Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2018
SleepScore Labs — a joint venture between ResMed, Dr. Oz Media, and Pegasus Capital Advisors best known for its contactless, bedside sleep quality measurement device — has launched a new offering that relies only on the user’s smartphone. The SleepScore App uses the phone’s speakers as a SONAR system by projecting inaudible soundwaves around the bedroom.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
When it comes to healthcare costs, lines that decline over time are generally seen as good news. That’s how media outlets will cover the top-line of PwC’s report Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2019. However, there are other forces underneath the stable-looking 6.0% medical trend growth projected for 2019 that will impact healthcare providers, insurers, and suppliers to the industry.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2018
A little bit of cash paired with a wearable activity tracker could be key in motivating people with ischemic heart disease to stay active. A recent study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found that participants who were given a $14 cash incentive to meet physical activity goals, that were tracked by a wearable, had significantly more steps than their counterparts who just had the device.
Health Populi
JUNE 13, 2018
Taking a page out of Hippocrates, “let food by thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” consumers are increasingly shopping for groceries with an appetite for health, found in research published this week by the International Food Information Center cleverly titled, An Appetite for Health. The top line: over two-thirds of older adults are managing more than one chronic condition and looking to nutrition to help manage disease.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2018
Paradromics, a San Jose, California-based startup that is working to create streaming capabilities between the brain and computers, has just landed $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Arkitekt Ventures and Synergy Ventures with participation from It-Farm, Dolby Ventures, Alpha Edison, Loup Ventures, and existing investor Fusion Fund.
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Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2018
Patients of doctors who participated in a Veteran Affairs-run telemedicine consultation program were 54 percent more likely to survive chronic liver disease than a matched cohort of patients of non-participating doctors, according to a new retrospective study from the University of Michigan.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
A study presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology meeting this week highlights special challenges faced by Critical Access Hospitals when it comes to infection control practices.
Mobi Health News
JUNE 13, 2018
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will reverse a longstanding unpopular position on reimbursement for smartphone-connected continuous glucose monitors, CMS announced yesterday.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
For the first time, representatives from each of the NIH institutes met this week at its campus in Bethesda, Maryland, to begin setting priorities and harmonizing children's health research across the federal portfolio.
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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
JUNE 13, 2018
Stockholm, Sweden-based telemedicine app company Kry announced this week that it has raised $66 million (53 million euros) in Series B funding. The round was led by Index Ventures, and also included the company’s existing investors Accel, Creandum, and Project A. According to a statement, the company will use the new funding to grow its staff, with the eventual goals of deepening market penetration, expanding medical offerings, and moving into new geographic markets such as the UK and France.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
Family physicians continue to be the most in-demand doctors, but there was a decided shift last year that saw an increasing demand for specialists.
Morning eHealth
JUNE 13, 2018
FDA releases draft patient-experience data guidance — Giroir sings tech’s praises
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
After an initial pilot showed a 30% jump in optimal medication adherence for cancer patients, CVS Health rolled out a secure messaging platform across its specialty division, with customized alerts on side effects and lab draws. “The current digital interaction wasn’t enough,” Surya Singh, CMO of Specialty for CVS Health told FierceHealthcare.
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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 Exchange Standards
JUNE 13, 2018
Those implementing or improving their XDS or XCA community are the intended audience of this Handbook. As a Handbook, it strives to inform on critical aspects of Metadata management. Please review and comment. Please forward to those with experience. IHE IT Infrastructure Handbook Published for Public Comment The IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Committee has published the following new handbook for public comment in the period from June 13 through July 13, 2018: Document Sharing Metadata - Rev.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
If stock prices are anything to consider, federal approval of a merger between AT&T and Time Warner certainly doesn't hurt CVS and Aetna's chances, industry experts tell FierceHealthcare.
Advanced Medical Reviews
JUNE 13, 2018
Blockchain dates back to the 2000s, but it only entered the mainstream in 2017. That year, it neared the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle, a visual index of how much attention emerging technologies garner for their business-level potential. By the end of 2017, the trading prices of prominent digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum (both of which are blockchain-based) had also reached all-time highs.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced it would postpone the planned July update to its Hospital Compare Star Ratings. The agency said the update will "give time for additional analysis of the impact of changes to some of the measures on the star ratings and to address stakeholder concerns.
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care innovations
JUNE 13, 2018
Charting telemedicine trends has become a cottage industry: Once considered a fringe aspect of healthcare, the development of telehealth services like remote patient management (RPM) is now closely watched by groups like Xtelligent Healthcare Media , which fills the (digital) pages of an entire suite of online publications like mHealthIntelligence , HealthITAnalytics , and many others.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
As precision medicine continues to evolve, collaboration between the health providers at its forefront will be crucial to success. That's why Thomas Brown, M.D., executive director of the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, said his organization jumped into a council convened by tech company Syapse.
Society for Participatory Medicine
JUNE 13, 2018
Email subscribers, I’m not sure the video below will come through to you – if it doesn’t, click the headline to come see it online. [link]. Last week at the sixth annual “Better Health” conference created by CT Partners for Health , SPM chair Dr. Danny Sands and I gave the fourth performance of our lecture on participatory medicine, using role plays of two of my appointments with him, one before the diagnosis and one after.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
The healthcare industry is shooting for the moon on cancer research and care, but experts say it will need to aim even higher on mental health.
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.
ACA Times
JUNE 13, 2018
4 minute read: It comes as no surprise that many organizations have had difficulty keeping up with the Affordable Care Act ( ACA ). Whether complying with the regulations under the employer mandate or making sense of the language on determining contributions for enrolled parties, the ACA can at times be difficult to comprehend. This holds true for some healthcare providers who felt that the ACA guidelines for out-of-network costs for coverage of emergency services were unclear.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
As many as 1,000 patients suffered harm from medical devices hit by a cybersecurity attack, and the CEO of Harvard Pilgrim abruptly resigned. Those, plus other healthcare headlines.
Christina's Considerations
JUNE 13, 2018
Traumatic experiences can occur at any point in life and in a variety of settings. Individuals who experiences the symptoms of PTSD should be assessed and, as needed, receive treatment such as, trauma-focused psychotherapy and/or medications to manage symptoms. This.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
Sexual harassment is a major problem for physicians and one that frequently goes unaddressed or is trivialized, according to a new survey. More than half (54%) of all physicians who reported harassment said their organizations either did nothing or trivialized the incident.
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Christina's Considerations
JUNE 13, 2018
Traumatic experiences can occur at any point in life and in a variety of settings. Individuals who experiences the symptoms of PTSD should be assessed and, as needed, receive treatment such as, trauma-focused psychotherapy and/or medications to manage symptoms. This.
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 13, 2018
Dignity Health says information for 56,000 patients was exposed earlier this year after a vendor's email list malfunctioned. And CMS is adjusting its coverage of continuous glucose monitors to allow patients to share data via smartphone.
Christina's Considerations
JUNE 13, 2018
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