September, 2018

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Healthcare: To Cloud or Not to Cloud

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Robert Barras, vice president of health solutions, CTG Inc. There’s nothing like a good bandwagon to get everyone excited. Whether it’s the success of your favorite sports team, or a hot new restaurant in town, or a movie that’s breaking box office records, once something gets hot it seems everyone wants a piece of […].

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Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

Health Populi

Obesity, diabesity, food deserts and food swamps co-exist across America, factors that cost the U.S. economy over $327 billion a year just in the costs of diagnosed diabetes. In addition, America’s overweight and obesity epidemic results in lost worker productivity, mental health and sleep challenges, and lower quality of life for millions of Americans.

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Apple Watch Series 4 will have FDA-cleared ECG, fall detection

Mobi Health News

This is the first FDA clearance for Apple and pushes the Watch further into health than ever before.

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Payor-Provider Convergence with John Moore, Founder of Chilmark Research – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

John Moore ( @john_chilmark ) is the founder of Chilmark Research , a leading health IT analyst firm focused on trends in health information exchange, cloud computing, analytics, telemedicine and more. We kicked off our conversation by looking at value-based care and what it will take to achieve its promise. John called value-based care a Gordian knot.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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NYC Doctor Gets Prison Term for Posing as Clinic Owner in $30 Million Fraud Scheme

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 22, 2018, a doctor received a sentence of one year and a day in prison from a New York federal court for his part in a $30 million scheme to defraud Medicare and the state Medicaid program. The doctor admitted to posing as the owner of a medical clinic and falsely claiming to have seen hundreds of patients.

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Telehealth: The Tipping Point of Virtual Care Platform Adoption

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. While telehealth has been around for years, virtual care technology is emerging as a powerful tool that goes beyond the traditional telehealth model. What will it take to reach the tipping point of virtual care adoption? To become the “next generation” of telehealth, virtual care will need to improve access, […].

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How Can We Prepare Ourselves For Healthcare IoT?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Tim Mullahy, executive vice president, Liberty Center One. Remote monitoring. Smart sensors. Better communication and overall patient care. The internet of things has some incredible applications for the health industry — assuming we can overcome the security challenges it brings with it.

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Health IT Startup: Somatix

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Somatix is a leader in wearable-assisted gesture detection for real-time health intervention and well being enhancement. Elevator pitch Somatix is a leader in wearable-assisted gesture detection for real-time health intervention and well being enhancement. Somatix derives physical and emotional symptoms from simple hand gestures, utilizing sensors built into a range of wearables to remotely detect, […].

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New Trend in Cyber Attacks Targeting Connected Medical IoT Devices and the Patients That Use Them

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Zingbox, provider of healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) analytics platform, announced new research demonstrating that hackers are leveraging error messages from connected medical devices — including radiology, X-ray and other imaging systems — to gain valuable insights. These insights are then used to refine the attacks, increasing the chance of successful hack.

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AliveCor previews next product: A 6-lead smartphone ECG

Mobi Health News

The not-yet-FDA-cleared device uses three electrodes to create a more detailed reading than existing consumer devices.

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HIPAA Compliance 2025: Navigating Regulatory Changes & Industry Trends

Based on comprehensive survey data from diverse healthcare providers, the 2025 HIPAA Benchmark Report delivers actionable intelligence for modern compliance programs. This report examines how organizations are restructuring HIPAA Privacy Programs to address emerging regulatory requirements. Through analysis of staffing models, program operations, and breach management protocols, it provides a clear picture of current best practices.

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Healthcare’s Needed Overhaul Means Moving To Blockchain

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Karim Babay, CEO, HealthSapiens. We can all agree the healthcare system in the United States is in dire need of an overhaul. Technological advances propel us into the twenty-first century, but the way data is created, maintained, and shared is archaic and confusing (and deliberately-so.

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Apple's ECG announcement was likely years in the making, but its timing was remarkable

Mobi Health News

The announcement has drawn questions about novelty and claims of coziness with the FDA.

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Top 10 Mobile Apps Used In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Kenneth Evans, content marketing specialist, Top App Development Companies. Mobile technology is amazing. With the available technologies, anyone can see a doctor using smartphones. The impact of app developers and mobile app developers is increasing in healthcare. They make this possible by developing and releasing telemedicine and telehealth apps.

