Tue.Dec 10, 2019

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Hospitals embracing IoT must be prepared to secure a decentralized environment

Mobi Health News

Speakers at the Healthcare Security Forum in Boston discuss the rise of connected medical devices and what that means for a security team.

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Health systems must tackle workplace, patient safety in tandem, IHI says

FierceHealthIT

ORLANDO, FLORIDA—A nationwide effort to improve and coordinate patient safety measures will strive to make a connection between workplace and patient safety.

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Sanofi walks back Onduo, its joint venture with Verily, amidst company-wide strategy shift

Mobi Health News

New CEO Paul Hudson said during today's strategy presentation that the company had "over-invested" in the joint venture back in 2016.

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In new milestone, the majority of U.S. medical students are now women

FierceHealthIT

Female medical students have hit a milestone. They now comprise the majority of enrolled U.S. medical students for the first time, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

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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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LGBTQ, public health orgs call for Facebook to address ad policy in response to misleading PrEP ads

Mobi Health News

The false ads are instilling apprehension among at-risk individuals who would benefit from the HIV prevention treatment, 50-plus signatories write.

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Peregrine Ventures raises more than $115m MedTech fund

Mobi Health News

The Israeli venture capital fund will invest in early stage and late stage rounds of startups.

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Proactive voice interfaces enhance patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Proactive voice interfaces enhance patient experience Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Current Health scaling its remote monitoring platform with $11.5M raise

Mobi Health News

The Scotland-grown startup is looking to hire, open a US headquarters and refine its AI algorithm.

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Humana launching new care coordination programs for members with kidney disease 

FierceHealthIT

Humana is launching a pair of programs aimed at improving care coordination for Medicare Advantage and commercial members with kidney disease.

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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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Creating A New Community Integrated Health System: Role of the Traditional Health Provider

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Leslie Wainwright, PhD., chief funding and innovation officer, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation (PCCI). Addressing the social determinants of health (SDoH) in communities is a hot topic of conversation in healthcare. The industry has bought into the theory that 20 percent of an individual’s health is determined by clinical care and the rest by […].

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Cigna eyes sale of group benefits insurance business to New York Life: report

FierceHealthIT

Cigna is in talks with New York Life Insurance Co. to sell off its group benefits insurance business in a deal that could be worth $6 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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Webinar: Virtual Visits, Enhancing the Care Continuum

Health Recovery Solutions

On Tuesday, December 10 th , 2019, Health Recovery Solutions co-hosted a webinar with Banner Health's Care Coordination Post-Acute Senior Manager, Mandy Johnson. On the webinar, Mandy and the HRS team discussed the growing role of virtual visits in healthcare.

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PwC: Cybersecurity and privacy top barriers for monetizing data

FierceHealthIT

Concerns around how to protect data are a massive barrier to adopting digital strategies among provider and payer executives, a new report found.

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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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Provider Adoption Across Clinical Technology Platforms – Why Is It Sometimes So Difficult?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Troy Foster, Senior Manager of Communications Infrastructure. Over the years, I’ve participated in a number of clinical technology rollouts. As I’ve taken part in clinical workshops, discovery sessions, and training and go-live activities, providers are often conspicuously absent. At the same time, as I’ve talked to many clinical […].

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Some SCOTUS justices appear sympathetic to payers in oral arguments over ACA risk corridor payments

FierceHealthIT

The nation’s highest court grappled with a key Affordable Care Act case Tuesday, with $12 billion in payments to insurers hanging in the balance.

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November Telehealth Industry Happenings

Ortholive

We’re nearing the end of the fourth quarter, 2019, and telehealth shows no signs of abating. In November, one of the largest insurance companies in the nation reported extremely high patient satisfaction scores for their subscribers, along with a cost reduction from using telehealth. The nation’s largest public health system, the Veteran’s Administration shared data showing a 17% jump in telehealth utilization from the prior year, with more than 2.6 million encounters occurring annually through

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What Google’s BERT Algorithm Update Means for Healthcare Sites

Geonetric

Breaking Down Google’s BERT Algorithm The latest Google algorithm update is based on a tool created last year, the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, or BERT for short. BERT uses artificial intelligence (AI) to understand search queries by focusing on the natural language and not just choosing the main keywords. The most significant change Google […].

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Cerner Patient Accounting/Revenue Cycle Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Cerner Patient Accounting/Revenue Cycle Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Cordea Consulting and is available in New York. Here’s a description of the position: Required Experience: […].

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Home health agencies are betting on telehealth to grow their businesses over the next couple of years

Synzi

US home health agencies (HHAs) — which cater to the growing senior population — are kicking their expansion efforts into high gear: 43% of home health agencies say they plan to bulk up services or extend footprints — and they’re leaning on … Read More. The post Home health agencies are betting on telehealth to grow their businesses over the next couple of years appeared first on Synzi.

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Retention Success Strategies for Healthcare Revenue Cycle Staff

HealthStream

Keeping high-quality staff is a continual challenge in healthcare revenue cycle operations, especially in a tight labor market. This post excerpts the HealthStream article about recruitment and retention strategies to engage and motivate revenue cycle staff.

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Despite Use of Health IT Tools, U.S. Primary Care Physicians Struggle With Care Coordination

Healthcare IT Today

A new survey has drawn conclusions that, while infuriating, probably won’t surprise anyone working in the U.S. healthcare system today. The survey, which reached out to primary care physicians around the world, found that despite having powerful health IT tools at the ready, U.S.-based PCPs are still finding it difficult to coordinate care with other […].

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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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Home health agencies are betting on telehealth to grow their businesses over the next couple of years

Synzi

US home health agencies (HHAs) — which cater to the growing senior population — are kicking their expansion efforts into high gear: 43% of home health agencies say they plan to bulk up services or extend footprints — and they’re leaning on … Read More. The post Home health agencies are betting on telehealth to grow their businesses over the next couple of years appeared first on Synzi.

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Machine learning, AI, telemedicine and other technologies will pose data security risks, says Dr. John Halamka

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Business Development Representative – St. Petersburg, FL

Synzi

SUMMARY As part of the Business Development team, the Business Development Representative's (BDR) primary role will be working side by side with the field sales organization to drive lead generation. This is a critical role within the sales organization and … Read More. The post Business Development Representative – St. Petersburg, FL appeared first on Synzi.

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DiabetesSisters: Women Supporting Women with Diabetes

Insulin Nation

Everyone living with diabetes faces challenges. But women with diabetes are especially cursed with some unique obstacles. First and foremost, there are hormones. . These pesky chemicals influence blood sugars in ways that are often unpredictable. And, because they change throughout the month and throughout a woman’s life, it can feel impossible to get ahead of their effects.

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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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Business Development Representative – St. Petersburg, FL

Synzi

SUMMARY As part of the Business Development team, the Business Development Representative's (BDR) primary role will be working side by side with the field sales organization to drive lead generation. This is a critical role within the sales organization and … Read More. The post Business Development Representative – St. Petersburg, FL appeared first on Synzi.

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Managing The True Costs of Price Transparency

VSee

In an effort to reign in cost and solve the issue of the surprise bill by the Trump administration, CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) has proposed new requirements for price transparency. What will that mean to the healthcare industry? Compliance with a new federal regulation requires understanding the implications of the directive and.

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Business Development Representative – St. Petersburg, FL

Synzi

SUMMARY As part of the Business Development team, the Business Development Representative’s (BDR) primary role will be working side by side with the field sales organization to drive lead generation. This is a critical role within the sales organization and … Read More. The post Business Development Representative – St. Petersburg, FL appeared first on Synzi.

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