Thu.May 07, 2020

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Helium Health closes $10m Series A, led by Dubai venture capital fund

Mobi Health News

The Nigerian startup offers a comprehensive suite of technology solutions, including electronic medical records and telemedicine, as well as administration and financial management.

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TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Health Populi

Today, 7th May 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that about 3.17 million jobs were lost in the nation in the last week. This calculated to an unemployment rate of 15.5%, an increase of 3.1% points from the previous week. Total jobs lost in the COVID-19 pandemic, starting from the utterance of the “P” word, has been in the I.S.

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Digital fitness company Pear Sports buys AI-enabled health coach Performance Lab

Mobi Health News

This deal comes only a few months after Pear Sports purchased Functional Solutions.

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How AI use cases are evolving in the time of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As with nearly every element of the healthcare world, applications of artificial Intelligence and machine learning have been reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Whole business models and strategies became outdated and entirely new approaches have replaced them. Three industry leaders who compared notes on a recent HIMSS20 Digital presentation all agree: AI and machine learning technologies are key to responding to the coronavirus pandemic, and how they can aid patients and providers.

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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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Okadoc launches telemedicine solution for the UAE

Mobi Health News

The instant doctor appointment booking platform fast-tracked its release in response to the growing need for remote healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GoodRx's new tool lets patients compare lab testing prices, including ones for COVID-19

Mobi Health News

Patients can search for 18 different types of tests including pregnancy, STIs, celiac disease and thyroid conditions.

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Payer experts: Why COVID-19 will 'fundamentally' change care delivery

FierceHealthIT

As the country begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, what will the “new normal” look like? Health insurance industry experts say to expect a continued focus on telehealth.

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New clients, COVID-19 demand pump up Livongo's Q1 revenue, 2020 projections

Mobi Health News

"Remote monitoring is here to stay," CEO Zane Burke said during yesterday's earnings call.

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CMS finalizes changes to ACA plans for 2021, pushes back deadlines due to COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

CMS finalized a slew of regulatory changes for the ACA plans, including allowing insurers to not count copay assistance from drug companies to out-of-pocket cost sharing and deductibles.

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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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Is 65 the new 85 -- Covid-19 cultivates elements of ageism

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Is sixty-five is the new eighty-five – and is ageism trendy? Consider interesting the behavior of ‘leaders’ during the time of Covid-19. Consider the EU guidance : “The chief of the European Union's executive has warned the block's elderly that they may have to stay in lockdown till 2021 due to the new coronavirus.” And in California, as seniors use more technology to communicate with others , the executive director of Village Movement California observed that EU guidance is consistent with Go

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UnitedHealth to offer $1.5B in financial support to members, including premium credits

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group will make more than $1.5 billion in financial assistance available to its members.

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A nurse writes from the COVID-19 front lines: “the biggest barrier to care I’ve ever faced”

Society for Participatory Medicine

Amber’s Facebook profile photo. I’m a social person by nature. I love talking, interacting, and learning with and from others. Never in my career as a nurse did I think that I wouldn’t be able to be social. COVID-19 has impacted all of our lives; some might be out of work and stuck at home, others might be struggling to make ends meet and are worrying about not being able to put food on their tables to feed their families.

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Dignity Health and Cleveland Clinic among biggest winners of initial round of COVID-19 funding

FierceHealthIT

Dignity Health and Cleveland Clinic were among the hospitals that got the most money from the initial round of COVID-19 funding allocations.

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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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Is Enterprise Telehealth Heading for Channel Conflicts with Health Systems?

Healthcare IT Today

Over the past 1.5 weeks I’ve been going through a long list of telehealth companies. I’ll be publishing the list shortly in multiple segments, but there are groups of telehealth vendors that are coming together. It’s not totally clean yet, but in many ways it’s kind of similar to the way EHR vendors are broken […].

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Industry Voices—Will remote healthcare outlast COVID-19?

FierceHealthIT

This new, and for now temporary, state of regulation unleashed the power and promise of remote care.

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Microsoft MS-202 Exam Topics As A Guiding Star To Your Certification

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The Microsoft MS-202 exam is targeted at those IT professionals who are pursuing the Microsoft 365 Certified: Messaging Administrator Associate certification and have already taken and passed Microsoft 70-345. The MS-202 test is actually a […]. The article Microsoft MS-202 Exam Topics As A Guiding Star To Your Certification appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Allscripts withdraws financial outlook for 2020 due to uncertainty from COVID-19 pandemic

FierceHealthIT

Allscripts's first-quarter revenue was down $7 to $10 million due to the impact of lower patient volumes for its provider clients amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The electronic health record (EHR) vendor reported revenue of $417 million in the first quarter of 2020, down 3% from revenue of $432 million during the same quarter last year.

