Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2019

Healthcare leader representatives from Singapore, Australia and the Philippines took centre stage as the HIMSS Singapore eHealth & Health 2.0 Summit officially kicked off on April 23 with the CXO Panel session on the topic of disruptive innovation for value-based care. “Today’s healthcare model is based on ‘more is better’, but I think the healthcare model of tomorrow ought to be when ‘better is more’ When we look at that shift from the volume to value-dri

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Xu Zou, CEO and co-founder, Zingbox. Recent research was published by the Washington Post about malware that was created to disrupt medical imaging equipment and networks. This is yet another wake-up call for the healthcare industry that been underinvesting in security for the last decade.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 23, 2019

HI David: HIPAA exempts an authorization to discuss “payment, treatment and operations.” Revisiting this issue with hospitals and other providers is paramount. Doug Aldeen.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 23, 2019

Last night at a Partners HealthCare Pivot Labs event, industry players discussed the ins and outs of how to validate a digital health product, regardless of funding.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2019

Pediatric health care center Boston Children’s Hospital and digital healthcare specialist MORE Health announced a partnership that will give patients in China access to the physicians and services of the hospital through MORE’s Physician Collaboration Platform. WHY IT MATTERS. The company’s Co-Diagnosis service is delivered by a HIPAA-compliant online platform, which lets physicians deliver a diagnosis and treatment plan to patients in collaboration with their treating physicia

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 25, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Vital, the AI-powered software increasing productivity and improving patient health in hospital emergency rooms, today announces a $5.2 million Seed round led by First Round Capital and DFJ. Vital uses artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) to triage patients before they see a doctor, making it easier and faster for providers to coordinate […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 22, 2019

In a recent study published in the journal of Depression and Anxiety, a voice-analyzing AI was able to detect, with 89% accuracy, if a subject presented with PTSD.

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HealthStream

APRIL 22, 2019

Digital transformation requires rethinking business processes of all kinds. It’s fundamentally about using digital technologies and data to put the customer/patient at the center of your business.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. The statistics related to chronic disease management are staggering. According to the US National Center for Health Statistics, 40 percent of the US population have chronic conditions and almost one-third of this patient population has multiple chronic conditions.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2019

People define their personal health and well-being broadly, well beyond physical health. Mental wellness, physical appearance, social connections, and financial wellness all add into our self-health definitions. Mind Over Money is a consumer study conducted by Frost Bank, working with FleischmanHillard, connecting the dots between optimism and financial health.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 24, 2019

As part of the deal, Oscar Health members who are identified as high risk for diabetes or AFib will be offered confirmatory tests and be referred to an in-network provider.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Each April marks National Minority Health Month, providing the opportunity to acknowledge the progress made in reducing disparities, as well as a chance to reflect on what more needs to be done to achieve health equity. Discussions about health equity frequently focus on the important roles that preventive services and care quality have in determining health outcomes.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 22, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David A. Watson, chief executive officer of Akiri, and former CTO, Kaiser Permanente. The American Medical Association (AMA) identifies one of the biggest challenges in healthcare today as the secure sharing and use of trusted health data in real time across the complex U.S. healthcare ecosystem.

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HealthStream

APRIL 26, 2019

As credentials verification matures, the CVO function will undoubtedly change. Electronic processing will accelerate, by necessity. What does that mean for changing how the CVO does things?

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2019

A new programme based at Imperial College London will focus on technologies that help people with dementia to live well in their own homes, while generating data to help researchers better understand the cause and progression of the condition.

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 24, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Several genetic testing companies have come into the spotlight for allegations of ripping off Medicare and False Claims Act (FCA) violations. Health care professionals need to be aware of these types of schemes and the dangers they may face if involved. In each of these cases, the companies agreed to a pay a settlement in the millions to resolve allegations they submitted claims for unnecessary genetic

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 26, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Mario Anglada, CEO, Hoy Health. Proven technology and digital communications are being used to leverage decades of health industry knowledge and speed access to care among Hispanic communities. These solutions and digital access align with Hispanic use of new technology tools: 84 percent of all Hispanics are online and Hispanic internet smartphone usage is […].

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HealthStream

APRIL 25, 2019

A team of content experts from HCCS, A HealthStream Company, recently attended the Health Care Compliance Association’s 2018 Enforcement Conference, where some sessions focused on the changing approach to CIAs.

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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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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2019

A subject's gaming performance results were a predictor in whether or not they had APOE4, a gene linked to a predisposition for Alzheimer's.

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Health Populi

APRIL 26, 2019

People over 50 in the U.S. that are likely to vote in the 2020 Presidential election are keenly interested in lowering the cost of prescription drugs, according to a survey conducted by AARP in February and March 2019. Most people over 50 take prescription drugs daily; one-third take two or three Rx’s regularly, and one in five older people take six or more prescription medicines regularly.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 25, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paurakh Rajbhandar, senior biomedical engineer, VitalConnect. The need for hospitals and physicians to recognize and react to patients showing early signs and symptoms of clinical deterioration has resulted in the creation of a rapid response system (RRS).

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HealthStream

APRIL 24, 2019

Compliance jobs exist across many industries, but job duties and responsibilities for them are remarkably similar, regardless of where you work. Here some of the typical positions representative of a healthcare compliance program.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 24, 2019

Recently deployed in US and UK hospitals, the company's upper-arm wearable and accompanying platform may now go home with the patient.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 25, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joe Polaris, senior vice president of product and technology, R1 RCM. This year promises many new opportunities to apply technology to improve the healthcare revenue cycle. The recent HIMSS conference, for instance, featured many exciting use cases for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 23, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announce the CMS Primary Cares Initiative, a new set of payment models that will transform primary care to deliver better value for patients throughout the healthcare system.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 22, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Greg Shipmon, B2B channel development, Brother International Corporation One of the biggest trends in healthcare has a distinctly technical focus: clinical mobility, the use of mobile devices like smartphones, tablets, laptops, and mobile printers by physicians and nurses at the point of care.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 24, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rosie Harman, content strategist, Visi One Click. Over the last few decades, we have seen exponential growth in technology. Hardware and software permeate the world around us. The world has become a smaller place with distances presenting less of an obstacle.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 23, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Jaeger, head of ACO and health system strategy, AristaMD. Rural hospitals are facing severe challenges in maintaining operating margin, with uncompensated care being a major factor. Telehealth eConsult platform use in local primary care settings to improve “right time, right place, right provider care” have been shown to decrease the number of patients […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2019

The startup plans to put the money towards additional clinical validation and rolling out the system to large health systems and employers.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 24, 2019

Amazon sent Prime users an email advertising virtual pharmacy PillPack, which the company acquired in 2018.

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