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Welltory releases AI feature to pair Apple Watch health data with usable insights

Mobi Health News

The company's Today Screen feature will show personalized health data in context of leading health risks, such as sedentary stress.

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Automating and integrating RPM boosts BP care for Prisma Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prisma Health is the largest healthcare provider organization in South Carolina. It had encountered a problem while trying to gather patient biometrics and manage their clinical needs: fragmentation. THE PROBLEM The logistical challenge of distributing remote patient monitoring equipment to patients across the initial focus of approximately 50 physicians offices proved overwhelming with the organization's internal resources alone.

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Clover Health, Quartet launch whole health program to address mental illness in seniors

Mobi Health News

The partnership seeks to improve mental health outcomes via Clover’s home-based care model.

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Tech company Artera adds new feature to revamp how providers complete referrals

FierceHealthIT

Artera has spent the past nine years developing tech solutions to solve industrywide pain points and streamline patient communications. | Artera's tech helps healthcare providers deliver timely patient communications with automated referral outreach and real-time responses and automates pre-visit communications to make sure patients and staff are prepared for the appointment.

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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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Optimum Healthcare IT Founders Return, Announce Chief Digital Officer

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 3 min Optimum Healthcare IT is pleased to announce the return of founders Gene Scheurer as CEO and Jason Mabry as President. Continue reading Optimum Healthcare IT Founders Return, Announce Chief Digital Officer at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Automation and Digital Tools Help Address Provider Workflow Challenges

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Responses by Patty Riskind, CEO, Orbita. It might be a new year, but healthcare is dealing with old problems: Too much time spent on administrative tasks. Staff struggling to keep up with high call volumes. […] The article Automation and Digital Tools Help Address Provider Workflow Challenges appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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PocketHealth lands $33M to build out its medical image exchange platform

FierceHealthIT

PocketHealth, a medical image exchange platform, has raised $33 million in a series B round. | PocketHealth, founded in 2016 by Rishi and his brother Harsh, gives patients instant access to their medical images from partner providers and enables image exchange between providers.

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Radical ideas to progress digitisation shared at Rewired24

DigitalHealth

Deprioritising equity, bolstering transparency, reducing indecision, and ditching incremental EPR-related digitisation were part of the Rewired Big Debate

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Amedisys says Oregon regulators are reviewing its $3.7B acquisition by UnitedHealth

FierceHealthIT

Amedisys disclosed Tuesday that Oregon regulators are probing the company's potential acquisition by UnitedHealth Group. | Amedisys disclosed Tuesday that Oregon regulators are probing the company's potential acquisition by UnitedHealth Group.

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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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LegitScript’s Healthcare Merchant Certification Now Recognized by Google for Telemedicine Providers in South Africa

Digital Health Global

Google Ads policy already recognizes LegitScript’s Healthcare Certification program for advertising of telemedicine in the United States, Canada, Sweden, and France. PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #ecommerce — LegitScript , the leader in merchant and product certification and monitoring in the advertising, e-commerce, and payment sectors, has partnered with Google to certify telemedicine providers who facilitate online prescribing via virtual healthcare services and aim to pro

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Flashback: 2005 Tennessee Medicaid disenrollment led to increased crime, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Large-scale Medicaid disenrollment in Tennessee nearly 20 years ago led to increased total crime rates, a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research found. | A new study, that draws parallels to current day redeterminations, delves into the relationship between mass Medicaid disenrollment in 2005 and how it may have led to violent crime.

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The Risks and Concerns of Ambient Clinical Voice Technology

Healthcare IT Today

Before integrating a new technology into your organization, it’s important that you’ve thought through all of the potential risks and concerns that can come with that technology. So while there are a lot of benefits to come from ambient clinical voice technology , we have to be sure that we are prepared for the challenges. As it is only through being prepared that we can prevent these risks.

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Liverpool to gain global AI hub for health and social care

DigitalHealth

Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform will be used by the University of Liverpool’s Civic Health Innovation Labs and Mersey Care NHS FT for an AI hub.

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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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PocketHealth Raises $33M USD in Series B Funding to Transform Medical Image Exchange and Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Funding Round Led by Round13 Capital with Participation from Deloitte Ventures, Samsung Next, and Existing Investors Questa Capital and Radical Ventures PocketHealth — the Leading Patient-Centric Image Exchange Platform — Gives Patients Instant Access to their Medical Images, Leverages AI to Create a Unique Healthcare Experience for Each Patient, and Enables Seamless Image Exchange Between Providers Series B Funding will Accelerate the Company’s Investment in AI to Enable Intelligent Image Excha

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Novari: Supporting the UK government’s ambitious productivity plans and reducing NHS waiting times

DigitalHealth

As the UK government announces a significant investment in the NHS productivity plan, Novari Health, a leading provider of healthcare technology solutions, highlights how its innovative Access to Care Platform™ can play a pivotal role in driving down wait times and enhancing NHS productivity across the nation.

