Wed.Nov 14, 2018

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China’s Ping An Good Doctor and Thailand’s BDMS sign MoU to meet demands of Chinese users

Mobi Health News

China's leading one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform, Ping An Good Doctor announced today the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bangkok Dusit Medical Service (BDMS), the largest healthcare network in Thailand. The two medical service giants will integrate and exchange their experienced medical resources online and offline, and provide one-stop healthcare services for millions of Chinese patients.

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The Most Useful Technological Advancements In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. It’s no secret that healthcare has greatly improved with the advent of technology. We all know the drill. The usual benefits that we’ve been able to derive from technology comes in the form of better data management, clearer communication, minimized margin of error, and the improved accuracy and efficiency of medical diagnoses.

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UnitedHealthcare offering Apple Watches to employee wellness plan members

Mobi Health News

First announced in March, the program allows participants to pay off the device's cost by meeting daily fitness goals.

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UnitedHealthcare adds Apple Watch to Motion program with option to 'walk it off'

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth is expanding a nearly three-year-old wellness program by giving out free Apple Watches and allowing members to pay off the cost of the devices by meeting structured walking goals. UnitedHealthcare's Paul Sterling tells FierceHealthcare expanded choices and tiered incentives have made the program a success.

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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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More than 100 digital health and care tools evaluated against key standards for NHS Apps Library

Mobi Health News

Approximately 120 apps are currently being evaluated by NHS Digital and two external assessors against key standards to be added to an NHS resource of trusted digital health and care tools for patients, citizens, healthcare professionals, and commissioners.

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DeepMind emphasises role of AI in detecting eye disease at HIMSS Impact18

Mobi Health News

One of the most popular keynotes at HIMSS’ annual Impact event in Potsdam, just outside Berlin, Germany last month was Dominic King’s AI-enabled healthcare: potential and challenges, which emphasised AI’s wide-ranging potential in revolutionising everything from imaging to oncology – underlining in particular its revolutionary potential for detecting eye conditions early.

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How Virtual Care Can Address Healthcare Workforce Shortages

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. Population growth and aging continue to be the primary driver of increasing demand for healthcare services. According to a March 2018 study by the Association of American Medical College, between 2016 and 2030 the U.S. population is projected to grow by close to 11 percent, from about 324 million to […].

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HIMSS Analytics looks at top health IT priorities in Europe

Mobi Health News

Hospital IT executives in Europe share many of the same priorities and face many similar challenges as CIOs in other regions of the globe, including the United States, according to the HIMSS Analytics Annual European eHealth Survey 2018 released on Wednesday. Among them: empowering patients, sharing health information, protecting sensitive data and managing the growing need for a deeper talent pool.

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Why HHS wants Medicare Advantage plans to pay for home modifications, transportation for seniors

FierceHealthIT

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar also teased work by CMMI to pay for benefits like food and housing through Medicaid as he addressed a crowd in D.C. on Wednesday.

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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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DeepMind’s Streams team to join Google

Mobi Health News

The team behind the development of the Streams mobile app will be joining Google, DeepMind Health has confirmed, nearly a week after it was announced that Geisinger CEO Dr David Feinberg was taking on a new role to chart the tech giant’s healthcare strategy.

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Wanted: Clinicians to help Uber grow its healthcare platform

FierceHealthIT

Ride-hailing company Uber’s healthcare platform is less than a year old, and it’s seeking supporters within the industry to help it expand its reach.

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Robust infosec requires organizational investment

Mobi Health News

Christiana Care Health System CSIO Anahi Santiago says hospitals have to invest in security tools to stay ahead of cyberthreats. But she adds that it's just as important to focus on people and process as it is on technology.

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How to Keep Health Records in Proper Manner

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. During the busy work schedule while taking care of so many patients, keeping record of every patient can really be a daunting task. It can distract you from the real work for which you have been hired. However, keeping record of every patient is also equally important as you cannot afford to remember every detail […].

