Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2019

The Kaufmann Clinic, an internal medicine practice operating in Atlanta since 1954, has a very high volume of patients, limited in-office time and space and restricted patient availability. THE PROBLEM. Staff sought an alternative to meet patients' medical needs and concluded that telemedicine was the solution. PROPOSAL. The idea was to use the technology and services of ExamMed, a telemedicine vendor also in Atlanta, to see lower acuity patients virtually, which would enable staff to be mor

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2019

Consumers aged 65 years or older were also the most likely demographic to believe that their treatments aren't being optimized on a personal level.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

MAY 3, 2019

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a pilot in which an array of healthcare stakeholders will study the use of blockchain-enabled technology to track and verify specialty prescription drugs. This pilot will focus on intra-.

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KevinMD

MAY 3, 2019

During a recent walk at Crystal Cove, a splendid California State Park with miles of pristine coastline, I encountered two young women sitting on a bench with a magnificent view of the ocean. Yet their only view of interest was their cell phone screens. One of them lifted her head long enough to say, “Your […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2019

Right now, technology is diminishing clinician and patient experience. It could and should be improving them.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2019

Dive Capital and Colorado Impact Fund led the round, which brings the company's total funding to $26 million.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 3, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By John T. Hartigan, CEO, Intiva Health. One of the most antiquated processes in American healthcare is credentialing. It’s essentially been done the same way for decades and it’s extremely inefficient and costly. In addition to continuing education requirements and 8.7 hours a week of non-clinical paperwork, physicians spend over three hours submitting around 20 […].

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2019

Also: Microsoft and Imprivata developing healthcare access management platform; SyncThink pairs with QuesGen Systems.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 3, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. CPSI, a community healthcare solutions company, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Get Real Health. Based in Rockville, Maryland, Get Real Health delivers technology solutions to improve patient outcomes and engagement strategies with care providers.

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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 3, 2019

Fitbit sales are trending up, with a 10% year over year increase in revenue.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

A recent study found that drug prices averaged 3.2 to 4.1 times higher in the US than in the comparison countries, even after rebates were considered.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 3, 2019

Fibre optic internet for the NHS and a new unit for health innovation. Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock has announced this week that fibre optic broadband will be rolled out across all hospitals and GP practices in England in a new bid to improve access to digital services. "(.) We need clinicians and other healthcare professionals to feel confident they can access fast, reliable broadband so they can provide patients with the best possible care,” the secretary said in a statement.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

The digital and physical worlds are not just intersecting—they are merging. And it seems clear that there are few places where the implications of such convergence pose a greater risk than in the healthcare industry, where lives are literally on the line.

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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.

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

MAY 3, 2019

A team of researchers has analyzed the challenges facing the information system of the Indian Health Service, and proposed a set of principles and actions to move that system forward into the future

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

Using a $4.9 million state grant issued by the EMSA, California health information exchange Manifest MedEx is leading an initiative to facilitate better data exchange between ambulance service providers and hospitals to ensure first responders have relevant patient data when they are in the field.

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Morning eHealth

MAY 3, 2019

Cyber workforce executive order — Facebook’s privacy oversight talks

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

More than 500 drugs saw a price hike at the beginning of 2019, and prices were up by nearly 3%, according to a new report.

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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!

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TheraNest

MAY 3, 2019

Staying Safe and Relevant in 2019. This post has been authored by Tiffany Chhuom MSW, MPH, CDP-T, LSWAIC as part of our guest post series. Learn more about Tiffany at the bottom of this post. Hi there! My name is Tiffany Chhuom and I’m a therapist, researcher, and the owner of EthTech: a consulting firm on technology and ethics for mental health professionals.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

The Patient-Driven Payment Model is not just a payment shift; it requires a cultural change in care delivery, care delivery models and a clear understanding of how your technology will support your journey. By breaking your journey down into three key change management milestones, this transformation can be made approachable, effective and even a positive development for the overall vitality of your facility and the people you serve.

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Digital Health Today

MAY 3, 2019

The 4 main barriers to adoption of Digital Tools by clinicians, and what is being done about them. A few weeks ago, while attending the DTx West conference in California, I had the great pleasure of speaking with several industry leaders who have had a practice as clinicians in the past. They included doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and other health care professionals that have worked at the coal face of medicine.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

Cardinal Innovations Healthcare has reduced costs and improved member outcomes by focusing on housing.

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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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Lloyd Price

MAY 3, 2019

With so many commercialized algorithms on the market, many health systems have an important decision to make: Should they buy an artificial intelligence (AI) model or build their own? If a health system elects to build its own model, it has to invest time and manpower into it. But the benefits could be tremendous. The case for building a customized AI model is simple: Instead of the algorithm learning on national data, it is learning on the health system’s data, said Pamela Peele, Ph.D., chief a

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Christina's Considerations

MAY 3, 2019

This guest post comes straight from the Doctors Company and addresses the rising number of measles cases and the numerous patient safety issues created. New cases of measles (rubeola) continue to make national headlines. In 2018 and into 2019, hundreds.

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Insulin Nation

MAY 3, 2019

Introduction. Diabetes is such a difficult condition to manage. With changes in your food, variations in exercise, stress, illness and a myriad of other factors that seem to change at random, it can be overwhelming. The good news is that this is one area in which technology can really help. Advances in Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM), Insulin delivery systems and that holy-grail, the Artificial Pancreas can take away some of the challenges of managing all of these variables.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

Allscripts reported record bookings for the first quarter of 2019 of $286 million, up 9% from the first quarter in 2018, and earnings during the quarter beat Wall Street estimates. But the company fell short of revenue expectations with first-quarter revenue flat at $432 million.

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MAY 3, 2019

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 3, 2019

Many health plans still struggle with what and what not to do to connect with their members, especially traditionally hard-to-reach populations.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 3, 2019

Following an FBI raid that disrupted its operations, San Francisco-based lab-testing startup uBiome announced on Wednesday that co-founders and co-CEOs Jessica Richman and Zac Apte have been placed on administrative leave. The startup, which was founded in 2012 and ranked No. 50 on the most recent Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, appointed general counsel John Rakow as interim CEO. "We intend to cooperate fully with government authorities and private payors to

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