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What Younger Generations Demand from Health IT?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Shawn Mike, content creator, Dynamologic Solutions. In the age of internet and online shopping, striving to make it into the future by relying on traditional or outdated practices will get you nowhere! Thanks to the younger generations, various private and public departments are favoring online presence more now and we think, healthcare department should […].

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Fitbit partners with Singapore’s HPB on population-based public health initiative

Mobi Health News

Fitbit announced yesterday that it will be collaborating with Singapore’s Health Promotion Board (HPB) on a healthy population project in support of Singapore’s Smart Nation initiative. The HPB is Singapore’s government agency that implements policy and programmes to improve the nation’s health, and a statutory board under the Ministry of Health (MOH).

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A Profile of People in Medicare Advantage Plans – HealthMine’s Survey of “Digital Immigrants”

Health Populi

There are over 60 million enrollees in Medicare in 2019, and fully one-third are in Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare is adding 10,000 new beneficiaries every day in the U.S. Medicare Advantage enrollment is fast-growing, shown in the first chart where over 22 million people were in MA plans in January 2019. Better understanding this group of people will be critical to helping manage a fast-growing health care bill, and growing burden of chronic disease, for America.

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Finally the Scanner I Started Looking for a Decade Ago

Healthcare IT Today

It’s nice to think that with an EHR in place, healthcare could finally be paperless. Besides the fact that the EHR is a paper printing machine, the amount of paper that’s brought through the door by patients is astounding. The obvious solution in every healthcare organization is to scan all of that paper into the […].

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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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CynergisTek’s Survey Data Reveals Cybersecurity Concerns for Healthcare Executives

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. CynergisTek, Inc. recently announced findings from its first “CAPP Conference Survey.” The survey was administered to attendees of the company’s first inaugural CAPP Community Conference: Cybersecurity 2019 this past May, which focused on tackling some of the most pressing issues facing healthcare cybersecurity and privacy, including vendor breaches and risks, new state privacy laws, privacy and s

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61 health tech companies report 2018 revenues, feature on Inc. 5,000 list

Mobi Health News

If the recent trend of IPOs keeps up, more and more digital companies will have their revenue numbers out in the open. But in the meantime, for private companies, we have to take those numbers where we can find them, which is why each year MobiHealthNews parses Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5,000 list of fastest growing companies in America, calling out the digital health and health tech companies that made the list.

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MIPS Quality Scores Are Now Public

Healthcare IT Today

It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives. In all the time we’ve been writing about it, we’ve often echoed our […].

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Breathe Right: Oxygen Therapy Benefits You May Find Useful

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Do you frequently run out of breath or feel winded even when you’re not doing physical exercise? Have you noticed that your heart rate has been out of control lately and that you’re coughing and wheezing much more than normal? Maybe you’ve even noticed that your skin tone looks incredibly pale or flushed with red.

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UMass Amherst project powers wearable sensors via human skin

Mobi Health News

The novel approach seeks to sidestep the need for bulky batteries, allowing health wearables and sensors to become smaller and less restrictive for the wearer.

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Comment on My next chapter by Health IT Appointments and Hires - HITECH Answers: HIPAA, MIPS, EHR, Cybersecurity News

Health Blawg

[…] David Harlow’s Next Chapter Attorney David Harlow and host of Harlow on Healthcare is joining Insulet Corporation effective August 19. He will be in the newly-created position of healthcare compliance counsel, with a broad range of responsibilities in the healthcare, data and compliance domains. Read about his next chapter. […].

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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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Health Care Providers Grow Consumer-Facing Muscles Driven by Retail & Tech-Health Competition

Health Populi

As patients continue to morph into health care payers, they’re increasingly expecting value-for-money, transparency, and customer experiences that show respect, bolster trust, and deliver quality services. Is that so much to ask from health care providers? Sure is, as it turns out, based on this year’s annual report from Kaufman Hall, the 2019 State of Consumerism in Healthcare: The Bar is Rising.

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AHIMA Partners with Area9 Lyceum To Offer Adaptive Learning Features In Health Information Management (HIM) Academic Programs

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is partnering with adaptive learning systems leader Area9 Lyceum to add an adaptive learning component to health information management (HIM) academic programs. This new technology is being added as an online component to AHIMA’s most popular textbook Health Information Management Technology: An Applied Approach, Sixth Edition and was

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AliveCor ends sales of KardiaBand, its ECG accessory for Apple Watches

Mobi Health News

The news comes roughly eight months after Apple launched its own hardware and software ECG feature for the Apple Watch Series 4.

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Hospitals Still Struggling To Share Data Effectively

Healthcare IT Today

A new survey suggests that despite spending countless dollars and people-hours on the problem, hospitals and health systems are still struggling with data sharing. Of course, this is an issue worth discussing at any point, but especially noteworthy given that new regulations from CMS and ONC are soon to take effect. The survey, which was […].

