Mobile Health Nirvana: Mastering Health and Wellness through Mobile

Mobile Nirvana: Mastering growth through mobile

Mobile is exploding. How are you going to capitalize on the biggest change in Health consumer behavior in decades?

It is truly a revolution- In 2015 there will be 2 billion smartphones worldwide, those users will spend on average 3 hours per day on them (more than TV!), and the number of ways to reach them is expanding exponentially. This all sounds great, but capitalizing on this is not always obvious, and if you don’t, you risk missing big growth opportunities, or losing them to a competitor that acts faster.

Hence MobileBeat. Now in its 8th year, MobileBeat 2015 is the place to meet and learn how to win on mobile from the most disruptive brands and thought-leaders in the mobile industry.

If you are serious about growing your health care business through mobile, this is a must-attend event.

Join us to learn from case studies from the largest brands and most disruptive mobile technology companies. Network with the industry’s most innovative thought leaders and brands. Discover cutting edge findings based on the world’s deepest research in mobile marketing that you can only find at MobileBeat.

Take a lesson from businesses that have already developed the power of mobile apps. Health care through the  power of telehealth, telemedicine, remote monitoring, wearables, and two way communication by video or audio with providers offers efficiency, savings and improved quality of care.

This year, mobile advertising spend will hit $51 billion, according to VB Insight’s latest report on brands and mobile ads. By 2019, it’ll hit $105 billion — mostly because brands and “traditional” companies are joining mobile-first startups in advertising online.

GAMIFICATION AND VIDEO go hand in hand in the mobile health space. Role playing and animation are significant enagement activities for your health business.

The powerful seamlessness of new video technology shows once again that mobile-oriented design and UI can disrupt established ways of thinking in marketing. At next week’s MobileBeat 2015 event, held July 13 and 14 in San Francisco, panelists and speakers will address some of the questions raised by the explosion of mobile video advertising and marketing.

How are smart brands and other companies using video to market on mobile — a place of short attention spans, rich interactivity, and instant gratification? When do you invest in emoji packs, or product videos for Vine or Snapchat? What role do the new hot offerings — messaging platforms and video advertising — play in driving growth?

What does the emergence of new platforms like WhatsApp, Snapchat, Instagram, and others mean for companies? Well, for a start, you can address your customers directly where they are, instead of trying to force them to join your platform. If you can’t beat Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter, you may as well join ’em.

Find out who are developers health providers can use to enhance their mobile health applications.  

Examples: (video)

IMS Health Mobile Health Apps - Making and Prescribing the Best Apps

Why mobile technology may well define the future of healthcare... for everyone.

*Tickets are non-refundable within 30 days of the event.*

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UPDATED: FDA OKs Novartis' megablockbuster heart failure drug Entresto - FierceBiotech

UPDATED: FDA OKs Novartis' megablockbuster heart failure drug Entresto - FierceBiotech

The FDA has approved Novartis' ($NVS) big 2015 blockbuster, the heart failure drug Entresto, better known in development circles as LCZ696.

Novartis wowed regulators with data demonstrating that the drug reduced the rate of cardiovascular death and hospitalizations among thousands of patients with a particular form of heart failure in a late-stage study, successfully treating a condition that afflicts some 5 million-plus Americans. And the agency responded with an approval that arrived 6 weeks ahead of their scheduled deadline.

"The U.S. wholesale acquisition cost will be $12.50 a day ($4,562 a year), less discounts," a spokesperson for Novartis tells FierceBiotech. "This is in line with the current price of other new CV therapies and well below other recently launched life-saving products for other diseases. The cost to patients will vary as this is ultimately set at the retail level and many factors contribute to an individual's out-of-pocket costs."

"The very meaningful survival advantage of Entresto seen in the PARADIGM-HF trial should persuade physicians to consider Entresto for all appropriate patients, in place of traditional ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers," said Dr. Milton Packer, chair for the Department of Clinical Sciences at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "Entresto is expected to change the management of patients with HFrEF for years to come."

The most common side effects seen in participants being treated with Entresto were low blood pressure (hypotension), high blood potassium levels (hyperkalemia), and poor function of the kidneys (renal impairment).

- here's the release from the FDA
- here's the release from Novartis

Free ICD-10 Converter

My staff here at DHS did a deepdyve into the ICD-10  event horizon. For all of us who trepidate and fear the coming date of October 2015, please breathe a sigh of relief

ICD-10 CODES, ARE YOU READY ?

There are multiple converters available.

ICD-10 TRAINING ACADEMY

CMS in it's infinte wisdom has maintained the deadline for October 2015, with a big escape clause. As long as you submit ICD-10 codes, whether they are correct or not, CMS states they will be accepted without penalty.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tossed hospital executives and industry observers something of a surprise on Monday by conceding to a one-year period in which it will not deny erroneous claims after the October 1, 2015, compliance deadline, so long as those are submitted in ICD-10.

