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Amazon's One Medical acquisition passes regulatory hurdle in Oregon

Mobi Health News

The Oregon Health Agency said the deal is not likely to greatly reduce access to affordable care in the state, but it placed some conditions on its approval.

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Consumers Continue to Lean Into Digital Services: Beyond Tech and Hardware at #CES2023

Health Populi

While CTA forecasts a sobering consumer technology revenue picture for 2023, one of the few bright spots is health and fitness technology services, expected to increase by 9 percent in 2023. For the forecast, CTA looked at various spending categories, including gaming, automotive and transportation tech, video and audio streaming, consumer electronics (like big-screen TVs), and fitness and health devices.

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Withings announces miniaturized health lab for urine analysis

Mobi Health News

U-Scan, an in-home biomarker analysis platform, sits within the toilet bowl to analyze the user's urine.

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ChatGPT – Consider asking a question in a post-Google-Ad world

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Occasionally some tech really is NEW! At the end of November, the tech world figuratively-speaking fell over when the staggeringly well-funded AI tool, ChatGPT, was launched by OpenAi , its sponsor and creator.Within five days, a million were giving the tool a try – and who knows how many by now (six weeks later, perhaps more powerful servers are required).

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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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Pear Therapeutics expands partnership with outpatient addiction treatment clinics

Mobi Health News

Spero Health will widen its use of Pear's reSET and reSET-O prescription digital therapeutics from 14 clinics in Kentucky to 99 locations in five other states.

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GE completes healthcare division spinoff

Mobi Health News

GE HealthCare began trading on Nasdaq as an independent company on Wednesday.

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Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

According to a recent study by MarkUp and STAT, 49 out of 50 telehealth platforms share sensitive data in ways that may harm healthcare clients and patients. Shared information can include detailed descriptions of health issues, names, street addresses, email addresses, diagnoses, or prescription information. Responsible clinicians are likely to ask whether sharing protected health information (PHI) by telehealth companies equates to violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability

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Increasing financial compensation could drive more diverse clinical trial participation, study says

FierceHealthIT

Increasing financial compensation could drive more diverse clinical trial participation, study says. fdiamond. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 15:15.

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Cognitant and Versus Arthritis boost digital access to MSK resources

DigitalHealth

Musculoskeletal patients can benefit from a digital prescription giving access to Versus Arthritis' resources on the Cognitant healthinote platform.

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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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FDA rule allows retail pharmacies to dispense abortion pills

FierceHealthIT

FDA rule allows retail pharmacies to dispense abortion pills. fdiamond. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 08:12.

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Expert Advisory Boards: A New Model for Co-Exploration

Society for Participatory Medicine

A few years ago I learned that non-profit organizations MUST have a Scientific or Medical Advisory Board in order to be listed on NIH’s website as an informational resource for patients. Likewise, many foundation grants require a non-profit to have a similar board. The intent behind these rules seems logical: to ensure that health-related organizations are putting out information based on established research and medicine.

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Cost fears holding uninsured people back from signing up for coverage: Florida Blue survey

FierceHealthIT

Cost fears holding uninsured people back from signing up for coverage: Florida Blue survey. pminemyer. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 16:49.

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Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.

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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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November's hospital margins up 12% monthly thanks to cooling expenses

FierceHealthIT

November's hospital margins up 12% monthly thanks to cooling expenses. dmuoio. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 16:21.

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Healthcare Fragmentation Isn’t So Bad, If It Comes with Better Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Nate Maslak, Founder & CEO at Ribbon Health. Personalization is embedded into many aspects of our lives, from individualized show recommendations on our Netflix accounts to AI-driven product recommendations based on our shopping habits. And consumers have come to expect and demand this personalization. Recent McKinsey research shows that 71% of consumers expect companies to deliver personalized interactions. .

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California awards managed care contracts to Molina, Elevance Health and others for 2024

FierceHealthIT

California awards managed care contracts to Molina, Elevance Health and others for 2024. rking. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 15:55.

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HealthHero launches workplace wellbeing digital solution

DigitalHealth

A new digital wellbeing solution has been launched by HealthHero to support employees with their mental and physical wellbeing.

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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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Duke Health partners with nference to reveal EHR insights, improve care

FierceHealthIT

Duke Health partners with nference to reveal EHR insights, improve care. aburky. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 15:29.

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Wearable Device Being Tested to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths Using Harm Reduction

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Dramatic advances in life-saving technology often meet decades of delay before word of its availability makes it to behavioral professionals. Device manufacturers typically showcase their new wares in technical or medical rather than behavioral circles. Dissemination channels often flow from hospital or physician to behavioral professional, if at all.

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Thousands of nurses across 7 NYC hospitals plan open-ended strike

FierceHealthIT

Thousands of nurses across 7 NYC hospitals plan open-ended strike. dmuoio. Wed, 01/04/2023 - 12:02.

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Telehealth Rarely Requires In-Person Follow-Ups

Digital Health Wire

Epic Research tied a nice ribbon on the end of 2022 with a study suggesting that telehealth is an efficient use of resources for most specialties, rarely requiring an in-person follow-up within 90 days. The research appears to indicate that telehealth isn’t usually duplicative of in-person visits, adding weight to the argument that regulators should view it as an alternative, rather than an additional encounter.

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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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UK Canada Innovation Exchange funding competition launches

DigitalHealth

UK and Canadian businesses can now apply to the UK Canada AgeTech Innovation Exchange to gain funding for a knowledge exchange visit.

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The Role of Self-Care in the Management of Hypertension

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

NOTE: The content in this article is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Approximately 45% of adults, or 37 million people, in the United States, have uncontrolled hypertension , or high blood pressure, with a blood pressure reading of 140/90 mmHg or higher.

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Are there open-source implementations of IHE XCA and XCPD?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Amazing how hard this is to figure out. So I asked Chat GPT OpenAI Are there open-source implementations of IHE XCA and XCPD? IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) XCA (Cross-Community Access) is a set of standards for securely exchanging patient healthcare information across different healthcare organizations and systems. IHE XCPD (Cross-Community Patient Discovery) is a standard for finding and retrieving patient healthcare information from different systems.

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London North West University Healthcare goes paperless with MediViewer.

DigitalHealth

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) has become entirely paperless following the completion of a two-year project to digitise 210,000 patient records. Using IMMJ Systems’ MediViewer, an electronic document management (EDM) solution built specifically for UK healthcare, clinical staff at the trust are now able to access patient information at the touch of […].

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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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Can telemedicine produce a successful preventative care program?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and the capability to reach broader populations, clearly – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations, contended Gary Hamilton, CEO of InteliChart, vendor of a patient engagement platform. Telemedicine tools can ensure physicians and their care teams can better manage patient care , and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their healthiest, he added.

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Your Home as Clinical Lab: Withings Brings “Your Urine, Your Self” to #CES2023

Health Populi

We’ve all been morphing our homes into our personal HealthQuarters since the start of the coronavirus era. Millions of global health citizens have taken to telehealth who never used a health care “digital front door” before. Other patients adopted remote health monitoring to avoid perennial visits to doctors for managing chronic conditions like diabetes or heart disease.

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National Survey on Drug Use and Health Released SAMHSA

BHM Healthcare Solutions

National Survey on Drug Use and Health Released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which shows how people living in America reported about their experience with mental health conditions, substance use, and pursuit of treatment in 2021. The 2021 NSDUH national report includes selected estimates by race, ethnicity, and age group.