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Insurtech company Clover Health settles remaining lawsuits

Mobi Health News

The Medicare Advantage insurer allegedly did not disclose active investigations by the Department of Justice to investors when it went public.

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The Latest KFF Poll on Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance Speaks Volumes About Patients’ Administrative Burden

Health Populi

People love being health-insured, but their negative experiences with health plans create serious burdens on patients-as-consumers. And those burdens impact even more people who are unwell than healthier folks. The 2023 Kaiser Family Foundation Survey of Consumer Experiences with Health Insurance updates our understanding of and empathy for insured peoples’ Patient Administrative Burdens (PAB).

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New survey sheds light on providers' embrace of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Eighty percent of providers using telehealth in Virginia have seen improvements in their patients’ continuity of care, and 87% feel confident in the quality of care they’re able to offer patients via telehealth, according to a new survey conducted by the Virginia Telehealth Network of more than 10,500 active license healthcare professionals throughout the state.

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AvoMD closes $5M seed round for AI-enabled app development platform

Mobi Health News

Early-stage venture fund AlleyCorp led the round.

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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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UnitedHealth outbids Option Care Health for Amedisys in $3.3B deal

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group has once again flexed its muscles and outbid a competitor to pick up another home health asset. | Amedisys on Monday agreed to be acquired by UnitedHealth's Optum unit in an all-cash deal while also scraping a previous all-stock deal offer from previous suitor Option Care Health.

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Employers seek guidance on mental health benefits: survey

FierceHealthIT

Employers give themselves poor marks in terms of providing mental health services to their employees but high scores for supporting initiatives to improve diversity, equity and inclusion among thei | Employers recognize the importance of mental health benefits but feel that they might be falling short in providing them, according to a new survey.

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Machine Learning unveils Heart Failure subtypes and outcome predictions in landmark study

Digital Health Global

In a comment published in The Lancet Digital Health , researchers have utilized machine learning techniques to identify distinct subtypes of heart failure and predict patient outcomes. Heart failure, a complex clinical syndrome associated with significant healthcare burdens and reduced quality of life, has traditionally been classified based on its various causes.

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Sarah Mendenhall, PMHNP, Shares How She Connects with Patients Virtually

Iris Telehealth

Iris clinicians are at the heart of what makes our organization such a special place to work. That’s why we’re turning the spotlight on the amazing work they’re doing every day. This month, we’re sitting down to talk with Sarah Mendenhall, PMHNP. Q. How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? A. I was doing telehealth for another company and wasn’t happy, so I started looking for other opportunities.

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Caraway raised $16.75M to expand Gen Z’s digital care Platform

Digital Health Global

Caraway , a women’s mental, physical, and reproductive health startup specializing in virtual care, raised $16.75M to expand its services. The New York-based company is committed to supporting the care of hundreds of women (and AFAB , assigned female at birth) in college age. Generation Z represents at least a quarter of the world’s population and is the most diversified in terms of medical demand.

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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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Adopting Agile: The Power of Iteration in Healthcare IT

Optimum Healthcare IT

Agile methodology and Iteration support successful technology integration. How can healthcare embrace these concepts? Continue reading Adopting Agile: The Power of Iteration in Healthcare IT at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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ERP Transformation: 5 Blind Spots Of Having Multiple Systems

LeanIX

ERP transformation is often about application rationalization. We look at the five issues and blind spots that can occur when you have more than the necessary number of ERP platforms.

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Yagua Health partners with blueBriX to digitise patient health records

DigitalHealth

blueBriX is to supply Yagua Health with its enterprise-scale EHR system, blueEHR, delivering the organisation's first electronic health record.

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More than half of private practice therapists worry about economy, plan to raise rates in 2023, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

More than half of private practice therapists worry about economy, plan to raise rates in 2023, survey finds agliadkovskaya Mon, 06/26/2023 - 12:03

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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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King’s leads £2.5m AI trial for early detection of bowel cancer

DigitalHealth

Researchers at King's College Hospital are trialling the GI Genius AI-powered platform to see if it can lead to earlier detection of colorectal cancers.

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Digital MSK: current investment trends and potential future innovation

Lloyd Price

What is Digital MSK? Digital MSK, or digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care, refers to the use of technology and digital tools to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and management of conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system, which includes bones, joints, muscles, and other connective tissues. Digital MSK solutions can include telemedicine consultations, remote monitoring of patient symptoms and progress, digital platforms for self-assessment and self-management, and virtual physical therapy an

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Dorothy, Care City, TPXimpact awarded £80k fund for AR dementia tool

DigitalHealth

Thanks to an £80k Discovery Award by Longitude Prize on Dementia, Dorothy, Care City and TPXimpact will develop an augmented reality tool for dementia.

