Digital Health
MARCH 5, 2018
For a skydiver who’s motto is “Just jump out and go”, the journey from chasing down Sandanista kidnappers to driving Disney strategy to genomics pioneer sounds sort of rational. Lisa Alderson, founder and CEO of Genome Medical, is one of those special someones who thrives on adrenaline and channels it to great effect. Lisa went […].
Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
The Mayo Clinic has just released the results of a new study, which show an 80 percent increase in enrollment of clinical trials for breast cancer when using IBM’s Watson for Clinical Trial matching system. The Watson system uses artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured information and pull out insights from the data.
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KevinMD
MARCH 4, 2018
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke that has escalated to alarming rates in recent years, affecting nearly 1 in 3 adults in the U.S. In an attempt to reduce its prevalence, the Eighth Joint National Committee (JNC-8) released a set of hypertension management guidelines. However, various concerns arose regarding the recommendations and as a result, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and.
Clocktree
MARCH 9, 2018
Consumers continue to wish for more virtual care options, creating better overall access to healthcare. According to a 2018 survey conducted by Ernst and Young, more than 50% of 2500 consumers are already using the telemedicine technology available to them through their healthcare providers. However most of these patients do not have access to all the telehealth options they are hoping for.
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Health Populi
MARCH 7, 2018
As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health.
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
Effective leadership in healthcare often means getting knowledge out of caregivers’ heads so organizations can act on it. Intermountain Healthcare found a way to do that daily, in 15-minute increments.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 8, 2018
Struggles at VA continue — Conference notes
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2018
The median American uses 3 social networking platforms in 2018. Facebook is the primary platform for most Americans who use social media in 2018: two-thirds of U.S. adults use Facebook, and 3 in 4 of them check in on a daily basis. But in the past year, the percentage of people using Facebook and its corporate sister YouTube has flattened, based on the survey report, Social Media Use in 2018 from the Pew Research Center.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 6, 2018
A trio of presenters at HIMSS 2018 shared data from practical machine learning and AI-focused studies that demonstrate how the technologies could reduce costs and improve patients’ outcomes.
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 6, 2018
Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of Alphabet, urged healthcare providers at HIMSS18 to drop their data warehouses and get in the cloud as soon as possible. The keynote speaker, who now serves as a technical adviser to Alphabet, also talked about how AI can make an "unimaginable" impact on patient care.
Society for Participatory Medicine
MARCH 6, 2018
This is a quick first blog post to get the word out. This graphic, created by our member @JenHoronjeff of @SavvyCoop, says it all. Spread the word, with the #HIMSS18 and #S4PM hashtags on social media! In short: HIMSS (the enormous yearly health IT conference) is happening this week in Las Vegas. Over fifty members of our society are present. The interoperability showcase is a 30,000 square foot exhibit that shows data moving through various “use case” demonstrations.
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Privacy and cybersecurity ranked the second highest priority to hospitals and healthcare providers polled in HIMSS 2018 Healthcare Leadership Survey. Providers put patient safety as #1. Appropriately, privacy and security were hot topics at HIMSS Annual Conference this year, in respond to providers’ demands for more education and concerns around the challenges.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 6, 2018
Healthcare 2.0 co-founder Indu Subaiya said she sees healthcare as a living, learning, interconnected system, and the future of healthcare innovation will come from collaboration.
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 9, 2018
An innovative program run by the University of Pennsylvania Health System uses a patient-centric focus to extend care beyond hospital facilities and into local communities. The key to the program’s success lies in sending its community health workers into disadvantaged neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia and asking patients what kind of support they need to improve their health.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
MARCH 6, 2018
In 2018, updates and changes impacted telehealth policy across the nation. On March 15 at 1 PM CT , Mei Wa Kwong, JD, Executive Director, and Christine Calouro, Policy Associate, from the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) will present a free National Telehealth Resource Center webinar to provide an update on federal and state telehealth policy actions and to discuss issues that may arise throughout the year.
Health Populi
MARCH 5, 2018
“It’s not about shiny new technologies but about designing relationships to truly impact the patient at the center of the disconnected ecosystem,” asserted Amy Cueva, Founder and CXO of the design consultancy Mad*Pow. That patient is a consumer, a caregiver; it’s you and me, Cueva explained. To reconnect the fragmented pieces of healthcare delivery, Cueva said, mantra-style, “collaboration is the new innovation.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2018
Sleep tracking tech company Eight (formerly known as Luna) has raised $14 million is Series B funding, according to a statement from the company. The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator and Yunqi Partners.
Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 6, 2018
HHS Secretary Alex Azar outlined four priorities for the agency this week, and accelerating the path to value-based payment systems and reducing healthcare costs are at the top of his list. “Today’s healthcare system is simply not delivering outcomes commensurate with its cost,” he said in remarks to the Federation of American Hospitals.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 9, 2018
Photo Credit: Terry Pierson, Riverside Press-Enterprise/SCNG. There are a lot of misconceptions about Type 1 diabetes—for instance, that is lifestyle-related and that it is easy to control with diet and exercise. As numerous advocates have argued, such misinformation is not harmless, since popular opinion has the potential to significantly shape public policy.
Health Populi
MARCH 4, 2018
On July 18, 2017, Neil Gomes, Chief Digital Officer at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, tweeted this: When I saw this tweet, I was especially struck by Gomes’s phrase, “Designed & developed with heart/love by my @DICEGRP.” That’s Jefferson’s health solutions group that focuses on digital innovation and consumer experience.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 5, 2018
Innovation is one of the most sought after things in healthcare, but it’s also one of the most poorly understood, according to experts presenting at the Digital and Personal Connected Health conference Monday at HIMSS18.
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 8, 2018
Cigna announced Thursday that it would purchase Express Scripts, the country's largest pharmacy benefit management firm, in a deal worth $67 billion. The deal comes on the heels of merger plans from CVS and Aetna, which would also unite a major payer with a large PBM in a vertical union.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 5, 2018
Update on MHS Genesis — Funding for quality measures
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2018
Amazon is planning to extend Prime subscriptions to people enrolled in Medicaid for the discount price of $5.99 a month instead of the recent price increase to $12.99/month or $99 a year. The $5.99 a month calculates to a 27% break on the annual Prime membership cost. Medicaid enrollees who want to take advantage of the deal must provide Amazon with a scan or image of the card they use for their benefit (either Medicaid or EBT).
Mobi Health News
MARCH 5, 2018
Improvements in data management will soon mean healthcare providers can engage patients outside of standard care more than ever before, Judy Murphy, chief nursing officer at IBM, said Monday at HIMSS 2018 in Las Vegas.
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 6, 2018
Seema Verma announced two new initiatives from CMS aimed at giving patients access to their health data by opening up claims data to app developers. The agency also plans to overhaul the Meaningful Use program to place more emphasis on interoperability.
Health Intersections
MARCH 7, 2018
Last weekend, in the lead in to HIMSS in Las Vegas, several of the FHIR team met with a number of block chain specialists, most particularly including David Huseby from the Hyperledger project at the Linux Foundation. We discussed various use cases for use of blockchain, with the intent of understanding what – if anything – HL7 should do to support blockchain adoption through the standards process.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 8, 2018
In 2014, a 13-year old from California died from complications related to his Type 1 Diabetes after his parents used herb therapy instead of insulin. Los Angeles authorities recently charged a self-proclaimed “master herbalist/iridologist” with child abuse and practicing medicine without a license in connection with the teen’s death. The defendant is 83-year old Timothy Morrow.
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