Tue.Feb 11, 2020

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Duke study: Activity, but not skin tone, can impact wearables' PPG heart rate accuracy

Mobi Health News

The new investigation also found substantial differences between the performance of specific devices, with consumer products generally outperforming research wearables.

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

More U.S. doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. physicians, follows up AMA’s research conducted in 2016 and largely reflects the original questionnaire to be able to understand real changes among doctors’ use of tech in practice.

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Chinese government releases public app to gauge potential coronavirus exposures

Mobi Health News

The new tool comes as cases of the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) reached over 40,000 in China.

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EHR giant Cerner loses major health system client AdventHealth to rival Epic

FierceHealthIT

Florida-based AdventHealth plans to replace its Cerner electronic health record system with rival Epic's. Anonymous Reddit posters expected the change months ago, saying the health system was frustrated with Cerner’s ambulatory and revenue cycle solutions.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Israeli-Italian collaboration to study the behaviour of antibacterial materials in space

Mobi Health News

The microgravity research will take place in a miniature laboratory onboard a nanosatellite.

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Gento raises $5M to expand its home health staffing app across US

Mobi Health News

Palisades Growth Capital led the round, which brings the startup's total raise to over $7 million.

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Healthcare Marketing and Recruitment Strategies

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. How did you first hear about your doctor’s office or primary care facility? Were you passing by and saw a sign, or was it the closest place to your house when […]. The article Healthcare Marketing and Recruitment Strategies appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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London-based startup Unmind scores $10M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

The funds will help the mental health startup expand its global footprint.

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1 in 5 patients get surprise bill after elective surgery. How costly was it?

FierceHealthIT

The patients underwent elective surgery with primary surgeons and in facilities that were in their private insurer’s network. Yet, one in five got a surprise bill after their procedure for out-of-network services, according to a new study.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.

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With Microsoft’s Help, Walgreens Is Dropping Retail Urgent Care In Favor Of “Health Corners”

Healthcare IT Today

Microsoft is working with Walgreens to pilot-test a new type of healthcare service, which it calls “health corners,” bringing a new and more technology-focused form of healthcare to its retail locations. The project stems out of a deal Microsoft struck with the Walgreens Boots Alliance roughly a year ago, in which the two organizations agreed […].

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AMA president: Automating prior authorization not a 'panacea' to problems facing physicians

FierceHealthIT

The head of the American Medical Association warned automating prior authorization requests isn't the final solution to the problems plaguing providers.

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GlobalMed Announces Official HIMSS20 Speakers

GlobalMed

Educational session focuses on a pilot program to bring telemedicine to under-served regions of Zimbabwe. Scottsdale, Ariz. – February 12, 2020 – GlobalMed, a leading provider of virtual health solutions, today announced that it will be represented in a speaking session: “Transforming Africa’s Health Crisis with Telemedicine,” at HIMSS20, the health information technology industry’s leading annual conference.

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VA delays launch of new EHR system as project takes longer than expected

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Veterans Affairs' $16 billion electronic health record system will not go live in March as initially planned. The VA had planned to flip the switch on the new EHR at its first site, Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington, on March 28.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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How Employee Virtual Care Lowers Your Healthcare Costs

eVisit

Employee Healthcare Benefit Costs Keep Climbing! With the average cost of employer provided healthcare at more than $14,000/employee, hospitals are looking for better ways to deliver cost effective, quality healthcare to their employees. The Kaiser Family Foundation released data showing a 65% increase in the cost of employee provided healthcare for family coverage from 2008 to 2018.

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Industry Voices—Keeping up with constant change in oncology is a challenge

FierceHealthIT

While the advances we see in oncology today—targeted therapies, precise diagnostics and a better patient experience—are powering a consistent drop in cancer death rates, they also require oncologists to know more than any one person possibly can.

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Connect, Learn, and Meet Up with People at #HIMSS20

Healthcare IT Today

The 2020 HIMSS Annual Conference is just under 4 weeks away. In case you don’t know about the HIMSS conference, it brings together 40,000-50,000 of the best and brightest healthcare IT professionals along with 1300+ exhibitors in one conference in Orlando, FL. Needless to say, it’s a little crazy, but it’s also an incredible place […].

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CDC's Schuchat: While coronavirus spreading faster than SARS, it could be less severe

FierceHealthIT

The novel coronavirus that has prompted health emergency declarations around the world appears to be spreading much faster than SARS did, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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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Newly Diagnosed: How to Approach Exercise and Activity

Insulin Nation

As a person with type 1 diabetes, exercising and staying active is important to increase your insulin sensitivity and decrease your risk for cardiovascular complications. But if you’ve just recently been diagnosed, fear about how your blood sugars might react may make you hesitant to return to the gym or resume active hobbies you once loved. While it is true that exercise can increase your chances of experiencing low blood sugars (or, in some cases, cause you to go high), the benefits of activit

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Industry Voices—3 things to expect when ONC's interoperability rule is finalized

FierceHealthIT

When proposed government interoperability rules go into effect, it will accelerate the race among technology companies to offer consumers the end-to-end healthcare experience and outcomes we’ve all been missing.

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What Does Price Transparency Look Like? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/14 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Edward Bukstel (@ebukstel) on the topic of “What Does Price Transparency Look Like?” For as long as I can remember, the topic of price transparency in healthcare has […].

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Cigna taps new president for Express Scripts

FierceHealthIT

Cigna has named a president to oversee its pharmacy benefit management subsidiary Express Scripts.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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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The Future of Telemedicine

Ortholive

Telemedicine, which uses the Internet to connect patients and providers, is growing. Though the terms e-health, m-health , and telehealth are often interchanged for telemedicine, the deliverable is always the connection and interaction between patient and caregiver in a digital medium. While telemedicine is an established service, the popularity of the tool is still growing.

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Caring for Abusive Elderly Residents – Strategies and Advice

HealthStream

Supporting caregivers with communication and coping strategies can help in the management of abusive nursing home residents.

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ACA Marketplace Continues to Stabilize in 2020

ACA Times

2 minute read: The 2020 open enrollment results for individuals enrolling through the Healthcare.gov platform are in, and the results indicate a strong and stabilizing health care system. A report by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) shows that 8.3 million people selected a new plan or auto-enrolled into a healthcare plan through the Healthcare.gov platform.