Wed.Feb 12, 2020

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Health@Retail Update: Kroger and Hy-Vee Morph Grocery into Health, Walmart’s Health Center, CVS/housing and More

Health Populi

With our HealthConsuming “health is everywhere” ethos, this post updates some of the most impactful recent retail health developments shaping consumers’ health/care touchpoints beyond hospitals, physicians, and health plans. For inspiration and context, I’ll kick off with Roz Chast’s latest New Yorker cartoon from the February 3rd 2020 issue — Strangers in the Night, taking place in a Duane Reade pharmacy.

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Medical device manufacturers face challenges preparing for ‘stringent’ new EU Regulation

Mobi Health News

Trade association raises concern that new regulatory system is not ready to support the transition of technology.

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Dubai launches telehealth initiative 'Doctor for every citizen'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Dubai launches telehealth initiative 'Doctor for every citizen' Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK Right Now:

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Australia’s Prospection raises A$10M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

Australia-based healthcare analytics startup Prospection raised A$10 million in its first external funding round, led by Main Sequence Ventures’ CSIRO Innovation Fund and Horizons Ventures, the company announced earlier this week. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s healthcare analytics platforms into new therapy areas, grow its artificial intelligence capabilities, and expand into Asia Pacific.

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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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A company that wants to be the Mint.com for health data secures backing from major pharma company

FierceHealthIT

Mint.com was designed to bring an individual's financial information into one easy-to-read place. Health technology company Seqster aims to do the same for health data and just got a big vote of confidence from a major drug company.

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Who is to blame for the opioid crisis? In Florida, Walgreens and CVS point finger at physicians

FierceHealthIT

It’s apparently the legal strategy that major pharmacy chains, such as Walgreens and CVS, will use to defend themselves in lawsuits that blame them for the country’s opioid crisis: Blame the doctors instead.

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Headspace pulls in $53M equity investment, $40M debt financing

Mobi Health News

The Series C round will continue to support growth of the mindfulness and meditation app maker's D2C, B2B and digital health offerings.

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Lawmakers irked at lack of transparency from VA after Cerner EHR project delay

FierceHealthIT

The House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Technology Modernization plans to hold a hearing in the next few weeks to scrutinize the VA's decision to delay the platform's rollout. Here's what the VA's response has been so far.

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Study: Skin cancer detection apps ‘cannot be relied on’ for an accurate diagnosis

Mobi Health News

While recognising their potential, the authors have warned against their use in the current state.

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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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Private equity firms in Congress' crosshairs with legislation calling for transparency

FierceHealthIT

Private equity firms that have been gobbling up physician practices should watch out for congressional efforts to rein them in. Here's what they are considering.

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Oxford VR scores £10m in Series A

Mobi Health News

The round was led by Optum Ventures, with support from Luminous Ventures and previous investors.

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CVS bounces back from 2018 loss, raking in $6.6B in profit last year

FierceHealthIT

CVS Health's earnings and revenues were up across the board in the fourth quarter and 2019. Find out why.

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Cognoa teams up with Autism Learning Partners; meditation.live available on Slack Marketplace and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals deployed LifeLink's text chatbot; Advantia Health inks deal with West Virginia's WIC program.

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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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Why Employee Password Practices Might Be Your Security Missing Link

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Greene, CEO, Enzoic. With the healthcare sector a top target of hackers, cybersecurity and privacy are of paramount concern—so much so that HIMSS20 has dedicated an entire track to the topic. According to […]. The article Why Employee Password Practices Might Be Your Security Missing Link appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How insurance executives' compensation changed after the recession

FierceHealthIT

Insurance companies adjusted their approach to how they paid their top executive in the wake of the Great Recession, a new study shows.

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Why Predictive Analytics is the Answer to Healthcare’s Big Data Problem

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Scott Hampel, President of MedeAnalytics. Making improvements in healthcare data analytics has the potential to lead to significant cost savings and improved patient health and wellness. We’ve identified two ways these improvements can be accomplished: Embrace an enterprise analytics strategy to process vast amounts of healthcare data, rather […].

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Oak Street Health to open primary care clinics in 2 more states: Texas and Tennessee

FierceHealthIT

When it opened its first center in Chicago in 2013, Oak Street Health wanted to show that its model of providing value-based primary care to seniors could work. It’s doing just that, as the network of primary care centers announced today that it will open clinics in two more states this year—in Texas and Tennessee.

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Interim Director of Clinical Informatics

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Interim Director of Clinical Informatics position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is in the Western US. Here’s a description of the position: Interim […].

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How Home Health Agencies Are Expecting to Grow

Synzi

Interested in Growth More than 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 every day in the U.S. This population shift is helping to position the home health industry for significant growth as boomers will need more care for their clinical and … Read More. The post How Home Health Agencies Are Expecting to Grow appeared first on Synzi.

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Stanford-Affiliated VA Healthcare System Announces Plans For 5G-Enabled Hospital

Healthcare IT Today

The VA’s Palo Alto Health Care System has announced that it will transform one of its facilities into the first entirely 5G-enabled hospital in the U.S. This effort by the system, which is an affiliate of Stanford University School of Medicine, will represent the first 5G-enabled health facility in the U.S., VA officials said. VA […].

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How Home Health Agencies Are Expecting to Grow

Synzi

Interested in Growth More than 10,000 baby boomers are turning 65 every day in the U.S. This population shift is helping to position the home health industry for significant growth as boomers will need more care for their clinical and … Read More. The post How Home Health Agencies Are Expecting to Grow appeared first on Synzi.

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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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4 Questions with Ron McKinnon, Chief Information Officer, Ellis Medicine

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 2 min In this installment of our "4 Questions with series.", we have 4 questions for Ron McKinnon, Chief Information Officer, Ellis Medicine. The post 4 Questions with Ron McKinnon, Chief Information Officer, Ellis Medicine appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Avoiding Healthcare Data Breaches - Practical Security Measures

HealthStream

People will likely continue to be the most vulnerable part of an organizations defense against data breaches. This blog post discusses ways to educate your workforce on how to protect against intrusion and data breaches.

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mHealth Insight NOT @ GSMA Mobile World Congress 2020

mHealth Insight

The GSMA is currently lobbying the Spanish Government to have Mobile World Congress cancelled (so that it can claim back insurance). I had no plans to travel to Mobile World Congress as while it used to have dedicated mHealth conference tracks these were stopped a few years back and this year there was going to be no mHealth presentations which is a surprise considering that the senior management of Apple (the world’s most profitable mobile company) has publicly stated that they’re

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CMS.gov - Untitled Article

CMS.gov

Today I had the privilege of speaking at the National Rural Health Association’s policy institute. We had a great conversation about rural health, discussing how the unique challenges of rural areas, including geographic isolation and a shrinking healthcare workforce, require unique solutions.

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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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CMS rule gives Part D plans, PBMs new negotiation tools with drug companies

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration gave Part D plans a new weapon to negotiate with drugmakers to get larger rebates, but with several caveats, experts say.

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CMS.gov - Untitled Article

CMS.gov

Medicaid Fiscal Integrity: Protecting Taxpayers and Patients

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Health Datapalooza wrapup

Morning eHealth

Budget day: White House proposes mostly cuts for health IT — VA's Cerner delay raises Democrats' hackles

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