Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 7, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Rahul Patel, EVP and general manager, Persistent Systems. One of America’s oldest toy companies, Hasbro, recently gathered 150 developers and created 45 products that would have cost billions of dollars in a traditional research setup. How did they do it? They held a hackathon. When a traditional toy company sees the rewards of hackathons, everybody […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Last year, Ping An Good Doctor, a one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform from China, piloted unstaffed clinics that employ artificial intelligence called “One-minute Clinics” in the Wuzhen Scenic Area outside of Shanghai, which connect patients with a clinician on Ping An Good Doctor’s in-house medical team.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2019

As #CES2019 kicks off in Las Vegas with today’s first Media Day, the Consumer Technology Association presented its forecast on the 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2019 — and they all play into health, wellness, and medical care. The five trends are: Artificial Intelligence on the Rise. Envisioning the Smart Home of the Future. Digital Health Tech Empowers Patients.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 8, 2019

[…] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and is republished here with […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 11, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. Rural healthcare organizations and their patients are up against a myriad of challenges, from minimal funding and resources to limited access to care, social determinants of health, and more barriers that stand in the way of effective care delivery. Unfortunately, nearly half of rural hospitals operate at a negative margin […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 6, 2019

An algorithm trained on a deep neural network was able to perform on par with board certified cardiologist when annotating 12 different types of hearth rhythms.

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The Health Law Firm

JANUARY 9, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On December 21, 2018, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it recovered more than $2.8 billion from False Claims Act (FCA) cases in 2018. Of the $2.8 billion in settlements and judgments that the government obtained during the year through FCA cases, more than $2.5 billion involved health care fraud.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 10, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Shane MacDougall, senior security engineer, Mosaic451 The other day I was asked what is the biggest information security threat facing any company in 2019. Is it ransomware? Some AI powered malware? Overpowering DDOS attacks? I didn’t hesitate – the answer is the same as it has been since I was first asked the question […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 9, 2019

At CES 2019, the digital therapeutic company's CEO and cofounder described work on an independent prescription, procurement and support platform specific to digital medicines.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2019

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, a “caveat” is, “a warning to consider something before doing anything more.” It is fitting that CES is held in Las Vegas, land of high risk and, with a lot of luck, reward. With that theme in mind, I depart LAS airport tonight on an aptly-named red-eye flight back home, pondering not what I saw — some of which I covered daily over the past week — but what I didn’t see.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

I recently spoke with Dara Richardson-Heron M.D. , chief engagement officer of the All of Us Research Program ( @AllofUsResearch ) at the National Institutes of Health. Dara is leading efforts to engage a million volunteers or more from diverse communities across the country in building one of the largest biomedical datasets in the world, and is seeking to reach out to populations historically underrepresented in research.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 11, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Michael Isberto, blog director, Colocation America. Technology advancements are helping many industries thrive in the current Computer Age. One of these is the healthcare industry. The advancement in technology within healthcare is more noticeable today especially since some technology is wearable and can be seen on many different people.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 11, 2019

From on-stage demos to expo floor chit chat, attendees couldn't resist discussing what data collection and analysis could bring to consumer healthcare technology.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2019

I had the pleasure once again of attending Shelly Palmer’s annual kick-off breakfast where he level-sets our expectations for CES two hours before the tech halls open. Shelly is a consumer tech expert and leads the Palmer Group ; comments on Fox 5 in NYC, CNN, and CNBC; writes a weekly column in Advertising Age; composes music; and he’s a Renaissance Man who’s a generous sharer of knowledge with a great sense of humor and humanity.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 7, 2019

I recently spoke with Dara Richardson-Heron M.D. , chief engagement officer of the All of Us Research Program ( @AllofUsResearch ) at the National Institutes of Health. Dara is leading efforts to engage a million volunteers or more from diverse communities across the country in building one of the largest biomedical datasets in the world, and is seeking to reach out to populations historically underrepresented in research.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is a running list of digital health products announced at CES. The list will be updated as the week goes on.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 8, 2019

Users of Lark's Wellness Program and Diabetes Prevention Program will now be able to integrate a user's genetic data from 23andMe to get a more personalized experince.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 10, 2019

Earlier this week, AWAK Technologies (AWAK), a Singapore-headquartered medical technology company focused on dialysis using regeneration technology for end-stage renal disease, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Device designation to its AWAK Peritoneal Dialysis (AWAK PD) device, a wearable and ultra-portable PD system that incorporates AWAK’s patented sorbent technology.

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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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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 8, 2019

The app-based offerings support real-time data collection and sharing between patients, their caregivers and their providers.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 8, 2019

FDA Comissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb announced a new Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, Pre-Cert Test Plan for 2019 and a Working Model.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 9, 2019

AI in healthcare seems to be a hot topic of discussion around the world at the moment, but what progress has been made in terms of adoption in clinical routine? “Improving our diagnostic and treatment processes has always been the fundamental basis of our thinking and we have welcomed AI,” Miikka Korja, chief information officer and cerebrovascular neurosurgeon at the Helsinki University Hospital in Finland, explains in an interview for the second issue of the HIMSS Insights eBook.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 10, 2019

The partners plan on starting with mental health screening tools for ADHD, depression, PTSD, as well as setting up protocals for other conditions.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 9, 2019

Alongside device support, the Philips Cares app offers caretakers shared reminders, access to emergency services and data analysis features.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 11, 2019

The clearance is a first for the relatively underserved epilepsy wearable space.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 10, 2019

Launched in 2010 with a $25 million Series A financing led by Third Rock Ventures, Foundation Medicine released its first commercial assay called FoundationOne in 2012. The company develops, manufactures, and sells genomic profiling assays based on next-generation sequencing technology for solid tumours, hematologic malignancies, and sarcomas. In December 2017, the company’s assay FoundationOne CDx received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 7, 2019

The latest funding was led by Temasek, with participation from Novartis, 5AM Ventures, Arboretum Ventures, Jazz Partners, The Bridge Builders Collaborative and EDBI.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 11, 2019

"This last year has been a year of rebuilding, creating infrastructure, [and] ensuring that we have all of the guardrails," Outcome Health's Nandini Ramani said at CES 2019.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 7, 2019

Self-care is the new health care as patients, now consumers at greater financial risk for medical spending, are learning. At #CES2019, I’m on the lookout for digital technologies that can help people adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that can help consumers save money on medical care and enhance quality of life-years. This week’s heart-and-food tech announcements at #CES2019 coincide with an FDA recall on a popular drug prescribed to treat hypertension (high blood pressure).

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Researchers in the UK have launched a clinical trial to see if a breath test device could detect the presence of cancer at an early stage. They aim to collect and analyse breath samples from 1,500 participants at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge over the next two years to see if odorous molecules called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can be detected by using the Breath Biopsy technology of Cambridge-based Owlstone Medical, the company funding the trial.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 7, 2019

New measures that will be published by NHS leaders later today could help save up to half a million more lives in England through a "renewed" focus on prevention, cutting edge treatments, and the use of new forms of technology, NHS England has said. The development of a long-term plan follows a five-year funding settlement unveiled by Prime Minister Theresa May last year, with the NHS set to receive increased funding of £20.5bn per year in real terms by 2023-24.

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