Tue.Aug 28, 2018

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How Pharmaceutical Companies Can Take Advantage of the EHR Revolution

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The 21st century has seen a massive change in the way people live their lives. It is now the digital era, and almost everything is online or made available in electronic form. There are now jobs online. Elections are now run in many countries so that people can submit votes electronically.

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Study results support FDA approval of diagnostic algorithm, but experts remain wary

Mobi Health News

Pivotal trial data that led to April’s de novo clearance of the first AI-based diagnostic system to not require clinician interpretation is now available to the public.

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New Technology Offerings for Caregivers and Families

Aging in Place Technology Watch

As summer winds down, innovators rev up. August is winding down -- the calm before the autumn slew of activity. Nonetheless, new milestones and partnerships were announced this month, including Embodied Labs becoming a finalist for the Top8 XR Education Prize sponsored by the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, MedMinder reaching 1433 on the Inc5000 , the acquisition of GreatCall by BestBuy , and MobileHelp announcing a partnership with LifePod.

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Starkey's new Livio AI is part hearing aid, part fitness tracker, part wellness coach

Mobi Health News

As a health wearable that far predates the invention of the term, hearing aids have always been an interesting spot. Now Minnesota hearing aid company Starkey Hearing Technologies, which launched one of the first hearing aids to connect directly to an iPhone back in 2014, has launched Livio AI.

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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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Blockchain: a Healthcare CIOs’ View

David Chou

Like many CIOs, I’m keeping an eye on what’s really happening with blockchain. As of August 2018, I have yet to see any companies that have adopted blockchain as their companies’ primary ledger technology. Most blockchain solutions are still in the exploratory stages. This jibes with a new survey of business and tech execs by PwC, which found that the majority of companies are in the research, development, or pilot phase when it comes to blockchain.

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More than 150 medical groups oppose CMS proposal to change E/M codes

FierceHealthIT

Saying it could underpay doctors who treat the sickest patients, more than 150 medical groups sent a letter opposing a government plan to consolidate evaluation and management (E/M) codes.

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Humana to broaden digital health, data analytics efforts at new Boston location

Mobi Health News

Humana is launching a new center for digital health and analytics, which could eventually employ about 250 people to develop new data-driven technologies to advance its healthcare initiatives for plan members. Humana Studio H will be located in Boston's Seaport District. Heather Cox will lead the effort as Humana's newly minted chief digital health and analytics officer, reporting to CEO Bruce Broussard.

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CDC report about record-high rates of STDs renews concerns of 'untreatable' superbugs

FierceHealthIT

As officials announced record rates of three sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S., they also warned about the increasing threat of drug resistance that could make some cases of gonorrhea "untreatable." Officials called on a renewed commitment from healthcare providers to make STD screening and timely treatment a standard part of medical care to reverse current trends.

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GoGuardian launches suicide prevention tool, Fitbit reveals trends for heart rate data collection, and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Technology looks after students. Yesterday education-focused software company GoGuardian launched a suicide prevention tool for students in grades K-12. The system, called Beacon, include an early-warning system that helps schools identify pupils at risk of self harm or suicide. The system employs machine learning to access web searchers, social media behaivor, chats, forums, and emails.

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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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Patients with the most to gain from digital health hardly engage with new tools

FierceHealthIT

Maintaining the human element and keeping out-of-pocket costs down could be key to expanding telemedicine and wearable devices, according to the latest Rock Health survey, particularly among chronic care patients that have the most to gain.

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Renovia raises $32.3M for app-connected pelvic floor therapy system

Mobi Health News

Last week Renovia, maker of an FDA-cleared, app-based system for pelvic floor disorder management and therapy, announced the closure of a $32.3 million Series B equity round and an additional $10 million of debt financing. The round was led by Perceptive Advisors and Ascension Ventures, with additional participation from Longwood Fund, Inova Strategic Investments, Cormorant Asset Management, OSF Ventures, and Western Technology Investment.

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With more than $20B on the line, insurers push for another health insurance tax delay

FierceHealthIT

A new analysis backed by UnitedHealth shows the return of the health insurance tax would raise premiums nearly $200 per year for an individual plan in 2020. AHIP and others are mounting a push to further delay the tax they argue hurts consumers.

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HHS chief data officer Mona Siddiqui to discuss data initiative findings at Health 2.0

Mobi Health News

The rise in big data has rocked nearly every sector from education to consumer tech, and in particular healthcare. But connecting the dots between the data sources has been a major hurtle in innovation. This is especially true when it comes to the government. The US government’s extensive stores of data are often siloed in different agencies and even departments.

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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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Which Patients Are Less Likely To Get A Fatal Hospital Infection?

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: BHM watches health trends and understands the importance of improving and changing with the industry. Click HERE to learn more about how BHM helps your organization address opportunities. fatal hospital infection. Patients who stay in private rooms as opposed to double occupancy rooms have a reduced risk of central line infections, a fatal hospital infection that causes thousands of deaths each year, a study published in PLOS ONE found.

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OIG’s anti-kickback request for information offers providers an opportunity for ‘legal clarity’ 

FierceHealthIT

Though eliminating the Stark and anti-kickback statutes would require an act of Congress, there’s plenty the government can do with regulation to provide some much-needed clarity.

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72,000 overdose deaths in 2017

Medical Mime - EHR

In mid-August the Center for Disease Control has released preliminary estimates for the number of Americans killed last year by drug overdoses: 72,287. That is almost 200 people dying every day in 2017. This death toll is staggering – the equivalent of a passenger jet crashing every day for an entire year. As we wrote in a previous post on the Drug Overdose Death Epidemic , here are the growth rates for the last few years: 2014: 47,055. 2015: 52,404 (+11.4%). 2016: 63,632 (+21.4%). 2017: 7

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Physician Practice Roundup—OIG seeks ideas to fix kickback laws; Verma doubles down on 2-sided risk models

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Health and Human Services has released its long-promised request for information on reforming anti-kickback statutes, plus more physician practice news.

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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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Study: Patients in Private Rooms Less Likely to Get Fatal Hospital Infection

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: BHM watches health trends and understands the importance of improving and changing with the industry. Click HERE to learn more about how BHM helps your organization address opportunities. Patients who stay in private rooms as opposed to double occupancy rooms have a reduced risk of central line infections, a fatal hospital infection that causes thousands of deaths each year, a study published in PLOS ONE found.

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Healthcare Roundup—Patient advocates warn about downsides of planned sepsis study

FierceHealthIT

Public Citizen is expressing concern about an NIH-backed study on sepsis, a new GWU study paints a clearer picture of Hurricane Maria's death toll, plus more healthcare headlines.

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CMS Pushes ACOs to Take on Risk with Overhaul of MSSP

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: ACO success factors center on certain best practices including the development of internal best practices addressing efficiencies and increasing member value. CLICK HERE to learn more about how BHM helps your organization. CMS issued a proposed rule Aug. 9 that would make sweeping changes to the Medicare Shared Savings Program, including overhauling the way ACOs share in risks and rewards.

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Groups back Stark Law changes to eliminate barrier to value-based models

FierceHealthIT

Physicians and hospital groups want to see exceptions to the enforcement of the physician self-referral or Stark Law, in order to reduce barriers to value-based payment models.

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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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FDA ramps up crackdown on websites marketing unapproved opioids

FierceHealthIT

The Food and Drug Administration said it is trying to tackle the problem of illegal sales on the Internet. The four networks that received warning letters include CoinRx, which bills itself as an online pharmacy that accepts bitcoin for payments, as well as MedInc.biz, PharmacyAffiliates.org and PharmaMedics.

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