Wed.Jul 26, 2023

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Harnessing light field technology for enhanced navigation and imaging

KevinMD

Imagine being able to cross a chasm between a digital world and a physical world in an operative environment. The medical technology sector has only begun to tap into the vast possibilities presented by light field technology, particularly in surgery, where it offers significant advantages, including computational imaging, improved data quality, and the elimination of Read more… Harnessing light field technology for enhanced navigation and imaging originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Teladoc Health stock rises amid increased Q2 earnings driven by BetterHelp

Mobi Health News

The New York-based company reported a 10% increase in revenue, boosted by an 18% gain from BetterHelp to $292.4 million.

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APAC shifting to tech-enabled distributed model of care: Philips

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While facing rising costs and workforce shortages, healthcare systems across Asia-Pacific have been exploring ways to make healthcare services more accessible by shifting to a data and digital-enabled distributed model of care delivery, a new Philips report found. FINDINGS The latest Future Health Index 2023 report by Royal Philips gathered responses from nearly 3,000 healthcare leaders and young professionals in 14 countries.

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Octave Bioscience scores $30M for neurodegenerative disease offerings

Mobi Health News

The multiple sclerosis-focused company will use the funds to speed up the company's commercialization efforts.

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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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UCI Health names nursing informatics leader as new CIO

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Irvine, California-based UCI Health this week announced the promotion of Julie Eastman, RN, who will serve as the health system's new chief information officer. WHY IT MATTERS Eastman, who started the job on July 24, has deep expertise in both nursing and information technology, and UCI officials noted her "strong leadership skills and a forward-thinking vision that will shape the future of the technology infrastructure at UCI Health.

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Medicare Advantage report shows enrollees capitalize on supplemental benefits

FierceHealthIT

Most Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollees use one or more supplemental benefits, with most health plan members using multiple benefits, according to a newly released report from the Elevance Health Pu | Extra benefits from Medicare Advantage plans are highly utilized by enrollees, which improves health outcomes among at-risk populations, new analysis shows.

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Improving post-discharge recovery with AI-driven voice interfaces

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The use of voice interfaces to follow up with discharged patients at home can extend care and reduce readmissions, said Freddie Feldman, director of voice and conversational interfaces at Wolters Kluwer.

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Blue Shield of California taps Microsoft's cloud tech to build integrated data hub

FierceHealthIT

The need for speed underpins a collaborative effort by Blue Shield of California and Microsoft that will utilize the cloud to deliver data about members to the insurer and providers in real-time, t | Blue Shield of California is collaborating with Microsoft to move to its cloud platform to improve data collection, storage and analysis.

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Achieving Community Health Goals with Virtual Care Solutions

Clear Arch Health

a Clear Arch Health Customer Success Story Who: Laughlin Community Health Center medical practice group located in Laughlin, Nevada Mission: To provide excellent, comprehensive health and medical care from pediatric to geriatric patients in the town of Laughlin and its surrounding communities. Goals and Challenges: Improve the quality of chronic care management program Obtain an easy-to-use remote patient monitoring solution Experience seamless patient onboarding Collect accurate, value-added da

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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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Headspace banks $105M in new financing as it eyes potential M&A and expansion of enterprise business

FierceHealthIT

Digital mental health company Headspace secured $105 million in new debt financing as it eyes opportunities to expand its business with employers and health plans. | Headspace CEO Russell Glass spoke with Fierce Healthcare an exclusive interview about the new debt financing, the company's recent restructuring and layoffs and future plans for the mental health company.

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Four Questions with Optimum CareerPath Analysts

Optimum Healthcare IT

If you're looking for talent or if you're a recent graduate, check out what these Optimum CareerPath analysts had to say about the program. Continue reading Four Questions with Optimum CareerPath Analysts at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Senate Finance Committee votes to impose drug pricing standards on PBMs

FierceHealthIT

In a largely harmonious Senate Committee on Finance markup hearing, members supported bipartisan efforts to rein in pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that they say operate without transparency to dr | The Senate wants to improve transparency surrounding pharmacy benefit managers and bring down prescription drug prices for the average person.

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Four Questions with Optimum CareerPath Analysts

Optimum Healthcare IT

If you're looking for talent or if you're a recent graduate, check out what these Optimum CareerPath analysts had to say about the program. Continue reading Four Questions with Optimum CareerPath Analysts at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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'It's going to get worse': Providers take a grab bag approach to preventing maternal health emergencies

FierceHealthIT

One in three counties in the U.S. is considered a maternal healthcare desert. | In response to the maternal mortality crisis, providers are using every seed in their seed bag by leveraging multimodal technology strategies to predict health emergencies before they happen.

