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In the second part of our interview with CCHP director Gutierrez, he speaks about how telehealth policy is evolving nationwide.

Can futuristic-sounding technologies really drive meaningful outcomes that improve the everyday performance of health systems?

"We have to change that dynamic and think about the consumer at the center of the healthcare system," Mario Gutierrez says.

A wide reach and vast accesibility allowed the researchers to see nationwide data and detect trends, but the program suffered from the same natural enthusiasm decay that any mobile app does.

Respected surgeon pens plea in Annals of Surgery urging increased use of electronic prescribing platforms to stem the tide of opiate misuse.

"It’s a constant theme we'll be talking about continuously," Hart says. "Patients are saying "we need this support" and yet very few providers are delivering it. "

New Enterprise Associates boasts a portfolio with more than an alphabet's worth of drug makers and research firms in the fold. It also might boast the new head of the Food and Drug Administration.

Though a preliminary study, the new smartphone-controlled armband performed well in patients with serious migraines.

IBM Health and Medtronic have teamed up to create a patient-facing mobile technology with a one-on-one coaching component, to help patients better manage their diabetes while at home.

Trivalent has released a new encryption and file shredding technology, Trivalent Protect, at the HIMSS17 meeting. The new service, which works with the Windows OS, uses AES256 bit encryption and was labeled as the "next-generation" of data protection by the company.

At HIMSS 2017, Patricia Sengstack led a conversation peppered with allusions to books and films from recent memory, bringing a certain levity to the weighty and important topic of patient safety. IT can help enormously, but also create problems of its own.

​IBM has announced the next step for Watson Health: a value-based care management solution. The new system, built on the Watson supercomputing artificial intelligence backbone, will combine, analyze, and make predictions based on data in electronic health records, hospital administrative and clinical databases, claims data, and other sources.

Social media represents a huge opportunity to improve patient communication and care but comes with a variety of added risks and compliance hurdles that must be addressed.

The University of Texas Southwestern launched a comprehensive and successful Accountable Care Organization with significant savings using the help of data analytics and a series of customized dashboards and reports to elicit physician engagement and buy-in

Ransomware, which is expanding at a rapid rate, has crippled several hospital systems and hurt patient care, warranting close attention and proper steps to address these concerns.

“I think we’re agreeing, but in a way that sounds like we disagree."

The main goal, he said, was not merely insuring compliance to regulation, but instead insuring actual security.

John Gallagher, Senior Innovation Consultant at Simpler Consulting, offers potential complications that could doom population health efforts: "The business of care delivery must change."

The app maker announced results from a study that reinforce the potential of telehealth as a tool to help patients manage blood sugar.

With its slice of the wearable fitness monitor market negligible, Jawbone has accused Fitbit, its former competitor in the consumer space, of stealing trade secrets. A hearing is scheduled for later today.

Costs and hospitalizations both fell, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham Report.

“We cannot communicate with other physicians,” says Ralph Nobo, MD and president of the Florida Medical Association. “Sometimes we cannot communicate with other entities, like labs or radiology services unless we pay a large monthly fee. That presents a challenge when you’re a small practice like I am and you’re trying to survive in these difficult times.”

Obese patients are more likely to die at home, with their weight often directly impacting their access to end-of-life care. Researchers surmise that health care professionals still harbor bias against such patients.

The investigators called over treatment “pervasive” and said it “leads to potential patient harms and excessive costs in health care.”

“Good doctoring is pattern recognition,” Tracey Evans says, “so to have all this data here and not use it is ridiculous."

Mr. DiCicco of GlaxoSmithKline speaks about an iPhone-based rheumatoid arthritis study combining patient-response surveys with the device's motion sensor capabilities.

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