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Health IT Trends for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Healthcare technology continues to proliferate the sector, the developments almost too many to track. The sector abounds with innovation and push forward in the name of better – even the minutest – advancements of care and better care outcomes. The coming year will be no different.

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

Most consumers would be willing to try an FDA-approved app or online to treat a medical condition, as well as receiving hospital care at home if would be less costly. We’ve reached an inflection point on the demand side among consumers for digital health options, PwC suggests in their report on the New Health Economy coming of age. The report outlines health/care industry issues for 2019, with a strong focus on digital health.

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Apple, Aetna collaborating on new Watch-driven wellness rewards program

Mobi Health News

The Attain program will combine members' health record data with activity tracking to offer personalized goals, with rewards that include the Apple Watch itself.

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Florida May Allow Doctors to Avoid Divulging Past Mental-Health Conditions and Drug Issues on License Applications

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 Doctors ask patients about their medical histories every day for in treating them. But what happens when physicians are requested to divulge their own past medical history to the state as part of the licensing process? Before being licensed in the state of Florida, for example, health care providers are required to disclose if they have been treated for mental-health or substance-abuse disorders within

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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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The Future of Blockchain In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The blockchain is a ledger, a database that keeps everything in one place and cannot be changed without leaving a mark in the ledger in the event of information changing. According to Jacob Kostecki of Blockhead Factor, blockchain makes it perfect for the recording of both research and treatment information, as well as medical histories. […].

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Care Gets Personal at Philips for Parents and Babies

Health Populi

Our homes should nurture our health. In addition to nutrition and good food, positive relationships, clean air and water, and the basic needs that bolster whole health, technology is playing a growing role to help us manage health at home. At CES 2019, I spent time with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Personal Health with Philips , to discuss the company’s evolving portfolio of products that help fulfill the mission to support people across their own continuum of health.

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Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty

CMS.gov

Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Thu, 01/31/2019 - 15:23. Cara V. James and Tim Engelhardt. Director, CMS Office of Minority Health & Director, Federal Coordinated Health Care Office, respectively. Topic. Initiatives. Prescription drugs. Rural health. Medicare’s Role in Reducing Senior Poverty. As Poverty Awareness Month comes to an end this January, it’s a time for us to remember the strong relationship between poverty and health, and to consider the ongoing challeng

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7 Challenges Faced By Medical Practices in EHR Implementation

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The implementation of electronic health record (EHR) is not a new thing in the industry. The digital wave has completely transformed the way medical records were maintaining before and now. With increased demand for efficiency and faster solutions, more and more medical practices are embracing EHR to simplify and organize their data storage process.

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Trust in 2019 Via Edelman: The Plotline for Women and Healthcare

Health Populi

Fewer than one-half of consumers trust in government and media. Three-quarters trust employers, who in 2019 are the top-trusted institution according to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer released last week in Davos at the World Economic Forum. Consumers in the U.S. over-index for trust in employers, with 80% of people saying they have a strong relationship with “my employer,” compared with 73% of Britons, 66% of the French, and 59% of people in Japan.

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With Blue Cross grant, Duke taps patient partnership app to take on opioid abuse

Mobi Health News

Duke University has received about $500K out of a $2M multifaceted investment from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina to battle the opioid epidemic.

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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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The Future is Now: Robots at Work in Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. From faster diagnosis to enhancing operations across care management, compliance and accounting, artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the healthcare landscape. While AI is not a new concept, its adoption in the healthcare industry has lagged behind because of significant changes in technology and the exponential growth of data.

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Why Best of Breed Health IT Is Currently the Better, Cheaper Route to Interoperability

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Gevik Nalbandian, vice president of software development, NextGate If you wanted a clear snapshot of the progress we’ve made—or rather, haven’t made—in patient data sharing and exchange, look no further than a new report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and six other national hospital associations—America’s Essential Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges, Catholic […].

