Tue.Apr 26, 2022

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Patients Look Beyond the Pandemic to Pharma for Engagement, Innovation, and Integrity

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted patients who were already deeply engaged with their own health care before the coronavirus emerged. Compared with a year ago, more patients and their advocates are seeking quality therapies, innovation, engagement, and integrity from pharmaceutical companies, based on research published today from PatientView. PatientView, based in the UK, has collaborated with over 40,000 patient advocacy organizations globally marking over 10 years doing this research.

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Biofourmis reaches unicorn status with $300M Series D

Mobi Health News

Coming nearly two years after the company's $100 million Series C, Biofourmis tallied its total raise at $445 million.

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Monitoring at home will be the norm for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Covid-19 fallout pushed the care industries into the home. A sweeping set of changes from that time that may have appeared temporary. But a number of these changes are likely permanent. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Japanese startup Ubie brings AI symptom checker to the US

Mobi Health News

Its web-based platform also guides patients to access appropriate medical care.

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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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Managing Healthcare Cyber Threats and Protecting Patient Data at the Edge

Healthcare IT Today

It’s impossible to put a value on the trust your patients place in your organization to protect and safely store the data created in the course of caring for the community. Hospitals and health systems have more to lose than organizations in other sectors when it comes to the impact of hacking activities and patient […].

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Is Your Healthcare IT Company Eco-Friendly? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/29 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Ray Miller (@ray_hmiller) from @hcittoday on the topic “Is Your Healthcare IT Company Eco-Friendly?” While Earth day may have been last week, our efforts to save the planet […].

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Women's health-focused startup Alpha Medical launches diabetes care program

Mobi Health News

The offering includes treatment and screening for prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.

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Biofourmis Receives Significant Growth Investment from General Atlantic to Propel Company to Unicorn Status

Healthcare IT Today

$300M Series D to fund continued growth of Biofourmis’ innovative virtual care solutions Head of Intel Board Dr. Omar Ishrak Appointed Biofourmis Chairman Biofourmis, a global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced it has surpassed unicorn status with a $300 million Series D investment led by leading global growth equity firm General […].

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Indian telehealth firm Truemeds scores $22M in Series B funding

Mobi Health News

It plans to expand its coverage in the domestic market.

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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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What’s Wrong with Your Current Virtual Primary Care Program?

MeMD

Since the start of the pandemic, healthcare providers nationwide have launched telehealth programs to adapt to patient needs in a socially distanced world. This is especially true of primary care. Indeed, virtual primary care plans are popping up all over as healthcare companies race to introduce new products and capture market share. The only problem?

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Plans for digitally transforming the NHS

Digital Leaders HealthTech

In March, UK health and social care secretary, Sajid Javid announced the Government’s target of having 80 percent of all care providers phase out paper-based records by 2024. According to Javid, approximately 40 percent of providers still depend on paper-based processes, which restricts the efficiency of their operations. . Implementing digital records will be a significant step in the Governments’ broader transformation plans.

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Value-Based Reimbursement: An Overview

Health Recovery Solutions

Value-based care is quickly emerging as an alternative to traditional fee-for-service models of reimbursement. Designed to drive better patient outcomes, this updated payment model reimburses care provided to patients according to quality rather than quantity. This model considers how well providers offer care to effectively reduce hospital readmissions and improve preventative care.

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How a single COVID-19 telehealth grant will help one provider for years to come

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From the time Burrell Behavioral Health in Springfield, Missouri, received initial reports of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching the surrounding areas, clients and staff members became concerned about their physical health and wellbeing. THE PROBLEM. Out of fear of getting sick, many isolated themselves and did not leave their homes. Burrell team members wanted to be able to work remotely and reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19.

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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.