Thu.Dec 05, 2019

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Laws ensuring commercial insurance coverage for telehealth increasing among states

Mobi Health News

Still, a new state-by-state survey from Foley & Lardner suggests there is still plenty of ground to cover in terms of telehealth payment parity, as well as the language used in the laws themselves.

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A Brief History of Drug Abuse and Treatment

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Drug abuse isn’t something you see on a “special” episode of your favorite sitcom. It’s an epidemic and continues to spread throughout the world. Whether you’re a suburban resident or city girl, you’re going to see the effects of drug abuse.

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pMD launches new feature that lets patients communicate with group of providers

Mobi Health News

The new tool will let patients send messages directly to their clinican, as well as send messages to care teams.

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In the Decade To Come, Healthcare Organizations Can Reduce Cyber Risk with Employee Training

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Taeil Goh, chief technology officer, OPSWAT. The healthcare industry has been at risk of cyberattack since long before the proliferation of patient networks, web applications, cloud services, and other connected devices increased the attack surface exponentially.

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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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FDA, NIH's newest app asks clinicians to log case data when treating difficult infections

Mobi Health News

The CURE ID online data repository's crowdsourcing approach could help the agency to identify novel uses for approved drugs.

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Meta-analysis finds high dropout rates for studies on depression apps

Mobi Health News

When bias is accounted for, researchers found a 50% dropout rate.

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Healthcare’s New Challenge: Mastering the Trifecta of Comfort, Cost and Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ryan VanDePutte, associate director, Bits In Glass. Each day in the U.S., about 10,000 seniors turn 65. By 2050, there will be 83.7 million seniors in the country, representing about one-fifth of its population. Even with the growing awareness of health and fitness, it’s a hard reality that about three-quarters of these older Americans […].

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Peloton's holiday ad falls flat, Israeli startup notches another 510(k) and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Early study data on Onduo's tech-driven diabetes management program; Northwell Health sending chatbot-based appointment reminders.

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DevOps In Healthcare: Best Practices

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few decades. The paper-loaded clinics and hospitals have been replaced by tech-savvy smart data applications that extend themselves to more agile hospital management systems. Data lies at the key of the healthcare industry and is considered the true treasure of the trove.

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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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The rural health crisis: Number of medical students from rural backgrounds declined 28% over 15 years, study finds

FierceHealthIT

It’s a fact that doesn’t bode well for rural healthcare: Over a 15-year period, the number of medical students from rural backgrounds declined 28%.

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Administrators Will Focus Less on Describing and Admiring the Problem and More On Prediction and Prescription of the Solution

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sanjeev Agrawal, president, LeanTaaS. Everywhere, everyone is building dashboards: Tableau reports, Excel spreadsheets and others. To paraphrase many hospital leaders I meet: “We’ve spent tens of millions of dollars on an EHR implementation. On top of that, we have invested a lot on reporting capabilities; we have lots of dashboards throughout the hospital to […].

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MedPAC: Hospitals got $201B in Medicare payments last year, a 3.6% bump from 2017

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals got $201 billion in Medicare fee-for-service payments in 2018, a 3.6% increase from 2017 as Medicare is footing the bill for higher drug prices, a new analysis found.

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How Can Technology Improve Dentistry?

VSee

Technology seems to be able to improve every aspect of medicinal care, increase the quality of life of patients and improve their chances of survival in severe cases. It can help doctors perform surgeries better and medicinal dosages can be calculated more accurately, but what can technology do to improve the world of dentistry? The.

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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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For physicians, compensation is up but productivity remains flat or declining, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

With a demand for their talents, physicians continue to see a year-over-year increase in their compensation, according to a new survey.

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Core Principles for Application Decommissioning and Data Archiving

Healthcare IT Today

While we’ve been writing about EMR data archiving since back in 2009 and then again in 2013 and 2014 to name a few, the topic has never been more important than it is today. With many healthcare organizations literally supporting 100s and even 1000s of health IT software, how you handle legacy systems including data […].

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Centene's Neidorff: WellCare acquisition has cleared final state approvals

FierceHealthIT

NEW YORK CITY—St. Louis-based Centene Corporation's acquisition of WellCare Health Plans crossed a significant hurdle as the deal earned approval from all 27 states, according to Centene CEO Michael Neidorff. Illinois and New Jersey approved the pending merger of the two insurers, Neidorff said while speaking at the Forbes Healthcare Summit Thursday.

