Fri.Jan 18, 2019

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How Google is quietly influencing medicine

KevinMD

With nearly 80 percent of internet users searching online for health-related information, it’s no wonder the catchphrase “Dr. Google” has caught on, to the delight of many searchers and the dismay of many real doctors. What’s received little attention from physicians or the public is the company’s quiet metamorphosis into a.Read more. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Can technology mitigate physician burnout?

Morning eHealth

Atul Gawande backs out of HIMSS — More Apple Watch news

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A Startup's Guide to HIMSS19

Mobi Health News

While the HIMSS Global Conference is often thought of as a health IT conference for physicians and CIOs, the annual event actually caters to a wide variety of stakeholders in healthcare including entrepreneurs, investors, informaticists, and a wide variety of clinicians and executives.

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In U.S. Health Care, It’s Still the Prices, Stupid – But Transparency and Consumer Behavior Aren’t Working As Planned

Health Populi

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks. We’ll start with the centerpiece that will provide the overall context for this post: that’s the ongoing research of Gerard Anderson and colleagues under the title, It’s Still

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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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Three 2019 trends presaged at JP Morgan week

Mobi Health News

Social determinants of health, platform plays, and big data were three standout trends.

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Limelight Health's employee benefit plan software brings in $33.5M from investors

Mobi Health News

Limelight’s cloud-based software looks to streamline quoting and underwriting for carriers handling employee benefit plans.

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Industry Voices—4 ways healthcare organizations can prepare for new maternal care designations

FierceHealthIT

Given greater media focus on maternal outcomes and more consumerism in healthcare generally, expectant families will carefully consider a hospital’s designation. Here's how healthcare organizations can best prepare for changing maternal level-of-care designations.

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Rucker, Siddiqui highlight government data sharing initiatives

Mobi Health News

Internal data sharing, an exchange framework for HIEs, and support for open APIs are all HHS priorities.

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Industry Voices—Executing on your patient satisfaction goals is within your power

FierceHealthIT

Improving patient satisfaction scores is a challenge that almost all healthcare facilities face. That challenge is made all the more frustrating since, by and large, hospital leaders actually know what is needed to improve their HCAHPS numbers. Here's what providers should consider to actually do those things that will improve their scores.

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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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How blockchain helps to ensure continuity of care

Mobi Health News

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CMS unveils new payment model aimed at bringing down Part D catastrophic coverage spending 

FierceHealthIT

CMS has unveiled a new payment model for Medicare Part D with the goal of bringing down high drug spending, especially in the catastrophic coverage phase of the benefit.

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Finding value in mHealth 2.0

Mobi Health News

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Marketing of prescription opioids correlated with rise of opioid prescribing, study finds

FierceHealthIT

As direct-to-physician marketing of opioid products increases, opioid prescribing rises along with it, according to a JAMA Network study. While the researchers didn't find a statistically significant correlation between marketing and opioid overdoses, they suggested it could nevertheless have an effect.

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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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Comment on How would you like to change HIPAA? by David Harlow

Health Blawg

From Paul Dattoli: I agree with you. My expertise is in IT DR in Healthcare. If it weren’t for HIPAA and Hi-Tech, there is little doubt in my mind that most healthcare organizations would do little to nothing in this space. That would leave us more vulnerable and PHI would be an even easier target for criminals. HIPAA forces our healthcare organizations to be resilient with respect to IT wether they like it or not.

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Industry Voices—How data analytics can help physician practices transition to value-based care models

FierceHealthIT

In order to grapple with spending increases, the U.S. healthcare industry is transforming the way physicians are compensated to provide care to patients. Provider groups that embrace this shift now have an opportunity to gain meaningful first-mover advantages.

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Four Ways Telemedicine is Changing the Healthcare Paradigm

eVisit

Telemedicine is improving healthcare access for patients, patient interaction and patient outcomes. For healthcare professionals, telemedicine offers convenience, cost savings, and improved communication. Because of this, more and more healthcare organizations across the U.S. are incorporating telemedicine as part of their care continuum.

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CVS, Walmart make nice, reach new multi-year deal to keep retail giant in Caremark’s network 

FierceHealthIT

Just days after Walmart announced it would pull out of CVS Caremark’s network, the two sides have resolved their differences and reached a new contract agreement.

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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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Deploying Smart Automation to Re-engineer Leading Payer’s Collections, Enrollment, and Eligibility

Hinduja Global Solutions

Deploying Smart Automation to Re-engineer Leading Payer’s Collections, Enrollment, and Eligibility. CLIENT CHALLENGES . As one of the world’s largest healthcare payers, this HGS client works closely with service providers to develop innovative programs; help individuals and families improve their health, well-being, and sense of security; and lower medical costs. .

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MedPAC recommends Congress target rebate traps, biosimilars to bring down drug prices

FierceHealthIT

MedPAC issued draft policy recommendations on Friday aimed at controlling drug costs in Medicare Parts B and D. In addition to discussing new ideas, like lowering Part D coinsurance, the commissioners also touched on prior proposals that hadn't fully panned out—like biosimilar competition.

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HIPAA Release Forms

Telebehavioral Health Institute

HIPAA Release Forms for Behavioral Health Professionals Under HIPAA regulation health care professionals across all industries are responsible for obtaining HIPAA release forms from their patients. HIPAA release forms are documents that must be signed by patients before any of … Read more. The post HIPAA Release Forms appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Online Learning company Coursera launches 100 New Health Courses and Two Health Degrees

Lloyd Price

Coursera, an online learning company has announced the launch of their health vertical—a broad portfolio of health content from the world’s top universities curated specifically to help address the acute shortage of skilled workers in the health industry and meet the demands of a digital health economy. The 100 new courses, 30 new specializations, and two public health-focused master’s degrees will provide learners with the skills they need to enter high demand jobs, particularly related to Heal

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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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Payer Roundup—CMS approves Medicaid work requirements in Arizona 

FierceHealthIT

CMS has approved Arizona's waiver for work requirements, making it the eighth state to test them, plus more insurance news.

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Weekender 1/18/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap. Atul Gawande cancels his HIMSS19 keynote without explanation. 24 hospitals in Ontario invoke downtime procedures after a virus brings down their IT systems. TV stock pundit Jim Cramer urges Apple to acquire Epic to bolster its sagging business. Definitive Healthcare acquires HIMSS Analytics. PerfectServe acquires Telmediq. Cerner co-founder Cliff Illig retires from the company’s board, which along with Paul Gorup’s 2015 retirement and Neal Patterson’s 2017 death, leaves no fou

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Verily's research wearable lands FDA clearance for on-demand ECG

Mobi Health News

The Verily Study Watch is a prescription-only wearable that can record, store, transfer and display single-channel ECG rhythms.

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