HIMSS REPORT: The State of Healthcare IT in 2022

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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4 Takeaways from HIMSS

 •  84% of respondents say their organizations require them to use digital health tools and most clinicians see the value in digital transformation.
 •  99% of leaders in U.S.-based health systems say it is important for their organizations to invest in digital transformation and 95% of international health system leaders agree.
 •  93% of international payer respondents and 74% of U.S. payers say their organizations have a team focused on digital transformation.
 •  80% of health system leader respondents in the U.S. think that a physician visit deserves to be reimbursed at the same or higher levels than an in-person visit.

Source: HIMSS via Healthcare Innovation, March 18, 2022

NOTE: The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is an American not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through the best use of information technology and management systems.

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The BUSINESS of Medical Practice

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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HEALTH TECH: Technology Giants?

Posted on May 7, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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  • Google in healthcare: The search giant has repeatedly successfully transferred its in-depth knowledge of algorithms in the field of medicine, particularly since it acquired DeepMind.
  • Apple in healthcare: Apple will keep on working on expanding the health features of its devices, Apple Watch and iPhones included.
  • Microsoft in healthcare: Microsoft’s cloud solutions provide integrated capabilities that make it easier to improve the healthcare experience.
  • Amazon in healthcare: Amazon will make further use of its vast knowledge of online shopping trends and behavior and will keep on providing what people need, from medicine to wearables.
  • IBM in healthcare: IBM has a lot to offer in federated learning, blockchain, and quantum computing
  • Nvidia in healthcare: NVIDIA seems incredibly focused on its approach to healthcare. We can expect NVIDIA to be a leader in the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare
  • Facebook in healthcare: The Metaverse developed by Facebook/Meta has incredible potential to revolutionize healthcare.

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List of Healthcare IT Trade Associations

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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To be efficient in healthcare delivery today, doctors must partner and understand the resources and affiliations that are available to them. Here is a brief list of several healthcare trade associations and leading industry vendors submitted for your review.

AHIMA
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is the premier association of health information management professionals. AHIMA’s 51,000 members are dedicated to the effective management of personal health information needed to deliver quality healthcare to the public. Founded in 1928 to improve the quality of medical records, AHIMA is committed to advancing the health information management profession in an increasingly electronic and global environment through leadership in advocacy, education, certification, and lifelong learning.

EHRA
HIMSS EHRA is a trade association of Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors that addresses national efforts to create interoperable EHRs in hospital and ambulatory care settings. HIMSS EHRA operates on the premise that the rapid, widespread adoption of EHRs will help improve the quality of patient care and the productivity of the healthcare system. The primary mission of the association is to provide a forum for the EHR vendor community relative to standards development, the EHR certification process, interoperability, performance and quality measures, and other EHR issues that may become the subject of increasing government, insurance and physician association initiatives and requests.

HIMSS
HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) is the healthcare industry’s membership organization exclusively focused on providing leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology and management systems for the betterment of human health. Founded in 1961 with offices in Chicago, Washington D.C., and other locations across the country, HIMSS represents approximately 17,000 individual members and some 275 member corporations that employ more than 1 million people. HIMSS frames and leads healthcare public policy and industry practices through its advocacy, educational and professional development initiatives designed to promote information and management systems’ contributions to ensuring quality patient care.

HITSP
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel serves as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional, and national health information network for the United States. Comprised of a wide range of stakeholders, the Panel will assist in the development of the U.S. Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) by addressing issues such as privacy and security within a shared healthcare information system. The Panel is sponsored by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in cooperation with strategic partners such as the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI), and Booz Allen Hamilton. Funding for the Panel is being provided via the ONCHIT contract award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

HL7
Health Level Seven is an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)-accredited Standards Developing Organization (SDO) operating in the healthcare clinical and administrative data arena. It is a not-for-profit volunteer organization made up of providers, vendors, payers, consultants, government groups, and others who develop clinical and administrative data standards for healthcare. Health Level Seven develops specifications; the most widely used being a messaging standard that enables disparate healthcare applications to exchange keys sets of clinical and administrative data.

MSHUG
Microsoft Healthcare Users Group (MS-HUG) unified with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) as part of the HIMSS Users Group Alliance Program in October 2003. The unification strengthens the commitment of HIMSS and MS-HUG to better serve their members and the industry through a shared strategic vision to provide leadership and healthcare information technology solutions that improve the delivery of patient care.

