Wed.Aug 25, 2021

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Meditation company Headspace merges with digital behavioral health startup Ginger

Mobi Health News

Ginger’s CEO Russel Glass will take over as CEO of Headspace Health, and Headspace CEO CeCe Morken will continue to serve as Headspace CEO and president of the combined company.

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At the start of the pandemic, emergency declarations and insurer policies encouraged the shift to telehealth. Telehealth usage has skyrocketed, often leading patients to grow accustomed to relying on virtual care for its convenience and cost-efficiency. Now, as states across the U.S. are putting an end to these policies, telehealth meets one of its biggest hurdles: geographic barriers.

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Fitbit launches newest wearable with stress management features

Mobi Health News

The Charge 5 is available today for preorder and will launch with worldwide availability in the fall.

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Telehealth, virtual care well-suited for use in behavioral health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual care can help fill the gaps in behavioral healthcare, including the critical supply-and-demand issue – too many patients, not enough clinicians – that has been hampering care for quite some time. This was the focus of a HIMSS21 Digital discussion between Michael Hasselberg, senior director of digital health at the University of Rochester and Julie Rish, clinical psychologist and director of design and best practices at the Cleveland Clinic.

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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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Study finds 95% of patients were able to complete medication abortion via telehealth services

Mobi Health News

The small study found nearly all patients had a complete abortion without the need for intervention.

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K Health expands its mental health offering with Trusst acquisition

Mobi Health News

The new acquisition is set to give K Health more behavioral health capabilities.

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Three-quarters of employers have accelerated telehealth offerings amid pandemic: Business Group

FierceHealthIT

Three-quarters of employers have accelerated telehealth offerings amid pandemic: Business Group. pminemyer. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 16:29.

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South Korea clears VUNO's AI cardiac arrest prediction device for use

Mobi Health News

The device predicts cardiac arrests using four primary vital signs.

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AI startup Kintsugi secures $8M from investors to build out voice biomarker-based mental health tech

FierceHealthIT

AI startup Kintsugi secures $8M from investors to build out voice biomarker-based mental health tech. elucas. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 13:56.

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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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Calibrate scores $100M following company's one year anniversary and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Better Therapeutics scored a $50 million loan facility, DiA Imaging Analysis raised $14 million and SCAN Group invested in MedArrive.

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Q&A with Mayo Clinic’s Mark Wehde on the Future of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

At the recent DesignCon, an engineering conference and expo, Mark Wehde from Mayo Clinic was the keynote speaker. In his keynote he discussed the future of healthcare. Afterward, he dove into the key points of his presentation in this Q&A. We’re in the midst of a transformative era with regard to medical device innovation. What […].

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Ginger and Headspace plan merger to rapidly scale up digital mental health services

FierceHealthIT

Ginger and Headspace plan merger to rapidly scale up digital mental health services. hlandi. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 07:45.

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7 Common Remote Patient Monitoring Devices

Health Recovery Solutions

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices allow providers to monitor, report, and analyze their patient’s acute or chronic conditions from outside the hospital or clinic setting. They enable real-time understanding of a patient’s disease state, enabling the provider to make proactive clinical decisions.

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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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Providers push Congress to include value-based care bill in $3.5T infrastructure package

FierceHealthIT

Providers push Congress to include value-based care bill in $3.5T infrastructure package. rking. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 11:48.

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SCAN Group Makes Strategic Investment in MedArrive

Healthcare IT Today

With second outside investment, healthcare non-profit signals ‘the future of healthcare lies in the home. SCAN Group, whose holdings include SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, has made a strategic investment in MedArrive. MedArrive is a healthcare logistics and services platform that enables payers and providers to leverage a […].

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Cigna to expand ACA exchange footprint to 3 new states, 93 counties

FierceHealthIT

Cigna to expand ACA exchange footprint to 3 new states, 93 counties. pminemyer. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 17:41.

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5 Tips to Prepare Your Website for Core Web Vitals

Geonetric

Download this white paper to learn about Google’s Core Web Vitals and what metrics this update will use as new ranking signals. You’ll learn how to: Think about user experience as a ranking signal Prioritize changes to your site that meets Google’s new requirements Assess technical debt and optimize Find tools to use to diagnose […]. Read 5 Tips to Prepare Your Website for Core Web Vitals at Geonetric.com.

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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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Chutes & Ladders—BetterUp names its first CMO; Allina Health Aetna's new COO

FierceHealthIT

Chutes & Ladders—BetterUp names its first CMO; Allina Health Aetna's new COO. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 18:01.

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COVID-19 Testing Support

Optimum Healthcare IT

After many months of isolation, we're all ready to return to normalcy. COVID-19 testing continues to be an important tool to slow the virus. The post COVID-19 Testing Support appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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ACOs generated $4.1B in gross savings in 2020, nearly double 2019 amount

FierceHealthIT

ACOs generated $4.1B in gross savings in 2020, nearly double 2019 amount. rking. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 15:22.

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HIStalk Interviews Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO, Well Health

HIStalk Interviews

Guillaume de Zwirek is CEO of Well Health of Santa.

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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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What is Primary Health?

Docnotes

I’ve been writing a blog post on this topic for a few months. . It’s gone through several iterations and has survived a half-dozen friendly editors. This post isn’t that post, which still needs honing and will follow in the coming days. This post is the personal prelude – the why that perhaps is important to share before the what.

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LeanIX Named a Leader in 2021 SPARK Matrix™ Evaluation

LeanIX

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Telehealth may not engender strong consumer loyalty, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new analysis suggests that downstream capture from telehealth as a "digital front door" does not suggest strong consumer loyalty. Sanjula Jain, chief research officer at Trilliant and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, recently analyzed the behavior of commercially insured individuals in a single market, within and outside one of the country's largest health systems.

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Podcast Q&A: CIO Dan Nigrin Talks Integration, Vaccines & the Rise of RPM

Health System CIO

The decision MaineHealth made several years ago to become a system – and create a central decision-making body – made a significant difference during Covid, says CIO Dan Nigrin. "It allowed us to be more nimble and deploy solutions more efficiently.". Source: Podcast Q&A: CIO Dan Nigrin Talks Integration, Vaccines & the Rise of RPM on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs

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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.