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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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Gaining Rapid Understanding of COVID-19 Through a Real-world Data Lens

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Joseph Menzin, Ph.D., CEO of Boston Health Economics (BHE). The COVID-19 pandemic has increased our awareness of dangerous infectious disease outbreaks and their exponential rapid spread. It has also laid bare the need for better preparedness and more timely data in the course of emergency situations. The success […].

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Livongo raises 2020 revenue guidance as use of remote monitoring accelerates

FierceHealthIT

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of virtual care, and companies like Livongo stand to benefit financially. Livongo, a chronic disease management company that has a strong focus on diabetes, reported a 115% jump in first-quarter revenue, increasing from $32 million a year ago to $68.8 million.

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Bringing Patients Back to the Doctor’s Office After COVID-19

Geonetric

Reversing a Trend Your healthcare organization has spent months delaying elective procedures, restricting visitors, and shifting some appointments to telemedicine. As the number of COVID-19 cases starts to fall in some areas, your organization may be ready to spread the opposite message: Come back in for care. It feels like a tall task, as it […].

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AdvancedMD: Make It Easy, Make it Flexible, Make it Fast.

Healthcare IT Today

These days, flexibility and the ability to connect virtually are key factors to any business’s survival. Tim Costantino, VP and Head of Product at AdvancedMD, embraced these values even before the COVID-19 crisis and they are now serving him and the company well. We sat down with Constantino to discuss what hasn’t changed, what has […].

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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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Introducing the “New Normal” at Your Hospital

Geonetric

As your organization develops new approaches to caring for your patients in the coming weeks and months, consider your website a helpful vehicle to deliver information to your patients, visitors, and community, as well as a way to assure nervous patients that it’s safe to come back for care. For help getting started, see the […]. Read Introducing the “New Normal” at Your Hospital at Geonetric.com.

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How Telehealth Can Improve Access to Specialty Healthcare

InTouch Health

Our Recent Partnership with Sharp Healthcare Shows the Benefits of Specialty Telehealth. Many patients in the United States do not have access to specialty healthcare. When someone is referred to a specialty provider, they may not have the ability to visit the provider in person. Additionally, the patient’s primary care provider may have trouble sharing information with the specialty provider, which can delay access to care and worsen patient outcomes.

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How to Handle Employees When Improving Outcomes Requires New and Changing Duties for Staff

HealthStream

Healthcare organizations are perpetually seeking out best practices for every aspect of clinical care and for management issues. Harvesting those best practices is a relatively simple process, but operationalizing those practices typically proves more elusive.

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Secure Telehealth

Telebehavioral Health Institute

New Guidance for Secure Telehealth With the uptick in the use of telehealth, the National Security Agency (NSA) released new guidance for secure telehealth use. The guidance is meant to mitigate the risk associated with using home computers and smartphones … Read more. The post Secure Telehealth appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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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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TIGTA Reports 27.4% of Premium Tax Credits Are Improper Payments

ACA Times

2 minute read: On April 30, 2020, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a new report entitled, “Improper Payment Reporting Has Improved; However, There Have Been No Significant Reductions to the Billions of Dollars of Improper Payments.”. Among its findings, the Report identified an IRS estimate of 27.4% ($540.9 Million) of the total Premium Tax Credits (PTCs) for the fiscal year 2019 were improper and that the IRS has “made little progress” to reduce the improper

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Scope and Impact of Mobile Dental Clinics in America!

KB Dental Consulting

What is a Mobile Dental Clinic? mobile dental clinic is a dental care unit on wheels. It is a self-sufficient motorized vehicle or a mobile dental van that can be well-equipped with dental drills, x-ray unit and other imaging equipment, wheelchair lifts and ramps, a dental chair or two, and other paraphernalia required for most of the dental care services as similar to a fixed dental clinic.

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Free Type 1 Diabetes Screening for Children Saves Lives and Aids Research

Insulin Nation

As a parent living with type 1 diabetes, it is impossible for me to watch my child vacuum up a meal or gulp down a glass of water without getting worried. Even something as simple as an extra heavy diaper or a long nap can be enough to trigger that paranoia. For parents like me and for others out there who have a type 1 in the family, free screening resources for these types of genetic diseases can help ease much of that worry.

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