WEDI
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange [WEDI’s] goal is to improve the quality of healthcare through effective and efficient information exchange and management. They aim to provide leadership and guidance to the healthcare industry on how to use and leverage the industry’s collective knowledge, expertise, and information resources to improve the quality, affordability, and availability of healthcare.

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As the health information technology industry evolves, we will continue to contribute our expertise to foster ideas that shape the future of healthcare by offering more examples similar to the above.

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Healthcare A.I. and Financial Outcomes Survey

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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17% of Healthcare Execs Said AI Would Affect Financial Outcomes

 •  60% of respondents expect AI to impact clinical outcomes.
 •  17% said AI would affect financial outcomes.
 •  13% said AI would impact their operation outcomes.
 •  9% said AI would impact administrative outcomes.
 •  61% of executives hope to bring about a complete digital transformation in their organizations within three to five years.

Source: Morning Consult via HealthIT Analytics, April 14, 2022

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PODCAST: Mental Health Interview with Milton L. Mack Jr.

Posted on May 3, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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Mental Health, Jury Bias, and Judicial Reform, with the Honorable Milton L. Mack Jr.
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What is Financial – Tech?

Posted on April 30, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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Fintech is a portmanteau of financial technology that describes an emerging financial services sector in the 21st century.

Originally, the term applied to technology applied to the back-end of established consumer and trade financial institutions. Since the end of the first decade of the 21st century, the term has expanded to include any technological innovation in the financial sector, including innovations in financial literacy and education, retail banking, investment and even crypto-currencies like bitcoin.

BREAKING DOWN ‘Fintech’

The term financial technology can apply to any innovation in how people transact business, from the invention of money to double-entry bookkeeping. Since the internet revolution and the mobile internet revolution, however, financial technology has grown explosively, and fintech, which originally referred to computer technology applied to the back office of banks or trading firms, now describes a broad variety of technological interventions into personal and commercial finance.

Fintech’s Expanding Horizons

Already technological innovation has up-ended 20th century ways of trading and banking. The mobile-only stock trading app Robinhood charges no fees for trades, and peer-to-peer lending sites like Prosper and Lending Club promise to reduce rates by opening up competition for loans to broad market forces. Technologies being designed that should reach fruition by 2020 include mobile banking, mobile trading on commodities exchanges, digital wallets (like Apple (AAPL) and Google’s (GOOG) developing mobile wallet systems), financial advisory and robo-advisor sites like LearnVest and Betterment, and all-in-one money management tools like Mint and Level.

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New Tech in Fintech

In the olden days, individuals and institutions used the invisible hand of the market – represented by the signaling function of price – to make financial decisions. New technologies, like machine learning, predictive behavioral analytics and data-driven marketing, will take the guess work and hocus pocus out of financial decisions. “Learning” apps will not only learn the habits of users, often hidden to themselves, but will engage users in learning games to make their automatic, unconscious spending and saving decisions better. On the back end, improved data analytics will help institutional clients further refine their investment decisions and open new opportunities for financial innovation.

Fintech Users

Who uses fintech? There are four broad categories: 1) B2B for banks and 2) their business clients; and 3) B2C for small businesses and 4) consumers. Trends toward mobile banking, increased information, data and more accurate analytics and decentralization of access will create opportunities for all four groups to interact in heretofore unprecedented ways.

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Telemedicine and Childhood Ailments

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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Medicare Index Report 2022

Posted on April 26, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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e-Health: Three Highlights

 •  $6 per month is the average Medicare Advantage premium for plans selected by eHealth shoppers, up from $5 last year (a majority choose $0-premium plans); $22 per month is the average Part D plan premium, up from $20 last year.
 •  Medicare Advantage enrollees are paying deductibles 4% higher than last year ($121 vs. $116), while Part D plan enrollees have deductibles 7% higher than last year ($427 vs. $400).
 •  The average annual out-of-pocket limit for people selecting Medicare Advantage plans decreased 5% for 2022, from $5,367 to $5,108.

Source: eHealth, April 7, 2022

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AMA: Doctors Committed to Tele-Health

Posted on April 24, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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AMA: Doctors Committed to Tele-Health

 •  More than 80% said patients have better access to care since using telehealth.
 •  62% believe patients have higher satisfaction since offering telehealth.
 •  60% agreed telehealth enabled them to provide high-quality care.
 •  56% are motivated to increase telehealth use in their practices.
 •  44% indicated that telehealth decreased the costs of care.

