Health Populi
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
“The promise of AI is undeniable…could AI help clinicians deliver better and more humanistic care?” This question is asked and answered in a JAMA viewpoint published January 1/8 2019 titled, Humanizing Artificial Intelligence. This theme motivated a conversation held over a dinner convened by Philips hosted by Frans Van Houten this week at HIMSS19.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Apple's partnership with the VA will bring the mobile personal health record platform to more than 9 million veterans.
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Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Tatyana Shavel, technology analyst, Iflexion. The essential purpose of virtual reality or VR is to shut down the real world and immerse a person into a different environment, be it a fantasy or just a place far away. While it is mostly used in entertainment, this technology gets wide adoption across other industries, including construction, […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
One year in, the company has 1,000 customers and has seen a big improvement on the status quo.
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KevinMD
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
A few years ago, I wrote a KevinMD blog post about how cumbersome it was to complete notes in the electronic medical record (EMR). I proposed a solution in our residency clinic but encountered resistance in the adoption process that eventually led to its abandonment. For someone just trying to solve a problem, it was […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.
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Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. It’s an understatement to say that AI and machine learning were among the forefront of conversation drivers recently at HIMSS19 in Orlando. One session actually diving into the ethics of AI while leaders from Microsoft, the American Medical Association and the Cleveland Clinic spoke of the need for organizations to develop the right framework for […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Humana's chief medical officer said that healthcare already has the tools it needs to anticipate patients' needs and close gaps in care.
Continue Education Journal
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
This past year, as a part of the 2019 state budget the state of New York updated its sexual harassment laws. The new laws require employers to adopt a sexual harassment prevention policy and implement a training program that meets or exceeds the new state requirements by October 9, 2019. But what are the new policy and training requirements and how can you be compliant?
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
In the health care world, it is now commonly accepted that genes contribute less than half of the influence on peoples’ health status. Other issues play starring roles in overall well-being, including environmental factors, health care services, and social determinants of health (SDOH). These inputs include education, personal economics (like job security and financial stability), physical built environments (think: transportation access, safe and healthy housing), food and nutrition, and
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today proposed new rules to support seamless and secure access, exchange and use of electronic health information. The rules, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), would increase choice and competition […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Georgia Tech Professor Ayanna Howard talks robotics and how gamifying therapies could help kids living with cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
Federal healthcare officials put industry stakeholders on notice this week that patient data belongs to patients, and efforts to block patients' access to their data will not be tolerated.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 9, 2019
On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Cramer’s pronouncement led to a tweetstorm where hundreds of tweeters in and outside of health/care talked back and with Cramer.
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Following the release of its proposed new rules designed to improve the interoperability of electronic health information, members of leadership from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) hosted a call to provide additional detail about the proposed rule, and to answer questions from the media.
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Younger generations are less likely to have a primary care doctor. However, on the whole, virtual care and walk-in clinics are on the rise.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday morning released a hotly anticipated rule aimed at boosting interoperability. CMS also issued a rule, proposing a plan to publicly list providers who engage in data blocking.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
Most patient visits to doctors result in a prescription written for a medicine that people retrieve from a pharmacy, whether retail in the local community or via mail order for a maintenance drug. This one transaction generates a lot of data points, which individually have a lot of importance for the individual patient. Mashed with other patients’, prescription drug utilization data can combine with more data to be used for population health, cost-effectiveness, and other constructive research p
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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!
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. On Feb. 12, 2019, CMS Administrator Seema Verma held a session with some members of the healthcare media (this reporter attended the session) at HIMSS19 in Orlando in which she previewed her keynote remarks at the conference. During the briefing, and later during the actual keynote, Verma provided insight into the recently released Interoperability Proposed […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
As consumers start to drive their healthcare experince, concerns about healthcare spending savvy and information overload come to light.
American Well
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Throughout 2018, we witnessed across-the-board advances in the world of telemedicine. Shifts in state and federal policies fueled massive growth for both commercial and government reimbursement for telehealth and, admittedly, there was also growing maturity in the understanding of how to blend technologies into the way we consume and deliver care. Hindsight is easy.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
The incidence of MRSA infections among patients known to carry the bacteria on their body following hospitalizations was cut by 30% in a study of patients in a collection of California hospitals. The secret: getting patients to properly clean their skin and noses.
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.
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brian Wells, chief technology officer, Merlin International. I hope healthcare organizations delivered lots of TUMS and Advil to their beleaguered cybersecurity teams as a holiday bonus in 2018 – and maybe even a masseuse! With an overload of alerts, attacks and system compromises, it’s safe to say that working in a security operations center […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
At HIMSS19, the electronics company is discussing its partnerships for digital brain health tools and its long-term efforts toward data-driven health insight.
Christina's Considerations
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
The US Census Bureau estimates that older people will outnumber children for the first time in US history by 2035. So, it makes sense that we will see a corresponding increase in the more common “older people” conditions over the.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
The quality of care is not better at physician-employed hospitals than other hospitals, and patients in concentrated hospital markets are reporting a lower satisfaction with care.
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Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. As of 2019, the voters in 33 American states have passed some form of legislation allowing the use of medical marijuana. 10 of them have gone so far as to legalize the recreational use of the drug. In late 2018, the U.S. government re-classified hemp — the subspecies of cannabis lacking significant concentrations of the […].
Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
At Hoag Hospital in California, the same technology is paying dividends for patient engagement and surgical outcomes.
hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Spok, Inc., a healthcare communications company, is showcasing the latest evolution of its integrated healthcare communication platform this week at HIMSS19 in Orlando. The solution, Spok Care Connect, is a cloud-native enterprise communication.
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