Tue.Sep 15, 2020

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VR is just as effective for naloxone training as in-person instruction, study says

Mobi Health News

The results of this study offer public health workers a scalable, low-cost and effective way to educate the community on how to treat someone experiencing an opioid overdose.

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Taskforce on Telehealth Policy releases final report on safeguarding virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Taskforce on Telehealth Policy released a final report on Tuesday outlining its findings and recommendations around safeguarding the future of telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. The task force, which was convened by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the Alliance for Connected Care and the American Telemedicine Association, represented a broad spectrum of stakeholders who spent the summer building consensus around the challenges and opportunities for virtual care.

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Apple adds SpO2 & V02 Max to Apple Watch Series 6, and launches three new studies

Mobi Health News

The new sensor brings Apple up to speed with its competitors, but could lead to bigger announcements down the road.

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Connected Health Initiative asks Senate to pass Telehealth Modernization Act

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Connected Health Initiative on Monday published an open letter to Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., expressing support for the Telehealth Modernization Act and stressing the urgency of safeguarding access to virtual care before the public health emergency is set to expire. The initiative, a coalition of industry stakeholders including providers, payers and vendors, applauded efforts to make permanent changes to Medicare's statutory restrictions on telehealth coverage in its letter.

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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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London virtual care company Medefer scores £10M to grow its business

Mobi Health News

The company offers virtual care visits, virtual outpatient pathways and a tech platform for doctors to conduct virtual visits.

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Capsule Technologies earns FDA green light on capnography monitor

Mobi Health News

The new tool can monitor a patient's end-tidal carbon dioxide, respiratory rate, and fractional inspired CO2.

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Pendent medical alerts evolve – and will disappear

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Surprise (maybe) – Philips puts Lifeline business up for auction. How do I know this? Not from any news article other than PERS Insider , a newly created newsletter for those who track the medical alert industry. Probably given the Q1 profit drop, they had to do something about the steep revenue decline of their Personal Health businesses. You may not remember that Philips acquired the Lifeline business in 2006 for $750 million What did they get for that investment?

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Alcidion launches Miya Precision technology for the NHS

Mobi Health News

The new technology will advance digitalisation and coordinate digital strategies across the region.

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The Role of AI Technology in Healthcare and the Changes It Will Bring – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/18 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Stephanie Guadian (@StephanieG_ECG) and Alexia Severson (@AlexiaS_ECG) from @ElectronicCare on the topic of “The Role of AI Technology in Healthcare and the Changes It Will Bring“. Artificial […].

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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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Medigate brings in $30M to expand its healthcare cybersecurity platform

Mobi Health News

The company has raised a lifetime total of $50 million.

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Cerner senior exec: Amazon cloud partnership is driving Cerner's shift to become digital platform company

FierceHealthIT

Cerner senior exec: Amazon cloud partnership is driving Cerner's shift to become digital platform company. hlandi. Tue, 09/15/2020 - 15:31.

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Contact tracing tech sparks privacy concerns, but most consumers and IT experts still support their use

Mobi Health News

In a recent survey, 67% of consumers and 91% of IT professionals said they'd support a nationwide rollout of contact-tracing apps or other technologies.

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Apple steps up its focus on health with new blood oxygen sensor and population health initiative in Singapore

FierceHealthIT

Apple steps up its focus on health with new blood oxygen sensor and population health initiative in Singapore. hlandi. Tue, 09/15/2020 - 17:05.

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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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[Webinar] Everything You Need to Know About Your Next OSHA Audit

Ortholive

Join us to discover everything you need to know about your next OSHA audit and how you can overcome environmental, health, and safety programming challenges with workplace safety specialists John Coniglio, PhD, and Joe Coniglio of OSEA: The Workplace Experts. You won’t want to miss this in-depth presentation from some of the industry’s leading experts featuring safety, environmental, and risk assessment tips to save you time, money, and headaches.

