Wed.Sep 04, 2019

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Virtual behavioral health startup Ginger scores $35M in new funding

Mobi Health News

WP Global Partners led the round with participation from City Light Capital, Nimble Ventures, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, Khosla Ventures, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Kapor Capital.

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It’s Time to Stop Overthinking Telehealth: Simplicity and Convenience Are the Key When Evaluating Video Platforms

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Morgan, CEO, Updox. Whether it’s using FaceTime to catch up with friends across the country or web conferencing in the workplace to save the time and cost associated with business travel, video has become pervasive in almost every aspect of our everyday life.

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Planned Parenthood rolls out new virtual care tool in 27 states

Mobi Health News

The platform will let users request birth control, get a UTI prescription and schedule an in-person appointment.

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Healthcare Innovation Isn’t Free

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dov Z. Hirsch, general manager of The Immersive Health Group, a subsidiary of The Glimpse Group and founder of ContinuumXR and Martie Moore, MAOM, RN, CPHQ, clinical advisory board chair, ContinuumXR. It’s no secret that healthcare is undergoing a transformation.

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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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Putting data and analytics tools in the hands of a broader audience

Mobi Health News

An interview with David Grauer, Senior Vice President, Health Catalyst.

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Asus announces ECG fitness watch, monitoring device data to curtail violence and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Women's health apps launch PCOS screening tools; uBiome files for bankruptcy.

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EHRs More Frequently Factor Into Medical Malpractice Claims, Study Finds

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

While the technology systems are unlikely to be the primary cause of claims, they have become a more prevalent source of risk over the years

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Liva Healthcare wins EU funding to help pregnant women at risk of Type 2 diabetes

Mobi Health News

The digital health coaching firm will take part in a diabetes research project in 2020.

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Is that medical device interoperable? Center for Medical Interoperability program will verify it.

FierceHealthIT

Nashville-based nonprofit the Center for Medical Interoperability is launching an industry-wide verification program to confirm medical device interoperability. The project, called C4MI Verified, will test and verify medical devices to determine compliance with selected interoperability specification requirements, the Center announced Wednesday morning.

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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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French startup Wefight raises €1.8m for its virtual companion to combat loneliness in chronic disease patients

Mobi Health News

Funding secured through the EIT Health Investor Network will be used to extend the app to more disease types by 2020.

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Awardees Honored for Contributions to Digital Health

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Sept. 4, 2019 | The UAMS-led South Central Telehealth Resource Center recently presented three awards to honor those for their work building networks for and advocacy of digital medicine. The awards were presented at the South Central Telehealth Forum, held Aug. 19 and 20 in Nashville, Tennessee. The resource center serves Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.

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White Medicare patients transported to closest ED more often than blacks, Hispanics

FierceHealthIT

White Medicare patients are more likely to be transported to the closest emergency department than their black or Hispanic counterparts, according to a new study out of Boston University’s School of Medicine.

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Showcasing Functional Limitation Aids

Christina's Considerations

A little over two years ago I started researching tools to help me stay active in spite of new functional limitations. I looked for products to help me perform activities of daily living as independently as possible. As I progressed.

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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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At AMA, for the first time, 3 presidents—past, present and future—are all women

FierceHealthIT

For the first time in the American Medical Association’s history, women are occupying three roles: its past, present and future presidents.

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Interopability projects maturing

Morning eHealth

Study shows health improvements from PDMPs — Hurricane triggering HIE work

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Cerner laying off 255 U.S. employees as part of efforts to cut costs, boost operating margins

FierceHealthIT

Health IT giant Cerner is laying off 255 of its U.S. employees as part of its previously announced efforts to cut costs and boost operating margins to 20% by the end of the year.

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Surprising Number of Healthcare Employees Have No Cybersecurity Training

Healthcare IT Today

This week, the news broke that a data breach at the neurology department at Massachusetts General Hospital had exposed private health information on nearly 10,000 people. According to a story appearing in the Boston Globe, an authorized third party got to data stored in software used by MGH researchers. What’s most remarkable about incidents like […].

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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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California's Medicaid expansion led to fewer evictions: study

FierceHealthIT

A new study found that the Medicaid expansion in California led to fewer housing evictions, concluding that the expansion could help with housing stability.

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – August 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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CVS-Aetna merger clears federal judge's review

FierceHealthIT

A federal judge has signed off on a settlement between the Department of Justice, CVS Health and Aetna, ending a months-long review of the merger deal.

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6 Best Practices To Improve Your Mobile Health App

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Joe Tuan is the founder of Topflight Apps. mHealth apps are meant to deliver life-saving functions. Whether it’s for e-prescription, appointment setting, patient management or even patient education, you want to make sure your users can find and fully utilize all the functions of your app. These are […].

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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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Prescription drug databases lead to fewer opioid-related inpatient stays, ED visits

FierceHealthIT

States that require providers to use prescription drug monitoring databases not only have a lower rate of opioid prescriptions, but these mandates also lead to lower rates of opioid-related inpatient stays and emergency department visits.

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5 Things You’re Doing That Increase Your Risk of DKA

Insulin Nation

Throughout the last decade of living as a T1D, I’ve been vaguely familiar with the concept of diabetic ketoacidosis. I knew that if I was sick or if my blood sugar was extremely high, I needed to test for ketones. Every time my doctor asked if I had ketone test strips at home, I said yes. Though truth be told, they were almost always expired. I knew DKA was bad.

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Moody's: The industrywide implications of UnitedHealth's spat with TeamHealth 

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth’s contract battles with two large physician staffing agencies have notable implications for the industry amid the ongoing debate over ways to mitigate surprise medical bills, a new analysis shows.

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Featured Health IT Job: Epic Beaker Analyst

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 Beaker Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cumberland Consulting Group and is in the Northeastern US. Here’s a description of the position: Position Overview We […].

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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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AHA report makes argument that consolidation reduces costs, improves quality

FierceHealthIT

While experts have raised plenty of concerns about provider consolidation driving up costs, a new American Hospital Association-commissioned report released Wednesday concluded the opposite result is true.

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How a Communication Platform Can Support Recovery

Synzi

The Importance of Recovery Month The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) sponsors Recovery Month every September to educate Americans that substance use treatment and mental health services can enable those with mental and substance use disorders to live healthy … Read More. The post How a Communication Platform Can Support Recovery appeared first on Synzi.

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Survey Results about COI Management in Healthcare: Part 1

HealthStream

While healthcare organizations largely are committed to complying with COI Management rules, there is a breadth of how they go about it. HCCS—A HealthStream Company surveyed 281 U.S. healthcare compliance leaders about the current state of their COI compliance programs.

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