Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. Health, medical and wellness trends featured large in the forecast, which brought together key trends for 5G, robotics, voice tech, AR/VR/XR, and the next iteration of IoT — which Steve said will still be called “IoT,” but in this phase will morph into the “Intelligence of Things.”.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the course of the show, MobiHealthNews will be updating this list of new products and other announcements being unveiled this week in Las Vegas.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

U.S. healthcare could save more than $600 billion in administrative costs by adopting a single-payer system like neighboring Canada, according to a new study.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2020

The new features are designed to help wearers detect the risk of atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 6, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anish Sebastian, CEO, Babyscripts. Last month saw the rollout of the latest upgrades to Amazon’s Echo speaker line: earbuds, glasses, and a ring that connect to Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa. These new products are just three examples of a growing trend to incorporate technology seamlessly into our human experience, representing the ever-expanding frontiers for […].

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

Insurers launched a new initiative aimed at expanding the use of electronic prior authorization, hoping to address an issue most providers say is the most burdensome they face.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2020

Repisodic looks to replace unwieldy pamphlets with a simplified digital runthrough of post-acute care options.

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New Age Healthcare

JANUARY 6, 2020

D igital technology has created a global revolution. The world is becoming more connected and increasingly relying on digital for developing solutions for every industry and sphere of life. They cover technologies ranging from smartphones, 3D printing, and cloud computing, social media to everyday workings of nearly all industries like banking, telecom, engineering and even healthcare.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

Employers offering health plans that integrate medical, pharmacy and behavioral health coverage can see significant savings, according to a new report from Cigna.

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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.

HealthStream

JANUARY 6, 2020

The burden of government healthcare regulation has resulted in providers and systems saying they are spending too much time ensuring compliance, taking them away from their primary mission of providing care. What is the extent of the problem?

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

CMS is planning to up the amount of encounter data it uses to calculate Medicare Advantage risk scores to 75%, the agency said Monday.

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Morning eHealth

JANUARY 6, 2020

Security snag in Germany's health data digitization plan — Illuminia nixes merger proposal

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

Insurer Molina Healthcare sought to gain a foothold in Illinois’ managed care business with the $50 million acquisition of managed care organization NextLevel Health Partners.

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2020

I must admit that it’s kind of crazy to look back at the first CES I attended about 15 years ago. I was a techguy that had just started in healthcare. So, I really just wanted to go to CES regardless, but I did keep my eyes open for any sort of technology that could […].

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

LAS VEGAS—At the CES 2020 show on Monday, Samsung executives highlighted personalized health solutions the company developed in partnership with Kaiser Permanente.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2020

At the end of every year and through into the next, health IT pundits spend time holding forth on the 12 months to come. We select a few technologies to praise and a few to criticize, make predictions about and write up our thoughts about broad trends we see gathering momentum. Being one of those […].

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HealthStream

JANUARY 6, 2020

The scrutiny of efforts to handle and prevent sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace is stronger than ever before. The past approach to handling perpetrators lightly, keeping things quiet to protect organizations is no longer acceptable. Three recent events show how things have changed.

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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!

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Hinduja Global Solutions

JANUARY 6, 2020

20/20 Vision: 9 Trends at the Heart of Tomorrow’s Healthcare. From an in-control consumer to digital experience and telemedicine, healthcare delivery continues to stretch the limits of what we thought possible. As health plans and health systems increasingly turn to outsourcing partners to compete and thrive in this ever-changing market, we’re here with HGS’s on-the-ground assessment of Healthcare 2020.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

Oscar Health has tapped CVS as its preferred pharmacy for the 2020 plan year for its New York plans, cutting out Walgreens and some Rite Aid and Duane Reade locations.

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CMS.gov

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act – or MACRA. In an attempt to streamline multiple quality programs for physicians, the law created the Merit Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS).

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HIStalk Interviews

JANUARY 6, 2020

Joe Petro, MSME is CTO and EVP of research and.

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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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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 6, 2020

Change is ahead, perhaps sooner than we think. One of the more striking aspects of the flood of Voice First innovations is the near-feverish pace – predictions turn into practice faster than a device can say “Hello.” Below are just a few of the possibilities that by next year at this time will be, so to speak, yesterday’s news. By then, thorny questions about privacy, personalization, and patient-doctor voice communication will be closer to resolution.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 6, 2020

The Trump administration has selected Brad Smith to serve as the director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, where he will oversee the creation and stewardship of value-based payment models.

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