KevinMD
OCTOBER 19, 2018
To paraphrase Bill Gates: "The purpose of humanity is not just to sit behind a counter and do things. More free time is not a terrible thing." I have innovated. I developed a mutation assay. I discovered that vacuum ultraviolet light from excimer lasers is safe to use on human tissue. I invented an imaging device to detect burn wound depth and discovered the best laser to debride burn wounds.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 19, 2018
The heart rate monitor built into the new Apple Watch has sparked sharp debate over its risks and benefits, even though the feature was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration. But out of the spotlight, the FDA has been doing away with regulatory action altogether on many diagnostic health apps targeting consumers, seeking to accelerate digital health adoption by defining many of these as “low risk” medical devices.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Startups are having the biggest impact working on technology that disrupts access, data gathering, monitoring and care interventions to help patients – as well as alleviate clinician burnout – says cofounder and EVP of Health 2.0 Indu Sabaiya.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
The federally run health insurance marketplace has been hit with a data breach impacting 75,000 individuals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) disclosed on Friday.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
A collaborative attitude and a commitment to strenuous review have characterized the process so far.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Speakers from Fitbit, Johnson & Johnson discussed motivation and behavior change at the Connected Health Conference in Boston.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
In addition to medical care, UPMC and Kaiser Permanente are coordinating social services for their Medicaid managed care members experiencing or at risk of homelessness. But much more needs to be done.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
The consumer genomics platform announced the launch of a new tool that will include an ancestry, genomics and insight API.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 19, 2018
? Held each year – but has much changed? The Connected Health Conference is still a Health IT conference, owned by HIMSS, spruced up by pre-conference Voice Health summit , task forces , and even onstage singing by health tech folk that may wish they were in show business. There were more sessions acknowledging caregiving and an aging population. But many attendees (exhibitors) seem still to be circling the health care universe from the vantage point of the IT buyer -- health IT consulting, tec
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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.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Cityblock Health's Iyah Romm talks about how to combine technology and hyperlocal resources to remedy patient distrust in the system.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Preparedness for infectious disease threats saw a marked improvement at U.S. hospitals after an Ebola outbreak scare in 2014, according to the Office of Inspector General. The challenge now? Keeping that level of preparedness in the midst of competing priorities.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
It's just the first test case for the nascent Digital Health Collaborative, an all-volunteer group of healthcare stakeholders.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Last week, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) signed off on a Medicaid insurer's plan to make incentive payments to providers that increased preventative screening rates. The approval shines a light on lingering fraud concerns in a value-based world.
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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.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
The app offers users a stronger recovery support network while helping care teams track and flag those at risk for relapse.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Flexibility can be extremely valuable in crafting effective health policy—or it can underpin poor policy, with potentially dangerous consequences, experts warn.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Plus, tips for pitching a startup and deals from Northwell, Brigham and Women's.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
The American Clinical Laboratory Association isn’t giving up on its effort to block a rule that will cut lab payments by an estimated $670 billion next year. A month after its case was dismissed, the group filed an appeal.
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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!
Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 19, 2018
FDA’s Gottlieb bullish on tech for opioids crisis — States leaving CMS out of the loop on Medicaid breaches
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Hospitals’ uncompensated care burden is likely to rise following the repeal of the ACA’s individual mandate, but there are steps providers can take to mitigate the challenges and risks associated with that trend, according to a new report.
E-CareManagement
OCTOBER 19, 2018
In the video below, Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Yale University School of Medicine capsulizes the rationale of hoarding as business strategy: We encourage you to take a minute to listen to Dr. Krumholz, but if you’re in a hurry we’ve abstracted the most relevant portions of his comments: “The leader of a very major healthcare system said this to me confidentially on the phone… ‘why would we want to make it easy for people to get their health data…we want to keep the patients with us so why wouldn’t w
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 19, 2018
With the go-ahead from CMS, insurers are preparing a raft of new supplemental benefits in their Medicare Advantage plans next year. In doing so, they will have to manage enrollees' expectations about the services for which they are actually eligible.
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.
HIStalk Weekender
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Weekly News Recap. FDA updates draft guidance on managing cybersecurity issues for the premarket submission of medical devices. Digital prescription savings company OptimizeRx acquires interactive patient messaging vendor CareSpeak Communications. MIT will spend $1 billion to create an artificial intelligence college. Varian Medical acquires Noona Healthcare, whose software captures oncology patient-reported outcomes and supports symptom management.
Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Given FDA regulation of biosimilars, it is practically impossible that low-cost generic insulin will ever be approved for US patients. The FDA treats biosimilars and chemical compounds differently and requires costly clinical trials. For a generic insulin, these costly clinical trials would result in pricing for any newly approved insulin that is very close to current insulin prices.
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