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Meta-analysis: Robopets can reduce loneliness, increase wellness among seniors who engage with them

Mobi Health News

Data from 19 studies suggest emotional benefits for those living in homes, but stress that the simulated pets won't be accepted by every senior.

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Rare Genomics Institute Brings Hope To Rare Disease Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Romina Ortiz, COO and vice president of patient advocacy, Rare Genomics Institute. Getting a diagnosis for a rare disease is a long and often painful journey that can take an average of five years1 and hundreds of doctor visits. Sometimes, the answer never comes; conventional diagnostics does not always provide a diagnosis for diseases […].

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Swedish startup Pilloxa announces collaboration with Novartis division Sandoz Nordics

Mobi Health News

The startup was also recently awarded funding from EIT Health and Vinnova, the Swedish innovation agency.

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Five Virtual Reality technology offerings for older adults in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In 2017, it was clear that virtual reality technology had evolved beyond the point of experiments and was having a number of limited introductions into the world of older adults , including senior living environments ( Rendever ) as well as pain mitigation ( FirstHand ). Virtual reality has made its way into the 'future of healthcare delivery' consulting, as firms like Care Innovations and Deloitte publish their how-to white papers.

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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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EHR companies DocuTAP, Practice Velocity merge under name Experity

Mobi Health News

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus merged the two companies, promising to support existing clients.

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Sydney’s BlueChilli and Enterprise Singapore launch health tech accelerator in Singapore

Mobi Health News

Australia Sydney-based tech accelerator BlueChilli and Enterprise Singapore, an economic agency under the Singapore Ministry and Trade and Industry, announced that they would partner to launch a Singapore-based health tech accelerator to spur innovation and build startups that address health challenges and opportunities in Southeast Asia.

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Industry Voices—How AI technology can improve patient care outcomes

FierceHealthIT

Using artificial intelligence, we can now analyze massive quantities of data to inform clinical decision-making at the point of care. By using AI to sift through information and deliver the right information at the right time, clinical decision support tools have been proven to prevent medical errors and reduce costs.

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LetsGetChecked collects $30M more for at-home health testing

Mobi Health News

The New York City-based company will be scaling its brand, expanding its logistics and continuing work on its core technology.

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Rand: Private insurance pays more than twice what Medicare does

FierceHealthIT

The prices paid to U.S. hospitals by private insurers are about 2.4 times higher than the rates Medicare would have paid, according to a new Rand Corp. study.

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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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Lilly-funded study shows Livongo diabetes program can save employers $20 to $50 per member per month

Mobi Health News

The retrospective analysis compared more than 2,200 Livongo users with non-users at the same companies.

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Majority of healthcare breaches come from inside the organizations: report

FierceHealthIT

Within the healthcare industry, employees, whether nurses, doctor or administrative staff, are granted access to patients' data in order to do their jobs. But an alarming number of employees may be abusing this privileged access or committing errors that lead to data breaches.

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CMS's Physician Compare website falls short in statistical review

Mobi Health News

Researchers say 99.7% of physicians' profiles lack individual quality data and 77% lack group data.

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Study: States lack guidelines for using Medicaid funding for social services

FierceHealthIT

Few policies exist to guide and support states when determining social interventions for health. In fact, the use of Medicaid funds for social interventions is left up to the discretion of the state.

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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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Lilly-funded study shows Livongo diabetes can save employers $20 to $50 per member per month

Mobi Health News

The retrospective analysis compared more than 2,200 Livongo users with non-users at the same companies.

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Which Multiregional EHR Vendors Fared Well Globally in 2018?

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Among multiregional electronic health record (EHR) vendors, Epic and Cerner contracts accounted for the most new hospital beds in 2018, according to a new report from KLAS Research. Last year, more than 180 healthcare organizations outside the.

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Closed Loop Medicine nabs £2.1m in pre-Series A funding

Mobi Health News

Longwall Venture Partners, IQ Capital and Martlet participated in the round.

