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Medical Tourism and The Value Of Technology In Medicine

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner The phrase “medical tourism” has been coined to describe the millions of Americans who are traveling across the globe to have surgery or other medical procedures performed. According to Visa and Oxford Economics, this trend is growing at a rate of 25 percent per year.

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Broadband As Social Determinant of Health – Microsoft’s Plan to Bolster Rural Access

Health Populi

In the U.S., the highest levels of unemployment are in places that often have the lowest access to broadband connectivity. And, “without a proper broadband connection, these communities can’t start or run a modern business, access telemedicine, take an online class, digitally transform their farm, or research a school project online,” Microsoft President Brad Smith said yesterday as the company announced their continued commitment to expanding broadband in rural America.

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How and why startups are using blockchain to tackle healthcare hurdles

Mobi Health News

From cryptocoin behavior incentives to personal health data sharing, there's no shortage of young companies looking to the distributed ledger technology.

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How Criminal Actions Can Affect Your Professional License

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 Every health care provider knows that their license to practice can be disciplined for misconduct on the job. However, many are surprised to learn that they can also disciplined for actions that occur outside their professional lives. A criminal conviction for a felony or misdemeanor that is not directly related to their profession can still result in discipline.

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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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Preventing Medical Billing Cash Flow From Becoming A Flat Line

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ethan White, MDVision. From last few years, there have been significant modifications in the rules in addition to guidelines that medical coding and billing firms must achieve. The medical billing vendor that is fully compliant in all under HIPAA are authoritatively business associates of most ideal healthcare clients.

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While National Health Care Spending Growth Slowed in 2017, One Stakeholder’s Financial Burden Grew: The Consumer’s

Health Populi

National health care spending growth slowed in 2017 to the post-recession rate of 3.9%, down from 4.8% in 2016. Per person, spending on health care grew 3.2% to $10,739 in 2017, and the share of GDP spent on medical care held steady at 17.9%. Healthcare spending in America is a $3.5 trillion micro-economy…roughly the size of the entire GDP of Germany, and about $1 trillion greater than the entire economy of France.

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Impaired Practitioner Programs: What You Need to Know if You’ve Been Accused of Impairment or Disruptive Behavior

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 In an industry that revolves around serving others, physicians and other health professionals sometimes find that they are the ones being pushed toward a treatment program. According to a recent study , physician wellness and quality of patient care go hand-in-hand.

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Pillo Health Launches Home Health Assistant to Dispense Medication, Track Adherence

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Pillo Health, a Boston-based company bringing medication adherence to the forefront of healthcare, announces the launch of Pillo, a voice-activated in-home companion with facial recognition that lets consumers better manage their health and stay connected to their caregivers. Pillo helps users better adhere to medication regimens, reminding them about dosages at set times, and offers […].

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Money First, Then Kids: The State of the American Family in 2018

Health Populi

Most American families with children at home are concerned about paying bills on a monthly basis. One in two people have had at least one personal “economic crisis” in the past year, we learn in the American Family Survey 2018 , released last week from Deseret News and The Brookings Institution. The project surveyed 3,000 U.S. adults across the general population, fielded online by YouGov.

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Smartphone app could use fingernails to detect anemia

Mobi Health News

The new technology can detect anemia with 97 percent sensitivity by analyzing photos of a user's fingernail.

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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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Conversational treatment adherence device Pillo launches to consumers

Mobi Health News

At $499, the connected in-home tool automatically dispenses and reorders medications while delivering audio and video treatment support.

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ResMed acquires digital respiratory health company Propeller Health

Mobi Health News

ResMed is expected to close the $225M deal to purchase the smart inhaler company by March 2019.

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20 takeaways from Health Affairs' telehealth issue

Mobi Health News

Studies show growing adoption, regulatory barriers and a mixed bag of efficacy results

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Big changes are coming to Medicare reimbursement for connected health

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS19, ACT | The App Association's Brian Scarpelli will lay out the details of what he calls a "sea change" in CMS' policy toward remote patient monitoring.

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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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Strong provider directory is step one for digital transformation

Mobi Health News

Sara Vaezy, the chief digital strategy officer at Providence-St. Joseph Health, says everything else follows from an accurate, up-to-date and user-friendly directory.

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FDA announces eight winners of opioid epidemic innovation challenge

Mobi Health News

The eight devices will receive increased guidance and interaction for their clearance efforts, and some will receive Breakthrough Device designation.

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Telehealth helps with healthcare accessibility challenges in Saudi Arabia

Mobi Health News

Patients living in rural areas and smaller cities have to travel to get to the healthcare they need, which makes telehealth more valuable, says Wael A. Kabli, Cura CEO.

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Tabula Rasa Healthcare acquires fellow medication safety platform DoseMe

Mobi Health News

As part of the deal Tabula Rasa will acquire the DoseMeRx platform, which gives clinicians information about how a patient will metabolize and absorb certain medications.

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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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Healthcare workers on the frontline need effective technology

Mobi Health News

Ewan Davis, CEO, Inidus, says that patient-centered care is important, but it's also necessary to deliver technology to make the jobs of healthcare workers easier and more enjoyable. Additionally, he shares his predictions and hopes for the future of the NHS.

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Sharing genetic information is key to finding medical solutions

Mobi Health News

While data privacy is a priority, Pirkko Kortekangas, Chief Development Officer at UNA Plan in Finland, says that sharing genetic information is vital when searching for medical solutions.

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Patient access to data: Global examples

Mobi Health News

Giving patients control of their own data is essential, Dr. Shafi Ahmed, CMO, Medical Realities, says, adding that smartphones are an indispensable tool for empowering the patient.

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Ark launches stomach cancer blood test for early stage stomach cancer detection

Mobi Health News

Ark, a Singapore-based medtech enterprise focused on early cancer detection, has raised a record US$40 million in Series A funding. Ark’s vision is “a world without late-stage cancer” and its mission is to eliminate late-stage cancer related death by 2048 through the introduction of accurate, affordable, and actionable cancer detection technologies.

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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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Apple Watch's ECG, heart rate alerts are live today

Mobi Health News

In addition, Apple shared some snippets of the validation data it shared with the FDA.

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Oura's latest round brings the smart ring maker's total funding past $20M

Mobi Health News

The Finnish company now enjoys support from several tech founders, athletes, and celebrities.

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Hong Kong’s BookHA app extended to more specialties for case booking services

Mobi Health News

Yesterday, Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) announced that their mobile application, BookHA, which provides new case booking services for Specialist Outpatient Clinics (SOPC), would be extended to cover the Clinical Oncology and Anaesthesiology (Pain Clinic) specialties for the convenience of patients starting from 3 December 2018.

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Spok Health, Standard Communications ink deal to expand in VA systems

Mobi Health News

The new partners plan on implementing Spok Care Connect, a medical messaging system, in their efforts to modernize the VA's communication system.

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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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Giblib launches fully-VR CME course with Cedars-Sinai surgeons

Mobi Health News

"Essential GI Surgeries" will include 25 hours of real surgeries recorded in 360 VR and 4K video.

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Patient financial engagement platform MedPilot snags $1.7M in seed funding

Mobi Health News

The Cedars-Sinai accelorator alumnus plans to use the money to grow its workforce and launch new engagement functionality.

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How Romania is digitizing healthcare

Mobi Health News

Romanian Health Minister Sorina Pintea discusses digitizing primary care, plans to reform the healthcare system, and the concept of a digital hospital.

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FCC document suggests Apple may launch new Beddit device

Mobi Health News

The filing is a strong indication the Cupertino tech giant isn't done with standalone sleep monitoring devices.

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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.