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How Pharmaceutical Companies Can Take Advantage of the EHR Revolution

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The 21st century has seen a massive change in the way people live their lives. It is now the digital era, and almost everything is online or made available in electronic form. There are now jobs online. Elections are now run in many countries so that people can submit votes electronically.

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Rock Health: Digital health adoption on the rise, but wearables, telemedicine lag behind

Mobi Health News

Eighty-seven percent of Americans used at least one digital health tool in 2017, up from 80 percent in 2015, according to a new survey out from Rock Health. For the past three years, Rock Health has surveyed 4,000 U.S. adults about digital health use and perceptions.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters. Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity.

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Legal Tips to Overcome Professional License Suspension and Revocation

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 If you are a doctor, nurse, dentist, psychologist, pharmacist or other licensed health professional whose license has been recently revoked or suspended, there may still be hope. In most cases, you must immediately stop practicing or you risk being prosecuted for unlicensed practice, a felony.

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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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Will Industry Outsiders Save Healthcare Dollars Through Data?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Luke Bonney, co-founder and CEO, Redox. With every sector of the economy feeling the effects of ever-increasing healthcare costs and no relief in sight, it’s no wonder household names outside of traditional healthcare are stepping in and attempting to improve what could only be characterized as a problematic system.

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Philips Healthcare inks deal with US military for remote monitoring technology

Mobi Health News

The wearable sensors allow clinicians to monitor multiple wounded military personnel at the same time through a smartphone or tablet.

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Florida’s Medical Marijuana Once Again Threatened by Unnecessary Legal Setbacks

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 The resignation of Florida’s medical marijuana chief on August 17, 2018, and a series of recent court losses, has once again threatened the state’s efforts for controlled legalization of marijuana. On August 2, 2018, a Tallahassee judge struck down the licensing structure that the state Legislature and Department of Health (DOH) enacted for medical marijuana providers.

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Patient Engagement: The Catalyst to Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Poornima Venkatesan, senior consultant, Virtusa. In today’s value-based care environment, patient engagement is a vital key to success in clinical outcomes. This is especially true for chronic diseases such as arthritis, where continuous care is necessary because of the disease’s physical, emotional and economic impact on patients.

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Study results support FDA approval of diagnostic algorithm, but experts remain wary

Mobi Health News

Pivotal trial data that led to April’s de novo clearance of the first AI-based diagnostic system to not require clinician interpretation is now available to the public.

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More U.S. Companies Offering Health Insurance After 8 Years of Decline

Health Populi

After eight years of decline, more U.S. employers offered health insurance to workers in 2017, EBRI reports in its latest Issue Brief. In 2017, 46.9% of U.S. companies offered health insurance to their employees, up by 1.6 percentage points from a low of 45.3% in 2016. For perspective, ten years earlier in 2008, 56.4% of employers offered health insurance, shown in the first bar chart (Figure 1 from the EBRI report).

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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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Health IT Startup: CarePort Health

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. CarePort Health provides post-acute care management solutions for hospitals, payers, ACOs and post-acute providers to better manage patient care across the continuum. Elevator pitch CarePort Health bridges the data gap between acute and post-acute care to help improve patient outcomes.

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Study: Medication reminder apps improved heart patients’ adherence

Mobi Health News

A study recently published in Heart found that coronary heart disease (CHD) patients assigned a smartphone app for medication reminders demonstrated greater adherence than those who did not.

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Starkey's new Livio AI is part hearing aid, part fitness tracker, part wellness coach

Mobi Health News

As a health wearable that far predates the invention of the term, hearing aids have always been an interesting spot. Now Minnesota hearing aid company Starkey Hearing Technologies, which launched one of the first hearing aids to connect directly to an iPhone back in 2014, has launched Livio AI.

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New technologies should complement patient-centered care, not define it

Mobi Health News

Per the Care Coordination Institute's Blix Rice, care delivery technologies won't work without both engaging patients and fulfilling clinical needs.

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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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Studies of autism screening app highlight machine learning's capacity to iterate, improve

Mobi Health News

In May, a pair of studies were published in the journals Autism Research and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) that evaluated Cognoa’s artificial intelligence-based tool for early identification of autism in children. While both investigations suggest that the tool’s performance significantly exceeded those of other standardized screeners, comparing the two studies shows a sizable difference in the reported accuracy of the company’s offering.

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Novartis, Healint study uses self tracking app to examine migraine, mental health connection

Mobi Health News

Novartis and Healint employed the Migraine Buddy app to track how migraines interact with anxiety and depression.

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Zipnosis quietly raises $3M for provider telemedicine tools

Mobi Health News

Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Zipnosis, which offers whitelabeled telemedicine tools to providers, quietly raised a $3 million funding round last week. The company confirmed the round but declined to name the investors. Their last round, in January 2016, was supported by Safeguard Scientifics, Ascension Ventures, Fairview Health Services, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Arthur Ventures, Waterline Ventures and Omphalos Ventures.

