safe Motherhood Initiative: ACOG DII SMI […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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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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Report: Digital respiratory health market primed for growth, could reach $557M by 2023

Mobi Health News

While connected devices currently reign supreme, authors of the report see a market opportunity for new players offering a purely digital service.

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Opinion: Blood pressure measuring smartwatch is a paradigm shift for hypertension management

Mobi Health News

Brigham and Women's Hospital Resident Dr. Daniel Yazdi outlines the benefits for doctors, patients and digital health disease management programs.

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Implementing Data To Increase Employee Engagement In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Scott Mathews, freelance writer. Data is the future of healthcare, especially when it’s combined with new technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. As we generate more and more healthcare data, we increase the potential for us to discover deep insights that might otherwise have gone undiscovered.

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To design patient-centric care, ask patients what they want

Mobi Health News

At Novant Health Physician Network in North Carolina, designing for the patient has been the hospital’s driving force for some years, especially when it comes to online interactions.

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Advances In the Treatment of Depression

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Researchers are constantly working on innovative approaches to deal with treatment resistant depression. This offers hope to those who have been unable to deal with their illness successfully using traditional methods. However, some of these novel approaches are only available to people suffering from depression through research studies.

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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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FDA finalizes new 510(k) guidance, shifts away from aging predicate devices

Mobi Health News

The new guidance aims to modernize the process and generate more market competition.

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Gallup: Rate of uninsured adults reaches 13.7%, highest in 4 years

FierceHealthIT

The adult uninsured rate has surged to its highest level since the implementation of Obamacare, according to a new Gallup poll. It rose almost 3 percentage points since its low point of 10.9% in 2016.

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Partners HealthCare on driving innovation at your hospital

Mobi Health News

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Insulin prices nearly doubled in five years, report says

FierceHealthIT

The cost of managing diabetes in the U.S. is rising quickly, largely due to dramatic increases in the cost of insulin, according to a new report from the Health Care Cost Institute.

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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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HIStalk Interviews Sean Carroll, CEO, Arcadia

HIStalk Interviews

Sean Carroll is CEO of Arcadia of Burlington, MA. Tell me about yourself and the company. I am a 32-year veteran of healthcare IT over six companies, all focused on some aspect of healthcare data. Some of those companies were service-oriented businesses, some have been technology focused, and one or two have been a combination of both. I’ve been on an explicit mission over my career to be part of tangible progress in the evolution of healthcare.

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A new deal: $75K in loan repayment to doctors in exchange for opioid treatment in underserved areas

FierceHealthIT

A new program hopes to be the answer to two problems: the need for doctors to repay their hefty student loans and the need to increase access to opioid treatment in underserved communities.

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Re-Engineer, Automate to Avoid Claims Errors

Hinduja Global Solutions

Re-Engineer, Automate to Avoid Claims Errors. By Manjunath; Practice Lead, Claims Adjudication; HGS. Healthcare claims management is a focal point of potential transformation for payers and providers alike. The global healthcare claims management market is expected to reach $13.93 billion by 2023, up from a valuation of $10.16 billion in 2017, according to MarketsandMarkets.

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Walgreens to pay $270M to settle fraud allegations 

FierceHealthIT

Walgreens will pay more than $270 million to settle three fraud cases, including one where it dispensed unneeded insulin pens.

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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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The Economics of Telehealth

Health Recovery Solutions

Telehealth has numerous benefits and clinical applications that can be seen in various medical centers around the country. The usage of telehealth is increasing at a rapid rate, but not just for its innovative approach to patient care. Telehealth technology presents a cost-effective and efficient way to increase patient engagement, maximize patient reach, and deliver a high caliber of care.

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Study: Firearms injuries present large opportunity for violence interventions

FierceHealthIT

Victims of firearm injuries offer emergency departments an opportunity to provide interventions that could prevent similar incidents in the future. So far, however, few do so.

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What Are the Factors Driving Telehealth Growth in 2019?

care innovations

There are a number of good reasons why experts are predicting that 2019 will be a “tipping point” for telehealth — in other words, the year to see virtual and remote care services gain even more widespread acceptance in health plan networks, practices and facilities throughout the United States. Take, for example, the escalating patient demand for virtually delivered care.

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Payer Roundup—Maine's new governor rejects state’s planned Medicaid work requirements 

FierceHealthIT

Maine's newly instated Gov. Janet Mills has rejected plans for Medicaid work requirements that began under her predecessor, plus more insurance news.

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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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Bernstein: CMS’ new Part D model may be slow to ‘get off the ground’ 

FierceHealthIT

CMS’ newly announced payment model in Part D may be an attractive option for plan sponsors, but the impact is unlikely to be immediate, according to an analysis from Bernstein.

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Health IT Roundup—Feds issue emergency hijacking directive; North Carolina introduces strict data breach law

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Homeland Security sent a rare emergency directive to HHS to secure their DNS infrastructure and other health IT headlines.

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38 hospitals sue HHS over site-neutral payment policy

FierceHealthIT

Dozens of hospitals are suing the Trump administration over its decision to institute site-neutral payments.

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