Wed.Jun 12, 2019

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CVS Health kicks off digital health-friendly service for PBM clients with Big Health’s Sleepio

Mobi Health News

The announcement is yet another milestone on the road to adoption and reimbursement of digital therapies, Big Health CEO Peter Hames said.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance. Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services.

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Study: Combination of self-monitoring blood glucose device & DTx improve patient outcomes

Mobi Health News

At the 79th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association in San Francisco, pharma giant Roche and India-based digital therapeutics company Wellthy Therapeutics presented real world data of improved diabetes care outcomes in a South Asian population when patients followed prescribed plan of medication and lifestyle modification in conjunction with a combination therapy of self-monitoring blood glucose device and a clinically validated digital therapeutic (DTx).

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Has Technology Finally Caught Up With The Industry’s Duplicate Records Problem?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Randy Jones, business development, ARGO. The healthcare industry has a dupe problem. Today, on average, providers are seeing almost one in five of their patients’ records contain duplicates (meaning that two or more records are in existence with a variation of a patient’s name), according to a report by Black Book.

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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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Poland’s StethoMe, Germany’s Thryve selected as winners of the EC2VC pitch competition

Mobi Health News

The EC2VC pitch competition saw startups and SMEs pitch their solutions in front of a jury of digital health investors from Europe and beyond.

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Respect, communication key in pharma, digital collaborations

Mobi Health News

At Health 2.0 Europe, pharma, patient, and academic representatives weighed in on challenges of working together.

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Healthcare organizations lack money, tools, talent to address biggest cybersecurity threats: survey

FierceHealthIT

Third-party vendor risk and medical devices are the biggest threats that keep healthcare IT security executives awake at night, according to a new survey. But action is lagging to actually address these threats.

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Gympass' fitness benefits platform barrels into unicorn status with $300M raise

Mobi Health News

Founded in 2012, the startup currently has more than 2,000 clients and is active across 14 countries.

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ORCHA provides health app awareness, access, trust

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Innovation Pulse Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: ORCHA provides health app awareness, access, trust Featured Decision Content:

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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 to create a data flow that is both actionable and ethical?

Mobi Health News

Consent- and trust-based services is what Europe could contribute to the global platform economy.

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How To Avoid Healthcare Data Hacking

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare data hacking has started occurring pretty often nowadays and most people are not even aware that their data has been stolen. Healthcare organizations are not built in a way they can identify illegal records; hence, they are unable to eliminate them.

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Facebook rolls out blood donations feature in five U.S. cities

FierceHealthIT

Facebook is launching a new feature, already available in four countries, in the U.S. market that will help coordinate blood donations. The tool will alert users in five cities when there is a blood donation shortage.

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Analysis: The Wearables Landscape and Projections of Future Wearable Development

MedTech Boston

Wearable medical devices and diagnostics in healthcare are quickly becoming increasingly common, with news articles frequently delving into new wearables and how. The post Analysis: The Wearables Landscape and Projections of Future Wearable Development appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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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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Lawmakers: If industry doesn't solve surprise bill problem, 'we will' and 'none of you will like it'

FierceHealthIT

Several lawmakers issues warnings Wednesday to industry leaders — including payers and hospitals — to figure out how they can stop patients from being stung by unexpectedly high medical bills before Congress has to step in.

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Telehealth and Underserved, Vulnerable Populations: Prisons, Schools, Military, Seniors

Enzyme Health

Learn the tremendous impact telemedicine is having on access to healthcare in correctional facilities, in schools, for the military, and for seniors. Besides simply delivering convenience, telehealth is helping to close the healthcare disparity gap in traditionally underserved and vulnerable patient populations. From cost and time-savings to greater access to care, telemedicine is helping bridge the gap between patients and providers that distance, economic status, and legal status may have prev

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OIG asks CMS to help improve reporting of abuse, neglect in nursing homes

FierceHealthIT

HHS recently released two documents that address the lack of reporting when it comes to incidents of abuse and neglect of Medicare beneficiaries in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).

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‘Telegenomics’ Startup Raises $23M in Series B Financing

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Genome Medical delivers on-demand access to genetic experts for virtual visits

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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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Legislators continue 'Medicare-for-All' debate at House hearing

FierceHealthIT

The political posturing in Congress over "Medicare for All" continued Wednesday at the latest hearing on the implications of a single-payer system.

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Group Proposes Ethical Code For Donating Medical Records To Science After Death

Healthcare IT Today

What rules should be in place to guide the donation of patient medical data after that person passes away? One group of ethicists and lawyers may have at least a partial answer to this question. The group, which met late last year at the Oxford Internet Institute, has created a proposed ethical code to tackle […].

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Oak Street Health opens 6th value-based care center in Michigan

FierceHealthIT

Oak Street Health announced the opening of its sixth center in Michigan this week to offer a more holistic approach to healthcare for the most vulnerable populations.

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HIStalk Interviews Gabriel Orthous, CIO, Central Georgia Health Network

HIStalk Interviews

Gabe Orthous is CIO of Central Georgia Health Network in Macon, GA. Tell me about yourself and your job. I’ve been in the business for 20 years. I started my career in revenue cycle, moved on to analytics and population health, and now we’re in the throes of value-based care and providing an understanding around the risk-based models that payers and CMS are presenting.

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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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Industry Voices—To ensure patient satisfaction, get the right person with the right skills into the right position

FierceHealthIT

As physician practices become more patient-centric, the “soft skills” of empathy and customer service, as well as a culture fit, are as important as technical and functional skills in an employee.

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Patient identifier and VA up today

Morning eHealth

AMA news — Research notes

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CMS approves Washington request for 'Netflix' model to pay for hepatitis C drugs

FierceHealthIT

CMS on Wednesday approved a request from Washington state to negotiate value-based drug rebate agreements with drug manufacturers in Medicaid.

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Managing Diabetes with Virtual Care

Synzi

The American Diabetes Association reports that 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year. In 2015, 9.4% of the US population had diabetes and 25.2% of Americans age 65 and older are estimated to have diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed). … Read More. The post Managing Diabetes with Virtual Care appeared first on Synzi.

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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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VA $16B EHR project moving forward without key governance leadership in place

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving forward with a $16 billion EHR project slated to go live at pilot sites in 10 months without key governance leadership in place.

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Featured Health IT Job: Epic ASAP Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic ASAP Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cumberland Consulting Group and is in the Southern US. Here’s a description of the position: Position Overview We […].

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Economists: Vertical mergers often pay off, but there should be more rigorous scrutiny 

FierceHealthIT

The merger between CVS Health and Aetna could pay off, but ensuring deals like this are effectively vetted is key, they said.

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