Thu.May 30, 2019

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‘Nyra’ app launched to help women manage feminine health

Mobi Health News

Mumbai-India headquartered digital health start-up Vivant recently launched ‘Nyra’, a simple mobile application that can be used by women to track their period, fertility, ovulation, mood, lifestyle and physical activity. Based on the health information collected, the app provides women with personalised feminine health, hygiene and fertility advice to help manage their wellbeing.

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Health Care Costs Still Americans’ Top Financial Worry Among All Money Concerns

Health Populi

Health care costs rank ahead of Americans’ money-worries about low wages and availability of cash, paying for college, house payments, taxes, and debt, according to the latest Gallup poll on peoples’ most important family financial problems in 2019. Medical costs have, in fact, ranked at the top of this list for three years in a row, with a five percentage point rise between 2018 and 2019.

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Imperfect solutions: How health tech has harmed patient experience

Mobi Health News

Not all implementations have been smooth sailing for those seeking care.

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How New Advances In Brain Technology May Revolutionize Behavioral Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Antonio Rotondo, licensed clinical psychologist, specializing in neuropsychology. Neurotechnologies that help diagnose and treat brain disorders are, in essence, a form of “information technology” in the behavioral healthcare world. They’re also relatively new in the history of psychiatry, and their advent is allowing us to more accurately diagnose and treat those who suffer […].

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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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Alzheimer's detection platform Altoida raises $6.3M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

M Ventures led the round with participation from Grey Sky Venture Partners, VI Partners AGG, Alpana Ventures and FYRFLY Ventures.

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Patient satisfaction platform Feedtrail lands $1M in funding

Mobi Health News

The latest funding round was led by Dioko Ventures with participation from an unnamed non-profit and a convertible promissory note.

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Poll finds 49% of doctors support ‘Medicare For All’

FierceHealthIT

In a recent poll of healthcare workers, almost half of physicians said they support “Medicare for All." But overall, healthcare professionals are almost equally divided over the proposal to replace private health insurance with a new, federally financed healthcare system.

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House call platform Heal now offers virtual follow-up appointments

Mobi Health News

To maintain the patient-doctor relationship, each voice or video call will be with a physician the patient has already met in person.

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Aledade expands into California to bring more physician-led ACOs to the state

FierceHealthIT

Aledade Inc., the startup company that is working to reshape primary care, is partnering with the California Medical Association to create new physician-led accountable care organizations in the state.

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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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Garmin inks deal with BCBS, DrChrono teams up with Updox and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: IlumiCare teams up with digital health coach Pack Health; Sansoro Health partners with OpiSafe.

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Disclosure of oncologists' ties with industry did little to stymie them: study

FierceHealthIT

The financial ties that bind oncologists and industry have fallen under an intense spotlight in that past year. But the increased scrutiny made possible by the federal Open Payments Database—a repository of data that show industry payments to physicians—appears to have done little to stymie those relationships among oncologists, a new study found.

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Call for Pitches: RWJF and Catalyst @ Health 2.0 seek innovations

Mobi Health News

Submit innovations around social determinants of health or home and community-based care for a chance at $40,000.

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Welkin Health secures $17.5M in funding for patient relationship management tool

FierceHealthIT

Welkin, a San Francisco-based digital health company, has raised $17.5 million in series B funding with plans to continue to build out its patient relationship management software.

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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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Verily’s Deep-Learning Model Accurately Characterizes Proteins

MedTech Boston

Verily’s DeepMass, a deep-learning application for mass spectrometry, is highly accurate at predicting peptide mass spectra, according to a manuscript. The post Verily’s Deep-Learning Model Accurately Characterizes Proteins appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Task force calls for 'individualized, patient-centered approach' in pain management

FierceHealthIT

The 29-member Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force released its final report Thursday offering guidance for physicians seeking to appropriately address pain among their patients while attempting to curb the number of opioids prescribed.

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ASCO, BIO, Forum.Oh My!

GNS Healthcare

Spring is the season of renewal, growth and new beginnings. It is also the time when the healthcare community gets together at key conferences to exchange ideas, findings and results. This year is no different with three major gatherings scheduled for May and June. Discussion of oncology and artificial intelligence are high on the agendas of all three events.

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Physician burnout: There’s an app for that

FierceHealthIT

Physicians just got another tool in the battle against burnout. Headspace, an online healthcare company specializing in meditation, has announced a partnership with the American Medical Association that will allow its members free access to the company’s meditation and mindfulness app.

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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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Report on Digital Diabetes Congress

Insulin Nation

This two-day event, on May 14-15, 2019, was first announced on January 18, 2019, with a mobile app contest, whose theme was “ increasing healthy engagement for people with diabetes.”. There were two categories: New apps (without outcome data). Established apps with outcome data (at least for the current version). Three finalists from each category were to be listed in the program for the meeting, but ultimately there were ten apps presented overall.

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Report: Child enrollment in Medicaid, CHIP decreased by nearly 1M in 2018

FierceHealthIT

Child enrollment in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program declined by nearly 1 million last year, a trend that’s not likely due to an improving economy.

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ASCO, BIO, Forum.Oh My!

GNS Healthcare

Spring is the season of renewal, growth and new beginnings. It is also the time when the healthcare community gets together at key conferences to exchange ideas, findings and results. This year is no different with three major gatherings scheduled for May and June. Discussion of oncology and artificial intelligence are high on the agendas of all three events.

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eHealth: Medicare Advantage premiums drop 33% during latest enrollment period

FierceHealthIT

A new report from eHealth looks at the costs and reactions from enrollees of Medicare’s latest open enrollment period.

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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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Extending the Value of EA Programs With ServiceNow

LeanIX

LeanIX recently joined two of its partners—ServiceNow and Deloitte—for a live video demonstration on integrating Enterprise Architecture and IT Service Management (ITSM) using each of the respective software company’s tools. In a webinar entitled “Transforming IT Transparency and Effectiveness by Integrating ITSM and EA”, the benefits of connecting ServiceNow and LeanIX’s unique services were explained in full by Deloitte Deutschland’s Manager of Enterprise and Solution Architecture, R.

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Nearly 1 in 5 Americans have experienced physician misconduct with most incidents going unreported, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Nearly one in five Americans say they have had an interaction with a physician who they believe was acting unethically, unprofessionally or providing substandard care, according to a new survey. Only one-third of them (33%) reported the behavior or filed a complaint, according to the survey results released by the Federation of State Medical Boards.

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Health IT stakeholders calling for ONC, CMS to 'go back to the drawing board' on interoperability rules

FierceHealthIT

Industry group Health Innovation Alliance is calling for the recently proposed interoperability rules to be scrapped and rewritten, saying the rules as currently drafted leave too many loopholes for information blocking to occur and ONC is overstepping its regulatory authority.

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Texas patient recruiter gets prison sentence for role in $20M Medicare fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

A Houston-based patient recruiter has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for her role in a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare.

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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.

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Industry Voices—The right recipe to address hospital cash-management issues

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals can only do so much to counter a challenging market, but cash management and strategic planning is one area that can be fully controlled.

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