KevinMD
MARCH 20, 2018
At the start of the transition to electronic health records (EHRs), I was totally on board as one would expect of a millennial doctor. I, along with my fellow millennials, grew up alongside the internet. We can type with our eyes closed, navigate pop-ups in a jiffy and intuitively know how to manipulate electronic charts to serve our purposes. But, I did find myself in a unique position in the millennial.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 23, 2018
Just about everyone agrees in the basic vision for telemedicine: When a person gets sick, instead of jumping in the car to drive to a doctor’s office or urgent care center, they can pick up a phone or tablet instead, and get in touch right away with a doctor.
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Health Populi
MARCH 20, 2018
There’s a potential large obstacle that could prevent the full benefits of the current go-go, bullish forecasts for artificial intelligence (AI) to help make healthcare better: a decline in consumers’ willingness to share their personal data. Along with the overall erosion of peoples’ trust in government and other institutions comes this week’s revelations about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica , and the so-called Deep State.
Digital Health
MARCH 19, 2018
Although his dad was a prominent politician who eventually became Speaker of the House, AliveCor Founder Dave Albert always knew he wanted to a career in medicine – it was the passion he discovered for engineering and entrepreneurship that took him, and his career, by surprise. While Dave chose a very different path than his […].
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 21, 2018
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill Wednesday that would increase subsidies offered to people buying insurance on the ACA exchanges and would impose tighter controls on private payers. "So long as private health insurance exists, there is no reason to allow our healthcare to be held hostage by insurance companies that refuse to do better," Warren said.
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Health Populi
MARCH 22, 2018
In healthcare, we use the word “toxicity” when it comes to taking a new medicine, especially a strong therapy to cure cancer. That prescription may be toxic as a harmful side effect on our journey to getting well. The concept of “ financial toxicity” for cancer patients was raised by concerned clinicians at Sloane-Kettering Medical Center, who discussed the topic on 60 Minutes in 2014 and have published papers on the issue.
VSee
MARCH 21, 2018
Mark Carol, MD is the CEO of SonaCare – a radical surgery technology company. He started as a neurosurgeon and became widely known as the “father of IMRT” as well a a household name in Radiation Oncology. Dr. Carol is also an avid soccer player. Dr. Carol joined our TFSS video podcast from Charlotte, North.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 19, 2018
After seeing a demonstration for a new asthma app launched at the beginning of the year, a top cardiac surgeon at Nemours Children's Health System lobbied the IT team to speed up development of the app and a suite of digital tools aimed at newborns with a rare but often deadly heart defect that requires constant monitoring.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 22, 2018
Early stage venture firm and accelerator Dreamit Health has just announced its latest healthcare cohort, which is largely made up of digital health startups.
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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.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 23, 2018
Verma previews Medicare agenda — Calls for MACRA reform fall on deaf ears
Insulin Nation
MARCH 22, 2018
Note: This interview was conducted in two rounds over email. The Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance (JDCA) is a nonprofit organization that advocates for a “practical cure” for Type 1 diabetes to become widely available in the next 15 years. A practical cure is defined on the organization’s website as “a lifestyle that frees people from a majority of the burdens of the disease.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 19, 2018
An analysis of IRS data by The Wall Street Journal shows that roughly 2,700 leaders at large charitable organizations earned at least $1 million during 2014. The club’s roster largely comes from the healthcare industry, which employed 75% of the high-paid nonprofit executives. And based on total compensation, six of the top 10 earners worked at healthcare organizations.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 19, 2018
A team of researchers from Stanford University are the latest to demonstrate how virtual reality can give specialists a better look into the bodies of their patients.
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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.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
MARCH 19, 2018
TBHI is delighted to be launching a series of Q&A from our audiences. In this blog, then interspersed with our other news and features, we’ll post a question obtained from one of our Trainees. One such question will be drawn … Read more. The post Videoconference In Telepractice appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 22, 2018
Many Americans struggle with access to care—especially as rural hospitals close their doors for good across the country—but air ambulances have emerged as a potential solution to the problem. However, the high costs associated with these services are prohibitive to many patients.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 20, 2018
Data from a team of Dutch researchers presented this weekend at the Endocrinology Society’s annual meeting in Chicago demonstrated how vital monitoring wearables could identify Type 1 diabetes patients’ hypoglycemic events by measuring heart rate.
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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!
Healthcare Exchange Standards
MARCH 21, 2018
I went to a Supply Chain Management on Blockchain panel event at Marquette University last night. The recording of the session is available. It was on the topic of using Blockchain to manage provenance of supplies throughout the Supply Chain. This was on the general topic of supply chain, not specific to healthcare, or the most specific example of drug components in healthcare.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 21, 2018
The risk of harm to hospital workers surpasses that of the construction and manufacturing industries, according to recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Yet the healthcare industry still lags behind other sectors of the economy in recognizing the importance of managing for safety.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 21, 2018
Smartwatches were able to detect atrial fibrillation when paired with a deep neural network, according to a study published today in JAMA. While the technology had the ability to passively detected atrial fibrillation, there was some loss of sensitivity and specificity against the gold-standard ECG.
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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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MARCH 21, 2018
In a taxi in DC – the driver wends his way around buses and pedestrians. It’s the day after the self-driving car killed a pedestrian. The next day, you can find scores of link references to a police comment that the car was likely not at fault though no investigation has completed – or even been started. In another tech publication (“ Big Think – your daily microdose of genius”), you can read that in over 1.5 million miles of testing, one year ago was the first time the car had been at fault wh
Insulin Nation
MARCH 19, 2018
I had never been diagnosed with anything serious before. I am not sure I even knew what a diagnosis was. Most 8-year olds would not. Most 8-year olds do not have to. But that was about to change for me. sponsor. Sitting at Pizza Express, at my sister’s fourth birthday party, the smell of fresh baked pizza wafted through the air. Cries of pleasure and squeals of happiness accompanied it.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 19, 2018
Physicians say they face long wait times for insurers to process prior authorizations—which can negatively impact patient outcomes. In addition, the number of prior authorizations required, and the paperwork needed to submit them, bloats physicians' already substantial administrative burden, a new survey found.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 23, 2018
University of Stanford spin-out PhysioWave has just received FDA clearance for its pulse wave velocity (PWV) cardiovascular analyzer scale, which measures the stiffness of the vessels transporting blood from the heart to the body. The new technology will come in the form of a scale.
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Society for Participatory Medicine
MARCH 20, 2018
An important post from long-time SPM member (and former board member) Jane Sarasohn-Kahn ( @HealthyThinker ), cross-posted from her widely read Health Populi site. (The screen capture above is from this BBC article , which came out hours after Jane’s post below.). There’s a potential large obstacle that could prevent the full benefits of the current go-go, bullish forecasts for artificial intelligence (AI) to help make healthcare better: a decline in consumers’ willingness to
Insulin Nation
MARCH 20, 2018
Nearly every minute of every day we have a stream of “noise” filling our heads. The TV is blaring in the background, people’s opinions and ideas streaming to our social media feeds, music filling our headphones, and the chatter of those around us. As this information flows by and through us, we focus on some of it and ignore other bits. We react with emotion to the pieces that inspire, alarm, or enrage us.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 22, 2018
The omnibus spending bill released by Congressional leaders days ahead of a scheduled government shutdown maintains funding for ONC at $60.4 million. The agency had been preparing for a possible $22 million cut, but funding through September could allow the agency build an EHR reporting program required under Cures.
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