Tue.Jun 11, 2019

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Report: Digital health innovation stymied by poor data sharing

Mobi Health News

Patients and providers alike are interested in, and see major benefits from, increased access to digital health records, according to a new report from Royal Philips.

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4 Ways IoT Is Revolutionizing the Healthcare Industry

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Tim Mitchell, healthcare vertical sales manager, Advantech. From a technology standpoint, we are amid a transformative era within the healthcare industry. In a hospital setting, where efficiency and accuracy are often life-or-death matters, the increased availability of IoT devices is revolutionizing the healthcare space.

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Mount Sinai to launch dedicated AI research center in 2021

Mobi Health News

The Hamilton and Amabel James Center for Artificial Intelligence and Human Health will focus on genomics, modeling and prediction of novel therapies and enhanced imaging.

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Physician group sets stringent policies about disclosure of conflict of interests in clinical guidelines

FierceHealthIT

Given the recent concerns over the failure of some authors to disclose conflict-of-interests in research studies, the American College of Physicians released a paper setting stricter methods for creating its clinical guidelines and guidance statements.

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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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Cognitive health platform Neurotrack scores $21M in Series C funding

Mobi Health News

Khosla Ventures led the funding round with participation from Dai-ichi Life, SOMPO holdings, Sozo Ventures, Rethink Impact, AME Cloud Partners and Marc Benioff.

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Nebula Genomics, Merck KGaA's EMD Serono partner on lung cancer pilot

Mobi Health News

The blockchain-enabled startup's new pilot will rely on its database of sequenced genomes.

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Walgreens' CMO on the retailer's expanding healthcare role, Microsoft partnership

FierceHealthIT

Pharmacy and retail giant Walgreens has been aggressively working to establish itself as a force in the growing market for digital healthcare. Chief Medical Officer Patrick Carroll, M.D., spoke to FierceHealthcare about the company's digital services and its partnership with Microsoft.

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Medically Home's remote care service earns $10M from investors

Mobi Health News

The startup will use the new funds to scale its at-home care model to more customers.

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AMA calls for state regulation to rein in pharmacy benefit managers

FierceHealthIT

It’s time to rein in pharmacy benefit managers, according to the American Medical Association, which adopted a policy at its annual meeting Monday calling for patient protections on the lightly regulated industry.

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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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Why I Finally Made the Switch to an Insulin Pump

Insulin Nation

I was more than four years into my diabetic journey before I finally asked my endocrinologist to help me start the process of getting an insulin pump. We had discussed it in passing before, but my numbers were so strong on my current routine of multiple daily injections (MDI) that pump therapy seemed unnecessary. But for me, the time had finally come to make the leap.

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RWJBarnabas, Rutgers solidify academic medical center partnership with $750M cancer center plan

FierceHealthIT

Less than a year after announcing a $1 billion academic medical partnership between RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers University, the institutions are planning to break ground on a major cancer treatment and research facility.

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CBD: neuroprotectant, cardio-protectant and antioxidant

Christina's Considerations

My blog posts on CBD are some of my most popular. They helped me organize my thoughts on CBD, but I also want to hear what physicians have to say. Thus, my guest post today. It answers some of my.

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Massachusetts General launches center to prevent gun violence

FierceHealthIT

Amid growing interest in the medical community to address firearm injuries in the U.S. as a public health threat, Massachusetts General Hospital announced the launch of the new Mass General Center for Gun Violence Prevention this week.

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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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Telemedicine – the tool more and more doctors can’t do without

Healee

“Telemedicine is the future of healthcare…”, “Telemedicine is on the rise… “, “More and more doctors adopting telemedicine”… If you are a doctor and you spend at least some time... The post Telemedicine – the tool more and more doctors can’t do without appeared first on Healee.

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Humana to integrate real-time benefits check into Epic’s EHR

FierceHealthIT

Humana is teaming up with the largest electronic health record platform, Epic, to boost payer-provider collaboration and data-sharing.

