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Proteus' digital pill is now delivering chemotherapy

Mobi Health News

The sensor-embedded pill will be used to treat and monitor colorectal cancer patients receiving care at Fairview Health Services.

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Why It's Time to Embrace Telemedicine

eVisit

What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.

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Medical groups sign on to public ad campaign voicing opposition to Medicare drug proposal

FierceHealthIT

It’s not unusual for medical and patient advocacy groups to make their opposition known to government proposals they fear will hurt doctors and patients. But in the case of the Trump administration’s latest proposal aimed at tackling high prescription drug costs, they are taking their case directly to the public.

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Apple, J&J partner on multi-year study of Apple Watch's health features

Mobi Health News

The collaboration will investigate heart health outcomes and medication adherence among seniors, and is scheduled to begin in 2019.

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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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What Is the Patient Driven Payment Model: How Skilled Nursing Providers Can Get Ahead of PDPM

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Jayne Warwick, director of market insights, PointClickCare. The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is more than just a new name attached to Medicare payment reform. The shift from Resource Utilization Group (RUG) IV to PDPM moves the skilled nursing reimbursement model away from therapy provision as its main driver.

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2019 MedTech Predictions: Unlocking the Potential of Digital Health

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Amy Sklar, SVP of advanced manufacturing communities, UBM. As reported by Rock Health’s Midyear Funding Review, 2018 got off to a roaring start with $3.4 billion for digital health funding in the first six months of the year. All indicators point to continued momentum in 2019, as startups and veteran companies alike work to […].

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Google pays $40M to Fossil for mystery smartwatch tech, reportedly from Misfit

Mobi Health News

The deal includes undisclosed intellectual property as well as some R&D personnel.

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Children's Hospital Colorado and CareDox partner on in-school pediatric asthma management

FierceHealthIT

CareDox and Children's Hospital Colorado are betting on the increasing role of schools in healthcare by taking an in-school asthma management program nationwide. It could save lives and save the system a lot of money, they said.

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Livongo's new execs, Outcome's first chief compliance officer, and more digital health hires and departures

Mobi Health News

Also: 23andMe's global privacy officer departs for global law firm; Oscar Health hires IBM Watson Health's corporate communications head.

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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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Ten More Technology Offerings from CES 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

CES 2019 – Gone but certainly not forgotten. Multiple blog posts and articles have surfaced since CES 2019 – including some offerings that should be recapped here. No doubt they would have been viewed in person with more time and better tennis shoes at the Sands Convention Center. There was ANOTHER convention center (LVCC) and various hotel events that remained sight unseen.

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Continued Value of Observation in the Modern Age of Medicine

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The technology available to diagnose and treat a wide variety of illnesses and ailments continues to improve with every year. While these developments are undoubtedly contributing to increased rates of recovery and preferred patient outcomes, doctors and other medical professionals continue to rely on a relatively basic set of guiding principles when determining the probable […].

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Kate Milliken to Host HIMSS TV at HIMSS19

Mobi Health News

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Ten More Technology Offerings from CES 2019 -- Beyond Gadgets

Aging in Place Technology Watch

CES 2019 – Gone but certainly not forgotten. Multiple blog posts and articles have surfaced since CES 2019 – including some offerings that should be recapped here. No doubt they would have been viewed in person with more time and better tennis shoes at the Sands Convention Center. There was ANOTHER convention center (LVCC) and various hotel events that remained sight unseen.

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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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Healthcare data are plentiful now. Why isn't it easier for researchers to use it?

FierceHealthIT

With EHR adoption higher than ever, the data should be available to advance evidence-based medicine. But insufficient data standards and training are holding it back.

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Sponsored: Blockchain helping providers deliver high-quality care

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MedPAC recommends overhaul to Medicare's hospital quality programs 

FierceHealthIT

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on Thursday voted to approve a recommendation that Congress and CMS overhaul quality and value programs for hospitals.

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Sponsored: Alleviating physician burnout

Mobi Health News

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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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Yes, Screen your Children for Presymptomatic Diabetes!

Insulin Nation

We spoke with Marian Rewers, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine and Executive Director, Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His Autoimmunity Screening for Kids (ASK) program ( link ) is now screening Colorado children ages 1-17 for presymptomatic T1D and celiac disease. ASK is the first such screening program in the United States open to all children.

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Apple spreading deeper into Medicare Advantage

Morning eHealth

Verma’s extremely online price transparency push — Event dispatches

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Intermountain takes its challenge of False Claims Act to the Supreme Court

FierceHealthIT

The Salt Lake City-based health system has asked the court to review a decision by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, claiming the FCA violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.

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WSJ Article on MD Referrals & Leakage: Beware of Premature Conclusions

E-CareManagement

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently published an article entitled The Hidden System That Explains How Your Doctor Makes Referrals. The article discusses aspects of how physician referrals are made and how hospital systems are concerned about potential “leakage” of referrals to competitors. After reading the article, I suspect many readers would walk away with the impression that hospital systems strong-arm employed physicians into making referral decisions that are against patient

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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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Physician Practice Roundup—Lawsuits filed alleging a doctor gave near-death patients fatal pain drugs

FierceHealthIT

Lawsuits have been filed in the case of an Ohio doctor who allegedly gave potentially fatal doses of a painkiller to 27 patients in the Mount Carmel Health System and more news.

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Quick Chat On Blockchain With Beckers

David Chou

David Chou, chief information and digital officer at Children's Mercy Kansas City (Mo.) hospital, shares advice on blockchain and how health IT leaders at hospitals and health systems may see success with enterprise-wide adoption of the technology. Responses have been lightly edited for clarity and length. Question: Where is blockchain in healthcare now and how will it develop in 2019?

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Study: Shifting drugs from Medicare Part B to Part D could hit some beneficiaries where it hurts—their wallets 

FierceHealthIT

Moving pricey Medicare Part B drugs into Part D could bring down drug spending overall, but it may also hit the wallets of some beneficiaries harder, according to a new study.

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A Smarter Home for Healthy Living at CES 2019….and a nod to Microsoft

Health Populi

Health begins at home. I found evidence for that, beyond my own N of 1 understanding, in a research article published in the U K in 2000 by Lyn Harrison and Frances Heywood. Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted.

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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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CMS seeking feedback on ways to address ACA exchange ‘silver loading’

FierceHealthIT

CMS has unveiled a slew of policy tweaks aimed at the individual, small-group and large-group insurance markets, including a request for feedback on how it should handle “silver loading.

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Blood Pressure, Diabetes and Sleep Science : Three new areas of focus for Apple Health?

Lloyd Price

In Tim Cook’s comments on CNBC last week, he seemed to hint strongly that Apple will introduce new healthcare services or device features in the near to midterm. Here’s Cook’s quote: “On the healthcare, in particular, and sort of your well-being, this is an area that I believe, if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind,’ it will be about health… And as we’ve gotten into healthcare more and more through the Wat

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North Carolina's attorney general OKs HCA acquisition of Mission Health

FierceHealthIT

HCA's planned acquisition of Asheville, North Carolina-based Mission Health System cleared a major hurdle this week after North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein announced that he has no objections to the deal.

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