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TytoCare device enables remote patients to send vitals to providers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: HIMSS19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: TytoCare device enables remote patients to send vitals to providers Featured Decision Content:

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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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Pharma companies, PBMs play blame game over drug prices at hearing 

FierceHealthIT

Pharmaceutical companies and pharmacy benefit managers once again pointed the finger at one another in a hearing Thursday on lowering drug prices.

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Coffee Talk with Bayer G4A – Driving Change Inside and Out

Digital Health Today

How Bayer G4A is getting stuff done, featuring Eugene Borukhovich and Sophie Park. Welcome to Coffee Talk! In this episode, we speak with two leaders from one of the companies that help make our platform possible, and we’ll learn more about the work they’re doing to move the industry forward. My guests are from none other than Bayer G4A. Bayer G4A was officially launched as “Grants4Apps” in Berlin in 2013, originally with the aim of funding healthcare mobile apps.

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Health plans struggle to meet members' financial expectations: report

FierceHealthIT

There are still some major hurdles standing in the way of patients’ satisfaction with their commercial health plans, according to a recent report by J.D. Power.

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Customer Success is NOT Customer Service. Learn why you need a World-Class Customer Success team behind your SaaS investment.

eVisit

Back In The Day. Not to go back too far, but before we were all buying products and services online, we actually went to stores to find and purchase items. The same was true with services like accounting or graphic design; we went to a brick and mortar facility to meet with the vendor, show them what we wanted, and made a purchase.

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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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Samsung Knox is powering partners' digital health solutions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: HIMSS19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Samsung Knox is powering partners' digital health solutions Featured Decision Content:

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8 Telehealth FAQs From Patients and Doctors

Ortholive

Virtual healthcare is coming to your practice. Why are we so certain? There is growing consumer demand , reported in multiple studies that show an increasing patient demographic that is not only comfortable with their digital devices – they want to use them to communicate with their doctors. But questions still remain with both patients and physicians who are intrigued by these tools.

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Dr. Alexa Will See You Now: Can We Trust Digital Assistants With Our Health Data?

Lloyd Price

It’s hard to imagine a field where data is more valuable than in healthcare. Monitoring and interpreting crucial health indices can make the difference between an early diagnosis and a late one—and that, in turn, can be the difference between life and death for some people. As neural networks and machine learning algorithms get better at interpreting these signals, and even diagnosing certain illnesses, there’s a clear drive towards creating a fully-integrated medical assistant: one that can con

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The Unlikely Marriage of Statistical Significance and.Uncertainty

GNS Healthcare

National Chocolate Day: Ten Convincing Reasons You Should Eat More of the Stuff, The Telegraph, October 2016. No, Dark Chocolate Is Not a Health Food, Healthline, December 2018 New Harvard study finds a glass of wine every day can have huge health benefits, Fox6 Milwaukee, December 2018 No Amount of Alcohol Is Good for Your Health, Global Study Says, NPR, August 2018.

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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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FHIR Security & Privacy activities

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This is an update of what is going on in Security and Privacy in, and around, the FHIR specification. tl;dr -- FHIR R4 includes Security Considerations classification SMART-on-FHIR first flavor is Normative Addition of X-Provenance and X-Consent http headers GDPR assessment against FHIR indicates good coverage of needs in FHIR already Maturing AuditEvent and Provenance to Normative by FHIR R5 HL7 Implementation Guide on Basic Provenance (CDA and FHIR) IHE updated ATNA to include FHIR AuditEvent

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Wearable Heart Monitor Detects T1D Hypoglycemia

Insulin Nation

Mats Koeneman, Technical Physician with the REshape Center for Innovation at Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands. We spoke with Mats Koeneman, MSc and Technical Physician with the REshape Center for Innovation at Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands — [link] — who co-authored a recent study in Diabetes Journal to get his thoughts on how wearables might help people with T1D who are hypo unaware.

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Is digital transformation a reality in healthcare?

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Digital transformation can sometimes seem like the emperor’s new clothes. It’s the thing that everyone is doing and everyone is interested in yet sometimes hard to define and to quantify. In healthcare this is not that different to any other industry. The dialogue on digital transformation in many other sectors focussed on the domains of the Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Digital Officers (CDOs).