Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 22, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health information management leaders told members of Congress today that removal of a nearly two-decade ban on the use of federal funds to adopt a nationwide unique patient identifier would allow collaboration between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the private sector to identify solutions for reducing medical errors and protecting […].

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Health Populi

JULY 21, 2019

If you heed the mass media headlines and President Trump’s tweets, the U.S. has achieved “the best economy” ever in mid-July 2019. But if you’re working full time in that economy, you tend to feel much less positive about your personal prospects and fiscal fitness. Nearly nine in 10 working Americans believe that medical costs will rise in the next few years as they pondering potential changes to the Affordable Care Act.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 26, 2019

Indonesia-based healthtech platform Halodoc announced that it has secured additional funding from strategic investors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Allianz X and Prudential. Allianz and Prudential provide insurance services in Indonesia and are users of Halodoc's services. The funds will be used to further Halodoc's commitment to simplify healthcare through technology in Indonesia.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2019

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Empowering patients in the UK Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 26, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By B.J. Boyle, vice president and general manager of post-acute insights, PointClickCare. As every nurse, physician, clinical case manager, and healthcare IT professional knows well, we have passed the stage in which locking up patient data is an effective care practice.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2019

This year, an employer-sponsored PPO for a family of four in the U.S. will cost $28,386, a 3.6% increase over 2018, according to the 2019 Milliman Medical Index (MMI). Based on my annual read of this year’s Index, the PPO costs roughly the same as a new Dodge Charger or a year attending the engineering school at Alfred University. The Milliman MMI team has updated the methodology for the Index; the chart shown here is my own, recognizing that the calculations and assumptions beneath the 20

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2019

The American Telemedicine Association has elected Dr. Joseph C. Kvedar to be its next president. He'll start a year-long term in April 2020. WHY IT MATTERS. Kvedar, vice president of connected health at Partners HealthCare and a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, has served as ATA president before – from 2004-2005 – and also served on its board for several years.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 26, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. The healthcare industry has long been known for its lengthy processes and difficult paperwork hoops. Much like the federal government, it has lagged behind other industries in updating technology to meet the expectations of modern system users.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2019

In a value-based world, case management is an important role As we move to a value-based system, acute-care organizations are placing more energy and focus on ensuring patients remain healthy after they leave the four walls of their facilities. Case Managers play a vital role in this area, working with patients after discharge and with […].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 24, 2019

Australian digital health company PainChek recently announced that the United States Patent Office has issued a Notice of Allowance for its pain assessment invention. This means that patent prosecution has been successfully completed. The US patent, when granted, gives PainChek exclusive rights to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing the invention for 20 years from the filing date in the US (February 17, 2017).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2019

Swinburne University’s National eTherapy Centre has partnered with medtech startup, Coviu to allow Australians to access quality mental health services through encypted, real-time text chat sessions. The service is offered as part of Swinburne’s Mental Health Online , which is free for all Australians and provides access to treatment programs for common mental health issues including depression and anxiety.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. WakeMed is the first health system in central North Carolina to launch an mobile wayfinding and patient engagement app. The health system announced today that the platform – the WakeMed All Access App – is now live and available for patients and visitors to download for free to their smartphones via the App Store and […].

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HealthStream

JULY 26, 2019

From patient satisfaction to leader accountability, HealthStream analyzes what hourly rounding is not, why it often fails, and differences from traditional practice.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 23, 2019

The social media giant teamed up with researchers from the Stanford Lab for Mental Health Innovation to develop short digital exercises for stress.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2019

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using data and tech to give patients care they need Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Rochester RHIO has released its inaugural population health study—the Community Health Indicators Report—based on the analysis clinical data points from more than 600,000 screenings. The report provides a glimpse into residents’ well-being across New York State’s Greater Finger Lakes region, for which Rochester RHIO is the secure electronic health information exchange (HIE).

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I am speaking with marketing leaders who are members of CHPA, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association on this very topic. This is CHPA’s 2019 Marketing Conference being held at the lovely historic Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, DE. The gist of my remarks will be to focus on the evolving retail health ecosystem, with my HealthConsuming lens on health/care, everywhere.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 26, 2019

MassBio's Luba Greenwood also discusses her decision to leave Verily in order to pursue teaching the intersection of life science and technology at Harvard.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: More health apps emerging that support people with health conditions Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. You’ve got to agree – academic writing is always an intensive process. You are required to spend endless hours researching, drafting, interviewing people, correcting data, and so on. In this relation, expert writers and coaches at Mydissertations.com opine that there will be a significant difference in your health by the time you graduate.

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HealthStream

JULY 26, 2019

Learn how the importance of always improving nurse competency is paramount to cultivating a positive patient experience, from HealthStream.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 23, 2019

Achieving sustainable impact remains a key digital health challenge, and carefully exploring the preferences of patients might be part of the solution, argues Vasileios Nittas.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2019

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/26 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Lisa Davis Budzinski (@lisadbudzinski) and Becky Brandt, RN (@bbhomebody) on the topic “Helping Consumers/Patients Learn More About Healthcare IT” Healthcare IT systems in 2019 are far more in […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 22, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell, Inc. On June 24, President Donald Trump issued an almost 1,600-word executive order (EO), “Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First.

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HealthStream

JULY 26, 2019

Learn how patient safety in nursing depends on understanding how and why we are treating patients and how that treatment affects our patients, from HealthStream.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 25, 2019

A new study published in JMIR found that data from the devices could help identify college students living with loneliness.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2019

The following is a guest article by Hannah Landes, Senior Associate at NowPow, and Niko Skievaski, Co-founder and President at Redox. The U.S. healthcare industry has made a big investment in moving to a value-based care model, both in terms of reimbursement structure as well as medical practice. Implementing this model means that providers have more responsibility […].

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2019

There are about 55 million patient records held by the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). Their monetary value to private sector companies would be £5 billion and nearly that much in patient benefits. Add in value for patient outcomes, and the total approaches £10 billion. In today’s UK:US currency exchange rate, 10 billion British pound sterling is worth roughly $12 billion.

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HealthStream

JULY 26, 2019

Here are 5 strong reasons lifelong learning in nursing is a long term career need in healthcare to ensure that employees stay abreast of advances in healthcare.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 26, 2019

Greenwood, Verily's head of strategic business development and corporate ventures, discussed the importance of teaching the next generation about the convergence of industries within digital health.

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