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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

By Susannah Fox, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Lisa Suennen. I’ve lived long enough to have learned. The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned. But that won’t happen to us. Cause it’s always been a matter of trust . A Matter of Trust, by Billy Joel. If you’re in health care and don’t live under a rock, you have probably heard that United Health Group (UHG) has acquired PatientsLikeMe (PLM).

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Digital Health | How emerging technologies are driving a revolution in healthcare

Waracle

History of emerging tech in health. From the first telephone pager – a critical communications device – used in New York City’s Jewish Hospital for the first time in 1950, to the EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems of the 60s, on through the decades straight to the to the appearance of the first mHealth apps and wearables just a few years ago, technology in healthcare could never be accused of standing still.

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Electronic health records cannot replace a doctor who knows you

KevinMD

The introduction of electronic health records (EHRs) was accompanied by a great deal of fanfare. Such systems, which replace old paper-based charts in doctor’s offices and hospitals, were designed to make patient data more accurate, safer and more accessible. It was also claimed that they would make it easier for doctors and other health professionals […].

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Can the bot-to-patient relationship improve patient engagement?

Mobi Health News

Medical chatbots are emerging as potential assistants in many areas of healthcare. Can an AI-fuelled robot help improve patient engagement in cancer care?

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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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The Transportation Effect In Healthcare: Improving Population Health Through Better Access To Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Hants Williams, director of clinical operations, VirtualHealth. The buzz around social determinants of health (SDoH) is making waves across the healthcare industry. Linked to roughly 80 percent of overall health, stakeholders are increasingly embracing the opportunity of addressing SDoH in care management workflows.

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Technology is corrupting the culture of medicine

KevinMD

To help then-candidate Bill Clinton remain focused on the No. 1 voter issue ahead of the 1992 presidential elections, political strategist James Carville coined an unforgettable mantra, which he posted inside Clinton campaign headquarters. It read, “The economy, stupid.” The quote became famous both for its edginess and wisdom, reminding us to separate the big […].

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One Drop's diabetes management product comes to Apple Stores

Mobi Health News

Certain locations are now carrying the One Drop Chrome blood glucose meter, which is accompanied by a lancing device, test strips and a one-year subscription to an accompanying mobile app.

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SDoH Solutions, Referrals Must Be Integrated Within The Patient Record: Here’s Why

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David Wenger, CEO, Bridge Connector. At this point, most of us in health care have read similar statistics about why we need to do more to address social determinants of health (SDoH) — the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, and how those factors impact individuals’ health — to […].

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How We Can Prevent Physician Burnout From the First Day of Medical School

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The WHO’s recent classification of burnout as a medical diagnosis is helping physicians recognize the burnout they are experiencing. But more can be done to improve the work environment.

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Transform Clinical Communication With Role-based Messaging

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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A Fresh Look at Telehealth Patient Demographics in 2019

Enzyme Health

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. Explore the latest insights on telemedicine patients and find out what to expect the next time you pick up a telemedicine call. Knowing more about who your patients are and what they’re looking for in their medical practitioners is important for any doctor or nurse to know, but it’s especially important in a field like tele

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12 digital health mergers and acquisitions from Q2 2019, plus 5 IPOs

Mobi Health News

While most of the financials remain undisclosed, the quarter included a number of interesting deals involving Apple, Best Buy, UnitedHealth Group, and Allscripts.

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NewYork-Presbyterian plans to expand telehealth services with new innovation institute

FierceHealthIT

NewYork-Presbyterian, based in New York City, has launched the new Hauser Institute for Health Innovation with a specific focus on expanding telehealth services including remote patient monitoring and teleparamedics.

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Influx of EHR In-Basket Messages Leads to Greater Burnout, Study Finds

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

It’s been widely-reported that the time physicians spend in the EHR is linked to higher levels of burnout

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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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Keeping BlueKeep Away: What Every Healthcare Organization Needs To Know To Mitigate the Risk

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Goettl, director of product management, security, Ivanti. The first months of 2019 have seen a record number of reported security vulnerabilities. But potentially the riskiest, is BlueKeep. BlueKeep is a vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) that affects Windows 7, Windows XP, Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2, which many feel will be exploited soon.

