KevinMD
JUNE 6, 2019
Amazon has opened a new health care frontier: Now Alexa can be used to transmit patient data. Using this new feature — which Amazon labeled as a “skill” — a company named Livongo will allow diabetes patients — which it calls “members” — to use the device to “query their last blood sugar reading, blood sugar measurement […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.
Health Populi
JUNE 6, 2019
In the U.S., rural residents’ access to broadband at home continues to lag behind urban and suburban dwellers, the Pew Research Group noted in a May 2019 research note on Americans’ use of technology. The Pew survey explored Americans’ adoption of technology and found that rural dwellers are also less likely to have multiple devices than non-rural consumers.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2019
The sector has undergone major changes in the past few years, and venture capitalists are still keen to dip their toes in.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 6, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Measles continues to spread in the United States as health officials seek to stem the worst outbreak of the disease in decades. More than 700 cases have now been reported, about half if them involving children under the age of five.1 James D’Arezzo, CEO of Condusiv Technologies, says, “It is the job of our healthcare […].
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2019
Quil Health's platform delivers episodic care support content through a smartphone app and, if permitted by the patient, their living room television.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2019
Brookfield Growth Partners led the round, with participation from DCVC, Builders VC, Bullpen Capital, Javelin Venture Partners and Two Sigma Ventures.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 6, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Forescout Technologies, Inc. announces insights from 75 real healthcare deployments with more than 10,000 virtual local area networks (VLANs) and 1.5 million devices contained within the Forescout Device Cloud, with a specific focus on 1,500 medical VLANs with more than 430,000 devices.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2019
Wildflower, Omada and Welkin Health have lessons to share about working with large enterprises.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 6, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michelle Davey, CEO and co-founder, Enzyme Health. Today, our healthcare system is changing, and it’s changing quickly. What’s leading the way for the remarkable shifts we’re seeing in our industry? Record-breaking investments into digital health (more than $14 billion in 2018 alone).
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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
JUNE 6, 2019
The new platform called Chronically Simple lets patients store test results, diagnostic images and medical records.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 6, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. When you hear the words “cancer treatment,” you probably think of things like chemotherapy, radiation or even hair loss. While many cancer patients go through painful procedures that create uncomfortable and life-changing side effects, there might be new ways to help them deal with the disease and their care.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2019
A recent study from the Brigham and Women's Hospital demonstrates exciting possibilities.
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 6, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Pillo Health, a Boston-based technology company for patients managing their health at home, announced that is has secured $11 million in funding from leading venture investors to complete its Series-A round. The capital will be used to drive growth and innovation as Pillo Health builds out its voice-enabled medication and care management platform for the […].
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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.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 6, 2019
UCHealth led the funding with participation from the University of Virginia LVG Venture Fund, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Inception Health/Froedtert Health, Children’s Hospital Colorado, UnityPoint Health, JAZZ Venture Partners and existing investors.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2019
Novant Health joins a growing list of healthcare systems that have opened institutes dedicated to innovation and artificial intelligence technologies. The initiative will focus on using AI to enhance personalized patient care.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 6, 2019
Despite roadblocks, there are ways in which innovation can take place in the electronic health record field
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2019
Even as U.S. healthcare systems increasingly declare innovation to be a top priority, most are still struggling to scale innovation quickly.
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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!
MedTech Boston
JUNE 6, 2019
At first glance, the MedTech startup scene looks as vibrant as ever. This past February, healthcare startups raised $1.88 billion in investor. The post Why We Need to Put the ‘Med’ Back in MedTech appeared first on MedTech Boston.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2019
A new report from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission targets the recent jump in prescription drug pricing, putting a large part of the blame on spread pricing by pharmacy benefit managers.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 6, 2019
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a request for information (RFI) on how to evolve its “Patients over Paperwork” initiative that was initially launched in 2017.Since launching in fall 2017, according to agency.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2019
States that expanded Medicaid saw lower mortality rates from cardiovascular disease compared to non-expansion states, according to a new study.
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.
GNS Healthcare
JUNE 6, 2019
Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, "in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." With the surge of healthcare data we have a great opportunity healthcare in a way not seen before. But, it is well known that using flawed data produces unreliable outputs. Given the breadth and depth of data that grows daily and the power of artificial intelligence (AI) – how do we leverage both to impact how drugs are discovered and developed?
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2019
Anthem announced Thursday that it plans to buy Beacon Health Options, the country’s largest independently held behavioral health provider.
Insulin Nation
JUNE 6, 2019
Leika Scott, a registered nurse on a cardiac unit at Maine Medical Center and newly diagnosed with T1D. We spoke with Leika Scott, age 22 and a 2018 graduate of Saint Anselm College Nursing School who self-diagnosed her diabetes in September. “I had the usual symptoms of Diabetes; polyuria (excessive urination) and polydipsia (excessive thirst). I remembered learning the typical signs and symptoms of Type 1 diabetes in nursing school and this felt exactly like that.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2019
It’s going to take more than a few tweaks to fix primary care, says Rushika Fernandopulle, M.D. He’s not bothering with that approach and eight years ago co-founded Iora Health, the Boston-based startup company that is building new primary care practices from scratch.
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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
JUNE 6, 2019
At the Mid-Atlantic Health IT Summit in Philadelphia this week, Zane Last, Pharm. D.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 6, 2019
Georgia insurance regulators have intervened in an ongoing spat between Anthem and WellStar Health System.
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 6, 2019
Cable entertainment giant Comcast is apparently working on launching an in-home device designed to monitor people’s health, possibly in partnership with hospital systems. In doing so, it’s jockeying for position in a market with immense potential. According to a report in CNBC, the planned device will monitor patients at home using ambient sensors.
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