Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Blaise Wabo, senior manager, A-LIGN. As technology continues to improve, using virtual connections in place of face-to-face meetings has surged in popularity. The healthcare industry is no different – the telehealth industry is predicted to be worth more than $130 billion by 2025.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
As more health systems avail themselves of the quality, cost and access benefits that come with telehealth, IT leaders naturally have big questions about how those major investments in technology infrastructure, reshaped clinical strategy and staffing changes should be paying off. A new study from Manatt Health Strategies offers perspective, drawn largely from two case studies of different care providers, about how the return on investment should be assessed for nascent telehealth deployments.
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Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Amidst the unveiling of its newest consumer smartphones, tablets and smartwatches, the tech company said it will begin enrolling consumers into its hearing, cardiovascular and women's health studies later this year through an upcoming app.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
“Every company is a tech company,” Christopher Mimms asserted in the Wall Street Journal in December 2018. Connectivity, artificial intelligence, and automation are now competencies every company must master, Mimms explains. This ethos underpins Humana’s decision to join CTA, the Consumer Technology Association which hosts CES every January in Las Vegas.
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Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Karly Rowe, vice president, new product development, care & identity management, Experian Health. This year could be the year that paved the way for a major change in the healthcare industry. In June this year, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of lifting the decades-old ban on federal funding for all U.S. […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
SSM Health, a health system that serves Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin, is always looking for ways to reduce the cost of healthcare while increasing access for the patients it serves. THE PROBLEM. As most in healthcare know, many of the low-acuity conditions for which patients seek treatment do not necessarily require an in-person visit.
Health Care Compliance Brief brings together the best content for health law & compliance professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Health care system financing, delivery, and workflows widely vary across nations around the world. Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Marcus Chung, CEO, BoldCloud. For the second straight year, ransomware attacks accounted for over 70 percent of all malware incidents in the healthcare sector, according to the recently issued 2019 Verizon Breach Investigations Report. Beazley reported that almost half of the ransomware incidents reported in 2018 involved healthcare companies, while CSO Online estimates that […].
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
The following is a guest blog post by The Fax Guys. Confidentiality Is A Cornerstone of the Healthcare Industry. Inspired by ethical tradition, HIPAA guidelines mandate that patient information be stored and communicated securely. That critical requirement has far-reaching technology implications. Tools such as email, widely used in most industries, lack essential compliance and security […].
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Under the partnership, more than 7 million Bao Minh customers will have access to Doctor Anywhere's suite of digital healthcare solutions.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Managing medications via iPhone Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Patricia Hyle, vice president of product commercialization, StayWell. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources or FHIR was introduced in 2014 as a data standard for electronic health records to adopt, enabling improved access in sharing health data.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
In recent times, health plans have taken an interest in integrating wearables into their wellness efforts. For now, most are sticking to programs which encourage consumers to use them independently, but that could change as insurers find ways to take direct advantage of the monitoring data themselves. Depending on how health insurers handle wearables data, […].
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
Pennsylvania-based Signant Health (formerly CRF Health and Bracket), which provides a suite of electronic clinical outcome assessment (eCOA), eConsent and Patient Engagement solutions, announced that it will provide electronic informed consent for a significant neuroscience study by the Shanghai Mental Health Centre (SMHC). SMHC is an affiliate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a leading organisation on mental health prevention planning.
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Total HIPAA
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
This post aims to answer all of your HIPAA compliance questions. If you’re just learning about HIPAA compliance, or beginning the process of becoming HIPAA compliant, this article will guide you through the initial steps you must take to adhere to the law. We explain every facet of HIPAA, including information about who needs to be HIPAA compliant , who enforces HIPAA , what happens when you violate HIPAA , and what you must do to become and remain HIPAA compliant.
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kevin von Keyserling, chief strategy officer, Keyfactor. As value-based care becomes more prevalent, healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) are continuously looking to transform the patient care model with goals of reducing costs, optimizing patient outcomes and driving better financial performance.
HealthStream
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
National Suicide Awareness Week is a good time to assess protocols for helping at-risk patients, as well for providers themselves to assess their own mental and emotional well-being.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
At the Health 2.0 Annual Fall Conference next week in Santa Clara, I'll sit down with Livongo Executive Chairman Glen Tullman to look back at the company's IPO — and ahead to healthcare's digitally-empowered future.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
The following is a guest article by Information Builders who is hosting a free webinar on “Managing the Healthcare Data Value Chain from End-to-End to Break Down Data Silos”. The healthcare data value chain is a concept not far removed from standard data value chains. You know, the ones that provide value from your data from […].
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Patient data integrity experts from Just Associates, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in patient matching and health information data integrity and management, will be at the 2019 Annual AHIMA Convention & Exhibit to provide insights into best practices for Master Patient Index (MPI) clean-up.
CMS.gov
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
The U.S. Census Bureau released their annual report on health insurance coverage in the United States which shows the number of uninsured Americans rose from 2017 to 2018.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Panelists at MassBio's Digital Health Impact event yesterday talk the pros and cons of the West Coast's tech culture and the East Coast's clinical tradition.
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Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
For the last few years, a growing number of healthcare organizations have been integrating information on social determinants of health into their population health management efforts. In fact, survey results published in early 2018 concluded that 80% of the organizations they surveyed had begun to track and use SDOH data. Now, in another sign that […].
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. There comes a time in all of our lives where we need to get our teeth checked and cleaned. As much as we dread a visit to the dentist, a visit to their office is much like death and taxes in that it’s inevitable. But then, there’s a lot more to the world of dentistry […].
HealthStream
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
While healthcare organizations are committed to COI Management, there is not consensus about how to go about it or to whom it applies. HCCS—A HealthStream Company surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about the current state of their COI compliance programs.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
By deploying their products alongside campus health services, telehealth companies are seeing engagement rates outperforming those of the general population.
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Healthcare IT Today
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
For the 19th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about physician reputation. This podcast was inspired by the news that MIPS Quality scores were now public. That’s right. With any NPI number (easily found online) or the physician’s name, you can look up the MIPS Quality score for any physician or group. What […] Physician reputation has become more and more important as the number of physician ratings and review sites has exploded.
Electronic Health Reporter
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Childhood is a funny age. If we ask you to peak in the rear view mirror of your life, what would be the first memory that you’d reminisce? There must be loads of things to look back to, and why not—it is a golden phase in a small, tiny movie of life, but this little […].
The Health Law Firm
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Many health professionals don’t understand the significant repercussions that an exclusion action by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) can have on their professional careers and future employment. Whether you are a physician, nurse, dentist, psychologist or other health professionals, if you allow yourself to be excluded from the Medicare program, devastating economic results may follow.
Mobi Health News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
A UK-based research group reports that period tracking app Maya and MIA are sharing sensitive data with Facebook.
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