Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The cornucopia that is the annual HIMSS conference and tradeshow – healthcare technology’s biggest event – is behind us, but what’s left in the wake is wonderful, inspiring even, if not a bit overwhelming. The reactions to this year’s event have been overwhelmingly positive. Interoperability in the form of data sharing and a ban on […].

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Navigating the new digital healthcare landscape is challenging for everyone. The global healthcare landscape is rapidly changing with digital technologies becoming increasingly normalised into the everyday delivery of healthcare. But how does this change how healthcare organisations provide and deliver care? In the future, the digital landscape might span everything from patients to wider healthcare delivery organisations (Figure1).

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The principles were created based on input from 30 industry professionals including executives, providers and researchers.

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KevinMD

MARCH 1, 2019

The United States spends more of their GDP on health care than any other developed nation, and yet it produces some of the poorest outcomes — notably in the field of maternal and infant health. The advent of digital health has presented the opportunity for a paradigm shift in the delivery of care, and support […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

What industry compels its “consumers” to wait longer and travel further for services more than any other in a person’s daily life? That would be health care, a report from Altarum notes. People travel further and wait longer for medical services than for veterinary care (second in this line-up), auto repair, banking, and household services.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 1, 2019

Innovators are seeking new ways to address infant and maternal mortality rates, with a special focus on combating racial health disparities.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Lauren Adley, writer and editor, UK Best Essays. The healthcare industry has traditionally relied on the pen-and-paper archiving system, creating huge but impractical data libraries. However, the situation is changing in the last couple of decades with the introduction of electronic health records (EHR).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

CVS + Aetna have merged to evolve a new business model for health and medical care. Walgreen’s continues to add new services beyond the core pharmacy business, and Walmart is expanding telehealth and healthier food aisles in the grocery. More grocery stores added dietitians to their operations in 2018, as well. As people take on more self-care for health care, they are looking to access products and services in retail bricks-and-mortar and ecommerce channels in the same places they buy fo

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Morning eHealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

RUSH Act back — Usability migraines continue

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

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The service's new clinical capabilities, smart referrals and comprehensive data platform look to remove barriers that keep patients from primary care.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By George Mathew, M.D., chief medical officer for the North American Healthcare organization, DXC Technology. In mid-February, nearly 45,000 health information and technology professionals, clinicians, executives and suppliers gathered to explore healthcare’s latest innovations at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Orlando, Florida.

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Portland-based health system's IT support team creates governance structure, service catalog

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Clocktree

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Georgia state Senate passed two bills today (SB115 and SB118) as part of their comprehensive healthcare reform aimed at reducing costs, increasing access, and enhancing quality care for Georgia residents. SB 115 allows for physicians outside of Georgia to be licensed as a telemedicine provider by the Georgia Composite Medical Board. This should improve access to Georgia residents in underserved communities by increasing the pool of available providers.

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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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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Dexcom announced a slew of announcements this morning including an integration with Google Fit, a feature that lets users share their readings with 10 people and a technical inquiries feature.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 1, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Kurt Walker, editor and copywriter, Collegeessaywriter.com. The healthcare industry is enormous. It’s one of the largest industries in the world. It also happens to be more complex than most industries. To begin with, the amounts of data collected are mind boggling. Around the world, 16,000 hospitals collect patient data while nearly 5 million patients […].

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Arizona Telemedicine Program

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

After four challenging years as a medical student – while maintaining her roles as a wife and mother of five daughters – Mary Alyson Smith will graduate from the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, in May. She has decided to pursue a career in pathology, and is especially interested in telepathology, “I feel it’s an area that still has great potential for growth,” she says.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Advocates called on Wednesday for support for H.R. 1309, a bill introduced in Congress earlier this month that would require hospitals to meet national safety standards monitored by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The duo plan to develop a product that is able to remotely monitor hypertensive patients and get them care faster.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. HIMSS today shared insights on what’s next in health on the heels of the HIMSS19 Global Conference & Exhibition. This year’s event – which saw more than 43,000 attendees from 90 countries around the world and featured nearly 500 education sessions on 24 education topics – highlighted current industry priorities and offered a glimpse of […].

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

MARCH 1, 2019

Seeking to address the opioid crisis, patient safety aspects of value-based care

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 1, 2019

The Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) and Blue Cross Blue Shield Institute have teamed up to debut foodQ, which offers affordable meals delivered to a participants’ home. The program aims to improve the health outcomes for people with chronic conditions, particularly diet-related conditions.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

China’s one-stop healthcare ecosystem platform, Ping An Good Doctor, yesterday announced its first annual results since listing: the company recorded a revenue of RMB 3.34 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 78.7%. The three key indicators of the company – registered users, monthly active users (MAU) and monthly paying users (MPU) continued to grow at a rapid rate in 2018.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize all fields, and healthcare isn’t exempted. This technology, which involves machine and deep learning, enables computers to gain the capacity to better understand and process complex forms of data. Essentially, they would have the ability to learn through examples.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We spoke with Ajit Shah, PhD and Peter Thompson, PhD about their research which has just been published in Cell Metabolism. This UC San Francisco study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 diabetes (T1D). The findings flip current assumptions about the causes of the disease on their head and demonstrate a promising new preventative strategy that dramatically reduced disease risk in laboratory animals.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

There is almost no correlation between a patient’s out-of-pocket cost and the amount insurers pay or the overall price of a procedure, according to a Pioneer Institute study released today.

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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.

Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The rumor jibes with recent comments Apple VP of Health Dr. Sumbul Desai made to MobiHealthNews about sleep.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 1, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In today’s world of smart devices and advanced monitoring software, the field of healthcare is one of the main beneficiaries. Monitoring a patient’s activity and state as accurately as possible could be considered one of the pinnacles of modern healthcare, and there is plenty of technology on the rise to help us get there.

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Morning eHealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

CMS names Mark Roche as its chief health information officer — Social media are spreading measles, CDC and NIH officials tell a House committee

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