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JULY 10, 2019

The prevailing idea in the tech industry is that to succeed, you have to be ready to sell your idea, no matter how far along your idea really is. You’re encouraged to believe in your product even when there is no product to believe in. And if you’re disrupting the mattress industry or the eyewear sector, maybe that’s okay. But digital health startups must be held to a different and higher standard.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

As healthcare manages the twin challenges of a shrinking workforce and an expanding patient population , hospitals and health systems are faced with some fundamental challenges. And they're spending lots and lots of money to help manage them. Accenture data shows that nearly two out of every three dollars spent by U.S. hospitals – 65 percent of expenditure, on average – goes to labor costs.

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KevinMD

JULY 11, 2019

I want to share some thoughts about artificial intelligence, or as I prefer to call it “data analytics.” Fundamentally: How can we capture the capability of analytics to improve the care and outcomes of cancer patients? And more importantly: How can we harness this technology to help bring back the human touch in cancer care? […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Digital Health

JULY 8, 2019

A computational biologist by training, Imran Haque has managed to achieve the near-impossible: embracing the promise of data science in medicine while retaining his critical faculties. He may well be just the sort of innovator required at the intersection of medicine and big data. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Imran says he grew […].

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2019

“It’s the prices stupid,” Uwe Reinhardt and Gerard Anderson and colleagues asserted in the title their seminal Health Affairs manifesto on U.S. healthcare spending. Sixteen years later, yesterday on 8th July 2019, a Federal U.S. judge blocked , in the literal last-minute, a DHHS order mandating prescription drug companies to publish “retail prices” of medicines in direct-to-consumer TV ads.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

JULY 10, 2019

The health system’s new DNA10K initiative looks to improve the link between genomic data and primary care

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 10, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO and co-founder, Innovaccer. Children have entirely distinctive needs as compared to adults. Care is delivered to them in a manner entirely different than adults by care teams that hardly ever double-up as providers for the elderly.

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Health Populi

JULY 11, 2019

The health/care ecosystem continues to morph as the stakeholder groups themselves are blurring across and outside of their core businesses. Today’s example of this is Clover Health, which launched Clover Therapeutics this week. This research organization will develop medicines targeting older adults — which makes sense because Clover Health’s target consumer market is Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 10, 2019

The company exclusively announced to MobiHealthNews its plants to create a tool kit for providers, payers and pharmas.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

JULY 8, 2019

The OpenNotes organization has announced that 40 million U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 12, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s easier than ever to put health data on the Internet. Fitness trackers, health apps and other connected devices can give people a lot of insight into their health. Unfortunately, that’s not the only way that their health data ends up getting used.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

Thailand’s population is ageing rapidly with almost half of its electorate above 50 years old by 2025. Healthcare costs are rising and it is not tenable in the long-run to keep building hospitals. One possible consideration for the country is the shift towards value-based healthcare (VBHC), which is about improving healthcare outcomes at lower cost.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 10, 2019

The tech giant's partnership with the NHS was first announced last year.

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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

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Clocktree

JULY 10, 2019

NPR produced an interesting segment on the state of telehealth services and how they’ve helped people in rural communities. The article spotlights one woman in rural CA who needed therapy but lives in a town with only two therapists and could only get one appointment per month. Instead she visited a local clinic twice a week to connect via video call with a therapist 200 miles away.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 8, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Assaf Halevy, founder and CEO, 2bPrecise, LLC. Few healthcare leaders doubt that insights made available through precision medicine and genomics have the potential to vastly improve care and outcomes. But the industry struggles to overcome numerous barriers that, at first glance, seem to obstruct providers’ ability to fully leverage precision medicine.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

JULY 11, 2019

92 percent of respondents said they believe that burnout is a public health crisis

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Mobi Health News

JULY 11, 2019

CEO Sean Duffy discusses clinical validation, digital therapeutics and the new opportunity for a digital provider.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How digital tools can alleviate the stigma of mental health issues Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 8, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Springer, senior vice president of healthcare solutions, CitiusTech; and Fernando Schwartz, vice president of data science and consulting, CitiusTech. As consumers, we experience artificial intelligence (AI) every day. In fact, we’ve come to expect the consumer experience it enables, such as Amazon’s highly personalized suggestions for additional items we might like.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 10, 2019

DNA-testing service Vitagene Inc. left thousands of consumers' health reports exposed online that contained their full names, dates of birth and gene-based health information, such as their likelihood of developing certain medical conditions, according to Bloomberg.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 11, 2019

The program would provide an 85% discount on telehealth connectivity expenses for health organizations serving rural communities.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2019

Healthcare is full of workarounds. Many of them show an extreme amount of creativity. It’s just unfortunate that all of those creative juices are spent on workarounds and not the core problems. While many of the health IT workarounds out there are about health IT people doing what they need to in order to get […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 11, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Yves Archambault, strategic initiative director, Varian. It’s hard to imagine what it can be like to go through cancer treatment, even when being treated with the latest adaptive therapy technology. You walk into the clinic, lay perfectly still inside a long, narrow tunnel-like machine…for about 45 minutes or so, as your clinician uses an […].

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 8, 2019

Researchers at Kaiser Permanente developed a machine learning algorithm that more effectively identifies people at risk of contracting HIV compared to other HIV risk prediction tools. The analytical tool enables more at-risk patients to be referred for preventive medication.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 9, 2019

quipcare and the premium quipcare+ will allow members to schedule professional dental services with upfront costs 30% to 40% less than average, the company said.

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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.

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

More smarts are moving into tech for older adults. AI capabilities combined with a Voice First interface is increasingly expected – and so they are part of new offerings to help older adults, bothliving at home or in senior living communities. Will older adults be comfortable with them? Will they be used effectively to help them remain as safe, independent and/or well as possible?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 11, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Julie Krommenhoek from Ciox. Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is a designation that accounts for more than 80 percent of lung cancers diagnosed, and it has emerged as a new hotspot for investment by pharma manufacturers. Globally, the NSCLC therapeutics market is expected to rise to a […].

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 10, 2019

The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with developing a three-year, $100 million connected care pilot program to support telehealth and remote patient monitoring services to improve healthcare access to underserved populations.

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