Wed.Jun 07, 2023

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care.ai, Samsung partner for AI-powered patient monitoring via displays

Mobi Health News

Samsung will integrate the Orlando-based company's Smart Care Facility Platform into its displays to help with patient monitoring in the care setting.

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AARP's AgeTech Collaborative -- mobility offerings 2023

Aging in Place Technology Watch

What is the AARP AgeTech Collaborative? AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative launched in 2021 with a splash (and 50 startups) that has widened into an age wave, or a sort of Match.com for age-related companies to find others, including collaborators, sponsors, pilots, and more. Today’s collection of 98 companies, many of whom have gone through the Innovation Labs incubator process, including pitch competition, Accelerator program, or were directly invited into the AgeTech Collaborative program.

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Health tech startup Sami raises $18M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

RxLightning, a digital platform focusing on specialty medication distribution, and Canadian fertility startup Twig also scored investments.

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Nonprofits hospitals' charity care shrank as operating incomes, cash reserves grew: study

FierceHealthIT

Years of rising operating profits and cash reserves did not translate to greater charity care across the nation’s nonprofit hospitals, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs.

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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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Nutromics bags $7M in pre-Series A funding

Mobi Health News

It is currently conducting an in-human trial of its diagnostic patch.

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Akili Releases EndeavorOTCTM Video Game Treatment to Improve Attention in Adults with ADHD

Digital Health Global

Amid growing mental health crisis, the product release enables immediate access to non-drug treatment option as Akili prepares FDA submission Available nationwide without a prescription, clinical data shows improvements in focus in 83% of adults with ADHD BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– $AKLI #ADHD –Akili, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKLI), a leading digital medicine company, today released EndeavorOTC TM , a new immersive mobile video game treatment that is clinically proven to improve attention an

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Boosting health equity with RPM and hospital-at-home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual care models can improve access and build personalized experiences for underserved patients, says Kuldeep Singh Rajput, founder and CEO of Biofourmis.

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Cityblock restructures operations, cuts 12% of workforce as it plots plans for growth, profitability

FierceHealthIT

Six-year-old Cityblock Health, a startup that has raised nearly $900 million to date, has restructured its business as it focuses on ramping up payer partnerships and accelerating its path to profi | Six-year-old Cityblock Health, a startup that has raised nearly $900 million to date, has restructured its business as it focuses on ramping up payer partnerships and accelerating its path to profitability.

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Meet Anamika Patel Ambulatory Analyst

Optimum Healthcare IT

CareerPath-graduate Anamika Patel shares her journey to becoming an Ambulatory Analyst and her passion for healthcare IT. Continue reading Meet Anamika Patel Ambulatory Analyst at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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Special Report: Electronic Document Management

DigitalHealth

Electronic document management is no longer about 'going paperless'. It is viewed increasingly as part of a much broader digital transformation - a shift which brings it own challenges, reports Claire Read.

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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by David Bucciferro, Chair of the EHR Association In April 2023, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released its much-anticipated proposed rule to advance interoperability, improve transparency, and support further access, exchange, and use of electronic health information (EHI).

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New tech startup Syntax Health launches 2-sided platform to accelerate value-based care

FierceHealthIT

As buzzwords like “holistic care” and “patient-centric” have solidified into value-based care models and total capitation contracts, providers and payers still face a lot of friction to align incen | Syntax Health launched a new platform designed to smooth out the value-based care contracting process using analytics, infrastructure and a collaborative virtual workspace.

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Tytocare’s AI-Powered Wheeze Detection Impresses with Thoughtful Design

Healthcare IT Today

Earlier this year, Tytocare received FDA approval for its AI-based solution that analyzes lung sounds captured via its handheld home care device. The thoughtful way that the AI was incorporated into the overall design of the solution is impressive. The AI blends seamlessly into the background and feels like a natural addition to the workflow. Exactly the way technology ideally is supposed to work in healthcare.

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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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New Nottingham CDIO on familiar territory bridging digital maturity gap

DigitalHealth

One of the biggest NHS challenges is lifting up the least digitally mature hospital trusts. Andy Callow now has experience with two of them.

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New York officials look to shore up flailing long-term care insurance industry

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare insurers in the long-term care market over the decades found themselves in a bind because they could not pay claims with prices that had been agreed upon years earlier and that inflation | When many long-term care policies were first drawn up, insurance companies had no historical data to help them predict the financial future. The companies and older Americans are now paying the price, according to a new report.

