Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

Valley Health, a not-for-profit health system serving West Virginia, Maryland and part of Virginia, was facing two serious challenges for which it was looking for solutions. THE PROBLEM. First, hospitals are facing critical care staffing shortages. "There is a national problem finding enough intensivists to support an ICU," said Dr. Glen Bouder, director of valley intensivists at Valley Health and medical director of critical care at Winchester Medical Center.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 18, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Sheri Stoltenberg, CEO, Stoltenberg Consulting. The 2019 HIMSS Annual Conference may be over, but that doesn’t mean an end to the pressing challenges and trends discussed at Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. More than 42,500 people attended the conference — the majority of whom were C-suite executives and HIT professionals taking full advantage of […].

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the We

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 19, 2019

Developing effective AI tools for healthcare means working multiple stakeholders and understanding the clinical, according to panelists at GTC in San Jose.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

With increasing buzz around population health and social determinants of health, those two forces are poised to change philosophies around care delivery and how a hospital or health system works to keep the surrounding community healthy. While that likely means good things for patients and outcomes, it also drives more sharing, more data and more risk of losing your privacy.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

Medical costs in America are still the top contributor to personal bankruptcy in the U.S., a risk factor in two-thirds of bankruptcies filed between 2013 and 2016. That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA).

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 22, 2019

Whether by managing payments, connecting consumers to reimbursement options, or just manufacturing cheap drugs themselves, these companies are taking aim at a problem that's building to a crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2019

Stanford Health Care is partnering with Lumeris, which develops technology to help health systems manage the demands of value-based reimbursement, for a long-term deal to help it build out its Medicare Advantage plan in Northern California. In addition, the two will work together to innovate new approaches to care delivery and population health, officials said, such as artificial intelligence-enabled diagnostic tools, new clinical pathways and other digital health initiative to boost patient eng

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 19, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Suvas Vajracharya, Ph.D., founder and CEO, Lightning Bolt Solutions. A staggering 96 percent of physicians are reporting that the amount of time they spend on data input has increased in the last 10 years, and 86 percent agree it’s robbing them of joy in their jobs, according to a recent survey by Geneia, a […].

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Self-care in health goes back thousands of years. Reading from Hippocrates’ Corpus about food and clean air’s role in health sounds contemporary today. And even in our most cynical moments, we can all hearken back to our grandmothers’ kitchen table wisdom for dealing with skin issues, the flu, and broken hearts. The annual conference of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) convened this week, and I was grateful to attend and speak on the evolving retail health landscape yesterday.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 18, 2019

Among more than 400,000 participants who enrolled in the study, only 0.5 percent ever received an atrial fibrillation alert from the app.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2019

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 18, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By James Cumming, CEO, Daily Posts UK. Generally, people have little patience and respect for slow, poorly designed websites, and whatnot. These can make a visitor press the back button and never return to the site again. And that single action has a ripple effect that is far-reaching than you think.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 20, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On February 13, 2019, a Florida judge turned down a Florida pharmacy’s motion to dismiss a $21 million False Claims Act (FCA) suit, but allowed its sister company to drop out of the suit. The judge said Z Stat Medical LLC, which operates as Oldsmar Pharmacy and its owner, must face the government’s claims that it engaged in illegal kickback schemes to defraud the government program Tricare.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 18, 2019

Developing these strategies and tools will be "critical" for the federal government as it manages the rapidly growing senior population, the report's authors wrote.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 19, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Alison Arthur, product and content marketing manager, Alacriti. The financial well-being of healthcare organizations depends on steady, predictable revenue from their patients. However, healthcare payments are often impacted by a number of financial factors including insurance, co-payments, deductibles, and co-insurance.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 18, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On February 22, 2019, Florida’s new Governor, Rick DeSantis retracted 169 appointments that the former governor made before leaving office. Some of these were to the Florida Board of Medicine, Board of Acupuncture, Board of Optometry, Board of Podiatric Medicine and others.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 21, 2019

Oregon Health & Science University's ongoing study has participants discussing memories and tapping their critical thinking skills multiple times each week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2019

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. In the seventh annual Health IT Industry Outlook Survey conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc., 42 percent of health IT leaders rate updating technology to improve the patient experience as the top objective for 2019, followed by measuring improvement in patient care (33 percent).

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 19, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. DirectTrust is pleased to announce the inaugural DirectTrust Summit to be held at the Marriott Suites Midtown in Atlanta, GA, June 10-11. The event will bring health care industry leaders together to share ideas and best practices around improving health information exchange and interoperability.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 22, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As technology continues to develop, artificial intelligence has taken leaps from a science-fiction fantasy to being included in everyday tasks. The telehealth industry is one of the newest industries to begin utilizing artificial intelligence, affecting everything from the distribution of electronic medical cards to personable interaction.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. Let’s imagine for a second. Jane Smith, a 53-year-old diabetic patient, goes to her kitchen to grab a glass of water when she suddenly feels dizzy. She grabs her portable, battery-operated blood glucose monitor to check her blood sugar level and finds it is higher than usual.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 20, 2019

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Meghan Marx and Jenna Phillips, healthcare experts, PA Consulting. Now that the 2019 health insurance Open Enrollment period has concluded, healthcare industry stakeholders are watching closely for any shifts in consumer behavior regarding enrollment and the overall uninsured rate.

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