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Digital and AI Are Top Health Priorities In 2019, but EHRs Continue To Dominate IT Spend

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Damo Consulting, a healthcare growth and digital transformation advisory firm based in Chicago, recently released its third annual Healthcare IT Demand Survey report. The report indicates technology vendors will continue to struggle with long sales cycles as they aggressively market digital and AI.

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What If Marie Kondo Reorganized Health Care in the U.S.?

Health Populi

Have you read the life changing magic of tidying up , or Spark Joy , books by Marie Kondo ? Her new Netflix series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo debuted on January 1, and has enjoyed passionate early viewership by consumers in America who are among the world’s major hoarders. If you opened any pop culture magazine or newspaper in the past week, you probably saw the results of a PR blitz promoting KonMari, the trademarked name for Marie’s clean-out method.

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Report: Digital respiratory health market primed for growth, could reach $557M by 2023

Mobi Health News

While connected devices currently reign supreme, authors of the report see a market opportunity for new players offering a purely digital service.

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Colorado Jury Rules in Favor of Marijuana Grow Business in Federal RICO Lawsuit

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 November 14, 2018, a federal jury in Denver rejected claims involving the odor that was allegedly coming from a pot farm. This was a case that was being closely watched by the marijuana industry. The marijuana business had been sued for damages to neighboring property value under anti-racketeering laws.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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How Is Technology Helping To Prevent STDs?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner, freelance writer; @faulknercreek. We look towards technology to help solve many of the issues that plague the world today. From healthcare to environmental degradation, innovation has led the way in developing solutions. The spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is a worldwide issue and one that researchers are looking to alleviate.

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From Yorkshire Lad to Global Design for Health: A Profile of Sean Carney of Philips

Health Populi

Have you heard the story about a boy born in Yorkshire, England, who studies art in Birmingham, finds his way to Finland to work with design maestro Alvar Aalto, and then crafts a printer that Steve Jobs loved? I have, at CES 2019, when I sat down with Sean Carney, Chief Designer at Philips. It’s well-known that Philips has been firmly focused on health and health care, covering both clinical/professional healthcare as well as personal health for self-care.

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Miami Woman Pleads Guilty For Role in $1 Billion Fraud Case

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 January 23, 2019, a Miami woman pled guilty to conspiring to defraud the government and paying and receiving kickbacks as part of a $1 billion health care fraud scheme. The former Director of Outreach Programs at Larkin Community Hospital will face a prison sentence of up to five years on the single count.

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Implementing Data To Increase Employee Engagement In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Scott Mathews, freelance writer. Data is the future of healthcare, especially when it’s combined with new technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning. As we generate more and more healthcare data, we increase the potential for us to discover deep insights that might otherwise have gone undiscovered.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

Health Populi

On this weekend as we appreciate the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., I post a photo of him in my hometown of Detroit in 1963, giving a preliminary version of the “I Have a Dream” speech he would deliver two months later in Washington, DC. Wisdom from the speech: “But now more than ever before, America is forced to grapple with this problem, for the shape of the world today does not afford us the luxury of an anemic democracy.

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NHS App being rolled out across England

Mobi Health News

The NHS App is now being rolled out across England, NHS England announced this morning, following private testing between September and December with over 3,000 patients from 30 GP practices.

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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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Recent Innovations In Dental Implant Technology

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. A good set of teeth makes all the difference, not just for the purpose of smiling, but it also has a huge impact on self-esteem and overall confidence. Having broken, missing or unsightly looking teeth makes it hard for people to express themselves effectively and clearly. As more and more people are realizing the importance […].

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Telehealth In the Rural Healthcare Center

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Amber Folk, CEO, The Clark Clinic. How do you provide care to underserved patients who have difficulty getting to the office? This was the challenge we were trying to solve at the Clark Clinic. Some of our patients don’t have access to a vehicle or are physically restricted and unable to travel far.

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Advances In the Treatment of Depression

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Researchers are constantly working on innovative approaches to deal with treatment resistant depression. This offers hope to those who have been unable to deal with their illness successfully using traditional methods. However, some of these novel approaches are only available to people suffering from depression through research studies.

