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Looking across international borders for digital health tools

Mobi Health News

Panelists at the Connected Health Conference in Boston spoke about the importance of digital health alliances and learning from countries sometimes ignored in the space.

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Harnessing Innovation to Serve and Create Value for Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Georgia Mitsi, PhD, MBA, senior director and head of digital healthcare initiatives, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. Innovation is not a choice but rather a growth mindset, which creates an environment for building a sustainable business. This mindset allows for objectivity and contributions towards a bigger shared purpose.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. The NHS celebrated its 70th anniversary in July this year. The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health.

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Dentists Smiling as $80 Million Settlement Reached in Dental Supply Price-Fixing Class Action Suit

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 On August 30, 2018, after two years of litigation, a group of dentists tentatively reached an $80 million settlement in a proposed class action accusing the country's biggest dental supply companies of colluding to fix prices. The three dominant distributors, Henry Schein Inc., Patterson Cos.

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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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Amazon launches connected medical device brand focused on diabetes, cardiovascular disease

Mobi Health News

Developed with brand consultancy firm Arcadia Group, the Choice product line will kick off with app-connected blood glucose and blood pressure monitors sold directly to consumers.

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Sharing Too Much? A Tale of Privacy, Big Data and Sleep Technologies

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Brooke Faulkner, freelance writer, @faulknercreek. The proliferation of wearable mobile-connected devices has done a lot of good for people trying to lead healthier lives. People are able to gather data about their sleep to help them get better rest, track insomnia, stress, and exercise, and keep up to date on their own daily routines […].

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New State Relief and Empowerment Waiver Guidance Gives States Tools to Help Fix Broken Health Insurance Markets

CMS.gov

New State Relief and Empowerment Waiver Guidance Gives States Tools to Help Fix Broken Health Insurance Markets. keya.joy-bush@…. Mon, 10/22/2018 - 16:57. Seema Verma. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Topic. Affordable Care Act. I accepted this job as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with a clear vision from President Trump: make health insurance more affordable and accessible by expanding choice, reviving competition, and deregulating

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Novo Nordisk to launch two connected insulin pens, taps Flex to manage data

Mobi Health News

The pharma company will also partner with Dexcom, Glooko, Roche and IBM Watson Health to help patients manage diabetes data.

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Limit Your CPT Code Set Updates to January? Here’s Why That’s a Bad Idea

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sudhir Singh, Coding Institute. Payers don’t accept deleted CPT codes, so your claims can’t succeed if your medical procedure codes are out of date. But do you know how often you need to update your CPT code set? It may be more often than you think. Here are some pointers to keep in mind to give your claims […].

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Food and Cooking for Health: a UK Perspective from Hammersmith & Fulham

Health Populi

Food deserts aren’t just a U.S. phenomenon. They’re found all around the world. This week as I explore social determinants of health and technology solutions in several parts of Europe, I’ve learned more about food access challenges in the UK. These are discussed in a report published this month by the Social Market Foundation asking, What are the barriers to eating healthily in the UK?

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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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Big data, digital tools are great, but building their ecosystem is 'where the rubber meets the road’

Mobi Health News

Speaking at the Big Data & Healthcare Analytics Forum in Boston, University of Texas System's Dr. Lynda Chin stressed the importance of connecting new technologies in addressing healthcare's failings.

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Garmin-Fitabase integration offers new data management platform for wearable-powered research

Mobi Health News

The device maker's wearables and Fitabase's research platform are already being used in a Copenhagen University study on physical activity during pregnancy.

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Prince Harry spotted wearing sleep tracking Oura ring

Mobi Health News

On the Prince's trip to New Zealand and Australia he was seen donning the wearable which uses heart rate, motion and temperature sensors to track a user's sleep.

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App-delivered videos of patients washing hands or touching dirty objects reduces OCD symptoms

Mobi Health News

Researchers from Cambridge University found that an app that lets OCD patients watch themselves wash their hands or touch a dirty object helps reduce symptoms and cognitive flexibility.

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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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Mayo Clinic, Eko team up to build digital stethoscope that detects heart conditions

Mobi Health News

The pair plan to develop a machine learning-based algorithm that can screen for a weak heart pump.

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Cybersecurity starts with culture change

Mobi Health News

Developing a better link between cybersecurity and patient-facing services is what Dan Taylor, director of security of NHS Digital, believes is a top priority – a good cybersecurity strategy focused on people.

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Enable Injections brings in $50M for wearable subcutaneous therapeutic delivery devices

Mobi Health News

The company's devices, which are available with or without a connected component, look to avoid inconvenient IV drug delivery.

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Prima-Temp bolsters women's health platform with Kindara acquisition

Mobi Health News

The machine learning and women's cyclical health company said that it made the purchase to prepare for next year's launch of the Priya Personal Fertility Sensor platform.

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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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Amazon exclusively sells connected medical device brand focused on diabetes, cardiovascular disease

Mobi Health News

Developed by brand consultancy firm Arcadia Group, the Choice product line will kick off with app-connected blood glucose and blood pressure monitors sold directly to consumers.

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Nvidia, Scripps team up to research AI uses in genomic, sensor data analysis

Mobi Health News

The new collaboration will start with using the technology to predict atrial fibrillation.

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How an Atlanta health system used AI, patient focus to save $4M

Mobi Health News

Grady Health System's Robin Frady shared her story at the HIMSS Big Data and Healthcare Analytics forum.

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How to build a security dashboard for startups

Mobi Health News

Infosec experts share advice about what innovators should track, security-wise, when building new apps and devices.

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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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LEO, Northwestern University, wearable startup partner to explore new dermatology devices

Mobi Health News

The collaboration hopes to develop battery-free wearables that could help inform personalized skin disease treatments.

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SilverVue, Mingle Analytics merge to form Mingle Health, to help providers toward value-based care

Mobi Health News

The new company will combine Mingle Analytic's focus on CMS reporting with SilverVue's practice improvement tools.

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What to expect at the next HHS Startup Day

Mobi Health News

ONC Senior Innovation Strategist Stephen Conya discusses the Health and Human Services road show visiting American cities to give digital health upstarts and entrepreneurs better access to federal agencies. The next HHS Startup Day is slated for Nov. 8.

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71 digital health funding deals from Q3 2018

Mobi Health News

Over the quarter, MobiHealthNews tracked $3.3 billion in digital health deals.

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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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Royal Philips launches IntelliVue GuardianSoftware app for patient monitoring

Mobi Health News

The new app will give clinicians updates about patients' vitals and predictions about patient deterioration.

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Rare disease analytics platform Raremark raises $3.9M

Mobi Health News

The London-based startup plans to use the new money to build a patient engagement platform and data analysis tool.

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Vayyar launches Walabot Home for fall detection

Mobi Health News

Walabot Home uses low-power radio waves to montior a user's movements and can alert a family member if a fall is detected.

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72 digital health funding deals from Q3 2018

Mobi Health News

Over the quarter, MobiHealthNews tracked $3.3 billion in digital health deals.

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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.