Source: AMA, April 1, 2022

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9 TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE OF DENTISTRY

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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9 TECHNOLOGIES THAT WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE OF DENTISTRY

Can you imagine that you might get your 3D-printed prosthesis in an hour instead of 4-5 sessions at the dentist? How about having a tele-dentist consultation? Or being able to grow new teeth at the age of 80?

Here are 9 technologies that will shape the future of dentistry!

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For Entrepreneurs and Investors, Discovering Truth Takes Time

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

 

For Investors, Discovering Truth Takes Time

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The Roman philosopher, playwright, statesman and occasional satirist Lucius Annaeus Seneca wasn’t talking about the stock market when he wrote that “time discovers truth,” but he could have been. In the long run a stock price will reflect a company’s (true) intrinsic value. In the short run the pricing is basically random.

Here are two real-life examples:

Let’s say you had the smarts to buy Microsoft in November 1992. It would have been a brilliant decision in the long run — the software giant’s stock has gone up manyfold since. But nine months later, in August 1993, that call did not look so brilliant: Microsoft shares had declined 25 percent in less than a year. In fact, it would have taken you 18 months, until May 1994, for this purchase to break even. Eighteen months of dumbness?

In the early ’90s the PC industry was still in its infancy. Microsoft’s DOS and Windows operating systems were de facto standards. Outside of Macs and a tiny fraction of IBM computers, every computer came preinstalled with DOS and Windows. Microsoft had a pristine balance sheet and a brilliant co-founder and CEO who would turn mountains upside down to make sure the company succeeded. The above sentence is infested with hindsight — after all, that was almost 30 years ago. But Microsoft clearly had an incredible moat, which became wider with every new PC sold and every new software program written to run on Windows.

Here is another example. GoPro is a maker of video cameras used by surfers, skiers and other extreme sports enthusiasts. If you had bought the stock soon after it went public, in 2014, you would have paid $40 a share for a $5.5 billion–market-cap company earning about $100 million a year — a price-earnings ratio of about 55. Your impatience would, however, have been rewarded: The stock more than doubled in just a few short months, hitting $90.

Would it have been a good decision to buy GoPro? The company makes a great product — I own one. But GoPro has no moat. None. Most components that go into its cameras are commodities. There are no barriers to entry into the specialized video camera segment. Most important, there are no switching costs for consumers. Investors who bought GoPro after its IPO paid a huge premium for the promise of much higher earnings from a company that might or might not be around five years later.

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What is even more interesting is that some of those buyers were then selling to even bigger fools who bought at double the price a few months later. GoPro was a momentum stock that was riding a wave about to break. Fast-forward a year and GoPro sales are collapsing, so now the stock is trading in the low teens ($11.65 as of this writing).

These two examples bring us to the nontrivial topics of complex systems and nonlinearity. My favorite thinker, Nassim Taleb, wrote the following in his book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder: “Complex systems are full of interdependencies — hard to detect — and nonlinear responses. ‘Nonlinear’ means that when you double the dose of, say, a medication, or when you double the number of employees in a factory, you don’t get twice the initial effect, but rather a lot more or a lot less.”

The stock market is a complex system where in the short term there are few if any interdependencies between decisions and outcomes. In the short run stock prices are driven by thousands of random variables. Stock market participants have different risk tolerances and emotional aptitudes, and diverse time horizons ranging from milliseconds (for high-speed traders) to years (for long-term investors).

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In other words, predicting where a stock price will be in a day, a month or even a year is not much different from prognosticating whether the ball on a roulette wheel will land on red or black. In the longer run, however, good decisions should pay off because fundamentals will shine through — just as was the case with buying Microsoft in 1992 and not buying GoPro in 2014. But in the short run there is no correlation between good decisions and results. None!

Whenever you look at your portfolio, think of the Microsoft and GoPro examples above. The performance of your stocks in the short run tells you absolutely nothing about what you own or about the quality of your decisions. You may own a portfolio of Microsofts, and its value is still going down because at this juncture the market doesn’t care about Microsofts. Or maybe you stuffed your retirement fund with overpriced fads that may not be around a year from now. But in the longer run, which always lies out there past the short run, time discovers truth, as Seneca said.

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PODCAST: What is the Web 3.0?

