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Ping An Good Doctor launches commercial operation of One-minute Clinics in China

Mobi Health News

Last year, Ping An Good Doctor, a one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform from China, piloted unstaffed clinics that employ artificial intelligence called “One-minute Clinics” in the Wuzhen Scenic Area outside of Shanghai, which connect patients with a clinician on Ping An Good Doctor’s in-house medical team.

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How Hackathons Help Solve Complex Problems – Faster

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Rahul Patel, EVP and general manager, Persistent Systems. One of America’s oldest toy companies, Hasbro, recently gathered 150 developers and created 45 products that would have cost billions of dollars in a traditional research setup. How did they do it? They held a hackathon. When a traditional toy company sees the rewards of hackathons, everybody […].

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Digital Health and Technological Promise: A Sociological Inquiry

Lloyd Price

What is ‘digital health’? And, what are its implications for medicine and healthcare, and for individual citizens and society? ‘Digital health’ is of growing interest to policymakers, clinicians, and businesses. It is underpinned by promise and optimism, with predictions that digital technologies and related innovations will soon ‘transform’ medicine and healthcare, and enable individuals to better manage their own health and risk and to receive a more ‘personalised’ treatment and care.

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CES 2019: Running list of health tech announcements

Mobi Health News

This is a running list of digital health products announced at CES. The list will be updated as the week goes on.

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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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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

Self-care is the new health care as patients, now consumers at greater financial risk for medical spending, are learning. At #CES2019, I’m on the lookout for digital technologies that can help people adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that can help consumers save money on medical care and enhance quality of life-years. This week’s heart-and-food tech announcements at #CES2019 coincide with an FDA recall on a popular drug prescribed to treat hypertension (high blood pressure).

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Patients love their providers. They are less thrilled about administrative staff, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

With patients more in charge of their healthcare decisions than ever before, health systems are increasingly trying to figure out how to treat them more like consumers. A new survey suggests that administrative and billing staff would be a good area of focus.

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UK researchers trial breath test device for cancer

Mobi Health News

Researchers in the UK have launched a clinical trial to see if a breath test device could detect the presence of cancer at an early stage. They aim to collect and analyse breath samples from 1,500 participants at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge over the next two years to see if odorous molecules called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be detected by using the Breath Biopsy technology of Cambridge-based Owlstone Medical, the company funding the trial.

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Study: Hospital readmissions reduction program success overstated by more than half

FierceHealthIT

A change in billing forms used by Medicare and introduced during the same time frame accounts for over half the reduction in risk-adjusted readmission rates previously attributed to the HRRP.

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NHS long-term plan: Key focus on improving digital access to services

Mobi Health News

New measures that will be published by NHS leaders later today could help save up to half a million more lives in England through a "renewed" focus on prevention, cutting edge treatments, and the use of new forms of technology, NHS England has said. The development of a long-term plan follows a five-year funding settlement unveiled by Prime Minister Theresa May last year, with the NHS set to receive increased funding of £20.5bn per year in real terms by 2023-24.

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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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Civica Rx adds 12 more health systems, including NYU Langone, Memorial Hermann 

FierceHealthIT

Civica Rx, the nonprofit generic drug company formed by some of the nation’s leading hospitals, has brought some more big names on board.

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EarlySense lands $39M in round led by Hill-Rom, Wells Fargo

Mobi Health News

Just last month Hill-Rom and EarlySense teamed up on a new hospital bed that uses the latter's contact free health monitoring.

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Bed Rails for Home Care

Christina's Considerations

Those recovering or being cared for at home after an injury, illness or surgery sometimes need a safety feature commonly found in hospitals, nursing homes and rehab facilities. That most common and effective (if actually used) safety measure has prevented.

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Babyscripts raises $6M strategic investment, aligns with Royal Philips

Mobi Health News

The virtual obstetrics platform anticipates the new funding and partnership as a means to expand its reach.

