Tue.Mar 09, 2021

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. Those themes are, The Year of the Pharmacist.

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Proof-of-concept system turns smart speakers into contactless heart rhythm monitors

Mobi Health News

Smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo or the Google Nest can be used to monitor heart rhythms without physical contact as effectively as an electrocardiogram, according to research from the University of Washington published in Communications Biology.

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Two major telehealth orgs team up to expand virtual care training

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association and the American Board of Telehealth announced Tuesday that they were partnering to expand access to training and education for virtual care. The partnership comes on the heels of the ABT's recently launched CORE Concepts in Telehealth Certificate, which consists of seven telemedicine-focused training models.

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Hinge Health purchases pain relief wearable maker Enso

Mobi Health News

The digital MSK company is looking to bundle the non-invasive, non-addictive pain reduction device alongside the rest of its employer-focused offerings.

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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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Voice First Technology and Older Adults – Three Years Later

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The trumpets sounded loudly at the arrival of Voice First. The Future of Voice First and Older Adults was published in February of 2018. A re-read shows how excited the 31 interviewees and participants were, offering their vision of the future of this technology and its potential use by older adults. Has the future arrived in the world of seniors, senior housing, home care?

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Is Healthcare AI Adoption Moving Too Fast?

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare AI adoption has been growing rapidly, and to date seems to have been producing worthwhile results most of the time. However, a new survey suggests that at least some healthcare leaders are a bit uncomfortable with the speed at which healthcare AI is being put in place, even if they still believe it can […].

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Fitbit reveals next generation of wearable for kids

Mobi Health News

The company is launching the Fitbit Ace 3 for $79.99. .

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How Can a Digital Workforce Address Healthcare’s Challenges? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Linda Stotsky (@EMRAnswers) from @Bossoft on the topic “How Can a Digital Workforce Address Healthcare’s Challenges?” Things have changed drastically for the healthcare sector over the last […].

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Apple Women's Health Study finds period symptoms similar across demographics

Mobi Health News

The study looks at menstruation symptoms and features from over 10,000 participants. .

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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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4 of the biggest healthcare trends CVS Health says to watch in 2021

FierceHealthIT

4 of the biggest healthcare trends CVS Health says to watch in 2021. pminemyer. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 12:15.

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Cedar closes $200M for engaging patient payments, Paige updates its 9-figure Series C and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Valo Health closes $300 million for machine learning drug discovery; Blue Note Therapeutics supports its in-development prescription DTx with $26.25 million.

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Moving Beyond Excel for Your Healthcare Analytics Needs

Healthcare IT Today

When I talk to healthcare analytics companies, we sometimes start talking about competitors in their space. When doing so, I think the reply I get most often is that most healthcare organizations are currently using Excel. This is surprising until you dig into it a little deeper. Excel is a great competitor in the healthcare […].

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Cedar lands $200M Series D to help modernize how patients pay for medical services

FierceHealthIT

Cedar lands $200M Series D to help modernize how patients pay for medical services. hlandi. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 16:50.

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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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IHE is on #FHIR

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This was just reported in an IHE-Europe news letter. I wanted to stress it here as I am finding many people do not understand that IHE has many Implementation Guides (IHE-Profiles) that leverage FHIR. IHE has published 32 Implementation Guides that use FHIR. There is very active implementation and testing of these at IHE-Connectathons. This graphic brings the message home And yet, that graphic is representative of the IHE-Europe Connectathon.

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ABIM extends Maintenance of Certification requirement deadlines through 2022

FierceHealthIT

ABIM extends Maintenance of Certification requirement deadlines through 2022. hlandi. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 10:39.

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“A Different Way of Working”: How Strategies Are Transforming to Support Remote Work

Health System CIO

For healthcare and IT security leaders, having a “much more diverse service portfolio to support” means making some significant – and rapid – adjustments, said our panelists during a recent discussion. Source: “A Different Way of Working”: How Strategies Are Transforming to Support Remote Work on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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PatientPoint acquires Outcome Health to combine point-of-care technologies

FierceHealthIT

PatientPoint acquires Outcome Health to combine point-of-care technologies. hlandi. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 14:46.

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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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Recommendations on Cloud Tagging for Cloud Governance

LeanIX

Cloud governance is not a novel IT management concept. In many ways, it’s just another method to tackle a decades old problem referred to as shadow IT. The only difference is that cloud governance focuses on challenges with the cloud rather than on-premises technology.

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Providence posts $306M loss in 2020 after patient revenue takes hit from COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Providence posts $306M loss in 2020 after patient revenue takes hit from COVID-19. rking. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 11:47.

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4 Tips to Take the Headache Out of a Web CMS Change

Geonetric

For many hospitals and health systems, their CMS is out of date and the path to an upgrade is complicated. For others, their tool isn’t user-friendly and requires too much dependence on I.T. or a web vendor. Regardless, it’s a headache – and an opportunity. Make the most of this chance to reevaluate the digital […]. Read 4 Tips to Take the Headache Out of a Web CMS Change at Geonetric.com.

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As vaccine efforts ramp up, payers gear up to combat members' hesitancy

FierceHealthIT

As vaccine efforts ramp up, payers gear up to combat members' hesitancy. pminemyer. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 15:10.

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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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Health Recovery Solutions, Remote Patient Monitoring and Telehealth Leader, Completes Series C with LLR Partners

Health Recovery Solutions

HOBOKEN, N.J. & PHILADELPHIA--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), a leading provider of telehealth and remote patient monitoring solutions, announced today the completion of its Series C funding led by LLR Partners. HRS’ previous investor, Edison Partners , also participated in the round. The capital will support investments in infrastructure, product development, sales and marketing, as well as liquidity for other early investors in HRS.

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Walmart heir's nonprofit to start new integrative medical school in Arkansas

FierceHealthIT

Walmart heir's nonprofit to start new integrative medical school in Arkansas. treed. Tue, 03/09/2021 - 08:04.

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Data security – The priority for mHealth apps

Waracle

mHealth apps are mobile applications which utilise the ubiquity, connectivity and flexibility of our smartphones to improve patient’s health. The health conditions, diseases and disorders which benefit from support in this category are diverse and varied, but the common thread that links most mHealth apps is that they collect, accrue and transport data.

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