Mobi Health News
MAY 8, 2019
While both approaches reduced participants' lower back pain, the company's exercise therapy app was significantly more effective in a direct comparison.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ryan VanDePutte, associate director, Bits In Glass. Patient-centric healthcare is a major buzzword today, and it aligns with an overarching trend that is taking place in our society: mass customization. Over the last two decades, we’ve seen tremendous technological advancements that have drastically changed the way that most all goods and services are delivered. […].
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Mobi Health News
MAY 8, 2019
A recent study published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine found that when digital tools were paired with a technique called computerized inhibitory control trainings, participants on average lost a greater percent of their bodyweight than their peers.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. LetsGetChecked, the direct-to-consumer at-home health testing platform increasing access to laboratory and self-testing, today announced the closing of $30 million in its Series B round. LTP, a Boston-based growth equity investment firm focused on healthcare IT, led the round.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 8, 2019
Also: Clarigent Health, Children's Home of Cincinnati launch app pilot; Demo version of ambulatory care app released for free.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 8, 2019
The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Uniphy's whole team is moving over and will maintain current customer relationships.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm focused on growth investing, has merged DocuTAP and Practice Velocity — two major contributors in the on-demand healthcare and urgent care space. The new organization will operate under the brand name Experity. “We thank all of our clients and partners for the overwhelming enthusiasm and support since announcing our intent […].
Mobi Health News
MAY 8, 2019
This latest raise brings the company's total funding to $8.4 million.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MedCrypt, a medical device cybersecurity software provider, announces a $5.3 million Series A funding round led by Section 32, with participation from Eniac Ventures and Y Combinator. MedCrypt was part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch. “Last October, the FDA released a major update to its premarket cybersecurity guidance for medical devices, publishing guidelines that […].
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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
MAY 8, 2019
Also: MDLive hires Mindy Heintskill as new chief marketing officer; OptimizeRx names Stephen Silvestro its first commercial officer.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
Senate HELP committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, is calling on HHS officials to consider delaying the implementation of two new interoperability rules, or at least taking a more phased-in approach, voicing concerns about the burden on providers and vendors as well as data privacy risks.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Being in a senior living community does not mean that you are going to live a sedentary life. As depicted by mainstream media, living in these communities entails sacrificing the things that you used to love. Physical activities are essential regardless of your age.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
Last month, Children's National Health System announced a partnership with healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson to open a 32,000-square-foot JLABS life sciences incubator there. CEO Kurt Newman, M.D., talks about research ambitions for the partnership.
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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.
Enzyme Health
MAY 8, 2019
Get familiar with four important telemedicine studies from the past few years, highlighting a diverse array of telemedicine applications, healthcare cost savings, and positive patient outcomes. Numerous studies have been conducted on telehealth programs attempting to identify the value to the healthcare system at large, value to patients, and most importantly, effect on patient outcomes.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
UnitedHealthcare has launched a new bundled payment program for maternity care and expects to roll it out to as many as 20 provider groups by the end of this year.
HAY on FHIR
MAY 8, 2019
At the recent Working Group Meeting in Montreal, I participated in the ‘v2 to FHIR’ stream – focused on how can the HL7 community give advice to implementers about converting v2 messages into FHIR bundles. Broadly there are 2 approaches to this conversion: The creation of a FHIR message bundle that mirrors the contents of the v2 message, and is intended to be an equivalent representation, behaving in the same way as v2 messages.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
The U.S. has become more prepared when it comes to managing health emergencies such as newly emerging infectious diseases, terrorism and extreme weather conditions.
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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!
HIStalk Interviews
MAY 8, 2019
Stephen Brown, MSW, LCSW is director of preventive emergency medicine at University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System. Tell me about yourself and your job. I’m director of preventive emergency medicine at University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System. I run the Better Health Through Housing program, which identifies the chronically homeless in our emergency department and transitions them into permanent supportive housing.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
Mobile prenatal care visits prove just as effective as in-person provider visits, according to a recent study published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.
Insulin Nation
MAY 8, 2019
We spoke with Daniel Blumer, CEO of MyGrams — [link] — about his food scale smartphone case and app. . “ I was diagnosed with T1D at 20 years ,” said Daniel Blumer, CEO. “ Even though you learn over time how many bread units and carbohydrates a food contains, this can become a major problem when trying new foods or eating out. MyGrams is a great help to anyone with diabetes. ”.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
Insurers offering individual market plans saw their best financial performance under the ACA in 2018, according to a new study.
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.
Morning eHealth
MAY 8, 2019
Notes on Approps — Congressional privacy developments
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
Practice Fusion, an electronic health records company now owned by Allscripts, received a grand jury subpoena as part of an ongoing government criminal investigation, as disclosed in a public filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week.
Ortholive
MAY 8, 2019
Small medical practices need to think carefully when considering a telemedicine platform. In past years the cost may have been prohibitive for smaller practices seeking a virtual option for their patients. Not anymore. Today telehealth is more affordable through the use of software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscription tools, like the OrthoLive application.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 8, 2019
Scan Health Plan CEO Chris Wing aligns his passion with Scan's mission to help keep seniors living independently.
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Optimum Healthcare IT
MAY 8, 2019
The increasing attention paid to Physician burnout, its causes, and possible remedies is the subject of numerous studies and articles. As a physician working in the Healthcare IT Consulting field for over 12 years, I have witnessed firsthand the growing epidemic of Physician burnout. The post Physician Burnout and An Argument for Ongoing Training appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.
HealthStream
MAY 8, 2019
Understanding the what, where, and why of coding audits provides a deeper understanding of what they are designed to do and the many benefits they offer to healthcare providers and systems.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
MAY 8, 2019
UCSF’s Julia Adler-Milstein, Ph.D.
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