Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Dental hygiene related apps have been a feature of the medtech world for a few years, but only now are they permeating professional dental care. Forbes has noted the trickle of algorithm-led dentistry into clinics, and is now predicting that digital dentistry will become a key component of everyday practice.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2019

China’s Ping An Good Doctor and Thailand’s largest private medical group, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), yesterday announced the launch of a video consultation service. The service will allow the users of Ping An Good Doctor to seek second medical opinions via video consultations with top physicians in Thailand.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In November 2018, Mary Ang and her team won $45,000 in the Department of Health & Human Service’s Easy EHR Issue Reporting Challenge. Then she disappeared…until last week. Almost exactly a year after her Challenge win, Ang debuted a refined, production-ready version of her prize-winning application at the 2019 IHI Forum. EHRs are a source […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Exercise programs look to play a larger role in cardiac care Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dmitriy Nortenko, CEO and founder, QA Madness. Healthcare and pharma is one of the fastest-developing industries today, with 2019 characterized by a diversity of startups developing blockchain-based solutions to track and trace global drug supply. The Quality Assurance engineers at QA Madness predict the active use of blockchain and the growth of traceability system […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Ro will now be offering a new weight management medication, Plenity, through its platform, the direct-to-consumer telehealth company exclusively told MobiHealthNews.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Addressing challenges of medical treatment in deep space Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Lynch, founder, Reciprocity. The HIPAA outlines the standard security practices that organizations handling protected health information (PHI) need to adhere to. Whether your business is compliant with the HIPAA or not can have a huge impact on how you handle your business.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Flare Capital Partners' Ian Chiang describes the key capabilities of a value-based care enablement platform for providers, highlights successful platform examples and offers a framework for entrepreneurs seeking a provider partner.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For the second time this month, the HHS Office for Civil Rights has fined a provider for failing to make a patient’s medical records available to them promptly and within fee guidelines as required by HIPAA. Florida-based Korunda Medical, which offers primary care and interventional pain management services, has agreed to pay the OCR $85,000 […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Mobile ECG tech can empower heart patients Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. For those of us who have long dreamed of becoming a nurse, a surgeon, a doctor or another health professional, it’s often all we can concentrate on as we leave school and head to college, university and medical school. In each and every career in the medical field, you’ll need to sacrifice time and energy […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The clearance of Tandem Diabetes Care’s Control-IQ Technology opens the door for new algorithms enabling hybrid closed-loop diabetes management systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2019

New research suggests that AI may already be offering – or at least seems well-positioned to offer—help with reducing physician burnout levels in addition to freeing up some of their time.­ The survey, which reached out to more than 900 healthcare professionals, was conducted by MIT Technology Review Insights in partnership with GE Healthcare. According […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently outlined a year of milestones and service improvements, many of them executed with the aid of telehealth services, as it moves forward with its many wide-ranging wave of digitization initiatives. The VA reported that in the last fiscal year, Veterans took advantage of telehealth more than 2.6 million times across the country, with more than 900,000 Veterans now getting care this way.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ramachandra Annadi, technical architect, Qentelli. Cloud technology has made its way into IT since Continuous Delivery became a priority to nearly every business sector, including the healthcare industry. In fact, many hospitals and healthcare organizations are now housing electronic medical records in a cloud-based environment, giving medical teams a more convenient way to access […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Chief executive Johannes Schildt talks about the ambitions of KRY, the Swedish startup now seen as one of the most promising providers of digital healthcare services in Europe.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Over the next five years, healthcare and life sciences firms will ramp up their digital transformation efforts, driven at least in part by AI and data analytics tools, according to a recent research report. In fact AI, in particular, should revolutionize the nature of work in one in three health systems within a few years, […].

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What can be done to improve satisfaction and efficiency for the individuals responsible for provider onboarding as well as the new providers being brought into an organization?

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 19, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Many healthcare professionals are unaware of the negative long-term effects that discipline could have on their medical license. This includes submitting a voluntary relinquishment of the license while there is an open investigation or pending charges. A voluntary relinquishment of the license after notice of an investigation or while a charge is pending is treated the same as a disciplinary revocation

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The deal follows on the company's 2018 acquisition of AI nutrition app Nutrino.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The following is a guest article by Troy Foster, Senior Manager of Communications Infrastructure. Have you ever gone to an appointment at a clinic and sat in the waiting room for exhaustive periods of time only to find out later you were in the wrong waiting area? I remember hearing a story about 5 years […].

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In healthcare credentialing, there’s confusion about what it means to be a “participating” provider, which is key to avoiding claim denials. How to ensure providers are participating was the focus of a recent VerityStream webinar.

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 17, 2019

By Achal A. Aggarwal J.D. and George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law In the past few months, we have been contacted by numerous physicians who had completed residency programs in internal medicine and only recently discovered that their time has now expired to become board certified. ABIM usually considers all internal medicine and subspecialist physicians who had met the standards for Board Certification in general internal medicine or any of

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Sidekick was previously selected to take part in the German pharma and life sciences giant's G4A programme.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2019

It’s the Friday before the holidays really crank into full gear. Have you finished all your shopping? I’m happy to say that my wife and I cranked out the majority of our shopping in about 2 hours on Amazon. Only one thing is not going to quite make it for our Christmas. Not bad. Yes, […].

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 19, 2019

We present our research collected in early 2017 by VerityStream from 505 U.S. credentialing and provider enrollment professionals who indicate that creating efficiency and automation are higher priorities in their organization than in recent years.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

“Having 20/20 vision does not necessarily mean you have perfect vision. 20/20 vision only indicates the sharpness or clarity of vision at a distance,” according to the American Optometric Association. An important vision skill, the AOA tells us, is “peripheral awareness or side vision” which contributes to overall visual acuity. So it is with scenario planning in health care, a key work-flow this time of the year for me with my clients spanning the health/care ecosystem from providers to payors

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This year's cohort includes 27 companies that are working on everything from digital therapeutics to care coordination tools, to clinician workflow platforms, to opioid alternatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Cerner Millennium/IT Service Desk Agent position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a remote position. Here’s a description of the position: Now seeking […].

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