CMS has posted the first round of star
ratings to its Medicare Dialysis Facility Compare website as part of a
broader federal effort to increase transparency and help Medicare
beneficiaries compare providers. However, some providers have taken
issue with the new rating system. Modern Healthcare, AP/U.S. News & World Report. Read More
CMS Posts Star Ratings for Medicare Dialysis Facilities Online
CMS has posted the first round of star
ratings to its Medicare Dialysis Facility Compare website as part of a
broader federal effort to increase transparency and help Medicare
beneficiaries compare providers. However, some providers have taken
issue with the new rating system. Modern Healthcare, AP/U.S. News & World Report. Read More
Two Little-Known Mega Trends That Are Shaping the Future of Digital Health Care
- Context: Working to ensure that technologies are optimized to have a real impact on the various factors influencing health and well-being, or the social determinants of health, and are seamlessly aligned with people's activities, perceptions and objectives.
- Convergence: Seeking to combine a range of digital technologies such as big data, predictive analytics and mobile health in complimentary ways that improve their reach, adoption and impact.
E-patients need e-doctors. Here’s why.
Patients need doctors. Doctors need patients. Let’s find a way to value both.
Patients deserve to be empowered
Health is more than not being ill. The World Health Organization definition puts the full range of patients’ needs first: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
How can patients achieve the health they deserve? Only if they’re empowered. The “e” in e-patient can mean many things, but if health is a basic human right, then empowerment is the only “e” ensuring that right.
Being empowered means being able to meet certain fundamental needs, ones that need to be in place before we can make accurate, informed decisions about health. Here’s what we need for empowerment- Read More:
Patients deserve to be empowered
Health is more than not being ill. The World Health Organization definition puts the full range of patients’ needs first: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
How can patients achieve the health they deserve? Only if they’re empowered. The “e” in e-patient can mean many things, but if health is a basic human right, then empowerment is the only “e” ensuring that right.
Being empowered means being able to meet certain fundamental needs, ones that need to be in place before we can make accurate, informed decisions about health. Here’s what we need for empowerment- Read More:
Most Patients Willing To Have Online Video Doctor Visits, Survey Finds
A Harris Poll survey finds that 64% of patients are willing to use an
online video to consult with a physician. However, the survey shows
about 88% of those willing to have an online video visit would prefer to
select their physician rather than be randomly assigned one. MobiHealthNews et al. Read More
Mobile Overcomes Communication Challenges
An Accenture survey has found mHealth is key to alleviating
communication problems in healthcare organizations, especially for
nurses.
The latest report from Accenture, Overcoming Communications Challenges in Hospitals, outlines the biggest hurdles to communication in healthcare and ways for providers to overcome them. According to mHealth News,
nurses can be considered “pioneers” of mHealth; before the time of
smartphones and tablets, they were on the frontline of the mobile
technology with pagers attached to their hips. Read More
The latest report from Accenture, Overcoming Communications Challenges in Hospitals, outlines the biggest hurdles to communication in healthcare and ways for providers to overcome them. According to mHealth News,
nurses can be considered “pioneers” of mHealth; before the time of
smartphones and tablets, they were on the frontline of the mobile
technology with pagers attached to their hips. Read More
Telemedicine may be the key to concierge medicine's succes
A continuous care telemehealth model will help improve outcomes....Based on the frequent capture of key
biometrics (blood pressure, glucose, activity, weight), such a
telehealth model allows providers to actively monitor their patients
and make incremental adjustments to treatment plans that will result in
better patient outcomes and keep patients from needing care that is more
expensive to deliver. It goes without saying that such a level of care
is better for patients... Read More
Patient Portal Adoption: Baby Boomers vs. Millennials
This intriguing
infographic shows how Baby Boomers and Millennials are embracing
healthcare portals in their own way. Do any of these stats surprise you?
http://bit.ly/1DAC9fv
Infograpic illustrates the differences
between Millennials and Baby Boomers when it comes to patient portals
from results of Xerox’s 5th annual EHR Survey Read More
Telepsychiatry: the New Frontier in Mental Health
How technology is helping 'bring' psychiatrists to people in underserved areas.
