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Forta scores $55M to scale parent-led autism therapy platform

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funds to grow its autism therapy practice, continue AI and LLM research, and develop clinical algorithms.

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Why digital equity is important to conducting better telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth is for everyone, and hospitals and health systems must construct a digital equity strategy to better serve patients in the digital and telehealth space to ensure all persons can use telehealth, contended Alexandra Hunter, virtual care consultant at Henry Ford Health in Detroit. The technology and internet space have rapidly proliferated over the last 30 years.

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Apple finds workaround on reinstated ban of Apple Watch sales

Mobi Health News

The tech giant is now selling its Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 without a blood oxygen feature.

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NIH seeks proposals for advanced mobile hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To address rural healthcare access disparities, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health office at the National Institutes of Health seeks to create a scalable vehicle platform that can provide advanced medical services outside of a hospital setting. WHY IT MATTERS Rural populations are subject to higher rates of heart disease, cancer, trauma, lung disease and stroke than urban Americans, according to the draft Platform Accelerating Rural Access to Distributed & InteGrated Medical Ca

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Samsung's premium X-rays to be integrated with Lunit's AI and more partnership briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Canon Medical and Olympus are collaborating on endoscopic ultrasonography.

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Drones in Healthcare: Advancing AED Delivery for Cardiac Emergencies

Digital Health Global

Revolutionizing Emergency Response: AED Delivery by Drones In December’s edition of The Lancet Digital Health , Sofia Schierbeck and her team unveil a groundbreaking study on the incorporating drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) into the chain of survival for individuals experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Swift Cardiac Intervention with Drone Technology Swift bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are critical for addressing ou

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Epic launches new 'Showroom' website for 3rd-party apps, services

FierceHealthIT

As part of an initiative teased last summer, Epic officially launched this week new third-party vendor programs to connect health tech companies with health systems and providers. | As part of an initiative teased last summer, Epic officially launched this week new third-party vendor programs to connect health tech companies with health systems and providers.

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Rewired 2024: Doctors’ roles will be ‘radically redefined’ by AI

DigitalHealth

Ahead of Rewired 2024, three programme committee members speak to Digital Health News about AI in healthcare and what its impact will be moving forward.

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Payer Roundup–Humana confirms layoffs; Medicaid expansion linked to lung cancer survival

FierceHealthIT

Below is a round-up of payer-centric news for the week of Jan. 15., 2024 | This week, Humana announced workforce reductions, a study associated Medicaid expansion with reduced lung cancer mortality and Bright Health moved its corporate headquarters.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?

DigitalHealth

This briefing includes solutions reaching the Accelerator stage of CivTech Accelerator Round 9 and The Breathing App launching an app for diabetes patients.

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Financial distress fueled more hospital M&A deals in 2023, report finds

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals’ immediate financial needs drove more than a quarter of the sector’s merger and acquisition activity through 2023, which also brought a higher overall number of unveiled transactions than | The portion of hospitals and health systems whose transactions followed dire financial situations was nearly double that of 2020, 2021 and 2022, Kaufman Hall wrote in a recent report.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Helps Clinicians Work at the Top of Their Licenses

Healthcare IT Today

One could say that Amazon.com launched the modern computing era when it released Amazon Web Services more than 17 years ago. In this video, we learn about the company’s focus on health care during the past nine years from Dr. Angela A. Shippy, Amazon Web Services’ Clinical Innovation Lead for Healthcare and Senior Physician Executive at the AWS re:Invent conference.

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Senate passes short-term funding bill, House expected to follow

FierceHealthIT

The Senate voted 77-18 to pass a bill Thursday that would punt a partial government shutdown, set to go into effect this weekend, back to early March. | The bill again pushes back a scheduled $8 billion-per-year cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital program payments and extends funding for community health centers, this time to March 8.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Digital health companies progress to CivTech accelerator stage

DigitalHealth

Three digital health companies focused on providing support to women during menopause have advanced to the CivTech Round 9 Accelerator.

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Closing Health Gaps in Chronic Care - The Power of At-Home Testing and the Kidney Disease Crisis

FierceHealthIT

Chronic diseases are at an all-time high and are plaguing the U.S. 60% of adults are living with ch | Health equity strategies continue to fail in reaching their full potential. Can at-home testing spark their success and improve health outcomes?

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Digital health companies say 2023 a tricky year to sell to NHS

DigitalHealth

A survey from Silver Buck has revealed that many digital health tech companies have named 2023 as being trickier than previous years to sell to NHS.

