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Eight Advancements That Have Changed the Face of Healthcare In the Last 10 Years

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Freddie Tubbs, communication manager, Academized. So much has changed in terms of healthcare over the last decade. Technology has advanced and improved processes – what used to take hours can now take seconds. This means a lot both to the medical community and patients alike.

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Amazon's newest machine learning product makes sense of unstructured medical text

Mobi Health News

Amazon Comprehend Medical is a HIPAA-eligible service able to automatically identify and process patient diagnoses, symptoms, medical test details, treatments and other relevant medical information.

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The Ultimate Health Outcome, Mortality, Is Rising in America

Health Populi

How long can people living in the U.S. expect to live? 78.6 years of age, if you were born in 2017. That’s a decline of 0.1 year from 2016. This decline especially impacted baby boys: their life expectancy fell to 76.1 years, while baby girls’ life expectancy stayed even at 81.1 years. That’s the latest data on Mortality in the United States, 2017 , soberly brought to you by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of the U.S.

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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Joining me by my virtual hearth this week is Omri Shor ( @OmriShor ), CEO and co-founder of Medisafe ( @MedisafeApp ). Omri was inspired to create Medisafe after his father accidentally double-dosed on insulin. He describes Medisafe as a medication management platform providing personalized support. He and his team have grown the user base of Medisafe’s medication adherence application to over 4 million users worldwide.

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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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Interoperability: The Key To Enhanced Care and Becoming A Preferred Provider

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By B.J. Boyle, vice president of product management, PointClickCare. Interoperability, as it was envisioned, should be built on transparency and connectivity, allowing a patient’s critical health information to be easily accessible, regardless of where treatment is being administered.

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Report: Apple Watch ECG will go live by year's end

Mobi Health News

According to leaked training documents, both the ECG and irregular heart rate detection will be part of Watch OS version 5.1.2.

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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Joining me by my virtual hearth this week is Omri Shor ( @OmriShor ), CEO and co-founder of Medisafe ( @MedisafeApp ). Omri was inspired to create Medisafe after his father accidentally double-dosed on insulin. He describes Medisafe as a medication management platform providing personalized support. He and his team have grown the user base of Medisafe’s medication adherence application to over 4 million users worldwide.

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How to Know If Your Software is HIPAA Compliant

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Abbas Dhilawala, CTO, Galen Data. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, was enacted in the United States in 1996. The legislation creates data security and privacy requirements for safeguarding medical information. In recent years, HIPAA compliance has become a hot button issue for software developers in the healthcare space, as a […].

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Clinical trial will explore how Sensoria's smart socks can help Parkinson's patients

Mobi Health News

The 100-patient study is a collaboration between Sensoria, the Michael J. Fox Foundation and Neuroscience Research Australia.

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Judge Sets Deadline For HHS To Clean Up Medicare Appeals Backlog Pileup

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 November 2, 2018, a federal judge in Washington, D.C. said the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has until the end of 2022 to completely clear out its backlog of thousands of Medicare billing appeals. This decision is the latest in a long line of litigation launched by the American Hospital Association and others that has dragged on for years.

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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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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Joining me by my virtual hearth this week is Omri Shor ( @OmriShor ), CEO and co-founder of Medisafe ( @MedisafeApp ). Omri was inspired to create Medisafe after his father accidentally double-dosed on insulin. He describes Medisafe as a medication management platform providing personalized support. He and his team have grown the user base of Medisafe’s medication adherence application to over 4 million users worldwide.

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The Political Plausibility of Medicare for All

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell, Inc. As widely reported, based on exit polls, healthcare—not the economy—was the top issue on voters’ minds in the 2018 midterm elections. This was due in part to the nation’s sustained economic recovery of the past two years, resulting in the current healthy state of the […].

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Open Health launches PatientSphere feature for patients to monetize health data

Mobi Health News

The platform will now let users share health records with pharma companies, health systems and insurers for remuneration.

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Health Care Professionals: It’s Time to Take Control of Controlled Substances!

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 2018, the Florida Department of Health (DOH) launched an informational website providing basic information pertaining to CS/CS/HB 21, the Controlled Substances Bill, and the important changes for prescribers and dispensers. The bill, effective in July 2018, addresses opioid abuse by establishing prescribing limits, requiring continuing education on controlled substance prescribing, expanding require

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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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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Joining me by my virtual hearth this week is Omri Shor ( @OmriShor ), CEO and co-founder of Medisafe ( @MedisafeApp ). Omri was inspired to create Medisafe after his father accidentally double-dosed on insulin. He describes Medisafe as a medication management platform providing personalized support. He and his team have grown the user base of Medisafe’s medication adherence application to over 4 million users worldwide.

