Wed.Oct 02, 2019

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CB Insights releases Digital Health 150 list of 'most promising' private startups

Mobi Health News

Selected from a pool of 5,000 companies, the full cohort paints a picture of the trends, regions and investors headlining digital health.

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Humana's chief strategy officer: Insurance giant is shifting to be a healthcare company

FierceHealthIT

NEW YORK CITY—Humana is shifting from "an insurance company with elements of healthcare to a healthcare company with elements of insurance," according to Vishal Agrawal, chief strategy and corporate development officer at Humana.

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Pilot programme to improve elderly chronic disease management launched in Singapore

Mobi Health News

After their recent collaboration with Grab in August to ensure that medication is delivered within 90 minutes once the teleconsultation session is complete, Singapore-based digital health startup WhiteCoat announced earlier this week that they are partnering with Homage, an on-demand home caregiving services platform to launch a pilot telehealth programme that complements home-based care.

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Dental practice pays $10K to settle complaint it disclosed patient information on Yelp

FierceHealthIT

Practices need to be careful they don’t disclose patients’ health information when responding to reviews on social media sites, after it cost a dental practice $10,000.

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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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Digital health funding slows in Q3 2019, according to Rock Health report

Mobi Health News

The report noted that IPOs are on the rise, and that funding for women's health and behavioral health companies is growing.

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Cloud management tool for dental practices CareStack lands $28M

Mobi Health News

The latest funding round was led by Steadview Capital and Delta Dental of California.

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Preventing Human Error At Healthcare Organizations

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Tim Dubes, vice president of marketing, Ocrolus. Human error at healthcare organizations is often associated with physicians unintentionally harming patients. While this scenario is common and serious, it’s not the only form of human error that takes place.

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Sleep Data raises $6M for digital platform BetterNight

Mobi Health News

The platform includes a remote monitoring component and a telemedicine piece.

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Insurance coverage for pest control and dog food? Anthem unveils 2020 MA supplemental benefits

FierceHealthIT

With Medicare Advantage open enrollment on the horizon, Anthem unveiled its plans for expanded supplemental benefits in the 2020 plan year.

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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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NOCD's $4M Series A will help the behavior help platform expand its provider network

Mobi Health News

The app provides OCD patients with exercises, provider chats and other resources for managing the condition.

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Considering Technology Adoption -- AARP’s 2008 Healthy@Home

Aging in Place Technology Watch

? AARP research h ighlights changes in technology adoption. What a difference more than a decade makes. Consider a long-ago AARP document that examined technology use of the 65+ population. Remember Healthy@Home in 2008 ? You probably don’t, but you should read it. Kudos to Linda Barrett who led the production of this milestone report. The iPhone had just been released in June of 2007, so this survey did not ask about smartphone use – there was no Digital Health (a " check engine light for y

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Alabama health system forced to limit hospital services after ransomware attack

FierceHealthIT

Alabama-based DCH Health System has been forced to limit hospital services to only "the most critical new patients" after been hit with a ransomware attack. The health system, which operates hospitals in Tuscaloosa, Fayette, and Northport, detected ransomware affected its systems on Oct. 1.

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How to Safely Take a Vacation From Your Diabetes

Insulin Nation

When you live with a life-altering condition for months, years, or decades with no cure in sight, it can be easy to become overwhelmed. To feel helpless, exhausted, and just plain DONE. For too many type 1 diabetics, these kinds of feelings lead to diabetic burnout. This black hole of emotions often causes people to give up all forms of diabetes management.

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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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Grassley calls out HHS on response to genetic testing fraud after DOJ arrests

FierceHealthIT

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, charged Health and Human Services is taking the threat of Medicare fraud from genetic testing too lightly.

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Jury still out on telehealth savings

Morning eHealth

FDA warns on cybersecurity — VA sharing records by default

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A majority of payers in new survey used an outcomes-based contract to lower drug costs

FierceHealthIT

A recent survey of major payers found that 58% had executed an outcomes-based contract with a drug manufacturer in 2019, up from 24% in 2017.

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How A Communication Platform Can Coordinate and Deliver Care in Rural Communities

Synzi

Home Health Barriers to Caring for Rural Patients Home health agencies serving rural communities face unique challenges in providing accessible and impactful care to rural patients. Barriers to providing quality care across a rural area include: Nearly half of survey … Read More. The post How A Communication Platform Can Coordinate and Deliver Care in Rural Communities appeared first on Synzi.

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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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Dartmouth-Hitchcock, GraniteOne Health seek regulatory OK for merger

FierceHealthIT

Nine months after announcing a plan to pursue a $2.7 billion merger, New Hampshire-based health systems Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and GraniteOne Health announced Wednesday they are moving forward with the combination of the two healthcare systems.

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5 Ways Telemedicine Can Help with Flu Season

GlobalMed

100 years ago, a third of the world’s population became sick. One of the most disastrous pandemics in human history, the outbreak spread rapidly from nation to nation, infecting people even on remote islands. Today some experts believe it killed more people than both World Wars combined. The name of this terrible virus? The flu. Or more specifically, the H1N1 virus, also called the Spanish flu.

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Digital behavioral health, women's health seeing strong growth in venture capital funding: report

FierceHealthIT

Digital behavioral health companies have raised a total of $416 million through the third quarter of this year. That's 8% of the overall $5.5 billion that digital health companies have raised in venture capital funding in 2019, Rock Health says in its third-quarter report.

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The Bigger the Better: Getting Data for Health Care Analytics at Wolters Kluwer

Healthcare IT Today

News comes over the transom on a daily basis about Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic or some other health care institution using modern analytics and machine learning. But a basic tenet of machine learning holds that you need lots and lots of data to derive valid and trustworthy insights. Health care institutions rarely have […].

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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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Virginia doctor sentenced to 40 years in prison after conviction on more than 800 opioid counts

FierceHealthIT

A Virginia physician was sentenced to 40 years in prison for illegally prescribing opioids, including one prescription that caused a woman’s death.

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Featured Health IT Job: Epic Project Manager

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic Project Manager position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cordea Consulting and is available in Oklahoma. Here’s a description of the position: Required Experience: Minimum Five (5) […].

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After ouster from Planned Parenthood, former CEO Leana Wen is talking about takeaways, women's health

FierceHealthIT

It’s been three months since Leana Wen, M.D., was ousted as the head of Planned Parenthood, and now the former CEO is talking, saying her sudden departure was due to differences over “goals and strategy.

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OHTs and Integration Dominates Canadian Conference (OMDESC19)

Healthcare IT Today

At the recent OntarioMD Every Step Conference in Canada (#OMDESC19), two topics dominated the agenda and the hallway talk – the new Ontario Health Teams and integration with provincial health data repositories. Only one of those two generated excitement. OntarioMD, is a subsidiary of the Ontario Medical Association and is funded by the Ontario Ministry […].

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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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Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Partners with Synzi to Improve Patient Engagement and Communication

Synzi

Hospital Implements Synzi’s Virtual Care Platform to Facilitate Patient Communication and Reduce No-Shows for Procedures ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Synzi, a leading virtual care company, is partnering with Adventist Health Ukiah Valley (AHUV), a not-for-profit hospital based in Northern California, to … Read More. The post Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Partners with Synzi to Improve Patient Engagement and Communication appeared first on Synzi.

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Planning for Successful EHR Training

Optimum Healthcare IT

A successful EHR training program is the result of many months of planning and communicating organizational expectations. The post Planning for Successful EHR Training appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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10 healthcare deals that made headlines this year

FierceHealthIT

In this special report, we look back at some of the deals that have captured headlines so far this year.

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