Fri.Jun 07, 2019

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Intent, Insiders/Outsiders and Insights — Disney Institute’s Women’s Leadership Summit

Health Populi

There are many forms of magic inspired by Disney, the company. There’s the obvious attraction, the Magic Kingdom, that was Walt’s original destination vision, “imagineered” in 1932. Then there are other kinds of magic. The one I’m deep into in the moment is inspiration, ideation, and “reimagineering” my own thinking about work, legacy, and social justice.

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Google Cloud exec talks timing, regulation challenges, and Google's gradual move into health

Mobi Health News

Dr. Joseph J. Corkery, director, Product Management, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Google Cloud discussed Google's moves into healthcare during the Enterprise Insights Series Event (in partnership with Google Cloud and Rock Health) earlier this week.

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Third medical testing company impacted by AMCA breach as Congress seeks answers

FierceHealthIT

Medical testing and medication firm Opko Health is now the third company to be impacted by a security breach at a third-party billing collections firm, bringing the total number of patients' data potentially exposed by the breach to over 20 million.

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Senseonics scores coveted non-adjunctive labeling claim for Eversense CGM

Mobi Health News

The FDA approval closes a gap with competitors Dexcom and Abbott, as well as setting the company up for entry into the Medicare market.

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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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Study dives into patients' views on the social determinants of health and what that means for payers, providers

FierceHealthIT

Individuals who are living with chronic or acute conditions have a much different view of social determinants of health compared with researchers and the media, according to the Anthem Public Policy Institute.

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Report: 88% of hospital executives feel vulnerable to competitors like Amazon, CVS

FierceHealthIT

In an industry filled with competitors such as Optum, CVS Health and Amazon, health organizations are not living up to the online convenience-centered world of other consumer verticals.

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10 Ways Telemedicine Supports Behavioral Health

GlobalMed

Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness – but only 42 percent of them receive behavioral health services. Cost, social stigma, inability to access care and other factors can all play a role in the ongoing crisis that is untreated mental illness. Many individuals with mental health issues can lead successful lives with the right support.

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Industry Voices—How a Senate bill could actually lower healthcare costs

FierceHealthIT

The Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 is expected to be marked up by the end of June, and the Senate's goal is to consider the legislation later this summer. Here'a a look at what the measure could do.

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Making Strides in Prenatal Healthcare with Telehealth

Health Recovery Solutions

Reducing maternal morbidity and mortality rates has become a central objective of the United Nations (UN) as demonstrated through their millennium goals. The development of new technologies, like telehealth, is critical to the improvement of maternal and fetal health around the globe.

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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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Report: Women like to work in healthcare, but barriers to advancement remain

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare is a good industry for women to work in, but barriers remain for those seeking to reach the C-suite—especially for women of color, according to a new study.

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Having Access To Medical Records Is Useless For Most Patients

Healthcare IT Today

I knew up front that it would be ugly. After two years of treatment, a chronically-ill patient like me generates a lot of records, and I had every reason to expect that they would be disorganized and dense. Still, when I sat down to tackle the 600-odd PDF that Kaiser Permanente made available, I was […].

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Most new Medicare beneficiaries opt for fee-for-service over MA: study 

FierceHealthIT

Though more baby boomers are aging into Medicare, relatively few are choosing Medicare Advantage plans as their entry point to the program, a new study shows.

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Epic’s Danish question

Morning eHealth

National patient identifier amendment returns — Reg cycle churns

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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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Industry Voices—The value of registries goes beyond quality. Cost savings is one potential benefit

FierceHealthIT

Registries can have a broader value beyond quality improvement, from cost savings to improved standing in payer negotiations. Unlocking the full potential of registries requires a facility, or systemwide, strategy. In other words, a strategic enterprise approach.

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5 Reasons Your Healthcare Site Isn’t Ranking In Search

Geonetric

1. Your site has a technical issue preventing the page from ranking I’m surprised how often I review a hospital’s site only to uncover technical issues that are preventing search engines from indexing the pages. The most typical issue I run across is the “meta noindex tag.” This is a line of code that tells […]. Read 5 Reasons Your Healthcare Site Isn’t Ranking In Search at Geonetric.com.

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Sounds Like a Some Healthcare Tech Conversations – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

As we head into the weekend, it’s time for another entry in our Fun Friday series. Before I add any commentary, check out the cartoon embedded below. pic.twitter.com/7jjt6wyJj9 — Riva (@rivatez) April 28, 2019 Have you ever had any conversations like this? Reminds me of the worst job interview I ever did. I was saying […].

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Monthly ACA Compliance Can Help Employers Avoid IRS Penalties

ACA Times

4 minute read: As the IRS begins rolling out a new round of ACA penalty notices this month, we can’t stress enough how important it is to assess your compliance with the ACA on a monthly basis to optimize your compliance process. If you haven’t already implemented a monthly process, you should consider doing so as your organization can benefit significantly by avoiding ACA penalty assessments from the IRS.

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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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ChartSpan Raises $15 Million Series A Round led by BIP Capital

Healthcare IT Today

ChartSpan, the largest healthcare managed service provider for chronic care management programs in the U.S., announced today that it has raised a Series A funding round of $15 million led by BIP Capital. Other investors participating in the round included Blue Heron Capital, Bailey Southwell & Co., C&B Capital, and Service Provider Capital. The company […].

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Innovation Insights: One-on-One with James Musick, Head of Neurology Patient Technology at UCB Biopharma

Digital Health Today

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the Digital Health for Pharma conference, held across the street from UPenn’s beautiful campus in Philadelphia. I was able to catch up with James Musick, PhD, a leader in pharma whose focus is on digital health. James is a Neuroscientist turned pharma executive, who leads digital health efforts for UCB Biopharma as Head of Neurology Patient Technology.

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The Essentials for an Effective Onboarding Program for New Nurses

HealthStream

Assessing and developing nurses for the ability to think critically has never been more important. This article and excerpt focus on education focused on critical thinking and its interplay with learning and assessment technology.

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Weekender 6/7/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. A breach of American Medical Collection Agency exposes the information of 19 million of patients of national lab companies LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics. The six former National Coordinators express their support for the proposed interoperability rules of ONC/CMS. CVS announces plans to reconfigure 20% of each drugstore’s space into HealthHubs that will offer health and wellness services as well as kiosks and digital health tools.

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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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In our health system, who “owns” patients?

Lloyd Price

When talking with patients – particularly those with multiple, complicated medical issues – it often doesn’t take very long to hear about their increasingly suboptimal and sometimes harrowing interactions with our health care system. Examples include inpatient experiences in which care is provided by a constantly shifting team consisting of individuals from multiple medical disciplines who focus on only one narrow aspect of their condition, with treatment being implemented without clear coordina

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Updates to the LeanIX Enterprise Architecture Management Tool

LeanIX

The 2019 LeanIX US EA Connect Day is over. Though a single-day event, we counted 60+ global attendees who joined eight varieties of sessions on using data-driven Enterprise Architecture to conduct digital business strategies. Of note, this conference served as an opportunity for LeanIX to formally introduce a number of our tool’s new/improved features—each one of which is briefly described in this blog post.

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