Mon.Feb 01, 2021

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AliveCor updates its ECG software to determine three additional heart conditions

Mobi Health News

The company hopes that its more descriptive reports will distinguish the personal ECG offering from others limited to atrial fibrillation detection alone.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

Physicians in the U.S. are experiencing “death by 1,000 cuts,” according to the 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report. Medscape polled 12,339 physicians representing over 29 specialties between late August and early November 2020 to gauge their feelings about work and life in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012.

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Modern Health buys fellow digital mental health startup Kip

Mobi Health News

Modern Health will now be able to integrate Kip's data tracking and assessment tool into its services.

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University of Michigan Hospital deploys Epic-linked 'patient monitoring at home'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, implemented a patient monitoring at home, or PM@H program, using fully managed device kits prior to the pandemic. Studies show great benefits for patients, as well as hospitals, when patients are monitored in the 30-day post-discharge period. THE PROBLEM. With this information, the hospital convened a group of thought leaders consisting of its post-acute care services division, which is managed as part of health system Michigan Medicine

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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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Push Doctor partners with Well Pharmacy to launch 'pharmacy-first' digital health service

Mobi Health News

An initial pilot scheme will provide patients with access to local community pharmacists via the Push Doctor platform.

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EIT Health invests €3M in innovations for endometrial cancer and Parkinson's disease

Mobi Health News

The Wild Card open innovation programme has selected two innovator teams from Spain and Germany.

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How COVID-19 drove Lyft to launch essential care delivery program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Population Health Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How COVID-19 drove Lyft to launch essential care delivery program Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Maven announces Scientific Advisory Board members, Medable adds chief product officer, Harmony Healthcare appoints CEO and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Fern Health gets a new CEO, SonderMind grows executive leadership team by two and Twentyeight Health names new hires.

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Google Cloud launches vaccine management tools as tech giants jump into distribution efforts

FierceHealthIT

Google Cloud launches vaccine management tools as tech giants jump into distribution efforts. hlandi. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 12:34.

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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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Assisted Reproduction Unicorn Basecare Medical to IPO in Hong Kong

Mobi Health News

Reproductive health firm Suzhou Basecare Medical Co., Ltd will list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on February 8 2021. Founded in 2019 in Jiangsu, Basecare has attracted a lot of interest for its self-developed PGT-A test kit that accurately screens each embryo to detect developmental defects and ensure healthy development, allowing more infertile or at-risk couples in China to deliver healthy babies.

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Humana teams up with startup DispatchHealth to expand in-home care services

FierceHealthIT

Humana teams up with startup DispatchHealth to expand in-home care services. hlandi. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 11:27.

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Aging and Health Technology blog posts from January 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Time for the Market Overview Technology for Aging 2021. It’s a new year and the baby boomers turn 75. It took the combination of 73 million boomers, a pandemic emergency, and the sheer size of the aging population to transform a 2009 market niche into this 2021 market category worthy of investment-- less about products specifically designed for older adults as it is about the marketing of many existing offerings as useful to them.

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Karen Lynch officially takes the helm of CVS Health

FierceHealthIT

Karen Lynch officially takes the helm of CVS Health. pminemyer. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 11:16.

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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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A Look at the Financial Impact of COVID on Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

We’ve all heard the stories of how healthcare organizations have been impacted financially thanks to COVID-19. Not being allowed to do “elective” procedures has hit the bottom line of most healthcare organizations. The good news is that I’m starting to hear that many healthcare organizations are back to pre-pandemic levels.

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FAH presses for $32B in provider assistance in next COVID-19 relief package

FierceHealthIT

FAH presses for $32B in provider assistance in next COVID-19 relief package. rking. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 11:06.

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UVA Health Deploys AI Tool To Predict COVID-19 Complications

Healthcare IT Today

The University of Virginia Health System has rolled out an AI-based predictive analytics tool that monitors COVID-19 patients continuously and predicts whether they are likely to take a turn for the worse. The system, CoMET, draws moment-to-moment data from a patient’s EHR, including EKG, lab results, and vital signs, to create a graphic summarizing their […].

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Health tech funding snapshot—Paige nets $100M; TimelyMD banks $60M to expand teletherapy for college students

FierceHealthIT

Health tech funding snapshot—Paige nets $100M; TimelyMD banks $60M to expand teletherapy for college students. hlandi. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 16:44.

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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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Five Key Criteria That Will Determine Telehealth’s Long-term Viability

Health System CIO

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown that telemedicine is a viable – and sometimes even a preferred – option for providing patient care. Its continued success, however, is going to require some work, says CIO Michael Saad. Source: Five Key Criteria That Will Determine Telehealth’s Long-term Viability on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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Sharecare Acquires doc.ai to Expand Engineering Expertise, Accelerate Digital Transformation of Healthcare Through Innovative AI platform

Healthcare IT Today

Sharecare, the digital health company that helps people manage all their health in one place, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire doc.ai, an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) platform accelerating digital transformation in healthcare. “The promise that AI holds in healthcare is about much more than identifying behavior patterns or mapping […].

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2021 – New Healthcare Regulations: What You Need to Know

HealthStream

The pandemic has, in some cases, slowed the pace of healthcare regulation implementation and enforcement, but new regulatory issues continue to emerge. Key initiatives will likely find new implementation dates in 2021.

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Google and Apple: Exposure Notifications

Medicine and Technology

Google and Apple jointly created the Exposure Notifications System out of a shared sense of responsibility to help governments and our global community fight the COVID-19 pandemic through contact tracing. Public health authorities around the world are building apps that use the Exposure Notifications System to help their contact tracing efforts. For example, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) has developed the COVID Alert PA mobile app.

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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 is the Medical Imaging Equipment Service plan required? How it can be successful?

KB Dental Consulting

Every medical imaging facility has a certain tolerance risk it can undergo above which a safety net is required to…

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