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Talkspace launches partnership with Evernow for women's health

Mobi Health News

The companies will utilize each other's offerings to expand their respective members' access to behavioral health and menopause-related care.

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To bridge the digital divide, national nonprofit offers free devices and internet

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Approximately 11.7 million U.S. households do not have in-home internet access and approximately 5.5 million households do not have a computer, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That's just the beginning of a deep digital divide in this country. One big question in healthcare when it comes to the digital divide: How can people in these households get access to telemedicine ?

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Privia Health-backed Texas medical group launches OB/GYN initiative

Mobi Health News

Privia Wellness will utilize tech-enabled women's health company Iron Health to support Privia Medical Group Gulf Coast's OB/GYN providers' weight management offerings.

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House price transparency legislation passes with bipartisan support

FierceHealthIT

The Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, which advances policies to force pharmacy benefit managers and hospitals to meet price transparency standards, passed on the House floor Monday by a vote of | Members on both sides of the aisle are celebrating successful efforts to codify price transparency requirements and establish site-neutral payments in the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act passed by the House of Representatives on Monday.

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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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Integrating behavioral tools improves access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dr. Nele Jessel, chief medical officer of athenahealth, says bringing telehealth and other tools into the primary care setting destigmatizes mental health conditions and increases treatment.

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Northampton General Hospital announces Nervecentre as EPR supplier

DigitalHealth

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGH) has announced that Nervecentre is the preferred supplier for its new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system.

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Floreo nabs FDA breakthrough label for its VR software

FierceHealthIT

Floreo, maker of virtaul reality (VR) behavioral therapy content, has received the Food and Drug Administration’s breakthrough device designation. | Floreo says it seeks full market authorization to further recognize its effectiveness and to open up reimbursement pathways for its tech to reach more families.

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The Unique Landscape of Health Construction

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Construction is an expansive field, and each industry presents its own set of challenges and requirements for building. Health construction stands out as being unique among others industries due to the distinctive features it brings […] The article The Unique Landscape of Health Construction appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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WTW: Global insurers brace for healthcare cost hikes over next several years

FierceHealthIT

More than half of global health insurers are expecting significant increases in healthcare costs over the next several years, according to a new report. | More than half of global health insurers are expecting significant increases in healthcare costs over the next several years, according to a new report.

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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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2024 Healthcare IT Predictions – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 129

Healthcare IT Today

With the year coming close to its end and the new year ever approaching, we are taking a look forward for the 129th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast and sharing our predictions for healthcare IT in 2024. First up, we debate over what we think will be the biggest topic (excluding workforce and AI) in 2024. Next, we discuss whether or not we believe that patient needs will be met or significantly improved in 2024.

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Reimagine Care and CU Innovations Announce Poster Presentation at American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition

Digital Health Global

Reimagine Care serves as provider of virtual care for clinical study with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to explore providing oncology care at home for bone marrow transplant and CAR T-cell therapy patients. NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Reimagine Care, the nation’s leading provider of virtual and in-home cancer care, along with CU Innovations at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (CU), a leading research institution committed to fostering innov

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Antenatal care management platform

BMC Digital Health

Pregnancy is a process of developing a fetus in a woman’s womb leading to anatomical and physiological changes. Currently, numerous health facilities offering antenatal services are yet to adopt health informa.

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Seniors would have reaped benefits of drug negotiations in 2021: report

FierceHealthIT

A new analysis shows that if Medicare had negotiated the price of 10 of the most expensive Part D drugs in 2021, seniors’ out-of-pocket drug costs would have decreased by 23% from $1,250 to $967.

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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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Conversational AI is Making Healthcare More Personal

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Brett Petersen, Head of Global Operations & Enablement at Inbenta The Technology Uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Give Artificial Intelligence a Human Touch Picture this: It’s 3 a.m. and you’re not feeling well. You have burning questions about your symptoms or medication, but your doctor’s office is closed and you don’t want to endlessly search the internet for questionable information.

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Inhealthcare to scale virtual wards across West Yorkshire

DigitalHealth

Virtual wards are to expand across West Yorkshire, with Inhealthcare remote technology supporting the delivery of safe and convenient healthcare.

