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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

Health Populi

“Health agencies will have to become at least as sophisticated as other consumer/retail industries in analyzing a variety of data that helps uncover root causes of human behavior,” Gartner recommended in 2017. That’s because “health” is not all pre-determined by our parent-given genetics. Health is determined by many factors in our own hands, and in forces around us: physical environment, built environment, and public policy.

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Novartis, Pear Therapeutics sign development deal for two digital therapeutics

Mobi Health News

Pear Therapeutics has inked a deal with pharma company Novartis to work together on the development of two digital therapeutics for multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia. It’s the first time a pharma company has made a development deal with a digital therapeutic, according to Pear.

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How Northern Arizona is paving the way for remote monitoring to change the face of health care

Arizona Telemedicine Program

In Navajo County, Arizona, Manuel Ono and his wife, Lola, sat down with me last year to tell me about their lives, and how, in their remote and beautiful corner of northern Arizona, they stay connected to the world. The Onos, lifelong residents of Winslow, have been married for over 30 years and are now happily retired, spending many of their days looking after their grandkids.

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Lexmark to unveil mobile printing, secure prescription apps at HIMSS18

Mobi Health News

It’s hard to be a printer and typewriter company in 2018. But IBM spinoff Lexmark has found that many areas — including healthcare — still have a need for its services.

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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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VA intrigue continues

Morning eHealth

White House interoperability meetings — Spate of eHealth bills

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Defining value will drive healthcare industry disruption

FierceHealthIT

Disruption within the healthcare industry, good or bad, seems so inevitable that the first breath of Amazon’s arrival on the scene led some to hyperventilate. Until major stakeholders agree on a uniform definition of value, however, progress toward value-based care will likely remain slow and incremental.

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athenahealth reveals mobile app Epocrates Connect for EHR coordination

Mobi Health News

athenahealth will be debuting Epocrates Connect, a mobile app that directly connects into a provider’s EHR system, at HIMSS 2018 next week. The system uses machine learning and language processing to give providers access to information and coordinate patient care no matter the EHR or care setting.

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Survey: Most Americans support the right to affordable care, but remain pessimistic about ACA's future

FierceHealthIT

Americans broadly support the right to affordable health insurance, according to new research from the Commonwealth Fund. At the same time, a substantial number of individuals covered through the ACA and Medicaid are pessimistic that their current coverage will continue.

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Philips to launch new version of HealthSuite with AI and analytics at HIMSS18

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS18, Philips plans to announce several new additions to its line of connected care products. A new management system called FocusPoint will help give hospitals more visibility into the performance of their patient monitoring technology. Philips also plans to introduce the next generation of its HealthSuite collection of digital health tools, which will include analytics and artificial intelligence.

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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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Doctors must fight for their innocence in fraud cases, say defense attorneys

FierceHealthIT

The government has cast a net so wide that it now prosecutes doctors for federal crimes when there is a simple disagreement on whether the services are medically necessary, write federal criminal defense attorneys David Markus, J.D., and Mona Markus, J.D., in a KevinMD post. "This is wrong," they wrote, noting that in the last two years, they have defended physicians and healthcare professionals who faced charges from what they believe are overzealous federal prosecutors.

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PlushCare taps Thermo Fisher Scientific to offer telemedicine allergy consultations

Mobi Health News

PlushCare, a direct-to-consumer telemedicine service that originally focused on acute and urgent care, has partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to add allergy testing to its offerings. PlushCare users will have access to Thermo Fisher's ImmunoCAP Specific IgE blood test, which can detect a number of allergies without needing to subject a patient to the traditional skin prick test.

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Study finds high readmission rates among sepsis survivors

FierceHealthIT

A brush with sepsis may increase a patient's odds of being readmitted to the hospital, according to a new study. There is "little evaluation" of hospital discharge practices for sepsis cases, the researchers noted.

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Qualcomm Life signs deal with AlertWatch, PeriGen, and other digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Qualcomm Life announced an exclusive licensing agreement with AlertWatch, creator of an FDA-cleared intelligence care software that assists in the care of patients in the operating room. The deal will give Qualcomm Life the exclusive rights to sell AlertWatch, which the company plans to showcase at HIMSS 2018.

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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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Healthgrades announces 2018 top hospitals list

FierceHealthIT

Healthgrades released its annual “America’s Best Hospitals” list this week, with hospitals in 28 states earning the recognition. At Spectrum Health, which landed on the top 50 hospitals list, a culture of excellence drives the organization to push to be better, said Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Tina Freese Decker.

