Wed.Jul 05, 2023

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NuvoAir, Marpai collaborate to offer cardiopulmonary care to employers

Mobi Health News

Marpai will add the respiratory care company's virtual care offerings to its network of value-based care providers for use by self-funded employer health plan members.

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Wearable and Cardiovascular diseases

Digital Health Global

Over the past decade, consumer technologies capable of monitoring cardiovascular parameters have increased significantly. Initially focused on exercise markers, these devices now include measurements relevant to physiology and healthcare. The public is eager to adopt these devices, believing they can help identify and monitor cardiovascular disease.

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Contributed: 100 years and the status quo remains the same

Mobi Health News

Dr. Ben Zaniello explains the state of the U.S. healthcare system and the need to embrace innovation.

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HITLAB summit warns that digital health for all will need careful investment

FierceHealthIT

“Digital health will cease to exist,” read large on the screen behind Merck Global Health Initiative Fund President Bill Taranto at the second annual HITLAB Innovators Summit in New York City. | Columbia University hosted the second annual HITLAB Innovators Summit in New York City where industry insiders trumpeted the potential for digital health interventions while warning of the dangers of unchecked tech implementation.

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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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Headspace Health confirms second round of layoffs in less than a year

Mobi Health News

The company let go of 181 employees, or 15% of its workforce.

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NuvoAir, Marpai collaborate to offer cardiopulmonary care to employers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Marpai will add the respiratory care company's virtual care offerings to its network of value-based care providers for use by self-funded employer health plan members.

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Medicare Advantage's quality bonus program needs an overhaul: Urban Institute

FierceHealthIT

The quality bonus program (QBP) that rewards Medicare Advantage (MA) plans fails to achieve its two main goals: fairly rewarding MA insurers that actually improve quality and encouraging beneficiar | The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program suffers from what some experts call the “Lake Wobegon Effect”: Too many plans are rated above average. A new Urban Institute report suggests some cures.

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Holon Tackles Provider Burnout With Help From AI Technology

Healthcare IT Today

If you asked a healthcare provider what their biggest challenges were, the list would get long very quickly. One standout, however, is the problem of healthcare burnout, a struggle that healthcare industry leaders and workers alike face every day. In fact, according to new research from Holon Solutions , 79% of healthcare leaders and 77% of healthcare workers see burnout as their biggest challenge.

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Healthcare Dealmakers—Amedisys agrees to Optum's $3.7B cash offer, UPMC's latest affiliation and more

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions are in no short supply as providers, health tech companies, payers and other industry players look to expand their businesses and gain a competitive edge. | Bright Health exits insurance business, Vandalia Health to add three hospitals, Centene divests AI platform and more M&A news from the month of June.

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Paragon Lab and Clinical Documentation Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Paragon Lab and Clinical Documentation Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is remote. Here’s a description of the position: Now seeking a Paragon specialist to assist a client hospital with daily system support and maintenance across both Lab workflows and general Clinical Documen

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7 Crucial Steps to Enhance Your Organisation’s Cybersecurity

DigitalHealth

Patient privacy breaches pose significant threats to patients and healthcare organisations. It is time to confront the risks head on, writes Steer Health’s Sridhar Yerramreddy.

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Open Data Platform Simplifies Payment Estimates

Healthcare IT Today

With laws such as the “No Surprises Act,” government has thrown its considerable weight behind the pressure on payers and clinicians to give patients good-faith estimates of the total cost of treatment. According to Marcus Dorstel, VP of Operations at Turquoise Health , both payers and providers have struggled and invested large amounts of effort in meeting the new requirements.

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Capri Healthcare secures £320k for digital patient referral system

DigitalHealth

A £320,000 investment will support Capri Healthcare in reaching more hospitals with its digital patient referral and automated triage solutions.

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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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Threads: What can Meta's new Twitter rival and microblogging service offer Healthcare?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Threads is Instagram’s new text-based conversation app. Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow. Whatever it is you’re interested in, you can follow and connect directly with your favorite creators and others who love the same things — or build a loyal following of your own to share your ideas, opinions and creativity with the world.

