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
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
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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.
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.
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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
OCTOBER 31, 2018
From A AHSA to LeadingAge. In 2010, this association was renamed LeadingAge – from the Association of Homes and Services for the Aging – a mouthful, shortened to AAHSA. As it was at first encounter in 2009, it is an association of faith-based and non-profit senior living and aging-related services. A rhetorical question, does LeadingAge, the association and event organizer, lead the world of aging services?
Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.
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Insulin Nation
OCTOBER 30, 2018
SFC Fluidics has used a succession of SBIR grants and a recent partnership with JDRF to develop a patch pump that complies with JDRF’s Open-Protocol Automated Insulin Delivery (AID) Systems Initiative. I spoke with Tony Cruz, CEO, and Ashley Shemain, VP Business Development, of SFC Fluidics, Inc. headquartered in Fayetteville, Arkansas — [link].
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.
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.
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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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 29, 2018
The device, called the NightWatch, has been created by a consortium of Dutch academic institutions and will be marketed by LivAssured.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Morning eHealth
OCTOBER 30, 2018
HHS clears financial transparency requirements — B-minus for HealthCare.
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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!
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.
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.
Lloyd Price
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Patient care is moving closer to primarily being administered in the home. Kaiser Permanente’s CEO, in fact, recently said that the home is the future of healthcare. Along with this trend comes an increasing number of transactions being conducted online, enabled by remote patient monitoring (RPM). In fact, 52% of last year’s patient transactions at Kaiser Permanente were conducted online.
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Morning eHealth
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
Apple watch heart study tops 400,000 enrollees — A boost for PCORI?
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.
FierceHealthIT
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
A significant percentage of what is classified as mobile “digital health” technology is not having an impact from a medical perspective because it is not reaching the right people. What we need are fewer gimmicks.
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