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Otsuka, Magellan Health announce plans for US rollout of Abilify MyCite

Mobi Health News

The two companies are planning a limited initial deployment to gather additional real-world data before a wider release.

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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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Genomics for cryptocurrency startup Nebula Genomics lands $4.3M

Mobi Health News

The Harvard University spinout also announced a partnership with Veritas Genomics.

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Humana to broaden digital health, data analytics efforts at new Boston location

Mobi Health News

Humana is launching a new center for digital health and analytics, which could eventually employ about 250 people to develop new data-driven technologies to advance its healthcare initiatives for plan members. Humana Studio H will be located in Boston's Seaport District. Heather Cox will lead the effort as Humana's newly minted chief digital health and analytics officer, reporting to CEO Bruce Broussard.

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Teladoc backing Partners HealthCare’s virtual platform, offering hurricane victims free remote visits

Mobi Health News

This week virtual care provider Teladoc Health was busy, releasing news about a new product launch and a seperate good will inative. First was yesterday’s launch of Partners HealthCare On Demand, a virtual urgent care service collaboration between the telehealth company and Partners HealthCare. Delivered through web and mobile devices, the video-based service is first being rolled out to the system’s Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP) members seeking consultations for minor illnesses and injuries.

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Reflexion Health's new deal with BevCap kicks off expansion into payer markets

Mobi Health News

This morning, virtual physical therapy platform Reflexion Health announced that it has inked a deal with BevCap Management, a program manager for captive insurance companies. This marks Reflexion’s first deal in the insurer market. As part of the partnership BevCap’s clients will have access to Reflexion’s Virtual Exercise Rehabilitation Assistant (Vera) as well as Reflexion’s cloud-based clinical services network, which lets patients using Vera get care through video check-ins and follow-ups fr

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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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GoGuardian launches suicide prevention tool, Fitbit reveals trends for heart rate data collection, and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Technology looks after students. Yesterday education-focused software company GoGuardian launched a suicide prevention tool for students in grades K-12. The system, called Beacon, include an early-warning system that helps schools identify pupils at risk of self harm or suicide. The system employs machine learning to access web searchers, social media behaivor, chats, forums, and emails.

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Renovia raises $32.3M for app-connected pelvic floor therapy system

Mobi Health News

Last week Renovia, maker of an FDA-cleared, app-based system for pelvic floor disorder management and therapy, announced the closure of a $32.3 million Series B equity round and an additional $10 million of debt financing. The round was led by Perceptive Advisors and Ascension Ventures, with additional participation from Longwood Fund, Inova Strategic Investments, Cormorant Asset Management, OSF Ventures, and Western Technology Investment.

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HHS chief data officer Mona Siddiqui to discuss data initiative findings at Health 2.0

Mobi Health News

The rise in big data has rocked nearly every sector from education to consumer tech, and in particular healthcare. But connecting the dots between the data sources has been a major hurtle in innovation. This is especially true when it comes to the government. The US government’s extensive stores of data are often siloed in different agencies and even departments.

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UK advertising watchdog bans contraception app's Facebook ad following investigation

Mobi Health News

The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found a Facebook ad describing Natural Cycles as a "highly accurate contraceptive app" and a "clinically tested alternative to birth control methods" to be misleading after receiving three complaints about the paid-for post.

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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.

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Medication adherence incentive platform Sempre Health raises $8M

Mobi Health News

Sempre Health, a San Francisco-based company that uses monetary incentives and pricing to encourage healthy behaviors, announced today that it has obtained $8 million in Series A financing. Rethink Impact was the lead investor, and was joined by Social Capital and other unnamed backers.

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Satellite TV company Dish teams up with Independa for senior care, entertainment

Mobi Health News

This morning satellite TV company DISH announced that it has teamed up with engagement company Independa. The deal, which is aimed at helping seniors manage medical care and providing entertainment, means that Dish’s voice remote will now be compatible with Independa AnyTV Companion. Seniors using AnyTV Companion are able to use the device to schedule appointments as well as receive medication and schedule reminders.

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Satellite TV company Dish teams up with Independa remote entertainment for senior care, entertainment

Mobi Health News

This morning satellite TV company DISH announced that it has teamed up with engagement company Independa. The deal, which is aimed at helping seniors manage medical care and providing entertainment, means that Dish’s voice remote will now be compatible with Independa AnyTV Companion. Seniors using AnyTV Companion are able to use the device to schedule appointments as well as receive medication and schedule reminders.

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Healthcare focused software company Mediware acquires analytics platform Rock Pond Solutions

Mobi Health News

Last week healthcare-focused intelligence and analytics software company Mediware announced that it is acquiring Rock-Pond Solutions, an analytics software company dedicated to the home infusion, home medical equipment, and specialty pharmacy industries. The terms of the acquisition were undisclosed.

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.