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TBD Health enters B2B space, partners with digital health companies Folx Health, Wisp

FierceHealthIT

TBD Health, a hybrid sexual health provider, is launching an enterprise offering for digital health companies. | Folx Health will have access to TBD Health’s at-home STD/STI test kits and diagnostics lab, while Wisp will be able to refer to two brick-and-mortar clinics.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Veradigm Strengthens Award-Winning Revenue Cycle Services Portfolio with Acquisition of Full-Service RCM Company

Healthcare IT Today

Veradigm Inc. , a leading provider of healthcare data and technology solutions announced today the acquisition of Koha Health , a full-service revenue cycle management (RCM) company. With this acquisition, Veradigm further adds to its depth of offerings and expertise as a leading provider of revenue cycle services in the ambulatory healthcare market.

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Payer stocks skid as Humana slashes 2023 outlook amid elevated utilization

FierceHealthIT

Amid a surge in utilization and disappointing results in the annual enrollment period, Humana lowered its outlook for 2023, according to a new filing. | Amid a surge in utilization and disappointing results in the annual enrollment period, Humana lowered its outlook for 2023, according to a new filing.

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Digital Health Intelligence Market Analysis: AI in Clinical Imaging – shaping the future of healthcare

Lloyd Price

In a new series of Digital Health Intelligence Market Analysis, HealthTech Founder and M&A Advisor Lloyd Price examines a range of high potential market segments in the UK, including: 1. Virtual Care – From Hype to Reality 2. Patient Engagement Platforms – Rebuilding Trust in the NHS 3. Population Health – from Reactive Care to Proactive Prevention 4.

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Digital Side Door Part 2: Attract and Retain Patients with These Tips

Xealth

David Slifka, VP Commercial Operations By now, you’re probably familiar with the digital front door concept in healthcare, but what about the digital side door? In a previous blog post, I explained the side door concept as the tendency of patients to seek lower-value services outside their primary care network. That door, as we all know, serves as an entry and an exit.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Industry Voices—PINning down better patient care: A closer look at CMS's decision to pay doctors for patient navigation services

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—PINning down better patient care: A closer look at CMS's decision to pay doctors for patient navigation services hlandi Thu, 01/18/2024 - 15:18

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How to Set Effective Mental Health Goals for Your Clients

TheraNest

Reading Time: 5 Minutes As a mental health professional, one of the most important tasks is to help your clients or groups set effective goals. Goals serve as a roadmap for progress and provide a sense of direction and purpose. Without achievable goals to aim for, some clients drop out of therapy, while overly ambitious goals can be disheartening. That’s why setting goals can be a challenging process, requiring careful consideration and collaboration.

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Remote Patient Monitoring and the Maternal Health Crisis: How RPM Can Benefit Patients and Providers

Clear Arch Health

Despite increasing attention to the problem, the U.S. continues to struggle with maternal health. America’s maternal mortality rate more than doubled in recent years, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. And the problem is far from being solved. However, with remote patient monitoring (RPM), providers can keep tabs on expectant mothers in between in-person appointments, helping to assuage severe health events.

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How to Set Effective Mental Health Goals for Your Clients

TheraNest

Reading Time: 5 Minutes As a mental health professional, one of the most important tasks is to help your clients or groups set effective goals. Goals serve as a roadmap for progress and provide a sense of direction and purpose. Without achievable goals to aim for, some clients drop out of therapy, while overly ambitious goals can be disheartening. That’s why setting goals can be a challenging process, requiring careful consideration and collaboration.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Empowering Change: SAMHSA’s Impact on Behavioral Health Through Grant Funding, Innovation, and Collaboration

Mend

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is an important agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agency plays a key role in advancing behavioral health nationwide, leading efforts to improve the availability and quality of behavioral health services. Established in 1992, SAMHSA’s primary mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on communities.

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REPORT: How Moët Hennessy Leverages The LeanIX Platform

LeanIX

Moët Hennessy leverages a partnership between the LeanIX and SAP Signavio platforms to empower their enterprise architecture function with comprehensive data and insight into key performance indicators. Let's explore why Moët Hennessy chose LeanIX and Signavio.

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2024 UPDATE: Market Overview Technology for Aging Now Available

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Refresh required. Each year, the Technology for Aging Market Overview is revised in January of the new year. This year, that revision is being published right after CES 2024, which featured multiple offerings of possible utility to older adults , especially those with physical limitations. The purpose of the document, however, is to aggregate and review trends from 2023 that shape 2024, technology changes that matter, and offer, by category, a sampling of products, services, and sites of re