Wed.Jul 01, 2020

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Boots offers access to online video pharmacy consultations for people living with cancer

Mobi Health News

The service will offer an accessible route for those affected by cancer to speak to a trained healthcare professional from the comfort of their own home.

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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases

Health Populi

U.S. health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. according to the American Hospital Association’s report, Hospitals and Health Systems Continue to Face Unprecedented Financial Challenges Due to COVID-19.

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Lenovo unveils its take on remote chronic disease monitoring

Mobi Health News

Scheduled to launch in Q3, the offering combines Lenovo devices, connected biometric biomonitoring tools and an AI-based virtual assistant.

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How one health system harnessed AI, telehealth to combat coronavirus

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. By April, that response included virtual urgent care, remote patient-monitoring, continuous virtual monitoring for in-unit patients and a shift in ambulatory care services.

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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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Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Pear, Shatterproof join forces on new addiction focused DTx coalition

Mobi Health News

One of the organization's main goals is to encourage Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for prescription digital therapeutics.

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Brainlab launches Snke OS enterprise platform, a patient-specific model for precision procedures

Mobi Health News

Munich-based, digital surgical technology company, Brainlab has announced the foundation of new subsidiary, Snke OS, in a move that will allow Snke OS to market to a wider circle of industry startups, partners and competitors. Working out of its new headquarters in the Bogenhausen area of Munich, the team is already developing a digital platform for surgery, rooted in current Brainlab software.

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FCC boosts rural healthcare funding by $198M, with eye toward telehealth expansion

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Federal Communications Commission announced this week that it would be allocating more money to be disbursed to rural providers and help them establish the broadband connectivity necessary to implement telehealth and virtual care during the coronavirus crisis. WHY IT MATTERS. The FCC's Rural Health Care Program has seen intense interest in recent years from small providers nationwide seeking high-speed broadband to enable telehealth and remote patient-monitoring – so much so that t

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Walgreens Boots Alliance launches digital shopping platform with Microsoft and Adobe, Abbott and Tandem integrate, and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Walgreens Boots Alliance expanded its partnership with Microsoft and Adobe to launch a digital platform that will deliver personalized healthcare and shopping offerings. It will give Walgreens and Boots customers the ability to access products and services from its pharmacy and retail businesses wherever and whenever they want. This marks WBA’s second phase of its digital transformation.

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White House challenging ACA; Congress mulling permanent telehealth reform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: White House challenging ACA; Congress mulling permanent telehealth reform Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Transform Clinical Communication With Role-based Messaging

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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Evidation Health eyes virtual care with $45M Series D, Genome Medical pursues 'telegenomics' with $14M and more digital health fundraising news

Mobi Health News

Also: NexHealth's $15 million Series A, Avive Solutions' $7 million raise and Cyclica's $16.9 million Series B.

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3 Healthy Habits for Seniors to Keep Healthy

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. We live in troubled times. When the coronavirus appeared in the United States after wreaking havoc around the world, it found a country with many socioeconomic structural weaknesses to expose—dysfunctional political parties, an economy based […].

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ATA 2020 Takeaways and Wrap-Up from eVisit

eVisit

Thanks for joining us at the ATA2020 Annual Conference last week. Whether we virtually saw you in our booth, in a 1:1 meeting, or together attending the vast range of sessions, one huge takeaway for us is that the ATA delivered on its hashtag — #GoTelehealth — with powerful content to propel telehealth forward. Telehealth is certainly on the move and here to stay!

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How Doctors Rely On Digital Services to Save Money

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Digital services have proved to be reliable and efficient in medical operations. Some doctors use digital services to advertise their products while others use various software to monitor their clients as well as prescribe drugs […]. The article How Doctors Rely On Digital Services to Save Money appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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 Next?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Here’s a question we’re getting a lot right now: When are the policy changes that went into effect at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic expiring? Or: Will these changes be made permanent? The fact is, we don’t know but we’re seeing the winds of change starting to take hold. Whereas wide acceptance of telehealth was an uphill climb for many pre-pandemic, the current demand for telehealth has flung the doors wide open.

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Primary care is ripe for disruption. Here are the players trying to shake up the market

FierceHealthIT

Primary care is ripe for disruption. Here are the players trying to shake up the market. hlandi. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 17:15.

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Using Tech To Improve The Patient Experience

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Going to a hospital or other healthcare practice has always been a stressful process for patients. To ensure that their patients are comfortable, healthcare providers need to make sure they are improving the customer experience […]. The article Using Tech To Improve The Patient Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Investors double down on health technology as funding reaches $9.1B in 2020

FierceHealthIT

Investors double down on health technology as funding reaches $9.1B in 2020. hlandi. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 14:21.

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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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Larry Kaiser Named HITMC 2020 Health IT Marketing Person Of The Year

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 3 min Optimum Healthcare IT announces that VP of Marketing, Larry Kaiser, has been named the 2020 HITMC Health IT Marketing Person of the Year. The post Larry Kaiser Named HITMC 2020 Health IT Marketing Person Of The Year appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Industry Voices—What health systems must do to embrace the new normal

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—What health systems must do to embrace the new normal. treed. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 12:20.

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Anthony Constantinou Explain Importance of Mental Wellbeing During Coronavirus

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

The coronavirus disaster can affect us in lots of ways: physically, emotionally, economically, socially, and psychologically. As the virus is unseen, unidentified, and seemingly unavoidable, it grips us with a sense of fear, driving unhealthy thought patterns and links. Feelings of dread, anxiety, sadness, and insecurity are normal during a pandemic.

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FCC adds $198M for rural healthcare providers to boost telehealth services

FierceHealthIT

FCC adds $198M for rural healthcare providers to boost telehealth services. hlandi. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 11:38.

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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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Automated Nurse Cross-Training Needs to Be in Place Before the Next Pandemic

HealthStream

The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the need for healthcare organizations to have an automated solution that can quickly identify which of their nurses can most easily be cross-trained for roles that are sorely needed and then determine how much training was necessary.

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UCSF pays hackers $1.1M to regain access to medical school servers

FierceHealthIT

UCSF pays hackers $1.1M to regain access to medical school servers. hlandi. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 07:09.

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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from June 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

June -- it was the worst of times. Who can comprehend that 43% of Covid-19 deaths are linked to nursing homes? Who could have imagined the economic impact of job loss and (almost all) business shutdown? Who could have speculated that senior living organizations would have get occupancy levels nationwide below 88%? Who would have thought that telehealth definitions would include phone calls and Facetime ?

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Industry Voices—Mapping the ripple effects of a pandemic: We have to measure more than just COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Mapping the ripple effects of a pandemic: We have to measure more than just COVID-19. hlandi. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 10:17.

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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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Securing Medical Devices and IoT

Healthcare IT Today

I know it’s easy to be distracted by COVID-19 right now, but it’s important to remember that many of the challenges we faced pre-COVID-19 are still around and need to be managed effectively even as we deal with the pandemic. One of those ongoing challenges is properly securing medical devices and IoT. In fact, one […].

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Centene planning to invest $1B in new east coast headquarters in Charlotte

FierceHealthIT

Centene planning to invest $1B in new east coast headquarters in Charlotte. pminemyer. Wed, 07/01/2020 - 13:24.

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Solving the Challenge of High-volume Health Plan Chart Requests

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Steve Mallinak, Senior Vice President of Operations at Ciox. Every year, healthcare providers receive thousands of health plan chart requests. From Medicare Risk Adjustment (MRA) requests to HEDIS requests, Affordable Care Act (ACA) records retrieval, RADV, DRG Audit, CIP and QIP: the alphabet soup of chart request types […].