What is holding back digital health innovation?
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2019
Reimbursement, data interoperability and risk aversion each have healthcare leaders second guessing technology-led innovations.
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Disruption in Healthcare – What will be the new normal?
Lloyd Price
JUNE 16, 2019
Allow me to raise this question: what will happen to a pharma company’s diabetes, respiratory or cardiology drugs if in 10 years time, we are able to fully use 3D organ printing? Well, it would most likely disrupt its traditional business models of selling drugs for those diseases, wouldn’t it? It seems that there is hardly any event, article or discussion on healthcare that is not loaded with the term disruption, or in its milder version, transformation.
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Healthcare Automation: Do Robots Have a Place in Medicine?
MedTech Boston
JUNE 18, 2019
In clinics and hospitals nationwide, healthcare providers are seeing the impacts of growing technology and are being forced to. The post Healthcare Automation: Do Robots Have a Place in Medicine? appeared first on MedTech Boston.
Acupuncture Aid for Infertility and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
Continue Education Journal
JUNE 19, 2019
A 2014 study has concluded that women who were not treated with infertility medications, only acupuncture, had essentially the same conceiving success rate as women on infertility treatments. Judging from these studies, acupuncture seemingly has the potential to be just as healing and useful infertility treatments in most cases. A common misconception about acupuncture is that it only relieves pain.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Digital Finland: Towards an ecosystem of health and wellbeing apps
Mobi Health News
JUNE 18, 2019
Healthcare digitisation is a niche topic? No way. For four years in a row now, the Finnish digital health services have ranked among the top three of the most valued internet brands in Finland.
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Telehealth set for big boost with $100M in new funding from FCC
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 19, 2019
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. WHY IT MATTERS. Speaking in rural Laurel Fork, Virginia, Carr announced that the new funding is meant to increase access to care to patients and veterans in remote areas such as Appalachia.
Acupuncture as an Alternative to Opioids
Continue Education Journal
JUNE 18, 2019
The opioid crisis has severely affected the country, particularly in rural areas. The epidemic has been traced back mainly to doctors legally administering high doses of powerful pain medication, such as oxycontin. Patients quickly become dependent on painkillers and develop an addiction. When their medication is no longer available, patients often resort to illicit means to satisfy their new dependency.
Users' Facebook posts can help predict medical conditions
Mobi Health News
JUNE 20, 2019
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that language used in a participant's Facebook posts was able to predict 21 medical conditions.
Healthcare Costs Inspire Employer Activism and Employee Dissatisfaction – What PwC Found Behind the Numbers
Health Populi
JUNE 21, 2019
In the U.S. each year between 2006 and 2016, employees’ healthcare cost sharing grew 4.5%. In that decade, Americans’ median wages rose 1.8% a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. Medical cost trend is the projected percent growth in healthcare costs over a year based on an equivalent benefit package from one year to the next.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
Telehealth holds appeal for seniors, survey shows
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 20, 2019
Better access to healthcare professionals and faster service are among the top reasons senior citizens are willing to embrace telehealth technologies, according to a survey sponsored by vendor American Well. WHY IT MATTERS. The survey of 400 American seniors (aged 65 years or older) revealed more than half (52%) are willing to use telehealth. Access to faster healthcare service was identified by nearly three-quarters (73%) of seniors as the main driver behind their willingness to use the technol
Remote Cardiac Monitor Data and Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Clinical Applications for Heart Patients
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 20, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Cardiovascular diseases remain the number one killer of people in the world, resulting in 31 percent of all global deaths (17.9 million per year), and are the most expensive condition to treat. However, AI and machine learning technologies are being developed to make care pathways, treatment and real-time visualization of cardiac anomalies and subsequent therapy […].
Building a future of safe and drug-free alternative to painkillers
Mobi Health News
JUNE 16, 2019
Pain is usually an indication something wrong with the body and the typical approach to pain is to take appropriate medicine that will help alleviate that pain. However, taking painkillers will have some side effects and it is more complicated, or even life-threatening for those who are allergic to certain painkillers.
Smart devices can detect cardiac arrest by monitoring breathing: study
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 20, 2019
Of those individuals who experience a cardiac arrest at home, the survival rates are slim. Researchers found that smart devices can be used to detect sounds associated with cardiac arrest and then call for help which could potentially boost survival rates, according to a new study.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
Telemedicine platform helps Texas Health Aetna save $398 per ER avoidance
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 18, 2019
As the lines between payers and providers blur, payers are increasingly becoming more responsible and aware of what they can do to prevent unnecessary care, extra ER visits and high spend. THE PROBLEM. According to a recent report from Premier, “Ready, Risk, Reward: Improving Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions,” unnecessary ER visits just for members with chronic conditions account for $8.3 billion annually in extra costs.