Like telemedicine, telepsychiatry relies on technology to bring clinical medicine to patients, rather than the other way around. Patients typically videoconference with doctors using computers or videoconferencing equipment. Telepsychiatric services are growing, and the advantage is that such technology opens access to care, particularly for those in remote areas where there are fewer psychiatrists.The disadvantage, Benjelloun says, is that the human touch is missing. “A caring touch or handing a patient a tissue can never be possible,” she says, adding that this can also lead to missed cues on her part. “I am unable to clearly see self-inflicted wounds or tears.” Read More
PwC predicts “DIY Healthcare” will be the top trend of 2015
“Do-it-yourself
healthcare”, including mobile apps and consumer medical devices, is set
to be the top healthcare trend of 2015, according to research and
consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. PwC announced its top 10
predicted healthcare trends of 2015 in a webinar promoting their new report, and their top three are mobile health-related trends, with mobile and digital playing a role in several more. Read More
Topol: Digital Health Tools Are Revolutionizing Health Care
In a Wall Street Journal essay,
Eric Topol -- a cardiologist and the director of the Scripps
Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, Calif. -- writes that smartphone
applications and other health IT are giving patients more control of
their health care. He argues that some health IT tools eventually could
replace some aspects of medical care. Wall Street Journal. Read More
New N.Y. Law Requires Insurers To Reimburse for Telehealth Services
Under a new state law, insurers in New York now are required to
reimburse some providers for telehealth services. Meanwhile, several
other states are expected to consider measures to expand telehealth
services, including Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Tennessee. Healthcare IT News et al. Read More
E-Learning Is Effective for Health Care Workers, Report Finds
A new report commissioned by the World Health Organization finds that
electronic learning methods are as effective as -- or better than --
traditional training for undergraduates studying to become health care
workers. The report suggests combining the two methods to increase
access to such education, particularly in underserved areas. Reuters et al. Read More
Text4Baby: How mobile campaigns can reach underserved populations
Patients enrolled in the program received three messages a week with health information ranging from breastfeeding tips to the effects of tobacco and were timed to the mother's stage of gestation or infant's age. Read More
Health IT Trendspotting: What’s on the horizon in 2015?
The past year has been a notable one for health IT, which leads us to
believe 2015 can only bring a slew of new achievements. In the spirit of
embracing the New Year, HIMSS15 Views From the Top speakers divulged
their insights on what we can expect in the coming year and beyond.
These individuals are leaders in their healthcare roles with real-world
experience from which they glean their predictions. Looking ahead, they
see the following trends taking center stage in health technology
policy, process and innovation:
1. Patient-to-patient social media collaboration – Mary Beth Mitchell
2. App-driven data liberation – Patrick Conway
3. Traction on ‘care without boundaries’ – Laura J. Wood
4. Customized personal health analytics – Judy Murphy
5. Continuation of tech-enabled patient engagement – Roy Rosin
6. Streamlined patient-to-physician mobile app data – Alan M. Muney
Explore these trends in greater detail: http://ow.ly/H5hqF
Knowing that the healthcare ecosystem is a complex one, what trends would you prioritize? Are these leaders on-point with your professional experiences? What trends are you noticing?
1. Patient-to-patient social media collaboration – Mary Beth Mitchell
2. App-driven data liberation – Patrick Conway
3. Traction on ‘care without boundaries’ – Laura J. Wood
4. Customized personal health analytics – Judy Murphy
5. Continuation of tech-enabled patient engagement – Roy Rosin
6. Streamlined patient-to-physician mobile app data – Alan M. Muney
Explore these trends in greater detail: http://ow.ly/H5hqF
Knowing that the healthcare ecosystem is a complex one, what trends would you prioritize? Are these leaders on-point with your professional experiences? What trends are you noticing?
Walgreens moves into telemedicine with MDLIVE deal medcitynews.com
Walgreens deepened its healthcare services in
a deal with MDLIVE that will bring telemedicine to its customers
through the drugstore chain's app. Read More
Practice Guidelines for Live, On Demand, Primary and Urgent Care
The American
Telemedicine Association recently released Practice Guidelines for Live,
On Demand Primary and Urgent Care. The document provides guidance on
specific clinical applications, practice, benefits, limitations, and
regulatory issues ...
Caregivers tapping mHealth devices for emergency notification capabilities
The increasing use of mHealth digital devices for home-based care
reflects two trends: an increasing number of households featuring a
caregiver and advancing technology that can help those in the role,
according to the report. Read More
Digital Health Devices, Tools Popular Among Caregivers
A new report finds that 41% of caregivers with broadband connections use
a digital health device. The report also finds interest among present
and future caregivers in "electronic panic button" devices, online care
coordination tools and other health IT products. MobiHealthNews et al. Read More
ATA Launches Accreditation Program for Telehealth Services
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The American Telemedicine Association launched an accreditation program for providers who offer online consultations directly to patients. The program -- which initially will include only U.S. providers -- aims to ensure consumers and payers that telehealth services are safe and secure. MedCity News, MobiHealthNews. Read More |
Study finds most patients want the option to withhold data from their doctors
The study
comes out of The Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University School of
Medicine and Eskenazi Health, published as a five-part special
supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine,
and it shows that patients for the most part want controls of their
data. Using Eskenazi Health’s in-house electronic record system,
researchers gave 105 patients the option to block sensitive information,
including information on sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse
or mental health, from their care providers. Doctors could still gain
access to the data if they deemed it medically essential by hitting a
“break the glass” button in the back-end interface. Read More
Eight things we learned about HealthKit from Duke, Oschner
Duke University and Oschner Health System in Louisiana are two of the
first hospitals to integrate with Apple HealthKit via Epic. Here’s eight takeaways from a confence.
