Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) filed its annual year-end report to Congress at the start of 2019. The 22-page report summarized nationwide trends in health information exchange in 2018, including the adoption of EHRs and other technologies that support electronic access to patient information.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 14, 2019
Samitivej Hospital Group, a private hospital brand in Thailand with a network of eight hospitals and owned by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), recently announced the launch of their one-stop Virtual Hospital app, offering three key services: Teleconsultation – a remote telemedicine consultation service that provides a round-the-clock medical advice via a video call with Samitivej’s doctors and nurses.
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Health Populi
MARCH 15, 2019
Today, the number of searches on Google using the phrase “self-care” reached a high, shown in the line graph I created on Google Trends and marked up in red. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results. I started this search when the Great Recession began in the U.S. in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 13, 2019
The new app, called Question Builder, lets consumers input their health information and then brings up potential questions for them to ask their doctors.
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 15, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ron Soferman, CEO and founder, RSIP Vision. Artificial intelligence is transforming the healthcare industry – it is creating opportunities that have been never thought possible while opening up the realm of new possibilities beyond human capabilities. Powered by increasing availability of healthcare data and advances in machine learning, artificial intelligence aims to mimic human […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 11, 2019
The Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center at Mount Sinai Hospital had been relying on traditional office visits to connect with patients. THE PROBLEM. These visits present patients with several barriers to care, however, including the inconvenience of travel and time off from work or school to visit their doctor. "Our patient population has chronic digestive disorders and so diarrhea and abdominal pain often prohibit them from making appointments at the last
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 13, 2019
Yesterday, Singapore-based health technology startup CXA Group, which offers an employee benefits and wellness marketplace platform, announced that it has raised $25 million in its latest round of funding. The company’s new group of strategic investors include HSBC, Singtel Innov8, Telkom Indonesia MDI Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, Muang Thai Fuchsia Ventures, Humanica and Heritas Venture Fund.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 13, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ilia Sotnikov, vice president of product management, Netwrix. On February 21, UConn Health reported that personally identifiable information (PII) from 326,000 patients was compromised. A malicious third party illegally gained access to several employee email accounts that contained patient names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, and limited medical information, such as billing […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 13, 2019
Despite its clear potential to improve access to high-quality care in underserved communities, telehealth is underutilized by safety-net providers due to a range of barriers, according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. The analysis, based on interviews with Medicaid officials from seven states and representatives from 19 Federally Qualified Health Centers in those states, points to insufficient reimbursement as a leading culprit for this lag, in addition to other logistical, policy, and
CMS.gov
MARCH 14, 2019
Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 03/14/2019 - 17:33. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Topic. Initiatives. Leadership. Medicaid & CHIP. Good Ideas Must Be Evaluated. Two years ago today I was sworn in as CMS Administrator. One of my first actions when I began this journey was to send a letter to the nation’s governors in which I committed to ushering in a new era for the federal and state Medicaid partnership, granting states more freedom to
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 15, 2019
Women make up 12.2 percent of digital health VC partners, but many in the industry are discussing the importance of diverse viewpoints.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 12, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. What does “patient engagement” mean in the current age of health IT? Given the recent proposed rules by CMS that tell the sector that all data generated by a patient in the care spectrum is their information, has much changed since the term took roost in healthcare several years ago?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 13, 2019
Sponsor: Center for Connected Medicine Primary topic: Privacy & Security Topic: Mobile Privacy & Security Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Inside the Top of Mind 2019 Summit
Health Populi
MARCH 11, 2019
“The Fourth Industrial Age,” Dr. Abraham Verghese writes, “has great potential to help, but also to harm, to exaggerate the profound gap that already exists between those who have much and those who have less each passing year.” Dr. Verghese asserts this in his forward to Deep Medicine , Dr. Eric Topol’s latest work which explores the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and robotics — three legs of the Fourth Industrial Age stool.
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 14, 2019
The free Cardio Ex game features more than 35 levels that test the player's vascular knowledge, spatial reasoning and decision making.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 9, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Salesforce announces new additions to Salesforce Health Cloud that improve healthcare through connected, intelligent patient engagement. Health Cloud brings CRM to healthcare, enabling providers like Piedmont Healthcare and 180 Health Partners to personalize patient interactions and improve outcomes.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 15, 2019
The program uses a mix of home visits and telehealth technologies to bring more services to the home.
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2019
“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Research published in this trustworthy health policy publication covers a wide range of perspectives, including the promise of patients’ engagement with data to drive health outcomes, citizen science and participatory research where patients crowdsource cures, the results of financial incentives in value-based plans to drive health care “shopping” and decision making, and ultimately, w
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 13, 2019
The Series A round was lead by BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, and brings the company's total funding to more than $10 million.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 9, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Samant Virk, MD, CEO and co-founder, MediSprout. Ask a doctor why he or she decided to go into the field of medicine and their answers vary. Many want to help people and they have personal stories like a sick parent that motivated them to become a physician. Others may come from a long line […].
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 13, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sachin Kalra, Infostretch. Augmented reality (AR) is one of the hottest trends in technology today. Its popularity is equally reflected in projections, as the market is expected to be worth more than $160 billion by 2020, up from just $4 billion in 2016. But its use is not limited to simply chasing Pokémon and […].
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Imagine you could safely wield your medical data the same way you can use an ATM card at any store or cash machine anywhere, anytime. Founders’ story The American Medical Association (AMA) believes that one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today is securing, sharing, and using trusted health data in real time.
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 11, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. 21st Century Oncology, the largest integrated cancer care network in America, has announced the hiring of industry veteran Todd Higgins as the company’s chief financial officer. Higgins, whose career has spanned two decades in healthcare services, joins 21st Century Oncology after recently serving as chief financial officer at Confluent Health, LLC and Kindred Healthcare, Inc., […].
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Heal announced the results of its 2019 first-time patient user survey. Having delivered more than 110,000 house calls since February 2015, Heal shared a voluntary survey with more than 6,000 patients who used Heal for the first time in 2018. Findings from the survey reveal substantial reduction in ER and urgent care overuse and pointed […].
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 14, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. InterSystems announces it has been selected by the eHealth Exchange, the largest nationwide health information network connecting the public and private sectors, as the technology partner powering the network’s latest expansion plans. The network will implement InterSystems HealthShare suite of connected health solutions to help deliver the initial enhancements.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 13, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. VirtualHealth recently announced that WellCare Health Plans, Inc. is now live on its next generation Helios solution. Helios is the first comprehensive care management platform purpose-built to power the entire ecosystem of value-based care. It provides intelligent workflows based on a 360° view that encompasses all aspects of a member’s health.
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Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 13, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. What do the best care teams in healthcare have in common? They don’t just take care of the sick — they help them get better. They engage and empower their patients to play a central role in their care and become healthy. The RWJ Foundation suggests that compared to highly […].
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 11, 2019
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Sage Growth Partners (SGP) recently announced survey findings on how clinical surveillance is prioritized and managed by healthcare delivery organizations. The survey of healthcare executives from hospitals across the U.S. was commissioned by VigiLanz, a clinical surveillance company, to assess their progress in the journey to higher value care and how they are using data […].
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2019
The tool considers vascular changes and individual risk data to make its predictions.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2019
Reactions to the news are mixed, with some experts saying the test is unlikely to make much of a difference.
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