Fri.May 14, 2021

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Caretech company Birdie raises £8.2M for elderly health and care

Mobi Health News

Birdie’s intuitive app-based solution is part of the aim to develop integrated technology that will connect all aspects of health and elderly care.

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Mayo Clinic, Kaiser put $100M toward hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente announced this week that they will collaborate to build capacity for hospital-at-home care. The partnership will begin with a reported $100 million combined investment in Medically Home Group, which provides a technology platform aimed at allowing providers to address a range of acute clinical conditions safely in a patient's home.

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Patient financial engagement platform Cedar snaps up medical billing company OODA

Mobi Health News

The companies hope they can alleviate some of the problems that lead to poor consumer financial experiences and administrative waste in healthcare.

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Industry Voices—From asthma to COVID-19: Using smartphones to reduce hospitalizations

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—From asthma to COVID-19: Using smartphones to reduce hospitalizations. pminemyer. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 12:05.

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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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Rapid diagnostic service Cue Health lands $235M in new funding

Mobi Health News

The new capital will be used to accelerate Cue’s growth.

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GoodRx purchases fellow prescription price transparency company RxSaver for $50M

Mobi Health News

The company is now facing even more competition from retail giant Amazon.

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House bill mandates Medicare Advantage plans adopt electronic prior authorization

FierceHealthIT

House bill mandates Medicare Advantage plans adopt electronic prior authorization. rking. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 12:55.

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Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente invest in at-home acute level care

Mobi Health News

Regulations allowing non hospital space to be used for patient care during the COVID-19 emergency gave rise to hospital care in the home setting.

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GoodRx acquires RxSaver to expand discount drug business as executives downplay Amazon threat

FierceHealthIT

GoodRx acquires RxSaver to expand discount drug business as executives downplay Amazon threat. hlandi. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 15:57.

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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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UnitedHealth launching post-discharge home program for group Medicare Advantage plans

Mobi Health News

Included is post-discharge meal delivery, transportation and up to six hours of in-home personal care.

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The Future of Mental Health Care in the Virtual World

Iris Telehealth

The way we talk about mental health has changed during the pandemic. Over the past year, COVID-19 and the subsequent mental health crisis have helped decrease the stigma around discussing mental health and have increased awareness of the vast need across the country for access to quality care. And, with the emergency telehealth protocols, we’ve seen an improvement in access to care across the country.

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ONC wants feedback to shape healthcare interoperability goals for next decade

FierceHealthIT

ONC wants feedback to shape healthcare interoperability goals for next decade. hlandi. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 11:56.

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Strategies for Managing Hybrid Cloud Environments in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare is slowly moving to the cloud. There is growing comfort with using cloud-based apps like word processing and some pioneering organizations have implemented their own private clouds for file storage. Many clinical applications, however, remain inside on-premise Data Centers. How can healthcare organizations manage performance and security in this hybrid environment?

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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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CMS: Mental health services decline by double-digits for Medicaid, CHIP beneficiaries last year

FierceHealthIT

CMS: Mental health services decline by double-digits for Medicaid, CHIP beneficiaries last year. rking. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 15:34.

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Medical Prodigy DeepScribe Lands $5.2M Seed Funding for Life-Changing AI Assistant

Healthcare IT Today

DeepScribe today announced a $5.2M seed round led by Bee Partners with participation from Industry Ventures and Stage II Capital along with existing investors Tsingyuan Ventures, 1984 Ventures, Wavemaker 360, Supernode Ventures, Skydeck, Plug and Play and Sequoia Scout Fund, providing new backing for the world’s first ambient AI medical scribe. Launched in 2019, DeepScribe […].

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Pandemic accelerating employers' interest in voluntary benefits: WTW survey

FierceHealthIT

Pandemic accelerating employers' interest in voluntary benefits: WTW survey. pminemyer. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 13:40.

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#HITtheTrails Mix Tape

Healthcare IT Today

There is nothing better than a good mix tape to accompany you on a long road trip. To this day, any song by John Denver invokes memories of childhood road vacations to Daytona Beach. A good song can make the miles melt away. Mix tapes are also great to help get you pumped up and […].

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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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CommonSpirit Health accelerates COVID-19 rebound with $539M in operating gains

FierceHealthIT

CommonSpirit Health accelerates COVID-19 rebound with $539M in operating gains. dmuoio. Fri, 05/14/2021 - 16:21.

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Cedar Announces Agreement to Acquire OODA Health to Revolutionize the Consumer Financial Experience in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Cedar, an innovative healthcare financial technology platform, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OODA Health, a healthcare technology company focused on improving the healthcare administrative experience with payers and providers, for $425 million. By bringing together providers and payers onto one healthcare financial technology platform, Cedar will be the only complete […].

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CaptureRx ransomware attack exposes patient data; insurers fear telehealth overutilization

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Privacy & Security.

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3 Important Telehealth Lessons 3HC Learned in the Last Year

Health Recovery Solutions

On Tuesday, May 4th, The Association for Home & Hospice Care of North Carolina (AHHC) held a webinar highlighting 3HC ’s telehealth and RPM program. A Step-by-Step Approach by 3HC to Enhance Your Telehealth & RPM Program explored how to effectively leverage telehealth and RPM as tools to extend patient care. 3HC launched its telehealth program with HRS in 2018 and has achieved a 30-day rehospitalization rate of 4.17%, increased cost savings, improved patient engagement, and a 96% patient

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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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Walmart's MeMD versus Amazon Care: The race to invest in telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Weekender 5/14/21

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Patient payments platform vendor Cedar announces.

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Health Information Technology Must Enhance Collaboration and Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

The pressures of healthcare payment has forced physicians to move patients through the office as quickly as possible, and that is robbing us of high-value services that we can provide, particularly to educate and engage in shared decision making with our patients. . I explored this topic with a new friend and ally, Moyez Jiwa, a physician, educator and publisher based in Melbourne, Australia (which is one of my favorite cities, by the way.