Mobile technology, and its ability to provide rapid access to medical information, can be both good and bad for providers' medical liability risk. That's the upshot of Harvard health law professor Michelle Mello's presentation at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth from Thursday.
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Health insurer Highmark plans to launch a new mobile app for its members early next year, Lisa Fitting, Director of Digital Client Engagement at Highmark told attendees this morning at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth in Boston. Highmark partnered up with A.D.A.M.
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The Department of Defense recently launched a full clinical trial of its mCare mobile app and platform for soldiers with brain injuries, Commander Peter Park, clinical informatics deputy director for the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery revealed at the World Congress Leadership Summit on mHealth Thursday morning.
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With the recent increases in federal Medicaid funding set to expire this month, state Medicaid directors from around the country will convene next month in Washington D.C. for the World Congress Leadership Summit on Medicaid to address how they plan to deal with the impact.
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After two years in stealth, Adam Bosworth is finally ready to start talking about his health startup Keas. Keas is not a Mint for health, although it began that way. Bosworth, who previously launched Google Health at Google and before that was known as the father of XML at Microsoft, founded Keas two years ago with $10 million from Ignition Partners and Atlas Venture. He thought he would build a Mint for health, but discovered that people don’t want to measure their health. So instead, he turned it into a game.
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I spent two days last week at the World Congress Leadership Summit on Accountable Care Organizations and my mind is just now recovering. As far as speaker quality goes, this conference (which offered concurrent tracks on ICD-10 and Meaningful Use) was top-notch, with dozens of speakers from hospitals, medical groups, payers, and consulting firms. There was a lot to absorb, but a few recurring themes came through. Here are my Top 10 takeaways from the conference:
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Free & Clear, a national leader in behavior change services
for health improvement, announced today that it will change its name to Alere Wellbeing.
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"The big momentum in health care is around consumerism and activating employees and their family members through information and incentives that focus on improving health," said Robert S. Galvin, M.D., former director of global health care at GE and currently the head of equity health care at The Blackstone Group.
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The official handover of the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD) took place today at a meeting of innovation leaders held during the World Health Care Congress.
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Fred Hassan, chairman of Bausch & Lomb, talks about the outlook for the pharmaceutical industry and his turnaround efforts at Bausch & Lomb. Hassan speaks with Shannon Pettypiece at the World Health Care Congress in Washington on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." Bloomberg's Carol Massar also speaks. (Source: Bloomberg)
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David Cutler, a professor and health economist at Harvard University, discusses the impact of the Obama health-care law on jobs and the prospects for lowering health costs in the U.S. Cutler talks with Shannon Pettypiece from the World Health Care Congress in Washington on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop." (Source: Bloomberg)
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Congressional Budget Director Douglas Elmendorf talked about five ways the federal government could restrain health costs including reversing the expansion of Medicaid. Following his remarks he was interviewed Washington Post reporter Amy Goldstein and answered questions from the audience.
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Cisco invites media and 2011 World Health Care Congress attendees to a "Ministerial Forum on Global Health Innovation: A Perspective on National Health Opportunities" keynote and panel with Cisco executive Frances Dare and health ministers from around the world on Wednesday, April 6, at noon.
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The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress (WHCC) will convene April 4-6, 2011 in Washington D.C. with more than 1,800 health care leaders to address the challenges of health care cost, quality and delivery.
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The 8th Annual World Health Care Congress is pleased to announce that Gary Lauer, Chairman and CEO, eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH), will be a featured keynote presenter at the conference, April 4-6, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The World Health Care Congress will convene 1,800 senior health care leaders from all industry sectors for discussion and debate on the present and future of health care.
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