Wed.Apr 24, 2019

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5 Trends from the American Telemedicine Association Conference 2019

Enzyme Health

Didn’t make it to the ATA conference this year? Get a recap of the most noteworthy insights from this year’s discussions and learn what telehealth industry leaders have to say about the future of digital health. Last week, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) held its annual conference in New Orleans. The ATA is the world’s largest association dedicated to telehealth.

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Ten technologies that can help with fall detection in 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The more thin gs change… Who would have thought that fall detection would be added to a hearing aid ? Or that Apple would produce a watch with built-in fall detection, automatically activated for the 65+ ? A decade ago, before our very first Market Overview, Halo Monitoring launched a wearable fall detection chest strap , realizing the press-the-button PERS devices might not be enough to keep older adults safe – what if they weren’t wearing it?

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Reasons Why Cyberattacks In Healthcare Can Have Devastating Consequences

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Xu Zou, CEO and co-founder, Zingbox. Recent research was published by the Washington Post about malware that was created to disrupt medical imaging equipment and networks. This is yet another wake-up call for the healthcare industry that been underinvesting in security for the last decade.

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Oscar Health inks deal with Cardiogram to give members health detection technology

Mobi Health News

As part of the deal, Oscar Health members who are identified as high risk for diabetes or AFib will be offered confirmatory tests and be referred to an in-network provider.

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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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Americans’ Trust in U.S. Healthcare Lags Tech — and Women Are Particularly Cynical

Health Populi

The 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer measured the biggest gap in trust for the healthcare industry between the U.S. “informed public” and the mass population. Fewer American women, too, trust the healthcare industry than men do. “This inequality of trust may be reflective of the mass population continuing to feel left behind as compared to others, even as they recognize the advances that are being made that could benefit them.

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A Dose of Optimism Is a Prescription for Financial Health, Says Frost Bank

Health Populi

People define their personal health and well-being broadly, well beyond physical health. Mental wellness, physical appearance, social connections, and financial wellness all add into our self-health definitions. Mind Over Money is a consumer study conducted by Frost Bank, working with FleischmanHillard, connecting the dots between optimism and financial health.

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FDA clears Current Health's remote monitoring platform for home use

Mobi Health News

Recently deployed in US and UK hospitals, the company's upper-arm wearable and accompanying platform may now go home with the patient.

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Value-based care and rethinking the patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare leader representatives from Singapore, Australia and the Philippines took centre stage as the HIMSS Singapore eHealth & Health 2.0 Summit officially kicked off on April 23 with the CXO Panel session on the topic of disruptive innovation for value-based care. “Today’s healthcare model is based on ‘more is better’, but I think the healthcare model of tomorrow ought to be when ‘better is more’ When we look at that shift from the volume to value-dri

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Mint.com founder's new healthcare startup Vital nabs $5.2M to reinvent EHR experience

Mobi Health News

Aaron Patzer, the Mint.com founder who sold his company to Intuit for $170 million, is venturing into the healthcare space with Vital, a new company that launched out of stealth today with $5.2 million in funding and four hospital clients set to be announced in the coming weeks.

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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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Virtual Care For Chronic Disease Management

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. The statistics related to chronic disease management are staggering. According to the US National Center for Health Statistics, 40 percent of the US population have chronic conditions and almost one-third of this patient population has multiple chronic conditions.

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Google Fit comes to iPhones as standalone app

Mobi Health News

Set to launch today, the app will be able to pull activity data from Apple Watches and apps connected to Apple Health.

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FTC sues Surescripts, charges company with illegally monopolizing e-prescribing market

FierceHealthIT

The Federal Trade Commission is suing health IT company Surescripts, alleging that the company illegally monopolizes the e-prescribing market by imposing anticompetitive restraints on commerce, leading to higher prices and reduced consumer choice.

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Sleep diagnostic patch maker raises $9.3M Series A

Mobi Health News

Onera Health's home-use wearable hopes to become an alternative to the bulky sensors employed in clinics.

