Thu.Aug 03, 2023

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

Health Populi

An aging U.S. population with a preference for growing older at home — and a fiscally challenging health care financing outlook — are setting the demographic and financial table for the shift of medical care to peoples’ homes discussed in The State of Health at Home Models: Key Considerations and Opportunities , published by the American Medical Association (AMA).

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HIMSS, Informa Markets ink deal to enhance HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition

Mobi Health News

Informa Markets will manage the massive health technology conference, while HIMSS will continue overseeing content and programming.

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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs inks partnership with pharmacy navigation startup Scripta

FierceHealthIT

Scripta Insights, a digital health company focused on pharmacy navigation, is teaming up with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company to bring transparent drug pricing to patients. | Scripta will integrate Cost Plus Drugs’ discounted pricing into its platform to help members understand their medication options.

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TytoCare scores $49M to explore further use cases of its AI technology

Mobi Health News

The round brings the virtual care company's total raise to $205 million.

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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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Street medicine programs, armed with tech, extend the reach of medical care to those without housing

FierceHealthIT

This week, enforcement of San Diego’s new homeless encampment ba | Street medicine entails delivering medical care to those without housing or living in poverty, whether on the streets or in shelters. Such programs have been shown to provide significant cost savings and be a cost-effective way to improve health outcomes and reduce disparities in underserved populations—particularly as Medicaid redeterminations threaten many individuals' access to care.

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Generation Z says gun violence, racism, climate change affecting mental health

FierceHealthIT

Large-scale sociopolitical issues are causing negative mental health effects on the country’s younger population. | Society's biggest problems, like racism and gun violence, are wearing on the mental health of the country's youngest demographic.

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Women In Tech Interview: Maureen Sundman, LeanIX

LeanIX

Our Women In Tech forum is an online community addressing equality in the workplace. As part of a series of interviews, Jessica Wilson, our DEI Program Manager, spoke to Maureen Sundman, our Director of Global Solution Engineering , about her experiences.

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Virtual care startup Charlie Health expands to 25 states to tackle escalating youth mental health crisis

FierceHealthIT

The U.S. is facing a growing youth mental health crisis. In 2019, 13% of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, up 60% from 2007, according to federal data. | Charlie Health launched in Montana and is now available in 25 states with its recent expansion into Maryland and Wisconsin, a milestone the startup shared with Fierce Healthcare exclusively this week.

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National Rehabilitation Hospital goes live with InterSystems TrakCare

DigitalHealth

Dublin’s National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) has become the first healthcare provider in the Republic of Ireland to go live with InterSystems TrakCare.

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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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CommonSpirit Health, AdventHealth complete Centura Health breakup

FierceHealthIT

CommonSpirit Health and AdventHealth finalized the breakup of Centura Health, a 20-hospital joint venture that ran for 27 years in Colorado and western Kansas, on Aug. | The nonprofits' 20-hospital joint venture had served Colorado and Kansas patients for 27 years. As of Aug. 1, AdventHealth is the direct manager of five hospitals and CommonSpirit the remaining 15.

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AI can be used safely in breast cancer screening – Lancet study

DigitalHealth

Artificial intelligence can be safely used to improve the accuracy of screening of mammography results, according to a study in The Lancet Oncology.

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IoT Security Risks – How to Make Sure Your Patients and Your Organization are Safe

Healthcare IT Today

There have been so many talented people solving problems and finding new and easier ways to do things in healthcare recently and it is amazing! The world of healthcare is full of individuals that are always seeking improvement. How do we reach more patients? How do we make our clinicians’ lives easier? How do we ease this pain? And who among us doesn’t enjoy getting to break out and play with the latest innovations in healthcare?

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Six steps to increase adoption and uptake of digital technology across ICSs

DigitalHealth

Most Integrated Care Systems are struggling to reach digital maturity. Learning from the best could help them catch up, write Catherine Davies of the Digital Healthcare Council, and Alyson Scurfield of TEC Services Association.

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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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Cigna execs say rise in MA utilization 'consistent' with expectations

FierceHealthIT

Multiple major health plans have warned that utilization, particularly in Medicare Advantage (MA), is set to rise in the latter part of this year. | Multiple major health plans have warned that utilization, particularly in Medicare Advantage, is set to rise in the latter part of this year. Cigna executives echoed those sentiments Thursday morning.

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10 Ways To Reduce No-Show Rates at Mental Health Organizations in 2023

Mend

Learn 10 proven methods for mental health practices to reduce patient no-shows. Start taking the steps to boost patient attendance, engagement, & outcomes. Reducing no-show rates in mental health practices is a critical objective in 2023. As many as 50% of mental health appointments aren’t completed. This significantly impacts patient care and provider revenue.

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Amwell downgrades revenue outlook, takes $27M hit from impairment charge

FierceHealthIT

Amwell trimmed its 2023 revenue outlook as it faces some headwinds in converting customers to its new technology platform and saw its net losses balloon in the first half of the year. | Amwell trimmed its 2023 revenue outlook as it faces some headwinds in converting customers to its new technology platform and saw its net losses balloon in the first half of the year.

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Phreesia Acquires MediFind, Reinforcing its Commitment to Patient-Centered Care and Expanding its Offerings to Consumers

Healthcare IT Today

Phreesia , a leader in patient intake, outreach, and activation, is pleased to announce it has acquired Comsort, Inc. d/b/a MediFind (MediFind) , a health technology company that uses advanced analytics to help patients—especially those with serious, chronic, and rare diseases—find better care faster. MediFind uses machine learning and proprietary algorithms to continuously review medical information across a wide range of datasets, identifying leading doctors in specific conditions and fields b

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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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HCSC unveils program that tries to use community support to improve maternal health

FierceHealthIT

To improve maternal and infant healthcare, Health Care Service Corporation announced the launch of a program that will rely in part on the cooperation of local groups to ensure its success. | HCSC’s new program will lean on trusted community organizations to try to ensure that information about maternal health spreads locally.

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Remote Therapeutic Monitoring vs. Remote Patient Monitoring

Health Recovery Solutions

With the advancement of new technologies, the field of telemedicine is continuously expanding, leading to a corresponding expansion in the applications of remote monitoring.