Posted on April 18, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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According to Wikipedia, the Web3 (also known as Web 3.0 and sometimes stylized as web3) is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web based on blockchain technology, which incorporates concepts such as decentralization and token-based economics. Some technologists and journalists have contrasted it with Web 2.0, wherein they say data and content are centralized in a small group of companies sometimes referred to as “Big Tech“. The term “Web3” was coined in 2014 by Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood, and the idea gained interest in 2021 from cryptocurrency enthusiasts, large technology companies, and venture capital firms.

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Now, some experts argue that web3 will provide increased data security, scalability, and privacy for users and combat the influence of large technology companies.

Others have raised concerns about a decentralized web, citing the potential for low moderation and the proliferation of harmful content, the centralization of wealth to a small group of investors and individuals, or a loss of privacy due to more expansive data collection. Others, such as Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey, have argued that web3 only currently serves as a buzzword.

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SURVEY: 39% of Medical Providers Conduct Covid-19 Screens Via Tele-Health

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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39% of Providers Conduct Covid-19 Screens Via Telehealth

In a recent survey providers were asked what types of patient care they deliver via telehealth. The survey found:

 •  Conduct primary care visits (75%)
 •  Conduct chronic care visits (72%)
 •  Order prescription refills (64%)
 •  Conduct COVID-19 screenings (39%)
 •  Conduct urgent care visits (38%)
 •  Address mental health concerns (36%)
 •  Conduct follow-up after a procedure or surgery care (28%)

Source: UnitedHealth Group, “Telehealth Use Will Outlive the Pandemic for Health Care Providers, Survey Shows,” March 15, 2022

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Q1 2022 – The Entrepreneurial Digital Health Financing Boom Chills

Posted on April 13, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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US digital health company investment financing experienced a dip in Q1 of 2022, dropping to $6 billion from the $6.7 billion invested in Q1 2021. In addition, the average size of each investment deal dropped from $46 million last year to just shy of $33 million. These declines come after a boom in investments in recent years. The Rock Health Digital health securities index also reflected this year’s trend, including special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) listings.

According to Phil Taylor of PharmaPhorum, “SPACs have been a popular route to public listing for digital health as well as many other sectors, but the deals have underperformed, with steep declines in share prices after they closed that has “exerted downwards pressure” on the Rock Health Digital Health Index (RHDHI).”

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FUTURISTIC Medical Careers

Posted on April 11, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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What are you going to do 10-20 years from now? We toyed with the idea and came up with a list of healthcare jobs we think will be born in the coming decades. In case you want to become an organ designer or an end-of-life therapist. OR telesurgery VR planner.

And before you say I’m looking too far into the future, let me remind you that researchers are experimenting with a computer made of DNA-coated microbeads, with wireless charging of electronic implants, an Osaka hospital uses smart glasses to connect remote teams, while the FDA cleared an A.I. software automatically flagging cases of pneumothorax.

I hope you will find the newsletter useful!

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INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION: For Hospitals, Clinics and Healthcare CXOs, CEOs, CMOs and CTOs, etc.

Posted on April 9, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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Hospitals and Health Care Organizations is a must-read for any physician and other health care provider to understand the multiple, and increasingly complex, interlocking components of the U.S. health care delivery system, whether they are employed by a hospital system, or manage their own private practices.

The operational principles, methods, and examples in this book provide a framework applicable on both the large organizational and smaller private practice levels and will result in better patient care. Physicians today know they need to better understand business principles and this book by Dr. David E. Marcinko and Professor Hope Rachel Hetico provides an excellent framework and foundation to learn important principles all doctors need to know.
―Richard Berning, MD, Pediatric Cardiology

… Dr. David Edward Marcinko and Professor Hope Rachel Hetico bring their vast health care experience along with additional national experts to provide a health care model-based framework to allow health care professionals to utilize the checklists and templates to evaluate their own systems, recognize where the weak links in the system are, and, by applying the well-illustrated principles, improve the efficiency of the system without sacrificing quality patient care. … The health care delivery system is not an assembly line, but with persistence and time following the guidelines offered in this book, quality patient care can be delivered efficiently and affordably while maintaining the financial viability of institutions and practices.
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Types of Care Medical Providers Deliver Via Tele-Health

