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Why the Lights Went Out At Lantern, And What We Can Learn From It

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Paddy Padmanabhan, founder and CEO, Damo Consulting, and author of “The Big Unlock“ “We’re sad to say goodbye.” That was the subject line of the message from Lantern, a behavioral health startup whose app and coaching services I had used for a while.

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Stanford researchers create cortisol-detecting wearable to measure stress, health

Mobi Health News

Researchers from Stanford University have developed a new wearable capable of measuring a patient’s cortisol levels from their sweat. Cortisol, a hormone linked to stress, typically takes several days to test. A paper outlining the early development and use of the technology was recently published in Science Advances.

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Most Americans Over 50 Not Buying Groceries Online….Yet

Health Populi

Only 17% of Americans over 50 years of age shopped for groceries online by mid-2018. But older people in the U.S. have underlying demands and needs that could nudge them to do online grocery shopping, unearthed in a survey from AARP Foundation and IFIC , the International Food Industry Council Foundation. Typically, older Americans who shop online tend to be college-educated, work full-time, and earn higher incomes.

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#DisruptAging with Charlotte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer of AARP Services – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.

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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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Healthcare Technology Outsourcing Is On The Rise: Here Are 3 Reasons Why

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Shawn Yates, director of product management, Ontario Systems. Impossible projects, crazy deadlines and short staffing present a bigger challenge than their own resolution: They draw focus away from important revenue cycle functions that maintain positive margins. Caring for the patient is, of course, the healthcare provider’s core mission.

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Walgreens launches 'Find Care Now,' a digital platform for connecting customers to healthcare providers

Mobi Health News

Walgreens Boots Alliance has launched a new digital platform, available through its mobile app and website, called Find Care Now. The service is designed to be a curated way to connect customers to a range of healthcare providers that Walgreens has partnered with, including telemedicine companies, digital-enabled house call companies, and more traditional providers.

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#DisruptAging with Charlotte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer of AARP Services – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.

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4 Tips To Amplify Your Patient Satisfaction Surveys

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Chris Byers, CEO, Formstack. Patient satisfaction surveys are growing in popularity among healthcare organizations as the United States health system continues its transition to value-based care. A well-designed and distributed survey can help you discover hidden issues or gems in your organization’s care system.

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MediLynx gets FDA clearance to bring its PocketECG for cardiac rehab

Mobi Health News

Plano, Texas-based MediLynx, the US subsidiary of Poland's Medicalgorithmics, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its PocketECG CRS Mobile Cardiac Rehabilitation System.

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Heart Disease in America: Zip Code Determines Cardiovascular Disease-Destiny

Health Populi

If you live in one of nine U.S. states, your chances of having heart disease are greater than living in the 41 others. This geography-as-destiny for heart conditions is examined in The Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases Among US States, 1990-2016 published in JAMA Cardiology. Researchers analyzed data on cardiovascular disease mortality, nonfatal health outcomes, and risk factors by age, sex, and year from 1990 to 2016 for the U.S. population.

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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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#DisruptAging with Charlotte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer of AARP Services – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.

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4 Hearing Health Trends ENT Doctors Should Know

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Ear, nose and throat (ENT) doctors handle a variety of cases and prescribe treatments based on what’s readily available. As technology continues to evolve and impacts the healthcare industry in not too subtle ways, ENT doctors will need to learn about new methods and approaches in their practice.

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23andMe lands $300M investment from GSK

Mobi Health News

23andMe on Wednesday announced that GlaxoSmithKline has invested $300 million to gain exclusive access to the genetic testing startup’s DNA database.

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Healthcare, and Especially Covering Pre-Existing Conditions, Ranks High for Voters in 2018

Health Populi

President Trump and his administrative have been trying to make the ACA fail, claim most U.S. adults. Thus, the public holds the POTUS and the Republican party responsible for moving the Affordable Care Act forward… or not, according to the July 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Health care will be a key issue in the 2018 mid-term elections that will be held in November.

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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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#DisruptAging with Charlotte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer of AARP Services – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.

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BPCI Advanced: Ensuring Successful Participation

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Win Whitcomb, MD, chief medical officer, Remedy Partners. The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Advanced initiative is a new advanced alternative payment model (APM) that will go live October 1, 2018. The successor to the 2013 BPCI program, BPCI Advanced is CMS’ most significant episodic payment reform proposal to date, indicating the government’s […].