Understanding and Overcoming Barriers To Precision Medicine
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 18, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Assaf Halevy, founder and CEO, 2bPrecise. Few healthcare leaders doubt that insights made available through precision medicine and genomics have the potential to vastly improve care and outcomes. But the industry struggles to overcome numerous barriers that, at first glance, seem to obstruct providers’ ability to fully leverage precision medicine.
Building a future of safe and drug-free alternatives to painkillers
Mobi Health News
JUNE 16, 2019
Pain is usually an indication something wrong with the body and the typical approach to pain is to take appropriate medicine that will help alleviate that pain. However, taking painkillers will have some side effects and it is more complicated, or even life-threatening for those who are allergic to certain painkillers.
Tech adoption grows for older adults -- why?
Aging in Place Technology Watch
JUNE 17, 2019
In 2019, Tech adoption changes -- some. It’s known as the Amazon effect. As brick-and-mortar based businesses dwindle in favor of online, access to smartphone and broadband are becoming the enablers of information flow to older adults. Pew Research helps us understand who, what, and possibly why people buy and own technology. Non-users, particularly broadband, are thus on one side of the so-called digital divide.
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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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!
Report: CHIP, Medicaid integral in fostering social, emotional well-being of children
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 18, 2019
According to a new report from the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and Manatt Health, CHIP and Medicaid are important for social and emotional development of children.
Improving HCAHPS Star Ratings: Insights From the Ascom HCAHPS Database
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 18, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Talbot, senior vice president of marketing and business development, Ascom. More than 4,900 U.S. hospitals participate in the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey (HCAHPS), including 3,529 that received star ratings in the most recent quarterly update.
How to improve adoption of genetic testing into provider workflow?
Mobi Health News
JUNE 21, 2019
Flare Capital Partners offers an overview of sequencing options, opportunities for integration into clinical workflow and the companies making that happen.
Talking Telemedicine with Daniel Barchi & Peter Fleischut, Part 1: “It’s a continual investment.”
Health System CIO
JUNE 17, 2019
Although the ultimate goal of tools like telemedicine is to reimagine the patient experience, it can also help broaden staff members’ skill sets and make them feel “more empowered,” according to NewYork-Presbyterian's leaders.
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.
Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong steps down from ONC health IT advisory committee
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 19, 2019
Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., the biotech billionaire and CEO of health technology company NantWorks, on Wednesday said that he is stepping down from the federal Health IT Advisory Committee (HITAC) that provides policy recommendations to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
Just Associates To CMS/ONC: A “Technology Alone” Solution Can’t Resolve the Patient Matching Issues Impacting Interoperability
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 17, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Any patient matching improvement strategy must look beyond technology and emphasize the people and processes that play a critical, yet often overlooked, role in ensuring data integrity. That was the message Just Associates, Inc., shared with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) […].
Proof-of-concept system uses smart speakers to catch signs of cardiac arrest
Mobi Health News
JUNE 19, 2019
By listening for agonal respirations, an algorithm described in a recent NPJ Digital Medicine paper offers a path for smartphone- and personal assistant-based heart attack detection.
We Live in the Future. Why Is Patient Registration Stuck in the Past? – #HITsm Chat Topic
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 18, 2019
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Theresa Moss (@theresajmoss) from @FormFast on the topic “We Live in the Future. Why Is Patient Registration Stuck in the Past?” It’s 2019. We use our phones to […].
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Senate privacy bill aims to set new federal standard for consumer health apps
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 17, 2019
A new bill would create enhanced privacy regulations protecting consumer health data collected through health tracking apps, fitness wearables, and DNA testing kits, according to the Senate sponsors.
Innovaccer to Host Webinar on Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare Webinar with Panelists Dr. Peter Lee and Dr. Stephen K. Klasko
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 19, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The world of healthcare is changing and those changes impact how we deliver care, our approach to engaging patients and the relationships between stakeholders across the healthcare value chain. Each day, we witness advances in genomics, imaging and pharmacology, and learn about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive these advances.
Oxford VR establishes first-of-kind VR-enabled mental health solutions in Asia
Mobi Health News
JUNE 17, 2019
Oxford VR, an Oxford University spinout company, has announced the launch of its leading-edge treatment for common mental health conditions through a unique partnership with AXA HK and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Dubbed ‘Yes I Can’, the initiative will offer a ground-breaking treatment using virtual reality (VR) technology. It will be free to the public and to AXA’s corporate customers as part of their employee benefits services to drive better mental health outcomes in Asia.
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