Mobi Health News

APRIL 5, 2018

Trumbull, Connecticut-based FallCall Solutions has raised a sub-$1 million seed round from Connecticut Ventures to develop a pure software-based Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) for the Apple Watch. While automated fall detecction is in the company's future pipeline, the initial launch of the app, on Apple Watch and iPhone, works as an app-based help button that can be activated by voice or touch.

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APRIL 5, 2018

Microsoft has filed suit against Community Health Systems, claiming CHS continued to allow the use of the tech company's software at its recently sold facilities. The tech giant said it contacted CHS in 2016 to conduct an audit of contract compliance, and has received "incomplete" information since.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

APRIL 5, 2018

April 17 at 1 PM CST. Click here to register! Join Nathaniel DeNicola, MD, MSPH, FACOG, a board-certified Ob/Gyn and Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at The George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, as he leads a discussion for health care professionals on mHealth Apps in Pregnancy. Click here to submit a question to be answered during the webinar!

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

With more than half of U.S. doctors experiencing burnout, a number of leading medical organizations have created a medical charter to help address the problem. The charter on physician well-being was created by the Collaborative for Healing in Medicine, a group of leading medical centers and organizations, and was published in JAMA.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 5, 2018

The tech ideas of March -- change incremental or disruptive. March marked the annual American Society on Aging conference in San Francisco – where Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) are obtained for multiple social and service roles that serve older adults. The purpose was unchanged – and the limited representation of tech in the exhibit hall may hint at the peripheral role that technology use continues to play in these senior-focused jobs, despite the tech disruption this past year of voic

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Morning eHealth

APRIL 5, 2018

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Months after resolving fraud allegations from investors, Outcome Health has agreed to pay $2.9 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleges the company continued sending automated text messages to users even after they tried to opt out.

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mHealth Insight

APRIL 5, 2018

An interesting BMJ mHealth paper by David Peiris (Director of Health Systems Science) , J Jaime Mirand (Research Professor at the School of Medicine and Director of the CRONICAS Centre of Excellence in Chronic Diseases, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia) and David C Mohr (Professor at The Feinberg School of Medicine). mHealth Insights. “mHealth relates to the provision of health-related services via a mobile device.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

A health insurer is making a push into the digital health world with a new portfolio of digital tools for fertility and chronic disease management including diabetes. The new initiative will start this summer and will be available only to select members.

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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.

Insulin Nation

APRIL 5, 2018

In the digital age, images matter. A writer can produce a well-researched and exquisitely written story, but without an accompanying photograph, no one is going to be interested in publishing or reading it. sponsor. A story about a collapsed bridge will, of course, include a picture of the collapsed bridge. A story about a cancer-victim will most likely include a picture in which the subject is visibly ill, as evidenced by a lack of hair or a hospital setting.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Husband and wife physicians who ran a clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, that prosecutors say was used in part as a “pill mill” have been charged in connection with a $7.8 million healthcare fraud conspiracy. A 44-count indictment was unsealed April 4 and charges Patrick Emeka Ifediba, M.D., 59, and his wife, Uchenna Grace Ifediba, 53, both of Shoal Creek, in the healthcare conspiracy.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

The AHA argues that proposed rules to reduce payment for standalone emergency departments are "unfounded and arbitrary," but the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee says freestanding emergency departments can drive up health costs.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Rush University Medical Center and several of its clinicians were hit this week with a malpractice lawsuit that alleges a baby born at the hospital in 2007 was left disabled following a series of medical errors.

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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 5, 2018

The retail giant was able to keep drug price growth to only 0.2% last year despite manufacture price inflation being near 10%. The announcement follows a lawmaker's report that found brand-name drug costs are increasing 10 times faster than inflation.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Through a combination of improved prevention and new technology, CVS Health hopes to improve care quality for patients suffering from chronic kidney disease.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams, M.D., released a public health advisory today urging more Americans to carry naloxone, which can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose; the head of the Food and Drug Administration says the time may have come to require mandatory drug prescription and pain management training for physicians who prescribe opioids, plus more physician practice news from around the web.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Many physicians and medical school students volunteer to spend time overseas, motivated by a desire to improve healthcare for underserved people. But sometimes those good intentions have unintended consequences, which is why the American College of Physicians has put out a position paper with guidelines for doctors on their “ethical obligations” when they volunteer to work in other countries.

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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!

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

A budget justification released by CMS this week outlines the way in which the agency plans to "wind down" the federal exchanges by plan year 2020. But the plan relies on Congress pushing through an ACA repeal, a task Republican lawmakers have been unable to do on multiple occasions.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 5, 2018

Republican governors, some of whom may be seeking higher offices later this year, are facing challenges with their states' Medicaid programs. There are even fissures within the party, with Maine Gov. Paul LePage resisting expansion efforts, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich urging his successor not to gut the program. Democrats aren't having an easy time either, though.

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