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Study: Majority of mental health patients would consider giving clinicians access to phone behaviors, locations

Mobi Health News

A small study published in JMIR Mental Health found that 84 percent of surveyed patients living with mental illness were willing to use apps that would collect and share biomarkers.

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Industry Trends Demand New Approaches To Healthcare Facilities and Real Estate

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Richard Taylor, executive managing director, JLL Healthcare Solutions. Healthcare delivery is being transformed as we speak, from technological breakthroughs and regulatory change to changing patient demographics and consumer expectations. As the healthcare landscape evolves, forward-looking healthcare providers are seeing their real estate in a new light.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?

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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT.

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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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Report: Digital diabetes market surging, will hit $742M by 2022

Mobi Health News

The market comprised $98 million in revenue during 2017, and is beginning to move away from stand-alone devices or apps.

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How Can We Prepare Ourselves For Healthcare IoT?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Tim Mullahy, executive vice president, Liberty Center One. Remote monitoring. Smart sensors. Better communication and overall patient care. The internet of things has some incredible applications for the health industry — assuming we can overcome the security challenges it brings with it.

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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT.

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Military looks to drones, augmented reality to deliver expert care in war zones

Mobi Health News

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new system that lets young doctors in the field get support from experinced physicians via drones and AR glasses.

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Top 10 Mobile Apps Used In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Kenneth Evans, content marketing specialist, Top App Development Companies. Mobile technology is amazing. With the available technologies, anyone can see a doctor using smartphones. The impact of app developers and mobile app developers is increasing in healthcare. They make this possible by developing and releasing telemedicine and telehealth apps.

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Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill

Health Populi

Most Americans have been surprised by a medical bill, a NORC AmeriSpeak survey found. Who’s responsible? Nearly all Americans (86% net responsible) first blame health insurance companies, followed by hospitals (82%). Fewer U.S. patients blamed doctors and pharmacies, although a majority of consumers still put responsibility for surprise healthcare bills on them (71% and 64% net).

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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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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT.

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Focus on innovation: 3 charts explain where healthcare is headed

Mobi Health News

New HIMSS Media research spotlights what innovations are needed most, top areas hospitals are prioritizing and sticking points to avoid.

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Survey: Physician IT Leaders Say Improvements to Medication Management Make Patients Safer

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Nearly 100 percent of chief medical information officers (CMIOs) in U.S. hospitals believe medication management improvement initiatives are having a positive impact and that patient safety issues are less likely to occur today as compared to five years ago, according to a new survey from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).

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Florida Doctor Files $100 Million Defamation Suit Against Former Employer

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 August 21, 2018, a Florida plastic surgeon filed a $100 million defamation suit against Orlando Health, Inc. (OHI), alleging he was fired and made the target of a smear campaign. Dr. Jeffrey M. Feiner claims that he faced retaliation for drawing attention to certain unethical and illegal conduct between his former employer and Allergan, Inc., a large pharmaceutical company.

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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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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT.

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Peerfit claims another $8 million for its digital fitness benefits platform

Mobi Health News

The funding round is led by Ark Applications and PAR, and joined by Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck.

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Health IT Startup: Ivenix

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Ivenix, Inc., a medical technology company with a vision to eliminate infusion-related patient harm, was founded in 2012 to develop innovative solutions that transform infusion delivery. Designed from the ground up to streamline medication delivery and bring legacy technology into the digital age, the Ivenix Infusion System includes a large-volume infusion pump supported by a […].

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The Collateral Effects of a Criminal Case on a Licensed Health Professional

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 Criminal charges against a health care professional can result in severe consequences. In this blog, I will discuss the impact of a criminal charge on a Florida licensed health care professional. How Does a Plea of Nolo Contendere Affect Licensed Health Professionals?

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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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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT.

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Mobile app launches to better connect cancer patients to appropriate care, clinical trials

Mobi Health News

US and China-based Driver boasts a network of more than 30 cancer treatment centers, and also offers a separate post-care management service.

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Leslie Krigstein of CHIME on Health IT Challenges and Opportunities – Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Leslie Krigstein comes to the health IT policy arena both as the VP of CHIME for congressional affairs and as a family member of a cancer patient. These perspectives reinforce each other as she works to improve the regulatory landscape shaping security and interoperability in her role at CHIME overseeing congressional engagement efforts focused on effective use of health IT.

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How machine learning, cloud computing fit into healthcare's big data puzzle

Mobi Health News

LifeOmic's Chief Marketing Officer Justin Helmig will be presenting at Health 2.0 on how machine learning and cloud computing can be implemented in a healthcare setting.

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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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Meditation app Headspace acquires Alpine.AI

Mobi Health News

San Francisco-based Headspace announced that it would be acquiring voice-enabled AI system Alpine.Ai for an undisclosed sum this morning.

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Pediatric vision test GoCheck Kids launches for iPhone

Mobi Health News

The FDA-cleared, HIPAA-compliant app looks to offer pediatricians a lower-cost alternative to purpose-built screening devices.

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UK hospital uses VR to prepare future parents for childbirth

Mobi Health News

New VR headsets at Hull Women and Children's Hospital are set to help parents-to-be prepare for the birth of their children.

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Wearable, voice-powered doctor's assistant Notable raises $13.5M

Mobi Health News

Notable announced its Series A funding round led by F-Prime Capital Partners and Oak HC/FT to further develop its wearable AI voice assistant for doctors.

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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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Mount Sinai spinoff raises $1.8M, launches enterprise digital therapeutic prescription tool

Mobi Health News

Rx.Health — a Mount Sinai Health System spinoff that has built an app prescription platform for enterprises — has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. According to a statement, the investment will help the company pursue new clients and support the launch of its digital therapeutics and patient engagement tool, Bulk Prescription.

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ResApp announces strong results from Australian pediatric trial of respiratory diagnostic tool

Mobi Health News

With these data, CEO Tony Keating said the company will be pursuing European and Australian regulatory submissions.

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CVS Health and Aetna or Amazon, Berkshire and JPMorgan: A timeline to disruption

Mobi Health News

Here’s a look at how we got to the cusp of innovative technologies and business models healthcare is facing right now.

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Mobile health app boosts HCAHPS scores, lowers costs at South Shore Health System

Mobi Health News

The pregnancy app, developed in-house with some help, allowed the hospital to improve its OB-maternity HCAHPS by 68 percent – and cut printing costs for paper handouts by half.

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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.