Mon.Jan 15, 2024

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knownwell Raises $20M Series A From A16Z to Scale the First Patient-Centered Healthcare Home For Those With Overweight and Obesity

Healthcare IT Today

Building on This Mission, the Company is Launching an Adolescent Metabolic Health Program to Combat Rising Child Obesity Rates knownwell , an in-person and virtual, weight-inclusive primary care and metabolic health company, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A funding round led by a16z with participation from existing investors including Flare Capital Partners.

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Why Iris Provider Elaina Najera Believes Telehealth Creates a More Inclusive Future

Iris Telehealth

Iris clinicians are at the heart of what makes our organization such a special place to work. That’s why we’re turning the spotlight on the amazing work they’re doing every day. This month, we’re sitting down to talk with Elaina Najera, one of our incredible LCSWs. Q. How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? A. I was looking at all the available online positions at different job hosting sites.

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UHDB attract hundreds of staff to Paper2Pixels events

DigitalHealth

The room in the education centre at the Royal Derby Hospital was filled with chatter as staff gathered for the largest of six Paper2Pixels events.

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Claims Software Can Ease Manual Processes Related to Treating Medical Tourists from Outside the U.S.

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Rob Stuart, Founder and President at Claim.MD Medical tourism is big business for leading hospitals and health centers around the world. In the United States, the overwhelming perception is that American patients seek treatment in Mexico, Turkey, Singapore, and other places to save money over what they’d pay for the same treatments.

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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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Critical incident status stood down at Uni Hospitals Sussex after IT outage

DigitalHealth

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is no longer in critical incident, after good progress was made overnight in restoring IT systems.

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NHS digital Leaders call on Secretary of State to focus on digital basics

DigitalHealth

NHS digital leaders have called on the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins to focus on digital basics for the service, such as modern infrastructure and networks, reliable laptops and wi-fi, and staff training, to help it better cope with unprecedented pressures.

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Transforming Discharge Planning Services in Cambridge and Peterborough ICS

Healthcare Innovation Consortium

Overview The national demand for increased acute bed capacity highlights a critical need to streamline the patient discharge process. This urgency is highlighted by the NHS England Delivery plan for recovering urgent and emergency care services, which places a significant emphasis on relieving pressures experienced by hospitals. Currently, 19 in 20 beds are occupied , emphasising the strain on existing resources.

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HelloSelf helps NHS to reduce mental health waiting lists

DigitalHealth

Digital therapy platform HelloSelf is helping the NHS to speed up waiting times to access mental health therapy from three months to just two weeks.

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Does the NHS App present an opportunity for private providers and their own digital offerings?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Nearly two-thirds (62%) of registered NHS app users are over 66. Does this present an opportunity for private providers and their own digital offerings? Three E-vangelists explain why pioneers should be cautious. The primary reason for caution around that seemingly enticing statistic is also the obvious reason – it is natural that an elderly demographic would be the most prominent users of a public healthcare product.

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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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Sheffield Children’s goes live with System C EPMA

DigitalHealth

Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with System C's CareFlow Medicines Management EPMA solution as part of its digital strategy.

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Arab Health 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Arab Health, taking place January 29th to February 1st, 2024, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, is much more than just a conference. It's a multifaceted event that plays a significant role in the global healthcare landscape, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Global Healthcare Expo: It's the largest healthcare trade event in the MENA region, bringing together over 5,000 exhibitors from across the globe.

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eRegMat – a digital registry for improved quality of antenatal care: a cluster-randomized trial in a rural area in Bangladesh

BMC Digital Health

Longitudinal client tracking systems with digital health interventions are recommended for implementation in resource-limited settings but lack evidence of benefits, harms, and implementation. In the eRegMat c.

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“The Point Solution Paradox” in Healthcare’s Adoption of AI

E-CareManagement

AI adoption in healthcare is facing “The Point Solution Paradox”. This paradox highlights the intricate balance between the necessity of point solutions in the evolution of AI in healthcare and the challenges they pose in an already fragmented industry. Here's a roadmap to this post: Investment and innovation has been dynamic, but adoption lags A 3-phase framework for AI adoption The Point Solution Paradox Care providers prefer integrated solutions A case study of The Point Solution Paradox: med

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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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4 Problems Every IT Team Has. And How To Fix Them

LeanIX

Enterprise architecture can be the solution to most of the common problems IT teams face in their daily work. Let's explore the four challenges for IT teams and how enterprise architecture management can support you in overcoming them.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

Today's briefing looks at published research from the UK's 100,000 Genomes Project and new life expectancy data from the ONS.

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HIStalk Interviews G. Cameron Deemer, CEO, DrFirst

HIStalk Interviews

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Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2024 shortlist revealed

DigitalHealth

Following a record 95 applications, judges have selected 25 digital health start-ups to advance to the next stage of Digital Health Rewired Pitchfest 2024.

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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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Cautionary Views of Healthcare AI – 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.