Fri.Mar 10, 2023

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Q&A: Cityblock Health CEO Toyin Ajayi on expanding access for Medicaid patients

Mobi Health News

Ajayi discusses the challenges Medicaid and other underserved patients face when accessing the healthcare system – and how the startup approaches expansion into new markets.

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Growing DTC for Health Beyond the Rx – the New Health/Care at Home

Health Populi

As our homes and health care services continue to converge, we can see signposts of direct-to-consumer strategies from the pillbox (where DTC is a mature thing) to clinical care in peoples’ hands (and on their preferred technology platforms). Some examples this week make this point, which taken together demonstrate the portfolio of ways more people – as health consumers and caregivers – can engage in their health, well-being, and clinical care.

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Women's health startup Iron Health launches with $4.5M

Mobi Health News

The platform was built at Redesign Health with March of Dimes' Innovation Fund contributing to its seed round.

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Do Patients Want WOW or Do They Just Want It to Work Consistently?

Healthcare IT Today

This week I’ve been blessed to be able to attend the Qualtrics X4 conference focused on experience management. This user conference brings together Chief Experience Officers from multiple industries with healthcare playing a major part. (Side Note: Colin is covering the event from a marketing and patient experience perspective on HITMC as well) The event is particularly interesting because their product literally forces us to listen to patients and employees.

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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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Telehealth use for behavioral health increases 45X since pandemic onset and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Viz.ai also announced an agreement with Bristol Myers Squibb to identify patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

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Medicaid health plans try to protect members—and profits—during unwinding

FierceHealthIT

Medicaid health plans try to protect members—and profits—during unwinding pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 13:44

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CodaMetrix Closes $55M Series A to Autonomously Power Medical Coding, Boost Health System Revenue Cycles

Healthcare IT Today

Born out of Mass General Brigham, and led by healthtech veterans, CodaMetrix empowers health systems to use Artificial Intelligence to prevent revenue setbacks driven by manual coding inefficiencies Overhauling medical coding is now crucial for health systems grappling with physician burnout, billing backlogs and claim denials, skilled labor shortages, and a graying medical coding workforce AI-powered, multi-specialty, autonomous medical coding eliminates human intervention, reduces coding costs

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Feds shut down tech investor Silicon Valley Bank, major investor in health tech, biotech companies

FierceHealthIT

Feds shut down tech investor Silicon Valley Bank, major investor in health tech, biotech companies fdiamond Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:49

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Industry Spotlight: Piyush Mahapatra, director of innovation at Open Medical

DigitalHealth

Piyush Mahapatra has always wanted to fix things. That's why he became a surgeon - and it's also why he is a fierce advocate of clinically-led digital transformation, writes Jennifer Trueland.

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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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These are the major challenges hospital executives expect to face this year

FierceHealthIT

These are the major challenges hospital executives expect to face this year fdiamond Fri, 03/10/2023 - 15:47

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Industry news in brief

DigitalHealth

The latest Digital Health news industry round-up includes an award for Mendelian to develop its AI solutions and a pilot for a prehabilitation programme.

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Industry Voices—Pharmacists play key role in advancing health equity, pharmacoequity

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Pharmacists play key role in advancing health equity, pharmacoequity pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:21

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Neuromersiv partners with rehabilitation provider for VR trial

DigitalHealth

A collaboration between Neuromersiv and Askham Village will see the former's virtual reality products trialled with the latter's stroke patients.

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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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Political headwinds grow against CMMI accelerated approval drug price model

FierceHealthIT

Political headwinds grow against CMMI accelerated approval drug price model rking Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:16

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Find out about Smart Devices at Digital Health Rewired 2023

DigitalHealth

Learn more about the challenges and huge opportunities presented by Smart Medical Devices on a dedicated stage at Digital Health Rewired 2023.

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New female-led, encrypted period tracker app Embody to launch this summer

FierceHealthIT

New female-led, encrypted period tracker app Embody to launch this summer agliadkovskaya Fri, 03/10/2023 - 14:34

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On March 10, 2023, Representatives Miller-Meeks, Craig, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability.

Connected Health Initiative

Brian Scarpelli, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), expressed CHI’s support for the bill: “Interoperability is critical to realize the promise of digital health and enable better, more cost-effective, patient-centered care. Patients and caregivers benefit immensely from the introduction of new, innovative medical devices and their evolving data collection and analysis capabilities.

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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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Senators urge CMS to close 'loopholes' in payer price transparency rule

FierceHealthIT

Senators urge CMS to close 'loopholes' in payer price transparency rule pminemyer Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:12

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Enhancing Quality of Life Through Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Management

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic lung disease that affects millions of people around the world. COPD can significantly impact a person’s quality of life and daily activities, making it essential to manage the disease effectively. While there is no cure for COPD, there are many ways to manage the condition and reduce the frequency and severity of symptoms.

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Providence ends 2022 with ?8.8% operating margin, $6.1B net loss

FierceHealthIT

Providence ends 2022 with −8.8% operating margin, $6.

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Ensuring Patient Safety: Strategies and Best Practices for Healthcare Providers

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

This 2023, patient safety remains a critical aspect of healthcare with a continued focus on improving healthcare delivery worldwide. Patient safety involves preventing physical or psychological harm to patients during healthcare. Healthcare providers are responsible for ensuring safe and high-quality care, which underscores the importance of patient safety in health care.

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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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February jobs report shows strong gains for hospitals, senior care

FierceHealthIT

February jobs report shows strong gains for hospitals, senior care dmuoio Fri, 03/10/2023 - 12:03

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STORK-A: Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Ploidy Status of Embryos for Improved Implantation Potential

Digital Health Global

As women approach the end of their childbearing years, the incidence of aneuploid embryos increases , which often results in serious clinical consequences such as infertility, miscarriage, and birth defects. Due to this, couples are increasingly seeking assisted reproductive technologies to conceive. Artificial intelligence (AI) has become increasingly useful in the field of assisted reproduction , with several studies attempting to develop unbiased and automated embryo selection tools using dee

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Ascension reports ?2.9% operating margin in H1 2023, says improvement plan is beginning to make headway

FierceHealthIT

Ascension reports −2.

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Here's how startup Zaya Care got insurers on board with its European-style approach to maternal care

FierceHealthIT

Here's how startup Zaya Care got insurers on board with its European-style approach to maternal care aburky Fri, 03/10/2023 - 16:47

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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.