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Cigna, Humana merger talks put on ice: WSJ

FierceHealthIT

Cigna and Humana have ended merger talks amid concern from investors and an inability to pin down key financial terms, according to

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

Monday's briefing includes news that Belfast Trust will become the largest trust in Northern Ireland to use encompass - a digital health and care system.

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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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Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers glimpses of an exciting future

Lloyd Price

Health Tech founder and M&A Advisor Lloyd Price believes virtual care can bring a sweep of benefits, but cautions that it will still need to find a way through barriers around access and affordability for patients, the security of patient data and the licensing of healthcare providers to practice across geographical and care boundaries. Original Source: [link] Author: Danny Buckland, a journalist specialising in the healthcare industry Virtual Care – negotiating barriers to adoption offers g

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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to evaluate AI chest x-ray reporting

DigitalHealth

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is working with University of Glasgow and Qure.ai to evaluate the effectiveness of AI for chest x-rays.

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Reflecting on the HealthTech M&A slowdown: should we be concerned?

Lloyd Price

HealthTech M&A Advisor Lloyd Price shares his thoughts with Silver Buck, the UK’s leading HealthTech communications agency. Reflecting on the HealthTech M&A slowdown: should we be concerned? During the past year, there was an undeniable slowdown in health tech mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activities. After a flurry of investments and deals in the preceding years largely driven by Covid-19, the industry hit the pause button for reflection.

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'Podnosis': Breaking down barriers with adaptive recreation

FierceHealthIT

About a fifth of kids under 18 in New Jersey have special healthcare needs, ranging from learning disabilities to ADHD to anxiety. | Children’s Specialized Hospital, part of RWJBarnabas, is providing recreation, sports and social programs for kids with special healthcare needs. This week on "Podnosis," Anastassia Gliadkovskaya sat down with Matthew McDonald, M.D., the hospital’s president and CEO, to discuss what it takes to offer these services in-house and the future of pediatric car

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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 ‘paperless plan’ and the NHS’ digital transformation legacy

Digital Leaders HealthTech

It’s been a decade since Jeremy Hunt, as Health Secretary at the time, set an ambitious goal of a ‘paperless NHS’ by 2018. Initial plans included paperless referrals, electronic health and care records to improve day-to-day services and help meet the challenges of an ageing population. It’s been five years since original target was missed. Whilst some progress has been made and now 90 percent of NHS trusts have electronic patient records, the NHS’ overall digital transformation legacy remains so

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Privia Medical Group Gulf Coast, Iron Health to offer comprehensive care to women through OBGYNs

FierceHealthIT

Privia Medical Group Gulf Coast has teamed up with Iron Health, a virtual care partner, to launch a new ancillary offering for its OBGYNs. | Dubbed Privia Wellness, the program provides services for women from weight management and hormone replacement therapy to nutraceuticals and sleep and brain health.

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Telepsychiatry in Action: Meet our Clinical Hiring Team

Iris Telehealth

At Iris, we’re proud to offer a top-notch experience for our clinicians and partners by helping ensure excellent, long-term provider matches. This process, called The Iris Match, helps clinicians find an organization that aligns with their values and needs and enables our partners to secure a provider their patients and providers will love. Leading this effort is our incredible clinical hiring team.

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Blue Shield of California offers virtual access to Ornish Lifestyle Medicine's cardiac rehab program

FierceHealthIT

Blue Shield of California is expanding its partnership with Ornish Lifestyle Medicine, making the cardiac rehabilitation program available virtually.

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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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Business Transformations: Overcoming The 8 Reasons They Fail

LeanIX

Business transformations fail in up to 70% of cases. Let's explore the reasons why transformation is so difficult and how you can use enterprise architecture to overcome them and adopt a culture of continuous transformation.

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HIStalk Interviews Nicolas Van Den Abeele, CEO, Ascom

HIStalk Interviews

Nicolas Van Den Abeele, MA is CEO of Ascom of.

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Can An IaaS Transformation Prepare You For Generative AI?

LeanIX

IaaS transformation creates the perfect landscape for leveraging the innovative powers of generative AI. Find out more about why Iaas and AI go hand-in-hand.

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