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Veradigm acquires Koha Health as stockholder lawsuit filed

Mobi Health News

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of purchasers of Veradigm's common stock, alleges the company and its executives overstated the business's historical revenues by at least $20 million.

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Digital Technologies Provide Solution To American Healthcare Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Harman Dhawan, founder and CEO, Bikham Healthcare. The American healthcare system is under enormous strain; plagued by looming physician and nursing shortages that grow more dire every day and bogged down by inefficient and […] The article Digital Technologies Provide Solution To American Healthcare Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Hospital, payer price transparency compliance improves, but new requirements are kicking in this year

FierceHealthIT

A “pivotal year for price transparency” closed out with most—but not all—of the healthcare industry publishing their data publicly and at a higher quality, price transparency data startup Turquoise | A state-of-the-industry report released Thursday found steady improvements in the number of organizations releasing price data, as well as the comprehensiveness and usability of those data.

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Amazon’s New Prime Benefit Is a Wake-Up Call for Traditional Health Systems

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sonia Singh, Chief Insights Officer at AVIA Health Amazon’s latest venture into healthcare, the integration of One Medical into its Prime service, marks a significant shift in the healthcare industry. With over 170 million Prime subscribers, Amazon’s move promises an affordable healthcare option at just $9 per month at a time when the nation faces a shortage in primary care, with demand significantly outweighing supply.

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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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Hospitals, medical groups push back on ONC's 'excessive' and 'overly punitive' data blocking penalties

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals and clinician groups are pushing back on federal regulators' proposal to enforce data blocking rules, arguing that the penalties are "excessive," "unfair" and will discourage participatio | Hospitals and medical groups are pushing back on federal regulators' proposal to enforce data blocking rules, arguing that the penalties are "excessive," "unfair" and will discourage participation in value-based care programs.

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Many patients want more streamlined texting experience with their providers, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

The survey reached more than 2,000 patients and found many patients frustrated by limited opportunities to communicate with their providers.

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mPulse Announces Acquisitions of HealthTrio and Decision Point Healthcare Solutions to Strengthen Position in Healthcare Digital Engagement

Healthcare IT Today

mPulse , a leader in conversational AI and digital engagement solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced the acquisition of HealthTrio and Decision Point Healthcare Solutions , marking a significant milestone in the company’s growth and commitment to enhancing the healthcare consumer experience. The strategic acquisition of HealthTrio, a leading provider of comprehensive health management and member engagement solutions, and Decision Point, an innovative analytics and member ex

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Blue Shield of California lays off 140 employees

FierceHealthIT

Blue Shield of California has reduced its staff by 140 employees, a spokesperson confirmed to Fierce Healthcare. | Blue Shield of California is the most recent payer to announce layoffs, with a spokesperson confirming 140 people will lose their jobs.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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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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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

Today's briefing includes a House of Commons science committee calling for further development of bacteriophages and Epic planning a wave of AI innovations.

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Solera Health adds virtual specialty care offerings with existing, new clinical partners

FierceHealthIT

Solera Health, a chronic condition management platform for payers and employers, is expanding its platform to include virtual specialty care facilitated by several new clinical partners. | The latest expansion into virtual specialty care furthers the company’s value-based care mission by widening access to specialist docs in a low-cost setting, executives told Fierce Healthcare.

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Providence’s Long COVID Research Featured in “Nature”

Xealth

Cynthia Church, Chief Strategy Officer Digital health automation helped clinicians characterize long COVID in patients. Recent research published in Nature outlines Providence’s study into patient-reported physical, mental, and social impacts that helped classify long COVID experiences. As part of the health system’s My COVID Diary (MCD) study, patient experiences were captured using a prospective and longitudinal patient-reported outcomes survey and free-text narrative submissions.

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Home health company BrightSpring files IPO plans with SEC

FierceHealthIT

BrightSpring Health kicked off 2024 by renewing its plans to go public, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the healthcare IPO market. | BrightSpring Health kicked off 2024 by renewing its plans to go public, signaling a potential end to the dry spell in the healthcare IPO market.

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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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Reflecting on a Year of Transformative Advancements in Digital Health

ActiGraph

As we embark on another exciting year for the digital health landscape, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the strides our industry has made, particularly in the field of digital measures for clinical research. The past twelve months have been marked by several key advancements, which were only possible through the determination, dedication, and hard work of our digital health community.

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Telemedicine use and decrements to type 2 diabetes and hypertension care during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Digital Health

We examine pandemic-era quality of care changes associated with telemedicine use among adults with type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension across ten health systems.