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Telemedicine reduces ICU mortality rate at Valley Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Valley Health, a not-for-profit health system serving West Virginia, Maryland and part of Virginia, was facing two serious challenges for which it was looking for solutions. THE PROBLEM. First, hospitals are facing critical care staffing shortages. "There is a national problem finding enough intensivists to support an ICU," said Dr. Glen Bouder, director of valley intensivists at Valley Health and medical director of critical care at Winchester Medical Center.

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Keep Your Eye On 4 Trends Revealed At HIMSS19

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sheri Stoltenberg, CEO, Stoltenberg Consulting. The 2019 HIMSS Annual Conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean an end to the pressing challenges and trends discussed at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. More than 42,500 people attended the conference — the majority of whom were C-suite executives and HIT professionals taking full advantage of […].

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AI in healthcare: Not human versus machine, human plus machine

Mobi Health News

Developing effective AI tools for healthcare means working multiple stakeholders and understanding the clinical, according to panelists at GTC in San Jose.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the We

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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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FHIR, cloud, pop health and social determinants spark new security challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy. While that likely means good things for patients and outcomes, it also drives more sharing, more data and more risk of losing your privacy.

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Blockchain Not a Cure for EHR Interoperability

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By James D’Arezzo, CEO, Condusiv Technologies. Much has been written about the prospect of using blockchain technology as a key component of achieving EHR interoperability. It has been widely reported that 55 percent of surveyed hospitals indicated a desire to initiate some sort of blockchain program within the next two years.

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Medical Issues Are Still The #1 Contributor to Bankruptcy in the U.S.

Health Populi

Medical costs in America are still the top contributor to personal bankruptcy in the U.S., a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA).

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Stanford Health Care taps Lumeris for help with value-based senior care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Stanford Health Care is partnering with Lumeris, which develops technology to help health systems manage the demands of value-based reimbursement, for a long-term deal to help it build out its Medicare Advantage plan in Northern California. In addition, the two will work together to innovate new approaches to care delivery and population health, officials said, such as artificial intelligence-enabled diagnostic tools, new clinical pathways and other digital health initiative to boost patient eng

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Doctors Against Data Entry: Exploring Systems To Beat Physician Burnout

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Suvas Vajracharya, Ph.D., founder and CEO, Lightning Bolt Solutions. A staggering 96 percent of physicians are reporting that the amount of time they spend on data input has increased in the last 10 years, and 86 percent agree it’s robbing them of joy in their jobs, according to a recent survey by Geneia, a […].

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Apple Heart Study results: Notifications are rare, but often coincide with ECG-confirmed a-fib

Mobi Health News

Among more than 400,000 participants who enrolled in the study, only 0.5 percent ever received an atrial fibrillation alert from the app.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. And even in our most cynical moments, we can all hearken back to our grandmothers’ kitchen table wisdom for dealing with skin issues, the flu, and broken hearts. The annual conference of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) convened this week, and I was grateful to attend and speak on the evolving retail health landscape yesterday.

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Health IT implementation best practices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

HIT Best Practices Series This 20-part series examines in-depth what it takes to deploy today's most necessary technology and tools, with expert advice from IT pros who are leading the charge. We'll share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Sign Up Customnize Your Content. Collection. AI and machine learning: What cuts hype from reality?

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The Dos and Don’ts of Digital Healthcare Payments

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Alison Arthur, product and content marketing manager, Alacriti. The financial well-being of healthcare organizations depends on steady, predictable revenue from their patients. However, healthcare payments are often impacted by a number of financial factors including insurance, co-payments, deductibles, and co-insurance.

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White House report highlights key focuses for healthy aging tech research

Mobi Health News

Developing these strategies and tools will be "critical" for the federal government as it manages the rapidly growing senior population, the report's authors wrote.

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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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Judge Rejects Motion to Dismiss $21 Million FCA Suit Against Florida Pharmacy

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On February 13, 2019, a Florida judge turned down a Florida pharmacy’s motion to dismiss a $21 million False Claims Act (FCA) suit, but allowed its sister company to drop out of the suit. The judge said Z Stat Medical LLC, which operates as Oldsmar Pharmacy and its owner, must face the government’s claims that it engaged in illegal kickback schemes to defraud the government program Tricare.