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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1.   Conduct primary care visits (75%)
2.   Conduct chronic care visits (72%)
3.   Order prescription refills (64%)
4.   Conduct COVID-19 screenings (39%)
5.   Conduct urgent care visits (38%)
6.   Address mental health concerns (36%)
7.   Conduct follow-up after a procedure or surgery care (28%)

Source: Optum Via UnitedHealth Group, March 15, 2022

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HEALTHCARE ENTREPRENEURS: “Top 10” Challenges

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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The Subjective Theory of Bitcoin

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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In a recent article on the Mises Institute’s Power and Market blog, Kyle Ward appealed to the subjective theory of value to castigate Peter Schiff for his notorious skepticism of Bitcoin:

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Schiff is quick to point out that gold has uses outside of being money. It is used in electronics, dentistry, and jewelry, to name a few…This leads Schiff to claim that bitcoin is unlike gold in that it has no fundamental (or objective) value. His mistake is obvious: there is no such thing as objective value, whether we’re talking about gold or bitcoin. Value is subjective and determined internally by individuals…Yes, gold can be used to build electronics, but that only has value because consumers subjectively value electronics. (emphasis in the original)

I believe Ward errs in how he relates the subjective theory of value to Bitcoin, but his error stems both from an ambiguity in phrases like “objective value” and from an ambivalence in how the founding fathers of Austrian economics themselves considered the relationship between the human agent and the good being valued.

In this article I will argue that the “orthodox” Austrian school position regarding the emergence of sound money from commodities—first proposed by Carl Menger, subsequently developed by Ludwig von Mises, and presumably adopted by Peter Schiff—is the correct one. But I will appeal to a Scholastic notion of the good to defend that view. That notion of the good is also critical to secure the foundation of a sound economic science.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Florida Podiatry Practice Now Accepts Bitcoin 

JAWSPodiatry is now one of the first medical practices in South Florida to accept Bitcoin! Bitcoin, as you know is a virtual currency that has generated a lot of headlines and has been growing in use and acceptance across the country and around the world. It is a distributed, peer-to-peer digital currency that functions without the intermediation of any central authority. 

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PODCAST: Health Care EMR and I.T. Inter-Operability Explained

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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The ME-P is Seeking Healthcare “Metaverse” Input

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

By Ann Miller RN MHA

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Facebook’s latest release, Meta, is said to be the next evolution of social connection. A virtual, 3D network that allows connection and collaboration in ways many of us have never even considered! And while many are buzzing over how Meta will shape everything from education to healthcare – we are eager to get your opinion on our own ME-P ecosystem.

Can patients trust Facebook and others again?

Are you interested in exploring a new platform for connection?

Have you subscribed to the ME-P?

We want to hear all about it! We’re actively collaborating to bring your perspectives to the discussion around the Metaverse and the patient, economics, finance and healthcare community.

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EMRs = To Laugh OR Cry?

Posted on March 28, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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The TOP 100 Digital Health Companies

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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There are a zillion digital health companies on the market, each praising their own solution/product as they can. It is up to the market to decide if these are any good. But how would patients, hospital systems, clinics or even investors decide on their added value? With the help of experts.

It is the 4th time we collect The TOP100 Digital Health Companies. A curated list of the best companies of the thousands we encounter while doing our work at The Medical Futurist. Of them, we chose a hundred that represent the following key values: mindset for innovation, truly disruptive technology, viable business model and a clear dedication to digital health.

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Welcome ARPA-H [health]

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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Recent advances in biomedical and health sciences—from immunotherapy to treat cancer, to the highly effective COVID-19 vaccines—demonstrate the strengths and successes of the U.S. biomedical enterprise. Such advances present an opportunity to revolutionize how to prevent, treat, and even cure a range of diseases including cancer, infectious diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, and many others that together affect a significant number of Americans.

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To improve the U.S. government’s capabilities to speed research that can improve the health of all Americans, President Biden is proposing the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). Included in the President’s FY2022 budget as a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with a requested funding level of $6.5B available for three years, ARPA-H will be tasked with building high-risk, high-reward capabilities (or platforms) to drive biomedical breakthroughs—ranging from molecular to societal—that would provide transformative solutions for all patients.

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Virtual Care Training Should be a Core Competency Taught in Medical School

Posted on March 17, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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  • 76% of clinicians believed virtual care training should be a core competency taught in medical school and for advanced nursing degrees.
  • 46% felt they weren’t adequately trained in virtual care by their practice or employer.
  • 40% of clinicians said advancements in remote patient monitoring will be critical.