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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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What High Quality Resuscitation Means for the Care Continuum’s Future

HealthStream

When discussing the future of resuscitation for the healthcare continuum, Haynes spoke optimistically about a continued international focus on improving survivability and outcomes.

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Mission Revamp Healthcare 2019: Top Policies This year to Re-Imagine Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. One of the greatest challenges in healthcare is keeping up with the changing landscape. Considering only since the beginning of 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and other federal agencies, such as the Office of National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) and the Department of Health and […].

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Ping An Good Doctor’s Private Doctor service officially launched

Mobi Health News

China’s one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform Ping An Good Doctor, officially launched its Private Doctor service last week in China on August 13. On the same day of launch, the company also entered into partnership with 29 companies including China Mobile Internet, BAIC Group, China CITIC Bank, Wyeth Nutrition, China Everbright Bank, Minsheng Life, Pearl River Life and PKU Founder Life.

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DirectTrust Working on Standard For Secure Instant Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

In recent years, instant messaging has taken its place alongside texting as a platform for quick ‘n dirty business communication. The thing is, instant messaging platforms generally haven’t been built for the privacy-critical information healthcare professionals share. To address this gap, DirectTrust – the alliance behind the Direct Secure Messaging protocol – has starting developing […].

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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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Ten Conclusions about Conflict Of Interest (COI) Management in Healthcare: Article

HealthStream

To evaluate how healthcare organizations are managing their efforts to reduce COIs, HCCS—A HealthStream Company surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about the current state of their compliance programs.

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Technology and the Evolution of Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Michael Blackman, medical director, population health and analytics, Allscripts. As healthcare delivery continues to evolve, healthcare technology needs to be there to support it. But, how will technology facilitate healthcare as we move forward?

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Medtech and healthtech-specific co-working space launched in Singapore

Mobi Health News

Singapore-based medtech startup Aardvark Labs and Padang & Co, an innovation catalyst, joined forces to launch Catalyst, a co-working space which aims to creates new partnerships that deliver real health outcomes and meaningful business impact in the healthcare industry. At Catalyst’s official launch on August 19, Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between Aardvark Labs and SingHealth, National Healthcare Group (NHG), and National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC).

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DEFCON from a Healthcare CISO Perspective

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest write up by Mitchell Parker, MBA, CISSP (@mitchparkerciso), and Executive Director, Information Security & Compliance at Indiana University Health. We asked Mitch to share some insights and perspectives on the DEFCON conference that just happened in Las Vegas. DEFCON is known as a hackers conference, so we wanted to share a healthcare CISO […].

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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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Nurse Staffing: The Ideal Candidate

HealthStream

Finding the perfect nurse for your team may be impossible, but by looking for some basic qualities, you can find the right person and make the most impact.

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IBM Study Shows Data Breach Costs On the Rise; Financial Impact Felt for Years

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. IBM Security released the results of its annual study examining the financial impact of data breaches on organizations. According to the report, the cost of a data breach has risen 12% during the past five years[1] and now costs $3.92 million on average.

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Despite growing availability of APIs for patient health records, uptake remains low

Mobi Health News

According to a new study published in JAMA, researchers found that the rate of unique users downloading their health records through an API on a month-over-month basis was flat.

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Is It Time For The Federal Government To Create A National HIE?

Healthcare IT Today

Earlier this year, ONC and CMS issued new draft guidelines requiring that all insurers and providers serving the Medicare population make their data available electronically by 2020. The new rules will establish penalties and fines for providers and health plans that don’t make health records available via a standard API by 2020 and as well […].

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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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The Rising Cost of Health Insurance and Coverage Concerns Generate Anxiety

HealthStream

Providers are finding themselves in the crosshairs of consumer ire over insurance costs and coverage fears, as well as costs of one-time and ongoing care.

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60% of Referral Sources Would Switch to a Home Health and Hospice Provider that Accepts Electronic Referrals: Survey

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Brightree announces the results from its survey in post-acute care, revealing a significant gap between what referring providers and health systems want, and what home health and hospice providers are delivering, when it comes to interoperability. The survey was conducted by Porter Research, and is the first to interview both home health and hospice providers […].

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Nearly 1 in 4 millennials hasn't had a physical in 5 years, survey says

Mobi Health News

A new survey from Harmony Healthcare IT shows 23-to-38-year-olds eschewing traditional care and flocking to WebMD.

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IT Training for Doctors – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

This week’s edition of Fun Friday might be a little bit of an exaggeration. Ok, it might be a major exaggeration, but most IT people have been in similar position. So, I think you’ll enjoy this. Unless you’re a doctor and then you should look away. Plus, IT people should realize that we felt the […].

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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.