Wed.Sep 30, 2020

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Abu Dhabi’s Rizek is first non-healthcare app to introduce COVID-19 testing

Mobi Health News

While on-demand, at-home PCR testing has been available for some time on healthcare-specific apps and portals, this is the first time a “general services” app in the UAE offers fully government-approved testing.

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Franciscan Health uses inpatient and ambulatory telehealth, closing gaps in care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prior to the pandemic, Franciscan Health was in the infancy stages of its telemedicine program and had not moved to an ambulatory rollout. Like many other healthcare organizations, it struggled with operationalizing the technology and workflows of a new process. THE PROBLEM. Franciscan had just started looking at virtual urgent care visits prior to COVID-19.

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Smart sock maker Siren adds $9M to this summer's Series B

Mobi Health News

Along with funds announced a few months back, this brings the round's total to $20.8 million.

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The Emergence of Health Citizens – Part of Liberating Health, on the Medecision Blog

Health Populi

I have always appreciated Medecision’s mission as expressed in the company’s tagline: “Liberating,” as in “liberate healthcare.” I began collaborating with Medecision as a client several years ago, a couple of years after I heard Todd Park, then Chief Technology Officer in the White House, joyfully assert the phrase, “Data Liberación!

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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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Big tech, digital health coalition forms to undercut COVID-19 healthcare disparities

Mobi Health News

Formed under the banners of the Consumer Technology Association and the Connected Health Initiative, the coalition's membership includes big names like Google, Boston Children's Hospital, Microsoft, ResMed and others.

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Ultromics and Mayo Clinic partner up for AI diagnosis of heart failure

Mobi Health News

The joint UK-US scientific research team will use AI and machine learning to predict and detect heart failure.

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DOJ charges hundreds in connection with $6B in healthcare fraud in largest takedown ever

FierceHealthIT

DOJ charges hundreds in connection with $6B in healthcare fraud in largest takedown ever. pminemyer. Wed, 09/30/2020 - 17:18.

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XtalPi raises $319M for its AI drug research and development platform

Mobi Health News

The company says it wants to build a system that generates more drug candidates with fewer experiments in less time.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from September 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The boomer-and-beyond market has caught the eye of the tech industry. As a busy September wound down, new announcements in the voice first category were of particular interest. These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare.

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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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Rock Health's COO talks digital health funding, M&As and 'Teladongo'

Mobi Health News

2020 is shaping up to be a record-breaking year for digital health startups.

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Hospital Room TVs Have Become Interactive Portals To A Better Patient Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Tom Mottlau, director of healthcare and emerging markets, LG Business Solutions USA. Sometimes, big changes in how we work and live are driven by technology. Think smartphones, for example. At other times, social change […]. The article Hospital Room TVs Have Become Interactive Portals To A Better Patient Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Building a solid technology foundation enables transformation

Mobi Health News

As IT professionals, we need to be ahead of the game in terms of establishing and maintaining the capabilities of our technology foundation. This means being smart about understanding the business and staying ahead of its needs.

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5 Universal Healthcare Project Goals via CIO Will Weider

Healthcare IT Today

One of my favorite early blogging compatriots is Will Weider, CIO at PeaceHealth. While it seems like Will has largely moved his blog sharing to Twitter, he’s still one of the great healthcare CIOs to follow. A great example of this was a recent Twitter thread he shared around project goals: Project goals, a thread… […].

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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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What do CIOs want to see from telehealth apps? More than a dozen weigh in

Mobi Health News

Seamless workflow integration, better patient engagement, artificial intelligence utilization and "multidisciplinary group chat" – the sky's the limit when it comes to potential telemedicine innovations.

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Reasons Why You Should Take Teeth Grinding Seriously

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

A lot of people have experienced pain in the mouth and severe tooth sensitivity as a result of them unconsciously grinding, gnashing, or clenching their teeth. This condition is, in fact, a medical condition called bruxism. It can be awake bruxism when you unconsciously clench the teeth while you are awake and sleep bruxism when […]. The post Reasons Why You Should Take Teeth Grinding Seriously appeared first on Healthystic.

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Cigna unveils big MA growth plans for 2nd year in a row

FierceHealthIT

Cigna unveils big MA growth plans for 2nd year in a row. pminemyer. Wed, 09/30/2020 - 14:03.

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Rural Broadband Grants Assists Rural Arkansas Wanting to Build Infrastructure

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Gaps in healthcare often occur through geographic limitations, either by distance to a health facility for in person care, or by lack of access to broadband for virtual care. For those interested in solving the former problem (i.e. distance) with the latter problem (i.e. broadband), funding can be a major setback; not just the funding to extend services, but the funding to get funding….

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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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Anthem to pay $39M to state AGs to settle landmark 2015 data breach

FierceHealthIT

Anthem to pay $39M to state AGs to settle landmark 2015 data breach. hlandi. Wed, 09/30/2020 - 11:59.

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Podcast with NYP CIO Daniel Barchi, Part 2: “We Never Want to Lead with Technology.”

Health System CIO

One of the core values that has helped NewYork-Presbyterian continue to deliver quality care during Covid? A willingness to be thoughtful about investing resources, and focus on ones “that will move the dial on patient care,” said CIO Daniel Barchi. Source: Podcast with NYP CIO Daniel Barchi, Part 2: “We Never Want to Lead with Technology.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the informa

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UnitedHealth Group buys DivvyDose to compete with Amazon's PillPack: report

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group buys DivvyDose to compete with Amazon's PillPack: report. hlandi. Wed, 09/30/2020 - 11:34.

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AI Gets The Buzz, But Health IT Leaders Still Focused On The Basics

Healthcare IT Today

New research from a consulting organization suggests that while new technologies beckon and COVID continues to disrupt operations, healthcare leaders remain focused on the problems they’ve struggled with for many years. Those participating in the survey, which was conducted by Stoltenberg Consulting, included 64% who worked in health systems and 26% in standalone hospitals.

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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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Hospital execs expect drop in commercial reimbursement, cuts to revenue cycle IT budgets in wake of COVID-19: analysis

FierceHealthIT

Hospital execs expect drop in commercial reimbursement, cuts to revenue cycle IT budgets in wake of COVID-19: analysis. treed. Wed, 09/30/2020 - 05:49.

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Rural Communities Benefiting from Telehealth and RPM

Health Recovery Solutions

The healthcare industry experienced a boom in telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs in 2020. With this shift, the disparity in access (both telehealth and general healthcare) between rural and urban communities is became even more clear. Rooted in HRS’ mission is that all people, regardless of geographic location, should have access to telehealth.

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Analysis: 'Silver loading' led to exodus to bronze-tier plans in majority of states

FierceHealthIT

Analysis: 'Silver loading' led to exodus to bronze-tier plans in majority of states. rking. Wed, 09/30/2020 - 16:35.

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Sen. Ron Wyden: Secure mental health services through telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Sen.

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Applications Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Applications Analyst positions that were recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Alameda Health System in California. Here’s a description of the position: Job Description: Job Family: AHS – Information Technology […].

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HealthStream Learning Yields Measurable Results for Healthcare Practice

HealthStream

Prior to using HealthStream Learning, Mid-Dakota Clinic used a cumbersome, manual process when assigning and providing education. Moving to HealthStream Learning has allowed efficiencies and greatly enhanced the organization’s strategic use of education and training.

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Epic to Integrate Microsoft Teams Connector

Optimum Healthcare IT

The Microsoft Teams Connector, will allow clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or consult in Teams directly from their EHR system. The post Epic to Integrate Microsoft Teams Connector appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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