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High Costs in Healthcare Today

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Karim Babay, CEO, HealthSapiens. High-quality affordable healthcare is important to help eliminate healthcare disparities and works to improve the overall health of the population, whereas more expensive healthcare increase the disparity between health of the affluent and the less well-off.

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JAMA study finds telemedicine catching on but still relatively rare

Mobi Health News

The study also found that comprehensive parity state mandates and the lack of psychiatrists were factors in telemedicine usage.

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Proposed Changes to Lower Drug Prices in Medicare Advantage and Part D

CMS.gov

Proposed Changes to Lower Drug Prices in Medicare Advantage and Part D. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Mon, 11/26/2018 - 15:36. Alex Azar and Seema Verma. HHS Secretary and CMS Administrator. Topic. Legislation. Medicare Part D. Pharmacies. Prescription drugs. Proposed Changes to Lower Drug Prices in Medicare Advantage and Part D. From day one, President Trump has made it clear that lowering prescription drug costs is a top priority.

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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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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Joining me by my virtual hearth this week is Omri Shor ( @OmriShor ), CEO and co-founder of Medisafe ( @MedisafeApp ). Omri was inspired to create Medisafe after his father accidentally double-dosed on insulin. He describes Medisafe as a medication management platform providing personalized support. He and his team have grown the user base of Medisafe’s medication adherence application to over 4 million users worldwide.

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VigiLanz and Cincinnati Children’s Partner to Commercialize Solution to Minimize Acute Kidney Injury in Pediatrics

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. VigiLanz and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center announces a collaboration that leverages Cincinnati Children’s research on pediatric nephrotoxic kidney injury and VigiLanz’s capabilities to commercialize a solution for Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in pediatric patients. Dubbed NINJA, or Nephrotoxic Injury Negated by Just-in-time Action, the solution enables real-time identification and monitoring of patients at risk for

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Hospitals should engage their employees to uncover new innovations

Mobi Health News

At the World Innovation Summit for Healthcare in Doha, Qatar, design specialists discussed the importance of bringing the hospital staff into the design process.

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You Have the Right to Know the Price

CMS.gov

You Have the Right to Know the Price. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Tue, 11/27/2018 - 18:48. Seema Verma. Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Topic. eHealth. Initiatives. Leadership. You Have the Right to Know the Price. When facing any policy issue, it helps to take a step back and run it through the lens of common-sense. Can you imagine going to the grocery store, getting the groceries you need for the week, but never knowing the price of your items until a week later when the st

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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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Omri Shor of Medisafe presents targeted medication adherence tools – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Joining me by my virtual hearth this week is Omri Shor ( @OmriShor ), CEO and co-founder of Medisafe ( @MedisafeApp ). Omri was inspired to create Medisafe after his father accidentally double-dosed on insulin. He describes Medisafe as a medication management platform providing personalized support. He and his team have grown the user base of Medisafe’s medication adherence application to over 4 million users worldwide.

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Noninvasive vagus nerve stimulator receives FDA clearance for cluster headache prevention

Mobi Health News

According to manufacturer Electrocore, it is the first treatment of any kind to receive the indication.

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Samsung demos AI applications for diagnostic imaging devices

Mobi Health News

The assorted software offerings are designed to run on existing ultrasound, digital radiography, CT and MRI hardware.

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Roche launches FDA-approved diagnostic test for personalised cancer care in Singapore

Mobi Health News

Roche announced last week the launch of FoundationOne CDx, Foundation Medicine’s comprehensive companion diagnostic test for personalised cancer care in Singapore. According to the official media release, FoundationOne CDx supports clinicians in their decision-making by providing a clear, in-depth report that describes the unique genomic profile of a patient’s tumour as well as associated, approved therapies and relevant clinical trials.

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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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FDA looks to restrict older predicate devices, introduce new regulatory pathway

Mobi Health News

To encourage healthcare technology innovation and update the 510(k) pathway, the regulatory agency said that it will soon release measures aimed to sunset predicate devices that are over a decade old.

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Decentralizing healthcare with blockchain

Mobi Health News

Co-founder of Health Data Link, Abel Kho, co-founder of Health Data Link talks about the ecology of care and how data is transferred throughout the healthcare market.

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Ping An Good Doctor showcases AI-powered, unstaffed clinics

Mobi Health News

The system would also include a smart medicine cabinet that could dispense more than 100 medications.

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One hospital's unique path toward an electronic patient record

Mobi Health News

Adrian Byrne, CIO of the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, talks about his organization's journey toward developing an electronic patient record (EPR), which involved an integration engine and standard messaging.

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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.