Wed.Feb 19, 2020

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Most Workers and their Employers Want to Receive Digital Healthcare On-Demand

Health Populi

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. Interestingly, more workers living in developing countries are keener on going digital for health than people working in wealthier nations.

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Women's digital health startup Maven grabs $45M in Series C round

Mobi Health News

Icon Ventures led the round with participation from Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Spring Mountain Capital, Female Founders Fund and Harmony Partners.

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Number of patient records breached nearly triples in 2019

FierceHealthIT

Hackers are getting more creative in exploiting healthcare organizations and patients alike. Here are three cybersecurity trends Protenus found that led to the latest surge in breaches.

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Patient billing service MedPilot scores $1.5M

Mobi Health News

Jumpstart, TurnCap, Northcoast Fund, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, Valley Growth Ventures, and Hudson River Capital Partners participated in the round.

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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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He's been called the world's most important doctor—at least to more than a million patients

FierceHealthIT

Tom Catena, M.D., has been described as ”the world’s most important doctor,” and he is, to more than a million patients. Find out why this he 55-year-old American doctor and surgeon has been honored with a top medical missionary award.

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Ascension reports $1B income last quarter

FierceHealthIT

However, the St. Louis-based Catholic health giant said its bottom line for the most recent six months only reached $795 million. Here's a look at the numbers.

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What’s A Virtual Reality Telehealth Clinic? This Company Says It’s Built One

Healthcare IT Today

I’ve written about telehealth for more than a decade. I’m familiar with VR and most of its cousins as well. And most everyone knows what a clinic is. But until today, I’d never heard of a vendor mashing up telehealth and VR and calling it a clinic. A few months ago, I wrote up a […].

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Rucker: HHS wrestling with transparency, privacy balance in interoperability rule

FierceHealthIT

ONC chief Donald Rucker offered insight about some of the issues at play as the agency considers its timing and exactly how to proceed with the closely watched data sharing rules. Here's what he had to say.

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Tech giants set to win lobbying battle on open data

Morning eHealth

Exodus from HHS’s CTO office — Tech pitches in to combat coronavirus

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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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Coalition urges Congress to ensure Medicaid patients coverage to participate in clinical trials

FierceHealthIT

A broad coalition has urged Congress to ensure that Medicaid patients are guaranteed coverage to participate in potentially life-saving clinical trials.

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Promoting Heart Health with Virtual Care

Synzi

American Heart Month The month of February is the 56th consecutive American Heart Month. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease (heart disease and stroke combined) kills about 2,300 people a day. 72% of Americans don’t consider themselves at … Read More. The post Promoting Heart Health with Virtual Care appeared first on Synzi.

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PBM industry report claims greater use of tools can generate $1T in savings over next decade

FierceHealthIT

As states close in on new regulations, the pharmacy benefit manager industry released the business case for their tools. Here's what they had to say.

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Anthem Testing Blockchain Tech As Backbone Of Patient Health Data Access Controls

Healthcare IT Today

While there’s been a lot of talk about the use of blockchain technology in healthcare, there haven’t been as many concrete options deployed as one might think. However, efforts underway at health insurance giant Anthem seem likely to bear fruit. According to an item in FierceHealthcare, the giant health insurer has big plans for blockchain, […].

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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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Covered California ACA signups slightly increase as new coverage mandate, subsidy boost go into effect

FierceHealthIT

California’s state-run Affordable Care Act exchange signed up 1.5 million people for coverage for 2020, backed by a massive 41% spike in new customers.

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How Patient-Generated Content Boosts Your Content Marketing Plan

Geonetric

Content marketing — the strategy, the stakeholders, the editorial calendar planning, and the posting — can seem daunting. On top of all the other tasks in a marketer’s day, writing articles or shooting videos about stories inside the health system might lose priority. Add to that stress a lack of internal resources or changing priorities, […].

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Maven scores $45M series C with 23andMe's Wojcicki, A-list actors as investors

FierceHealthIT

Women and family health startup Maven landed $45 million in series C funding with some high-profile backers. The latest round of funding will be used to support Maven's growth, deepen investment in its core digital programs across fertility, maternity, return-to-work and pediatrics and expand into adjacent areas.

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What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know About the Coronavirus COVID-19 (Part 3)

HealthStream

This excerpt from a HealthStream white paper advices readers to follow multiple important steps throughout the continuum of care for infection control and prevention involving coronavirus COVID-19.

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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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Industry Voices—How value-based contracts in Medicaid can promote opioid addiction recovery

FierceHealthIT

State Medicaid agencies can encourage more effective treatment through value-based contracts with providers.

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HIStalk Interviews Adam Wright, PhD, Director, Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center

HIStalk Interviews

Adam Wright, PhD is professor of biomedical informatics and director.

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Citing 'strong revenue growth,' CommonSpirit Health reports first operating gains

FierceHealthIT

CommonSpirit Health posted $40 million in operating income in the second quarter of fiscal 2020, its first operating gain since the health system was formed through the merger of Catholic Health Initiatives and Dignity Health last year.

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Proposed CMS Rule Could Reduce Number of Premium Tax Credits

ACA Times

2 minute read: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has proposed a rule that would ensure that the agency doesn’t wrongfully provide health insurance subsidies, or Premium Tax Credits (PTCs) to ineligible individuals. The rule, known as the Proposed 2021 Payment Notice would update regulatory and financial standards applied to issuers and Exchanges, as well as set parameters for the risk adjustment program, according to an official announcement by CMS.

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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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Cerner names new president to oversee clinical electronic health record

FierceHealthIT

The new executive will lead the health IT company's work with Amazon Web Services.

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Digital Health Products – The differentiator creating value for both businesses & patients

Waracle

In 2020, the competitive advantage for any company, regardless of their vertical is technology. Developing digital health products and innovating within a business can reinvigorate a company, disrupt the market and create new leaders. . Whether it is detection, prevention, monitoring, support or engagement, the way that technology is empowering the health sector is awe-inspiring.

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Israel's Sheba Hospital turns to telehealth to treat incoming coronavirus-exposed patients

Mobi Health News

Datos's remote patient monitoring platform and Tyto Care's connected devices will help the hospital treat and monitor patients in quarantine and at home.

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Florida woman doing 35 years in prison for Medicare fraud has sentence commuted by Trump

FierceHealthIT

A Miami woman sentenced to serve 35 years in prison for Medicare fraud had her sentenced commuted by President Donald Trump.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

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