KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Artificial intelligence is incredibly buzzy in health care right now, and for a good reason. Other industries are already experiencing AI-enabled radical transformations, like real-time fraud monitoring and detection in banking and finance and instantaneous image recognition across the web and social media. Health care now stands similarly positioned to capitalize on the transformative power […].

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. Worries about health care costs are particularly stressful among future retirees, 8 of 10 of whom share this top concern along with 7 in 10 recent retirees and 6 in 10 people retired for at least a decade.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Boston Medical Center CEO Kate Walsh and Christiana Health CEO Dr. Janice Nevin discuss the future of virtual care in supporting vulnerable populations.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The American Medical Association (AMA) and six other organizations have asked two congressional committees to use their oversight of the 21st Century Cures Act to improve interoperability and empower patients with meaningful health information while ensuring data is safe and secure.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The offering includes nurse chat, telemedicine, app-enabled house calls, and prescription delivery.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Belgium-based company's app can render heart rhythm irregularity readings in roughly 60 seconds.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told a crowd of insurers if they don’t work to increase transparency and reduce patient costs, they will face extinction through "Medicare for All.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Figures show that waiting times for appointments are an average of 26 minutes after logging on to the service.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Premiums for Medicare Advantage plans are expected to decline next year by 14% compared with 2019 as plans aim to offer more choices, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The new funding comes just a few months after it announced a $6.6 million Series A investment.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Microsoft is urging Windows users to install an “emergency” out-of-band security patch to address critical vulnerabilities in its software. The software giant issued an advisory on Monday warning that security flaws in some versions of Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to remotely take control of an affected system.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The company's "health care social network" allows users to view reviews from friends, coworkers or other peers.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Health Level Seven International and the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare CORE are collaborating to move the industry toward end-to-end automation of the prior authorization process.

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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.

Optimum Healthcare IT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

National Health IT Week is a nationwide action week focused on catalyzing change within the U.S. health system through the application of information and technology. The post Healthcare IT in the NICU: Providing Care, Safety and Parental Communication appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Amazon is piloting a new virtual health service benefit for employees and their families in the Seattle region called Amazon Care.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The following is a guest article by Molly True, Worldwide Healthcare Marketing for Lenovo Health. The goal of Health IT is to make the healthcare experience simpler, faster and better, for both patients and providers. Simplicity comes in many forms. Sometimes it means using technology we already have to just make things easier. Other times, […].

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ensuring Medicare patients are treated by “high-value” physicians could lead to billions in savings for the program, according to a new report from UnitedHealth Group.

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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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MedTech Boston

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The current metrics that we use to track the digital health, diagnostic, medical device and therapeutic industries are limited. The most impactful. The post Using Clinicaltrials.gov As A Metric: Analyzing Therapeutic Industry Growth appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

CVS is launching a new pharmacy solution aimed at cutting down the time it takes for patients to obtain specialty drugs.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Not all protein is created equal — and this is especially true when it comes to protein powders, whether it’s made from whey, egg whites, grains, veggies, collagen, or bone broth. The beauty of protein powder is that it gives your body a quickly digestible source of protein right after a workout. Your muscles are craving those amino acids in order to build and grow more muscle after breaking it down during your workout.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The next-generation chief medical informatics officer has a much broader skill set than CMIO 1.0 and requires an informatics leader who can interact with frontline clinicians and technology teams as well as senior leadership and boards of directors.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/27 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Michelle Currie (@mshlcurrie) on the topic “Missed Opportunities in Healthcare” When I graduated from UCSF with a master’s degree in Clinical Informatics in 2001, I felt like the […].

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finalized its rule implementing cuts to state Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) allotments by $4 billion next year.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For the 20th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Healthcare Assumptions You Should Bank On. We often talk to people are just entering the health IT space. The overwhelming theme from these people is that there are so many things in healthcare that they didn’t expect. For those of us working in […] When people from the tech community start working on healthcare, there are a lot of things that surprise them.

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Lloyd Price

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had united, Voltron-style, to fight for lower healthcare costs and forge “a better patient experience” for their combined 1.2 million employees, industry watchers have waited patiently for more details about what the healthcare hydra has planned.

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Synzi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

An IHHC Allied member contribution by Synzi According to the CDC, patients can be protected against serious diseases like shingles, pneumococcal disease, hepatitis B, and seasonal flu with critical vaccinations. Home health agencies play a key role in educating patients … Read More. The post Driving Immunizations via Patient Communications appeared first on Synzi.

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Digital Health Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this episode we dive into mental health. More specifically, the treatment of major depressive disorder, also known as clinical depression. It is an area of tremendous need and one can be very well served through the solutions and approaches that are being developed and being made available to users around the world. So, how big of a problem is severe depression?

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anish Sebastian, CEO and oc-founder, Babyscripts. Collaboration is at the heart of successes over history — in Darwin’s words, “those who learn to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Yet the healthcare space has been slow to learn that lesson.

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