Until that comes along here is the quick fix, and it is free of charge. The program was developed by a first year medical student. (that will say something about the rest of us who are mired in 1990s technology.) Actually ICD-10 is in use around most of the globe. The US Army has been using it for several years in their AHLTA EHR system used around the world.

From my experience ID-10 is not difficult to use and affords many details which are helpful when a user looks back at old history and diagnoses.

Non-profit startup launches free ICD-10 conversion tools

Providers looking for software to ease the ICD-10 transition got a new quiver of options – thanks to a medical student. 

ICD-10 Charts, in fact, joined a growing crop of software tools coming to market as the countdown to compliance keeps moving ahead. What makes it unique, however, is the bold claim that the free software it updated on Tuesday essentially walks providers through the conversion in four steps.

The first tool, ICD-10 Charts Bulk Converter, can be used to transition a user's existing ICD-9 data to ICD-10 for as many as 10,000 codes. Second is to organize that information and once the new codes are in Chart Builder, providers can sort, search, edit, rearrange and remove them and by using the Combination Coder functionality users can consolidate related ICD-9 codes into a single ICD-10 instance. 

The third step is to integrate ICD-10 Chart into the providers practice. That tool enables physicians to save, print or export charts into either Excel files or a variety of EHRs.

For the fourth and final step ICD-10 Charts also made available the Training Academy portal comprising more than 25 modules with both general ICD-10 information and specifics for specialists.

Whereas ICD-10 Charts is not likely to have broad appeal among large or tech-savvy providers already making way toward ICD-10, CMS' move means that now is a good time for any mid-size or small practices and specialty groups to evaluate their options for migrating to the new codes.

Indeed, plenty of options exist, ranging from 3M Health Information Systems recently-launched suite of conversion and workflow tools for ICD-10, offerings from Trizetto and Proviti.

Some EHR vendors, including Amazing Charts, athenahealth, NextGen, Practice Fusion and others are advertising that they will help customers meet the mandate.

Industry associations such as the AAPC, AHIMA and Healthcare IT News owner HIMSS, meanwhile, are making available crosswalks, educational and other resources. And there are some easy-to-find online tools for anyone who only needs to convert to ICD-10 one code at a time. 

Why it's free

ICD-10 Charts co-founder Parth Desai first met ICD-9 back in high school. At that time he was working for his father, in the family's internal medicine practice, where his mother served as, among other roles, a medical coder.

Then, two years after earning an undergraduate degree, Desai moved back home before medical school, was introduced to ICD-10, and recognized immediately how difficult it could be for physicians.

"My mom said, 'you have to find us a training program to get our codes done,'" Desai said. "There were plenty of good tools on the market, but none of them catered to practices. They were just too expensive."

So ICD-10 Charts went a different direction. This spring, in fact, with about 10,000 visitors to its site and some 5,000 users, Desai took the beta to his school, Mercer University School of Medicine, and switched to a virtual private server with capacity for at least 1 million simultaneous users and the ability to add more if needed.

"I'm in medical school, my dad's a physician, my brother's a physician, my girlfriend, she's in med school. Our main interest is in helping people – especially these practices struggling with so much," Desai explained. "The last thing I wanted was for my dad to shut his practice and work at a hospital because of regulations and not because he's ready to retire."

And that goes for all of us Parth Desai !

ICD-10 Coding Issues

Organized medicine has had some recent success with CMS.  CMS has agreed to not penalize providers who do not use ICD-10 coding accurately.  This was in the face of their previous refusal to postpone implementation of it's implementation this October 2015.  Despite their reticence, organized medicine mounted an offensive to convince CMS otherwise.  CMS relented somewhat to accomodate organized medicine's advice to  slow down the process so that   providers can learn the new system.

Many large groups and hospitals have in place their ICD-10 EMRs.  Larger institutions have IT support staff dedicated to these issues. The steady mounting requirements for meaningful us also placed a burden on smaller to medium sized medical practices.

For those of  you  who wish to learn more about ICD-10 conversion, attend this webinar

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July 7, 2015

TOWN HALL MEETING - CODING ICD-10 WITH IMEDICWARE

Join Dr. Gerald Meltzer, our medical director for a demonstration of iMedicWare’s implementation of 

ICD10 coding.  He will be discussing:

1. Fundamentals of ICD-10 Coding

2. Tips on how you can prepare for ICD-10 conversion

3. New CMS flexibility rules concerning ICD-10 coding

4. iMedicWare’s ICD-9 to 10 Crosswalk

5. Converting ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes

6. Using IMW for ICD-10 coding.

The presentation will take approximately 45 minutes with approximately 15 minutes for questions.  For those of you who can’t make the presentation - it will be recorded for you to review at a later time.

For your convenience, there will be two presentations on Thursday July 16, 2015, one at noon the other at 7 pm (all times are Eastern Time Zone).

Date	Time	Registration Link
Thursday July 16th	12:00 Noon -1:00 PM EDT	https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8327954324136169985
Thursday July 16th	7:00 P - 8:00 PM EDT	https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2578145128100186113

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