Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 12, 2019

Magellan Health, a healthcare payer organization in Scottsdale, Arizona, needed to address adherence to oral medication therapy. THE PROBLEM. Non-adherence is one of the factors contributing to non-optimized medication use – the latter a term that describes all the reasons an individual doesn’t take medications including costs, lack of ability to pick up the prescription and many others.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 12, 2019

Dr. Yaa Kumah, assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discussed the opportunities and hurdles for voice technology in provider organizations last week at Harvard Medical School.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 15, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. While cybersecurity is an issue constantly addressed by the media and something small and large businesses alike are consistently focusing on, one of the biggest digital dilemmas comes from the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2019

“In an extreme example of angst over expensive medical bills , an elderly Washington couple who lived near the U.S.-Canadian border died in a murder-suicide this week after leaving notes that detailed concerns about paying for medical care,” USA Today reported on August 10, 2019. Five years ago, financial toxicity as a side-effect was noted by two Sloan Kettering Medical Center in a landmark report on 60 Minutes in October 2014.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 16, 2019

A new survey has concluded that the bulk of Americans are not connected with or using telehealth services, including, notably, those in rural areas for whom telemedical services should be a lifeline. However, other details captured by the survey suggest that barriers to telehealth adoption are not as high as they may have been in […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 14, 2019

Positive data from the pragmatic study is the clearest evidence yet that in-hospital therapeutic VR could be effective in a live deployment, according to researchers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2019

Primary topic: HIMSS19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Identifying ROI on social determinants of health Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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HealthStream

AUGUST 14, 2019

Research has identified a wide range of leadership styles. What is the best one for your organization and how do you develop leaders that will help build a great healthcare organization?

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 16, 2019

Industry players warn that while voice technology has the ability to reach a larger audience, it must be implemented with privacy as a top priority.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 12, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Cynthia Burghard, research director, IDC Health Insights. Artificial intelligence (AI) has two faces in healthcare. One face sings the praises of AI as the tonic that will enable healthcare to deliver better clinical outcomes at a lower cost and the second face is full of skepticism and raises barriers to adoption at every turn. […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 15, 2019

Primary topic: HIMSS19 Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Teladoc taking virtual-first approach to healthcare Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2019

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/16 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Brian Eastwood (@Brian_Eastwood) on the topic “Chronic Care Management” We know the numbers: Americans with chronic health conditions account for the majority of the nation’s $3.5 trillion in […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 12, 2019

Genneve, which has its roots in providing personal lubricants, also offers educational materials, online assessment tools, curated support products and message boards for community engagement.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 15, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Inc. magazine has revealed that Vyne is No. 3723 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Vyne’s 2019 ranking marks the organization’s 12th consecutive year on the list, which honors the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment — independent small businesses.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2020, large employers will be “doubling down” efforts to control health care costs. Key strategies will include deploying more telehealth and virtual health care services, Centers of Excellence for high-cost conditions, and getting more personal in communicating and engaging through platforms. This is the annual forecast for 2020 brought to us by the National Business Group of Health (NBGH), the Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2019

Healthcare Scene’s recent Boston conference, EXPO.health, walked the audience through numerous innovations in health IT, especially where analytics give a boost to patient care. Still, I detected at the show, next to the crisp digital images of modern technologies, a sepia-toned photograph of older practices. The two stood out against each other in some ways, […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 13, 2019

Special Situations' Life Sciences Innovation (LSI) Fund led the round with participation from Viking Global Investors.

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HealthStream

AUGUST 16, 2019

Federal and state governments continue their close scrutiny of the Continuum care/post-acute sector. Here we discuss compliance risk areas and CIA in this part of the healthcare industry.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

Issue No. 4 of StartUp Health Magazine is dedicated to 8 Health Moonshot Principles. StartUp Health sees these moonshots taken together as, “a blueprint for achieving the impossible.” There’s an aspect of U.S. health care that currently feels impossible to achieve, and that’s consensus on what would constitute a sound approach to covering all Americans for health care as a civil right and whether the nation can “afford” doing so.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 15, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Kerry Harbeck, Director of Learning Innovation, and Andrea Kamper is the Innovations Operations Manager for Breakaway Adoption Solutions at Atos. Electronic health records have evolved. Modern EHR systems now provide full revenue cycle management for healthcare organizations, in addition to traditional clinical record-keeping functionalities.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 15, 2019

This new infusion of cash brings the San Francisco-based startup to a total of $26.84 million, the company revealed exclusively to MobiHealthNews.

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HealthStream

AUGUST 15, 2019

Though the Affordable Care Act enabled tens of thousands who had been uninsured to get coverage, it has not done much to dent the insurance cost for those who don’t qualify for subsidies—and has also led to a vast expansion in the number of high-deductible plans.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 16, 2019

As large employers’ annual health care costs for an employee are expected to exceed $15,000 in 2020, companies are focusing in on managing the pharmacy line-item, we learn from the 2020 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). I covered large employers’ perspectives and future plans to deal with health care services for workers in 2020 in Health Populi here earlier this week.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2019

For the 17th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about various healthcare conferences. It’s always a challenge knowing which conferences you should attend. Each conference has its own culture, direction, and attendees. It’s no wonder one of the questions we’re asked the most is “Which conferences should I attend?

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 13, 2019

The bill will impact patients with Medicaid coverage and private insurance living in the largely rural state.

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HealthStream

AUGUST 13, 2019

Here are some questions to ask yourself if you wonder about becoming an Emergency Room Nurse. Healthcare organizations can select the best nurses for the ED by ensuring that they have both the clinical and non-clinical skills to be successful in this department.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 14, 2019

The program was created by Johnson County Department of Health and Environment and will be available via Solera to patients covered by a local payer.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 15, 2019

The new funding was led by Icon Ventures with participation from Polaris Partners, RRE Ventures,406 Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 13, 2019

The startup plans to buff up its marketing as well as offer new tests and supplements.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 15, 2019

Users can search for the price of a procedure at providers in their area and then book an appointment through the app.

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