Mon.Aug 07, 2023

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Babylon pursues 'new strategic alternatives' as MindMaze deal canceled

Mobi Health News

The company also seeks to sell its U.K. business to third parties, exit the U.S. market, and continue trying to sell Meritage Medical Network.

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Reed Jobs launches Venture Capital firm ‘Yosemite’

Digital Health Global

The VC firm aims to revolutionize cancer treatment innovations Reed Jobs , the 31-year-old son of Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs , is making headlines with his new venture capital endeavor focused on revolutionizing cancer treatment. His firm, named ‘ Yosemite ‘ after the famous national park where his parents got married, has already closed its first fund at an impressive $200 million.

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Insurtech company Clover Health avoids stock delisting

Mobi Health News

The Tennessee-based company has regained compliance with the bid price requirement to remain listed on the NASDAQ.

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Is DEA putting a telehealth controlled substance registry on the table?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association released a statement on Friday saying that it applauds the Drug Enforcement Agency for posting a meeting notice on Friday that indicates that it is "openly considering" a special registration that would allow providers to prescribe medically necessary substances by telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS The DEA said in its notice that it is conducting public listening sessions to get input on prescribing controlled substances on telemedicine platforms and to l

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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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CMS again pauses out-of-network billing arbitration after judge sides with providers

FierceHealthIT

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has again suspended arbitration of out-of-network payment disputes between providers and payers due to a court order that the agency’s impleme | The Texas Medical Association scored another win against the administration's billing dispute resolution process in the district courts, this time successfully litigating against an administrative fee hike and requirements over which items could be jointly reviewed.

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Kaiser Permanente reports $2.1B profit, 2.9% operating margin in Q2 2023

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente built on 2023’s strong start with $2.08 billion of net income during the quarter ended June 30, bringing its midyear total to about $3.29 billion, the integrated system announced | The nonprofit giant logged a 7.2% year-over-year increase in operating revenues as well as a major boost from its investment portfolio.

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Patient Experience – Outside the Four Walls of the Hospital – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 120

Healthcare IT Today

For the 120th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are taking a look at the patient experience outside of the hospital. We kick off this episode by detailing our own experiences with care outside of hospitals and clinics. Next, we share the promising technologies we’ve seen improving patient experience in other care settings. Then we discuss our worries about the potential decline in telehealth and how that will impact the patient experience.

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Clover Health avoids potential Nasdaq stock delisting

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Advantage-focused insurtech Clover Health has staved off a potential delisting of its stock. | Medicare Advantage-focused insurtech Clover Health has staved off a potential delisting of its stock.

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Digital Networks: virtual wards require enthusiastic and engaged leaders 

DigitalHealth

The introduction of virtual wards, already accelerating across the country, requires the involvement of enthusiastic and engaged leaders for success.

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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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Ongoing cyberattack on Prospect Medical Holdings forces facilities offline, disrupts services

FierceHealthIT

Prospect Medical Holdings was hit with a cyberattack last week that brought computer systems offline and continues to disrupt care in certain areas. | An outage disclosed Thursday is affecting facilities across the holding company's 16-hospital footprint. Some representatives at affiliate systems have describe the incident as a ransomware attack.

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Qureight collaborates with AstraZeneca for AI lung disease research

DigitalHealth

Qureight and AstraZeneca have teamed up to help advance research into novel drugs for patients with complex lung diseases using AI models.

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Alignment Health CEO offers look at its medical benefits ratio strategy

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Advantage plan Alignment Healthcare is targeting significant improvements to its medical benefits ratio heading into 2024, and the company's top brass offered investors a look at its strat | Medicare Advantage plan Alignment Healthcare is targeting significant improvements to its medical benefits ratio heading into 2024.

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Nourish Care integrates with Ally acoustic monitoring

DigitalHealth

Nourish Care and Ally acoustic monitoring have now integrated, with both companies focusing on partner-centred care for improved outcomes.

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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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Bright Health secures credit facility to keep doors open as it sells off California MA plans

FierceHealthIT

Bright Health Group has secured the credit necessary to avoid going belly-up as its sells off the last of its insurance business, the company disclosed Monday. | Bright Health Group has secured the credit necessary to avoid going belly-up as its sells off the last of its insurance business, the company disclosed on Monday.

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Babylon merger called off: now looking to divest UK business and exit core US business

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Babylon/MindMaze merger proposed by AlbaCore Capital LLP has been called off, will no longer proceed as previously announced. Babylon is in discussions with a number of new parties looking at new strategic alternatives for its businesses in both the UK and US. Babylon is pursuing the divestiture of its UK business to third parties that may provide financing to assure the continuity of the operations.

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Enterprise Architecture Vs Business Architecture

LeanIX

Enterprise architecture vs business architecture: get the lowdown on how these two disciplines relate. Let's explore the history and future of the intertwined methodologies.

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Chutes & Ladders—Verily taps new chief scientific officer; Thyme Care hires Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer fellow

FierceHealthIT

Chutes & Ladders—Verily taps new chief scientific officer; Thyme Care hires Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer fellow hlandi Mon, 08/07/2023 - 13:21

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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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Amazon Clinic expands nationwide

Henry Kotula

[link] Amazon announced that it has expanded its direct-to-consumer virtual care platform to all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Amazon Clinic, which the e-commerce giant launched in 32 states last November, connects consumers to third-party clinicians via Amazon’s website or mobile app. Through video call or message-based visits (the latter of which are only available in some states), it offers diagnosis and treatment for a range of low-acuity, common health conditions like pink eye and

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What the Telehealth Expansion Act means for tackling social determinants and boosting health equity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status. This is a bipartisan bill recently passed in Congress that allows citizens with high-deductible health plans and health savings accounts access to telehealth and other remote care services permanently, without having to meet their minimum deducti

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Unicorn K Health Raises $59 Million in Down Round

Healthcare IT Today

The Startup, which was Valued at $1.4 Billion in 2021, has Developed a Platform that uses AI to Combine Professional Medical Knowledge with Patient Clinical Data, Providing Doctors and Users with Information about the Diagnoses and Treatments of Others with Similar Symptoms and Conditions Israeli startup K Health , which develops a data-driven digital primary care platform, has raised $59 million from the company’s investors and the largest hospital in California, Cedars Sinai.

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Survey Finds 90% of Healthcare Organizations Adopting Digital Health, Despite Financial Pressures

Xealth

While financial pressures were the leading barrier to adoption cited by nearly half, most stated they have implemented digital health SEATTLE— August 7, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced recent survey findings that examine the digital health experiences and attitudes of healthcare executives. The online survey of College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) members was conducted between May 15 and June 20, 2023.

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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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Hims and Hers and Hearts – Cardiology Blurs Into DTC Retail Health

Health Populi

Statin therapy has been used for decades to lower cholesterol with the goal of reducing mortality and preventing cardiovascular problems such as heart attacks and strokes. Hims & Hers announced a new service offering for health consumers and clinicians concerned about heart health called Heart Health by Hims. This is Hims & Hers’ first foray into cardiovascular health, working in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology (ACC).

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Can Hallucinated AI Help with Patient Engagement?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Michelle X. Zhou, Ph.D., Co-Founder and CEO at Juji ChatGPT and similar AI applications have given humankind a new tool. While this new tool is powerful, it may not always be reliable. Hence the term “AI hallucinations” is coined to refer to such unreliable AI performance. Here is an example. I asked ChatGPT, “ Who founded Juji “, the AI startup I co-founded.