Wed.Nov 20, 2019

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VA announces regional availability of Podimetrics' diabetic foot ulcer detection platform

Mobi Health News

The technology proved its merit in a pilot that reported high detection rates and adherence, and is already in use at 15 VA medical centers.

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Survey Shows Consumers and Healthcare Professionals Worried About Fragmented and Costly Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Wolters Kluwer, Health released new data from a survey of nearly 2,000 consumers, hospital executives, doctors and nurses in the U.S. on attitudes surrounding breakdowns in care, how costs shape care decisions and the influence of a broad lack of transparency within the healthcare system.

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Propeller's pharmacy app now connects users to CVS, Walmart, Kroger, Rite Aid

Mobi Health News

Patients using Propeller Health's My Pharmacy feature will now be able to access the four retail giants' pharmacy services.

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Fixing Patient Access: EHR Embedded Chatbots Automate Patient Management

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chinmay Singh, co-founder and president, Asparia. Every medical group today is expected to demonstrate competence and results in population management. Increasingly, pay-for-performance contracts demand that groups utilize data, clinical coordination, and connected technology to improve patient care and patient outcomes.

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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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MeMD launches virtual men's, women's health service

Mobi Health News

The new services will address sexual health, skin conditions and hair loss.

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At Cigna, telehealth reduces patient costs and ER visits, and boosts use of generic Rx

Mobi Health News

In addition, Cigna’s telemedicine customers have given high patient satisfaction scores: a Net Promoter Score of 81.1 among those who use the service.

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Chronic Care Management 101: How Providers Can Make A Remarkable Difference

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. The provider community strives day and night to improve patient outcomes and contribute to the dream of value-based healthcare. However, the complexity of chronic diseases renders strategies ineffective and prevents them from reducing available utilization.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts adds Learn to Live

Mobi Health News

The web and mobile delivery technology provides self-directed information to help individuals with stress, depression, social anxiety, and insomnia.

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Kareo Sells Managed Billing Services Business

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Kareo, a provider of cloud-based clinical and business management software for independent medical practices and medical billing companies, announced the sale of its revenue cycle management (RCM) services business unit to an independent supplier of outsourced medical billing services, Health Prime International.

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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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Sanofi targets real-world evidence with Aetion, Mercy deploy's Bright.md's virtual care tool and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: ActiGraph integrates with Signant Health; AiCure's adherence tool supports Syneos Health's clinical trials.

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Google's Feinberg launches defense of Ascension data deal

FierceHealthIT

David Feinberg, M.D., head of Google Health, posted a blog post and video Tuesday to directly address growing concerns about the tech giant's data deal with Ascension. "We’re going to do it the absolute best way possible, we’re going to treat it with the respect that it deserves," Feinberg, formerly CEO of Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System, said in a video.

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Top Ways To Get The Senior Medical Supplies You Need

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The majority of seniors over the age of 65 (87%, in fact) report wanting to age in place as they get older. Do you have an elderly loved one who’s part of this group? If so, you may have concerns about them staying home, especially if they struggle with health problems.

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(Another) roadblock identified in VA, DOD transition to Cerner EHR

FierceHealthIT

One of the primary goals of the $10 billion project to move the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to a new health records system was to enable data sharing between the VA and the Department of Defense. According to testimony from VA officials Tuesday, the plan to have interoperability between the two agencies faces challenges due to laws and regulations over data governance.

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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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What NASA is taking away from the home healthcare industry

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: What NASA is taking away from the home healthcare industry Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Health plan premiums, deductibles account for an increasing piece of employee incomes: study

FierceHealthIT

Workers’ contributions to their health plan premiums and deductibles increased at a faster rate than wages over the past decade—with these costs accounting for an increasing share of income, according to a new study.

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Consumers Like Generating Health Data, But Are Careful of How They Share It

Healthcare IT Today

New research suggests that while consumers are continuing to expand their use of digital health technologies, they’re still careful about with whom they share their health data. It also exposes an unexpected trend in which younger consumers are less trusting about such sharing than older ones. The survey, which was backed by Rock Health and […].

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Insulin Pumps May Be Ticket to Better Cholesterol

Insulin Nation

Type 1 diabetics are at an increased rate of cardiovascular disease (CVD) with an estimated 44% of adult T1Ds dying from heart-related complications. As a diabetic, you have probably taken steps to reduce your risk of CVD by eating healthier, getting more exercise, and giving up habits like smoking. But a study recently published in Diabetic Medicine may have the T1D community adding another best practice to maintaining heart health.

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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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AMIA's big question: Where’s Google?

Morning eHealth

PCORI, privacy, telehealth: Congress watch — AMA advocates for transgender-friendly EHR

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Amazon Web Services Offers Subscription Access To Third-Party Data

Healthcare IT Today

Amazon Web Services has announced the launch of a new service designed to allow its customers – including healthcare organizations – to find, subscribe to and use third-party data. Healthcare members already involved with the new AWS Data Exchange include Change Healthcare, which processes and anonymizes more than 14 billion healthcare transactions and $1 trillion […].

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IRS Issues Draft 2019 ACA Forms 1094-C and 1095-C and Reporting Instructions

ACA Times

The IRS has released draft versions of Forms 1094-C and 1095-C, as well as the reporting instructions for the 2019 tax year, to be filed and furnished in 2020. You can find the draft 2019 filing instructions by clicking here. The draft 2019 versions of Form 1094-C and 1095-C are also available for download at the following links: 2019 Draft Form 1094-C. 2019 Draft Form 1095-C.

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Featured Health IT Job: Certified Epic Tapestry Provider Contracts Configuration

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Certified Epic Tapestry Provider Contracts Configuration position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by MMY Consulting and is a remote position. Here’s a description of the position: Certified Epic […].

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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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An Air Force Veteran’s Telemedicine Story

GlobalMed

At GlobalMed, veterans and telemedicine are almost inseparable. But while the benefits are well known – greater access to care and faster treatment, to name a few – nothing drives home virtual care’s value like a real-life story. Jared Lunstad served in the Air Force as an Airman First Class stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas, where he instructed other Airmen.

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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn: Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering

Society for Participatory Medicine

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn makes a compelling argument at how important it is to think about all aspects of health, not just the healthcare system in her most recent blog post: Social Determinants of Health – My Early Childhood Education and Recent Learnings, Shared at the HealthXL Global Gathering ( [link]. Here’s an excerpt: Health care access is a indeed a necessary part of this equation, but it’s not sufficient.

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Great American Smokeout Offers Perfect Opportunity to Kick the Habit

HealthStream

The Great American Smokeout is the American Cancer Society’s annual effort to help Americans stop smoking, and stay stopped, so they can live longer and healthier lives.

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At Cigna, telehealth reduces patient costs and ER visits, and boosts use of generic Rx

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As healthcare costs continue to rise, the employer clients of Cigna, a healthcare organization based in Bloomfield, Connecticut, continue to seek new care delivery options that will improve access and convenience while lowering costs. THE PROBLEM. One of the greatest cost drivers in Cigna’s healthcare system is emergency department visits. Many emergency room visits can be handled in less costly, more convenient ways, and providing the choice for virtual urgent care services is really impo

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Regulatory agenda lays out timetable for major rules on drug pricing, interoperability

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration estimates to release rules on drug prices and information blocking this month but punted finalizing a rule on interoperability until 2022.