Digital Health
JANUARY 16, 2018
I missed the 2018 Computer Electronics Show this year (it overlapped with JP Morgan’s Healthcare Conference) so I had to rely on the kindness of friends and media to send me alerts on the weirdest digital stuff on earth. CES is chockablock with things no one needs and no one should have even thought to […].
Arizona Telemedicine Program
JANUARY 18, 2018
Recent technological advancements have changed the way we see the world, paving the way for the growth of concepts such as telemedicine in the field of medical technology. Telemedicine is a method of providing clinical healthcare to someone from a distance by the use of telecommunication and information technology.
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Mobile Health Matters
JANUARY 18, 2018
The healthcare IT industry enters 2018 with a lot of potential, along with the need to overcome structures that have historically stunted progress. What is on our health IT wish list? AirStrip is feeling optimistic about the industry’s direction in terms of broader collaboration for building up truly interoperable systems to improve patient care, and overall health system stability.
Iris Telehealth
JANUARY 15, 2018
If you need medical care, the first thing you do is set a doctor’s appointment, right? But in some rural areas, basic healthcare needs aren’t met that simply. Imagine you’re living in Western Nebraska. Or Central Oklahoma. Or rural Maine. If there is a healthcare facility in the area, you’re in luck! And if the [ ] The post The Rural Healthcare Crisis You May Not Know About appeared first on Iris Telehealth.
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Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 16, 2018
Guest post by SPM member Mark Sullivan, MD, PhD, who is Co-Director of Behavioral Health Services at the University of WashingtonCenter for Pain Relief. We welcome guest posts from SPM members – see guidelines here. I joined the Society for Participatory Medicine because I believe patient participation is the only path forward for medicine. We live in an era of chronic illnesses like diabetes and chronic pain, when the patient must be the primary caregiver.
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Mobile Health Matters
JANUARY 16, 2018
2017 was a roller-coaster ride for healthcare, marked by exciting innovation, damaging cyberattacks, periods of lulls and disruptive change. As we enter a new year, it is important to celebrate the industry’s successes in 2017, and reflect on the ways these changes, incidents, and regulations both pushed health IT forward and established a foundation for 2018.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 19, 2018
Good things come to those who persist. After thirty-five years of studying the drug, Michael Weiss and his team have developed heat-resistant insulin. Weiss recently became Chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at the Indiana University School of Medicine; however, it was his research at his previous institution, Case Western University, which led to this promising discovery.
Society for Participatory Medicine
JANUARY 17, 2018
This is a long overdue post of the next session from our Society’s first conference on October 25. The first keynote, about OpenNotes, was posted here , including this note: WOW was our Society’s first conference on October 25 a breakthrough event! Titled “Participatory Medicine: Transforming the Culture of Care” ( web page ), it produced a storm of attention on Twitter (our #SPM2017 hashtag had 15 million impressions in 48 hours, 1.1 million per hour during the event!
American Well
JANUARY 16, 2018
It’s no secret consumers are embracing technology in nearly every aspect of their lives—even healthcare. As it turns out, according to a new study by the University of Rochester not only is telehealth access improving child health both in schools and at home , children are responding positively to it in all manner of settings. One of the most common childhood health concerns is asthma, with roughly 1-in-10 children experiencing it at some point in their lives.
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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.
TeleMed2U
JANUARY 19, 2018
In an effort to improve the use of antimicrobial medications, California was the first state to enact antimicrobial stewardship legislation in 2006. Since then, the state has mandated enhanced antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) in hospitals and other medical facilities. The goal of the California Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Initiative is to enhance patient outcomes, reduce resistance […].
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 15, 2018
On January 1, 2018, an Obama-era excise tax on medical device manufacturers went back into effect following a two-year suspension. The 2.3 percent excise tax was originally imposed in 2013 to support the Affordable Care Act. Republicans voted to suspend the tax in 2016 and 2017, presuming that it would be completely eradicated before 2018. Many Democrats, including those from affected states like Minnesota and Massachusetts, also supported the suspension.
Health Portal Solutions
JANUARY 18, 2018
One of the biggest buzzwords in today’s technology world is “experience”. User experience and the need to engage users is becoming more of a necessity in our increasingly interconnected, mobile-based industry. And while user experience is important, it’s also critical that Payers continue to improve business efficiencies without getting too bogged down with technology.
ACA Times
JANUARY 17, 2018
One of the objectives of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was to make it affordable for Americans of all ages to actively take part in preventative care, including adolescents. The ACA allows adolescent patients to receive preventive services recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics without a copay. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines recommends preventive care services up to age 21, including an annual visit.
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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.
KB Dental Consulting
JANUARY 18, 2018
Introduction. The most appropriate choice when people need urgent medical care seems to be the transport performed by air ambulance. This medical service consists of well-educated staff, experienced doctors, respiratory therapists, registered nurses, critical care professionals, and pediatric specialists. Air Ambulance medical act of assistance offers its help to patients with a critical health condition who need urgent air transport.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 17, 2018
Think back to the first days and weeks after a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis. Did you feel prepared to manage the disease after the cursory training you received at the hospital, or, in some cases, the physician’s office? Were you confident in your ability to recognize symptoms? To make round-the-clock decisions about meal choices, dosing, treating highs and lows, etc.?
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 15, 2018
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” These were the words of William Shakespeare, and I have found them to be very true in my own life. I was diagnosed with Type I diabetes in 1989 at two years of age. It was very scary for my whole family, since at that time, very little was known about diabetes. This was especially true of my home country, Honduras, and in Central America, more broadly.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 17, 2018
Researchers in Warsaw recently found that users of VoiceDiab, a system that uses speech recognition to transcribe information about meals for insulin delivery systems, had better postprandial glucose levels after two hours than peers without the system. The study, which was published on January 8, 2018 in the Journal of Diabetes , was conducted by Dr.
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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!
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 19, 2018
When I thanked Anthony Anderson and Novo Nordisk’s Michael Bachner for making time available for a telephone interview on January 4, Mr. Anderson came back with “I had no choice, Jim. I’m somewhere near Princeton, New Jersey in a snowstorm.” It had already been a busy day for them at Novo’s U.S. headquarters, soon to get busier, built around a presentation to the staff introducing them to the Get Real With Diabetes campaign.
Insulin Nation
JANUARY 19, 2018
Fireworks bedazzled the sky over the Las Vegas strip as I watched with over 350,000 people. Standing shoulder to shoulder with those around me, I saw “12:00 am” run across the top of my glucose meter. Below that, a larger number reading “55.” I quickly stuffed my mouth with several glucose tabs, as I watched the hands holding numerous cell phones in front of me taking photos, snapchats, and insta-stories of the glorious display.
ACA Times
JANUARY 16, 2018
New guidelines from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) support efforts by certain individual states to test incentives that make participation in work or other community engagement a requirement for continued Medicaid eligibility or coverage. CMS said it was committing to support state demonstrations to see if these requirements assist beneficiaries in obtaining sustainable employment or other productive community engagement, and if this results in improved health outcomes.
ACA Times
JANUARY 18, 2018
Senate Republicans added repeal of the ACA’s individual mandate to the Senate’s tax reform bill to save nearly $340 billion in federal funds during the next decade to mitigate increases to the federal deficit. The savings result from the federal government not having to pay premium tax credits (PTCs) to help low-income individuals and families offset the cost of securing healthcare insurance on government exchanges to comply with the individual mandate.
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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