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The future of pharma: embracing opportunities, partnerships and hurdles

Mobi Health News

In July, MobiHealthNews will focus on how pharma companies are using digital tools for R&D, real-world evidence collection and exploring new therapeutics.

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Digital health investments in 2019 poised to surpass 2018: Rock Health

FierceHealthIT

Investors continue to have a strong appetite for digital health with investment in the sector totaling $4.2 billion across 180 deals through the first half of 2019. If this pace holds steady, the sector is on track to top 2018's annual funding total of $8.2 billion, according to Rock Health.

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More Than Half Of Seniors Willing To Use Telehealth

Healthcare IT Today

Results from a recent survey suggest that seniors are more comfortable with telehealth than you might think, especially given their techno-phobic reputation. As things stand, when seniors need off-hours care, telehealth consults are hardly the first thing that comes to their mind. Almost two-thirds of seniors responding to the survey reported that they’d go to […].

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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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The Technology Behind Noopept and Mental Health Enhancement

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. If you’re in the body-hacking sphere, you’ll surely have heard people talking about noopept at this point. But then, what exactly is noopept, and why do people seem to like it so much? Noopept has a history dating back to 1996, and it has actually been used for some time in Russia as a treatment […].

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Singapore’s NRF launches national healthtec consortium

Mobi Health News

The National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore, a department under the Prime Minister’s Office, announced that it will set up a national Health Technologies Consortium (HealthTEC) to facilitate companies to translate research outcomes into products and services that can improve the health and wellness of individuals. The NRF sets the national direction for research, innovation and enterprise (RIE) in Singapore.

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6 ways smaller health systems are falling behind in cybersecurity: CHIME-KLAS survey

FierceHealthIT

While large healthcare organizations are successfully adopting best practices for cybersecurity, smaller health systems and hospitals are falling behind as budget constraints and a lack of qualified talent hinder progress, according to a new survey from KLAS Research and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

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Doctor's room of the future: The self-driving car

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Doctor's room of the future: The self-driving car Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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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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Psychologists Who Practice Via Online Counseling: Are They Really HIPAA Compliant?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Today, psychologists are offering their services online, and telehealth is continuously becoming popular. The top advantage of such practice in the mental health field is the availability of specialized services and expertise to patients in remote locations.

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Despite few industry exits, investors continue to pour money into digital health

Mobi Health News

$4.2 billion has already been invested into startups this year, according to Rock Health.

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Encompass Health agrees to pay $48M in false claims case

FierceHealthIT

Encompass Health Corp. agreed to pay $48 million to resolve allegations that some of its facilities provided inaccurate information to Medicare to maintain their status as an inpatient rehabilitation facility and to earn a higher rate of reimbursement.

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Cancer patients benefiting from increased connectivity to caregivers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Cancer patients benefiting from increased connectivity to caregivers Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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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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Health and Technology: Innovation and Advancement

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology has really evolved over the last half a century and its impact is very vast. Many fields are feeling getting a touch of the improved technological advancement a notable one being the medical and health sector. In the health sector, the ripples of technology are not going to disappear anytime soon meaning there are […].

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Cedars-Sinai taps 11 startups for its latest accelerator class

Mobi Health News

The class includes startups involved in workflow management systems, remote patient monitoring systems, clinical trial data tools and augmented reality education.

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Industry Voices: 3 lessons for healthcare from the Women's World Cup

FierceHealthIT

Every four years, people around the world come together to watch athletes compete in what is the world’s most popular sport: soccer, (or as it’s known in much of the world, football). Amid the hype surrounding the 2019 Women’s World Cup, I couldn’t help but notice parallels between the tournament and the U.S. healthcare system.

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