Source: Wheel, “The Great ReExamination: Examining the Pandemic’s Challenging Working Conditions for Doctors and Nurses,” March 2022

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PODCAST: Medical Supply Chain Management?

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

Our broken healthcare supply chain – what can be done

By Dr. Marion Mass MD

Dr. Marion Mass graduated from Medical School at Duke University. She completed internship and residency at Northwestern University’s Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Dr. Mass has worked in the Philadelphia area as a pediatrician for 21 years.

Fixing Common Medical Device Supply Chain Break Points - # ...

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ANNOUNCING: A New Course In Digital Health

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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By Dr. Bertalan Meskó MD PhD

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I’m so happy and proud that I can finally share with you the biggest project The Medical Futurist has ever worked on: The Digital Health Course.

Today, we publicly launch the digital platform where you can learn about everything we and I personally find important about digital health. I mean EVERYTHING!

In this course I break down everything I’ve learned over the last 15 years about the future of healthcare and digital health, what changes are taking place now and over the next 5+ years, what impact they’ll have on you as a healthcare decision-maker, and exactly what you should be doing today to best position yourself or your company for this inevitable reality.

We designed this course to provide you with a complete overview of digital health, guide you through the technological aspects, and equip you to be able to predict and forecast what’s coming next.

From the basics and its definition, to why it’s a cultural transformation that is happening now, how it is a paradigm shift of care, how you can spot trends in it and forecast the near future.

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METAVERSE: Healthcare Transformation -OR- Not?

Posted on March 9, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

By Bertalan Meskó, MD PhD
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HOW THE METAVERSE COULD (OR COULD NOT) TRANSFORM HEALTHCARE

If you’ve browsed the internet in the last couple of months, the term ‘metaverse’ is likely to have been thrown at you at least once. Facebook rebranded itself after the concept and other companies are adopting the metaverse with their own spin; betting heavily that it will be the next iteration of the internet where we will work and play alike.

It was time to dive into what the metaverse could mean to delivering healthcare.

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Understanding the “Language” of Healthcare Finance, IT, Economics and Insurance

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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TELE-HEALTH: Market Share of Outpatient Visits

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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KFF: Share of Outpatient Visits by Telehealth, 2019-2021

 •  March 2019-Feb. 2020: 0% (Rounded, telehealth use was a negligible share prior to pandemic.)
 •  March-Aug. 2020: 13%
 •  Sept. 2020-Feb. 2021: 11%
 •  March-Aug. 2021: 8%

Source: KFF Health System Tracker, “Outpatient telehealth use soared early in the COVID-19 pandemic but has since receded,” February 10, 2022

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What is “SWARM” Learning?

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

By Dr. David E. Marcinko MBA

SWARM INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE

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Swarm learning, or swarm intelligence, is how swarms of bees or birds move in response to their environment.

When applied to data there is “more peer-to-peer communications, more peer-to-peer collaboration, more peer-to-peer learning and that’s the reason why swarm learning will become more and more important as … as the center of gravity shifts” from centralized to decentralized data.

DZNE : AI with Swarm Intelligence

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Consider this example,  “A hospital trains their machine learning models on chest X-rays and sees a lot of tuberculosis cases, but very little of lung collapsed cases. So therefore, this neural network model, when trained, will be very sensitive to what’s detecting tuberculosis and less sensitive towards detecting lung collapse.”

“However, we get the converse of it in another hospital. So what you really want is to have these two hospitals combine their data so that the resulting neural network model can predict both situations better. But since you can’t share that data, swarm learning comes in to help reduce that bias of both the hospitals.”

And this means, “each hospital is able to predict outcomes, with accuracy and with reduced bias, as though you have collected all the patient data globally in one place and learned from it.”

Moreover, it’s not just hospital and patient data that must be kept secure. What swarm learning does is to try to avoid or reduce the sharing of data, or totally prevent the sharing of data, to [a model] where you only share the insights, or you share the learnings.

So, that’s why it is fundamentally more secure.

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“Disruptive” DIGITAL BUSINESS MODELS For Health Insurers

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

The Top 10 [Ten] Disruptive Digital Business Models For Health Insurers

By Zhang Jie

Digital technologies will transform the health insurance business. Early adopters have started to implement new digital business models with initial success. A new report describes ten digital business models for health insurers that will disrupt the industry.

