Tue.Jun 22, 2021

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Peloton expands beyond D2C model with its new corporate wellness program for businesses

Mobi Health News

Now companies in the United States, the U.K., Canada, Germany, and soon Australia, can offer their employees access to Peloton’s workout classes and more.

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5.5 Million Years of Life Will Be Lost Due to COVID-19 in the U.S. in 2020

Health Populi

In 2020 in the U.S., 380,000 people are expected to die due to COVID-19. These people lost due to the coronavirus would, collectively, have lived another 5.5 million life-years would they not have succumbed to the virus. COVID-19 has cut lives short relative to their life expectancy, calculated in an analysis by the Pew Research Center based on CDC data from 2019 and 2020, coupled with additional statistics on life expectancy by age and gender.

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DTx company Pear Therapeutics to go public in $1.6 billion SPAC deal

Mobi Health News

The company said the deal could help it with commercialization and expansion.

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Scripps Health was attacked by hackers. Now, patients are suing for failing to protect their health data

FierceHealthIT

Scripps Health was attacked by hackers. Now, patients are suing for failing to protect their health data. hlandi. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 14:59.

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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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Sky Labs to develop more health monitoring wearables with latest funds

Mobi Health News

The startup, known for its ring-type heart-monitoring device, recently raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

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Ping An researchers develop AI-powered drug discovery framework

Mobi Health News

The deep learning framework proposed by Ping An learns molecular representations from large volumes of unlabelled molecules.

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What is Moral Reconation Therapy and How is it Used?

TheraNest

Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) is a type of behavioral therapy that focuses on decreasing one’s likelihood of re-abusing substances or alcohol. It is primarily used on individuals within the criminal justice system that have a history of substance abuse and focuses on the moral components of their disease along with the consequences that are associated with it.

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Center for Genomic Discovery launched in the United Arab Emirates

Mobi Health News

The “first of its kind” institution aims at enhancing local genomic research, and diagnosing and treating patients with genetic disorders. Its launch coincides with the formation of the board of the Emirati Genome Program.

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Humana, Mom's Meals food delivery pilot boosts members' quality of life: study

FierceHealthIT

Humana, Mom's Meals food delivery pilot boosts members' quality of life: study. pminemyer. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 10:11.

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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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Tech-enabled drug discovery startup Insilico Medicine lands $225 million

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use this money to use its therapeutics program in human clinical trials.

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CVS cut 72 drugs with 'hyperinflated' prices from its formulary last year

FierceHealthIT

CVS cut 72 drugs with 'hyperinflated' prices from its formulary last year. pminemyer. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 13:44.

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Antiviral company Kastus completes Series A €5.65M funding

Mobi Health News

The investment will go towards developing Kastus' patented light-powered anti-viral surface protection technology.

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Blues plans team up to back new pharmacy solutions company, Evio

FierceHealthIT

Blues plans team up to back new pharmacy solutions company, Evio. pminemyer. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 13:08.

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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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ORCHA and Osteopathic Health Centre Dubai partner for Middle East's first digital health library

Mobi Health News

The collaboration will grant 40,000 Dubai citizens access to the library of top-rated health apps.

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Employer groups urge Congress to address drug pricing in wake of aducanumab's approval

FierceHealthIT

Employer groups urge Congress to address drug pricing in wake of aducanumab's approval. pminemyer. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 09:27.

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Women Who Tech accelerator wants to close the femtech funding gap

Mobi Health News

The nonprofit urges early-stage women-led health startups to participate in the FemTech and HealthTech Grants Challenge.

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Nursing home deaths spiked 32% among Medicare beneficiaries during 2020, OIG finds

FierceHealthIT

Nursing home deaths spiked 32% among Medicare beneficiaries during 2020, OIG finds. dmuoio. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 12:26.

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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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Sky Labs to develop more health monitoring wearables with latest investment

Mobi Health News

The startup, known for its ring-type heart-monitoring device, recently raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

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Icebreaker Games for Teen Group Therapy

TheraNest

Teen group therapy is different than that of other age groups. It can often be more difficult to get your teen-aged clients to open up, feel connected, and flourish in this type of setting. Icebreaker games for teen group therapy should be the jumping-off point for any therapist hoping to get their members to connect. These facilitated exercises are meant to help bring together the members of your group so that they feel more united with one another.

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Drugmakers dig in and signal fight over HRSA's demands to reverse 340B contract pharmacy policies

FierceHealthIT

Drugmakers dig in and signal fight over HRSA's demands to reverse 340B contract pharmacy policies. rking. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 16:35.

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UTSA Alumni Association Joins Optimum CareerPath Partner Program

Optimum Healthcare IT

Optimum Healthcare IT adds the UTSA Alumni Association as the fourth Optimum CareerPath University Partner. The post UTSA Alumni Association Joins Optimum CareerPath Partner Program appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions

Healthcare IT Today

The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field. All the standard ethical issues we talk about in medicine appear in the new genetic and biological research, often with greater urgency: safety and effectiveness, equitable access, privacy and informed consent, data sharing, and individual […].

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Epic's widely used sepsis prediction model falls short among Michigan Medicine patients

FierceHealthIT

Epic's widely used sepsis prediction model falls short among Michigan Medicine patients. dmuoio. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 14:57.

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Security Exceptionalism, Toxic Positivity, and Healthcare Information Security

Healthcare IT Today

Why we need to adopt strong C-level leadership to stop the tide of exceptionalism and toxic positivity that defines organizational approaches to information security. IN THE BEGINNING Many organizations consider technology to be subservient to the rest of the business. It is considered a cost center, not a valuable resource. It gets funded last, often […].

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CMS offers $20M in grants to help state-run ACA exchanges make improvements

FierceHealthIT

CMS offers $20M in grants to help state-run ACA exchanges make improvements. rking. Tue, 06/22/2021 - 11:08.

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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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Big Hairy Audacious Goals for Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “Big Hairy Audacious Goals for Healthcare.” If you’ve ever had the joy of taking business classes or studying […].

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Lessons Learned from 2020 Provide a Springboard for Increased Telehealth Adoption

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]While thinking about my keynote address at the 2021 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) annual conference, I kept coming back to Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel-prize-winning theory (his book is called Thinking Fast and Slow). This theory formed the basis for the field we now know as behavioral economics.

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Healthix Selects Clinical Terminology Management Solution from J2 Interactive

Healthcare IT Today

Selection of the J2 Managed Terminology platform, powered by HealthTerm, was the result of an extensive RFP process Healthix, one of the largest public health information exchanges (HIE) in the United States, has selected the J2 Managed Terminology platform from J2 Interactive, a clinical terminology mapping solution powered by HealthTerm. J2 Managed Terminology will increase […].

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