Tue.Dec 17, 2019

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Ping An Good Doctor and Thailand’s BDMS launch video consultation service

Mobi Health News

China’s Ping An Good Doctor and Thailand’s largest private medical group, Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), yesterday announced the launch of a video consultation service. The service will allow the users of Ping An Good Doctor to seek second medical opinions via video consultations with top physicians in Thailand.

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Sampling technology for managing diabetes

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Diabetes is a critical health problem. More than 30 million Americans have diabetes – but 23 million of them, according to the CDC, are undiagnosed. Today, the obesity rate for adults 60 and over has risen to 41%. It is estimated that 30% of the overweight adults have diabetes – and most diabetics are overweight. Another third of the adult population has pre-diabetes – including 23 million of the 65+.

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Ro to launch new weight management service

Mobi Health News

Ro will now be offering a new weight management medication, Plenity, through its platform, the direct-to-consumer telehealth company exclusively told MobiHealthNews.

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CVS subsidiary accused by DOJ of fraudulent billing 

FierceHealthIT

The federal government has joined a lawsuit alleging that Omnicare, a subsidiary of CVS Health, fraudulently billed Medicare, TRICARE and Medicaid for thousands of drugs.

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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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How one digital healthcare startup is trying to scale across Europe

Mobi Health News

Chief executive Johannes Schildt talks about the ambitions of KRY, the Swedish startup now seen as one of the most promising providers of digital healthcare services in Europe.

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Medtronic scoops up gesture-tracking startup Klue to bolster personalized closed loop system

Mobi Health News

The deal follows on the company's 2018 acquisition of AI nutrition app Nutrino.

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Addressing challenges of medical treatment in deep space

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Addressing challenges of medical treatment in deep space Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Tech-enabled insurance startup Bright Health plans expansion with $635M Series D

Mobi Health News

The latest round brings Bright Health's fundraising total to more than $1 billion.

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Industry Voices—Changing behavior is hard. For diabetic patients, new technology can ease the process

FierceHealthIT

There have also been significant developments and advances in connecting the flood of innovative healthcare devices and wearables such as fitness watches and glucose monitors to electronic health record (EHR) systems, giving providers a more comprehensive and holistic look at a patient’s overall health and activities that are critical to guiding them to improved care.

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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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Women's health company Kindbody scores new funding from GV

Mobi Health News

The company plans on using the new funds to expand its services to new locations.

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Lawmakers try to find next opportunity to tackle drug prices, surprise billing after setback

FierceHealthIT

Lawmakers are turning their calendars to May as the next logical place to get through legislation to tackle surprise medical bills and drug prices.

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HIMSS, Forrester Research partner to explore digital adoption; Eli Lilly integrating Dexcom's CGMs and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Sutter Health and Aetna's joint venture partners with house call startup Heal; SideKickHealth announces strategic partnership with Bayer.

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NYU Langone opens NYC's largest biotech incubator with backing from biopharma giants

FierceHealthIT

NYU Langone Health opened a 50,000 square-foot biotech incubator space in Manhattan that has attracted big-name corporate sponsors including biopharma giants Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sanofi, and Boehringer Ingelheim. The health system's biotech incubator is part of a larger effort by New York City and the state of New York to turn the city into a top-tier biopharma hub after years of lagging behind Boston/Cambridge, MA, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

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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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Don’t Blink: Healthcare Orgs Using AI, Data Analytics To Speed Up Digital Transformation

Healthcare IT Today

Over the next five years, healthcare and life sciences firms will ramp up their digital transformation efforts, driven at least in part by AI and data analytics tools, according to a recent research report. In fact AI, in particular, should revolutionize the nature of work in one in three health systems within a few years, […].

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Healthcare Training and Development that Uses AI Individualizes the Learning Experience

HealthStream

Healthcare workplace development driven by artificial intelligence (AI) can help organizations pinpoint clinician competency improvement efforts as part of achieving great outcomes. Managers can use assessment results to create individual training programs for employees.

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Creative Ways to Leverage an RTLS Infrastructure to Enhance Staff Workflows and Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Troy Foster, Senior Manager of Communications Infrastructure. Have you ever gone to an appointment at a clinic and sat in the waiting room for exhaustive periods of time only to find out later you were in the wrong waiting area? I remember hearing a story about 5 years […].

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Dosing Insulin for Dietary Fat: When it Matters & Why

Insulin Nation

Mmmm, there’s nothing quite as delicious as a high-carb, high- fat meal, right? If you took the fat out of cupcakes or lasagna or Chinese chicken fingers or pizza, your taste-buds would riot and protest! . If you’ve lived with diabetes long enough, you’ve probably had your share of blood sugar battles with high-fat meals. We discussed an approach to dosing your insulin for those heavy, indulgent meals in this article — but there’s another aspect to dietary fat we haven’t covered yet.

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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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Digital Marketing Trends to Watch in 2020

Geonetric

Attend our January webinar Register Now Over the last few years, healthcare marketers have worked hard to “level up” their efforts with a greater focus on strategy and planning. These efforts will pay off in 2020, as many organizations will embark on broader digital transformation efforts. Attend this webinar and see how digital healthcare marketing […].

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Proposed Health Care Data Transparency Rule Complements ACA

ACA Times

2 minute read: As the Affordable Care Act’s Employer Mandate moves into its sixth year of operation, federal agencies have proposed a rule to promote better health care cost transparency. The proposed rule sets forth “requirements for group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and group markets to disclose cost-sharing information upon request, to a participant, beneficiary, or enrollee.

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Trump administration proposes plan to boost number of kidney transplants 

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration unveiled several new rules Tuesday that aim to boost access to transplants for patients with kidney disease.

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