Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

As technology continues to re-shape consumers’ experiences and expectations with health/care, retail, travel and work, peoples’ concerns about data privacy are also growing as observed by a 2020 consumer trends forecast from GlobalWebIndex, Connecting the dots. First, some overall context to the study. GlobalWebIndex “connects the dots” of consumers trends in 2020 including the topics shown in the first graphic including commerce and retail, gaming, travel, human touch, n

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chinmay Singh, co-founder and president, Asparia. Every medical group today is expected to demonstrate competence and results in population management. Increasingly, pay-for-performance contracts demand that groups utilize data, clinical coordination, and connected technology to improve patient care and patient outcomes.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

It’s not news that healthcare costs in the US are sky-high. What might be news to some, though, is that year over year, we’re spending more money to treat illness and disease, but getting less out of it. According to Asif Dhar MD, Chief Informatics Officer at Deloitte, spending on diabetes alone went up by $75 billion in the five years from 2012-2017.

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Health Recovery Solutions

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

With the ever-evolving digital health landscape, wearable technology has integrated itself into healthcare. By accelerating patient insights to providers, wearables offer real-time data to payers and provider organizations, augmenting and informing medical care. A recent study by PwC found that 49% of the United States population owns a wearable device, including fitness bands, smartwatches, smart glasses, smart video/photo devices, and smartphones.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

News of the tool, currently in clinical pilots, comes a week after reports circulated that Google was working with healthcare system Ascension on a controversial project involving patient data.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. Although electronic health records (EHR) are firmly established in the medical landscape, ongoing progress necessitates that providers keep up with emerging trends. Here are five of them. 1.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Several new studies reveal that more patients are feeling and living out their role as health care payors as medical spending vies with other household line items. This role of patient-as-the-payor crosses consumers’ ages and demographics, and is heating up health care as the top political issue for the 2020 elections at both Federal and State levels.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

From mobile ECGs to tele-rehabilitation to defibrillator delivery drones, a range of new data was on display at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2019.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Walgreens executive Giovanni Monti, who leads the company’s health services, has a keen interest in how pharmacists can deliver health outcomes by extending their role to broader healthcare. Monti, who also leads healthcare innovation at parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance, believes pharmacists can do this by engaging with customers and patients, not just in pharmacies and stores but digitally as well.

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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.

Aging in Place Technology Watch

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

LeadingAge in San Diego and more. Entrepreneurs clearly see the opportunity for providing tech-enabled services to help care for older adults. Large events like Leading Age, Argentum, and sub-events within CES and HIMSS all point to the business potential that draws startups as well as new offerings from existing players – in what may become an increasingly crowded market.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

My cousin Arlene got married in Detroit at the classic Book Cadillac Hotel on July 23, 1967, a Sunday afternoon wedding. When Daddy drove us back out to our suburban home about 30 minutes from the fancy hotel, the car radio was tuned to WWJ Newsradio 950, all news all the time. As soon as Daddy switched on the radio, we were shocked by the news of a riot breaking out in the city, fires and looting and gunshots and chaos in the Motor City.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

MobiHealthNews sat down with Amy McDonough, senior vice presidnet & general manager of Fitbit Health Solutions prior to the news that Google was set to acquire Fitbit.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Primary topic: Population Health Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using tech to create precision and personalized population health Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Health benefit costs are set to rise by nearly 7% globally in 2020, with insurers around the world especially concerned about the growing impact of mental health costs, a new report shows.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Drew Ivan, EVP of Product and Strategy, Rhapsody and Corepoint Health. Healthcare is home to some of the most mind-blowing technological advances when it comes to diagnostics and therapies. At the same time, the healthcare system is responsible for many of the most head-scratching operational difficulties related to standard IT processes, such as those […].

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Astellas will be paying Welldoc $15 million up front for certain rights to the diabetes digital therapeutic, and will also be on the hook for milestones and royalty payments.

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Insulin Nation

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Well, who said that just because you have type 1 diabetes means you can’t ever eat pizza or lasagna ever again? Cupcakes? . Dosing insulin around meals that are high in both carbs and high in fat can be very, very tricky. . You aren’t alone if you’ve tried to carefully calculate your insulin dose for pizza only to find your blood sugar plummeting two hours later…then spiking to 400 mg/dL 2 hours after that.

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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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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Digital inhalers company Propeller Health has expanded a pharmacy refill app to include CVS, Kroger, Rite-Aid and Walmart pharmacies. The company launched the My Pharmacy app in January 2019 with Walgreens as an in-app feature that allows users to manage their prescription refills for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and locate a nearby pharmacy.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Wolters Kluwer, Health released new data from a survey of nearly 2,000 consumers, hospital executives, doctors and nurses in the U.S. on attitudes surrounding breakdowns in care, how costs shape care decisions and the influence of a broad lack of transparency within the healthcare system.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Representatives from cardio monitoring device maker Eko and the FDA offer advice for medical device startups gearing up for their first approval.

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American Well

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Today’s children are truly our future. They will grow up to be the doctors, lawyers, teachers and leaders of tomorrow and it’s of the upmost important that we keep these precious lives safe and healthy. Unfortunately, access to the high-quality pediatric care is not always easily obtained. Between parents trying to schedule appointments around school and work, many children living in rural areas where care doesn’t readily exist, and pediatricians being overwhelmed by sheer demand, with over 71 m

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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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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) put millions of people, including medical professionals, at risk of identity theft by disclosing their social security numbers in copies of veterans' benefits claims, an agency audit found.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ryan VanDePutte, associate director, Bits In Glass. Each day in the U.S., about 10,000 seniors turn 65. By 2050, there will be 83.7 million seniors in the country, representing about one-fifth of its population. Even with the growing awareness of health and fitness, it’s a hard reality that about three-quarters of these older Americans […].

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The technology proved its merit in a pilot that reported high detection rates and adherence, and is already in use at 15 VA medical centers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: What NASA is taking away from the home healthcare industry Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Humana is seeing significant cost savings and reductions in unnecessary care through its value-based Medicare Advantage arrangements, the insurer said Thursday.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Charles Holive, managing director, Sisense. The big data revolution has made today’s healthcare industry a vibrant hub of innovation in data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Recent decades have brought tremendous advances in not only the science of clinical and medical services, but also in the business strategy powering those services.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

CEO Adrian Gilmore said the company is looking at strategic partnerships, M&A and other general scaling of the business in the year to come.

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