Wed.Jan 20, 2021

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Biobeat launches 'hospital at home' version of its remote monitoring platform

Mobi Health News

The Israeli company's take-home kit includes a continuous vitals monitor, a patient app and a cloud-based patient-management system.

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Health center's makeshift telehealth OK, but now is building something grand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Bee Busy Wellness Center in Houston, Texas, like other health centers across the country, struggled with efforts to offer telehealth services to patients when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. THE PROBLEM. As a way to be creative and to extend its healthcare program to those seeking services via telehealth, Bee Busy purchased mobile phones for clinical staff and iPads for providers to engage with patients who had iOS or Android systems, but failed in attempts at expanding its EHR to be compatible to of

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AstraZeneca Estonia to participate in VaccineGuard pilot

Mobi Health News

Estonia, Hungary and Iceland are the first countries to sign up to the new platform supporting the global COVID-19 vaccination programme.

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Innovation in digital health for seniors to continue in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Innovation in digital health for seniors to continue in 2021 Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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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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Zocdoc and Notable Health release vaccine administration support tools

Mobi Health News

Using technology to help fight COVID-19 has been a theme of the pandemic, and it continues to be for vaccine distribution.

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Report finds half of older patients prefer digital tools to in-person consultations

Mobi Health News

The report surveyed over 100 UK GPs and 1,000 patients who visited their doctor in COVID-19.

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Indiana lawmakers push to expand telehealth after pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A bipartisan group of Indiana state lawmakers has introduced a bill in the legislature that would expand access to telehealth after the COVID-19 pandemic. "Telehealth matters," reads the synopsis on Senate Bill 3, which was co-authored by state Sens. Ed Charbonneau, R-Valparaiso; Blake Doriot, R-Middlebury; Michael Crider, R-Greenfield; and Shelli Yoder, D-Bloomington.

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India’s health tech startup MFine raises $16M in latest funding round led by Heritas Capital

Mobi Health News

The startup plans to reinforce its leading position in delivering an AI-driven, on-demand healthcare service across India with its new funding.

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Malaysia’s Sunway Medical Center launches Telemedicine Command Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sunway Medical Center, a private healthcare provider under Malaysia’s Sunway conglomerate company, has launched a Command Center for Telemedicine Services in early 2021, the private tertiary hospital recently announced. The Command Center is located at the main hospital at Sunway City in Kuala Lumpur. Sunway also has a medical center in Velocity in KL and in the neighboring country of Singapore.

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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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Care coordination platform Dina scores $7M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the funds to continue to develop its platform and expand nationally.

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BCBSA backs Lumiata's $14M round to boost COVID-19 risk management using AI

FierceHealthIT

BCBSA backs Lumiata's $14M round to boost COVID-19 risk management using AI. hlandi. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 14:33.

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Anthem details new digital health incubator, Ancestry stops health testing and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: NIH moves forward with physIQ's COVID digital biomarkers; Tyto Care adds pulse oximeter.

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Social Media Data Privacy and Rights – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 1/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Janae Sharp (@CoherenceMed) from @SharpIndex on the topic “Social Media Data Privacy and Rights“ Social Media algorithms control what we see and what we read. The age […].

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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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Anthem details new digital health incubator, Ancestry stops genetic testing and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: NIH moves forward with physIQ's COVID digital biomarkers; Tyto Care adds pulse oximeter.

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UnitedHealth Group reports $15.4B in full-year profit for 2020

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group reports $15.4B in full-year profit for 2020. pminemyer. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 07:30.

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Continuing What We Started: LeanIX's 9th Birthday

LeanIX

LeanIX’s 9th birthday coincides with another remarkable company milestone: its 300th employee. Following a year like no other, this growth is an incredible achievement for us, and I am proud to blow out the candles of this birthday cake with more colleagues than ever before.

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ONC investing $20M to boost COVID-19 vaccine data sharing efforts

FierceHealthIT

ONC investing $20M to boost COVID-19 vaccine data sharing efforts. hlandi. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 15:28.

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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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The Year of Consumer-Centric Healthcare

Health Recovery Solutions

How has COVID-19 shifted patient behavior? How have patients changed how they consume healthcare? Below, explore the trends that will make 2021 the year of patient controlled health.

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Agency veterans appointed as acting CMS, HHS leaders

FierceHealthIT

Agency veterans appointed as acting CMS, HHS leaders. rking. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 13:47.

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Electronic Signatures Can Reduce Costs, Speed Care Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Stephan Herron, President and CEO of Scriptel Corporation. Our modern Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems’ origins can be traced back to the 1960s. Fifty-five years ago, slightly over 100 clinical information and/or storage systems existed. I’m sure that, at the time, one of the purported advantages of an […].

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Health technology company Signify Health files for $100M IPO

FierceHealthIT

Health technology company Signify Health files for $100M IPO. hlandi. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 13:12.

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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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More older adult technology offerings from CES 2021

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Even online – it was still CES – from the silly to interesting to useful. How many of these exist? An international conference where inventions from everywhere are welcomed. Some of these offerings, as always, are odd. But some, as with yesterday’s CES 2021 blog post , are quite straightforward and obviously useful. Others require a leap of imagination or a good explanation as to why this variant of hearing aid is worth as much as $4000 per ear.

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Micky Tripathi tapped as Biden's National Coordinator for Health IT

FierceHealthIT

Micky Tripathi tapped as Biden's National Coordinator for Health IT. hlandi. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 17:30.

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Aledade Raises $100 Million Series D

Healthcare IT Today

Today, Aledade announced it has closed a $100 million Series D funding round following a year of significant growth for its national network of risk-taking primary care practices. Returning investor Meritech Capital led the round, which included new growth investors Tiger Global Management and IVP, and returning investor OMERS Growth Equity. “Working in partnership with hundreds of amazing primary care practices, Aledade ACOs have […].

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Q&A with CISO Dan Bowden, Part 1: “We’re Going to Come Out Better on the Other Side.”

Health System CIO

Tasks like getting patches deployed and securely onboarding new teams members have become even more challenging since Covid-19 hit. But with the right processes and the right culture, they can be accomplished, says CISO Dan Bowden. Source: Q&A with CISO Dan Bowden, Part 1: “We’re Going to Come Out Better on the Other Side.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information n

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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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CPC+ hasn't saved Medicare money yet but has slightly improved quality, independent review finds

FierceHealthIT

CPC+ hasn't saved Medicare money yet but has slightly improved quality, independent review finds. rking. Wed, 01/20/2021 - 13:12.

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Avoiding Hospice Caregiver Burnout

HealthStream

Working as a professional caregiver in a hospice, at whatever level of care, or other palliative care setting can be stressful. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 62% of hospice and palliative care clinicians had suffered from burnout. It’s not hard to understand why.

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COVID-19 and healthcare: 3 areas of market focus

Hinduja Global Solutions

COVID-19 and healthcare: 3 areas of market focus. From delayed or avoided healthcare procedures to lost insurance coverage, COVID-19 has affected almost every aspect of our lives. The primary effects have been well documented, and the secondary effects will present transformational challenges to the healthcare system. Increasingly, there are three emerging areas of opportunity to treat healthcare patients post-pandemic: .

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