Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 4, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Dr. Sean Otto, business development, Cyient. The approval of electrocardiogram’s (EKG) through the FDA that enables atrial fibrillation detection right from a patient’s watch band is just one example of how the digitization of medical devices, a part of the Internet of Things movement, is leading product development and innovation in medicine.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 4, 2019

When I talk to CEOs and CIOs often the first question I get is what are APIs and followed almost immediately by why do I need them? Perhaps, as I have come to learn, the root of the question is do I really need it? I mean after all we do have HL7 so why APIs and how are they different. WHAT IS AN API? For clarity sake lets all get on the same page about APIs.

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KevinMD

JANUARY 2, 2019

Recently the Apple Watch’s latest feature went live – an electrocardiogram (ECG) app that monitors irregular heart rhythms. The internet is overflowing with reports from people didn’t know they had irregular heartbeats until they took their data to their doctors and received diagnoses of atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common cause of stroke. As neurologists who […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2019

The Sugar.IQ digital diabetes assistant will use AI analytics to predict users' low blood sugar risk within the next one to four hours.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. On December 2016, the 21st Century CURES Act was signed into law, resulting in new regulations for the home health industry. The CURES Act mandates the use of electronic visit verification, or EVV, for all Medicaid-funded personal care services. On Jan, 1, 2019, these new federal requirements for EVV went into effect for personal care […].

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Insulin Nation

JANUARY 3, 2019

Effective Therapeutic Rate. A combination of two drugs enhances the production of beta cells such that they proliferate at the highest rate ever observed in humans – a rate of 5 to 8 percent per day. “Beta cell regeneration is a ‘holy grail’ for the treatment of diabetes,” said Dr. Peng Wang, associate professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai and first author on the study, in a statement. “We are excited to finally have drugs that can induce beta cell proliferation at r

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2019

The study's 19 young participants stuck to their regimens, and along with their parents said that they would be open to continuing treatment sessions.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Dmitry Garbar, partner, Belitsoft. Errors in prescription can happen for various reasons, like pharmacists’ incompetence, miscommunication between clinicians or doctor’s bad handwriting. Among medication errors, prescription inaccuracy is one of the major causes of concern for healthcare professionals.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 3, 2019

With the new year, hospitals are officially mandated to post their list prices online for patients to review. The CMS policy could benefit hospitals that provide the highest-value care and lead to more effective tools for patients, experts say.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 1, 2019

Who can resist reflection when a year ends and 2019 begins? So much racket, so much of it driven by writers desperate for something to write about – and we’re not talking about the news. Lots of negative tech energy in 2018, including healthcare data breaches , Facebook’s loss of trust , ditto with Google and its much discussed anti-competitive positioning in search.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

At HIMSS19, University of Chicago Medicine's chief experience officer will describe an ongoing coaching program that aims to restore the connection between humans and the healthcare technologies serving them.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 1, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. If you are looking for good business ideas, the healthcare industry should be your first option. The industry is a fantastic place for individuals with healthcare-related business ideas as well as aspiring entrepreneurs to invest in. Exploring these ideas is excellent for many reasons.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 2, 2019

In an end-of-year guidance, HHS issued a list of the most prevalent cyberthreats in the healthcare industry—and 10 suggestions for ways that stakeholders can protect themselves.

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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.

Morning eHealth

JANUARY 3, 2019

Re-light the FHIR — Research roundup

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2019

Otsuka intends to invest more than $300 million in an FDA-cleared software app that will apply cognitive therapy principals either with or without prescription drugs.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Health Level Seven International (HL7), the global authority for interoperability in healthcare information technology with affiliates in 35 countries, announced that it has published release 4 of the HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard. This new version is the culmination of 18 months of extensive work to finalize the base parts of the specification […].

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 3, 2019

To save money and also ensure they are getting the biggest bang for their buck, employers need to keep an open and ongoing dialogue with highly aligned benefits advisors with a focus on primary care—not flashy new technology.

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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!

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Morning eHealth

JANUARY 4, 2019

New health tech influencers in Washington — Cerner trots out drug price transparency feature

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Industry players see blockchain as a tool for administrative tasks but remain skeptical about cryptocurrency in healthcare.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 2, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Tim Critchley, CEO, Semafone. In the more than 20 years since the landmark passage of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), healthcare organizations have come a long way in protecting the security and privacy of patient data. Organizations now use sophisticated tools in the form of electronic health records (EHRs), online patient […].

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 4, 2019

Many hospitals are making significant investments in community programs, despite losing nearly $77 billion in Medicare and Medicaid payments in 2017, according to new data from the American Hospital Association.

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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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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 1, 2019

When Google announced that it would absorb DeepMind’s health division, it sparked a major controversy over data privacy. Though DeepMind confirmed that the move wouldn’t actually hand raw patient data to Google, just the idea of giving a tech giant intimate, identifying medical records made people queasy. This problem with obtaining lots of high-quality data has become the biggest obstacle to applying machine learning in medicine.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 2, 2019

The infant mortality rate in Franklin County, Ohio has reached 8.2 deaths per 1,000 live births, with black babies at three times the risk of white infants.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 4, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) welcomes Senators Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, after Senate leaders announced committee assignments for the 116th Congress: “I welcome Senators Mitt Romney, Mike Braun and Jacky Rosen to the HELP committee and look forward to working with […].

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lack of women in the healthcare C-suite—and what’s holding them back is a set of “invisible barriers,” according to a new report.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Babylon Health has become one of the breakout stars of the current class of UK tech start-ups, but several insiders have suggested that things aren't what they seem. The company, which has contracts to provide NHS services in the UK, uses, amongst its real-life medical staff, an AI chat-bot to do initial triage and basic diagnosis with patients, in an attempt to get quick results to simple cases.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The prescription device detects each use and records it to a paired mobile app.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 1, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Now that we are in 2019, its time to really take your health seriously. We aren’t talking about the usual “let’s lose a few pounds” as a New Year’s resolution; what we mean is taking advantage of the technology, information and health products available these days that can help your health today, tomorrow, and the […].

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