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Foods For Anxiety: Nutritional Strategies To Ease Your Anxiety

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Do you often feel anxious and struggle with anxiety? Anxiety is basically an emotion, that you feel whenever you are worried about something or when something is troubling you. Everyone feels anxious more or less at times. It is the body’s fight or flight response that is triggered when you are worried, threatened, facing unavoidable […]. The post Foods For Anxiety: Nutritional Strategies To Ease Your Anxiety appeared first on Healthystic.

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Cigna to rebrand health services business line as Evernorth

FierceHealthIT

Cigna to rebrand health services business line as Evernorth. pminemyer. Tue, 09/15/2020 - 12:31.

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Image Sharing, File Transfer, Screen Image Capture, and Screen Sharing – Telehealth Features Series

Healthcare IT Today

In this Telehealth Feature Series, we’re going to cover the long list of potential telehealth features available today. As you’re considering your own approach to telehealth, we will provide you a look at all the possible features telehealth companies are offering on the market. Plus, we’ll offer our insight into the nuances of each feature […].

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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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Hospitals cheer demise of Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals cheer demise of Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Rule. pminemyer. Tue, 09/15/2020 - 11:39.

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Will DTx East 2020 be a Pivotal Event for the Digital Therapeutics Industry?

Digital Health Today

Therappx has been covering the DTx series since the second event, in early 2018, as part of our curation and market overwatch activities. In 2018, we wrote about how the event felt like a big family reunion. It was great, in fact, desirable, as the DTx events always lead to concrete discussions on this industry’s future. However, it did show signs of infancy, in an industry struggling to find streamlined commercial pathways.

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CVS signs on with Apple's new Fitness+ service

FierceHealthIT

CVS signs on with Apple's new Fitness+ service. pminemyer. Tue, 09/15/2020 - 15:14.

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Antibiotic Use Linked to Higher T1D Heart Disease Risk

Insulin Nation

Frequent bacterial infections and coronary heart disease are both common complications suffered by those living with type 1 diabetes. The relationship between these conditions has traditionally been understood to be a matter of two separate conditions caused by elevated and fluctuating blood sugars. But a new study out of Finland has found a connection between antibiotic use, high blood bacterial lipopolysaccharides levels, and heart disease that appears to indicate that bacterial infections may

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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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MDLIVE Announces $50 Million Crossover Equity Investment from Sixth Street Growth

Healthcare IT Today

MDLIVE Inc., one of the three largest and fastest growing telehealth companies in the U.S. offering virtual healthcare services in all 50 states, today announced the closing of a $50 million crossover equity investment from Sixth Street Growth, the growth investing arm of Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm. The $50 million funding will […].

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Interview with Assoc. Prof. Maria Staevska – Talking about telemedicine in Allergology and the national campaign to combat allergies

Healee

Allergologists like Assoc. Prof.Maria Staevska, the head of the allergology department at Aleksandrovska University Hospital make the transition to telehealth easy for patients. We appreciate her input into organizing the National campaign to combat allergies in the conditions of COVID-19 via free telemedicine consultations via Healee. The post Interview with Assoc.

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For Provider Credentialing During COVID-19, Keep Processes Effective, But Uncomplicated

HealthStream

Credentialing during the COVID-19 pandemic makes us understand the need more than ever to keep our heads focused on patient needs and suspend some of the things that we would normally do in a more thorough non-emergent credentialing and privileging process.

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We Need Customer Success Leaders, Not Managers

LeanIX

The landscape of Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") companies has seen a significant evolution in the past decade. There are an enormous number of competitors in the marketplace, each with their own value proposition and each with their own approach towards the customer relationships model.

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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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Medstro® Client CRICO Strategies Wins NESHCo Lamplighter Award for Online CBS Community

MedTech Boston

Medstro®, a leading “Software as a Service” platform for medicine and health care, is proud to announce that its client, CRICO Strategies, The post Medstro® Client CRICO Strategies Wins NESHCo Lamplighter Award for Online CBS Community appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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