Digital Health
JANUARY 22, 2018
Iya Khalil is a woman who’s always been ahead of her time. In middle school, she was captivated by the writing of Stephen Hawking. After graduating school at Cornell with a PhD in physics, while colleagues were heading to Wall Street to be quants, or to Silicon Valley to launch the next Webvan, she was […].
Clocktree
JANUARY 23, 2018
The opioid crisis in America is hurting communities all around the country. Many people in need of treatment for opioid addiction live in rural areas without dedicated treatment centers. This lack of access in rural areas means the residents are not receiving treatment. So what can telemedicine to do help the opioid crisis? On October 26, 2017, The White Housedeclared the opioid crisis a public health emergency and the administration acknowledged a need to expand treatment throughout rural are
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Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
33 Charts - Digital Health
JANUARY 20, 2018
Traditionally bowel sounds and the ability to pass urine were signs of postoperative progress. Now there’s the smart phone sign. Researchers in this month’s Journal of Hospital Medicine studied 221 postoperative patients. They wanted to know if a patient’s use of a smartphone during the initial clinical assessment by a surgeon could be used as a marker for well-being and suitability for discharge.
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New Age Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2018
Technology advent in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has to led to faster contrast scans, simplified imaging workflows, high quality images and accelerated patient throughput. To keep up with the pace of the changing technology and rising diagnosis and clinical needs, many new MRI machines have been entering market since last half a decade.
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Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 25, 2018
Earlier this month, we reported on two Ohio parents who are doing amazing things in the wake of tragedy. After their adult son, Kevin, died from diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), Dan and Judy Houdeshell began advocating for their state and others to pass laws authorizing pharmacists to dispense insulin and other life-saving medications without a prescription.
New Age Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2018
Water pollution is a serious perennial problem in India as over 60% of its surface water resources and groundwater reserves are contaminated by biological, toxic, organic, and inorganic pollutants. Increasing urbanization, agricultural practices, industrialization and harmful human practices are the leading cause of this water pollution. The paucity of clean drinking water leads to hazards such as diarrhoea, cholera, filariasis, etc.
TeleMed2U
JANUARY 26, 2018
California legislators have passed two bills (AB 205 and SB 171) that allow Medi-Cal managed care plans to request other access standards if they’ve exhausted all the other options to obtain providers to meet either time and distance or timely access standards. Effective January 1, 2018, telemedicine or e-visits are allowed as a means of […]. The post Telemedicine News: Two Bills in 2018 That Will Expand Access to Telemedicine appeared first on TeleMed2U.
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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.
Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
American Well
JANUARY 25, 2018
When dealing with any networked system, risk is an inherent part of the situation. This is true even for the big boys and girls at the NSA. However, there are tried and proven methods to minimize risk before a breach happens and to curtail damage once it does. Any plan and response to the risks of online hazards starts with a risk assessment. Like this one, later stages differ in details for each individual case, but all include making a plan, implementing it, and mitigating the effects of a bre
New Age Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2018
Water pollution is a serious perennial problem in India as over 60% of its surface water resources and groundwater reserves are contaminated by biological, toxic, organic, and inorganic pollutants. Increasing urbanization, agricultural practices, industrialization and harmful human practices are the leading cause of this water pollution. The paucity of clean drinking water leads to hazards such as diarrhoea, cholera, filariasis, etc.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 24, 2018
“There was no hope. There was no Cure. Until two men set out to find one.” This is the tagline for the UK film-in-progress Unspeakably Wonderful about the four scientists involved in the discovery of insulin. Neil Fleming and Matthew Lockyer (a screenwriter and a physician) collaborated to write the script, and they recently generated enough funding through crowdsourcing to hire a world-renowned script editor and cast a director.
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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.
Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
American Well
JANUARY 25, 2018
When dealing with any networked system, risk is an inherent part of the situation. This is true even for the big boys and girls at the NSA. However, there are tried and proven methods to minimize risk before a breach happens and to curtail damage once it does. Any plan and response to the risks of online hazards starts with a risk assessment. Like this one, later stages differ in details for each individual case, but all include making a plan, implementing it, and mitigating the effects of a bre
New Age Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2018
Technology advent in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has to led to faster contrast scans, simplified imaging workflows, high quality images and accelerated patient throughput. To keep up with the pace of the changing technology and rising diagnosis and clinical needs, many new MRI machines have been entering market since last half a decade.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 22, 2018
As far back as 2011, Congressman Pete Olson (R-TX) and Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) have championed legislation to create an office within the federal public health apparatus to focus exclusively on fostering diabetes research and improving access to quality care. Last fall, in the 115th Congress, they succeeded, with final passage in the House on October 11 of Senate Bill 920, signed into law on November 2, tasking a panel of public health officials and diabetes care
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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!
Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
ACA Times
JANUARY 25, 2018
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is complex. The ACA Penalty Process now being initiated by the IRS is no exception. With 30 days to respond upon receipt of IRS Letter 226J (you may want to request a reasonable extension), the process your organization undertakes to develop your response needs to be focused and efficient. A new infographic is now available that outlines the process of responding to Letter 226J, which can serve as a guide as you set up your internal process to develop a response.
Redox
JANUARY 24, 2018
Last year was a discouraging one for healthcare data security, and this year seems to be off to a rocky start as well. With attacks becoming more commonplace and damaging—and with medical information more valuable than ever—healthcare organizations are beginning to put a greater and much-needed focus on protecting patient data. . According to a survey by KPMG, 47 percent of healthcare providers and health plans said they had faced security-related HIPAA violations or cyber-attacks that compromis
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 23, 2018
We recently asked readers to share their go-to language for diabetes gear and other facets of living with Type 1. Here are some of the hilarious, moving, and clever words and phrases that our readers use. Do you have a nickname for your diabetes gear? If so, what is it and why do you call it that? “I call my CGM The Diabetes God. My sister started joking ‘the diabetes gods demand a blood sacrifice’ when she or I would have to do a finger stick to calibrate our CGMs.”.
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.
Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
ACA Times
JANUARY 23, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it is extending the deadline to enroll in health coverage through the Federal Health Insurance Exchange until March 31, 2018, for individuals affected by the 2017 hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. CMS is providing this special enrollment period so that individuals and families impacted by hurricanes can access health coverage on the Exchange and have additional time to make decisions on Medicare health and
BHM Healthcare Solutions
JANUARY 23, 2018
Editor’s Note: Payers and providers have shed fears about the deployment of telemedicine services. In addition to improving and expanding patient service, the vast financial benefits makes telemedicine consults a makes payers eager to gather more research on closing the telehealth gap. Click HERE to discuss how BHM helps payers integrate evidence-based best practices. .
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Health Blawg
JANUARY 22, 2018
Rasu Shrestha is the Chief Innovation Officer of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and also serves as an Executive Vice President of UPMC Enterprises. You should follow him on Twitter: @RasuShrestha. We spoke about the meaning of innovation and about some of the innovations — past, present and future — at UPMC. Rasu describes his north star as the best interests of the person — the consumer, the health plan member, the patient — and he sees that as being distin
ACA Times
JANUARY 22, 2018
It’s been a tumultuous year for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). From insurers withdrawing from providing health insurance on government exchanges to spiking premiums in the face of financial losses to Congressional legislation to repeal parts of the ACA, 2017 was a crossroads of sorts for the fate of the health insurance marketplace. Several counties scattered across the country were reporting little to no options for coverage on the Marketplace as insurers only migrated to regions of guaranteed
Henry Kotula
JANUARY 24, 2018
[link]. When most hospitals close, it’s plain to see. Equipment and fixtures are hauled out and carted away. Doctors and nurses leave and buildings are shuttered, maybe demolished. But another fate befalling U.S. hospitals is almost invisible. Across the country, conglomerates that control an increasing share of the market are changing their business models, consolidating services in one regional “hub” hospital and cutting them from others.
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