KevinMD
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Transformation of health care is underway: The landscape is filled with innovation, and the horizon is dotted with technological possibilities of “Star Trek” ilk. In a recent New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst article, there was a compelling argument for how artificial intelligence (AI) of the future will help deliver us from a high cost, […].
Arizona Telemedicine Program
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
When implementing a telemedicine program, you should create a new workflow. It’s easier to adapt a current workflow into the technology than to create a new productivity model. Your daily processes will need some changes but not entirely, and this can be to your advantage. After your workflow model is altered – and it’s an easy process if done properly -- you can integrate it slowly into your daily practice.
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Lloyd Price
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Thanks to dystopian books and movies, the world’s robotized future appears both fascinating and terrifying. There can be a fine line between a symbiotic human-robot coexistence in peace and a Matrix-like catastrophe, but many advances of robotics give humanity hope to thrive alongside robotic companions, caregivers, and guardians. It’s no surprise that medical software development is one of the areas accelerating robotic science implementation, with IDC’s Worldwide Healthcare IT 2017 Predictions
Morning eHealth
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Cerner, VA and DOD rumbling along — Amazon-Berkshire-JPM legal battle continues, plus more biz
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KevinMD
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
If you are a physician or know a physician or have ever visited one, chances are you have probably heard them complain about technology in health care. More to the point, they are likely to be complaining about the one piece of technology that affects their lives minute-to-minute: the electronic health record (EHR). To get […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.
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Digital Health
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
An unlikely pair, Brian Smith and Jerry Harrison came together over their shared passion for music and science and helping entrepreneurs succeed. Together they are helping healthcare startups find their rhythm and chart a path to success through a new expert crowdfunding platform called RedCrow. Here’s the backstory and it’s a good one: Brian Smith, […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Along with new deals with BCBS, Humana and Logisticare, the rideshare service is also adding automated calls and other senior-friendly features to its web-based Concierge platform.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. This year looks to be one of adventure and excitement for healthcare technology, per usual, and according to a new report from HIMSS, 2019 Healthcare Trends Forecast: The Beginning of a Consumer-Driven Reformation, we’re about to get serious about the tangible results of digital health innovation.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Consumers put food front-and-center when thinking about their health. Viewing food-as-medicine is going mainstream for health consumers, who look beyond the “medicine” in that phrase toward a broader concept of personal well-being. This is the theme of a new report from the FMI Foundation called The Power of Health and Well-Being in Food Retail.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Google has plans to develop its own EHR for clinicians that gathers patients’ medical records and then leverages machine learning to predict clinical outcomes, according to a patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
DrChrono has announced that its EHR, which runs on the iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, has attained ONC certification for Meaningful Use Stage 3. The company believes it is the first to obtain that certification for a mobile-based product.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Health Wizz is an electronic file cabinet for your health records on your smartphone. We help provide the tools to help people aggregate their medical records, organize them, and format them so that they can be shared easily, seamlessly and securely on a blockchain, such as Ethereum.
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
We spoke with Denise Faustman, MD, Ph.D., Director of Immunobiology Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School. The following is a summary of the research that she and her team are working on. Early Islet Trials. I started my career doing islet transplants 25 years ago and was involved in the first islet transplant trials in the US.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Prior authorizations are hazardous to patients’ health, according to more than one-quarter of physicians. In a survey by the American Medical Association, 28% of 1,000 responding physicians said the prior authorization process required by health insurers for certain drugs, tests and treatments have led to serious or life-threatening adverse events for patients.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
One app will help transcribe speech to text and the other will help amplify certain sounds and minimize others.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brad Spannbauer, senior director of product management, j2 Cloud Services. When it comes to cybersecurity, healthcare organizations are up against a constantly shifting threat landscape. New technologies and techniques, employed by increasingly advanced criminals, require organizations to be proactive in their defense efforts, or they risk being outsmarted by those who seek to expose […].
care innovations
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
A study published in The American Journal of Managed Care in January 2019 has found that telehealth virtual visits offer a variety of benefits across the care continuum. Specifically, the study authors note that virtual video visits offer “enhanced convenience and reduced travel time” to patients, while clinicians are given the opportunity to “enhance connections with patients.”.
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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!
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
The National Institutes of Health is renewing its focus on addressing sexual harassment, with Director Francis Collins instructing a working group to propose actions and policies to promote a safe and inclusive culture at NIH-supported labs and research conferences.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
The AI system would aggregate and compile EHR data from multiple centers while using deep learning analytics to warn providers of upcoming clinical events.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Allison Hart, vice president of marketing, West. Americans expect customer service to be fast. Whether they’re at the bank, the airport, their doctor’s office or elsewhere, they don’t like to be kept waiting. When waits are long, consumers are disappointed – or worse. But like it or not, consumers know waiting is probable in […].
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
In 2018, JDRF celebrated the first anniversary of its Open Protocol initiative to support the development of automated insulin delivery systems, including artificial pancreas (AP) algorithms, continuous glucose monitors (CGM) and insulin pumps. The goal is to increase the ability for these devices to “talk” with one another, regardless of whether they have the same manufacturer.
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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.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
While lots of studies have focused on how to manage high-need, high-cost patients, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York decided to take a different approach. They asked the patients themselves how doctors and healthcare systems can best meet their needs and, in the process, cut costs.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
Under its Thailand 4.0 vision, Thailand plans to leverage on its reputation and excellence in medical services and medical devices and strengthen its position as the regional medical hub.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Marty Puranik, co-founder and CEO, Atlantic.Net. The data backup plan was established as a mandatory stage of HIPAA compliance to create, implement and maintain a set of rules and procedures for healthcare organizations to follow when managing the backup and restore requirements of electronic protected health information (ePHI).
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Patients, providers, policymakers and vendors all can help the process, officials say
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FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
Ride-hailing service Lyft has been in the healthcare space for the past several years, and it sees Medicare Advantage plans as a key demographic for its health platform.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
The integration will be used to enable remote monitoring of at-risk patients that have recently been discharged after heart failure or a heart attack.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Mike Haynes, medical advisor and freelance writer. Doctors answering service may seem like an outdated service, yet they are just as important today as they were years back when they had just begun. The feel of a personal caregiver anytime, cannot be easily replaced by chat-bots or virtual robotic voices.
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