Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 17, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Jayne Warwick, director of market insights, PointClickCare. The Patient Driven Payment Model (PDPM) is more than just a new name attached to Medicare payment reform. The shift from Resource Utilization Group (RUG) IV to PDPM moves the skilled nursing reimbursement model away from therapy provision as its main driver.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2019

The collaboration will investigate heart health outcomes and medication adherence among seniors, and is scheduled to begin in 2019.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 18, 2019

From Paul Dattoli: I agree with you. My expertise is in IT DR in Healthcare. If it weren’t for HIPAA and Hi-Tech, there is little doubt in my mind that most healthcare organizations would do little to nothing in this space. That would leave us more vulnerable and PHI would be an even easier target for criminals. HIPAA forces our healthcare organizations to be resilient with respect to IT wether they like it or not.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

I’m glad to be getting back to health economic issues after spending the last couple of weeks firmly focused on consumers, digital health technologies and CES 2019. There’s a lot for me to address concerning health care costs based on news and research published over the past couple of weeks. We’ll start with the centerpiece that will provide the overall context for this post: that’s the ongoing research of Gerard Anderson and colleagues under the title, It’s Still

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 17, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Amy Sklar, SVP of advanced manufacturing communities, UBM. As reported by Rock Health’s Midyear Funding Review, 2018 got off to a roaring start with $3.4 billion for digital health funding in the first six months of the year. All indicators point to continued momentum in 2019, as startups and veteran companies alike work to […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2019

The sensor-embedded pill will be used to treat and monitor colorectal cancer patients receiving care at Fairview Health Services.

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Health Law Gurus

JANUARY 17, 2019

Summing up the results of the previous year, regulatory experts have noted that more than half of the businesses punished for HIPAA lapses in 2018 involved well-known big business entities making it a notable theme of the year. While some experts say that regulators may be relaxing the enforcement of the regulation, others remain confident that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will be committed to a robust HIPAA enforcement in 2019.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner, freelance writer. With new technology comes to new terminologies, like cybersecurity. Unfortunately, this new technology also spawns the creation of new methods to bypass security measures. And while data breach may not be a new term or even a new problem, in 2019, it’s become a massive issue, particularly in the healthcare […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 16, 2019

The Fitbit BYOD program is the first digital health initiative launched within the NIH's project to build a longitudinal database of 1 million Americans.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). There’s an RFI out right now, published as part of the federales’ “ Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care ,” announced by HHS Secretary Alex Azar in mid-2018.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Health begins at home. I found evidence for that, beyond my own N of 1 understanding, in a research article published in the U K in 2000 by Lyn Harrison and Frances Heywood. Lyn and Frances tested three assumptions that they believed linked housing and health: that housing contributes to health; that housing is not routinely included in health or social planning;’ and that the potential contribution of primary care is wasted.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell. The 340B Drug Pricing Program was created in 1992 to give safety net providers — those that deliver a significant level of both healthcare and other health-related services to the uninsured, Medicaid, and other vulnerable populations — discounts on outpatient drugs to “stretch scare federal resources as […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 15, 2019

A healthcare and technology survey found that 80 percent of respondents would be more likely to visit a doctor or seek treatment if they could see out-of-pocket cost on their smartphone.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 14, 2019

[…] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and is republished here with […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 16, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. With AI increasingly playing a role in healthcare, and the cost of insurance continuing to rise, it’s no surprise that people might be feeling a little bit disillusioned and confused as to what to expect this year. However, as the pace of technology continues to accelerate, as does the political situation, it’s all the more […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 16, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Now that it’s January gym memberships are bought by the thousands and cutting sugar becomes popular. And now that its January of 2019, times have changed. Technology has become advanced in ways that health-related resolutions have actually become more manageable. You no longer have to juggle the paper and pen while flipping through a booklet […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 16, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Greg Waldstreicher, CEO, PHIflow. Healthcare organizations face unprecedented compliance challenges when it comes to managing business associate agreements (BAAs) amid frequent data breaches, heightened federal scrutiny and anticipated privacy legislation. Actions by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have clearly demonstrated stricter enforcement of HIPAA rules in recent years, and the industry has already […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 15, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. While you may think of technology in terms of the CT scanner, the advancements made in recent years in cardiac monitors, portable x-ray equipment, sonography, bedside lab testing, even IV needles are all part of how tech is improving healthcare. Just ask the medical staff of inpatient and outpatient rehab centers.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 17, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The technology available to diagnose and treat a wide variety of illnesses and ailments continues to improve with every year. While these developments are undoubtedly contributing to increased rates of recovery and preferred patient outcomes, doctors and other medical professionals continue to rely on a relatively basic set of guiding principles when determining the probable […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 18, 2019

While the HIMSS Global Conference is often thought of as a health IT conference for physicians and CIOs, the annual event actually caters to a wide variety of stakeholders in healthcare including entrepreneurs, investors, informaticists, and a wide variety of clinicians and executives.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 18, 2019

Social determinants of health, platform plays, and big data were three standout trends.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 15, 2019

Charlotte Yeh, chief medical officer at AARP, discusses the assets of age and which technologies could help address isolation and loneliness.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 14, 2019

ClassPass will shut down GuavaPass' service in markets where the two companies were competing, and maintain the latter company's other operations under the ClassPass name "until further notice.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 14, 2019

The funding, an undisclosed sum, will be used for growing the company's telepsychiatry network and developing HIPAA-compliant telehealth platforms.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 14, 2019

Part of the NHS's new 10-year plan is to make the organisation a testbed for new health tech, such as the portal-like HealthTechConnect.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 15, 2019

The digital care program also improved users' knowledge of their condition, and reduced their interest in pursuing surgery.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 15, 2019

The FindAir One monitors symptoms and conditions, and warns users if their inhaler was left at home.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Teladoc teamed up with Telespine to give members videos and exercise programs that target lower back health.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 16, 2019

The startup will also look to increase its commercialization efforts through new hires and healthcare stakeholder partnerships.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 17, 2019

The deal includes undisclosed intellectual property as well as some R&D personnel.

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