Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2018

The U.S. spent nearly twice as much as other wealthy countries on healthcare, mostly due to higher prices for both labor and products (especially prescription drugs). And, America spends more on administrative costs compared to other high-income countries. What do U.S. taxpayers get in return for that spending? Lower life spans, higher maternal and infant mortality, and the highest level of obesity and overweight among our OECD peer nations.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2018

Apple has risen to the top of the competitive global wearables market, according to an IDC report that came out at the beginning of this month. Meanwhile the overall growth of the space has slowed as control of the market consolidates among big players.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

There’s been no slowdown in the trend toward physician employment, as new data shows that hospitals acquired 5,000 independent physician practices in a 12-month period. Those practices were bought up by hospitals between July 2015 and July 2016, according to data released by the Physicians Advocacy Institute.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2018

Opternative, a Chicago-based purveyor of online and mobile refractive eye exams, received a warning letter from the FDA last fall. The October 30 warning letter was only recently made public by the agency.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

A group of senators are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to take action that improves Health Net's interactions with providers in the Veterans Choice program. They said providers can face hourslong waits to get Health Net on the phone, and they're often behind on reimbursements.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

What's in a hospital meal? Depends on where it's served. In the United States, it might include chicken pot pie and a chocolate chip cookie. In Russia, buckwheat pudding and cottage cheese are on the menu. A new campaign explores how meals around the globe look (literally) based on different countries' nutritional guidelines.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2018

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of scandal-ridden startup Theranos, with “massive fraud.” Along with former Theranos President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, Holmes has been charged with raising over $700 million from investors “through an elaborate, years-long fraud in which they exaggerated or made false statements about the company’s technology, business, and financial performance.

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Mobile Health Matters

MARCH 15, 2018

Science and medicine continue to advance at an astonishing rate thanks to technological innovation. We have already seen digital health solutions that promise to transform patient care in our lifetime. While these advancements are indeed groundbreaking for the healthcare industry, there are still basic day-to-day care processes in hospitals across the country ripe for improvement by applying technology.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2018

Fitbit’s latest board member is Matthew Bromberg, COO of mobile and social media videogame company Zynga and former executive at games publisher Electronic Arts. Fitbit will be leveraging Bromberg’s entertainment background as it looks to increase consumer engagement across its devices, according to the company.

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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

MARCH 15, 2018

A federal judge in Connecticut ruled this week that a class-action lawsuit alleging Cigna artificially inflated drug prices can move forward to the discovery phase. The ruling comes as one lawmaker calls for a closer look at Cigna's $67 billion acquisition of Express Scripts, which would give the insurer control of the country's largest pharmacy benefits manager.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2018

Blink Health, which makes an app and online tool for helping consumers find low prices on medications, is suing competitor Hippo Technologies for up to $250 million, alleging a “copycat” scheme. The lawsuit claims that Hippo, which was founded by former Blink employees, obtained trade secrets, participated in unfair competition, took part in tortious interference with contract and business retaliation.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

Most of the country’s community health centers can't take on significant numbers of new patients and can’t be counted on to provide a safety net if Planned Parenthood loses funding, a new study found. A new national survey found that few community health centers say they can handle a large increase in patients, which could leave many women without family planning services.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 15, 2018

New York-based Parachute Health — a startup looking to digitize the ordering of durable medical equipment (DME) and other critical medical equipment for patients leaving the hospital — told MobiHealthNews that it has secured $5.5 million in seed funding over the past few months.

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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

MARCH 15, 2018

A bipartisan caucus launched by four U.S. representatives will support legislation that helps generate innovative, value-driven healthcare policies. Their push has drawn support from a diverse collaboration of healthcare stakeholders.

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

MARCH 15, 2018

Adults with congenital heart disease have one thing in common: loss to follow up. Across the world, children born with congenital heart diagnoses often stop engaging with the medical system when they graduate from high school. A lack of understanding of the need for lifelong care, no longer having parents insist on appointments, a fear of learning that something new is wrong, and just the business of life: education, work, family are all touted as potential drivers of this precipitous drop-o

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission shied away from recommending policymakers expand telehealth coverage for specific services and instead urged CMS to evaluate cost, access and quality by launching pilot projects through CMMI.

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Morning eHealth

MARCH 15, 2018

Shulkin safe?

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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

MARCH 15, 2018

With more startups entering the healthcare industry, executives need to understand the impact of fraud and abuse laws that can lead to civil and criminal penalties, two federal prosecutors told audience members at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas, including one DOJ attorney that led the eClinicalWorks investigation.

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Medical Mime - EHR

MARCH 15, 2018

At the beginning of last week’s HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas I attended the symposium on Digital & Personal Connected Health. One of the speakers, David Asch from the Penn Medicine Center for Health Care, reported on innovations in Digital Health driven by behavioral economics. Adoption of and engagement with new technologies in healthcare is often lagging behind other industries.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

Responding to continuing complaints that its Medicare physician payment system is too complicated, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to make further changes this year. One of those changes would ease the reporting burden for hospital-employed physicians under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, according to CMS’ Chief Medical Officer Kate Goodrich, M.D.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

Employers in the U.S. lose as much as $1.2 trillion every year to lost productivity from disengaged employees. And in healthcare, rampant industry change and a tight job market put a premium on keeping employees productive and happy. That may require healthcare leaders to shift tactics to better support their employees’ career growth.

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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

MARCH 15, 2018

Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic took the top three spots in the categories of innovation, quality of care and thought leadership, in a follow-up report on hospital brand equity among healthcare leaders. The organizations also scored highest in brand recognition.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

A misconfigured server at St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare left patient data exposed for more than eight months; a surprising cause of diagnostic error in the care continuum; mothers in the nation’s capitol are twice as likely to die because of pregnancy than the average American woman and more hospital news from around the web.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has launched a new initiative aimed at social determinants of health. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Institute will work with business partners like CVS Health, Walgreens and Lyft to break down access barriers and improve outcomes.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

Alex Azar, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, went before Congress to once again defend the Trump administration's 2019 budget for the agency. Representatives from both sides of the aisle praised the focus on the opioid epidemic, while raising concerns about cuts to groups such as NIH and CDC.

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2018

Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander and Susan Collins have crafted legislation to shore up the Affordable Care Act's exchanges that would fund cost-sharing reduction payments and reinsurance, but the plan doesn't solve a partisan conflict over abortion provisions.

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