Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2018

As the nation battles an obesity epidemic that adds $$ costs to U.S. national health spending, there are many opportunities to address this impactful social determinant of health to reduce health spending per person and to drive public and individual health. In this post, I examine a few very current events in the food-as-medicine marketspace. Big Food as an industry gets a bad rap, as Big Tobacco and Big Oil have had.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 16, 2018

Less than two years after Nokia ventured into digital health territory with its acquisition of French health tech company Withings, the Finnish company could be on the verge of selling off its digital health division, according to reports from a French publication, Les Echos.

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2018

Walmart has been a health/care destination for many years. The company that defined Big Box stores in their infancy grew in healthcare, health and wellness over the past two decades, pioneering the $4 generic prescription back in 2006. Today, that low-cost generic Rx is ubiquitous in the retail pharmacy. A decade later, can Walmart re-imagine primary care the way the company did low-cost medicines?

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 16, 2018

Digital physiotherapy company Sword Health has brought in $4.6 million in a seed funding round led by Green Innovation, Vesalius Biocapital III, and other unnamed US and European investors.

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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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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

Improving patient record matching could save hospitals a lot of money, according to a new survey. Denied claims tied to inaccurate patient identification cost the average hospital $1.5 million and the U.S. healthcare system over $6 billion annually.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

Healthcare apps play a prominent role in a rapidly evolving mobile app industry, according to a new report that shows mobile apps have grown into a $950 billion ecosystem. The report, which spans multiple industries, highlights several efforts to expand telehealth and improve data sharing.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 16, 2018

New York-based in-home senior care technology company Hometeam is shedding two of its top executives as it shifts from a consumer payment-focused business model to one accommodating reimbursement from payers.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

Taxes are due April 17, and according to a new report, many Americans will put their refunds toward healthcare costs. Out-of-pocket healthcare spending jumps 60% during the week when a tax refund payment is received, according a report from JP Morgan Chase Institute.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 16, 2018

Chicago-based Level Ex has received an undisclosed investment from OSF Ventures, the investment arm of Peoria, Illinois-based 13-hospital system OSF HealthCare.

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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

APRIL 16, 2018

Physicians who specialize in infectious diseases play an important role in healthcare, but their compensation doesn’t match their value, according to a new report. While they help manage disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance, these physicians’ salaries rank towards the bottom when compared to other physicians, a survey by the Infectious Diseases Society of America found.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 16, 2018

In a cohort of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an online lifestyle modification-focused intervention was similarly effective to a group-based program in achieving weight loss and liver enzyme normalization, according to data from an Italian study recently presented at The International Liver Congress in Paris.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

A major health insurer isn't waiting for the Medicare agency to show its hand on how it will address the move toward value-based payments. Humana's expansion of a bundled payment model follows other steps taken by the private market to shift away from fee-for-service.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 16, 2018

Carol Brunzell, RDN, LD, CDE , has traveled around the world to share her knowledge on diabetes management and nutrition in different communities. The past few years, she’s taken her pediatric endocrine team to East Africa to train health care professionals who work with children with Type 1 diabetes. Because of these experiences and observations gleaned from working with immigrant communities here in the United States, she’s come to appreciate the critical need for culturally relevant education

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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.

FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

Around the country, concerns are being raised about the need to protect patients from the bad behavior of doctors. But in a move that bucks that trend, Louisiana lawmakers are considering changes that would protect doctors facing allegations of misconduct. Proposed bills in Louisiana would create new protections for doctors accused of wrongdoing and facing action by the state’s licensing board.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 16, 2018

I just became aware of a Whitepaper published by IHE Europe in January on " IHE perspective on EU GDPR ". I did not have a hand in writing this whitepaper. It looks good to me. My evaluation only on the Security & Privacy capabilities IHE offers, not on GDPR interpretation. All of the IHE profiles available to support security and privacy are outlined on this IHE page.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

NYC Health + Hospitals recently launched a program to provide telehealth services to female prisoners on Rikers Island, expanding a service aimed at reducing the costs and disruption associated with transporting prisoners to a medical facility.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

Sale ends on Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 11:59 pm (Pacific). Not valid for other TBHI services or training, previous purchases, or when combined with other discounts. Choose Your Telebehavioral / Telemental Health Certificate Option Below to Save up to $516 Today Choose … Read more. The post Spring Sale! appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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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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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

Quality measures used in bundled payment programs don't provide the full picture of the care experience, experts say. A framework for measuring these payment models should better account for cost and the necessity of treatment.

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mHealth Insight

APRIL 16, 2018

In a rather bizarre turn around just when the US is just waking up to the huge privacy implications of sharing their sensitive medical information with companies like Facebook & Google (who then seemingly think it’s perfectly ok to sell it onto any advertisers who pay them) the American Medical Association has “announced the AMA Health Care Interoperability and Innovation Challenge sponsored by Google to inspire novel examples of mobile health technology—such as wearable devices

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

Improving patients' access to care is more than just a public health imperative—it should be an economic one, too. That's one of the reasons Dignity Health has focused on investing in innovations that can address this issue, says the system's chief financial officer, Dan Morissette.

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mHealth Insight

APRIL 16, 2018

“The Home Office is displaying a blatant disregard for the trusted and vital GP-patient relationship, and its casual approach to confidential patient data risks alienating highly vulnerable patients… …It is treating GP patient data like the Yellow Pages, and we are calling on NHS Digital to take urgent measures to suspend the agreement that is allowing them to do so… …The scale of the examples we’re hearing about are becoming increasingly alarming – and if all are true

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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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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

The Department of Veterans Affairs has outlined the steps it plans to take to address the Government Accountability Office's concerns about its healthcare system. The agency has been on the GAO's "high-risk list" since 2015.

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Morning eHealth

APRIL 16, 2018

athenahealth, Epic set to work on prior approvals — Another push for expanding telecare

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

Blue states are fighting back against the Republican-controlled federal government's attempts to dismantle the ACA and are implementing their own policy overhauls. New Jersey is paving the way for a new state individual mandate, while Maryland is investing in state marketplaces.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 16, 2018

The Trump Administration’s removal of LGBT health information from HHS websites has drawn fire from a group of Democratic U.S. senators led by Dianne Feinstein, Tammy Baldwin and Patty Murray.

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