Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO and co-founder, Innovaccer. Children have entirely distinctive needs as compared to adults. Care is delivered to them in a manner entirely different than adults by care teams that hardly ever double-up as providers for the elderly.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 10, 2019
As healthcare manages the twin challenges of a shrinking workforce and an expanding patient population , hospitals and health systems are faced with some fundamental challenges. And they're spending lots and lots of money to help manage them. Accenture data shows that nearly two out of every three dollars spent by U.S. hospitals – 65 percent of expenditure, on average – goes to labor costs.
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Health Populi
JULY 9, 2019
“It’s the prices stupid,” Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard Anderson and colleagues asserted in the title their seminal Health Affairs manifesto on U.S. healthcare spending. Sixteen years later, yesterday on 8th July 2019, a Federal U.S. judge blocked , in the literal last-minute, a DHHS order mandating prescription drug companies to publish “retail prices” of medicines in direct-to-consumer TV ads.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 12, 2019
Healthcare is full of workarounds. Many of them show an extreme amount of creativity. It’s just unfortunate that all of those creative juices are spent on workarounds and not the core problems. While many of the health IT workarounds out there are about health IT people doing what they need to in order to get […].
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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?
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 12, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s easier than ever to put health data on the Internet. Fitness trackers, health apps and other connected devices can give people a lot of insight into their health. Unfortunately, that’s not the only way that their health data ends up getting used.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 11, 2019
Thailand’s population is ageing rapidly with almost half of its electorate above 50 years old by 2025. Healthcare costs are rising and it is not tenable in the long-run to keep building hospitals. One possible consideration for the country is the shift towards value-based healthcare (VBHC), which is about improving healthcare outcomes at lower cost.
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Health Populi
JULY 11, 2019
The health/care ecosystem continues to morph as the stakeholder groups themselves are blurring across and outside of their core businesses. Today’s example of this is Clover Health, which launched Clover Therapeutics this week. This research organization will develop medicines targeting older adults — which makes sense because Clover Health’s target consumer market is Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Assaf Halevy, founder and CEO, 2bPrecise, LLC. Few healthcare leaders doubt that insights made available through precision medicine and genomics have the potential to vastly improve care and outcomes. But the industry struggles to overcome numerous barriers that, at first glance, seem to obstruct providers’ ability to fully leverage precision medicine.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 11, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How digital tools can alleviate the stigma of mental health issues Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK
Mobi Health News
JULY 10, 2019
The company exclusively announced to MobiHealthNews its plants to create a tool kit for providers, payers and pharmas.
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Healthcare IT Today
JULY 11, 2019
As part of its “Patients over Paperwork” effort, CMS recently issued a Request for Information seeking new ideas on reducing levels of administrative burden. The initiative seems to be making a serious impact. According to CMS, reforms identified by Patients over Paperwork since it launched in late 2017 should save roughly 40 million hours and […].
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Springer, senior vice president of healthcare solutions, CitiusTech; and Fernando Schwartz, vice president of data science and consulting, CitiusTech. As consumers, we experience artificial intelligence (AI) every day. In fact, we’ve come to expect the consumer experience it enables, such as Amazon’s highly personalized suggestions for additional items we might like.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 8, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: E-health in Korea: Moving care beyond the hospital Featured Decision Content: Sponsor: KHIDI
Mobi Health News
JULY 12, 2019
The country's FinnGen Project seeks to use its unique population bottleneck and cohesive health records to drive genetic insights.
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Healthcare IT Today
JULY 11, 2019
The following is a guest blog post by Julie Krommenhoek from Ciox. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is a designation that accounts for more than 80 percent of lung cancers diagnosed, and it has emerged as a new hotspot for investment by pharma manufacturers. Globally, the NSCLC therapeutics market is expected to rise to a […].
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 11, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Yves Archambault, strategic initiative director, Varian. It’s hard to imagine what it can be like to go through cancer treatment, even when being treated with the latest adaptive therapy technology. You walk into the clinic, lay perfectly still inside a long, narrow tunnel-like machine…for about 45 minutes or so, as your clinician uses an […].
NY Health Law
JULY 9, 2019
No matter where you look lately it seems like you can find a store selling CBD-based items or find an article discussing the medical benefits of CBD. In fact a simple Google search of the term “CBD” pulls up an overwhelming 225 million results. This article will cover the basics of CBD so that you can get all of the facts without having to parse through pages and pages of information.
Mobi Health News
JULY 9, 2019
Shanghai-based medical AI startup Synyi announced that it has raised RMB 250M ($36.3M) in Series C funding led by Chinese tech giant Tencent. Founded in 2016, Synyi started with Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities in the Chinese language and focused on hospitals’ demand for scientific research data, combining AI & HIT to create their first smart analytics platform.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 8, 2019
The following is a guest blog post by David Fetterolf, President of Stratus Video. The need for language services in healthcare is widespread. Each day, providers are encountering a larger number of patients with limited English proficiency (LEP). Both the frequency and number of languages requested have increased significantly in recent years. The Agency for […].
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 8, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joshua Titus, CEO and founder, Gozio Health. The role of mobile wayfinding solutions for hospital systems has quickly evolved from a novel service offered to an essential component of a patient-centric approach. The catalyst has been the growing importance of patient experience to meet both care and competitive standards.
HealthStream
JULY 11, 2019
Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.
Mobi Health News
JULY 11, 2019
CEO Sean Duffy discusses clinical validation, digital therapeutics and the new opportunity for a digital provider.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
JULY 10, 2019
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Sr Epic Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Prisma Health and is in South Carolina. Here’s a description of the position: As a senior level team […].
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A business has to find ways to flourish, reach out to people, and thrive. Every company has a purpose, and they need to serve; that is the way people accept them — even a field like medical practices that everyone requires every-now-and-then needs a particular form of a marketing boost.
The Health Law Firm
JULY 11, 2019
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Did you receive a denial on your Medicare enrollment application and can’t figure out why? You may be surprised to find out that even the smallest error, such as punctuation like a missing comma or period, could be the reason Medicare rejected your application.
Mobi Health News
JULY 10, 2019
ANDHealth, an Australian organisation dedicated to supporting digital health companies in their commercialisation journey, has partnered with a consortium of leading medical research institutes and universities in Western Australia (WA), led by the Telethon Kids Institute, as part of the State’s first Digital Health Accelerator Program.
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Healthcare IT Today
JULY 9, 2019
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Amanda Hansen from @AdvancedMD on the topic “Challenges and Triumphs of the Independent Practice” A major shift is slowly but surely taking place in healthcare, creating both challenges […].
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 9, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Lynch, founder and CEO, Reciprocity Labs. Healthcare providers are among the long list of service providers that have embraced the mobile technology revolution. Some healthcare providers are supplying mobile healthcare devices to their staff, and others have introduced the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program that allows their staff to bring their devices and […].
HealthStream
JULY 11, 2019
Patients in hospice care may need differing hospice levels of care, as the impact of disease progresses or their health condition worsens. Every type of hospice care is appropriate when an illness is not responding to medical attempts to cure it or to slow the disease's progress.
Mobi Health News
JULY 10, 2019
Founded in 2011, primary healthcare aggregator HealthAssure recently announced a $2.5M Series A round led by Blume Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund.
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