Sat.Dec 08, 2018 - Fri.Dec 14, 2018

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Health IT Startup: MedTrainer

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. MedTrainer is the creator of an all-in-one compliance management suite that encompasses all the tools healthcare professionals need to manage processes, increase departmental collaboration and simplify compliance. Elevator pitch The MedTrainer all-in-one compliance management suite combines a learning management system (LMS) with governance, risk and compliance (GRC) and provider credentialing to make compliance management acce

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Aspen RxHealth gets $9M to create a gig economy for pharmacists

Mobi Health News

Aspen RxHealth, a Tampa-based company using a gig economy model to connect patients with pharmacists, has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Flare Capital Partners. An additional investor was an undisclosed strategic partner, a health plan in the United States.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

Health Populi

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. I brainstormed retail health yesterday with Patrick Freuler, CEO of Audicus (developer of hearing aids sold direct-to-consumer over-the-counter) and Shai Gozani, CEO of NeuroMetrix, maker of the Quell device for pain management.

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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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Behavioral Healthcare Technology Drives New Way To Fix The Need For A Fix

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By David Conejo, CEO, Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services. The statistics are terrifying. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Alcohol poisoning kills six people every day. Of those, 76 percent are adults ages 35 to 64, and three of every four people killed by alcohol poisoning are men.

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AmWell, Doctor on Demand, Teladoc top list of most downloaded telehealth apps

Mobi Health News

The third-party analysis compared 10 telehealth providers' Google Play and App Store downloads over a four-and-a-half year period.

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Americans End 2018 Worried About Healthcare Costs

Health Populi

Nearly one-half of Americans are quite concerned they won’t have enough money to pay for medical care, according to the latest Gallup poll. Health insurance in-security is mainstream as of November 2018, when Gallup polled U.S. adults about views on healthcare costs. It’s a major concern among six in ten people that their health plan would require they pay higher premiums or a bigger portion of their healthcare expenses.

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How Digital Access To Healthcare Is Becoming A Reality

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Karim Babay, CEO, HealthSapiens. One of the primary problems existing in healthcare is the many barriers to access and delivery of care and treatment. Access to healthcare is centralized to a limited number of intermediary players in a way that is costly, non-transparent, and inefficient.

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54 digital health mergers and acquisitions in 2018

Mobi Health News

From Amazon's acquisition of PillPack to Best Buy's purchase of GreatCall, over $7.5 billion were spent on digital health acquisitions this year.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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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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Pear's digital therapeutic reSET-O FDA cleared to treat opioid use disorder

Mobi Health News

The prescription digital therapeutic will give users interactive therapy lessons to be use by patients under a clinician's supervision.

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Helsinki's brand new children's hospital is a case study in patient-centric design

Mobi Health News

Come take a photo tour of virtual fish tanks, iPad-controlled lights and so many Moomins.

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HealthTech.Belgium: Speeding up innovation in Europe

Mobi Health News

A new government-funded initiative officially launched in Belgium this year to help medtech and eHealth projects get access to the support needed to advance their work, called HealthTech.Belgium. The project is a collaborative effort of three industry associations: the Belgian Federation of Technology Companies (Agoria), the Belgian Federation of the Medical Technology Industry (beMed-Tech), and the Belgian Association of Hospital Managers (ABDH).

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Oxford-based e-therapeutics partners with Danish pharma giant Novo Nordisk

Mobi Health News

Oxford, UK-based e-therapeutics has announced this week that it is entering a research partnership with Novo Nordisk that will see them use its proprietary Network-Driven Drug Discovery (NDD) platform to identify potentially new biological mechanisms and therapies for a “specific area” of type 2 diabetes. According to the International Diabetes Federation, around 425 million people are estimated to have diabetes worldwide.

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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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VRHealth unveils VR software for hot flashes

Mobi Health News

The new technology will provide users with an AI guide that will lead them through CBT.

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LunaDNA offers company shares in exchange for health data

Mobi Health News

The company claims it is the first to work with the SEC to figure out how consumers could exchange health data for equity.

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Ireland-headquartered WhiteSwell raises $30m in series B funding round

Mobi Health News

Galway, Ireland-headquartered WhiteSwell has closed a $30m series B funding round to support a pivotal trial and advance the development of its therapy system for the treatment of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).

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mClinica’s pharmacy technology platform reach over 100,000 pharmacy professionals across 6 countries in the ASEAN region

Mobi Health News

The Singapore headquartered mClinica has recently reached a milestone to become the largest pharmacy data technology player in Southeast Asia: its platform is now being used by 1 in every 2 pharmacists in the Philippines, 1 in every 3 pharmacists in Indonesia and 1 in every 4 pharmacists in Vietnam.

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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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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Tufts’ Peter Neumann and cost-effectiveness analysis – Better health through better measurement – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

My guest for this edition of Harlow on Healthcare is Peter Neumann. Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Garmin, Actigraph partner on wearable-driven medical research

Mobi Health News

The companies will be applying ActiGraph's CentrePoint data analytics platform to Garmin's sensor-carrying wearables.

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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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Purpose-built technologies could be key to meeting clinicians' needs

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS19, Dr. Subha Airan-Javia and Dr. Nehal Patel will discuss the pros and cons to building versus buying new hospital innovations.

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Voice tech: Tool to unburden physicians, improve patient experience

Mobi Health News

Boston Children's Hospital chief innovation officer John Brownstein shares insights about the benefits and challenges and evolution with voice technologies amid the growing number of apps and interest from major companies and health systems.

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T-Mobile provides 70K lines of wireless service to the VA to support telehealth efforts

Mobi Health News

The deal is part of a five-year $993.5 million contract between the DoD, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.

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Philip's HealthSuite Android app poses possible security risk

Mobi Health News

Both Philips and the Department of Homeland Security warned of the app's inadequate encryption strength and vulnerability to hackers.

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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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Verily, Sanofi-backed diabetes management program to offer Orpyx's foot ulcer sensors

Mobi Health News

The SurroSense Rx system will be available to Onduo's members in 2019.

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Study: iPhone’s step tracker is solid, but don’t rely on its distance measurement features

Mobi Health News

The smartphone's distance measurement algorithm does not appear to account for the length of an individual's strides, making it difficult to recommend for health applications.

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Hill-Rom's new smart bed will incorporate Early Sense's continuous monitoring system

Mobi Health News

The technology was designed to help clinicians continuously monitor a patient's heart and respiratory rate.

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Tidepool lands $6M grant to develop hybrid closed-loop automated insulin delivery app

Mobi Health News

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and JDRF provided the grant to the diabetes management company.

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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.