Fri.Oct 04, 2019

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Q3 2019 sees 66 digital health funding deals totaling $1.55B

Mobi Health News

Babylon Health topped the charts with a $550 million round, followed by Capsule and Healthy.io.

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Benefits, Challenges, and Examples of Cloud Technology Application in Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Dunlop Cloud technology application in healthcare is not new. Back in 2015, we created a post on cloud usage in healthcare, where we researched this topic and predicted that we will see the growth of this industry. And now in 2019, we see that we were right.

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What's next in healthcare and digital health? Here are 4 trends to watch

FierceHealthIT

Consumer-focused companies are rapidly moving further into healthcare and industry incumbents need to be ready for accelerating change: that was one of the big takeaways from CB Insights' Future of Health conference. Here are 3 more trends to watch.

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New Study Reveals That Electronic Health Records are Underused To Coordinate Patient Transitions

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By B.J. Boyle, vice president and general manager of post-acute insights, PointClickCare. In my last post, I discussed how our healthcare system is approaching a critical time in which the looming “silver tsunami” will drive baby boomers into hospitals and post acute care facilities in record numbers.

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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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Industry Voices—Without public policy changes, the U.S. risks losing the global race to innovate in healthcare

FierceHealthIT

A digital revolution in the healthcare industry has begun. While the U.S. set the trend for adoption and use of health IT, we risk losing the global race to innovate without policy changes that support the evolving landscape.

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How UnitedHealthcare, Optum have teamed up to boost outcomes for nursing home patients 

FierceHealthIT

The joint efforts of UnitedHealthcare and Optum to manage care for seniors in nursing homes has paid off in substantially fewer hospitalizations and emergency department visits, a new study shows.

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Widening digital inclusion

Digital Leaders HealthTech

In partnership with Good Things Foundation , we have been researching, developing and testing new ways to support the most excluded in society to access and use digital health services and tools as part of the Widening Digital Participation Programme. Our goal over the past couple of years was to try out and test models for digital inclusion and then create ‘How to’ guides and resources that digital health commissioners, designers and service delivery teams could use to ensure they are delive

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KFF: 27% of non-elderly U.S. adults have pre-existing conditions that would have been declined without ACA

FierceHealthIT

Nearly 54 million people under 65 have a pre-existing condition that would have been declined before the Affordable Care Act, according to a new analysis.

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12 Hours Without Insulin Because of a Flaw in My Pump

Insulin Nation

It seems counter-intuitive that the more of a constant something is in your life, the easier it is to forget. But in my experience, that’s how it is to live with diabetes. It’s something you deal with every second of every day. . Each meal requires a bolus. Each time you leave the house or get in the car, you are aware of your blood sugar and where the nearest supply of glucose is. .

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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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Health tech funding snapshot—Capsule lands $200M, Optum Ventures joins $24M round in Vim and more

FierceHealthIT

Pharmacy startup Capsule scored $200 million in a series C funding round led by venture capital firm TCV. Ginger, an on-demand behavioral healthcare company, secured $35 million led by WP Global Partners and other funding news.

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Allscripts Partners With Northwell Health To Build New Voice-Enabled, AI-Based EHR

Healthcare IT Today

Allscripts has struck a deal to collaboratively design, test and release an AI-based, voice-enabled EHR with New York state’s largest health system. The vendor will be collecting input from clinicians, IT experts and administrators with partner Northwell Health, which expects to deploy the newly-developed platform systemwide. Northwell’s system includes a total of 23 hospitals and […].

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The Benefits of Virtual Neonatology

InTouch Health

How SSM Health Cardinal Glennon’s TeleNICU Program Resulted in a 35% Reduction of Nursery Transfers. InTouch Health recently partnered with SSM Health Cardinal Glennon to create a TeleNICU program, aiming to reduce the number of unnecessary neonatal transfers. SSM Health Cardinal Glennon regularly receives newborn transfers that could have been prevented if onsite staff had access to neonatal specialists.

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Getting Patients To Engage With Their Healthcare Data Is Still A Challenge

Healthcare IT Today

I haven’t always been familiar with my healthcare records. In fact, until a few years ago, I couldn’t have told you anything about their contents, and in fact, didn’t give it a second thought. More recently, though, I’ve developed an intense interest in my healthcare data, as I struggle to keep up with the handful […].

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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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Cybersecurity Policies

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Lack of Cybersecurity Policies Affected 1.5 Million Patients SingHealth, based in Singapore, experienced a healthcare data breach that exposed the protected health information (PHI) of 1.5 million patients. The healthcare organization was aware of vulnerabilities in their server, however, failed … Read more. The post Cybersecurity Policies appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Stand Out From Your Healthcare Competitors With Service Line Competitive Analysis

Geonetric

Boost your service line performance and accomplish goals like increasing brand awareness and patient volume when you dig into your competitors’ websites, service line by service line. Take an Iterative Approach Good healthcare marketing is a marathon, not a sprint. That’s why we recommend analyzing your competition from a service line perspective, as well as […].

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An Update on the LeanIX EA Connect Days 2019 Agenda

LeanIX

So here it is. After months of organizing and searching for the right speakers, we’re pleased to finally have further details to share on the 2019 EA Connect Days agenda.

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Mobile Dental Coach for Your Success in Start-up Dentistry Practice

KB Dental Consulting

Introduction. As a dentist, you have a lot of responsibilities that this profession brings by itself and if you are a beginner, the pressure is much bigger. Dental practice demands more than just knowledge and dedication. It asks for a business plan, development plan, secure monthly income, continued education, monthly documents, other employees, and of course the most important thing, a big percentage of new patients.

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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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Weekender 10/4/19

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Northwell Health (NY) will work with Allscripts.

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Patient-Generated Health Data: Taking the Lottery Out of Love

Society for Participatory Medicine

(This post originally appeared Oct. 2, 2019 on EngagingPatients.org). The dating site Match.com wants to help singles “find the kind of relationship they’re looking for” by providing “the tools they need to help take the lottery out of love.”. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to do the same for the relationship between patients and doctors through the “bi-directional availability of data,” as a notice in the Federal Register puts it.