Tue.May 30, 2023

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This change is yet another signal that the country is working to move past the pandemic, which falls in line with recent moves by the federal government to move the pandemic to a more controlled phase. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency.

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Q&A: Venture capital firm 3CC seeks entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds

Mobi Health News

Julien Pham, founder and managing partner of Third Culture Capital, discusses 3CC's quest to invest in founders from various backgrounds and help the companies prosper.

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Virtual care service launched for Northern Sydney aged care residents

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new virtual care service has been launched for aged care residents in Northern Sydney. The Sydney North Health Network recently provided a A$1.1 million ($700,000) funding package to set up the RACF Virtual Care Service, which is powered by Health Teams, a provider of a digital health platform for the aged and home care sector. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Based on a media release, the virtual care service features video consultations with primary care providers and clinicians and remote vital signs mo

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Employer focused specialty care platform Carrum Health scores $45M

Mobi Health News

The California-based company will use the funds to expand its oncology and surgical care-focused offerings.

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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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Omnicell Announces Leadership and Organizational Changes

Digital Health Global

FORT WORTH, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Omnicell, Inc. (Nasdaq: OMCL) (“Omnicell” or the “Company”), a leader in transforming the pharmacy care delivery model, today announced changes to its leadership structure designed to create a more streamlined organization with a continued focus on operational excellence, driving continuous improvements in customer experience and the delivery of Omnicell’s long-term commitments.

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Ultrasound sensor specialist Novosound sees “massive opportunity” for its wearable technology in North American markets

Digital Health Global

– Novosound’s wearable ultrasound platform has customer-led applications in healthcare, wellbeing, and fitness monitoring – In December, Novosound signed a commercial partnership agreement with PAVmed Inc. , the Nasdaq-listed diversified medical technology company, to develop technology aimed at advancing intravascular imaging – Novosound has hired former Intel executive David Jolliffe as CFO GLASGOW, Scotland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ultrasound sensor specialist Novosound s

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Long COVID described as a 'syndrome of syndromes' in NIH funded research

FierceHealthIT

Long COVID described as a 'syndrome of syndromes' in NIH funded research fdiamond Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:16

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7 CIO Nightmares And How Enterprise Architects Can Help

LeanIX

Marcus Schaper recently spoke at our Connect conference on how enterprise architecture can solve the biggest issues CIOs are facing. Let's explore seven CIO "nightmares" and how enterprise architects can help.

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Denials of health insurance claims are rising—and getting weirder

FierceHealthIT

Denials of health insurance claims are rising—and getting weirder pminemyer Tue, 05/30/2023 - 10:51

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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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Is AI Eating Healthcare? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 115

Healthcare IT Today

For the 115th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are talking about the ever growing presence of AI in healthcare! To kick us off, we begin by discussing why we think AI is such a big topic and the goal of AI at this current moment. Next, we share the most exciting things we have seen AI doing in healthcare. But AI can’t be the answer for everything, so we also discuss what areas of healthcare won’t be impacted by AI.

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Converge around the person, not the technology

DigitalHealth

The debate on EPR convergence needs to acknowledge the inescapable variety of the health and care landscape and put people first, writes Alastair Allen.

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Outsourcing Clinical Notes to an Expert-Machine Collaboration Using Ambient Clinical Voice

Healthcare IT Today

OnPoint Healthcare Partners is the latest ambient clinical voice technology we’ve found that combines expert human authors with AI to take one of the annoying burdens off doctors: writing clinical notes. According to President and CEO Jim Boswell, information is captured from the doctor/patient interaction, uploaded securely to their cloud services, and processed by a team from around the world to generate notes in a time ranging from less than an hour to next-morning delivery.

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Outages that paralysed GP EPR systems resolved – EMIS

DigitalHealth

Repeated outages that caused “significant disruption” to GP surgeries across the country on Friday has been resolved, according to a spokesperson for EMIS.

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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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AI in Healthcare and Life Sciences: Further Adoption Requires Better Data Infrastructure

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jon Kimerle, Global Strategic Healthcare Alliances at Pure Storage The digital transformation of healthcare continues to accelerate, and technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are predicted to have an increasing impact on efficiency, quality, and scalability of health outcomes. At present, AI is already driving high-quality, predictive patient care and better outcomes by making connections humans can’t, adding context, and unearthing new insights.

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Medicaid work requirements dropped in debt ceiling deal

FierceHealthIT

Medicaid work requirements dropped in debt ceiling deal pminemyer Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:20

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Patients Know Best announces 6B as new tech partner

DigitalHealth

Digital health specialist 6B has been announced as the new technology partner for Patients Know Best, and will be designing bespoke integrations.

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Counselor Settles Case for $15,000 Involving the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative

Telebehavioral Health Institute

We’ve discussed the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights’ “HIPAA Right of Access Initiative” in several previous articles. On May 8, the 44th enforcement action under the Initiative involved investigating a complaint against a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who allegedly refused to release medical records.

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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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Government and NHSE to rename and relaunch AHSNs as HINs

DigitalHealth

The government and NHS England have confirmed their intention to relaunch England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks as Health Innovation Networks.

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Optum launching new programs that lean on independent pharmacies to close care gaps

FierceHealthIT

Optum launching new programs that lean on independent pharmacies to close care gaps pminemyer Tue, 05/30/2023 - 16:03

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Thriva expands blood testing offering to include multichannel collection

DigitalHealth

Thriva has announced the launch of Thriva in Person (TiP), an expansion of its platform for organisations, Thriva Solutions.

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LeanTaaS hospital operations solution iQueue Autopilot is only the most recent example of generative AI-infused SMS text messages

FierceHealthIT

LeanTaaS hospital operations solution iQueue Autopilot is only the most recent example of generative AI-infused SMS text messages aburky Tue, 05/30/2023 - 12:50

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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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Real-World Examples of Clinician Time Savings

Xealth

Amy Oliver, Marketing Manager While most of the healthcare community may be aware of the importance of clinician time savings, it often takes a back seat to more concrete cashflow optimization initiatives in today’s revenue-starved milieu. Patient engagement, patient experience, and RCM solutions related to accuracy and payment velocity attract more attention and investment.

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Advocate Health reports 0.1% operating margin, $579M net gain for its first post-merger quarter

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Remote Patient Monitoring's Vital Role in Addressing Mental Health

AMC Health

Remote patient monitoring can play a critical role in providing mental health care when a patient is not at the hospital or their provider’s office.

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Ascension down nearly $1.9B in 9 months after fiscal Q3's elevated costs, one-time impairment losses

FierceHealthIT

Ascension down nearly $1.

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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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Counselor Settles Case for $15,000 Involving the HIPAA Right of Access Initiative

Telebehavioral Health Institute

We’ve discussed the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights’ “HIPAA Right of Access Initiative” in several previous articles. On May 8, the 44th enforcement action under the Initiative involved investigating a complaint against a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who allegedly refused to release medical records.

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Trinity Health sees improving margins but still operating at a loss despite gains in Q3

FierceHealthIT

Trinity Health sees improving margins but still operating at a loss despite gains in Q3 agliadkovskaya Tue, 05/30/2023 - 16:54

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Remote Patient Monitoring's Vital Role in Addressing Mental Health

AMC Health

Addressing Mental Health: The Vital Role of Remote Patient Monitoring