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Health 2.0: Integrating solutions for healthcare transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Health 2.

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Health IT Industry Outlook Survey Reveals Six Key Leadership Trends for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In the seventh annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc., 42 percent of health IT leaders rate updating technology to improve the patient experience as the top objective for 2019, followed by measuring improvement in patient care (33 percent).

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Clinical trial explores whether video conversations can prevent dementia in isolated seniors

Mobi Health News

Oregon Health & Science University's ongoing study has participants discussing memories and tapping their critical thinking skills multiple times each week.

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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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Gov. Ron DeSantis Yanks Large Number of Appointments Made by Former Governor to Board of Medicine and Other Health Professional Boards

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On February 22, 2019, Florida’s new Governor, Rick DeSantis retracted 169 appointments that the former governor made before leaving office. Some of these were to the Florida Board of Medicine, Board of Acupuncture, Board of Optometry, Board of Podiatric Medicine and others.

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Telehealth can retain an element of humanity despite focus on data and logic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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DirectTrust Announces Inaugural Summit

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. DirectTrust is pleased to announce the inaugural DirectTrust Summit to be held at the Marriott Suites Midtown in Atlanta, GA, June 10-11. The event will bring health care industry leaders together to share ideas and best practices around improving health information exchange and interoperability.

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AR-controlled robot could help people with motor disabilities with daily tasks

Mobi Health News

In a small study published in PLOS ONE, 80 percent of participants using a surrogate robot achieved clinically meaningful improvement on a modified version of the Action Research Arm Test.

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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.

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Changing the Telehealth Industry With Artificial Intelligence

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As technology continues to develop, artificial intelligence has taken leaps from a science-fiction fantasy to being included in everyday tasks. The telehealth industry is one of the newest industries to begin utilizing artificial intelligence, affecting everything from the distribution of electronic medical cards to personable interaction.

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Google Helps You Plan Ahead, and So Should Your Healthcare Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. Let’s imagine for a second. Jane Smith, a 53-year-old diabetic patient, goes to her kitchen to grab a glass of water when she suddenly feels dizzy. She grabs her portable, battery-operated blood glucose monitor to check her blood sugar level and finds it is higher than usual.

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Three Ways Healthcare Insurers Can Engage Younger and Diverse Populations

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Meghan Marx and Jenna Phillips, healthcare experts, PA Consulting. Now that the 2019 health insurance Open Enrollment period has concluded, healthcare industry stakeholders are watching closely for any shifts in consumer behavior regarding enrollment and the overall uninsured rate.

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Healthcare Institutions Received More Attacks than Finance In 2018

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Summarizing the outcomes of 2018, the experts noted an increase in the share of targeted attacks that grew throughout the year reaching 62 percent in Q4. By and large, targeted attacks became the favorite method of attackers (55 percent) in 2018, unlike the previous year. The number of attacks aimed at data theft keeps growing. […].

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Impact of Value-Based Care On How Community Oncologists Think About Treatment Choices

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. New data on the state of value-based care in oncology has found that while community oncologists are optimistic about the beneficial potential of value-based care, they see a conflict between the need to decrease episode costs and the rising prices of the most innovative novel therapies.

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Implementing the 21st Century Cures Act: Making Electronic Health Information Available to Patients and Providers

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. On Tuesday, March 26, the Senate health committee will hold a hearing on implementation of the electronic health information provisions in the 21st Century Cures Act. In the Cures Act, Congress took steps to help improve the exchange of electronic health information. Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released two rules […].

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Most popular health apps routinely share data with little transparency

Mobi Health News

Researchers noted transmissions of specific sensitive data, such as a user’s drug list, that could de-identify the user and be repurposed for commercial uses.

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University of Michigan using Apple Watches to build clinical data pool for health research

Mobi Health News

The project will combine participants' Apple Watch data with genetic tests, survey responses, EHR data and other health information.

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.