KevinMD
OCTOBER 27, 2018
The Kaiser Health News article, " Spurred By Convenience, Millennials Often Spurn The ‘Family Doctor’ Model ," caught my eye. Millennial patients want “convenience, fast service, connectivity, and price transparency” while doctors and health experts worry about “fragmented or unnecessary care, including the misuse of antibiotics” and loss of “care that is coordinated and longitudinal.
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.
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Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 29, 2018
MITRE VA report released — Calls for cyber waiver in anti-kickback statute
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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Healthcare communication has evolved from handwritten notes and paper charts to digital tools like EHRs, telemedicine, and AI-powered platforms. This blog explores how these advancements improve patient outcomes, streamline care delivery, and enhance provider collaboration. Learn about the role of mobile health (mHealth) apps, secure messaging, and social media in bridging communication gaps.
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.
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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
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 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.
Clocktree
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A recent article in The Washington Post highlights the many ways Millennials are changing the healthcare industry through their expectation of convenient, cost-transparent services. This includes ditching the traditional primary care physician for a combination of walk-in clinics and telemedicine services that are instantly available. “The whole ‘going to the doctor’ phenomenon is something that’s fading away from our generation,” said Calvin Brown, a recent college graduate.
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 31, 2018
While the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services moved ahead with parts of its plan to consolidate codes for Medicare patient visits, it made changes in response to the thousands of comments it received from doctors who worried that the plan would cut revenues for physicians who care for Medicare patients with complicated health conditions.
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.
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
Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 30, 2018
HHS clears financial transparency requirements — B-minus for HealthCare.
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FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
The hospital organization announced its intent to sue the administration for overstepping its boundaries just hours after the CMS released a rule implementing new site-neutral payments for clinic visits. However, physician groups applauded the agency for advancing value.
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.
Health Populi
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Among people who have health insurance, managing the costs of their medical care doesn’t rank as a top frustration. Instead, attending to health and wellbeing, staying true to an exercise regime, maintaining good nutrition, and managing stress top U.S. consumers’ frustrations — above managing the costs of care not covered by insurance.
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 […].
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FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 30, 2018
A new survey of doctors found that health plans are increasingly overriding the treatment decisions they make for their patients.
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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 30, 2018
You probably knew this – that 2018 was the year of voice tech and healthcare. Summits were held , experts have declared , pilots were piloted, partnerships formed , enthusiasm reigned , and so it has gone. As for 2019, according to Sara Holoubek, CEO of Luminary Labs , "expect a proliferation of bad voice experiences." . C?onsider the healthcare experiences we have endured – it’s a good time to consider a new way to interact with the health system.
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.
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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is transforming healthcare by enabling providers to track patient health outside traditional clinical settings. This blog explores the role of technology in RPM, including wearable devices, mobile apps, and connected medical tools that collect and share real-time data. Discover how RPM expands care access, improves outcomes, enhances patient engagement, and reduces costs by shifting from reactive to proactive care.
FierceHealthIT
OCTOBER 29, 2018
In comments to the HHS Office of Inspector General, Athenahealth said allowing providers to purchase data would establish “a true functioning market for the exchange of health information." Meanwhile, several other IT groups want OIG to allow providers to donate cybersecurity tools.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Pixel by LabCorp's mail-away screens offer insights on heart health, diabetes, colorectal cancer and general wellness.
Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Big business with tech rollouts — VA/DoD updates
Society for Participatory Medicine
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Deborah Greenwood. Lifetime SPM member Deborah Greenwood is a diabetes educator who has long believed in patient empowerment and participatory medicine. SPM welcomes posts authored by our members – see the guidelines. November is Diabetes Awareness Month. And November 14, 2018 is World Diabetes Day. Help us spread the word that the language we use in healthcare matters!
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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
OCTOBER 31, 2018
HHS is planning an about-face on the long-delayed rule that would set price ceilings and monetary penalties in the 340B program, moving up its start date by several months.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
The clearance brings US readers a feature long available in Europe, and paves the way for data plays.
TheraNest
OCTOBER 29, 2018
An Overview of Health Psychology. This post has been authored by Robyn Pashby, Ph.D., Kelly Donahue, Ph.D., NTC, and Kris Morris, Ph.D. as part of our guest post series. Learn more about our three authors at the bottom of this post. What is Health Psychology? The American Psychological Association writes that “health psychologists study how patients handle illness, why some people don’t follow medical advice and the most effective ways to control pain or change poor health habits.
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