Mon.Jan 28, 2019

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Improving Outcomes -                                      Telemedicine Can Help With That

eVisit

Death, injury, infection, readmission rates are just some of things associated with outcomes. Let’s break down the seven points CMS uses to measure health outcomes and see how telemedicine fits. “Patient outcomes” is a term mentioned a lot within all aspects of the healthcare universe. When you ask most people involved in care, “What does patient outcomes mean?

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CMS launches first-ever consumer-facing app, for Original Medicare beneficiaries

Mobi Health News

The app lets those on Medicare search for products and services to see if they are covered.

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More clinical evidence needed to accelerate adoption of AI-enabled decision support: report

FierceHealthIT

Artificial intelligence-enabled clinical decision support has the potential to augment clinicians' intelligence and support their decision-making process. However, researchers have identified several key issues stakeholders need to address before AI is safely and widely adopted.

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Interoperable artificial pancreas system reliably controls blood glucose levels in pilot trial

Mobi Health News

Researchers built a secure app-based system that runs on an unlocked smartphone and connects to glycemic control devices from multiple manufacturers.

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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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Trust in 2019 Via Edelman: The Plotline for Women and Healthcare

Health Populi

Fewer than one-half of consumers trust in government and media. Three-quarters trust employers, who in 2019 are the top-trusted institution according to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer released last week in Davos at the World Economic Forum. Consumers in the U.S. over-index for trust in employers, with 80% of people saying they have a strong relationship with “my employer,” compared with 73% of Britons, 66% of the French, and 59% of people in Japan.

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Tips for successful video appointments

Clocktree

Telehealth visits are becoming more popular as an efficient, convenient way to connect healthcare providers with clients. If you are just getting started offering telehealth services, here are some things to consider to help your clients get the most out of their video visits with you. Set up your web cam slightly above eye level. The closer you can align the camera to your focal point (the screen) the more your interaction will seem natural to the person on the other end.

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Health info company BioTelemetry acquires remote monitoring startup Geneva Healthcare

Mobi Health News

BioTelemetry will pay $45 million in upfront cash with additional performance-based earn-out considerations of no less than $20 million.

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CMS launches Medicare info mobile app

Morning eHealth

Optum comes back swinging in employment war — Comments on EHRs and clinician burden

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Lively launches telehealth hearing assessment, consultation alongside $16M funding round

Mobi Health News

Connected hearing aid owners can now request a virtual consultation and receive a scheduling response within 24 to 48 hours.

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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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5 Things Healthcare Organizations Need to Know about Triggering a Duress Alert

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Rom Eizenberg, vice president, Bluvision segment of the identification technologies business within HID Global. A doctor or a nurse can find themselves under duress in an instant. A patient unexpectedly attacks a doctor in a room. A nurse, who is leaving her shift at 3 a.m., is jumped by a masked assailant in the […].

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Fertility Focus fundraises $2.7M to commercialize OvuSense platform

Mobi Health News

The funding will also bankroll new clinical trials of the fertility sensor and app.

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45% of the uninsured population is out of the ACA's reach: KFF report

FierceHealthIT

Although the uninsured population has fallen greatly after five years of the Affordable Care Act, nearly half of the remaining uninsured people are out of the law's reach, according to a report by Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Cleveland Clinic and HIMSS Patient Experience Summit call-for-proposals closes Feb. 5

Mobi Health News

The theme of the 10th Annual event is Looking Back, Leaping Forward.

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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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The barriers to harnessing data to accelerate the transition to value-based care 

FierceHealthIT

Real-world evidence can be a driving force behind value-based payments, but the healthcare system has a ways to go before that is a reality, experts said.

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Technology Tool Tarnish – Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Facebook is the company we increasingly love to hate – but boomers still ‘like’ it. Rant on. So much negative press , well deserved, about Facebook lately, including the lawsuit about knowingly duping children playing games. Then there was the Pew Research estimated number of deleted accounts (mostly young people) and no small deal, even a big security breach.

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CMS unveils app for Medicare beneficiaries to view coverage details

FierceHealthIT

CMS' new "What's covered" app, available on iOS and Android devices, allows users to quickly look up whether Medicare covers a certain device or procedure.

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Technology Tool Tarnish – Facebook, Twitter, and Google

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Facebook is the company we increasingly love to hate – but boomers still ‘like’ it. Rant on. So much negative press , well deserved, about Facebook lately, including the lawsuit about knowingly duping children playing games. Then there was the Pew Research estimated number of deleted accounts (mostly young people) and no small deal, even a big security breach.

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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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Payers, providers clash on CMS' plans for step therapy in Medicare Part B

FierceHealthIT

Industry groups like Humana and the American College of Rheumatology have weighed in on CMS' proposals. The comment period ended Friday.

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HIStalk Interviews Jason Krantz, CEO, Definitive Healthcare

HIStalk Interviews

Jason Krantz, MBA is founder and CEO of Definitive Healthcare of Framingham, MA. Tell me about yourself and the company. Definitive Healthcare was started in 2011. Our goal is to be the premier provider and the single source of truth for all data on healthcare providers. In the last seven or eight years, we’ve grown significantly. We have about 320 employees today.

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Athenahealth shareholders drop lawsuits against company executives regarding $5.7B sale

FierceHealthIT

Three class action lawsuits filed against Athenahealth by company shareholders, and relating to the company’s acquisition by one of its top investors, Elliott Management, were voluntarily dropped today, according to court documents.

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Using Must-Support

Health Intersections

FHIR defines a Must-Support attribute as a piece of metadata on every element. About this, the specification says : Labeling an element MustSupport means that implementations that produce or consume resources SHALL provide “support” for the element in some meaningful way. Because the base FHIR specification is intended to be independent of any particular implementation context, no elements are flagged as mustSupport =true as part of the base specification.

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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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Gottlieb welcomes furloughed FDA staffers back to work as he unveils new data projects

FierceHealthIT

Food and Drug Administration staffers were pleased to be back at work on Monday, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said at a Bipartisan Policy Center event.

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Portal Consolidation: The Whats

Health Portal Solutions

In a healthcare era of mergers and acquisitions, cybersecurity issues, business consolidation, and addition of new services, Payers are managing more portals and systems than they used to. Payer websites are now littered with portal links that require users to create 6 – 8 user accounts just to get all their information! This not only causes confusion and lack of user engagement, but also increased labor costs for the Payer as they maintain multiple portals.

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Payer Roundup—Grassley calls on HHS, CMS to explain inflated lab spending

FierceHealthIT

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wants to know why Medicare has been overpaying for lab services and other payer news.

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Healthcare Roundup—Wilkie teases new VA access standards; Providers less likely to take new Medicaid patients

FierceHealthIT

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie is preparing to implement new standards under the VA MISSION Act and more healthcare headlines.

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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.