Sat.Mar 09, 2019 - Fri.Mar 15, 2019

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The Kids Are Alright – With Just a Little Help from the Innovators

Digital Health

I was in Austin last week for South By Southwest (SXSW), a sort of conference/meetup/party/experiential mash-up which is really like no other event that touches healthcare. At SXSW you can see a healthcare startup pitch, experience the latest and greatest in weird automotive or robotics engineering, see a movie and take in a concert, all […].

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How telemedicine is increasing diversity in clinical trials

KevinMD

An important part of advancing medical research and drug development is making participation in clinical trials easier and more inclusive. To develop treatments that work on men, women, and children of all ages and different ethnicities we need to have clinical trial data that represents our diverse population. Right now, when the FDA approves a […].

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Can AI Make Healthcare Human Again? Dr. Topol Says “Yes”

Health Populi

“The Fourth Industrial Age,” Dr. Abraham Verghese writes, “has great potential to help, but also to harm, to exaggerate the profound gap that already exists between those who have much and those who have less each passing year.” Dr. Verghese asserts this in his forward to Deep Medicine , Dr. Eric Topol’s latest work which explores the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and robotics — three legs of the Fourth Industrial Age stool.

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AHRQ launches app to help patients preplan questions for doctors

Mobi Health News

The new app, called Question Builder, lets consumers input their health information and then brings up potential questions for them to ask their doctors.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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What the Hell Is Going On with Healthcare Interoperability?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019. The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information.

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Self-Care Is Healthcare In Consumers’ Hands, Peaking on Google Trends

Health Populi

Today, the number of searches on Google using the phrase “self-care” reached a high, shown in the line graph I created on Google Trends and marked up in red. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results. I started this search when the Great Recession began in the U.S. in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019.

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Singapore-based CXA group raises $25m to increase regional expansion

Mobi Health News

Yesterday, Singapore-based health technology startup CXA Group, which offers an employee benefits and wellness marketplace platform, announced that it has raised $25 million in its latest round of funding. The company’s new group of strategic investors include HSBC, Singtel Innov8, Telkom Indonesia MDI Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, Muang Thai Fuchsia Ventures, Humanica and Heritas Venture Fund.

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Samitivej launches multi-service “Virtual Hospital” app in Thailand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Samitivej Hospital Group, a private hospital brand in Thailand with a network of eight hospitals and owned by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), recently announced the launch of their one-stop Virtual Hospital app, offering three key services: Teleconsultation – a remote telemedicine consultation service that provides a round-the-clock medical advice via a video call with Samitivej’s doctors and nurses.

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What if EMRs can never capture the clinical experience?

KevinMD

Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first bits of the history have been presented, the wise old cardiology attending turns to the gathered medical students who are just starting their first clinical […].

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.

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The Improving Picture of Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ron Soferman, CEO and founder, RSIP Vision. Artificial intelligence is transforming the healthcare industry – it is creating opportunities that have been never thought possible while opening up the realm of new possibilities beyond human capabilities. Powered by increasing availability of healthcare data and advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence aims to mimic human […].

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Women in venture: The case for increasing representation in digital health investing

Mobi Health News

Women make up 12.2 percent of digital health VC partners, but many in the industry are discussing the importance of diverse viewpoints.

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At Mount Sinai, telehealth reduces ER visits and hospitalizations

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center at Mount Sinai Hospital had been relying on traditional office visits to connect with patients. THE PROBLEM. These visits present patients with several barriers to care, however, including the inconvenience of travel and time off from work or school to visit their doctor. "Our patient population has chronic digestive disorders and so diarrhea and abdominal pain often prohibit them from making appointments at the last

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Verily’s India project reveals the work of applying AI to real-world clinical care

FierceHealthIT

A machine learning-enabled eye disease screening tool has been at least three years in the making and highlights the progress and challenges of applying AI to real-world clinical care.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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Three Lessons To Learn From the UConn Health Data Breach

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ilia Sotnikov, vice president of product management, Netwrix. On February 21, UConn Health reported that personally identifiable information (PII) from 326,000 patients was compromised. A malicious third party illegally gained access to several employee email accounts that contained patient names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, and limited medical information, such as billing […].

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Level Ex's latest mobile game challenges cardiologists' skills for CME credits

Mobi Health News

The free Cardio Ex game features more than 35 levels that test the player's vascular knowledge, spatial reasoning and decision making.

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Safety-net providers face obstacles to telehealth adoption

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Despite its clear potential to improve access to high-quality care in underserved communities, telehealth is underutilized by safety-net providers due to a range of barriers, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. The analysis, based on interviews with Medicaid officials from seven states and representatives from 19 Federally Qualified Health Centers in those states, points to insufficient reimbursement as a leading culprit for this lag, in addition to other logistical, policy, and

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Hospitals could sustain 10% cut under Medicare public option proposals: report

FierceHealthIT

If the U.S. were to pursue a Medicare public option proposal, it could "decimate" insurance coverage as it looks today and result in a nearly $800 billion cut to U.S. hospitals over a 10-year period, leaders from the two most powerful hospital organizations said on Tuesday.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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!

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What Is “Patient Engagement” and Its Catalyst In the Current Age of Health IT?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. What does “patient engagement” mean in the current age of health IT? Given the recent proposed rules by CMS that tell the sector that all data generated by a patient in the care spectrum is their information, has much changed since the term took roost in healthcare several years ago?

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Physera's telehealth MSK therapy platform raises $8M

Mobi Health News

The Series A round was lead by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, and brings the company's total funding to more than $10 million.

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5 Niche Telemedicine Specialties That Might Surprise You

Enzyme Health

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Hospital clinicians’ EHR 'workarounds' pose risk to patient safety and quality, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Frustrated with the design and usability of inpatient EHR systems, hospital care teams frequently use handwritten notes and verbal comments to communicate patient information, posing a threat to patient safety and the quality of care, a study finds.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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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Salesforce Delivers Health Cloud Innovations to Personalize Patient Experiences, Improve Outcomes

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Salesforce announces new additions to Salesforce Health Cloud that improve healthcare through connected, intelligent patient engagement. Health Cloud brings CRM to healthcare, enabling providers like Piedmont Healthcare and 180 Health Partners to personalize patient interactions and improve outcomes.

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Algorithm uses smartphone camera, flashlight to spot diabetes

Mobi Health News

The tool considers vascular changes and individual risk data to make its predictions.

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Three Challenges You Will Face With Telemedicine

eVisit

As an account executive for eVisit, I have had the privilege of discussing telemedicine with hundreds of CEOs, COOs, CTOs, physicians and providers from all over the United States. This has reinforced my belief that telemedicine is not just the future of medicine, it is medicine. Looking back at these discussions I have identified three things you need to do and know as you incorporate telemedicine into your health system.

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AHRQ launches app to help patients prepare for medical visits

FierceHealthIT

To help patients prepare for their medical visits, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed a new consumer mobile app that builds off the agency’s “Question Builder” online tool.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Medicine Needs Disrupting: Why Doctors Are Just the Ones To Do It

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Samant Virk, MD, CEO and co-founder, MediSprout. Ask a doctor why he or she decided to go into the field of medicine and their answers vary. Many want to help people and they have personal stories like a sick parent that motivated them to become a physician. Others may come from a long line […].

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23andMe launches predisposition test for Type 2 diabetes

Mobi Health News

Reactions to the news are mixed, with some experts saying the test is unlikely to make much of a difference.

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EHR-Related Issues Top Patient Safety Concern List

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

ECRI Institute report targets diagnostic errors, improper management of test results in EHRs

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