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What’s in Your Pump? How to Choose the Right Insulin

Insulin Nation

When you are first diagnosed with diabetes, you have little say in what insulin your doctor puts you on. Typically, you’ll get stuck with whatever brand your doctor prefers that your insurance will also cover. Since you were likely more concerned with how to calculate doses, carb count, and just live with this terrifying condition, you probably never even considered that there might be more options out there.

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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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Healthcare spending ticked up in 2018 as industry felt the impacts of the ACA's maligned insurer tax 

FierceHealthIT

Health spending grew at a rate slower than overall economic growth in 2018, though expenditures were up for major payers thanks in large part to the reinstatement of the ACA’s health insurance tax, a new report shows.

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Sentara Hospitals Will Pay $2.2 Million HIPAA Fine

Healthcare IT Today

In yet another sign that the agency is taking a tougher enforcement stance, Sentara Hospitals has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the HHS Office for Civil Rights to settle claims that it violated the HIPAA Breach Notification and Privacy rules. Sentara Hospitals, a 12-hospital acute care chain, is part of Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara Healthcare. […].

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Survey: As Millennials consumers gain power in workplace, they'll push for plan changes

FierceHealthIT

Americans a generally satisfied with their health plans—but as Millennials continue to gain influence in the workplace, they’ll be pushing insurers to modernize, according to a new survey.

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LeanIX Partner Program Awards 2019: List of Recipients

LeanIX

We don’t say this enough, but LeanIX’s global network of Certified Partners— 43 in total from 10 countries—is fundamental to our company’s growth. It’s the not-so-hidden secret behind how we deliver our cloud-native Enterprise Architecture solutions to the number of companies we do and contribute to so many digital transformations worldwide. Based on a combination of technology enablement (online certifications, full product access, etc.), sales enablement (proof-of-concept and demo support, sal

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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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Waystar Acquires Recondo Technology, Gains Best in KLAS Patient Access and Business Office Technology

Healthcare IT Today

Waystar, a leading provider of revenue cycle technology, today announced the acquisition of Recondo Technology, a pioneer of innovative revenue cycle automation solutions powered by advanced robotic process automation (RPA) and other artificial intelligence technology allowing providers to be paid more, faster and at lower cost. Waystar’s cloud-based technology simplifies and unifies the revenue cycle so that providers […].

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LeanIX Partner Program Awards 2019: List of Recipients

LeanIX

We don’t say this enough, but LeanIX’s global network of Certified Partners— 43 in total from 10 countries—is fundamental to our company’s growth. It’s the not-so-hidden secret behind how we deliver our cloud-native Enterprise Architecture solutions to the number of companies we do and contribute to so many digital transformations worldwide. Based on a combination of technology enablement (online certifications, full product access, etc.), sales enablement (proof-of-concept and demo support, sal

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Applying a Population Health Model to the Opioid Abuse Crisis

HealthStream

Healthcare can improve its approach to the opioid crisis by adopting a population health model.

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ACA Filing Takeaways for The New Year

ACA Times

2 minute read: As the 2019 tax year winds down, we wanted to let you know that we have curated a list of our most common and relevant ACA filing questions and answers. We hope you find these to be helpful as you head into 2020 and begin to prepare their ACA filings with the IRS: Are only full-time employees required to file 1095-Cs? The full-time employees do not in and of themselves file the 1095-Cs (or 1095-Bs).

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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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USDA announces dozens of grants to support rural telehealth rollouts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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HIStalk Interviews Amanda Hansen, President, AdvancedMD

HIStalk Interviews

Amanda Hansen is president of AdvancedMD of South Jordan, UT.

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The Patient As Payor: Workers Covered by Employer Health Insurance Spend 11.5% of Household Incomes on Premiums and Deductibles

Health Populi

Workers covered by health insurance through their companies spend 11.5% of their household income on health insurance premiums and deductibles based on The Commonwealth Fund’s latest report on employee health care costs, Trends in Employer Health Coverage, 2008-2018: Higher Costs for Workers and Their Families. The topline of this study is that average annual growth in employer premiums rose faster between 2016 and 2017, by about 5% for both single and family plans.