KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Artificial intelligence is incredibly buzzy in health care right now, and for a good reason. Other industries are already experiencing AI-enabled radical transformations, like real-time fraud monitoring and detection in banking and finance and instantaneous image recognition across the web and social media. Health care now stands similarly positioned to capitalize on the transformative power […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anish Sebastian, CEO and oc-founder, Babyscripts. Collaboration is at the heart of successes over history — in Darwin’s words, “those who learn to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” Yet the healthcare space has been slow to learn that lesson.

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GlobalMed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

If you regularly follow virtual care news, you might have seen a recent survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation. It asked nearly 1,000 adult respondents if they use their smartphone to complete 10 healthcare-related tasks. For some people, the results seemed to confirm that patients do not like virtual services, since “access video calls with providers” ranked dead last at 10 percent.

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Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, you and your organization have identified that you need to provide telehealth services to your patient census. Whether you have provided this type of service in the past, or never before, there are critical steps that must be taken to ensure that you launch an effective and outcome-driven program. The key to driving this idea forward all begins with provider empowerment.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. According to an investigation by ProPublica and German radio and TV network Bayerischer Rundfunk, medical data of more than 5MM U.S. patients and millions more globally can be accessed online by basic web browsers and free software programs.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology has evolved, and it has positively affected all areas of our lives. When it comes to technological advances and innovations in medical technology, it can be said that life has been made easier for us. With new medical technology, we are assured of longer life span with credits to various medical innovations in medical […].

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The storage capacity of the human mind is amazing. One estimate of the size of the brain’s “RAM” is as high as 2.5 petabytes (a million gigabytes). The number is based on the total number of neurons in the brain and the total number of possible connections per neuron. I suspect it is an overestimate, given the […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Among stresses facing people at least 50 years of age, health care costs rank top of mind compared with other issues like long-term care, health insurance, Social Security, taxes, and being read to retire. Worries about health care costs are particularly stressful among future retirees, 8 of 10 of whom share this top concern along with 7 in 10 recent retirees and 6 in 10 people retired for at least a decade.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Boston Medical Center CEO Kate Walsh and Christiana Health CEO Dr. Janice Nevin discuss the future of virtual care in supporting vulnerable populations.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Skincare is a major part of your personal health, hygiene, and appearance, but it’s difficult to know where to start. Unlike other kinds of self-care, you can’t always rely on a particular routine or product to work for you – luckily, there are still some easy places to start.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Having been an improvement advisor with many quality improvement initiatives and collaboratives, I have observed that stories about successful initiatives too often leave out major relational barriers that got in the way as well as the critical interventions necessary to overcome them. That important details about relational challenges so often remain hidden is not a […].

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

That question in the title of this post is begged in the annual 2019 consumer survey released this week from UnitedHealthcare (UHC). UHC gauges peoples’ views on health care, insurance, and costs in its yearly research. This year, transparency and health literacy challenges top the findings. When the three in ten folks do shop, four in ten people used the internet or mobile apps to do so — a dramatic increase from 2012.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Digital therapeutic stakeholders came together at this week's DTx East conference to discuss the state of digital health investment, developing successful business models, the need for robust data and more.

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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.

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." Healthcare suddenly finds itself amid a paradigm shift, where a profusion of real-time clinical and social health data, broadband connectivity, personal devices, sensors, apps, digital therapeutics and more are transforming delivery away from acute care settings and into the larger community.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

During one long ago very hot Washington, DC summer, at the suggestion of my parents, I enrolled in a typing course that was given at our elementary school. This was the summer between sixth and seventh grades, and there were lots of things I would've preferred to have been doing, but my dad, who started […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Here’s the latest arithmetic on American workers’ financial trade-off of wages for health care insurance coverage: in the ten years since 2009, family premiums have risen 54% and workers’ contribution to health care spending grew 71%. Wages? They rose 26%, and general price inflation by 20%, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation survey on employer-sponsored benefits for 2019 released yesterday.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The partners announced that they are putting out a request for clinical trial proposals in the areas of dermatology, gastroenterology, pulmonology, endocrinology, ophthalmology, inflammatory diseases, neurology, women’s health and rare diseases.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The American Medical Association (AMA) and six other organizations have asked two congressional committees to use their oversight of the 21st Century Cures Act to improve interoperability and empower patients with meaningful health information while ensuring data is safe and secure.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Getty images show advertising’s ageist stereotypes. A new report from AARP this week zeros in on something we all knew: Advertisers focus on the young – not unlike the tech firms who make products being advertised. Despite the 50+ population representing one third of the US population, they only show up in 13% of advertising imagery. The AARP report authors analyzed the Getty images – and observed that even though 69% of people aged 65-73 own a smartphone, less the 5% of the images of technol

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Based on the influx of research studies and position papers on social determinants of health flowing into my email box and Google Alerts, I can say we’re past the inflection point where SDoH is embraced by hospitals, professional societies, health plans and even a couple of pioneering pharma companies. PwC published a well-researched global-reaching report this week appropriately titled, Action required: The urgency of addressing social determinants of health.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The offering includes nurse chat, telemedicine, app-enabled house calls, and prescription delivery.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) sent a joint letter to Congressional leaders today voicing concerns that certain provisions of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology’s (ONC’s) recent 21st Century Cures Act (Cures) proposed rule on information blocking jeopardizes goals to foster a healthcare system that is interoperable, patient-enga

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Walmart announced Tuesday that it is adding seven bachelor’s degrees and two career diplomas in health-related fields for $1 a day through Live Better U, Walmart’s education benefit program for its 1.5 million employees.

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Morning eHealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

VA's Cerner rollout stalls — Biden’s brother name drops Cancer Initiative in investment pitch

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Shanghai-based CareVoice, a digital health startup targeting the insurance market, which announced an eight-figure Series A raise totaling roughly $10M at the end of August, today announced the launch of CareVoiceOS in mainland China and Hong Kong, a healthcare operating system that allows insurers to deliver health plans which are more tailored, efficient and compelling to their customers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Amidst various initiatives to make healthcare bills less mystifying, educating providers on their spending habits may have a positive impact. A major factor contributing to the cost of care is what type of spender a patient’s provider is, according to new data released by IllumiCare.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

GoodRx launched in 2011 as a prescription savings website and mobile app offering cost-comparison tools and medication discounts. The company is now expanding into healthcare services with the acquisition of telemedicine company HeyDoctor.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A lot of discussion about healthcare AI is vague and visionary in nature. Most of us know that these technologies have a very promising future, but until recently it hasn’t been clear just when practical applications will emerge. That could be changing, though. For example, according to a new research paper appearing in the Journal […].

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