Mobi Health News

JULY 19, 2023

The senior debt facility is part of Amino's $80 million in equity and debt financing received in May.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 19, 2023

For too many years, high quality data about care of seniors has been elusive. Lack of standardization of technology platforms – or lack of care platforms altogether – hobbled the care industries -- senior living, home care, home healthcare. The merger and acquisition of companies in other industries ultimately results in consolidation of data. Platforms matter—they enable data standardization which in turn fuels growth.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 19, 2023

Vytalize Health, a value-based care platform, announced the addition of two new members to its board of directors.

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Digital Health Global

JULY 19, 2023

240,000 members now have access to OncoHealth’s Iris platform, which provides Oncology-specific Mental Health Care, 24×7 Symptom Management, and Nutritional Support MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–One year after piloting a new digital health service to support members undergoing cancer treatment, HealthPartners today announced that it is expanding the service to include 240,000 fully insured commercial members.

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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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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a draft update to merger guidelines, which they use to determine merger and acquisition deals’ compliance with antitr | The federal regulators said their draft guidelines better reflect the market realities of the "modern economy." The update includes a tighter focus on platforms, labor and market concentration when reviewing a potential merger deal.

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DigitalHealth

JULY 19, 2023

A new report from Boston Consulting Group has looked at the public's perception of healthcare data, and made recommendations for unlocking its value.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Simulation Operations Specialist at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Natividad and is in Salinas, California. Here’s a description of the position: Inspiring Healthy Lives Through Community At Natividad, our dedication to the people of Monterey County is at the heart of everything we do – from the heal

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DigitalHealth

JULY 19, 2023

Alder Hey has performed its first Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy procedure to help epileptic patients live seizure-free.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

Kristen Helton runs Herself Health with the deeply held belief that women over 65 years old experience unique health challenges. The most salient of the population’s challenges? | Herself Health closed a $26 million series A funding round this week that will be used to expand the reach of the primary care provider.

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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.

DigitalHealth

JULY 19, 2023

The Faculty of Clinical informatics have been warned that it must take steps to address its financial crisis and may already be insolvent.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

As states continue to work through the lengthy backlog of Medicaid eligibility determinations, federal officials are urging them to do as much as possible to avoid large coverage losses. | As people continue to lose Medicaid coverage, oftentimes because of procedural reasons, CMS is pushing to have people reenroll or transition to other types of coverage.

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ACA Times

JULY 19, 2023

Two new bills signed into law by Governor JB Pritzker are likely to fundamentally reshape the Illinois health insurance market. Among the stated goals of these new pieces of legislation… The post Two New Laws Transform the Illinois Health Insurance Market first appeared on The ACA Times.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

A company veteran has returned to Optum to lead its rapidly growing provider arm. | Outgoing CEO Wyatt Decker, M.D., will shift to a newly-created role as chief physician at UnitedHealth Group.

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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.

Digital Leaders HealthTech

JULY 19, 2023

How do we change planning within government departments to put health at the centre of all decision making? The primary function of governments across the globe is the health, wellbeing and happiness of the populations they serve. Every policy decision impacts our health and wellbeing, from financial and socio-economic to educational and welfare policy.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

Relief funding distributed to hospitals across 2020 and 2021 “may have been larger than was necessary for many hospitals,” researchers wrote in a recent review of more than 4,400 hospitals’ financi | A recent Rand Corporation analysis found that 2020/2021 relief funds kept about 30% of hospitals from entering new financial distress. Many others, however, enjoyed "peak historical operating margins" and profitability.

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Redox

JULY 19, 2023

A health technology vendor can deliver a pitch deck that’s as meaty as they come. But to a health system’s clinical or clinical IT leader, it can land as scrawny as a herd of Ace Reid cattle. It’s brutal, but true: A solution can be the best fit for a provider’s needs, but in the end, it may not matter. If a vendor doesn’t go into a pitch with a good idea of what specific prospects are listening for, they may lose their chance to make the best first impression.

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Health Recovery Solutions

JULY 19, 2023

Healthcare staffing shortages are a growing problem in the United States. Industry estimates indicate that the healthcare workforce lost 20% of its workers during the pandemic, including 30% of nurses, and the fallout continues today. According to the latest McKinsey survey , 31% of nurses say they are considering leaving their jobs in direct patient care in the next year.

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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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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

Digital primary care startup K Health picked up $59 million from its investors along with one of the largest academic medical centers in California, Cedars-Sinai, to build out its AI-powered medica | Digital primary care startup K Health picked up $59 million from its investors along with one of the largest academic medical centers in California, Cedars-Sinai, to build out its AI-powered medical services.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 19, 2023

One of the most impactful things in a clinical organization is the EHR. When you talk to staff in a medical practice, they all spend a large portion of their day inside the EHR. This makes sense because the EHR is the clinical record that drives the schedule, the care decisions, the clinical documentation, the billing, and much more. What this means in turn is that enhancements to the EHR can have a major impact on a clinical practice.

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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

Colorado insurance officials yesterday announced that desp | Colorado insurance officials yesterday announced that despite their best efforts, they cannot keep troubled insurtech Friday Health Plans afloat until the end of the year and will instead put the company into liquidation on Aug. 31.

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Digital Health Wire

JULY 19, 2023

New research out of the University of Texas added to the growing body of evidence that indicates telehealth’s promise of lower costs and utilization isn’t as straightforward as it appears – especially for certain types of diseases. Researchers looked at patient visits across all hospital-based outpatient clinics in Maryland from 2012 to 2021, finding that virtual visits reduced the overall number of 30-day follow-ups by 13.6%, bringing down costs by $239 per patient.

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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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FierceHealthIT

JULY 19, 2023

Elevance Health posted double-digit profit growth in the second quarter, with its earnings rising by 13.2% year over year to $1.9 billion. | Elevance Health posted double-digit profit growth in the second quarter, with its earnings rising by 13.2% year over year to $1.9 billion.

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