Wed.Sep 11, 2019

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How does this tech improve patient care?

KevinMD

What if each new feature of your medical record came with a description of how it would improve patient value, not just how to use it? Could a simple checklist help to achieve Annals' vision of putting patients first by helping to ensure that health care innovators release only those features that help us improve […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Why Humana Joined CTA – The Pivot from “Health Insurance” to Behaving as a Health-Tech Start-Up

Health Populi

“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. Connectivity, artificial intelligence, and automation are now competencies every company must master, Mimms explains. This ethos underpins Humana’s decision to join CTA, the Consumer Technology Association which hosts CES every January in Las Vegas.

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Livongo's complex recipe for digital health success

Mobi Health News

At the Health 2.0 Annual Fall Conference next week in Santa Clara, I'll sit down with Livongo Executive Chairman Glen Tullman to look back at the company's IPO — and ahead to healthcare's digitally-empowered future.

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As healthcare costs rise, small business owners are taking an interest in ‘Medicare for All’: survey 

FierceHealthIT

Small business owners are struggling to address rising healthcare costs and are open to a swath of ideas to mitigate these expenses—including “Medicare for All,” a new study shows.

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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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Mercy Virtual leads $10M investment in Myia Labs, rolls out home monitoring tech to patients

Mobi Health News

Myia Labs' tech uses Apple Watches, Oura Rings and other consumer health tracking products to guide chronic disease care.

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AiCure cofounder talks future of digital in clinical trials; offers insights to fellow female entrepreneurs

Mobi Health News

Laura Shafner, chief strategy officer and founder of AiCure, discusses her experience within the industry.

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370 healthcare organizations urge Congress to protect MA patients from prior authorization

FierceHealthIT

Hundreds of healthcare groups sent a letter to Congress this week urging lawmakers to pass a bill to protect growing numbers of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries from prior authorization requirements.

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Rock Health founder Halle Tecco launches new fertility startup Natalist

Mobi Health News

The startup aims to sell women's fertility products that are backed up by science.

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Latin America’s Virtual Care Revolution

GlobalMed

Global access to care: that’s our mission and you can see it right there in our name. When I started GlobalMed in 2002, our goal was to help make evidence-based medicine available in every nation, not just the U.S. So it’s especially gratifying when we’re able to assist with transforming healthcare delivery in other nations – like our strategic partnership with Meditar, the premier healthcare network in Argentina.

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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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Personal training app's $4.5M round headlined by A-Rod, 24 Hour Fitness founder, Corazon Capital

Mobi Health News

Fitplan's subscription service provides consumers with video workouts developed by well-known trainers.

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'Siri, how's the research going?' Apple launches new app to study health

FierceHealthIT

Continuing its push into healthcare, Apple is launching three medical studies to evaluate the capabilities of its Apple Watch to monitor hearing, women's health and heart rate and mobility.

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Twenty innovators join fourth cohort of DigitalHealth.London accelerator

Mobi Health News

Ampersand Health, Push Doctor and SkinVision are among the companies selected to take part in the programme.

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Just Associates Experts to Showcase Industry-Leading MPI Cleanup, Ongoing Management Solutions at AHIMA19

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Patient data integrity experts from Just Associates, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in patient matching and health information data integrity and management, will be at the 2019 Annual AHIMA Convention & Exhibit to provide insights into best practices for Master Patient Index (MPI) clean-up.

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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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#092: Marta Zanchi, PhD, Explains the Need for Needs-Based Innovation

Digital Health Today

“Don't fall in love with the solution, fall in love with the problem”… Really? In this episode we look at needs-based innovation, and to get a better understanding I spoke with Marta Zanchi, PhD. Marta spent 13 years at Stanford University, first as a doctoral student then as a faculty member and founding director of digital health at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign.

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Are High Insulin Prices Caused by the FDA Supply-limiting Regulation?

Insulin Nation

Raymond March, Ph.D. who is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise and Director of FDA Review. We spoke with Raymond March, Ph.D. who is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Public Choice and Private Enterprise and Director of FDA Review — [link] about how his type 1 diabetes influenced his decision to research healthcare economics and regulation.

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California legislature advances bill that caps dialysis profits

FierceHealthIT

California’s state legislature advanced a bill that targets dialysis providers who steer patients toward charities that subsidize their premiums, causing major opposition from the dialysis industry.

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Use National Suicide Prevention Week To Educate Both Inside & Outside The Healthcare Workplace

HealthStream

National Suicide Awareness Week is a good time to assess protocols for helping at-risk patients, as well for providers themselves to assess their own mental and emotional well-being.

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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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Surescripts terminates contract with ReMy Health, hindering PillPack's access to patient prescription data

FierceHealthIT

Electronic prescribing company Surescripts has terminated its contract with ReMy Health based on new allegations about the startup's fraudulent behavior. And the move has serious repercussions for Amazon's online pharmacy PillPack.

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How to work with innovation in digital mental health

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Any healthcare administrator in a rural area faces many challenges when it comes to providing the kind of services that meet the needs of the patients he serves. Many mental health clients face various roadblocks to obtaining healthcare that works for them: Lack of Education Regarding Mental Health. Absent or Unreliable Support Systems. Transportation Issues.

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Majority of public OK with hospitals, docs paying more due to surprise billing change

FierceHealthIT

A majority of Americans are fine with hospitals and doctors getting paid less in any legislative solution to end surprise billing, according to a new poll.

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Physician Reputation – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 19

Healthcare IT Today

For the 19th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about physician reputation. This podcast was inspired by the news that MIPS Quality scores were now public. That’s right. With any NPI number (easily found online) or the physician’s name, you can look up the MIPS Quality score for any physician or group. What […] Physician reputation has become more and more important as the number of physician ratings and review sites has exploded.

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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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The ‘Price is Your Right’ Challenge Launches to Drive Patient Use of Cost Transparency Tools

MedTech Boston

Two Massachusetts public agencies, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech ( MeHI ) and the Center for Health Information and Analysis (. The post The ‘Price is Your Right’ Challenge Launches to Drive Patient Use of Cost Transparency Tools appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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With Shared Instance of Epic, Two UC Health Systems Deploy Same Provider Directory Platform

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UCSD joins UC Irvine in using Phynd provider information management platform

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Advertising Spend Increases at Hospitals Where a Breach Has Occurred

Healthcare IT Today

As we all know, massive data breaches have become far too common in recent times. Of course, healthcare execs are aware of how this looks to the public, and are taking steps to keep members of the public from getting too concerned. According to a study published early this year, one way hospitals are fending […].

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Surescripts-ReMy allegations deepen

Morning eHealth

FDA debates — Apple and health

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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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Connecting Home Health Clinicians with Agency Specialists

Synzi

The Burden of Care Facing Home Health Agencies The increasing aging population, along with the rise in chronic conditions, has placed a great burden of care on home health agencies. Many home health agencies do not have condition-specific specialists on-staff … Read More. The post Connecting Home Health Clinicians with Agency Specialists appeared first on Synzi.

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Vulnerability Management

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Vulnerability Management – $150,000 Fine Issued for Unpatched Software Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) failed to implement software patches resulting in a breach that affected approximately 2,700 patients. The vulnerability in their system could have been addressed by software … Read more. The post Vulnerability Management appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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What Kind of Healthcare Leader Are You?

HealthStream

Healthcare is a unique business, and providers succeed best when they are led by someone who brings the right skill sets to that particular setting.

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