Sat.Feb 02, 2019 - Fri.Feb 08, 2019

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Predicting the Most Likely Takeaways From HIMSS19

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. This year looks to be one of adventure and excitement for healthcare technology, per usual, and according to a new report from HIMSS, 2019 Healthcare Trends Forecast: The Beginning of a Consumer-Driven Reformation, we’re about to get serious about the tangible results of digital health innovation.

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The Expectation Gap Between What Patients Want Vs What They Get

Health Populi

Talk to me, patients are demanding in unison. Most health consumers expect providers to communicate about routine health care and prevention; this is especially true among those patients trying to manage chronic conditions we learn from 10 Ways to Fulfill Patients’ Communication Wish List , a report based on a consumer survey from West, the communications and network infrastructure company.

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Lyft expands non-emergency medical transport deals with MA plans, updates platform

Mobi Health News

Along with new deals with BCBS, Humana and Logisticare, the rideshare service is also adding automated calls and other senior-friendly features to its web-based Concierge platform.

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Why telemedicine and remote patient monitoring demand will skyrocket in 2019

Redox

If you were to ask someone on the street what they consider the most impactful digital health innovation over the last five years, there’s a good chance their response would be, “telemedicine”. Not only is it easily understood–the value in using digital tools to communicate with a care professional remotely instead of battling traffic for the privilege of waiting an hour only to be told to rest and increase fluid intake isn’t lost on many–versions of telemedicine are actually available and used

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Health IT Startup: Health Wizz

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Health Wizz is an electronic file cabinet for your health records on your smartphone. We help provide the tools to help people aggregate their medical records, organize them, and format them so that they can be shared easily, seamlessly and securely on a blockchain, such as Ethereum.

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

Consumers put food front-and-center when thinking about their health. Viewing food-as-medicine is going mainstream for health consumers, who look beyond the “medicine” in that phrase toward a broader concept of personal well-being. This is the theme of a new report from the FMI Foundation called The Power of Health and Well-Being in Food Retail.

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Don’t Let Shadow IT Jeopardize HIPAA Compliance

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brad Spannbauer, senior director of product management, j2 Cloud Services. When it comes to cybersecurity, healthcare organizations are up against a constantly shifting threat landscape. New technologies and techniques, employed by increasingly advanced criminals, require organizations to be proactive in their defense efforts, or they risk being outsmarted by those who seek to expose […].

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Patients Want To Wait Less for Doctors, Better Communication Makes That Possible

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Allison Hart, vice president of marketing, West. Americans expect customer service to be fast. Whether they’re at the bank, the airport, their doctor’s office or elsewhere, they don’t like to be kept waiting. When waits are long, consumers are disappointed – or worse. But like it or not, consumers know waiting is probable in […].

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What Is Your HIPAA Data Backup Plan?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Marty Puranik, co-founder and CEO, Atlantic.Net. The data backup plan was established as a mandatory stage of HIPAA compliance to create, implement and maintain a set of rules and procedures for healthcare organizations to follow when managing the backup and restore requirements of electronic protected health information (ePHI).

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9 Ways Your Patients Benefit from a Doctors Answering Service

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Mike Haynes, medical advisor and freelance writer. Doctors answering service may seem like an outdated service, yet they are just as important today as they were years back when they had just begun. The feel of a personal caregiver anytime, cannot be easily replaced by chat-bots or virtual robotic voices.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Looking At the Facts: Overcoming Benzodiazepine Addiction

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Anyone can become addicted to benzodiazepines, or benzos, and like any addiction, it can be a difficult thing to overcome but it is possible. Knowing the fine line between dependence and addiction can help you determine the next best steps to take. Like Xanax, Benzos are prescribed by doctors to treat patients with anxiety and […].

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Verily patent application offers new details on company's predictive EHR aggregation system

Mobi Health News

The AI system would aggregate and compile EHR data from multiple centers while using deep learning analytics to warn providers of upcoming clinical events.

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Google unveils two new apps support communication for deaf and hard of hearing people

Mobi Health News

One app will help transcribe speech to text and the other will help amplify certain sounds and minimize others.

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Thailand Board of Investment to help promote medical robotics

Mobi Health News

Under its Thailand 4.0 vision, Thailand plans to leverage on its reputation and excellence in medical services and medical devices and strengthen its position as the regional medical hub.

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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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Omron's HeartGuide gets first rollout as part of PhysIQ's remote monitoring platform

Mobi Health News

The integration will be used to enable remote monitoring of at-risk patients that have recently been discharged after heart failure or a heart attack.

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Google patent application offers new details on company's predictive EHR aggregation system

Mobi Health News

The AI system would aggregate and compile EHR data from multiple centers while using deep learning analytics to warn providers of upcoming clinical events.

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Meditation, sleep app maker Calm secures $88M, announces unicorn valuation

Mobi Health News

The new backing is led by TPG Growth, and brings Calm’s total funding to $116 million.

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Saliva-based glucometer, leaked Fitbits for kids and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Grants for virtual reality in surgery, a medical search engine and telemedicine in the news.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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HIMSS TV at HIMSS19 will feature innovation leaders, former US CTO, Livongo CEO and more

Mobi Health News

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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Smartphone urine analysis company Healthy.io lands $18M in Series B funding

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the money to scale its operations in the US and continue to roll out services in the UK.

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PerfectServe acquires AI scheduling technology for physicians, mobile patient engagement tool

Mobi Health News

This morning the clinical communication and collaboration company announced that it would be acquiring Lightning Bolt Solutions and CareWire.

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Digitally tracking daily postoperative steps could help gauge patient length of stay

Mobi Health News

The Cedars-Sinai study used Fitbit Charge trackers to monitor 100 patients following a major inpatient surgical procedure.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Telemedicine adoption inconsistent across Latin American countries

Mobi Health News

According to new research article published in Health Affairs Global Policy, 65 percent of hospitals in Chile have adopted the technology compared to only 25 percent in Colombia.

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Blockchain personal health record company rakes in $3.7M

Mobi Health News

The news coincides with the announcement that Embleema will be joining the Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator.

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Big Health follows up Sleepio with Daylight, an app for anxiety

Mobi Health News

Like its predecessor, the app combines artistic presentation with proven cognitive behavioral therapy strategies.

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In conversation with futurist, author and researcher Koen Kas: “The future of healthcare is about changing behaviour”

Mobi Health News

Kas will be speaking at HIMSS Liège and the HIMSS & Health 2.0 European conference later this year.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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To bring healthcare to Silicon Valley, you have to bring Silicon Valley to healthcare

Mobi Health News

Stanford VP of software Aditya Bhasin will discuss his hospital's journey at HIMSS 19.

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How many companies stand to benefit from the FDA Pre-Cert program? Fewer than you might think

Mobi Health News

While key details are still missing, the picture that's emerging is surprisingly restrictive

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Instagram pledges to handle self-harm material, HIMSS19 focuses on global innovators, and more news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: UK launches health data research alliance; Novartis partners with Oxford Big Data Institute; Healthware and FII Tech Group will invest more than €10m to strengthen digital health operations.

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Kaia Health unveils a feasibility study to explore a digital COPD treatment for Japan’s ageing population

Mobi Health News

Digital therapeutics company Kaia Health has unveiled a feasibility study to examine the impact of its digital therapeutic treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) on Japan’s ageing population. This follows a German pilot study which successfully decreased symptoms.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.