KevinMD
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
It has become more and more evident with time that the health care delivery system here in the United States is riddled with issues. One with many disagreements arising from the fact that there is no clear and universally acceptable solution to our problems. In many ways, the system seems to step on its own feet — as the health care professionals working within it fight to make it work.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Google AI has made a breakthrough: successfully predicting cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks and strokes simply from images of the retina, with no blood draws or other tests necessary.
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33 Charts - Digital Health
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Headed to SXSW 2018? I’ve done the heavy lifting by curating a super list of the best health care talks and events at SXSW interactive. Think of it as the ultimate guide for the health care power user. If you’ve not done Health SXSW you’re in for a treat. SXSW is the original anti-disciplinary conference. It brings together minds and ideas in ways that no other meeting does.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Researchers from Microsoft are aiming to transform the world of virtual reality from a primarily visual experience to a tactile and auditory one for people with visual impairments.
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FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
This year is shaping up to be an interesting one for health policy, and the Healthcare Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has outlined its priorities for the next several months. Focus areas for 2018 include continued work on interoperability and cybersecurity.
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FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
"Superusers," those costly patients who utilize high levels of hospital care, are a significant burden on the healthcare system. But a new study suggests that pairing them with community navigators can reduce their use of hospital services. Researchers in Tennessee found that the intervention reduced their healthcare encounters by 39%.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
OrCam, an Israeli company working on augmented reality for the blind and vision impaired, has raised $30.4 million. According to Reuters, which broke the news, the round included Israeli insurer Clal Insurance and investment group Meitav Dash.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied CareFirst’s appeal to review a case over a 2014 data breach that compromised the information of 1.1 million members. The Maryland insurer petitioned the high court to resolve questions of harm associated with a data breach after the D.C. Court of Appeals allowed a class-action lawsuit against CareFirst to proceed.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Roche’s Accu-Chek Connect Diabetes Management App has hit yet another snag with the FDA. On February 15, the agency issued a Class 2 Device Recall for certain software versions of the app due to a bug that could lead users to self-administer inappropriate doses of insulin.
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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
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The widespread misconduct toward and sexual harassment of women who work in hospitals and other healthcare settings has been such a longtime part of the culture of medicine that many say they either laugh it off or accept it as part of their jobs. But the #MeToo movement may soon hit healthcare, and women will come out in force to push back against the mistreatment.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The University of Pennsylvania's Penn Medicine has been an active player in the telehealth game for sometime with multiple telehealth units, but last week it went a step further to announce that it will be centralizing its telemedicine activities into the Penn Medicine Center for Connected Care.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Healthcare support employees often work behind the scenes to keep hospitals running, and at Boston Medical Center a key strategy in recruiting and retaining these workers is recognizing what they do. "In any business, especially healthcare, it's important to listen and recognize employees that work very hard for our patients," David Maffeo, the hospital's senior director of support services, tells FierceHealthcare.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Optra Health, which produces AI-driven iPhronesis analysis platform for healthcare and life sciences clients, today announced the launch of a new genetics-focused product specially designed for consumers, genetic counselors, and other genomics researchers.
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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
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Consumers use credit cards to pay for everything (including the kitchen sink), and the latest trend has people using medical credit cards to pay for healthcare services. But financial experts are warning practices about the pitfalls of promoting so-called medical credit cards to their patients, says the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
With so many innovative ideas circulating, conference attendees are hard-pressed to cover all of it. To help provide more knowledge in a shorter time span, the Innovation Live exhibit area will be hosting a new format. Lightning Sessions are 20-minute presentations that will cover some of the most pressing issues in the industry from using analytics in the real world to dealing with interoperability in the EHR workflow.
Morning eHealth
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Sniping on Tefca from all sides — Artificial Intelligence that fails to replicate
Telebehavioral Health Institute
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Medical Virtualists? Why Create More Telehealth Barriers to Entry? The history of healthcare is the history of specialization from barber-surgeon to thoracic surgeon, from phrenologist to neuropsychiatrist. As science advances, specialties are created. In a recent online article Nochomovits and … Read more. The post Medical Virtualists 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!
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Last fall, it looked like new government guidance settled the controversy over some health plans forcing physician practices to receive their payments electronically and pay fees on those transactions. But the guidance recently disappeared from the agency's website. MGMA's Robert Tennant tells FierceHealthcare the organization is paying attention and explains why the rights outlined in the document are so important.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
My name is Susan Baumgartner, and I am writing a nonfiction, guided journal for people like me who live with Type 1 diabetes. The book is tentatively titled Dear Warriors. (You can read an excerpt here.) I am a huge believer in the idea that “we are stronger together” and would love for my book to showcase that thought. How? By including art and illustrations created by those with Type 1 diabetes. sponsor.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
When I first started covering healthcare technology, the most pressing issue facing CIOs was purchasing and implementing EHR systems. Today, healthcare technology touches every part of the payer and provider ecosystem, and the job of the CIO has fundamentally changed. Starting this week, there will be changes to the FierceHealthIT newsletter (although on a much smaller scale).
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The following is an excerpt from Susan Baumgartner’s upcoming book, Diabetes Warriors, a guided journal for people with Type 1 diabetes. Red hazard plastic jugs. I never thought I’d have a deep relationship with these items. When I have a container to drop off at the pharmacy for disposal, it makes me feel I’m marked like Hester Prynne from The Scarlet Letter.
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.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
In a letter to lawmakers, CHIME officials said patient matching, telehealth reimbursement and integrating EHRs with PDMPs would establish a data-driven approach to the opioid epidemic. The group also echoed a suggestion from the Association for Behavioral Health and Wellness to align patient privacy laws that discourage data sharing.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
A key committee in the Virginia House of Delegates on Sunday proposed a two-year state budget that would expand Medicaid in the state, with a conservative twist; officials in Ohio say they plan to apply for waivers that would allow the state to stop requiring people to get insurance and to apply work requirements to its Medicaid program; and other news from around the web.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Mayo Clinic’s longtime president and CEO John Noseworthy, M.D., will retire at the end of 2018, and the world-renowned organization will soon begin a search for his replacement. The organization announced Noseworthy’s planned retirement along with its performance report for 2017, which leaders describe as one of its strongest years in terms of quality, safety, education and clinical practice.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
A proposed rule issued by three federal agencies on Tuesday would expand limits for short-term health insurance plans from three months to 12 months. CMS's Seema Verma dismissed concerns that the policy shift would destabilize the individual market by siphoning off healthy individuals, arguing the change will have "virtually no impact" on ACA premiums.
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FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Though President Donald Trump promised to support LGBT causes during the 2016 campaign, under his watch the Department of Health and Human Services had rolled back several initiatives aimed at protecting the rights of that population. New HHS Secretary Alex Azar could take the department in a different direction.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
Six prominent physician groups have called on President Donald Trump and Congress to take comprehensive action to help end gun violence following last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school. The medical associations issued a joint statement urging government action, including labeling gun violence a national public health epidemic.
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