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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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This Stanford Children's Health executive was just named CIO of the Year by HIMSS, CHIME

FierceHealthIT

Ed Kopetsky turned a personal tragedy into a passion for helping fight the opioid epidemic. The Stanford Children's executive was just named CIO of the Year by HIMSS and CHIME.

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Medical communication company Medici acquires Texan telemedicine startup Chiron Health

Mobi Health News

The deal is set to integrate Chiron Health's video capabilies into Medici's platform.

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So, about this “big data” thing …

Society for Participatory Medicine

On Facebook last Friday our member Carla Berg Nelson posted briefly about a new Psychology Today blog post, Data: the New Window into Humanity , by John Nosta. She tagged a number of other members (and non). I know and respect Nosta from his days creating a LinkedIn Digital Health group with a zillion members, so I wasn’t surprised to see his perspective.

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NHS long-term plan: Secondary care providers to be "fully digitised" by 2024

Mobi Health News

Digitally-enabled care is expected to become a "mainstream part" of the NHS in England under a 10-year plan unveiled today.

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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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What does J.P. Morgan hold in store for J.P. Morgan/Amazon/Berkshire?

Morning eHealth

Federation of the Blind sues Epic — New Approps subcommittee chairs

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Why building a digital-ready workforce is crucial

Mobi Health News

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Op-Ed: Why Using eVisit will Strengthen Personal Relationships with your Patients

eVisit

Several years ago, I worked for a very busy primary care provider in our small community. Our practitioners were incredible: they cared, they knew their patients by name, they knew their families, and they knew what was going on in their lives.

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Clinician buy-in is needed for patient innovation

Mobi Health News

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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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Study: Individual mandate repeal may drive California's premiums up but is unlikely to destabilize markets

FierceHealthIT

The rollback of the individual mandate could drive up premiums in California’s insurance exchanges somewhat, but policy experts warn that the state represents a "best case scenario.

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Talking about the NIH “All of Us” Program with Dara Richardson-Heron MD, Chief Engagement Officer – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I recently spoke with Dara Richardson-Heron M.D. , chief engagement officer of the All of Us Research Program ( @AllofUsResearch ) at the National Institutes of Health. Dara is leading efforts to engage a million volunteers or more from diverse communities across the country in building one of the largest biomedical datasets in the world, and is seeking to reach out to populations historically underrepresented in research.

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FierceHealthcare's Fierce 15 of 2019

FierceHealthIT

Big and small, high-tech and not, we’re honoring this collection of companies across the U.S. that are trying to change the world by changing the healthcare industry.

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Talking about the NIH “All of Us” Program with Dara Richardson-Heron MD, Chief Engagement Officer – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I recently spoke with Dara Richardson-Heron M.D. , chief engagement officer of the All of Us Research Program ( @AllofUsResearch ) at the National Institutes of Health. Dara is leading efforts to engage a million volunteers or more from diverse communities across the country in building one of the largest biomedical datasets in the world, and is seeking to reach out to populations historically underrepresented in research.

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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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Healthcare Roundup—Ascension Texas to reopen shuttered Little River facilities

FierceHealthIT

Ascension has acquired providers and clinics associated with Little River Healthcare, which shuttered its locations in December, plus more healthcare headlines.

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Talking about the NIH “All of Us” Program with Dara Richardson-Heron MD, Chief Engagement Officer – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

I recently spoke with Dara Richardson-Heron M.D. , chief engagement officer of the All of Us Research Program ( @AllofUsResearch ) at the National Institutes of Health. Dara is leading efforts to engage a million volunteers or more from diverse communities across the country in building one of the largest biomedical datasets in the world, and is seeking to reach out to populations historically underrepresented in research.

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Payer Roundup—Catholic Health Initiatives to sell Arkansas insurance plan to Centene

FierceHealthIT

St. Louis-based Centene has agreed to buy QualChoice Health Insurance and other payer headlines from around the web.

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