KevinMD
APRIL 11, 2018
I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to know. When I see new patients their jaw usually drops when I sit down with them next to the computer with a stack of papers held together with a rubber band or a gigantic clamp and with yellow sticky notes protruding here and there with words like LAB, ER, Read more.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2018
More mobile devices equal happier patients, according to a survey commissioned by Jamf, an Apple-focused mobile device management company.
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Health Populi
APRIL 11, 2018
Chronic diseases are what kill most people in the world. In the U.S., the chronic disease burden takes a massive toll on both public health and mortality, accounting for 7 in 10 deaths in America each year. That personal health toll comes at a high price and proportion of national health expenditures. A new alliance between Livongo and Cambia Health seeks to address that challenge, beginning with diabetes and scaling to other chronic conditions.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2018
Engineering students at Rice University have created a new iPhone app they say could help patients with Parkinson's manage a symptom of the disease called "freezing," a temporary and involuntary inability to move when the legs are unable to follow the brain's command.
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FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
With more practices offering telemedicine services, there’s now a survey designed specifically to measure patient satisfaction with those encounters. Press Ganey, the country's leading provider of patient satisfaction surveys, has just come out with new surveys to measure patients’ experience after a virtual visit at a medical practice, a sign that telemedicine is becoming mainstream.
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FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
Amid a planned merger between the two companies, an unsealed lawsuit reveals that an Aetna actuary accused CVS of improperly reporting drug prices to the Medicare agency. The suit alleges CVS billed CMS more than it paid retail pharmacies and kept the difference for itself.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2018
Today, artificial intelligence-powered mobile biometric recognition company Element landed $12 million in a Series A funding round led by PTB Ventures and GDP Ventures, with additional participation from a number of large banks and telecom carriers in South East Asia.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
In a court filing this week, UnitedHealthcare said it plans to terminate its contract with Envision Healthcare by the beginning of next year, citing "highly questionable billing practices and lack of candor." Envision subsidiary EmCare has been under fire for expensive surprise bills to patients.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2018
Digital chronic disease management company Livongo has raised $105 million in new Series E funding, mostly from existing investors.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
The healthcare industry's appetite for mergers has yet to be sated, but providers may not be fully addressing the patient safety concerns that come with consolidation. Here are three parts of mergers that can pose a safety risk.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2018
A recent survey of 300 primary care physicians who use EHRs found that half of the respondents wanted better access to patient data.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
Estimates of a projected physician shortage just got darker. The country could see a shortage of up to 120,000 physicians by 2030, according to a new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges. That’s an increase from last year, when the AAMC projected a shortage of between 40,800 and 104,900 doctors by 2030.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 11, 2018
Melbourne, Australia-based Global Kinetics Corporation, maker of a wearable Parkinson’s disease monitor, has received a $7.
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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 11, 2018
The Louisville, Kentucky-based insurer bought up a 22-clinic physician practice in Florida, amid speculation that Walmart might be interested in a deal. The physician-insurer acquisition is not the first of its kind but isn't without concern.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 11, 2018
ONC’s new report on clinical decision making — Why Apple’s EHR play could be over-hyped
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
It's part of a broader trend in the industry caused by the rise of electronic health records and a cost-saving measure by Mayo officials, who have been aggressively pushing for efficiencies in the health system's operation in recent years.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
APRIL 11, 2018
How Therapists Can Build Trust and Rapport Over the Phone Research shows that clients with substance use disorders (SUDs) who enjoy a good rapport with their therapist are more motivated to take an active role in their plan of treatment … Read more. The post Therapists Building Trust and Rapport Over the Phone appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
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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
APRIL 11, 2018
The California-based health system plans to invest in research involving doctors and other health professionals. The move comes amid a groundswell of interest in the medical community in addressing the issue of gun violence as a public health concern.
Insulin Nation
APRIL 11, 2018
A CDC study confirms what many individuals within the diabetes community have already suspected: the incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is on the rise. As most readers know, DKA is a life-threatening but usually avoidable complication of diabetes, which occurs when blood glucose levels exceed 250 mg/dL, leading to an increased ketone concentration.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
Advocates of price transparency in healthcare believe free-market competition will help curb costs, but those initiatives have yet to gain any real-world traction. A group of Harvard Medical School researchers took a look at why.
Insulin Nation
APRIL 11, 2018
JDRF, ADA and Helmsley Charitable Trust Issue Request for Proposals to Research Consistency and Potency of Insulin Purchased in U.S. Pharmacies. NEW YORK, April 10, 2018 — JDRF International (JDRF), American Diabetes Association (ADA) and The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust (Helmsley) together seek to support an evaluation of the consistency and potency of insulin that is purchased at retail pharmacies across the United States.
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.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
Recently named CIO of NYC Health + Hospitals, Lynch has been thrust into the middle of a $764 million EHR implementation. Fortunately, he has taken on similar tasks in Los Angeles and Miami, where he oversaw EHR transformation in the second- and third-largest public health systems in the country.
ACA Times
APRIL 11, 2018
3 minute read: Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 , the reporting requirements set forth by the IRS have proven to be complicated and time consuming. Minimizing cost and increasing employee retention in the restaurant space is difficult already. Add the administrative burden of the ACA to a restaurant owner’s to do list and you’re looking at another full-time job.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
After launching an initiative earlier this year that provided physicians with real-time data on patient drug costs, initial data shows physicians switched patients to covered drugs 85% of the time and prescribed a cheaper medication 30% of the time.
Medical Mime - EHR
APRIL 11, 2018
The Gartner Group recently hosted its 2018 BI bake-off event , aimed at getting Business Intelligence vendors to showcase their products capabilities analyzing data as part of the Data for Good movement, using public data sets that support a social cause. After analyzing traffic fatalities , college costs and homelessness in previous years, the 2018 bake-off was on data about the U.S. opioid epidemic.
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FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
Providers looking to jump into population health management can start with a specific need for one group first—and for Geisinger Health System, that was getting diabetic patients to eat healthier.
mHealth Insight
APRIL 11, 2018
Imagine how Patients would cross examine healthcare provider organisations that don’t provide Patients with access to Health Records: “(PATIENT) Would you be comfortable sharing with me the name of the conditions you have diagnosed me with and the results and treatments you have provided to me? (HEALTHCARE PROVIDER) …um… er no.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 11, 2018
The growing demand for doctors continues to push up salaries for both primary care and specialty physicians in the U.S. Doctors saw a modest increase in earnings from 2017 to 2018, with the overall physician salary at $299,000, up from $294,000, according to a new report.
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