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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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AI holds great promise for visual fields like dermatology, but faces many challenges

Mobi Health News

Finding robust data sources, correcting for variations in images and avoiding bias are all hurdles to overcome.

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CMS approves value-based drug payments in Michigan's Medicaid program

FierceHealthIT

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow Michigan's Medicaid program to enter into outcomes-based drug payments with manufacturers. It's the second state to receive approval from the agency to move forward with such arrangements.

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Withings launches wearable heart rate, fitness tracker Pulse HR

Mobi Health News

The wearable will connect to the Health Mate app, which can give users insights about heart rate and sleep patterns.

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What’s happening today

Morning eHealth

Updates from AMA interim meeting — Biz watch

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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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Teladoc announces academic partnerships focused on virtual care-specific education, prescribing practices

Mobi Health News

One collaboration with Jefferson has launched a telehealth fellowship program, with another with USC and Northwestern kickstarts a five-year research study.

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Lawmakers grill VA officials on higher costs of EHR overhaul

FierceHealthIT

Members of a House committee overseeing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ massive EHR overhaul questioned agency leaders on Wednesday about new program costs that have added $350 million to the budget.

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Virta Health announces risk-based pricing for controversial diabetes management platform

Mobi Health News

Virta Health claims to reverse Type 2 diabetes by combining a digital intervention with a ketogenic diet.

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Dyson set to lead the HealthTech market with Wearable Air Purifiers by 2025

Lloyd Price

Dyson has filed a patent for an interesting new wearable gadget and some are predicting it will become the next big trend in health tech. Dyson is known for its powerful vacuum cleaners and, more recently, its air purification technology and apparently the company has aspirations to weave that technological prowess into a wearable device that doubles as a pair of headphones.

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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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Ava expands into Asia with new Hong Kong office

Mobi Health News

Ava, a medical technology company focused on innovations in women's reproductive health, yesterday announced their expansion into Asia with the launch of an office in Hong Kong. The company has also unveiled an improved and updated version of its popular Ava fertility tracker, along with a host of new premium services available to US users, including a one-year pregnancy guarantee and access to one-on-one fertility coaching.

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New NEJM series encourages doctors to take on the 'structural determinants' of health

FierceHealthIT

Taking on social, political, and economic issues within the patient context seems daunting to many physicians, but this new series explains how to "diagnose" and respond to these forces using case studies.

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FDA authorizes digital Ebola test for emergency use, data on Omada's diabetes prevention program, and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: L’Oréal unveils UV sensor clip, companion app; Urinary incontinence wearable receives De Novo clearance.

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Want to speed adoption of new evidence-based care guidelines? Try getting insurers and providers to work together

FierceHealthIT

Better collaboration between insurers and healthcare providers could help accelerate the use of evidence-based care, according to a new report from the Alliance of Community Health Plans.

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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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5 Ways Healthcare IoT & Remote Patient Monitoring Are Transforming Care Delivery

care innovations

Offering ever-greater levels of interconnectivity and data sharing, along with the operational advantages that go along with them, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a pervasive force in business. As a means to connect any person with any device in virtually any location, it’s a particularly resonant concept for medicine, with healthcare IoT evolving almost hand-in-hand with remote patient monitoring (RPM) to transform the very concept of care.

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CMS appeals Medicare Advantage overpayment ruling

FierceHealthIT

A nuanced legal battle over Medicare Advantage overpayments rages on. CMS will appeal a September ruling invalidating a 2014 rule with huge implications for insurers, including UnitedHealth.

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ACA Compliance Doesn’t Have to Burden HR Staff

ACA Times

5 minute read: Human Resources staff have a difficult job. They help keep their organizations running smoothly by ensuring, to the greatest degree possible, that the employer is in compliance with workplace related laws as well as addressing employee personnel issues. As we all know, it’s not an easy task. And the rise of data analytics and continuing regulatory changes affecting the workplace make the job even more challenging.

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