Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2019

Most consumers would be willing to try an FDA-approved app or online to treat a medical condition, as well as receiving hospital care at home if would be less costly. We’ve reached an inflection point on the demand side among consumers for digital health options, PwC suggests in their report on the New Health Economy coming of age. The report outlines health/care industry issues for 2019, with a strong focus on digital health.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 31, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. From faster diagnosis to enhancing operations across care management, compliance and accounting, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the healthcare landscape. While AI is not a new concept, its adoption in the healthcare industry has lagged behind because of significant changes in technology and the exponential growth of data.

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eVisit

JANUARY 30, 2019

There are a myriad of reasons to utilize telemedicine in your organization, ranging from easier access to care, to reducing costs for your company. An oft-forgotten benefit of taking advantage of modern healthcare technologies is the safety of your patients — especially those just released after a hospital stay or a procedure.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 29, 2019

The Attain program will combine members' health record data with activity tracking to offer personalized goals, with rewards that include the Apple Watch itself.

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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Our homes should nurture our health. In addition to nutrition and good food, positive relationships, clean air and water, and the basic needs that bolster whole health, technology is playing a growing role to help us manage health at home. At CES 2019, I spent time with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Personal Health with Philips , to discuss the company’s evolving portfolio of products that help fulfill the mission to support people across their own continuum of health.

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Clocktree

JANUARY 28, 2019

Telehealth visits are becoming more popular as an efficient, convenient way to connect healthcare providers with clients. If you are just getting started offering telehealth services, here are some things to consider to help your clients get the most out of their video visits with you. Set up your web cam slightly above eye level. The closer you can align the camera to your focal point (the screen) the more your interaction will seem natural to the person on the other end.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 28, 2019

Researchers built a secure app-based system that runs on an unlocked smartphone and connects to glycemic control devices from multiple manufacturers.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2019

Fewer than one-half of consumers trust in government and media. Three-quarters trust employers, who in 2019 are the top-trusted institution according to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer released last week in Davos at the World Economic Forum. Consumers in the U.S. over-index for trust in employers, with 80% of people saying they have a strong relationship with “my employer,” compared with 73% of Britons, 66% of the French, and 59% of people in Japan.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The blockchain is a ledger, a database that keeps everything in one place and cannot be changed without leaving a mark in the ledger in the event of information changing. According to Jacob Kostecki of Blockhead Factor, blockchain makes it perfect for the recording of both research and treatment information, as well as medical histories. […].

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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.

Morning eHealth

JANUARY 28, 2019

Optum comes back swinging in employment war — Comments on EHRs and clinician burden

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 31, 2019

Duke University has received about $500K out of a $2M multifaceted investment from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to battle the opioid epidemic.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 29, 2019

For the past two holiday shopping seasons in 2017 and 2018, I’d noticed pre-print ads in my local Sunday newspaper from Kohl’s, the value-priced retailer, featuring wearable technology for health. There were devices branded Fitbit on the front page of Black Friday’s 2018 ad, shown here, with other tech brands promoted inside the pages.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 29, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The implementation of electronic health record (EHR) is not a new thing in the industry. The digital wave has completely transformed the way medical records were maintaining before and now. With increased demand for efficiency and faster solutions, more and more medical practices are embracing EHR to simplify and organize their data storage process.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2019

Insurance giant Aetna, a CVS Health company, and Apple have collaborated on the design of a new app for the Apple Watch that will integrate wearers’ health history data and track their daily activity levels to provide personalized fitness and wellness goals.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Complete with an interview desk, roving reporters, and discussions with industry luminaries, innovators and top executives, HIMSS TV will be available livecasted and on-demand.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

JANUARY 31, 2019

A new report authored by HIMSS executives and other industry leaders predicts that the healthcare industry is entering a new period, one in which healthcare IT vendors will be held to higher standards of performance and outcomes

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 30, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Gevik Nalbandian, vice president of software development, NextGate If you wanted a clear snapshot of the progress we’ve made—or rather, haven’t made—in patient data sharing and exchange, look no further than a new report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and six other national hospital associations—America’s Essential Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges, Catholic […].

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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

JANUARY 31, 2019

Scribes can benefit both doctors and hospitals, according to a new study. Using scribes increased emergency physicians’ productivity so they can care for more patients and ultimately saved hospitals money.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

As MobiHealthNews turns 10, we've chosen a story from each year to tell a small piece of our story, and the story of digital health.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

JANUARY 30, 2019

Healthcare groups weigh in on issues around quality reporting, documentation requirements, 42 CFR Part 2 and more

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 30, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Robby Gupta, head of US operations, TechJini. This digital age belongs to the consumer, and in this age of the consumer, it’s imperative that businesses are consumer-centric. All services and products must revolve around the customer instead of the organization providing or delivering them.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2019

More grandmas and grandpas may soon have an Apple Watch strapped to their wrist—all in an effort to keep them healthier. Apple is in talks with at least three private Medicare Advantage plans to subsidize the cost of the Apple Watch for seniors to help track their health.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 31, 2019

Seventy-seven percent of doctor's have recommended an app or digital program to their patients.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2019

Sara RIggare, one of the earliest members of our Society, has just received a great honor: Fokus magazine (“Sweden’s Time “) has named her “Swede of the Year” in medicine. In the photo from the award ceremony she seems appropriately thrilled.:-). A Parkinson’s patient, Sara is truly an exemplary e-patient. She blogs as “Sara the self tracker,” says she’s “not patient but im-patient,” and has long been a leader in the Medicine X

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 31, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Essentially, a responsive web design can detect the type of device that the user is using and hence change the layout of the website according to that device. All industries, especially healthcare, should adopt a responsive web design. In this digital world, patients are checking out providers’ websites before making a decision about their health. […].

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 30, 2019

If the funding situation isn't fixed, the uninsured population in some of the U.S. territories could double, Kaiser Family Foundation wrote in a recent brief.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 31, 2019

Patients using the platform will be able to share their EHR and medication history with One Drop coaches through the Health Records feature.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 30, 2019

In 2018, technology utilization grew – so did frustrations. While Internet and social media technology use has plateaued over all age ranges, Facebook still has captured only 41% of the 65+. Pew’s data showed that smartphone ownership still has not overtaken cellphones among the 65+. In early 2019, AARP Research published a technology survey taken in 2018 which showed ownership of smartphones growing to 65% of the 65+.

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