Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2018
A recent study published by Psychiatric Services found that mobile health interventions were as effective in treating patients with serious mental illness compared to an in-person group therapy.
Health Populi
MAY 29, 2018
“Do no harm” has been the professional and ethical mantra of physicians since the Hippocratic Oath was first uttered by medical students. The origins of that three-word objective probably came out of Hippocrates’ Corpus , which included a few additional words: “to do good or to do no harm.”. The proliferation and evolution of digital technologies in health care have the potential to do good or harm, depending on their application.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2018
Waheed Arian, founder of Arian Teleheal, discusses how specialists working for his charity use smartphones, and platforms like Skype, to connect with people in areas were conflict makes it difficult to seek medical attention.
Morning eHealth
MAY 29, 2018
FDA clears AI tool for detecting wrist fractures — Watson layoffs at IBM
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Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2018
As precision medicine and its related technologies take off in healthcare with rocket-like speed, many players in the space are advocating for a balance between innovation and regulation. Without policies in place, there are major mistakes that hospitals, researchers, clinicians, and policymakers will need to avoid to ensure that the healthcare system remains available to all, according to speakers at last week's HIMSS Precision Medicine Summit in Washington DC.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2018
Members of a smoking cessation Facebook group were 2.5 times more successful in quitting than controls over three-month, according to a recent study published in Addiction. However, after a year, those in the intervention group actually had lower rates of cessation than the control group.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 29, 2018
Hospitals have plenty of room to reduce costs and improve efficiency in total joint-replacement procedures, according to a new analysis. Robin Czajka, R.N., service line vice president of cost at Premier, told FierceHealthcare that many hospitals have just accepted prices as a step to improving patient outcomes.
Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2018
Telemedicine company SnapMD will provide its Virtual Care Management platform to the American Academy of Pediatrics' Member Advantage Program, according to SnapMD. With this, the organization’s 66,000 US pediatricians, surgeons, and specialists will be able to conduct virtual visits as a complement to normal in-person care.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 29, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services heard both pros and cons on its proposal to allow physicians to bill Medicare patients directly.
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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
MAY 29, 2018
A pair of recently published market research reports have outlined upward trends among mobile health technologies.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 29, 2018
AHIP is calling on the federal government to implement rules that would prevent providers from using third-party premium payments to steer patients from Medicare and Medicaid to ACA plans with higher reimbursement. But research also shows carefully crafted programs can reduce uncompensated care costs.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
MAY 29, 2018
Congratulations to SCTRC Advisory Board member, Nan Gaylord, PhD, RN, CPNP-PC, PMHS, FAANP, FAAN, on her recent designation as an Academy Edge Runner by the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Gaylord was recognized for her model, Interprofessional Practice at the Vine School Health Center: A School-Based Nurse-Managed Clinic (VSHC). The Academy’s Raise the Voice Edge Runner initiative recognizes nurse-designed models of care that improve quality, impact cost, and enhance patient satisfaction.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
MAY 29, 2018
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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
MAY 29, 2018
The American Cancer Society released new guidelines recommending that colorectal cancer screening start earlier; the Los Angeles police have begun a criminal investigation into complaints of misconduct made against a former University of Southern California gynecologist and more physician practice news.
BHM Healthcare Solutions
MAY 29, 2018
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.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 29, 2018
The Supreme Court will not take up a challenge to a law in Arkansas that could effectively block abortion providers who use a medication used to terminate pregnancies, and a New England Journal of Medicine article indicates mortality estimates from Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico are far too low. A look at those and more headlines from around the web.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 29, 2018
The handling of misconduct allegations against a campus doctor will cost the president of USC his job; doctors call for protections to women’s access to healthcare; plus more physician practice news from around the web.
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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
MAY 29, 2018
The hospital industry is pushing back against a Trump administration proposal to reduce access monitoring requirements for some states, which, along with other policies, could hurt access to care.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 29, 2018
Utah has officially added Medicaid expansion as a ballot initiative in November, marking another state that is putting the decision in the hands of voters. Meanwhile, a New York cardiologist is suing Aetna, and Ohio Democrats are pushing Gov. John Kasich to pull back a work requirement waiver.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 29, 2018
Progressive groups and lawmakers are energized over the prospect of a single-payer healthcare system. But as reluctant Democrats move farther left, what would need to happen for a such a policy to become law? Public Citizen discusses with FierceHealthcare.
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