Mobi Health News
MAY 10, 2019
The digital health industry has much work to do when it comes to developing technologies for underserved populations, including people of color, the LGBTQ community and women.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Maria Redka, technology writer, MLSDev. Blockchain offers countless opportunities for growth and development of many industries. Sectors like finance, banking, government and public services, education and commerce have already taken the first steps at embracing this revolutionary technology.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 10, 2019
Lexington, Kentucky-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare is deploying new tele-ICU capabilities across all of its dozen hospitals in Kentucky and West Virginia. WHY IT MATTERS. Working in partnership with vendor Advanced ICU Care, which provides telemedicine technology and services, the health system kicked off the implementation this week at Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center in Kentucky, with 11 more locations set go go live by July.
Electronic Health Reporter
MAY 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. Your health is the most personal part of your life. Going into a doctor’s office or hospital makes a person feel vulnerable, even if they’re only there for a routine checkup. There’s an unspoken trust between patient and doctor that whatever is discussed or recorded will remain private.
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FierceHealthIT
MAY 10, 2019
About 9.4% of the U.S. population was uninsured in 2018, according to the National Center for Health Statistics’s (NCHS), 18.2 million fewer than in 2010.
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FierceHealthIT
MAY 10, 2019
Venture capitalists are showing an increased interest in startups providing direct-to-consumer medical services. Case in point, at-home health testing company and Apple Health partner LetsGetChecked recently secured $30 million in a series B funding round.
HAY on FHIR
MAY 10, 2019
I had an email from a company which had a number of really good questions about exposing data through FHIR, so I thought I’d write a post about it rather than just replying directly as it may be of interest to others (and also gives others the opportunity to disagree with me ). So the context is an organization that looks after patients in a ‘residential’ setting (kind of like a hospital) that is collecting healthcare information about its residents and wishes to share that information with othe
FierceHealthIT
MAY 10, 2019
Federal prosecutors this week charged a Chinese national and an unnamed accomplice with stealing personal information on nearly 80 million Americans in the historic 2015 hack of health insurer Anthem's network.
HealthStream
MAY 10, 2019
The opportunity to improve compensation and benefits by going to a job elsewhere is a powerful motivator, creating a serious challenge for healthcare employee retention.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 10, 2019
House appropriators on Thursday approved a spending bill that provides $1.6 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health record implementation, a significant increase from the current $1.1 billion funding level.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 10, 2019
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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
MAY 10, 2019
Response panel discusses where Epic and Jefferson will be in five years
FierceHealthIT
MAY 10, 2019
UnitedHealthcare piloted a program aimed at getting oncologists to prescribe more generics and the likely design mistakes in that program offer lessons to payers looking to undertake a similar endeavor.
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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.
Ortholive
MAY 10, 2019
Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), a subset of healthcare that includes nurse practitioners, has been increasingly called upon over the past few decades to extend healthcare beyond the primary care physician safety net. Nurse practitioners bridge a serious gap in services between a declining number of primary care providers and a growing elderly population that far exceeds the number of physicians available to treat them.
HealthStream
MAY 10, 2019
As we celebrate Nurses Week 2019, take a look at the facility’s training and continuing education platforms to see what’s working, what’s not and what’s missing to help nurses and all caregivers do their best work.
HIStalk Weekender
MAY 10, 2019
Weekly News Recap. DocuTAP and Practice Velocity merge. Harris Healthcare acquires Uniphy Health. The Chartis Group changes private equity owners. The Practice Fusion unit of Allscripts is served a criminal grand jury subpoena related to EHR certification and anti-kickback statute issues. Astria Health blames its EHR conversion and contracted RCM vendor for its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
MAY 10, 2019
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to dismiss lawsuits from insurers seeking more than $12 billion in risk corridor payments.
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