Digital Health
MARCH 5, 2018
For a skydiver who’s motto is “Just jump out and go”, the journey from chasing down Sandanista kidnappers to driving Disney strategy to genomics pioneer sounds sort of rational. Lisa Alderson, founder and CEO of Genome Medical, is one of those special someones who thrives on adrenaline and channels it to great effect. Lisa went […].
KevinMD
MARCH 4, 2018
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke that has escalated to alarming rates in recent years, affecting nearly 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. In an attempt to reduce its prevalence, the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC-8) released a set of hypertension management guidelines. However, various concerns arose regarding the recommendations and as a result, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
The Mayo Clinic has just released the results of a new study, which show an 80 percent increase in enrollment of clinical trials for breast cancer when using IBM’s Watson for Clinical Trial matching system. The Watson system uses artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured information and pull out insights from the data.
Clocktree
MARCH 9, 2018
Consumers continue to wish for more virtual care options, creating better overall access to healthcare. According to a 2018 survey conducted by Ernst and Young, more than 50% of 2500 consumers are already using the telemedicine technology available to them through their healthcare providers. However most of these patients do not have access to all the telehealth options they are hoping for.
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Health Populi
MARCH 7, 2018
As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
New survey data out this week from Accenture shows that healthcare consumers are using more wearables and apps, and are more bullish on virtual care, than ever before. But they also have high expectations for their health technology, which the industry may not be able to meet.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 8, 2018
Struggles at VA continue — Conference notes
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2018
The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults use Facebook, and 3 in 4 of them check in on a daily basis. But in the past year, the percentage of people using Facebook and its corporate sister YouTube has flattened, based on the survey report, Social Media Use in 2018 from the Pew Research Center.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 6, 2018
Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of Alphabet, urged healthcare providers at HIMSS18 to drop their data warehouses and get in the cloud as soon as possible. The keynote speaker, who now serves as a technical adviser to Alphabet, also talked about how AI can make an "unimaginable" impact on patient care.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 6, 2018
A trio of presenters at HIMSS 2018 shared data from practical machine learning and AI-focused studies that demonstrate how the technologies could reduce costs and improve patients’ outcomes.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 7, 2018
23andMe secures further FDA authorization — Contact lens duel at FTC
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. Providers put patient safety as #1. Appropriately, privacy and security were hot topics at HIMSS Annual Conference this year, in respond to providers’ demands for more education and concerns around the challenges.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
An innovative program run by the University of Pennsylvania Health System uses a patient-centric focus to extend care beyond hospital facilities and into local communities. The key to the program’s success lies in sending its community health workers into disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia and asking patients what kind of support they need to improve their health.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 6, 2018
Healthcare 2.0 co-founder Indu Subaiya said she sees healthcare as a living, learning, interconnected system, and the future of healthcare innovation will come from collaboration.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
MARCH 6, 2018
In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. On March 15 at 1 PM CT , Mei Wa Kwong, JD, Executive Director, and Christine Calouro, Policy Associate, from the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) will present a free National Telehealth Resource Center webinar to provide an update on federal and state telehealth policy actions and to discuss issues that may arise throughout the year.
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2018
On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.” That’s Jefferson’s health solutions group that focuses on digital innovation and consumer experience.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 6, 2018
HHS Secretary Alex Azar outlined four priorities for the agency this week, and accelerating the path to value-based payment systems and reducing healthcare costs are at the top of his list. “Today’s healthcare system is simply not delivering outcomes commensurate with its cost,” he said in remarks to the Federation of American Hospitals.
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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!
Mobi Health News
MARCH 5, 2018
Innovation is one of the most sought after things in healthcare, but it’s also one of the most poorly understood, according to experts presenting at the Digital and Personal Connected Health conference Monday at HIMSS18.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 9, 2018
Photo Credit: Terry Pierson, Riverside Press-Enterprise/SCNG. There are a lot of misconceptions about Type 1 diabetes—for instance, that is lifestyle-related and that it is easy to control with diet and exercise. As numerous advocates have argued, such misinformation is not harmless, since popular opinion has the potential to significantly shape public policy.
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Amazon is planning to extend Prime subscriptions to people enrolled in Medicaid for the discount price of $5.99 a month instead of the recent price increase to $12.99/month or $99 a year. The $5.99 a month calculates to a 27% break on the annual Prime membership cost. Medicaid enrollees who want to take advantage of the deal must provide Amazon with a scan or image of the card they use for their benefit (either Medicaid or EBT).
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
Cigna announced Thursday that it would purchase Express Scripts, the country's largest pharmacy benefit management firm, in a deal worth $67 billion. The deal comes on the heels of merger plans from CVS and Aetna, which would also unite a major payer with a large PBM in a vertical union.
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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
Sleep tracking tech company Eight (formerly known as Luna) has raised $14 million is Series B funding, according to a statement from the company. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Yunqi Partners.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 5, 2018
Update on MHS Genesis — Funding for quality measures
Health Populi
MARCH 7, 2018
I greatly appreciated the opportunity today to attend a luncheon at the HX360 meeting which convened as part of the 2018 HIMSS Conference. The speaker at this event was Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize for Economics 10 years ago and today is an iconic op-ed columnist at the New York Times And Distinguished Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY).
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 6, 2018
Seema Verma announced two new initiatives from CMS aimed at giving patients access to their health data by opening up claims data to app developers. The agency also plans to overhaul the Meaningful Use program to place more emphasis on interoperability.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 6, 2018
UnitedHealthcare has added a new wearable to its Motion employee wellness program. Starting in July, in addition to the Fitbit, Garmin, and Samsung devices, employees in the program will be able to use Apple Watches.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 8, 2018
In 2014, a 13-year old from California died from complications related to his Type 1 Diabetes after his parents used herb therapy instead of insulin. Los Angeles authorities recently charged a self-proclaimed “master herbalist/iridologist” with child abuse and practicing medicine without a license in connection with the teen’s death. The defendant is 83-year old Timothy Morrow.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
MARCH 5, 2018
The following is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (AR, MS, and TN). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. LEGISLATION. Pending Legislation. State. Bill #. Status. Summary.
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