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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements

Healthcare IT Today

Paulo Pinho, MD, Chief Medical and Strategy Officer at Discern Health , highlighted to us that analytics have to be explainable to be trusted. It’s not enough to show a correlation, but to demonstrate that the clinical intervention was responsible for the improved patient outcome. Patients as well as clinicians demand explainability (also known as transparency and accountability).

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Beverley Bryant CDIO GSST and Kings to Step Down

DigitalHealth

Beverley Bryant the joint chief digital information officer across Guys and St Thomas’s and Kings College hospital trusts is to step down.

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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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Success In Healthcare M&A: The Critical Role of Background Screening  

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Val Poltorak, head of US Regulated Industries, Sterling Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity within the healthcare industry has experienced a slow decline over the past couple of years due to the economy’s downturn. However, […] The article Success In Healthcare M&A: The Critical Role of Background Screening appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Online GP registrations reach one million since launch of digital service

DigitalHealth

More than one million patients have used the national online ‘Register with a GP surgery’ service to register with a GP since its launch 18 months ago.

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House-passed bill instructs Congressional Budget Office to take longer view when grading preventive health laws

FierceHealthIT

Preventive care or healthcare innovation legislation promising decades-long savings benefits may soon get fairer appraisals from Congress’ nonpartisan scorekeeper. | The bipartisan bill, passed Tuesday, would allow lawmakers to request a 30-year cost savings projection for healthcare legislation related to preventive care. Backers say it opens the door to more longitudinal investments in health and realigned incentives within the private sector.

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NHSE misses deadline to upload less redacted version of Palantir contract

DigitalHealth

NHS England has missed a pledge to upload a less redacted version of its federated data platform contract by March 11, the Good Law Project said.

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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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What do adults living with obesity want from a chatbot for physical activity? – a qualitative study

BMC Digital Health

Regular physical activity helps to reduce weight and improve the general well-being of individuals living with obesity. Chatbots have shown the potential to increase physical activity among their users. We aim.

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Stockport NHS FT undergoes digital transformation

DigitalHealth

Working with CDW, Stockport NHS FT has implemented a number of new innovative tech solutions to drive digital transformation and improve patient outcomes.

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2023 ACA Electronic Filing Deadline Is April 1

ACA Times

The ACA electronic filing deadline for the 2023 tax year is April 1, 2024. Here’s everything you need to know about the approaching due date. The post 2023 ACA Electronic Filing Deadline Is April 1 first appeared on The ACA Times.

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11 Ways to Help Your Child Heal from Childhood Trauma

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Disclaimer: The information in this article is for general informational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional psychological advice or treatment. Consult with a qualified mental health professional for personalized guidance. Trauma, an emotional response to a distressing event that jeopardizes physical or psychological well-being, can deeply impact children.

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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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Taking stock of healthcare security: A look at Redox’s zero trust maturity

Redox

A traditional cybersecurity model is like an uncooked chicken egg. It has a hardened shell that, when compromised, exposes a soft interior. Once you crack that shell, you are in; you are trusted with the contents inside. Traditional cybersecurity approaches have a firewall or two (maybe even from different vendors in an attempt to prevent one vendor’s vulnerabilities from compromising your whole system), and users are trusted by authenticating into the network.

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Could conversational AI help the tech user experience?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Tech user experiences are deteriorating at a rapid rate – for all. If you have encountered any of the following, you know. The absurdity of two-factor authentication within a single device, long complex passwords , five years of remembered password history to prevent re-use. And that’s before you have logged into a site that could simply be a news media or site or Gmail that just wants to display insulting and absurd ads now that you have been ‘authenticated’.

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Update to HHS' controversial web tracker guidance offers little practical relief, legal experts say

FierceHealthIT

The Biden administration has updated its guidance on the use of third-party web trackers to exclude certain types of website visits from meeting its criteria for a protected health information (PHI | An updated bulletin published this week offers guidance on certain types of website visitors for whom the use of third-party web traffic tools wouldn't trigger a HIPAA violation.

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