Mobi Health News
APRIL 10, 2018
With discussions on consumer data privacy again reaching a head amongst the lay press and lawmakers, it isn’t too far a stretch to wonder whether the data collected continuously through health and fitness wearables is receiving appropriate scrutiny.
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2018
In the US, when it comes to life and death, it’s good to live in Hawaii, Utah, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Iowa — the top five states with the greatest life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth in 2016. For health and longevity, sorry to see the lowest five ranked states are Washington DC which ranks last, along with Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Alabama.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 10, 2018
The American Medical Association and Google have launched the AMA Health Care Interoperability and Innovation Challenge, looking for new ideas about the ways wearable devices and apps can be more effectively monitored and the data shared.
Digital Health
APRIL 9, 2018
Katherine Chou is in many ways the quintessential Googler – super smart, a passion for computer science, an engineer through and through. On today’s episode of Tech Tonics, we’ll learn how this rock star at Google decided to turn her talents to healthcare, and hear what she’s discovered about healthcare, and herself, along the way. […].
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KevinMD
APRIL 11, 2018
I can’t help myself from telling patients how things really work in health care. But I feel they have a right to know. When I see new patients their jaw usually drops when I sit down with them next to the computer with a stack of papers held together with a rubber band or a gigantic clamp and with yellow sticky notes protruding here and there with words like LAB, ER, Read more.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 12, 2018
The FDA has granted diagnostics company IDx’s De Novo request to market its AI-based software system for the autonomous detection of diabetic retinopathy in adults who have diabetes, called IDx-DR.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 10, 2018
Nursing executives are worried that the industry's ongoing nurse shortage is only going to get worse, according to a new survey. One-third said that nursing shortages have a "considerable" or "great" impact on care quality, while 41% said that these staffing problems negatively impact the patient experience.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 10, 2018
Acting VA secretary calls for Congress to pass Choice bill — AMA, Google launch interoperability challenge
Health Populi
APRIL 11, 2018
Chronic diseases are what kill most people in the world. In the U.S., the chronic disease burden takes a massive toll on both public health and mortality, accounting for 7 in 10 deaths in America each year. That personal health toll comes at a high price and proportion of national health expenditures. A new alliance between Livongo and Cambia Health seeks to address that challenge, beginning with diabetes and scaling to other chronic conditions.
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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
APRIL 9, 2018
Capturing a patient’s experience outside the doctor’s office has been an ongoing struggle when it comes to treating Parkinson’s disease. But now a new smartphone app can now detect the severity of symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease remotely, according to a recent study published by JAMA.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 13, 2018
Fraud and waste spending in Medicaid continue to increase, seeing major jumps since 2015. The Government Accountable Office made recommendations the agency could take to reduce improper payments, but noted CMS has yet to implement prior recommendations.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 11, 2018
ONC’s new report on clinical decision making — Why Apple’s EHR play could be over-hyped
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 12, 2018
The irony, the irony – everyone saw Europe’s data privacy initiatives. Why has this taken so long here? In a word – lobbying. The congressional hearing droned on, and Mark Zuckerberg tried so hard not to sound condescending towards his techno-light questioners about the so-called ‘Facebook Scandal.’ Which could have been the Google scandal, the Twitter scandal, or even Amazon -- consolidation of industry players and using the data to sell them (or make ads ‘more effective’) or as with Amazon
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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
APRIL 11, 2018
More mobile devices equal happier patients, according to a survey commissioned by Jamf, an Apple-focused mobile device management company.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 9, 2018
A new "Health Care Interoperability and Innovation Challenge" spearheaded by the American Medical Association (AMA) and sponsored by Google, calls on digital health startups to find ways to leverage patient-generated date from wearables and apps into "accessible and actionable information." Three winners will be named in June.
Arizona Telemedicine Program
APRIL 12, 2018
Empowering clients to advocate for their own needs is a big part of what we clinicians do—whether in a more traditional therapeutic setting or in emerging telehealth contexts. And every client is different. For clients in recovery from substance abuse, for example, the individualized treatment needs are diverse. That makes it even more imperative that clients be empowered to advocate for their health.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
APRIL 10, 2018
I will be giving a face-to-face tutorial on the topic of "IHE on FHIR" at both HL7 Workgroup meeting in Cologne, May 12-18 FHIR Dev Days in Boston, June 19-21 So, if you are in Europe, sign up for the tutorial at HL7 workgroup meeting. If you are in the USA, sign up for the tutorial at FHIR Dev Days. There is a difference in time available to me. At the FHIR Dev Days I will need to focus only on the IHE Profiles available from IHE that leverage FHIR.
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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
APRIL 11, 2018
Engineering students at Rice University have created a new iPhone app they say could help patients with Parkinson's manage a symptom of the disease called "freezing," a temporary and involuntary inability to move when the legs are unable to follow the brain's command.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 9, 2018
States are increasingly taking action when it comes to drug prices but face stiff resistance from pharmaceutical companies. The FDA and Congress may be in a position to do something, though, experts say.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
APRIL 11, 2018
How Therapists Can Build Trust and Rapport Over the Phone Research shows that clients with substance use disorders (SUDs) who enjoy a good rapport with their therapist are more motivated to take an active role in their plan of treatment … Read more. The post Therapists Building Trust and Rapport Over the Phone appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 9, 2018
Lyft happy with CMS payment rule — Opioid hearings with health IT relevance
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
APRIL 12, 2018
Brisbane, Australia-based ResApp Health, a digital health company that specializes in diagnosing respiratory diseases, is now conducting clinical proof-of-concept studies for its latest technology that uses a smartphone to detects sleep apnea by sound.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 10, 2018
BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners and former CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt are among the lead backers of Somatus, a kidney care company that just closed an $11 million series B funding round. The company, formed by a former DaVita executive, looks to integrate care with health systems and optimize costs for insurers.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
APRIL 9, 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 Number Status Summary.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 12, 2018
Ronny Jackson hearing tentatively set — FDA approves first AI software for retinopathy
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 12, 2018
ActiGraph activity monitors and a mobile app from Clinical Ink are are at the heart of a newly announced pilot study backed by Bayer, according to a statement released today by ActiGraph. The ongoing study is evaluating how these digital products and a Bluetooth-enabled weight scale are perceived by patients, and the feasibility of implementing such devices in future clinical trials run by the pharmaceutical company.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 10, 2018
It’s not just students taking a public stand on gun violence. Doctors, including those who have treated the victims, have added their voices to the debate over gun control. One of the latest is Andre Campbell, a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, who treated the three wounded victims from the shooting at YouTube’s San Bruno campus earlier this month.
Insulin Nation
APRIL 11, 2018
A CDC study confirms what many individuals within the diabetes community have already suspected: the incidence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is on the rise. As most readers know, DKA is a life-threatening but usually avoidable complication of diabetes, which occurs when blood glucose levels exceed 250 mg/dL, leading to an increased ketone concentration.
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