Tue.Feb 14, 2023

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Samsung, Natural Cycles partner to add temperature-based period tracking to Galaxy Watch5

Mobi Health News

The electronics giant said this is the first time the Natural Cycles fertility algorithm has been adapted for a smartwatch.

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Indian healthcare chiefs doubt their cybersecurity capability: report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new survey report in India has gauged the stances of healthcare leaders on their use of technology in an effort to yield operational efficiencies, enhance service delivery, and improve health outcomes. More than 50 respondents, who are mostly chief executives of multi-site hospitals based in metropolitan cities, were polled by Grant Thornton Bharat and the Association of Healthcare Providers (India) in the said report titled "Technology transformation for future-ready healthcare.

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Survey: Many employers may soon change health and wellbeing vendors

Mobi Health News

A WTW survey of 232 U.S. employers revealed 88% of respondents plan to change their vendor partnerships in the next two years.

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Beginning a Look at The Future of AI and Older Adults 2023

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Can tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E be helpful to older adults? Of course, in the ways it can be helpful to any adult. The simple examples – retrieval of information and generated images seem very different from traditional (ad-driven) search tools. Given the early user base of ChatGPT (optimizing language models for dialogue), 100 million within the first few months, clearly developers, investors, and consumers agree.

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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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Temporary staffing marketplace Nomad Health lays off 17% of employees

Mobi Health News

According to Forbes, the layoffs bring the company's employee count from 691 to 572.

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Modernising the MyHR?

Health Intersections

On Friday last week, an article by Wendy John was published by Wild Health , in which I’m quoted as saying, regarding the My Health Record and the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce report : FHIR guru Grahame Grieve has advocated for interoperability standards in healthcare for over two decades.

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Digital natives: are pharma companies ready? – Join the webinar

Digital Health Global

Health and life sciences companies are facing the challenge of engaging digitally savvy healthcare professionals, patients, and stakeholders as technology continues to advance and drive the use of digital channels. While these companies have been quick to invest in digital communications, fully leveraging evolving technologies requires a conscious commitment to customer experience.

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How Our VSM Tool Overcame The PyTorch Supply Chain Attack

LeanIX

SBOMs are rapidly becoming an essential part of value stream management. Jens Rieskamp, our Director Product Value Stream Management (VSM), explains how we used SBOMs and our LeanIX VSM solution to quickly protect our IT landscape during the PyTorch cyber attack last month.

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Mental Health in the Black Community: Ways to Increase Care and Access

Iris Telehealth

Quick links How providers can address mental health in the Black community How organizations can address mental health in the Black community How telehealth can help address mental health in the Black community Resources and education opportunities for providers How Iris Telehealth can help According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) , only one in three Black adults with mental illness receive treatment, compared to 40% of white adults.

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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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CMS halts, recalls billing arbitration decisions after Texas court vacates guidance

FierceHealthIT

CMS halts, recalls billing arbitration decisions after Texas court vacates guidance dmuoio Tue, 02/14/2023 - 11:54

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Four Things Patient Partners Want You to Know

Canadian Health Infoway

Patient partners play an essential role in health system transformation as advisors, collaborators, advocates and more. We recently caught up with four patient partners — Anne O’Riordan, Flavie Laliberté, Sandra Ketler and Arun Bala — for a podcast discussion about the perspectives and experiences that patients, families and caregivers bring.

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How Omnichannel Messaging Can Solve Headaches for Healthcare Communications

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sandro Stupar, Product Management Director at Mitto. Navigating the healthcare system in America can be byzantine and time-consuming. Despite the many advances in telehealth, mobile apps and walk-in health clinics, patients and caregivers frequently find themselves waiting (often impatiently) in long phone queues to make an appointment, renew a prescription or obtain lab results.