Dear Dr. David Marcinko and all ME-P Readers,

We are excited to announce the release of Research2Guidance’s new “The 10 Disruptive Digital Business Models for Health Insurers” report.

Please find below the special report story.

Advances in higher-quality digital technology—especially apps, sensors, and artificial intelligence (AI)—along with their proliferation among members have spurred the emergence of new business models.

The new report “The 10 Disruptive Digital Business Models for Health Insurers” published by Research2Guidance describes how start-ups, health insurance and general payer organizations have started using these technologies to venture into new forms of health insurance offerings and increasingly step into the healthcare provider role.

New digital models change the way the insurers interact with patients. For example, digital insurers have reworked the trust equation with the patient, outsourced much of their value chain to their members, and now know much more about them. Digital business models tend to also blur the lines between payer and care giver organizations. Some of the first-movers already crossed the line and started to offer services which have previously been provided exclusively by doctors and nurses. The ten digital business models are defined as follows:

  1. Digitally assisted member acquisition is a freemium business model concept.
  2. Mobile health concierge is a business approach designed for members to complete all health insurance tasks using mobile phones with the support from a concierge team.
  3. Peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance refers to a risk-sharing community.
  4. Mobile micro-insurance refers to the health insurance plans that cover short-term small health events or minimal ongoing health insurance.
  5. Health insurers tech platforms license their technology for the management of health plans and members to their customers.
  6. On-demand insurance is a usage-based model that enables members to access desired health plans upon request with the help of a mobile app.
  7. High-risk patient preventive care model concentrates on insuring and managing potentially costly patient groups.
  8. The payer & provider collaboration model stands for a closer, digitally enabled partnership between payers and care providers, especially hospitals.
  9. The API health insurance model uses a list of pre-defined health insurance products accessible to websites and app providers via an application programming interface (API).
  10. Direct primary care model. Within this model, a care provider or a hospital act like a health insurance company using a monthly subscription model.

First implementations of these models indicate the positive impact that they have on the company evaluation, the ability to attract new members, the cost structure, and new revenue streams. Currently, the main impact of digital business models is on company evaluation, which reflects the hype that some companies have created in the investor community. Companies like Oscar, Clover Health, and Bright Health are valued at over $1 billion USD each after only a few years of operation.

Health insurers and start-ups from the USA and China are the most aggressive in adopting new digital business models. Companies from other regions tend to choose a follower approach or implement copycats.

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The report also profiles first-mover digital implementations. Profiles include their target groups, operating models, service offerings, and early evidence for success where available.

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PODCAST: Health Tech Faves & Investment Trends from Entrepreneurs

Posted on February 24, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

START-UPS AND INNOVATIONS

Health tech investment raced ahead in 2020. Join innovation insiders for a discussion on new health technologies, health-care’s digital transformation timeline, and what to expect for mid- to long-term health tech investment.

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H2 Healthcare Data Breach Report

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

MCOL Cyber Attacks

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Critical Insight: 2021 with 5 Findings

 •  In 2021, 45 million individuals were affected by healthcare cyber-attacks, up from 34 million in 2020.
 •  The total number of affected increased 32% over 2020, meaning that more records are exposed per breach each year.
 •  Breaches only rose 2.4% from 663 in 2020 to 679 in 2021 but still hit historic highs.
 •  Hacking/IT incidents continue as the most common cause of breaches with an increase of 10% in 2021.
 •  Hacking incidents at outpatient/specialty clinics saw a 41% increase in these types of breaches in 2021.

Source: Critical Insight via Fierce Healthcare, February 1, 2022

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PODCAST: 15 Metrics for Successful Healthcare Companies

Posted on February 16, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

Phil Fisher Was One of the Greatest Entrepreneurial Investors of the 20th Century and a Source of Wisdom for Warren Buffett

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Me, Marcinko and Dr. Avatar in 2022 [Metaverse?]

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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Recently, I was invited to speak at a regional convention. No surprise there as I have been doing so – around the world – for more than twenty years – webcasts included. And, I was asked to submit the usual paraphernalia; a formal CV, audio-visual needs, travel arrangements and times, PPE, and a personal photo which were all dutifully supplied.

Then, I was asked to supply something that flabbergasted me; I became slack-jawed, actually.

DEM’s Avatar 

Imagine my surprise when I was asked for an avatar; not just a digital photograph. So – having none – I had one made and now submit it for your review.

