Fri.Sep 25, 2020

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HIMSSCast: Apple's new sensor, digital therapeutics, and digital health diversity

Mobi Health News

MobiHealthNews editors share some highlights from last week's Apple Event, Digital Therapeutics East, and the Rock Health Summit.

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Healthcare’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020: Jvion

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Jvion helps healthcare systems prevent patient harm and associated costs by enabling clinical staff to focus attention, resources, and individualized interventions on patients whose outcomes can be improved. Jvion pinpoints the impactable patients who are […].

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ONC awards $2.7M in new funding for interoperability innovation initiatives

Mobi Health News

Chesapeake Regional Information System, MedStar Health Research Institute and other LEAP in Health IT awardees will launch new projects focused on use of FHIR and other exchange specs across a variety of use cases.

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ATA weighs in on proposed CMS Physician Fee Schedule rule

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association was among several groups this week that submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding the 2021 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule. The comments focused on three areas: expanding access to more telehealth services and providers, changes to remote patient monitoring services, and telehealth in federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics.

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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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'Smart cities' can improve individual and community-wide health, but pulling it off is no easy feat

Mobi Health News

At an upcoming Accelerate Health digital session, panel members will discuss the challenges of consumer adoption and cross-sector collaboration in the effort to implement connected communities.

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A new health IT discipline: Social informatics

Mobi Health News

Researchers at UCSF describe the emergence of a new field dedicated to better integrating and supporting the clinical use of social determinants of health data.

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Technologies of Future: Effect On Relationships and Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The future holds many changes in the form of growing technologies. Specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are poised to completely transform the way people do everything. Two of the areas of greatest […]. The article Technologies of Future: Effect On Relationships and Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mass General Brigham's Dr. Joe Kvedar explains why seniors are ripe for telehealth

Mobi Health News

Dr. Kvedar will be on a panel at Accelerate Health next week discussing the future of telemedicine.

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Healthcare Digital Transformation with Paddy Padmanabhan

Healthcare IT Today

One of the first healthcare books coming out during the pandemic is called Healthcare Digital Transformation: How Consumerism, Technology, and Pandemic are Accelerating the Future and is co-authored by Paddy Padmanabhan, CEO at Damo Consulting, and Ed Marx, Chief Digital Officer at Tech Mahindra Health and life Sciences and Former CIO at Cleveland Clinic.

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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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How UnitedHealth Group would chart a 'path forward' for health reform

FierceHealthIT

How UnitedHealth Group would chart a 'path forward' for health reform. pminemyer. Fri, 09/25/2020 - 11:43.

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COVID-19 accelerates Yale New Haven's telehealth plan

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: COVID-19 accelerates Yale New Haven's telehealth plan Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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HHS, FDA finalizes rule to enable states to re-import cheaper drugs from Canada

FierceHealthIT

HHS, FDA finalizes rule to enable states to re-import cheaper drugs from Canada. rking. Fri, 09/25/2020 - 11:51.

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KLAS: Organizations Still Struggling with Remote Patient Monitoring

Health System CIO

Not surprisingly, telehealth and remote patient monitoring were cited as the most significant technology challenges as organizations responded to Covid-19. But while many have gotten over the hurdles with telemedicine, RPM remains a sticking point, according to KLAS. Source: KLAS: Organizations Still Struggling with Remote Patient Monitoring on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs

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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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Reports: Blues plans agree to tentative $2.7B settlement in antitrust suit

FierceHealthIT

Reports: Blues plans agree to tentative $2.7B settlement in antitrust suit. pminemyer. Fri, 09/25/2020 - 15:39.

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Our COVID Times Cartoons – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone! Congratulations! You made it through another week. Now it’s time for a little fun to brighten your day. Today’s cartoons come from one of the best follows on Twitter, Eric Topol. His approach is amazing since he uses Twitter as his place to store all the information things he finds. We all […].

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles launches accelerator for pediatric digital health

FierceHealthIT

Children's Hospital Los Angeles launches accelerator for pediatric digital health. hlandi. Fri, 09/25/2020 - 12:27.

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Ways mHealth can help GPs manage Patient needs in a lockdown

mHealth Insight

This fascinating Twitter thread by NHS GP Dr Renee Hoenderkamp reminded me how how poorly the RCGP has prepared GPs to manage care in 2020 and got me thinking of specific practical ways that mHealth can meet care needs in these exceptional times (if you have any suggestions please add them below in the comments): “1. You are in your 70’s and had a fall and rendered your shoulder unusable with a rotator cuff injury.

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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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Premera Blue Cross pays 2nd-largest HIPAA fine for 2014 breach

FierceHealthIT

Premera Blue Cross pays 2nd-largest HIPAA fine for 2014 breach. hlandi. Fri, 09/25/2020 - 13:16.

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Jags Kandasamy: How AI, Data Science, and IoT Go Hand in Hand

LeanIX

To say that the internet has exploded is a vast understatement. Today, we generate 22 exabytes every four hours — the size of the entire Internet in 2002. Yet, we only use 5-10% of the data we collect. In episode six of our podcast #UnleashIT, Jags Kandasamy , Co-founder and CEO at Latent AI , explained the future of data science and the explosion of IoT.

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Electronic Credentialing – Benefits and Considerations

HealthStream

It has become a “best practice” to move to electronic (or paperless) credentialing and privileging. When the idea of paperless credentialing was first introduced, many leaders of medical staff offices (MSPs) did not believe that paperless credentialing would be achieved during their careers.

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Weekender 9/25/20

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap CMS is reportedly preparing to notify.

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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.