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Health Il-Literacy Costs

Health Populi

The complexity of the U.S. healthcare system erodes Americans’ health literacy, Accenture asserts in their report, The Hidden Cost of Healthcare System Complexity. And that complexity costs , Accenture calculated, to the tune of nearly $5 billion in administrative cost burden to payors. Accenture developed a healthcare system literacy index to quantify the relationship between peoples’ understanding of how health insurance works and what a lack of understanding can cost the system.

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Simplify Screening for Excluded Providers

Every health care provider that accepts federal payments must screen for excluded providers. Use this sample Exclusion Screening Checklist and Compliance Policy to evaluate and improve your organization’s compliance with the law. Payments from Medicare, Medicaid, and TriCare trigger screening requirements that may extend to employees, contractors, volunteers, board members, and network providers.

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FDA roundup: The major device, app, and algorithm approvals of 2018 (so far)

Mobi Health News

A collection of 29 approvals and clearances by the US Food and Drug Administration include several novel products.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

Health Populi

Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. The title of the report, “Consumers are on board with virtual health options,” summarizes the bullish outlook for telehealth. That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation. But the tagline begs the supply side question: “Can the health care system deliver?

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inui Health, formerly Scanadu, announces FDA-cleared home urine testing platform

Mobi Health News

The smartphone-connected system can perform five different tests that could help diagnose UTIs, diabetes, and kidney disease.

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UK-based TestCard gets $1.7M for digitally-enabled home urine test

Mobi Health News

The company plans to enter the UK market this year, starting with a UTI test.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Cardiogram, insurers offer $1,000 of free life insurance in exchange for wearable data

Mobi Health News

Cardiogram has teamed up with insurers Amica Life and Greenhouse Life Insurance Company to give users free life insurance to collect data.

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Starting With Healthcare Cloud Migration

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Inga Shugalo, healthcare industry analyst, Itransition. Following the wind of change, we find that healthcare is on the way to transferring most of its processes to the cloud. According to IDC, hospitals now tend to prefer keeping custom medical software from EHRs to AI and data analytics on cloud servers instead of in-house management.

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Healthcare Executive Rank Top 10 Healthcare Issues for 2019

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. After more than two days of thought leadership discussions during its 30th Anniversary Annual Forum, executive participants of the HealthCare Executive Group (HCEG) voted on and ranked the 2019 HCEG Top 10 critical challenges, issues and opportunities they expect to face in their organizations in the coming year.

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Survey: Physician IT Leaders Say Improvements to Medication Management Make Patients Safer

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Nearly 100 percent of chief medical information officers (CMIOs) in U.S. hospitals believe medication management improvement initiatives are having a positive impact and that patient safety issues are less likely to occur today as compared to five years ago, according to a new survey from the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS).

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The Evolution of Communication in Healthcare Settings

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.

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How chatbots and robots can fill healthcare's unmet needs

Mobi Health News

Triage and patient engagement chatbots are on the rise, but speakers at the upcoming Connected Health Conference are describing additional implementations viable in the near future.

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Autonomous AI diagnostic startup IDx scores $33M

Mobi Health News

After landing a De Novo for its AI diagnostic that can detect diabetic retinopathy, the company raised new money in order to expand diagnostic services.

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How the FDA is shaping healthcare innovation

Mobi Health News

In the last year the FDA has taken steps to evolve its process for regulating software as a medical device, personal genomics and clinical decision support technology.

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How the AMA is helping make sure health tech innovation is physician-led

Mobi Health News

A recently-launched Physician Innovation Network and a forthcoming Digital Health Implementation Playbook are two new initiatives.

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3 Reasons to Retire Pagers from Healthcare Settings

Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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Virta CEO: Truly innovative companies shouldn't fear building things themselves

Mobi Health News

Through trial and error, Sami Inkinen found his virtual diabetes care model didn't fit nicely into the status quo.

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With $7M contract, NIH taps big data analysis platform Palantir to streamline health research

Mobi Health News

Palantir, which is best known for its work in other industries, will deploy software able to automatically aggregate research data from public and private sources into a single interface.

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2/3s of commercially available blood glucometers don't meet FDA accuracy standards, study finds

Mobi Health News

A robust investigation published in Diabetes Care looked at 18 top-selling meters, making up 90 percent of the market.

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Report: Digital diabetes market surging, will hit $742M by 2022

Mobi Health News

The market comprised $98 million in revenue during 2017, and is beginning to move away from stand-alone devices or apps.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?