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So, how do I virtually look – better or worse – glasses or contact lens? It seems as though some folks are more interested in the virtual me; than the real me. Go figure!

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UPDATE: Crypto Advertisements on Super Bowl Sunday 2022

Posted on February 13, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

The Crypto Bowl and the Dot Com Bowl?

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CRYPTO CURRENCY: Tonight, about 117 million people will watch celebrities pitch cryptocurrency on the Super Bowl. In what’s being dubbed the “Crypto Bowl,” a batch of crypto exchanges including FTX, Coinbase, and Crypto.com, will air Super Bowl commercials at a cost of up to $7 million per 30-second spot. The game is even being held at a stadium named after SoFi, a company that offers crypto trading.\

BEWARE: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/meet-the-crocodile-of-wall-street-rapper-accused-of-laundering-billions-of-dollars-in-crypto/ar-AATNmv6?li=BBnb7Kz

This isn’t the first time startups from an emerging industry have used the Super Bowl to introduce themselves to a mass audience. Does anyone remember the 2000 Super Bowl between the Rams and the Titans? That was known as the “Dot-Com Bowl.” Startups that were part of the dot-com wave of the early internet bought nearly 20% of the total ad slots in what is considered the peak of that tech bubble.

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Well, that bubble burst. In fact, according to journalist Neal Freyman, of the 14 dot-com companies that purchased Super Bowl ads that year, four are still active, five were acquired, and five (including Pets.com, OnMoney.com, and Epidemic.com) are either defunct or their status is unclear.

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HEALTHCARE NFTs: How to Monitize Health Data?

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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NFTs IN HEALTHCARE: HOW PATIENTS COULD MONETISE THEIR HEALTH DATA

Personal health sensors and apps equip patients with personalised data so that they can become more proactive in managing their health. But what is still mostly the norm is that these sensitive data are governed by the companies providing these services; and they often profit out of it, oblivious to patients.

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Guide to Telehealth

Posted on February 6, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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Guide to Telehealth – Then, Now, Tomorrow?
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Healthcare providers have employed various forms of telehealth since long before the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Telehealth delivers knowledge and expertise to people and places that need it. A movement that largely began as a way to improve access to healthcare in rural communities saw explosive growth in 2020. Today, telehealth is in wide use and here to stay.

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What is telehealth?
The US Health Resources and Services Administration defines telehealth as any electronic information and telecommunications technology that is used to support and promote long-distance clinical healthcare, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration. Telehealth technologies benefit providers, healthcare organizations and patients.

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The key to maintaining population health and lowering expenditures is delivering timely access to high-quality care.

The US is struggling to improve the quality of healthcare and make the needed shift to value-based models. Innovative telehealth solutions that addressed our country’s worsening healthcare access problem reached the point of widespread adoption in 2020, when the pandemic pushed the healthcare system to its limits.

Telehealth increases convenience of care and access while decreasing costs and maximizing physician time. Providers, payers and employers are increasingly adopting various and connected types of telehealth solutions to improve healthcare operations and patient outcomes. Patients embrace the convenience, safety, accessibility and flexibility of telehealth options.

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What is a DAO [not DOA] in Health Care?

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations in Health Care?

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DEFINITION: A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), sometimes called a decentralized autonomous corporation (DAC), is an organization represented by rules encoded as a computer program that is transparent, controlled by the organization members and not influenced by a central government. A DAO’s financial transaction record and program rules are maintained on a blockchain.

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The precise legal status of this type of business organization is unclear. But, in healthcare, today?

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Comprehensive Financial Planning and Risk Management Strategies for Doctors and their Advisors

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

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77% of Surveyed ACOs Use 6 or More EHR Systems

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Editor-in-Chief

By Staff Reporters

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77% of Surveyed ACOs Use 6 or More EHR Systems

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All roads lead to the EHR - MedCity News

According to a recent AJMC survey of 163 MSSP ACOs

 •  Just 9% of surveyed ACOs use a single EHR system throughout their entire organization.
 •  77% of surveyed ACOs use 6 or more EHR systems.
 •  Among the 37% of Medicare Shared Savings Program ACOs with 16 or more EHR systems, concerns about EHR-based quality measures include access to data, standardization of data elements, and cost of integrating across systems.

Source: AJMC, “Use of Electronic Health Record Systems in Accountable Care Organizations”, January 18th 2022

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