KevinMD
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Health care is obsessed with new technology. Every week, a new article comes out promising disruption of medical care as we know it through personalized genetic therapy, app extensions that transform smartphones into ultrasounds or autonomous surgical robots. Yet, one of the best examples of health care technologies is also one of its oldest — instant messaging.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
About the author: Naomi Fried, PhD, is the CEO of Health Innovation Strategies, which provides digital health strategy and innovation-program design and optimization consulting to healthcare stakeholders including pharma, payers, and providers.
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eVisit
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Telemedicine supports efforts to significantly improve the quality of healthcare by increasing accessibility and efficiency. It reduces the need to travel, makes providing clinical support easier, overcomes geographic barriers, and can improve patient outcomes. With more consistent, ongoing connectivity, patients and physicians can work more closely together to reach therapeutic goals.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Integration of a practitioner-developed mobile health system within a primary care setting was well-received by substance use disorder (SUD) patients and generally improved outcomes, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Bon Secours Health System, a not-for-profit Catholic health system with operations in Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Florida and New York, intends to merge with Mercy Health, a Catholic Health ministry in Ohio and Kentucky. Together, the two organizations will create a Catholic health system with $8 billion in net operating revenue and $293 million in operating income.
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FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Hospitals that aim to reduce readmissions among high-risk patients may want to hire lay-health workers, according to a new study. These workers can assist patients with post-discharge needs such as appointment scheduling and transportation.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Implantable glucose sensor company Senseonics has launched a remote monitoring app for its users in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, where its CGM system is distributed by Roche. The app, called Eversense Now, allows users of the sensor to select up to five friends or family members to view their glucose data, which is updated every five minutes.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Steward Health Care System is expanding its influence overseas by partnering with the government of Malta. Steward is the latest provider to look abroad for growth opportunities, a trend that has some of the largest hospitals and health systems in the U.S. looking to Asia and other regions.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Nokia’s dive into the digital health industry may be coming to a halt, reveals a memo leaked to The Verge earlier this week. This comes less than two years after the Espoo, Finland-based company created its digital health unit through the acquisition of French digital health company Withings for $191 million.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Kentucky officials are going to court to defend the concept of Medicaid work requirements. In a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. District Court, they seek a judicial declaration that the state’s demonstration program complies with all applicable federal laws.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
This morning San Luis Obispo-based wellness platform Mindbody announced the acquisition of FitMetrix, a performance tracking engagement platform, for an undisclosed sum.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
The following is a press release from the Joslin Diabetes Center. BOSTON – (February 19, 2018) – Every cell in your body responds to the hormone insulin, and if that process starts to fail, you get diabetes. In an unexpected finding, scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified four viruses that can produce insulin-like hormones that are active on human cells.
Morning eHealth
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
OCR direction fuzzy — TEFCA tiffs continue
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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.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Grahame, being the fantastic Product Manager for FHIR that he is, is asking the FHIR community for input on how FHIR Connectathon should evolve. I started to write a few lines but realized that I had more to say than a few lines. (yeah, I know. blah blah blah) IHE has been doing Connectathons for almost 20 years (First was in 1999 with Radiology). IHE did NOT invent the concept of Connectathon.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Despite concerns about the quality of Medicare Advantage encounter data, a new JAMA viewpoint piece argues that it's long past time to make that information available to researchers who want to study the ever-growing privatized Medicare program. After all, the authors argue, those same data are being used to calculate payments to insurers.
CareWire
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Ken Saitow , President and CEO of CareWire, receives Bulldog 100 award from Meredith Johnson , Executive Director of Alumni Relations at the University of Georgia.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Industry groups had plenty of feedback for ONC's Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, but several common concerns emerged surrounding the amount of time ONC has slated for implementing the framework, the lack of clarity around data blocking and the need to incorporate additional considerations for patient matching.
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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!
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
sponsor. Cassandra G is 13-year old who has been living with T1D for three years. She wrote this poem about her experiences. Waking up early morning, all you hear is the little girl yawning. She does not get up to train for the Eagles, but instead she takes irritating needles. When the sound of silence slaps her class at school, her mashie goes off and that is not cool.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Veterans groups say Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, M.D., has their full support, despite allegations he and his staff misused taxpayers’ money to pay for a European trip and amid reports that political appointees within the agency may be trying to push him out. Among his supporters: The Veterans of Foreign War, the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and AMVET.
ACA Times
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
The class action lawsuit filed in federal courts in New York’s Southern District against entertainment and restaurant chain Dave & Buster’s is continuing after the judge in the case rejected a proposed $7.425 million settlement. The reason? According to the court order denying the motion to preliminarily approve of the settlement, the court stated that the proposed settlement was inconsistent with the complaint, which did not seek monetary compensation, and it failed to provide damages
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that he's adopted a mantra as he looks to potential insurance and healthcare reform: "common sense." He said that philosophy is driving conversation around plans to offer short-term insurance coverage and to allow states to test work requirements.
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.
Health Portal Solutions
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
How One Payer Cut Their Invoice Distribution Time in Half. For one of HPS’ clients, distributing monthly invoices to employer groups was painful. Each month, our client manually sent invoices to employers through secure email. Then, if an employer hadn’t paid the invoice, our client composed additional reminder emails until the bill was paid. Employers on the other hand had to create a login account for the secure email service – another username and password to remember – in order to access inv
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Since it opened in mid-January, the new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the HHS Office for Civil Rights has received more than 300 complaints from healthcare workers.
33 Charts - Digital Health
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
If you’re a physician who uses Twitter, you’ve probably seen tweets from Medical Axioms. Medical Axioms is a Twitter-based collection of wit and wisdom created by Dr. Mark Reid , a Colorado-based Hospitalist. As simple as his wisdom may be, Medical Axioms gets amazing engagement with RTs and likes sometimes numbering in the thousands. Beyond just metrics, you get the clear sense from the public conversation that Medical Axioms brings something bigger than just clinical tips and advice.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Enrollment growth in health savings account-eligible health plans, once robust, appears to be slowing down, according to a new issue brief from the Employee Benefit Research Institute. As for why that might be, the brief suggests recent minimal increases in health insurance premiums may be a factor.
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Health Portal Solutions
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Mobile portal bookmark, dental claim submission, and more! Featured Enhancement: New Health e360 Portal. HPS has repackaged its online health and wellness programs into a bundled program called Health e360. This new, standalone, mobile-friendly portal gives members a single point of access to: MeMD Telemedicine. Daily Health & Wellness Videos and Tips.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Doctors could get a break from the burden of quality reporting under MIPS if President Donald Trump's budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year is approved. The Trump administration proposes to end quality reporting under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System, one of two tracks under Medicare’s new payment system implemented by MACRA.
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