Tue.May 08, 2018

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Buoy Health, CVS MinuteClinic partner to send patients from chatbot to care

Mobi Health News

Buoy Health, which offers an AI-powered tool that serves to help people understand potential health problems, announced a partnership with CVS MinuteClinic.

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Primary care doctors need help talking to patients about genetic tests

FierceHealthIT

While the number of genetic tests is only going to grow, a new study found that many primary care doctors feel ill-equipped to talk to patients about them. Researchers say that needs to change.

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Ascensia Diabetes launches upgraded version of app in the US

Mobi Health News

This morning Ascensia Diabetes Care launched the latest version of its Contour Diabetes app in the United States. The upgraded app will offer users a new feature, called My Patterns, which will give personalized feedback and coaching to users.

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to consider future policies through 'rural lens'

FierceHealthIT

The strategy, which highlights tactics such as improving access to telemedicine, is meant to avoid unintended consequences of policy and program implementation in rural health settings, officials said.

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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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Appointment booking app Solv announces $16.8M funding round, launch of new payments product

Mobi Health News

San Francisco-based appointment booking app Solv Health announced today that it has closed a $16.8 million Series B round of funding. The round was led by Greylock Partners, with participation from Benchmark and Aspect Ventures. In the same announcement, the company also unveiled its new Solv Pay feature, which looks to make remuneration quicker and more convenient for users.

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CTA and Xcertia to develop rules of the road for mobile apps

Mobi Health News

The Consumer Technology Association and Xcertia, a mobile health app collaborative, are working together to develop guidelines for the market. They will consider topics such as accuracy, transparency, privacy, security, regulatory compliance, interoperability, and user experience. The American Medical Association, American Heart Association, DHX Group, and HIMSS initiated the project.

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Feds, Mayo seek business process models for medicine

Morning eHealth

NIH genome study follows in pathway of Geisinger program — Investors make $7B takeover offer for athenahealth

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iRhythm lauds growing revenue, sales force expansion during Q1 2018 earnings call

Mobi Health News

iRhythm Technologies, maker of the Zio XT and Zio AT adhesive heart monitors, announced first quarter financials boasting higher revenue and an improved gross margin during an earnings call for investors earlier this week.

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How some major health systems are overcoming the barriers to launching precision medicine programs

FierceHealthIT

Health systems that have rolled out precision medicine programs have had to tackle many challenges—including a lack of physician engagement around genomics and the need for new tech tools—before seeing the efforts pay off.

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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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Doximity, US News & World Report team up for physician booking tool

Mobi Health News

US News & World Report has teamed up with Doximity, a social network for doctors, to develop a new tool that lets patients book appointments while they are looking at doctors’ profiles on USNews.com.

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Mayo Clinic Guidelines Cut Opioid Prescriptions

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: For payers and policy-makers it can be a challenge to design effective opioid epidemic measures to control the rapid increase of overdoses as program effectiveness data is being accumulated. Staying abreast as to how opioid prescription control policies are evaluated for effectiveness, payers can be more efficient in their policymaking.

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Healthcare investor 7wiresVentures closes $100M for startup fund, forms coalition

Mobi Health News

As technology increases in the healthcare arena more and more venture firms are turning their attention to digital health.

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Clover Health says network adequacy rules, provider consolidation inhibit entry into new markets

FierceHealthIT

All the analytics in the world can't save Clover Health from one major obstacle: provider consolidation. In a House committee hearing, Clover's CTO called on CMS to bend the rules to make it easier for startup plans to enter new markets.

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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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Smart Meter’s iGlucose® Enables Reimbursable Remote Patient Monitoring

Insulin Nation

sponsor. The following is a press release from Smart Meter, LLC. TAMPA, Fla. – April 24, 2018 – Smart Meter , an innovative diabetes management data, technology and solutions company, today announced that its iGlucose® Diabetes Care Solution meets the requirements for the newly created Remote Monitoring CPT Code, as defined by Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Physician Shortage Trend Cause for Concern

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: The nation’s future physician workforce is important to give both the public and private sectors the information they need to make the targeted investments necessary for the health care system to provide high-quality, cost-efficient care and develop the workforce required to create a high-performing health care system that optimizes population health.

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Physician Practice Roundup—5 doctors from addiction clinic charged; Banner Health gets doctors on board with more advanced practitioners

FierceHealthIT

Five doctors from an addiction clinic face drug charges, plus more physician practice news.

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