Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2020

In CTA’s 2020 Consumer Tech Forecast launched yesterday at Media Day 1 at CES, Steve Koenig VP of Research, said that, “digital health is an ecosystem of ecosystems.”. Health, medical and wellness trends featured large in the forecast, which brought together key trends for 5G, robotics, voice tech, AR/VR/XR, and the next iteration of IoT — which Steve said will still be called “IoT,” but in this phase will morph into the “Intelligence of Things.”.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 7, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Kristin Simonini, vice president of product, Applause Healthcare has long been looked at as a laggard when it comes to adopting digital services. Part of that is due to the stringent regulations of the industry and the sensitivity surrounding personally identifiable information.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 7, 2020

A new case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine runs through how astronauts employed telemedicine to get the right medications to a patient in space.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2020

We love buzzwords and catch-phrases in healthcare don’t we? Everyone wants to “bend the cost curve” by “breaking down silos”. We are all working towards “personalized medicine” by deploying “predictive analytics” and “big data” using “cloud computing”. As we start 2020, I thought it would be fun to conduct an informal poll of Health IT […].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2020

The presence of health and medicine is growing at CES, the annual conference of all-things-tech for consumers. At this week’s Show in Las Vegas, we see that the Internet of Healthy Things (a phrase coined by Dr. Joe Kvedar ) has taken hold and gone mainstream in remote health monitoring, wearable tech, and heart rate tracking which is now embedded (and expected by health-seeking consumers) in wristbands.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 8, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. Rising healthcare promises have been tied to cloud technology in the most recent tech-talks of the town. While the majority of care providers are not holding their breath due to previous disappointments, we wanted to translate the often vague statements made into discrete simplified processes for healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 7, 2020

The following story concerns a small slip in discharge planning — really, a tiny issue in the grand scheme of things. But since I’m the patient affected by the slip, you won’t be surprised to learn that it feels pretty important to me. Also, given the extent to which niggling IT issues played a role, […].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

The digital health presence at CES 2020 is the fastest-growing segment of consumer technologies at the Show this year, increasing by 25% over 2019. Heart-focused technologies are a big part of that growth story. In fact, in our search for devices and tools underpinned with clinical proof, evidence is growing for consumer-facing technology for heart-health, demonstrated by this year’s CES.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 6, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anish Sebastian, CEO, Babyscripts. Last month saw the rollout of the latest upgrades to Amazon’s Echo speaker line: earbuds, glasses, and a ring that connect to Amazon’s personal assistant Alexa. These new products are just three examples of a growing trend to incorporate technology seamlessly into our human experience, representing the ever-expanding frontiers for […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2020

Over the course of the show, MobiHealthNews will be updating this list of new products and other announcements being unveiled this week in Las Vegas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2020

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

The top two health care concerns facing Americans are out-of-pocket costs and prescriptions drug costs, according to a poll published today in Morning Consult. Apropos to my title of this post, the survey was sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center , whose mission is to promote, cross-party affiliations, “health, security and opportunity for all Americans.”.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 8, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chelsea White, consultant, Freed Associates. Want to rapidly improve your hospital’s brand, reputation and financial prospects? Look no further than patient access (PA), typically the front-line “face” of a healthcare provider and instrumental to an organization’s clinical, financial and reputational success.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 9, 2020

The new tool was designed in partnership with EMD Serono, and aims to give expecting moms information about managing multiple sclerosis during pregnancy.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2020

What will your executives, board, and the public think if you report a breach that could have been prevented? If you have Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems, doing nothing isn’t an option. After January 14, 2020, Windows 7 and Server 2008 will no longer receive critical security patches and updates from Microsoft. That means […].

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Health Populi

JANUARY 10, 2020

I wrote my heart-health update from #CES2020 this morning, curating a little portfolio of digital health tech announced this week in Las Vegas that could put our heart-health in our hands, mirrors, clothing, and bathroom mats. Imagine my delight to find consumer research published this week by the Pew Research Center on wearable tech adoption and perceptions.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 7, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the flu season is going to be bad this year. There have already been more than 7 million Americans sick with the flu, and we’re still only in January. Do you want to avoid getting the flu and steer clear of other health conditions as well?

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2020

The new features are designed to help wearers detect the risk of atrial fibrillation and sleep apnea.

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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.

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HealthStream

JANUARY 6, 2020

The burden of government healthcare regulation has resulted in providers and systems saying they are spending too much time ensuring compliance, taking them away from their primary mission of providing care. What is the extent of the problem?

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2020

A quartet of patients has filed a class-action suit against an Alabama based hospital group detailing the harm they allegedly suffered after a ransomware attack hit their local hospitals. According to a news story, patients seen at the three hospitals run by Ala.-based DCH Health System are claiming that the three hospitals disrupted their medical […].

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CMS.gov

JANUARY 6, 2020

In 2015, Congress passed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act – or MACRA. In an attempt to streamline multiple quality programs for physicians, the law created the Merit Based Incentive Payments System (MIPS).

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 7, 2020

New agreements with five different tech companies and research organizations aim to expand and flesh out the digital therapeutics maker's product pipeline.

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HealthStream

JANUARY 8, 2020

Healthcare organizations’ outcomes can benefit when they use a system based on artificial intelligence (AI) to ensure the competence, readiness, and ability of their nursing staff.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2020

I must admit that it’s kind of crazy to look back at the first CES I attended about 15 years ago. I was a techguy that had just started in healthcare. So, I really just wanted to go to CES regardless, but I did keep my eyes open for any sort of technology that could […].

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The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 7, 2020

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 26, 2019, the American Dental Association (ADA) and two individual dentists filed a class-action lawsuit against the Delta Dental Plans Association, its affiliated national entities, and 39 independent Delta Dental companies. The suit alleges the provider network engaged in anticompetitive conduct and violated federal antitrust laws.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 10, 2020

Innovaccer CEO and cofounder Abhinav Shashank reviews the past year's healthcare events and technology trends, and highlights the potential of each to influence the future of care.

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HealthStream

JANUARY 7, 2020

A positive outcome of using data to make learning assignments is better employee retention, which reduces operational expenses and helps achieve institutional goals more quickly.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 8, 2020

While at the ASHP conference, I had a chance to talk with Tom Knight, CEO of Invistics. I imagine many ready Healthcare IT Today aren’t familiar with Invistics since their original background is in the planning, scheduling, and improvement of the supply chain. Not something we cover very much here, but maybe we should. What […].

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CMS.gov

JANUARY 10, 2020

As we start a new year, we know that for many seniors January 1st also signals a fresh start for their Medicare health insurance coverage. Coverage and costs may change, deductibles reset, and those who changed health or drug plans start learning about their new plan benefits.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 8, 2020

The annual awards lauded 19 entrepreneurs for developing cutting-edge medical technologies.

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