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Marker Learning scores $15M to continue bringing down the cost of learning disability assessments

FierceHealthIT

Marker Learning scores $15M to continue bringing down the cost of learning disability assessments aburky Tue, 02/14/2023 - 17:36

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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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Tivity Health Acquires Industry Leading Digital Health and Wellness Platform Burnalong

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition will accelerate digital transformation and enhance efforts to support diverse populations and address chronic disease Tivity Health ® , a leading provider of healthy life-changing solutions, today announced that it has acquired Burnalong ® , a digital health, wellness and fitness platform. The acquisition will accelerate Tivity Health’s efforts to provide consumers with a robust digital platform and extensive health and wellness content, in addition to in-person opportunities t

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Tammy Baldwin presses Ascension for details on private investments after media reports

FierceHealthIT

Tammy Baldwin presses Ascension for details on private investments after media reports rking Tue, 02/14/2023 - 12:14

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14k staff at NHS trust in Liverpool have personal details mistakenly shared

DigitalHealth

Nearly 14,000 staff at Liverpool's main hospital trust had their personal information, including salaries, accidentally sent by email to hundreds of people.

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Humana Foundation rolls out new strategy to tackle health equity

FierceHealthIT

Humana Foundation rolls out new strategy to tackle health equity pminemyer Tue, 02/14/2023 - 14:54

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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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Doctor Now announces partnership with digital diagnostic firm Tachmed

DigitalHealth

A new partnership has been formed between Tachmed and Doctor Now, which will see the latter help influence routes to market for the digital diagnostic firm.

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CMMI releases three new models aimed at lower generic, novel drug costs

FierceHealthIT

CMMI releases three new models aimed at lower generic, novel drug costs rking Tue, 02/14/2023 - 16:35

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How an Unexpected Conversation Launched My Cisco Career Journey

CiscoHealth

When I entered the workforce, Cisco was never on my radar. I was complacent at the company I worked for and had every intention of retiring from that company.

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Do clinicians really need to diagnose long COVID? We asked the experts

FierceHealthIT

Do clinicians really need to diagnose long COVID?

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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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Why Dying is Not Giving Up

Society for Participatory Medicine

Throughout my time as a psychotherapist specializing in end of life diseases, primarily cancer, I have spent many hours talking with both patients and medical teams about the importance of authentic communication and end of life planning. I see this kind of planning as life-giving. It allows the person and family to live with more ease, trusting the end will be filled with support, comfort, and all the things and people that matter to them.

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#HealthPolicyValentines – Happy Valentine’s Day

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! If you’re on Twitter, then you probably know that today many in the healthcare world are sharing what they call #HealthPolicyValentines. You can see the latest feed of tweets here. This is a humorous and informative way to talk about some of the nuances of healthcare and specifically healthcare policy. We decided to celebrate the holiday, that we’d share a few of the best ones we saw below.

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Is this the right step in interoperability?

David Chou

The healthcare industry is rapidly transforming with the adoption of healthcare IT and digital healthcare solutions. The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) further bolstered this transition to a modern healthcare system. The TEFCA sets standards for healthcare data interoperability that enables healthcare providers, patients, payers, health information exchanges (HIEs), healthcare IT vendors, and other healthcare organizations to securely and effectively share healthcare dat

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Workforce issues again top of mind for hospital CEOs in 2022: survey

FierceHealthIT

Workforce issues again top of mind for hospital CEOs in 2022: survey dmuoio Tue, 02/14/2023 - 17:22

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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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Cisco Webex on iPad: Better Together

CiscoHealth

Co-authored by Will Suk , Global Partner Executive at Cisco Cisco on Apple products delivers the best ‘work from anywhere’ experiences.

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Combatting Cyberthreats in Healthcare: Strategies for Securing the NHS against Ransomware, Phishing, and Social Engineering

DigitalHealth

Cyber threats continue to remain a concern to the NHS and healthcare sector with ransomware, phishing, and social engineering being primary threats that the NHS must contend with daily. We’ve put together this informative webinar to help you stay ahead of cybercriminals and protect your organization from these types of attacks.

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Is your health system’s digital front door big enough to let everyone in?

Xealth

Amy Oliver, Marketing Manager It’s 2023 and as we all know, the healthcare landscape is continually evolving. A consistent headline I’ve noticed lately is around health systems struggling to keep patients engaged and losing them to competing hospitals, and non-traditional medical organizations offering more convenient and accessible care. To help stem this forceful tide of patient leakage, health systems need to look for creative ways to build a larger and more welcoming digital front door.