Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2018
When it’s the flu season, the line at the school nurse’s office is usually backed up to the door. As telemedicine continues to reduce the burden on clinics and other healthcare settings, more schools are now looking to the technology for help.
Health Populi
APRIL 30, 2018
Three-fourths of healthcare providers experienced a data breach in 2017, according to the HIMSS 2018 Cybersecurity Survey. Health data insecurity is the new normal. A big piece of addressing the cybersecurity healthcare challenge is educating people who work in healthcare settings, and that has been under-funded. Only 41% of healthcare workers say they receive security training, a Forrester study learned in January 2018.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2018
At AcademyHealth’s 2018 Health Datapalooza on Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration offered a vote of confidence for artificial intelligence in healthcare, promising more refined strategies for regulation, touting its tech incubator for AI innovation, and announcing a new machine learning partnership with Harvard.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
The actual work of boosting healthcare quality and reining in costs gets done in medical offices, not corporate cubicles. Dan Mendelson, president of Avalere Health, discusses insurers' recent push into value-based care.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2018
Fitbit and Google have entered a partnership focused on better leveraging wearables and cloud-based technologies for digital health, the companies announced this morning. The effort will be largely focused on refining EHRs to give medical practitioners a comprehensive look into a patient’s health during treatment, according to a statement from Fitbit.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2018
Two UnitedHealth Group senior executives have accepted leadership roles at Talkspace, the online therapy company announced in a recent statement. Dr. Neal Leibowitz, formerly a senior behavioral health medical director at UnitedHealth Group, will become Talkspace’s first chief medical officer, while Deb Adler, a senior vice president at UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, will serve as senior VP of network and quality.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
The Veterans Choice program is in trouble again unless Congress acts, said acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie. It's yet another problem for the Department of Veterans Affairs as it awaits a full-time secretary.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 30, 2018
This morning telehealth company American Well announced that it will be acquiring fellow telemedicine company Avizia in late Q2 for an undisclosed sum.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
Changes to insurance regulations under the Affordable Care Act were supposed to drive young, healthy men with higher incomes from the insurance market. Instead, marketing efforts and a tax penalty helped bring down uninsured rates among men 26-34 that didn't qualify for subsidies.
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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
APRIL 30, 2018
In its second acquisition this year, InTouch Health, which develops enterprise telehealth technology for hospitals and health systems, announced that it has acquired Reach Health, another telemedicine platform. The InTouch-Reach deal happened on the same day that American Well bought Avizia for its telehealth technologies that specialize in acute care services.
Health Blawg
APRIL 30, 2018
While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here. This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. Please check out some of my other short takes from #HIMSS18 as well.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
Leadership rounds can encourage conversation with frontline staff on crucial issues, and a new study suggests that could lead to better infection control.
Health Blawg
APRIL 30, 2018
While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here. This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. Please check out some of my other short takes from #HIMSS18 as well.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
Advocates in Maine are moving forward with a lawsuit against its current governor who refuses to act on a passed Medicaid expansion ballot initiative, which he does not have the power to veto. But where does that put the anti-expansion gubernatorial candidates in a reliably red state that is moving forward with a similar initiative this year?
Health Blawg
APRIL 30, 2018
While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here. This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. Please check out some of my other short takes from #HIMSS18 as well.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
Despite the #MeToo movement and society’s growing intolerance of sexual misconduct, the system for disciplining abusive doctors is still flawed.
Health Blawg
APRIL 30, 2018
While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here. This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. Please check out some of my other short takes from #HIMSS18 as well.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
In a late-Friday rule dump, the Medicare agency proposed boosts to its annual payments for post-acute providers, including skilled nursing facilities and hospice. The proposals also included policy changes like reduced reporting measures, and even a new value-based payment arrangement.
Health Blawg
APRIL 30, 2018
While at the HIMSS annual conference this year I spoke with many healthcare technology company leaders. I am pleased to share some of those conversations here. This selection focuses on collecting and understanding data, using it to create information that can be used to improve health and healthcare. Please check out some of my other short takes from #HIMSS18 as well.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
Baltimore hospitals will have new incentives for better addressing the opioid crisis—and sharing best practices with their counterparts across the city—under a new initiative announced by the city's top officials Monday.
Insulin Nation
APRIL 30, 2018
Just last year, I was stressing about choosing a college, where I would spend the next 4 years of my life. Choosing a college is a big decision for anyone. But being diabetic, I wanted to make sure that my chosen school had the resources, the people, and the support I needed to live and attend school comfortably. At the same time, I wanted to pick something outside of my comfort zone.
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.
CMS.gov
APRIL 30, 2018
CMS Encourages Eligible Suppliers to Participate in Expanded Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Model. keya.joy-bush@…. Mon, 04/30/2018 - 10:58. Seema Verma. Administrator, CMS. Topic. Billing & payments. Initiatives. Leadership. Quality. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in April expanded the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) , a national performance-based payment model offering a new approach to type 2 diabetes prevention in eligible Medicare beneficiaries with an
Morning eHealth
APRIL 30, 2018
MHS Genesis grilled at hearing — CMS seeks advice on forcing interoperability
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2018
Some of society's most vulnerable could be hit the hardest by the Trump administration's plan to expand short-term health plans. New analysis finds that most of the plans limit or don't include coverage for substance abuse treatment and maternity care.
ACA Times
APRIL 30, 2018
2 minute read: Studies show that voters have prioritized healthcare as a top issue to be addressed in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections in November. For the first time in its nearly eight-year lifespan, the approval ratings for the Affordable Care Act ( ACA ) in the Kaiser Family Foundation ( KFF ) tracking poll in March were slightly above 50% and teetering on the record breaking rating of 54% that it hit in February.
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