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Dignity Health and UCSF team up for patient navigation platform

Mobi Health News

Dignity Health and the University of California San Francisco Health are teaming up to create a new navigational platform for patients. The organizations are working to create a platform that will help walk patients through all different care settings including primary, acute and specialist care.

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#DisruptAging with Charlotte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer of AARP Services – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.

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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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#DisruptAging with Charlotte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer of AARP Services – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Charlottte Yeh, Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, joined me for a recent edition of Harlow on Healthare. She is focused on how research can help define improvements in the social determinants of health and the personal determinants of health for older individuals. As the number of older Americans continues to grow, we need to realize that as we age we still want to have fun, and that human connections are some of the most critical predictors of good health.

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Telemedicine lands primetime spot on Discovery Channel's Shark Week

Mobi Health News

Telemedicine is getting a cameo on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. Set to premier tomorrow night, the show "Sharkwrecked" is set in shark infested waters of the Bahamas and features a pair of “survival experts” who agreed to spend two days on an inflatable boat without food or water. Needless to say, the situation prompted a host of medical concerns, from dehydration to drowning.

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AI wearable snap40 lands $8M

Mobi Health News

This morning Scottish artificial intelligence healthcare company snap40 revealed that it closed an $8 million seed funding round led by ADV, with participation from MMC Ventures and other private investors.

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Click Therapeutics lands $17M in funding round led by Sanofi

Mobi Health News

This morning, prescription digital therapeutic developer Click Therapeutics closed a $17 million funding round led by Sanofi Ventures, a subsidiary of pharma giant Sanofi.

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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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Rock Health: Slow gains for female leadership in digital health

Mobi Health News

Things are tough for women working in healthcare, according to a new report by RockHealth. The report, which includes a mix of online sources and survey responses of hundreds of women in the industry, found the percentage of women represented in digital health leadership particularly lacking.

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WebMD now available in China, Sanofi and Nutrino team up, and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

WebMD goes to China. WebMD is teaming up with Chinese tech giant Tencent in a deal that would introduce the health information platform to Asia. This means that WebMD’s services will be translated into Chinese and localized to suit the Chinese population.

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Apple's applied-for sunscreen-detection patent could use Apple Watch or phone camera

Mobi Health News

The United States Patent Office has published a patent from Apple, filed December 18 of last year and not yet granted, for a "sunscreen detector" that could be incroporated into the Apple Watch or the iPhone and could even include augmented reality functionality.

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How a rushed California law will change the privacy and security landscape for mobile health apps

Mobi Health News

About the Author: Adam H. Greene, JD, MPH, a partner and co-chair of Davis Wright Tremaine’s health information practice, and former Senior Health Information Technology and Privacy Specialist at the HHS Office for Civil Rights, where he was responsible for applying the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules to health IT.

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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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Lyft, Hitch Health, Roundtrip deals bearing fruit for systems seeking non-emergency medical transport

Mobi Health News

Rideshare services have been making their name in the non-emergency medical transport (NEMT) industry, and it seems as if the partnerships health organizations are making with these companies are paying off.

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Online fitness membership ClassPass scores $85M, looks to global expansion

Mobi Health News

Online fitness membership platform ClassPass has scored $85 million in a Series D funding round led by Singapore company Temasek, with participation from L Catterton's Growth Fund.

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Former Cleveland Clinic CEO joins Google, AbleTo brings on new CEO, and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Behavioral health technology provider AbleTo has announced Trip Hofer as its new CEO. Hofer most recently held the title of president of accordant health services as CVS Specialty, and prior to that held senior positions at OptumHealth and Health Dialog.

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Adherium receives additional FDA clearance for OTC sale of inhaler sensors in the US

Mobi Health News

Connected inhaler sensor maker Adherium has received 510(k) clearance for US over-the-counter sales of its Hailie sensor, formerly known as Smartinhaler. Specifically, individual versions of the device have been cleared for use with the asthma inhalers ProAir HFA, Ventolin HFA, and Flovent HFA. “This latest clearance kicks off our official entry into the US consumer market, giving the tens of millions of US patients suffering from chronic respiratory conditions their own sidekick for asthma and

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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.