Fri.Nov 05, 2021

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BeMe Health scores $7M for teen mental health app and other digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Pediatric sleep app Huckleberry raises $12.5 million, and illumigyn, maker of a platform for remote gynecological imaging, brings in $33 million.

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DrChrono acquired by software-as-a-service platform EverCommerce

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The software-as-a-service company EverCommerce announced this week that it is acquiring DrChrono, an electronic health record, practice management and billing software vendor. The transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of the month, pending regulatory review and other conditions. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Contributed: Improving healthcare productivity with automation and opportunities for startups

Mobi Health News

COVID-19 has changed the healthcare workforce, but automation could be the future.

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Walmart hires Ochsner exec to lead healthcare push

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Walmart confirmed this week to Insider that it had hired Dr. David Carmouche to lead its multifaceted healthcare initiative. Carmouche, who has worked at Louisiana-based Ochsner Health for six years, will oversee Walmart's growing clinical care projects as senior vice president of Omnichannel Care Solutions, as explained by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Repor t.

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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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MyRx.io launches to offer prescription management, price transparency

Mobi Health News

The mobile platform allows users to access pharmacy services and make appointments, search for drug options and get manufacturer coupons.

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Treating Patients Like Consumers with Asynchronous Technology   

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Edward Abraham, M.D., chief medical advisor, Bright.md. Between the pandemic and dramatic growth in direct-to-consumer healthcare approaches, hospitals and health systems have been forced to find ways to provide convenient care for patients. Consumers […].

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Kaiser Permanente's hospital-at-home push prioritizes savings over high-quality care, nurses union says

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente's hospital-at-home push prioritizes savings over high-quality care, nurses union says. dmuoio. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 15:49.

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Evolution of Stel Life’s Connected Health Hub

Healthcare IT Today

I always love watching the evolution of connected health. In the early days, many of the wearable devices weren’t connected to much of anything. Now, connecting those devices to the cloud is key and essential to all of the remote patient monitoring companies out there. While we’d love for all these devices to just natively […].

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UnitedHealth Group again the most profitable payer in Q3

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group again the most profitable payer in Q3. pminemyer. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 14:32.

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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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CMS ups price transparency rule penalties; ATA urges Congress to expand telehealth options

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Kaiser Family Foundation: Consolidation fuels 23% drop in Part D plans in 2022

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Family Foundation: Consolidation fuels 23% drop in Part D plans in 2022. rking. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 14:59.

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The Pandemic, Patient Messages and Phone Calls: Octopus or Starfish?

Health System CIO

The dramatic increase in virtual visits and messaging with patients can lead to “unmanageable burden and real risks of burnout” if it isn’t addressed, says CT Lin, MD. In this piece, he talks about how UCHealth hopes to turn the tide with its in-basket redesign initiative. Source: The Pandemic, Patient Messages and Phone Calls: Octopus or Starfish? on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information

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Many expectant mothers unlikely to get vaccinated for COVID-19, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Many expectant mothers unlikely to get vaccinated for COVID-19, survey finds. agliadkovskaya. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 13:38.

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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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Healthcare Charges Parody – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

The Onion has been doing parody well for so long that it’s actually surprising that they haven’t done more about healthcare. Although, when HIStalk pointed out this parody by The Onion, I had to share it with you all for this week’s Fun Friday. In the parody, they talk about a woman being charged for […].

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Industry Voices—Let's stop calling it medical 'debt'

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Let's stop calling it medical 'debt'. pminemyer. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 11:38.

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Featured Health IT Job: Clinical and Care Coordination Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Clinical and Care Coordination Subject Matter Expert (SME) position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by MEDITECH and is in Texas. Here’s a description of the position: As a Clinical […].

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Optum, Oscar's Mario Schlosser back Medallion's $30M round to reduce administrative pain points

FierceHealthIT

Optum, Oscar's Mario Schlosser back Medallion's $30M round to reduce administrative pain points. rtorrence. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 11:17.

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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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Weekender 11/5/21

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Allscripts and Change Healthcare report quarterly.

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Catholic Health, union reach tentative agreement to end 5-week, 2,000-worker strike

FierceHealthIT

Catholic Health, union reach tentative agreement to end 5-week, 2,000-worker strike. dmuoio. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 12:35.

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'Change management is key' for maintaining remote cybersecurity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

News stories about ransomware have dominated headlines in the past few years, with healthcare facilities and hospitals high on the list of frequent victims. And although cybercrime has long been a threat, the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the potential risks. "If you look at where we are today from a security perspective, what we've seen is that our threat factors have substantially increased," Sri Bharadwaj, vice president of digital innovation and applications at Franciscan H