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Newly elected Digital Health Networks Advisory Panels revealed

DigitalHealth

The results of the Digital Health Networks Advisory Panel elections are in and the new CCIO, CIO and CNIO panel members can now be exclusively revealed.

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DocGo unveils new payer partnerships, multiyear targets during investor day

FierceHealthIT

DocGo, a provider of mobile health services, unveiled new payer partnerships and multiyear targets on its investor day last month. | The company announced new payer agreements with EmblemHealth and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, representing an additional 6.7 million covered lives. DocGo expects to surpass $500 million in revenues in 2023.

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South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust adopts CareLineLive

DigitalHealth

South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust has formed a partnership with CareLineLive to improve efficiencies and free up capacity.

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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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AI and the Future of Digital Healthcare: Get Involved

Connected Health Initiative

The Connected Health Initiative, in conjunction with the Duke AI Health, will be hosting AI and the Future of Digital Healthcare , an afternoon featuring four consecutive panels followed by an evening cocktail reception. These panels will feature artificial intelligence (AI) and digital health policymakers, providers, and technology innovators coming together to share insights on current health AI deployments and policy trends as well as recommendations on the pathway forward.

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PwC: Healthcare Costs Projected to Rise 7%

Digital Health Wire

PwC’s annual medical cost report is out, and as always, it’s a lot to dig through. The full report breaks down each of the factors underpinning medical inflation, but the headline takeaway was that healthcare costs are projected to rise 7% in 2024. That’s up from 5.5% in 2022 and 6% in 2023, with PwC attributing the acceleration to two primary changes.

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Remote Patient Monitoring After the Public Health Emergency (webinar)

Clear Arch Health

OVERVIEW: In this Clear Arch Health webinar, our subject matter experts offer actionable insights and solutions that healthcare stakeholders can apply to pave a path forward and maintain the patient care benefits, operational gains and clinical outcome improvement they obtained from virtual care services during the COVID-19 public health emergency, which ended in May 2023.

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ACA Compliance and the Sounds of Summer

ACA Times

Summer is upon us and with it come a number of opportunities, and risks, for employers. One critical area of risk is ACA compliance. The summer months mark a critical… The post ACA Compliance and the Sounds of Summer first appeared on The ACA Times.

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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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The cellphone (50 years old) connects everyone

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The cell phone – imagine a connected life without it. The story of that invention, particularly the context of an AT&T monopoly of the time period, is instructive about what it takes to get an innovation into the market – when many are involved, including government agencies, and obstacles, in-house and competitors, are all around. According to interviews and his many anecdotes in his book, Cutting the Cord , Marty Cooper, aged 94, it was just one thing after the other to get the cellphone

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Clenbutrol Review

mHealth Watch

Introduction Obesity has become a major health crisis in the world. This has happened due to several reasons like eating a lot of junk food, not taking out time to exercise. All these have made it difficult to overcome the crisis of obesity. But this also has a bright side like everything. Obesity has encouraged various researches. The result is many supplements that help in losing weight.

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Happy 75th Birthday, NHS – Through A U.S. Health Care Lens

Health Populi

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) turns 75 today. The NHS was the brainchild of Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan; he wrote in a statement to doctors and nurses in The Lancet on July 3, 1948, “My job is to give you all the facilities, resources, apparatus and help I can, and then to leave you alone as professional men and women to use your skill and judgement without hindrance.” This week in The Lancet , the editors assert, “The founding principles of the NHS put int

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Making DTx Part of Your Digital Health Strategy | Part 2 of 2

Xealth

David Slifka, Vice President, Commercial Operations This is part two in a series on DTx; be sure to check out part 1 To harness the power of digital therapeutics (DTx) for your health system’s digital strategy, understanding the complexities of this burgeoning industry is essential. Many health systems see DTx implementation as a long, labor-intensive process, which is holding back progress and playing a significant role in low adoption rates.

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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.