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Gamification of step count leads to more activity in diabetes-focused study

Mobi Health News

After the one-year intervention, each of the gamification groups increased their physical activity more than the control arm.

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The ROI on Virtual Care – Thinking About Value and Future Prospects With the AMA

Health Populi

When a new technology or product starts to get used in a market, it follows a diffusion curve whose slope depends on the pace of adoption in that market. For telehealth, that S-curve has had a very long and fairly flat front-end of the “S” followed by a hockey stick trajectory in March and April 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic was an exogenous shock to in-person health care delivery.

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Weight loss app Noom scores $540M in Series F funding

Mobi Health News

The company is using the funds to expand into new care areas including sleep, hypertension and diabetes.

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6 Benefits of Adopting Agile Principles In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Initially, the Agile methodology was invented to fasten development processes in the software field while maintaining product quality. Instead of using slower traditional methods, Agile helped speed up value delivery using short sprints and end-user […].

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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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Pharma and startups have a lot to offer each other. What's going wrong?

Mobi Health News

Health insiders discuss the gap in culture and work style between pharma and startups.

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Overture Life IVF raise $15M in Series B Funding

Mobi Health News

The funding round for the automated IVF startup is led by Octopus Ventures

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What will make asynchronous virtual care a common reality?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

People have wholeheartedly embraced asynchronous communication around the globe. In business and social circles, communicating with tools such as text messaging, Google Docs and Slack is now par for the course. So it’s not surprising that the demand for asynchronous healthcare experiences – telemedicine delivered as the store-and-forward transmission of medical images and data over a period of time – is running high.[1] Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH, the founder of Sherpaa, a pioneeri

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Limbic looks to address demand for mental health services with launch of new products

Mobi Health News

The new services are designed to use AI to help patients through their treatment journey.

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Calmerry Review: The Right Choice For You?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. COVID-19 has hit almost every one of us so hard. Considering the chaos it brought, each of us going through a rough patch. Whether it is the financial crisis, social distancing, fear of losing loved […]. The article Calmerry Review: The Right Choice For You?

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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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New House, Senate bills aim to make telehealth expansion permanent in Medicare, Medicaid

FierceHealthIT

New House, Senate bills aim to make telehealth expansion permanent in Medicare, Medicaid. rking. Tue, 05/25/2021 - 11:28.

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Carrot Health and LexisNexis Risk Solutions Announce Social Determinants of Health Collaboration

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced a collaboration with Carrot Health, a provider of solutions powered by consumer and healthcare data. The collaboration enables Carrot Health to incorporate social determinants of health (SDoH) data from […].

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Weight loss app Noom hauls in $540M to expand into diabetes, hypertension

FierceHealthIT

Weight loss app Noom hauls in $540M to expand into diabetes, hypertension. hlandi. Tue, 05/25/2021 - 11:16.

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House reps seek to permanently safeguard audio-only telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reps. Jason Smith, R-Mo., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., introduced legislation this week to ensure Medicare enrollees have expanded access to telehealth. HR 3447, or the "Permanency for Audio-Only Telehealth Act ," would allow for Medicare coverage of audio-only telehealth services after the COVID-19 public health emergency. "The COVID-19 pandemic required the U.S. healthcare system to innovate and embrace every viable method of healthcare delivery.

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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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VillageMD grows its footprint in Houston as COVID-19 shines light on need for accessible primary care

FierceHealthIT

VillageMD grows its footprint in Houston as COVID-19 shines light on need for accessible primary care. hlandi. Tue, 05/25/2021 - 12:13.

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What the future of healthcare in the home will look like

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth.

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Hello Heart scores $45M series C to build out heart monitoring app

FierceHealthIT

Hello Heart scores $45M series C to build out heart monitoring app. hlandi. Tue, 05/25/2021 - 15:54.

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ACA State Reporting Deadline for California is May 31

ACA Times

3 min read. May 31 is the deadline for self-insured employers and health insurance carriers to submit applicable ACA information to the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) for the 2020 tax year. The deadline for submitting ACA state reporting information was previously March 31st but was extended by the FTB. Since this is the first year for the additional ACA reporting in the state of California, we thought it best to cover everything you need to know about filing before the deadline later this

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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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CVS Health launching new business arm to drive greater clinical trial participation

FierceHealthIT

CVS Health launching new business arm to drive greater clinical trial participation. pminemyer. Tue, 05/25/2021 - 15:09.

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HIPAA – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/28 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “HIPAA.” HIPAA has to be one of the least understood rules in the world. We see this first […].

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Senate confirms Obama admin veteran Brooks-LaSure to lead CMS

FierceHealthIT

Senate confirms Obama admin veteran Brooks-LaSure to lead CMS. rking. Tue, 05/25/2021 - 12:26.

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Accessing lab data via FHIR – part 3

HAY on FHIR

In this post we’re going to take a look at more aspects of coding data. We spent a bit of time in the last post describing why we want to have data coded, how FHIR supports coded data – especially the external terminologies where the concepts are defined – and described some of the RESTful API calls that we could make to retrieve specific Observations and DiagnosticReports from the repository.

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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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OIG: CMS overpaid Anthem by nearly $3.5M in Medicare Advantage

FierceHealthIT

OIG: CMS overpaid Anthem by nearly $3.5M in Medicare Advantage. pminemyer. Tue, 05/25/2021 - 10:53.

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Curebase Unlocks Drug Development with Remote Clinical Trials; Raises $15m Led by GGV Capital

Healthcare IT Today

Curebase today announced $15M in Series A funding to continue developing its decentralized clinical trial software platform and virtual research site capabilities, powering research where any patient, anywhere, can be part of clinical trials at home and with their own doctor. The financing was led by GGV Capital with participation from Xfund, Bold Capital, and […].

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Web Content Voice, Tone, & Style

Geonetric

Voice, tone, and style may sound like the same thing, but they’re not. They work together to define what your brand sounds like and how it’s perceived. So what’s the difference? Voice – Consistent brand personality your organization uses in its communications, includes word choices, pronouns, punctuation, and more Tone – How you communicate and […].

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Epic, Anthem Strike Deal To Support Health Information Exchange

Healthcare IT Today

Health plan management company Anthem has struck a deal with Epic rolling out data sharing technology to health systems and providers who use the EHR vendor’s technology. Under the terms of the deal, participating providers will have access to Epic’s Payer Platform. The Payer Platform allows the providers to exchange various types of data with […].

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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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Web Content Management: Trends that Matter for Healthcare

Geonetric

Web Content Management. Digital Experience Platform. Headless CMS. The content management landscape is large and evolving. Finding a platform that will support both the user experience needs of today and the complex digital transformation efforts of tomorrow isn’t easy. Join us for this webinar and learn the state of website management technology inside and outside […].

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The Unique Role of Nascentia Health’s Telehealth Analyst

Health Recovery Solutions

During the Home Care Association of NY’s Annual Meeting , the Nascentia Health team joined HRS to offer an overview of their telehealth and RPM program. HRS VP of Business Development, Rich Curry, was joined by Nascentia Health VP of Patient Services, Gail Carmichel, QA/Performance Improvement and Telehealth Program Manager, Jennifer Allen, and Telehealth Analyst, Patrick Forget, PT, DPT.