Mobi Health News
APRIL 19, 2018
Data analytics startup Trayt is launching a new app that helps patients living with neurodevelopmental and brain disorders, as well as their caregivers, track behavioral and non-behavioral symptoms. The app has a comorbid rating scale, as well as measurements of how effective treatments are. It can also give progress reports and provides users with actionable insights.
Health Populi
APRIL 19, 2018
This is the second post of three written to summarize what I learned participating in Medecision’s annual meeting with the company’s partners, held March 27-29, 2018 at the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas, TX. . I concluded the first of this three-part series with Dr. Don Rucker’s belief that, “Patients are the massive use-case for interoperability.”. This second post focuses on the key role of designing for healthcare – for patients, caregivers, providers, all industry sector workers indeed.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 19, 2018
A recently published study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a better predictor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality than just monitoring blood pressure in the clinic.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
Healthcare workers are at a significant risk for violence in the workplace, but there are steps that health organizations can take to better protect employees, according to the Joint Commission. Here's a look at what they are.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 19, 2018
Vicarious Surgical, a startup that combines virtual reality with surgical robotics, just landed $16.75 million in a Series A funding round led by Vinod Khosla's Khosla Ventures and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, with participation from Bill Gates’ Gates Ventures, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures and Marc Benioff. The company plans to use the money to support the next growth phase and build up its robotics and software teams.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 19, 2018
Following a successful nine-month pilot, Boehringer Ingelheim and HealthPrize Technologies announced that the digital adherence support program RespiPoints will be expanded to any patient who is taking certain Boehringer Ingelheim medications, including some available in the Respimat inhaler.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to provide pediatric care to children in the UAE. The partnership follows a trend of U.S. hospitals and health systems looking to expand their brands abroad.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 19, 2018
New York City-based digital consultation company RubiconMD has closed a $13.8 million Series B funding round led by HLM Venture Partners and Optum Ventures, representatives from the company told MobiHealthNews. Other participants in the round included Centene Corporation, Blue Ivy Ventures, and other return investors.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
The adage goes that if you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it. Which is why physician practices need to know how they can improve their performance by identifying and using benchmarks, said Michelle Mattingly, data solutions manager at the Medical Group Management Association, in an interview with FierceHealthcare.
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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
APRIL 19, 2018
RapidSOS, a five-year-old startup focused on updating emergency response systems with data-driven technology, has raised $16 million in funding from Highland Capital, Microsoft Ventures, and CSAA Insurance Group, according to a statement. Forté Ventures also contributed.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
A lack of diversity among clinicians affects the quality of care hospitals provide to diverse communities. Two Boston teaching hospitals, Dana-Farber and Massachusetts General Hospital, say they have a new plan to improve diversity through recruitment efforts.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 19, 2018
Upheaval continues in VA IT ranks — PDMP notes
Iris Telehealth
APRIL 19, 2018
The Importance of Technology I’m a techie. I’ve worked for decades with all types of companies – from large internet service providers to small technical start-ups. I am completely enamored with the idea that technology can help people. I mean really help people, not just get them access to their social media fix or the [ ] The post Immersion Into Iris: An IT Perspective appeared first on Iris Telehealth.
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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 19, 2018
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has ordered three California hospitals to pay out millions of dollars to local nonprofits, declining their requests to be freed from charity obligations required under state law.
Insulin Nation
APRIL 19, 2018
sponsor. A few weeks ago, thousands flocked to the opening of Black Panther , a highly anticipated film for a multitude of reasons. The most salient of these being its depiction of an African king as Marvel’s and cinema’s first culturally-affirming black superhero. Viral videos and GoFundMe campaigns attest to the significance of this moment. Beaming black kids squeal and dance after learning of school-funded Black Panther trips, and friends and families robed in African garb attend movie premi
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
Humana is making more moves into value based care, following reports of a possible merger with Walmart. The insurer also recently expanded another bundled-payment model, in line with a steady industry transition to value.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
As the rest of the healthcare industry continues to transition towards value-based care, drugmakers are doing the same, almost exclusively in the form of private contracts. However, they cite red tape as a major deterrent.
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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 19, 2018
Shriners Hospital for Children in Minneapolis will be switching its focus to outpatient care, hospital executives said. The switch is due to declining inpatient admission rates alongside a growing interest in outpatient care.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
Bundled payments and accountable care organizations have emerged as favored alternative payment models within Medicare. According to a blog post in Health Affairs, overlap between the two models could produce unintended consequences.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
Georgia's governor helps a hospital and an insurer reach a new deal to get 650,000 patients out of limbo, a Midwestern state moves forward with Medicaid work requirements, plus more health payer news from the last week.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 19, 2018
Democratic lawmakers are taking another crack at a public option, this time in the form of a Medicare buy-in for employers and individuals on ACA exchanges. While more coverage options might be good for consumers, providers could feel a financial pinch.
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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