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What Should We Expect for Healthcare in 2019? Three Predictions for the Year Ahead

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Dr. Giovanni Colella, CEO and co-founder, OODA Health. 2018 was another year of rapid changes in the healthcare industry. Over the past twelve months, I’ve had fascinating conversations with executives in the provider and payer community and they have described the challenges they face and their visions for the future.

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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 Healthcare Industry Needs to Address Security in 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Leigh-Anne Galloway, cyber security resilience lead, Positive Technologies. It has become clear in the last few years that when it comes to cybercrime, hackers are not fussy about which organization or sector they focus on – if there’s profit to be made, anyone is a potential target.

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Optimizing Process and Document Automation in Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By William Sandy, digital marketing, Nintex. The healthcare industry is already well on its way to digital transformation. While many industries are still taking the first steps on their transformation journeys, most healthcare organizations sit a few stages ahead on this path. This is partly due to significant and widespread regulatory changes around patient data […].

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Implementing QA In Healthcare Industry Often Presents a Challenge

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Vikash Kumar, marketing manager, Tatvasoft. Software testing and quality assurance have grown in critical importance for companies. Over the few years, it has established itself as a formidable career choice which is unlikely to stop anytime soon. Now as the name implies, quality insurance is all about maintaining “high quality” on a constant basis.

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DNA Testing: What Does It Say About Patient Health?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Disease and illness are running wild these days and individuals are more aware than ever of the need to make lifestyle changes. There has been an increase in the number of people who are interested in getting educated about their health and ways to improve it. Beyond dieting, exercising, and getting enough sleep, patients are […].

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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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When innovating for healthcare, keep an eye out for what works in other industries

Mobi Health News

The associate director of digital planning at NYU Langone discusses how to create a digital patient experience from scratch.

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Stanford, VA Palo Alto Health Care System launch trial of digital depression therapy program

Mobi Health News

Meru Health's app-based program will be deployed and evaluated among roughly 70 older adults with depression symptoms.

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Opinion: Blood pressure measuring smartwatch is a paradigm shift for hypertension management

Mobi Health News

Brigham and Women's Hospital Resident Dr. Daniel Yazdi outlines the benefits for doctors, patients and digital health disease management programs.

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The Pill Club gets $51M to offer women birth control via telemedicine, mail order

Mobi Health News

The Pill Club, a company that provides telemedicine and mail-order pharmacy services to help women access birth control, has raised $51 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding up to $67 million. VMG led the round with participation from GV and ACME Capital (new investors) as well as Base10 and Shasta Ventures (existing investors).

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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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To design patient-centric care, ask patients what they want

Mobi Health News

At Novant Health Physician Network in North Carolina, designing for the patient has been the hospital’s driving force for some years, especially when it comes to online interactions.

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Fitbit stealth launches new activity, heart rate trackers for corporate partners, health plans

Mobi Health News

The Fitbit Inspire and Fitbit Inspire HR aren't too different from the company's existing fitness trackers, but as of now are unavailable for consumer purchase.

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How to get the most out of HIMSS TV at HIMSS19

Mobi Health News

Complete with an interview desk, roving reporters, and discussions with industry luminaries, innovators and top executives, HIMSS TV will be available livecasted and on-demand.

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Ping An Good Doctor’s “Voiceprint Lock” achieves login success rate of close to 99%

Mobi Health News

Ping An Good Doctor, a one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform from China, recently announced that their “Voiceprint Login System” (“Voiceprint Lock”), jointly developed with Unisound, an intelligent voice and language technology company in China, has achieved a login success rate close to 99%. The breakthrough came after several model optimisations and upgrades.

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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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Making sense of patient engagement, activation and empowerment

Mobi Health News

How a clear distinction between the three could improve the success rate of digital health pilots.

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Behavior change platform Aduro scores $22M

Mobi Health News

The new funding was provided by Boston-based private equity firm Abry Partners and will be used to scale the platform globally.

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FDA finalizes new 510(k) guidance, shifts away from aging predicate devices

Mobi Health News

The new guidance aims to modernize the process and generate more market competition.

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Digital physical therapy company Kaia Health lands $10M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the money to expand its reach in the US, including a expanding to a New York office and more clinical studies.

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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.