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Helix raises $200 million to grow genomics testing marketplace

Mobi Health News

Helix has closed a $200 million financing round and said it plans to expand its personal genomics marketplace to accelerate consumer adoption of genomics.

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Industry Voices—To improve care quality, embrace diversity in healthcare leadership roles

FierceHealthIT

Raymond T. Hino, regional director of operations for Surgery Partners, LLC, explores diversity in healthcare leadership and how organizations can affect change. "Diversity in leadership leads to improvements in quality of care for all ethnic groups," he writes in this contributed post. "Language barriers, cultural norms and healthcare access can all dramatically affect healthcare outcomes.

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Making Use of Accommodations

Insulin Nation

School has started. Classes are filled with new faces and professors distributing long syllabi outlining their expectations for the course. Students with Type 1 diabetes may be left wondering: How do I make sure that I properly take care of my T1D while also excelling in the classroom? After all, there is always the risk of the unexpected. An accident double dosage of insulin that leads to a severe low.

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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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Two California doctors charged in $250M lap-band fraud scheme

FierceHealthIT

Two California doctors were arrested and charged in a $250 million billing scheme involving lap-band surgeries to help patients lose weight. The indictment alleges the doctors encouraged bogus sleep studies that helped 1-800-GET-THIN fraudulently bill insurance programs for more than $250 million related to the bariatric surgery business.

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Counting Carbs on the Go

Insulin Nation

Traveling with Type 1 diabetes? You’ll need to do more planning ahead, but there is no reason why you can’t have as much fun as someone without T1D. One of the most important considerations is counting carbohydrates abroad. Most individuals with T1D count carbs to work out an insulin dose based on a ratio that has been determined by a healthcare professional.

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A top VA aide pushed Congress to back Secretary David Shulkin's ouster: report

FierceHealthIT

One of VA Secretary David Shulkin's top staffers asked Congress to help push him out, according to a report from USA Today. John Ullyot, the Department of Veterans Affairs' assistant secretary for public affairs, asked an aide for the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to convince legislators to back Shulkin's ouster.

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Big audit entries

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The ATNA audit scheme has been re-imagined in FHIR as the AuditEvent Resource. The reformatting is only to meet the FHIR audience expectations for readability. For this there is really useful datatypes, structure, referencing, and tooling. There is no intention to change in any fundamental way. There is a mapping between the two that is expected to translate forward and backward without loss of data.

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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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Physician Practice Roundup—Latest federal action on opioid crisis, Senators release bipartisan bill

FierceHealthIT

A bipartisan group of eight senators Tuesday introduced a bill to address the opioid epidemic; the American Academy of Pediatrics released new guidelines this week calling for doctors to screen all children 12 years and older for depression annually at their health maintenance visits; and more physician practice news from around the web.

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Majority Rules? The Right to Affordable Health Care is A Right for All Americans

Health Populi

If we’re playing a game of “majority rules,” then everyone in America would have the right to affordable health care, according to a new poll from The Commonwealth Fund. The report is aptly titled, Americans’ Views on Health Insurance at the End of a Turbulent Year. The Fund surveyed 2,410 U.S. adults, age 19 to 64, by phone in November and December 2017.

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In trouble in one state, physicians move on to practice in others scot-free

FierceHealthIT

A flawed system allows doctors who have run into licensing problems in one state to practice in another state with a clean record, according to a newspaper investigation. At least 500 physicians who have been disciplined or barred from practicing by one state medical board have moved on to practice in another state with a clean license.

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Clover Health lost $22M in 2017, a slight improvement from the previous year

FierceHealthIT

Clover Health lost $22 million in 2017, slightly better than the $35 million it lost the previous year. Venture capitalists have sunk $425 million into the data-driven tech startup over the years, bringing its valuation to $1.2 billion. But Clover has yet to find a way to turn a profit, even as it announced plans to expand to three more states in December.

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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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Hospital Roundup—Lifespan joins merger talks; Mayo Clinic's John Noseworthy on 'disruptive innovation'

FierceHealthIT

Merger talks between Boston-based Partners HealthCare and Rhode Island’s Care New England may expand to include another healthcare system; Mayo Clinic CEO John Noseworthy, M.D., describes a disruptive innovation approach; hospitals research alternatives to saline in IV bags; and more hospital news from around the web.

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President Trump promises 'very, very strong' policies on opioids in the coming weeks

FierceHealthIT

Trump administration leaders gathered for a summit on the opioid epidemic Thursday, offering a more comprehensive look at current and proposed initiatives to combat the crisis. HHS Secretary Alex Azar said HHS is "eager" to work with governors, including on a project that allows states to address drug addiction treatment gaps in their Medicaid programs.

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