Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Indonesia-based healthcare superapp Alodokter announced that it has raised a $33M Series C funding led by Sequis Life and with participation from Philips, Heritas Capital, Hera Capital, Dayli Partners and others. Existing investors Softbank Ventures Asia and Golden Gate Ventures also participated in the round. The startup was founded in 2014 by Suci Arumsari (Co-founder & Director Alodokter) & Nathanael Faibis (Co-founder & CEO Alodokter).

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Electronics company Sony is jumping into the wearables and mobile health technology market, offering a business-to-business solution to rival the Apple Watch.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The pharma's Sandoz division will be handing commercialization of reSET, reSET-O and future therapies back to Pear over the course of a transition period.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Florida's Tampa General Hospital has teamed up with healthcare technology company OnMed to deploy new telemedicine stations deployed inside the facility. WHY IT MATTERS. The OnMed Station is designed to provide virtual life-sized consultations with physicians and automated pharmaceutical services, and is the result of more than six years of development by the Florida-based startup.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The pharma's Sandoz division will be handing commercialization of reSET, reSET-O and future therapies back to Pear over the course of a transition period.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Heywood spoke at the Society of Participatory Medicine's annual conference about the importance of patient involvement, and how the company is continuing its work following this summer's acquisition by UnitedHealth Group.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Tech giant Microsoft is teaming up with Nuance Communications to use technology to solve a big pain point for doctors—too much time spent on documenting and administrative tasks. The two companies are collaborating to use ambient technology combined with AI, automation and cloud computing to create an exam room where the clinical documentation "writes itself.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

At this year’s Connected Health conference in Boston, Sherry Pagoto, director of the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media, discussed the social and skill set barriers to weight loss.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 16, 2019

NEW YORK CITY—Fitbit and pharmaceutical giants Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer have inked a multiyear partnership to accelerate the detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation to reduce the risk of life-threatening events such as stroke. The collaboration will rely on Fitbit's afib detection software, which the tech giant plans to submit to the FDA for approval.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The B2B platform purposefully foregoes the bells and whistles of consumer smartwatches for a simple interface, long battery life and long-term support for clients.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As the public debate on health reform rolls on, a new report from Moody’s Investors Service analyzes how these different approaches could impact insurers’ bottom lines.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A chat with Valentin Tablan, SVP of AI at British mental health startup Ieso Digital Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: S-Patch Cardio brings ECG monitoring outside the hospital Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Asia Pacific

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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.

FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Clinicians who reduce their postsurgical opioid prescriptions have no reason to fear a decrease in their patient satisfaction scores—provided they educate patients appropriately.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

On Monday, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) released the Annual Regulatory Burden Report at their Annual Conference. With responses from over 400 medical group practices, the findings from their survey reveal the impact of federal regulations on physician practices and medical groups. A vast majority (86%) of respondents reported the overall regulatory burden on […].

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 16, 2019

As drugmakers face billions in legal settlements and judgments, we must keep our eye on what will truly defeat the opioid crisis.

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Digital Health Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

This Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (October 16-18) I will be in Boston covering the Connected Health Conference (a HIMSS event) for Digital Health Today. The agenda for this event looks outstanding, and I thought I would take a moment to let you know what I’m looking forward to the most. Above all, I'm looking forward to meeting other members of our Digital Health Today community at the conference!

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 16, 2019

A House committee is expected to take up House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug prices plan during a legislative session Thursday, but not before considering some changes.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

If you’re wondering whether blockchain technologies are worth deploying in healthcare, you’ll probably find the following to be worth a look. According to a Forbes piece, Intermountain Healthcare has been using a mix of blockchain-based technology and AI to find waste within its 22 hospitals, and has generated a boatload of savings as a result. […].

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InTouch Health

OCTOBER 16, 2019

More Patients Can Turn to Telehealth When Local Hospitals Close Their Doors. Over the last ten years, 113 rural hospitals closed their doors. All of these facilities stopped providing inpatient care, yet some still offer outpatient care, emergency care, urgent care, or primary care. The state of Texas alone has lost 20 rural hospitals since 2010. According to a recent report from Navigant based on CMS data indicated that 21% of rural hospitals are at high risk of closing, including 403 rural hos

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Insulin Nation

OCTOBER 16, 2019

If you broke your 24-hour day into 3 sections, you’d have 8 hours of dawn/daylight, 8 hours of afternoon/evening, and 8 hours of sleep. . Now imagine if every night your blood sugars are high , and every morning you’re waking up high. That’s ? of your entire day out-of-range. No wonder you’re struggling to reach that A1c goal! All the testing and counting and dosing during the day can only do so much if you’re snoozing every night with high blood sugars.

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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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OCTOBER 16, 2019

HITAC preview — In Cali, Cali

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Synzi

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Patient Engagement and Home Health Patients Patient engagement means that the patient is engaged in their care by understanding their role in self-care and performing the appropriate actions to maintain or restore their health. Engaging patients on smartphones and tablets … Read More. The post Why Patient Engagement is Key to Encouraging Adherence appeared first on Synzi.

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GlobalMed

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Here’s what an ideal world might look like for older patients and their caregivers. Your father who has Parkinson’s disease dials up his neurologist for his quarterly appointment. Over video conferencing, the neurologist watches your father walk back and forth, watching his gait and facial expressions and listening to his speech. You participate in this virtual visit from your workplace, which allows you to share your own observations with the neurologist, ask her questions and listen to her rec

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2019

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Ambulatory Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Prisma Health and is in South Carolina. Here’s a description of the position: Provides analysis of workflow, recommend […].

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ACA Times

OCTOBER 16, 2019

2 minute read: California employers may have another level of complexity coming their way in regards to compliance with the Affordable Care Act. The California state legislature has passed a law that will reclassify many contract workers in the state as employees. When California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) goes into effect in January 2020, the law will require employers to treat contract workers like employees unless they meet certain requirements.

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HealthStream

OCTOBER 16, 2019

All healthcare organizations go through changes in resources, especially involving leaders. What can be done to reduce the stress during this period? Setting up processes and ensuring everyone complies with them can help.

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David Chou

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Workday has been gaining traction in the healthcare vertical. A few years ago, the biggest concern from the CIO and the healthcare provider community was the lack of a supply chain module. The supply chain module is ready, and workday has recent customers that have gone live with supply chain along with a pipeline that includes large health systems going live in 2021.

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