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Opinion: How self-tracking biometrics influence patients, medicine and society

Mobi Health News

For many, self-monitoring is becoming a new philosophy for life, argues digital health journalist and blogger Artur Olesch.

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Are Robots Coming to Healthcare? Consumers Say Not-So-Fast

Health Populi

Samsung introduced BotCare , a caring robot, at CES 2019. BotCare is part of the company’s Bixby, an AI platform that supports Samsung’s robotic offerings for environmental health (air), retail, and healthcare. Think: medication reminders and around-the-house services that a human homecare aid might perform, among other medical support tasks.

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8 Key Telehealth Partnerships and What to Expect in 2019

Enzyme Health

Retailers, insurance providers, and software companies are fast and furiously forming partnerships in the telehealth space. Explore some of the implications for patients and telemedicine providers and find out what we can expect in 2019. Over the past year, insurance providers, pharmacies, and technology companies large and small have been forming partnerships with telehealth companies right and left.

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Optimizing System Infrastructure Is Healthcare Data’s Most Urgent Issue

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In a drive for standardization, the proposed U.S. Core Data for Interoperability1, mandated by the 2015 21st Century Cure Act2, calls for the identification and refinement of a basic set of clinical data to be required for all electronic health records.

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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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Apple Watch app for nightmare disorder receives FDA breakthrough designation, opens enrollment for two RCTs

Mobi Health News

To see light as a prescription digital therapeutic for PTSD patients affected by nightmares, NightWare is testing its app among veterans and the general public.

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UPMC launches new telemedicine company focused on infectious disease

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

UPMC has launched a new company, Infectious Disease Connect, that seeks to boost ID services using telehealth technology – helping providers improve outcomes and lower costs by reducing transfers and treating patients in their own communities. WHY IT MATTERS. UPMC already offers infectious disease services to some patients via telemedicine and has for several years.

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Will Connected Medical Platforms Cure Healthcare?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David Niewolny, director of healthcare market, Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI). We live in a world where medical errors are the third leading cause of death behind cancer and cardiac disease, leading to more than 200,000 preventable deaths every year.

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How Central, East Africa's tech renaissance is shaping its healthcare future

Mobi Health News

From blood delivery by drone to open-source EHRs, innovators are tackling the health needs and special challenges of the region with technology.

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Healthcare breach of 1.5M records might've made worse by notifications sent to wrong addresses

FierceHealthIT

Inmediata Health Group, a healthcare clearinghouse, notified patients last month that their personal health data was potentially exposed due to a misconfigured website. The breach impacts 1.56 million people, according to the HHS Office of Civil Rights breach portal.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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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Today’s Healthcare Innovations, Invested Capital Will Drive 5 Key Trends in 2020

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

In the changing healthcare landscape, several key trends are emerging that offer a glimpse into healthcare’s future

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Enhancing Patient Care With Virtual Care Services

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kannan Sreedhar, corporate consulting director of healthcare, Avaya. The need for value-based healthcare has never been greater in the United States. Research shows that six out of 10 adults have a chronic disease being treated, and 60 percent of those adults have more than one healthcare institution treating them.

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Smartphone algorithm combined with paper funnel can detect ear infection

Mobi Health News

Researchers at the University of Washington have created a new app that was able to detect fluid in the middle ear in pediatric patients.

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Poor broadband access in rural areas limits telemedicine use: study

FierceHealthIT

Telemedicine is frequently touted as a technology tool that can help improve healthcare access for rural populations, especially in areas with physician shortages. But telemedicine might not be the silver bullet to improve rural healthcare.

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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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Norwalk Hospital launches telestroke program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut has opened a telestroke program that allows neurologists to remotely consult with emergency medicine clinicians and evaluate patients, diagnose stroke and order treatment. WHY IT MATTERS. The HIPAA-compliant communications equipment used for the service is designed to help expedite the evaluation of potential stroke patients by a neurologist.

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EHR Supplier Base In EMEA Remains Highly Fragmented; Cerner Gains Ground

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The EMEA market for electronic health record (EHR) IT is estimated to have been worth $3.7B in 2018 (both acute and ambulatory applications) according to Signify Research’s 2019 global EMR market report. However, only one vendor, Cerner, is estimated to have had a double-digit revenue share in 2018.

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Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi commit to new trials on Verily's digital research platform

Mobi Health News

The pharmas will be employing Verily's Project Baseline platform to streamline recruitment and data collection during clinical research.

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When it comes to longevity, social factors play a bigger role than healthcare: study

FierceHealthIT

Although healthcare plays a role, behavioral and social factors have significantly more influence on life longevity of people in the U.S., according to a new study.

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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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Technology non-adoption of the oldest – it’s a bug, not a feature

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Not adopting tech -- it's not okay. Lacking access to smartphones, Internet, in-home broadband/WiFi cuts oldest out of access to modern telehealth, communication and engagement, in-home sensors, outside-home GPS, fall detection, and device integration with smartphones. The issue of non-adoption, particularly as more health services move online, will become increasingly vexing for service providers of all types.

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Critical Cogs In the Revenue Cycle Management Machine

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By William Ayres, director of financial management, Grant Thornton LLP. A key element in achieving end-to-end revenue cycle success in any healthcare operation is proper dedication and maintenance of workflow tools, and those systems that support processes that help organizations meet net revenue expectations.

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Drones transforming medical services delivery

Mobi Health News

Wing, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, announced in April that it had received Civil Aviation Safety Authority approval to fly drones over built-up areas in Canberra, Australia.

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One-minute survey tool can help providers prioritize patients' social needs

FierceHealthIT

A one-minute survey in an emergency department waiting room or in general admittance can offer big insight into what social services are being offered already and what are the person’s unmet needs.

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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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Intermountain Tool Uses EHR Data to Predict Outcomes for COPD Patients

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

The methodology behind the predictive tool differs from traditional risk scores, researchers say

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Penalties For Violating HIPAA

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Lynch, founder and CEO, Reciprocity Labs. If your organization handles protected health information (PHI) or electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI), you should be well aware of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act known commonly as HIPAA.

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Facebook launches three new disease mapping tools

Mobi Health News

The new tools will include a high-resolution population density map with demographic estimates, a movement map and network coverage map.

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Sweeping Senate healthcare proposal would address surprise billing, transparency

FierceHealthIT

Senate lawmakers released a draft package of legislation Thursday aimed at curbing health care costs they said they believe they can pass on a bipartisan basis — starting with topics like surprise billing and drug prices.

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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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Stratus Video buys InDemand Interpreting to expand healthcare services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Language service provider Stratus Video, announced their acquisition of InDemand Interpreting, a portfolio company of Health Enterprise Partners (HEP), with the aim of improving health equity for deaf, limited English proficient and hard of hearing patients. WHY IT MATTERS. InDemand specializes in the video-remote-interpreting (VRI) market and provides access to medically qualified or certified interpreters through video, audio and geolocation technology.

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Can Precision Medicine Curb the Creation of Ineffective Blockbuster Treatments?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Alif Saleh, chief executive office, Scipher Medicine With hundreds of thousands of clinical trials currently underway worldwide, we are continuously seeing innovation applied to how we treat and cure diseases, but the traditional four-phase method of getting there has not been updated since 1963.

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Wearable technology can detect biomarkers linked to fertility windows

Mobi Health News

A study published in JMIR found that a fertility wearable was able to use skin temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate to help determine a woman's fertility window.

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