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Applications of Blockchain in Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Robby Gupta, head of US operations, TechJini. This digital age belongs to the consumer, and in this age of the consumer, it’s imperative that businesses are consumer-centric. All services and products must revolve around the customer instead of the organization providing or delivering them.

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Importance of Responsive Website in Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Essentially, a responsive web design can detect the type of device that the user is using and hence change the layout of the website according to that device. All industries, especially healthcare, should adopt a responsive web design. In this digital world, patients are checking out providers’ websites before making a decision about their 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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How Medical Professionals Use Tech to Treat More Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The demand for healthcare is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years. This trend is caused by several factors, including the growth in the elderly population in developed nations and the growing medical expectations in developing ones. Simply put, medical professionals are tasked with treating more and more patients, meanwhile, the number of hours […].

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5 Things Healthcare Organizations Need to Know about Triggering a Duress Alert

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Rom Eizenberg, vice president, Bluvision segment of the identification technologies business within HID Global. A doctor or a nurse can find themselves under duress in an instant. A patient unexpectedly attacks a doctor in a room. A nurse, who is leaving her shift at 3 a.m., is jumped by a masked assailant in the […].

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Apps and Devices That Impact Your Health and Well-Being

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Technology is constantly evolving and changing the way we do things in all areas in your life, including in healthcare. It plays a big role in the healthcare industry because it can help providers diagnose and treat their patients quicker and more efficiently, eliminating the frustration caused by trial and error.

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In-Depth: Looking back at 10 years of digital health coverage

Mobi Health News

As MobiHealthNews turns 10, we've chosen a story from each year to tell a small piece of our story, and the story of digital health.

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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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How to get the most out of HIMSS TV at HIMSS19 (updated)

Mobi Health News

Complete with an interview desk, roving reporters, and discussions with industry luminaries, innovators and top executives, HIMSS TV will be available livecasted and on-demand.

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PwC report: 54 percent of consumers willing to use digital treatment

Mobi Health News

Seventy-seven percent of doctor's have recommended an app or digital program to their patients.

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One Drop integrates with Apple's Health Records, launches personal diabetes assistant platform

Mobi Health News

Patients using the platform will be able to share their EHR and medication history with One Drop coaches through the Health Records feature.

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FDA clears respiration rate measurement for Masimo's home finger pulse oximeter

Mobi Health News

The new technology will be integrated into the connected MightSat Rx finger pulse oximeter.

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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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Customers can now get Narcan through telemedicine platform HeyDoctor

Mobi Health News

Customers will have a text chat-based consultation with a doctor through the platform, who will instruct them about when and how to use the medication.

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Giblib launches VR app to stream pre-recorded, live operations

Mobi Health News

Designed for medical students, nurses and practicing surgeons, the videos seek to replicate what it would be like to observe a procedure from inside the operating room.

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Cardiogram launches cross-platform features that let family members share data

Mobi Health News

Now Cardiogram users can share data with loved ones and physicians no matter if they are wearing using Apple Watches, Garmins or devices running Google's WearOS platform.

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Health info company BioTelemetry acquires remote monitoring startup Geneva Healthcare

Mobi Health News

BioTelemetry will pay $45 million in upfront cash with additional performance-based earn-out considerations of no less than $20 million.

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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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How Dignity Health deployed a multilingual adherence, education program

Mobi Health News

SMART on FHIR was a key piece of the rapid rollout across 35 hospitals.

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Lively launches telehealth hearing assessment, consultation alongside $16M funding round

Mobi Health News

Connected hearing aid owners can now request a virtual consultation and receive a scheduling response within 24 to 48 hours.

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Hypertension remote monitoring platform closes $2M funding

Mobi Health News

Sentinel Healthcare's connected blood pressure cuff and platform is currently providing care to more than 500 patients across three states.

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Telemedicine company aimed at treating opioid addiction raises Series A funding

Mobi Health News

Workit Health's funding round, led by Blue Cross Blue Shield Venture Partners, will help the company expand its service across the US.

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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.