Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 29, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Pauline Farris, who speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish and Italian. She is a voting member of the American Translators Association and an active participant of the Leadership Council of its Portuguese Language Division. Technological advancements always happen so our lives can become a lot easier.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 30, 2018
London-based FundamentalVR plans to work with the Mayo Clinic to develop new simulations and validate its technology.
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Health Populi
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Notwithstanding mass adoption of antivirus protection and firewalls among healthcare providers, there remains a security gap for biomedical technologies, according to a report from Zingbox. This concerning finding was confirmed in recent observations from Gartner, which wrote in a market trends report that, “generally, medical devices are not replaced for at least ten years, with many running old software that has not been updated or patched.” Zingbox learned that most healthcare exe
Health Blawg
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’
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Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Claire Whittaker, CEO, Artificially Intelligent Claire. In today’s world, we have access to more data than ever before. Analysis of big data is allowing us to solve ever more complicated problems at scale in a way that was not previously possible. It’s a revolution. Now it’s time to use the revolution of artificial intelligence in medicine. […].
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Savvy hospitals like Boston Children’s and NHS facilities are working with chatbot startups to create new ways to interface with patients seeking care.
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Health Blawg
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’
Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Erin Jospe, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Kyruus. We live in the digital age, a time of unprecedented information generation and information consumption. Consumers have grown facile in their navigation of the information industry landscape, and have developed expectations of ready access to the data they need to make better, more satisfying decisions for themselves […].
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 29, 2018
OpenSight, which Novarad claims is the first FDA-cleared preoperative technology to use HoloLens, helps practitioners prepare for operations.
CMS.gov
OCTOBER 31, 2018
CMS Approves Innovative Wisconsin Plan to Improve Health and Lift Individuals from Poverty. Jeremy.Booth@c…. Wed, 10/31/2018 - 17:03. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services`. Seema Verma. Topic. Innovation models. Leadership. Medicaid & CHIP. CMS Approves Innovative Wisconsin Plan to Improve Health and Lift Individuals from Poverty.
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Health Blawg
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’
Electronic Health Reporter
OCTOBER 31, 2018
This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Deborah Marsh, JD, MA, CPC, CHONC, senior content specialist, SuperCoder.com. Have you reviewed the changes to the Circulatory System section in the ICD-10-CM 2019 Official Guidelines for coding and reporting? To support medical necessity and payment for your cardiology CPT codes and cardiology HCPCS codes, your ICD-10-CM coding needs to be spot-on.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 29, 2018
The device, called the NightWatch, has been created by a consortium of Dutch academic institutions and will be marketed by LivAssured.
Health Law Blog
OCTOBER 29, 2018
IT Donation to Facilitate Telemedicine Consultations – Low Risk of Fraud says OIG. The Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued Advisory Opinion No. 18-03 in support of an arrangement where a federally qualified health center look-alike (the “Provider”) would donate free information technology-related equipment and services to a county health clinic (the “County Clinic”) to facilitate telemedicine encounters with the County Clinic’s pat
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Health Blawg
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’
Health Populi
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Eat food, not too much, mostly plants, Michael Pollan advised us on the cover of his breakthrough book on nutrition in America, In Defense of Food. In Las Vegas, it’s not too easy life according to Pollan. We’re at a fork in the road when it comes to food, retail grocery shopping, and health, which is an intersection I’m increasingly working in these days.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said that the remote monitoring change and others would promote care innovation and reduce provider burden.
CMS.gov
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
CMS BLOG: Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. keya.joy-bush@…. Fri, 11/02/2018 - 21:32. Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Topic. Coverage. Medicare Part C. Medicare Part D. November 2, 2018. Medicare for All? Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. If your instincts tell you something is too good to be true, then maybe it is.
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Health Blawg
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
At the close of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a number of cybersecurity tips were published by OCR (the office within HHS that enforces HIPAA). These are timely and important reminders, relevant to everyone in the regulated community of covered entities and business associates, particularly in light of OCR’s recent settlement agreement with Anthem in connection with its major breach of a couple years ago (see more on my thoughts about the Anthem breach here), as well as OCR’
Health Populi
OCTOBER 29, 2018
“Happiness is within, but not within you alone as it is among us. If we can create happiness in a community, then we will be able to attain happiness as individuals,” observed Saamdu Chetri speaking at the International Psychological Congress last week. Chetri is head of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Centre, which developed the Gross National Happiness Index.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 30, 2018
By seamlessly connecting patients, healthcare providers and care teams, technology has the potential to improve access to medical records, update caregivers on how their loved ones feel, monitor treatment adherence and work in countless other ways to aid the improvement of health outcomes.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Douglas Gentile, Chief Medical Information Officer at the University of Vermont Health Network, discusses how lessons learned from past failures helped his organization figure out four critical components needed for successful data governance.
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Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) yesterday announced the development of a robotic arm to facilitate self-help and upper-limb mobile rehabilitation for stroke patients. The robotic arm, called “mobile exo-neuro-musculo-skeleton”, is the first-of-its-kind integration of exo-skeleton, soft robot and exo-nerve stimulation technologies.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Parkinson’s UK and Our Mobile Health have launched an apps and devices library to help people living with Parkinson’s manage their symptoms in response to increasing demand for trusted digital health tools. Following an independent assessment process, six apps reviewed against ten key attribute areas, including interoperability, patient safety, and regulation, have been approved so far.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Claus Duedal Pedersen, Chief Innovation Officer for the Centre for Innovative Medical Technology at the Odense University Hospital in Denmark, talks about shortening the road from academic research to the practical world of the healthcare system.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The definition is broad, but an accompanying whitepaper attempts to pin down the category's place in the industry.
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Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
The clearance brings US readers a feature long available in Europe, and paves the way for data plays.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Douglas Reding, MD, chief medical officer for Ascension Wisconsin and practicing oncologist, talks about Ascension's journey with its precision medicine task force, the need for AI support and the future of AI and machine learning.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 31, 2018
While the test offers information on whether or not certain treatments may be effective, the regulatory agency stressed that the results should never be used in care decisions.
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 31, 2018
The company said its new investment will fuel commercialization of its Pivot program, which consists of an app, a connected carbon monoxide breathalyzer and other resources.
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