1) Patients and doctors are clamoring for patient-generated data
2) The Epic integration is a one-way pipe
3) The current set of data fields is just the beginning
4) Apple can’t access patients’ data
5) HealthKit is already reimbursable by CMS
6) Hospitals don’t want to leave Android users out
7) Apple’s glucose goof hasn’t shaken doctors’ confidence
8) HealthKit has big implications for medical research
Read More
1) Patients and doctors are clamoring for patient-generated data
2) The Epic integration is a one-way pipe
3) The current set of data fields is just the beginning4) Apple can’t access patients’ data
5) HealthKit is already reimbursable by CMS
6) Hospitals don’t want to leave Android users out
7) Apple’s glucose goof hasn’t shaken doctors’ confidence
8) HealthKit has big implications for medical research
Read More
ONC Releases Health IT Strategic Plan for 2015-2020
The Office of the National Coordinator
for Health IT today released a strategic plan for federal health IT. The
plan outlines five goals through 2020, including increasing the
adoption and use of health IT and advancing secure and interoperable
health data. Modern Healthcare et al. Read More
Mobile overcomes communication challenges
Survey results show mHealth is key to relieving communication issues in healthcare organizations, especially for nurses. http://bit.ly/1yQxLUJ
An Accenture survey has found mHealth is key to alleviating communication problems in healthcare organizations, especially for nurses
UK & Depression App
The app initiative is part of a broader NHS effort to modernize and enhance youth mental health care in Britain.
Take Two Apps And Call Me In ThenMorningmraalert.blogspot.com
Depression is the most common type of mental illness, affecting some 350 million people globally and contributing to other problems like obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. But it often goes undiagnosed, and once you know you suffer from...Read More
How Do We Activate Engagement in Mental Health Patients?
mraalert.blogspot.com
The National Institute of Mental Health reports that 1 in 4 adults - approximately 57.7 million Americans - experience a mental health disorder in a given year – and less than half get help. 1 in 17 Americans live with a serious mental illness....
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Check out the ‘ambulance drone’ that could one day save your life
...installing a network of the first-aid quadcopters across a city would give someone suffering a cardiac arrest an 80 percent chance of survival, up from around 8 percent today Check out the ‘ambulance drone’ that could one day save your life digitaltrends.com
An engineering student in the Netherlands has unveiled an 'ambulance drone' fitted with a defibrillator that he believes could save thousands of lives a year. Read More
The Case for Nurse Navigators
Nurse navigation programs have exhibited benefits to key performance metrics including cutting costs and saving lives, as well as reducing length of stay.
What’s Your Patient Navigation Strategy? orthoserviceline.com
Patient navigation has become the new favorite strategy for healthcare organizations trying to overcome the challenges of a fragmented care continuum. Whether seeking control over a complete episode in a bundled payment, or trying to make...Read More
Healthcare, Poverty, and Technology: Connecting the Dots
A new nongovernmental organization is seeking to leverage mobile and connected health technologies to improve healthcare access for the poor in the United States.
There is an opportunity here to improve access to healthcare for the poor using technology. With that in mind, Aventor’s mission is to help social entrepreneurs trying to bring these important technologies to market by helping them cope with the legal, regulatory, and policy obstacles that lie in their way. Mobile health and telemedicine have great potential, but that potential also makes them disruptive to the current healthcare system. Read More
There is an opportunity here to improve access to healthcare for the poor using technology. With that in mind, Aventor’s mission is to help social entrepreneurs trying to bring these important technologies to market by helping them cope with the legal, regulatory, and policy obstacles that lie in their way. Mobile health and telemedicine have great potential, but that potential also makes them disruptive to the current healthcare system. Read More
Does Telemedicine Work in 'Hands-on' Specialties?
This was a demonstration project, showing that even the most clinical
exam–dependent subspecialties can do this if they do it with the right
infrastructure. It is a good example of how broad the reach of
telemedicine can be. It is very empowering for patients, many of whom
are very challenged by getting to major medical centers—physically,
economically, or because of time and distance. A big problem in
rheumatology is access. We have 3-month waiting lists. Telemedicine
dramatically increases our ability to care for more patients. Read More
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