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Digital health company Babylon Health to go private in merger with brain tech company MindMaze

FierceHealthIT

Beleaguered digital health company Babylon Health finalized plans to go private and will combine with digital therapeutics company MindMaze. | Beleaguered digital health company Babylon Health finalized plans to go private and will combine with digital therapeutics company MindMaze.

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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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Is the Facebook Pixel Breach Much Ado About Nothing? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 117

Healthcare IT Today

For the 117th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are diving into the Facebook pixel breach that impacted most healthcare organizations! To start off we discuss whether the breach was a big deal or not. Then we take a look at the impact the resulting penalties of the breach have on the industry. Next we share ways healthcare organizations can navigate around these privacy requirements.

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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust deploys ePMA

DigitalHealth

Gloucestershire Hospitals has deployed a new ePMA as part of its Sunrise EPR, and is now setting its sights on achieving HIMSS Stage 6.

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Hospital consolidation followed by inpatient pediatric service closures, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Recent study findings suggest that hospital consolidation is associated with a reduction of inpatient pediatric services during subsequent years—a new data point for policymakers weighing whether a | A recent study found a significant association between hospitals joining a health system and a reduction of inpatient pediatric services within five years.

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Telehealth Reexamined: Is This As Good As It Gets?

Health System CIO

Telehealth has come a long way since the Covid-induced boom, but a lot hinges on its continued success, according to Joseph Kvedar, MD. In this piece, he examines the impact it has had, the vision for what telehealth can be, and the steps organizations can take to get there. Source: Telehealth Reexamined: Is This As Good As It Gets? on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of health

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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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Nominations for Fierce Healthcare's 2023 Most Influential Minority Executives in Healthcare

FierceHealthIT

Improving workforce and leadership diversity is a key priority for many healthcare organizations, particularly at the executive levels. | We are putting out the call for nominations to honor minority leaders across the healthcare industry—from physicians to CEOs to researchers and tech company execs—who are shaping the way healthcare of the future will be delivered.

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Protecting Your Psychotherapy Practice from Russian Hacking: A Crucial Security Alert

Telebehavioral Health Institute

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity threats, it is essential for psychotherapists and their employers to remain vigilant and proactive in safeguarding their practices from cyber threats and cyberattacks. Recent global incidents have exposed vulnerabilities in widely used software, making it crucial for clinicians to take proactive measures to protect sensitive data.

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Your Company Has A Technology Platform…But Do You Have A Platform Business Model and Strategy?

E-CareManagement

Today in healthcare, platforms are understood mostly as technology. That’s not wrong, but it’s limiting and it misses a huge opportunity to adopt a platform business model. In most other industries platforms are also understood as a business model and strategy. Outside of healthcare, there are 45+ books focusing on this topic. This post is written for: 9,000+ early-stage digital health companies, most of which have a software and/or hardware technology platform as a centerpiece of their offering

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Laudio Announces $13 Million Series B for its AI Solution that Drives Productivity and Reduces Burnout in Health Systems

Healthcare IT Today

Laudio Acts as a Trusted Co-Pilot to Thousands of Frontline Leaders Across 50+ Hospitals, Amplifying Their Work and Delivering Measurable, Large-Scale Improvements Laudio , the management solution for healthcare, today announced that it has raised a $13 million Series B funding round led by Define Ventures with participation from existing investors.406 Ventures , InHealth Ventures , MemorialCare Innovation Fund , and TeleTracking Technologies.

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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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Health panel recommends anxiety screening for all adults under 65

Henry Kotula

[link] On Tuesday, the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) , which is appointed by an arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, finalized guidance that all adults ages 19 to 64 should be routinely screened for anxiety, even in the absence of symptoms. Last fall, USPSTF proposed a draft version of this guidance, and also finalized its recommendation that children and adolescents ages 8-18 be screened for anxiety.

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Centralization and Specialization Allows Financial Stability and Growth

Healthcare IT Today

During the COVID-19 shutdown, when many providers lost staff or even closed, Pioneer Physicians Network, Inc. actually grew. This Ohio primary care practiced acquired three practices and added five physicians to its existing sites. In this video, Leanne Knight, Director of Health Informatics, explains how they streamlined their organization to achieve this success.

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Humana planning to open 7 CenterWell locations in Tennessee this year

FierceHealthIT

Humana has major growth ambitions for its CenterWell primary care business, and the company has unveiled its latest expansion. | Humana has major growth ambitions for its CenterWell primary care business, and the company has unveiled its latest expansion.