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Medicare ACOs Improving Care Coordination With Health IT, But Still Have Work To Do

Healthcare IT Today

A recent study by the HHS Office of Inspector General suggests that Medicare ACOs coordinate care more effectively when they have the right health IT tools in place, particularly when ACO members share one EHR platform and have access to a robust HIE. Folks, I know that reading OIG reports can be about as exciting […].

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Impicciche to take Ascension's CEO role amid number of top leadership changes

FierceHealthIT

Ascension Health's President Joseph R. Impicciche will take on the role of Transitional President and CEO starting July 1, the Catholic health-giant announced on Tuesday. The St. Louis-based healthcare giant announced a handful of leadership changes including a new CFO and COO.

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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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Patient Engagement - Access Log

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures is obsolete and dangerous. Patients are expected to become more engaged with their healthcare and do this using applications. Applications are sometimes software that runs on the Patient's phone, but sometimes software running at a third party cloud. Patients should not be expected to have done a software code review of these applications, and a legal review of the applications Privacy Policy.

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South Carolina submits a request for Medicaid work requirements

FierceHealthIT

South Carolina is the latest state to seek permission to implement work requirements in its Medicaid program.

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Stratus Video and InDemand Interpreting Merge to Improve Language Access and Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

Integration of Two Leading Healthcare Technology Enabled Interpretation Companies Improves Language Access and Health Equity Stratus Video, one of the nation’s leading language service providers, announced today their merger with InDemand Interpreting. The merger will enable the combined business to further its commitment to improving health equity for Limited English Proficient, Deaf, and Hard of […].

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21% of MA enrollees offered supplemental benefits in 2019

FierceHealthIT

Almost 21% of all Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees were offered a supplemental benefit 2019.

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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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Collision 2019: What happens at the intersection of global tech and health

Digital Health Today

Toronto, Canada ~ Collision, the fastest- growing tech conference in North America, was held in Toronto from May 20-23, 2019, and it attracted over 25,000 attendees, 700 speakers, 1,100 startups at Enercare Centre. The first day of the conference set the tone, with sessions featuring Paddy Cosgrave, CEO and founder of both Collision and Web Summit events, and a special welcome from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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AHIP on Surprise Medical Billing

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: For payers, developing a new, collaborative payer provider model reinvents the role of payers as provider allies. BHM understands the special bridge between payers and providers because our they both are clients. Click HERE and discuss how BHM helps reinvent payers and build relationships. On June 12, 2019, AHIP is scheduled to testify at a hearing on surprise medical billing in the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health.

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Challenges to Physician & Patient Buy-in & How You Can Get from a No to a Yes – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/14 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Shereeese Maynard (@ShereesePubHlth) on the topic of “Challenges to Physician & Patient Buy-in & How You Can Get from a No to a Yes” Anyone who has worked […].

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Humana and Epic Partner

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: For payers, stable health insurance markets means stronger long-term growth because enrollment swings hamper revenue projections. Consistency in all phases of revenue cycle management, market penetration, and strategic planning means stable service delivery and insurance premiums. Click HERE and discuss how BHM helps payers succeed.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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The Importance of Nurses’ Critical Thinking in Healthcare

HealthStream

In any area of healthcare that is highly integrated with technology, there is a strong need for clinicians to have a high level ability to think critically. Developing this ability is very important.

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Philips’ Future Health Index 2019 report focuses on the role digital health technology plays in improving both the clinician and patient experience

Lloyd Price

Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, today announced the publication of its Future Health Index (FHI) 2019 report: ‘Transforming healthcare experiences: Exploring the impact of digital health technology on healthcare professionals and patients’ [1]. The report reflects independent research, commissioned by Philips, of what is required to accelerate the shift from volume-based to value-based care in the global drive for sustainable healthcare systems.

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Developing and Managing Change Strategies with Enterprise Architecture

LeanIX

Time is almost up for enterprises to decide how best to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 before official support services are discontinued.

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