Wed.Oct 09, 2019

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BrainCheck completes $8M round to fuel focus on dementia

Mobi Health News

Long centered on sports health and concussions, the cognitive assessment software firm is raising funds to up its game around seniors' mental health.

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Cleveland Health Startup Takes On Physician Staffing Through Locum Tenens

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Born from a federal grant awarded to the University of Utah in the 1970s, “locum tenens” provided staffing services to health clinics and facilities in rural, under-served geographies in the Western United States. The notion of “freelance physicians” grew as the program proved successful for decades to follow.

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Floridian company matching seniors to college students raises $10M

Mobi Health News

Papa's Series A round was led by Canaan with participation from Pivotal Ventures, Initialized Capital, Y Combinator and Sound Ventures.

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Tech startups tackling loneliness among aging seniors

FierceHealthIT

Growing research finds that social isolation has a negative impact on physical health and mortality. Startups Papa and Mon Ami are addressing loneliness among aging seniors by using technology to foster face-to-face connections.

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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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Effective engagement technologies address patient psychology

Mobi Health News

Catalia Health CEO and founder Dr. Cory Kidd discusses his company's approach in designing an AI-based care engagement platform.

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'Data is king' — HealthReveal founder on why market is ripe for integration-focused startups

Mobi Health News

Cofounder, president and COO of HealthReveal Lori Evans Bernstein offers tips for women founders.

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How To Keep Data Safe and Stay Compliant

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Lynch, founder and CEO, Reciprocity Labs. Any healthcare facility that wants to keep its customers happy must have patient portals. It is easy to create these portals, but keeping the data safe from hackers can be tough. In the US, at least half of the healthcare consumers are using patient portals.

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MA plan reimbursing Apple Watches, $100M health tech fund established and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: One Drop lands on Walmart store shelves; Mirror unveils in-home private training service.

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Cerner, Amazon Web Services partner on new cloud-based cognitive health platform

FierceHealthIT

Health IT company Cerner is leveraging its partnership with Amazon Web Services to launch a new cloud-based health platform, called Project Apollo, that incorporates artificial intelligence to improve usability and provide predictive insights for patient care.

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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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Sensyne Health to assist UK MHRA in developing verification methods for digital health algorithms

Mobi Health News

The firm also announced deal with Fortune 200 company to launch gestational diabetes product in the US.

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HHS' massive Stark overhaul prompts optimism for value-based care models

FierceHealthIT

Many of the top health system and provider groups lauded the Health and Human Services’ proposed regulations aimed at updating the decades-old Stark Law saying they believe it is the start to removing major regulatory headaches stymying the shift to value-based care models.

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'Data is king' — Health Reveal founder on why market is ripe for integration-focused startups

Mobi Health News

Cofounder and COO of Health Reveal Lori Evans Bernstein offers tips for women founders.

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UnitedHealthcare launches new app with on-demand telemedicine

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealthcare has launched a new app for its members that will make it far easier for them to access virtual visits around the clock.

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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’s New In Medical Tech For 2020?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As the U.S. population ages and the percentage of citizens over 65 continues to increase, healthcare consumers are taking advantage of a whole new generation of medical technology. Sociologists and anthropologists have been writing about that fact that millions of oldsters are delaying retirement until well past their seventies.

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Only half of patients receive the right antibiotic in outpatient settings, study finds

FierceHealthIT

Only half of patients seeking care for three common ailments in outpatient settings receive the right antibiotic, according to a new study.

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Introduction to IHE

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I was asked for recommendation for a set of resources that would give a good introduction to IHE: One always wishes they could create new material, but realistically there exists plenty of resources already published that can be leveraged: Is it general intro to what is IHE? IHE-USA intro - YouTube - [link] General overview - YouTube - [link] Connectathon - YouTube - [link] Governance Process - [link] Continuous Development Process - [link] Committees - [link] Profiles - [link] Is it specific to

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A look inside Bon Secours Mercy Health’s new employer solutions company 

FierceHealthIT

As more employers are looking to work directly with providers on health initiatives, Bon Secours Mercy Health has launched a new brand that unifies that work in one hub.

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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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5 Actions Hospitals Should Take Now to Prepare for Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Deborah Hsieh, Chief Policy & Strategy Officer at Ciox. Focus on interoperability for health data systems has increased recently given multiple proposed Department of Health and Human Service’s regulations addressing how health data is shared. Healthcare providers are a primary source of health data and should be aware […].

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PDMP privacy: we’ll see it in court

Morning eHealth

VA/Cerner update — New York privacy and genetics update

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – September 2019

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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Eliminating Treatment Delays with Telestroke

GlobalMed

A few years ago, former Bisbee, Arizona Mayor Jack Porter had a stroke that left him unable to talk or move his left leg or left arm. At Bisbee’s Copper Queen Community Hospital’s emergency room, a CT scan showed a clot forming on the right side of Porter’s brain. But there was no neurologist at the hospital. So the hospital sent the scan to a stroke specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix using GlobalMed virtual solutions.

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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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Chutes and Ladders—Boston area hospital CEO out after investigation; HCA Virginia names CEO

FierceHealthIT

Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry.

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Five mobile apps that are reshaping mental health care

Waracle

At WHQ, we talk a lot about emerging technologies in healthcare and the myriad benefits they bring to all of our lives. After all, who could fail to be moved by the truly fascinating advances that AI is bringing into the operating theatre, or AR to rehabilitation, or Voice to symptoms management? Every week, we’re hearing about new healthcare innovations powered by emerging tech, and every week, real lives are being changed for the better because of them.

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Technology Solutions for Optimizing Clinical Documentation

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jessica Campbell, DNP, RN, Clinical Informaticist at LogicStream Health and Tiffany McCauley, MSN, RN, Clinical Executive at Elsevier. Clinical documentation is widely known to be a time-consuming task. Much of that documenting rests on the shoulders of nurses, who use health information technology to help juggle their many roles: […].

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Getting up to Speed with Eugene Borukhovich

Digital Health Today

Interview with Eugene Borukhovich. I had the pleasure of meeting with Eugene Borukhovich at the recent Health 2.0 conference in Santa Clara, CA on September 17th, 2019 to discuss updates regarding this year’s GA4 program and his perspectives on the current digital health landscape. Eugene is a serial intra- and entrepreneur currently serving as a Global Head of Digital Health (G4A) at Bayer and an advisor to numerous digital health startups.

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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 Network Engineer

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 Network Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic and is available in Washington. Here’s a description of the position: Are you […].

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Why Secure Messaging is Safer Than Texting

Synzi

The Safety in Secure Messaging Texting is a quick and easy way to communicate with colleagues and patients. Home health providers appreciate the convenience of using text messaging to confirm appointments, answer questions, and address concerns with fellow staff members … Read More. The post Why Secure Messaging is Safer Than Texting appeared first on Synzi.

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Celebrity HIPAA Breaches Affirm the Importance of Healthcare Compliance Training

HealthStream

HIPAA violations include large-scale data privacy breaches through cyberattacks as well as insider threats like celebrity information privacy violations by employees. Healthcare compliance training needs to address them all.

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