Health Populi

JANUARY 19, 2024

You’ve heard of food-as-medicine and exercise-as-medicine. Now we see the emergence of telecomms-as-medicine — or more specifically, a driver of health, access, and empowerment. Elevance Health, the health plan organization comprising XXX plans serving 117 million members, launched a program to channel mobile phones and data plans into the hands of some Medicaid plan enrollees, explained in the organization’s press release on the program.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 19, 2024

The healthcare technology company signed a one-year, $480,000 contract to examine the state's public health and healthcare readiness.

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Digital Health Global

JANUARY 19, 2024

Following an initial ban in 2023, a U.S. appeals court rejected Apple’s request to lift the ban on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 due to the ongoing legal dispute between the tech giant and the medical device company Masimo. Specifically, Masimo accused Apple of stealing its blood oxygenation sensor, allegedly with the assistance of some former employees who had been hired by Apple to work on various projects and exploit the technology.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 19, 2024

Lightfully Behavioral Health, a hybrid mental health provider, has launched a new offering to support college students. | Lightfully U is intended to support the more than 60% of college students who have at least one mental health condition. The offering is a virtual intensive outpatient program targeted at college students ages 18 through 25 with higher-acuity conditions.

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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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DigitalHealth

JANUARY 19, 2024

HoloCare's surgical hologram technology is to be deployed at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to help surgeons perform more efficiently and accurately.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Funding will Support Development of AI Clinician, Using Spatial Computing XRHealth , the leading healthcare platform in Spatial computing, announced today that the company secured $6 million in funding led by Asabys Partners, with the participation of NOVA Prime Fund, a venture capital fund created by global innovator LG Electronics and Clearbrook, LLC., and XRHealth’s current investors.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 19, 2024

UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a new resource hub that seeks to make it easier for members to use wellness offerings while also easing the financial burden on employers. | UnitedHealthcare is rolling out a new resource hub that seeks to make it easier for members to use wellness offerings while also easing the financial burden on employers.

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DigitalHealth

JANUARY 19, 2024

Digital Health Rewired 2024 will feature a live AI “bake-off”, where a panel of NHS doctors will test AI LLM models on a series of diagnostic questions.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 19, 2024

Traditional Medicare’s bar for reimbursing long-term care hospitals (LTCH) for severely ill, “high-cost outlier” patients has spiked under current payment policies. | The cutoff for an expensive long-term care hospital case to qualify for greater reimbursement rose 55% from FY 2023 to FY 2024, and is projected to rise another 17% the following year, AHA wrote in a recent white paper calling for policymaker intervention.

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

The following is a guest article by Steve Gwizdala , VP of Healthcare at Ping Identity The healthcare security landscape has become an increasingly critical concern. According to the 2023 ForgeRock Breach Report , healthcare has consistently ranked as the most targeted industry by cybercriminals for the past five years. These relentless attacks come at a staggering cost, with the average healthcare breach reaching $10.93 billion according to IBM Security.

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DigitalHealth

JANUARY 19, 2024

Host Jordan Sollof is joined by Shuri Network members Tolu Awe and Felicia Akubue to highlight the benefits of being a part of the bursary programme.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 19, 2024

A new year brings a new approach to tracking health tech and digital health investments. | A new year means a new approach to tracking healthcare fundraising. Each week, Fierce Healthcare will publish a roundup of health tech and digital health financing rounds.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

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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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.

Lloyd Price

JANUARY 19, 2024

Exec Summary: The term "Co-Pilot Technologies" in HealthTech can refer to various technologies that augment and assist healthcare professionals, similar to a co-pilot in an airplane. Here are some examples across different areas: Clinical Decision Support: AI-powered diagnosis assistants: These tools analyse medical data, patient history, and symptoms to suggest diagnoses and treatment options, acting as a virtual second opinion for healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the past several weeks, the team here at Healthcare IT Today has been gathering Health IT predictions for 2024. Here is a short video with our favorite video predictions that we captured. Here are the predictions in order of appearance. Heidi Gerner, Chief Operating Officer at OSIS predicts that although AI may dominate the discussion again in 2024, healthcare organizations will also be discussing the UDS+ regulator changes.

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DigitalHealth

JANUARY 19, 2024

Today's briefing includes a new cloud-based platform to recruit retired doctors back to the NHS and an AI system to predict pancreatic cancer.

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FierceHealthIT

JANUARY 19, 2024

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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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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