Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
The Mayo Clinic has just released the results of a new study, which show an 80 percent increase in enrollment of clinical trials for breast cancer when using IBM’s Watson for Clinical Trial matching system. The Watson system uses artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured information and pull out insights from the data.
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. Providers put patient safety as #1. Appropriately, privacy and security were hot topics at HIMSS Annual Conference this year, in respond to providers’ demands for more education and concerns around the challenges.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
New survey data out this week from Accenture shows that healthcare consumers are using more wearables and apps, and are more bullish on virtual care, than ever before. But they also have high expectations for their health technology, which the industry may not be able to meet.
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Amazon is planning to extend Prime subscriptions to people enrolled in Medicaid for the discount price of $5.99 a month instead of the recent price increase to $12.99/month or $99 a year. The $5.99 a month calculates to a 27% break on the annual Prime membership cost. Medicaid enrollees who want to take advantage of the deal must provide Amazon with a scan or image of the card they use for their benefit (either Medicaid or EBT).
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
Sleep tracking tech company Eight (formerly known as Luna) has raised $14 million is Series B funding, according to a statement from the company. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Yunqi Partners.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
There’s no doctor onboard the International Space Station. Because of the costs associated with shipping anything up to space, there’s a carefully chosen selection of medical supplies and devices. For everything else, the six international astronauts that live and work on the station rely on NASA’s own brand of telemedicine.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
"In the many years I have written for this publication, I have seen significant changes in the industry. But when it comes to the care of older adults and family caregivers, I have not," writes longtime FierceHospitals contributor Anthony Cirillo. He explains how providers can overcome cultural and other barriers to creating a better experience for senior patients.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
Aetna's iTriage, a symptom checker app that was one of the earliest successful exits in the digital health space, has officially disappeared from the app store after being "sunsetted" to make room for a new, upcoming app called Aetna Health, MobiHealthNews has learned. Aetna Health launched in January and is currently available to a select group of Aetna members.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 8, 2018
Struggles at VA continue — Conference notes
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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
MARCH 8, 2018
London-based startup WeMa Life has recently launched its online marketplace app that helps caregivers and patients connect with providers. The app has multiple functions and allows caregivers to book social care, domiciliary care, nursing, domestic help, personal care, and hygiene care.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
HHS Secretary Alex Azar said the healthcare industry's transition to value-based care is a central focus for the department under his leadership, and he said the agency wants to work with payers to accelerate the changes.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
A recent Johns Hopkins study found that prediabetic patients who used the interactive mobile coaching program Sweetch lost weight and increased physical activity.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
Butte, Montana, might sound like an unlikely place for a major medical training center, but its founders wouldn’t have it any other way. Longtime friends Pat Dudley and Ray Rogers didn’t consider any other location but their hometown to build a $35 million training center aimed at boosting healthcare in rural areas of the U.S.
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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
MARCH 8, 2018
It’s still the early days, but the FDA’s approval of Proteus Digital Health and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals’ Abilify MyCite has changed the discussion of digital technology in healthcare.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
Novant CIO Dave Garrett left the organization last week after a decade in the position, CMIO Keith Griffin told FierceHealthcare. Newly hired Chief Digital Officer Angela Yochem is filling in as interim CIO while Novant looks for a replacement.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 8, 2018
In 2014, a 13-year old from California died from complications related to his Type 1 Diabetes after his parents used herb therapy instead of insulin. Los Angeles authorities recently charged a self-proclaimed “master herbalist/iridologist” with child abuse and practicing medicine without a license in connection with the teen’s death. The defendant is 83-year old Timothy Morrow.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
Over the course of 158 pages, the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General detailed “critical deficiencies” at a District of Columbia VA hospital that it called “pervasive and persistent” and which leaders failed to address. The OIG, which conducted an investigation into the hospital, released a searing final report yesterday that said deficiencies often spanned many years but were not remediated by leaders at multiple levels within the VA.
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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
MARCH 8, 2018
A growing number of providers are embracing hospital-level care at home, but challenges remain. A key obstacle, clinicians and policy analysts agree, is getting health insurers, whose systems aren’t generally set up to cover hospital care provided in the home, to pay for it.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
Efforts to improve the overall quality of healthcare have done little to reduce disparities in access to care. The National Quality Forum has developed a four-point plan to target equity more explicitly in performance-based payment systems.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
State reviewers gave the go-ahead for a proposed merger between two New Hampshire hospitals, a U.S. district judge's ruling may mean Texas Children’s Hospital can recoup millions of dollars from CMS in denied federal funding, plus more hospital news from around the web.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
A team-based model has allowed AccentCare to identify high-risk patients and plot post-acute care provisions, including behavioral health follow-ups, based upon the specific risks presented by various disease types. A clinical liaison coordinates care, simplifying communication and speeding up a process that would otherwise require patients to interact with a range of physicians and other service providers.
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
MARCH 8, 2018
Medical groups disagree over diabetes guidelines; Physician groups urge CMS to strengthen Medicare Advantage and more physician practice news from around the web.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
The Trump administration wants to expand association health plans to offer additional choices for small businesses and their employees, but healthcare industry groups warn that these plans offer weak consumer protections.
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