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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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Role of Technology In Improving Health Sector

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rosie Harman, content strategist, Visi One Click. Over the last few decades, we have seen exponential growth in technology. Hardware and software permeate the world around us. The world has become a smaller place with distances presenting less of an obstacle.

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Diplomat Pharmacy: Smart pill bottle added an extra medication fill per patient per year

Mobi Health News

The company will expand its partnership with medication adherence technology company AdhereTech.

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When a nurse dies after a patient attack, ZDoggMD says it's time for action

FierceHealthIT

Following the death of a Louisiana nurse who was attacked by a patient earlier this month, the doctor known as ZDoggMD has issued a call to action to end the violence against healthcare workers.

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London Ambulance Service staff to access patient information on the move

Mobi Health News

A pilot scheme allows medics to view summary care records remotely via iPads.

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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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Mint.com founder's new AI platform for emergency departments lands $5.2M in funding

FierceHealthIT

Ten years ago, Aaron Patzer sold his financial services startup Mint.com to Intuit for $170 million. Now the internet entrepreneur is getting into the healthcare space with an artificial intelligence-based software platform for emergency departments aimed at reducing wait times, identifying high-risk patients and improving efficiency.

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HIStalk Interviews David Wenger, CEO, Bridge Connector

HIStalk Interviews

David Wenger is founder and CEO of Bridge Connector of Nashville, TN. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’m the founder and CEO of Bridge Connector. Bridge Connector is an integration platform as a service with a data-driven workflow automation solution. It is focused on solving the business workflow aspect of healthcare and creating interoperability between systems and ease of communication without the need for code.

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Study: Medicaid expansion may reduce racial disparities in birth outcomes

FierceHealthIT

Researchers found a decrease in low birth weight and preterm births among black babies born in Medicaid expansion states.

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Payment season

Morning eHealth

Hearings and more from Congress — Pediatric EHRs in focus

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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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Two months after going private, Athenahealth trims workforce as part of reorganization

FierceHealthIT

Boston-based Athenahealth is laying off a portion of its workforce to “decrease bureaucracy and consolidate capabilities" as part of a reorganization just two months after the company was taken private by Veritas Capital.

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Employers Must Correct IRS Errors to Avoid ACA Penalties

ACA Times

3 minute read: . We are all human, including the people who work at the IRS. And like all of us, sometimes they make mistakes. The only difference is that errors made by the IRS can cost you money. If for some reason you received a Letter 226J penalty notice from the IRS for not complying with the Affordable Care Act, you will want to review the notice carefully.

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Ohio AG calls new PBM transparency law, saying state 'hired a fox to guard the henhouse'

FierceHealthIT

Ohio’s attorney general is continuing his war on PBMs, this time by proposing a multi-step plan to improve transparency and lower drug costs.

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The Impact of Social Media on Healthcare and Telemedicine

Carie Telehealth Insider

With the exponential development of technology in the modern world, there are few disciplines that social media has not presently influenced in some way. It comes as no surprise that social media has taken a chief role in the development of healthcare research, consumerism, and provision. The understanding of the impact of social media on all aspects of health and healthcare is paramount in the continual development of our health systems by providing the most comprehensive care to patients and i

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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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Current Health's AI wearable for keeping chronically ill patients out of the hospital gets FDA clearance

FierceHealthIT

A wearable device that uses artificial intelligence to remotely track and analyze multiple vital signs while worn by patients at home has been cleared by the FDA, the device’s maker, Current Health, announced today.

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What Are Some of the Typical Positions in Healthcare Compliance?

HealthStream

Compliance jobs exist across many industries, but job duties and responsibilities for them are remarkably similar, regardless of where you work. Here some of the typical positions representative of a healthcare compliance program.

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Healthcare mergers were down a bit in Q1. But watch for more partnerships, report says

FierceHealthIT

Kaufman Hall's Healthcare Merger & Acquisition Report for Q1 found mergers and acquisitions in healthcare dropped off slightly in the first quarter with 27 transactions compared to the 30 deals announced during the same period in 2018.

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