Fri.May 17, 2019

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For Providence St. Joseph, patient engagement begins with a call center

Mobi Health News

The health system combines high tech and high touch to improve patient experience — and dramatically increase appointment booking.

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Microsoft warns flaw in Windows legacy systems "likely to be exploited" similar to WannaCry

FierceHealthIT

Microsoft has taken the rare step of releasing a patch for a handful of legacy operating systems it no longer services after finding a critical vulnerability and is warning users to patch their systems quickly to avoid another WannaCry ransomware attack.

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Patient stories inspire new digital tools at Singapore Health Systems, Sutter Health

Mobi Health News

At the Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Summit, representatives from the two health systems explain how listening to patients inspired care coordination tools, health finance platforms and a patient scheduler.

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Care coordination solution lowers cost of managing Crohn's disease, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Patients with Crohn’s disease who used a digital care coordination solution were more likely to stay out of the hospital, reducing the annual medical cost for each person by $6,500, according to new research.

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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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New telemedicine and monitoring systems give Cone Health ICU caregivers more views and data

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cone Health, a Greensboro, North Carolina-based multi-hospital health system with 150 locations, had a telemedicine system in place for more than 12 years. THE PROBLEM. This technology did not update to meet the needs of Cone’s tele-ICU unit and there was not readily available technical support when issues occurred. The old technology also required staff to access two separate systems for their workflow.

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Bavaria promotes telemedicine network for stroke prevention

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than €250,000 will be put into the telehealth project "TeleSchwindelTriage" from Bavaria over the next two and a half years, Bavaria's health minister Melanie Huml announced in Munich at the beginning of May, to help detect strokes early on. The telemedicine network in Bavaria is supported and promoted by the health ministry and the German Foundation for Neurology.

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Health insurance deductibles up 150% over last decade: analysis

FierceHealthIT

Health insurance deductibles continue to rise and are up 150% from 2009, according to a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Healthcare looks to other industries for patient engagement help

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Healthcare looks to other industries for patient engagement help Featured Decision Content:

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CMS announces delay of CAR T-cell national coverage determination

FierceHealthIT

On Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a delay in its final national coverage determination for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, in which oncologists use a patient’s own immune system to attack a tumor.

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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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SDoH Screenings Must Be Tailored to Individual Clinic, BU Research Finds

MedTech Boston

Social determinants of health screenings and referrals can increase physician awareness of health risk prevalence. But to be most. The post SDoH Screenings Must Be Tailored to Individual Clinic, BU Research Finds appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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CNBC: Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Hathaway healthcare partnership loses top executive

FierceHealthIT

Haven—the healthcare venture created by Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway—has lost one of its top executives.

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CMS cements EHR provisions in drug price rule

Morning eHealth

UPMC spins out telemedicine company — California bill bolstering rights under CCPA dies

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Ransomware Attacks

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Ransomware Attacks Increase 195% in Q1 2019 Ransomware attacks continue to be the cause of major data breaches. Healthcare in particular is at a heightened risk. A report was recently released detailing the impact of ransomware attacks, which found … Read more. The post Ransomware Attacks appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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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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Qlik #Qonnections – CIO Point of View

David Chou

Big Announcements Qlik SaaS and Multi-cloud offering. Attunity acquisition and platform integration. Healthcare CIO Point of View When we think of Qlik, it is still a BI platform while the company’s strategy is to transform Qlik to be a data platform. I like the Attunity acquisition because the challenge for every organization’s data transformation is the data integration effort.

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Decluttering Works for Healthcare Meetings as Well!

HealthStream

Think about what you can do to clear meeting clutter. It not only saves some trees, but helps to make meetings, like those of a Credentials Committee, much more productive.

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Weekender 5/17/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. A large survey of clinicians finds that the #1 predictor of positive EHR experience is training, with EHR personalization also being a major contributor. Cerner will connect its systems to state prescription drug monitoring databases via DrFirst. AliveCor earns FDA clearance for its consumer device that offers a six-lead ECG and expanded arrhythmia detection.

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