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Teladoc Health stock rises amid increased Q2 earnings driven by BetterHelp

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The New York-based company reported a 10% increase in revenue, boosted by an 18% gain from BetterHelp to $292.4 million.

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Nevada insurance officials to liquidate insurtech Friday Health Plans in September

FierceHealthIT

Nevada insurance officials yesterday announced | Nevada had been the last state to give up on the idea that Friday Health Plans could somehow function until the end of the year. But now it plans to liquidate the insurtech in September.

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Orion Health Roundtable Debate: How can technology support integrated care systems to address the challenges faced by the NHS?

DigitalHealth

Orion Health’s roundtable debate explored how digital technologies such as shared care records and apps can address current NHS challenges and support longer-term ambitions to develop integrated and personalised care. The expert panel shared examples of tech helping to shift the focus of systems from illness to promoting health and giving patients more control.

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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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New SEC rule requires public companies to disclose 'material' data breaches in 4 days

FierceHealthIT

The Securities and Exchange Commission has pulled back the curtain on a new final rule that requires public companies to disclose within four days all cybersecurity breaches that could impact their | The Securities and Exchange Commission's newly adopted rule sets a four-day countdown for public companies hit by a "material" cybersecurity incident, along with other annual reporting requirements.

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Aging in Place – What goes around comes around again (and again)

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Long ago ‘aging in place’ terminology emerged with a different meaning. Long forgotten now, it was briefly in Wikipedia to define the benefit of a continuing care retirement community where you did not have to leave the community if you required higher levels of care. And the term wandered over briefly to assisted living. But it eventually stuck as remaining in your home through thick and thin.

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Essex and Thurrock sexual health services gain personal health record

DigitalHealth

Essex and Thurrock Sexual Health Services have deployed Inform Health's PHR so patients can book and amend their appointments and receive results online.

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5 Important Questions to Ask Your Wearable Technology Partner

ActiGraph

Wearable, sensor-based digital health technologies (DHTs) can provide clinical researchers with valuable insight into the physical activity, movement behavior, and sleep of study participants – with data collected remotely from the comfort of their own homes. Once your team has decided to leverage DHTs in this way, what should you look for in a technology partner to ensure the successful collection of meaningful, patient-centered digital measures?

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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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DHI snapshot report shows digital maturity of most NHS trusts remains low

DigitalHealth

Few NHS trusts are yet to reach the top levels of the HIMSS digital maturity benchmark, a new Digital Health Intelligence snapchat report has shown.

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MRO Satisfies Payer Medical Record Requests Automatically

Healthcare IT Today

Requests for medical records have grown enormously in recent years—and that’s as it should be. Because data allows for better decision-making, patient records are being requested by payers, communities of care, and patients themselves. However, this can sometimes be overwhelming for healthcare provider organizations that are now getting larger and larger volumes of requests from payers which inundate their systems.

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MobiMed EPR is getting ready to be re-initiated after cyber attack 

DigitalHealth

Swedish company Ortivus said it is ready to “re-initiate” its MobiMed EPR system for British customers affected by a cyber attack last Tuesday.

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Bridging online and offline dynamics of the face mask infodemic

BMC Digital Health

Online infodemics have represented a major obstacle to the offline success of public health interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Offline contexts have likewise fueled public susceptibility to online inf.

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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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Transgender patients sue VUMC for providing records to state attorney general

FierceHealthIT

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was hit with a class action lawsuit this week by patients who said its decision to turn over the medical records of patients receiving gender-affirming c | A class action lawsuit argues Vanderbilt University Medical Center knew about state government's "active targeting of the transgender community" and should have pushed back against law enforcement's demands for information.

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Teladoc Posts Solid Q2 Across All Segments

Digital Health Wire

Teladoc Health just released its second quarter earnings , and the results were somewhere between a return-to-form and an absolute home run. Here’s Teladoc’s Q2 by the numbers: Revenue jumped 10% year-over-year to $652M Net loss shrank to $65M from $69M in Q1 (last Q2 saw a $3B Livongo writedown) Integrated Care revenue up 5% YoY to $360M BetterHelp revenue up 18% YoY to $292M Full-year revenue guidance raised to $2.6B-$2.67B, up $25M at the low end Those figures helped push Teladoc’s stock up o

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What Biden-era Junk Insurance Coverage Changes Mean for Employers

ACA Times

As the saying goes: “Elections have consequences.” That’s a lesson being driven home to employers as they consider their compliance requirements under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The U.S. has… The post What Biden-era Junk Insurance Coverage Changes Mean for Employers first appeared on The ACA Times.

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