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Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital remote monitoring a huge success

DigitalHealth

Remote monitoring at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital to highlight deteriorations in patients waiting for cardiac surgery has been a resounding success.

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Judge grants Cigna's request for preliminary injunction against former exec Amy Bricker

FierceHealthIT

A federal judge has granted Cigna a preliminary injunction against former executive Amy Bricker, barring her from joining rival CVS Health as a noncompete case is resolved by the courts. | A federal judge has granted Cigna a preliminary injunction against former executive Amy Bricker, barring her from joining rival CVS Health as a noncompete case is resolved by the courts.

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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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Nottingham City Council speeds up hospital discharge with Lilli technology

DigitalHealth

Lilli, a company using machine learning (ML) to improve home care, has recently announced transformational results from its trial with Nottingham on Call.

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Featured Health IT Job: Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Program Administrator, Policy & Compliance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New York eHealth Collaborative and is a hybrid position requiring one day a week in the Albany, New York office.

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High-rated hospitals still have safety disparities across race, ethnicity and insurance coverage

FierceHealthIT

Measurable differences in patient safety across race, ethnicities and insurance coverage persist even among hospitals rated at the top of their class, according to a new analysis of Leapfrog Hospit | New findings from a Leapfrog Group and Urban Institute analysis suggest that patient safety disparities are not driven by individual hospitals, but are a systemic issue negatively affecting patients who are Black, Hispanic or are enrolled in public insurance plans.

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Meet Anamika Patel Ambulatory Analyst

Optimum Healthcare IT

CareerPath-graduate Anamika Patel shares her journey to becoming an Ambulatory Analyst and her passion for healthcare IT. Continue reading Meet Anamika Patel Ambulatory Analyst at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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What Happens if You Violate HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Although the broader topic is covered in several previous Telehealth.org articles , many of our CME & CE course participants have requested more detail.

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Why Making Invisible Health Behaviors Visible Matters

FierceHealthIT

By: Kapil Parakh, MD PHD | Medical Lead, Fitbit Health Solutions | Physical activity advocates even go so far as to claim that “sitting is the new smoking” in order to highlight the severe consequences of a sedentary lifestyle. While there might be questions about that particular turn of phrase, there’s no question that more movement is good for health across a population.

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Optum Competes for Acquisition of Amedisys

Digital Health Wire

We’ve got a good ol’ fashioned home care standoff, with UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division throwing a wrench in Option Care Health’s takeover of Amedisys by submitting a competing offer of $100 per share, 100% cash. Optum’s offer values Amedisys at about $3.2B, whereas Option Care’s already-accepted all-stock offer valued the home health and hospice provider at $3.6B barely over a month ago.

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All of Us Research: Increased Step Counts Associated with Lower Rates of Chronic Conditions

FierceHealthIT

Great news for those who enjoy walking: increasing daily step counts doesn’t just improve people’s fitness — it can also reduce their risk of chronic disease. | Great news for those who enjoy walking: increasing daily step counts doesn’t just improve people’s fitness — it can also reduce their risk of chronic disease. A new study from the All of Us Research Program, an initiative by the National Institutes of Health, reveals a direct connection between daily physical activity and lower rates of

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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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What Happens if You Violate HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

If you, as a behavioral health professional, violate the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you must follow certain obligations and procedures to rectify the situation. Although the broader topic is covered in a previous Telehealth.org article , many of our CME & CE course participant s want more detail. Below then, is a suggested list of steps for an average practitioner who wishes a quick response to the question, “What Happens if you violate HIPAA?

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Oncologist Shares 7 Things To Know About Your Cancer Support Program

FierceHealthIT

Stemming the cost of cancer treatment tops the focus list of every payer. | Cancer costs top the list of concerns for payers and employers alike. This oncologist and Chief Medical Officer offers savings strategies from PA do’s and don’ts to ways to address end-of-life costs.

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Expanding Guyana’s National Telemedicine Project

19 Labs

Redwood City, CA – June 7, 2023 – In December 2022, Guyana’s government launched a national telemedicine program to transform health and provide equitable healthcare to all of Guyana’s citizens. New locations were added across Regions 1, 8, and 9 to expand this successfully running program. Adding these locations to the program required traveling via plane through some of the lushest interiors of Guyana to reach the remote locations, set up connectivity, and install the GALE telemedicine units.