Wed.Dec 18, 2019

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MassChallenge announces its startup class of 2020

Mobi Health News

This year's cohort includes 27 companies that are working on everything from digital therapeutics to care coordination tools, to clinician workflow platforms, to opioid alternatives.

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Industry Voices—3 ways tech will change healthcare in 2020

FierceHealthIT

As we look ahead to 2020, imperatives for progressive innovation will include harnessing consumer demand for healthcare technology, advocating for better reimbursement for tech-enabled care and building innovative models of care side by side.

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Babylon Health to launch its triage chatbot service in US next month

Mobi Health News

The company's US lead said that two "very large" strategic partners have already been secured, with hopes to lock down as many as five by next year.

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Why FaceTime Should Absolutely Never Be Used for Teletherapy

TheraNest

The short answer? No! Unlike the secure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth video platform provided by TheraNest, Apple’s FaceTime is not HIPAA compliant and therefore should never be used to see clients or complete telehealth sessions. Safety, security, and professionalism are all factors that should be considered when determining what platform you will use to see your clients.

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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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AI-enabled oncology platform Paige lands $45M

Mobi Health News

Health Venture Partners led the round with participation from Breyer Capital, Kenan Turnacioglu and other funders.

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OM1's real-world evidence analytics banks $50M Series C

Mobi Health News

Scale Venture Partners headed the round, which comes roughly a year and a half after OM1's $21 million Series B.

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Blockchain To Conquer Pharma Supply Chain

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dmitriy Nortenko, CEO and founder, QA Madness. Healthcare and pharma is one of the fastest-developing industries today, with 2019 characterized by a diversity of startups developing blockchain-based solutions to track and trace global drug supply. The Quality Assurance engineers at QA Madness predict the active use of blockchain and the growth of traceability system […].

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Exercise programs look to play a larger role in cardiac care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Exercise programs look to play a larger role in cardiac care Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Industry Voices—Patient loyalty to providers is at risk over transparency

FierceHealthIT

At a time when family health coverage costs as much as an economy car, consumers need upfront information on out-of-pocket costs and extended payment options—and they’re willing to switch providers to get it.

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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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How To Achieve Your Dream Medical Career

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. For those of us who have long dreamed of becoming a nurse, a surgeon, a doctor or another health professional, it’s often all we can concentrate on as we leave school and head to college, university and medical school. In each and every career in the medical field, you’ll need to sacrifice time and energy […].

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From Medicaid to price transparency, here are the 5 biggest health policy controversies in 2019

FierceHealthIT

Washington provided a lot of drama for the payer and provider industries in 2019 with unexpected transparency requirements, payment cuts and major uncertainty over the Affordable Care Act.

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Can Your Healthcare Cloud Stay Afloat Without All 5 Of These Critical Areas?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ramachandra Annadi, technical architect, Qentelli. Cloud technology has made its way into IT since Continuous Delivery became a priority to nearly every business sector, including the healthcare industry. In fact, many hospitals and healthcare organizations are now housing electronic medical records in a cloud-based environment, giving medical teams a more convenient way to access […].

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The 5 top stories of the year in practice management

FierceHealthIT

There’s certain news that’s almost guaranteed to get practice management readers interested. Here are the five top stories of the year that got practice management leaders reading.

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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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The 4 Cs of Millennial Healthcare

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: 4 min Millennials look at healthcare much differently than past generations. Being digitally native, millennials expect technology to be involved in almost every aspect of their life, and this is no different for healthcare. The post The 4 Cs of Millennial Healthcare appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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5 trends and issues to watch in the insurance industry in 2020

FierceHealthIT

Insurers may not expect new major regulations next year, but the presidential election could severely impact their business.

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What’s the Data Conundrum that’s Hampering AI in Healthcare?

Digital Health Today

One-on-One with Matthew Versaggi, Senior Director of AI and Cognitive Technology, UnitedHealth Group, Optum Technology. During this year’s MedCityInvest Digital Health conference, Demi Radeva, one of Digital Health Today’s global ambassadors, had the chance to sit down one-on-one with Matthew Versaggi, Senior Director of AI and Cognitive Technology, Optum Technology.

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Canadian lab pays hackers to recover data on 15M customers

FierceHealthIT

Canadian lab LifeLabs paid hackers to retrieve patients' data stolen during a data breach in November. The breach potentially impacted 15 million customers based on the amount of medical information on the computer systems that were accessed in the breach, the company said in a notice on its website.

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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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The T1 Female Heart: Avoiding Heart Disease in Your Life

Insulin Nation

Women living with type 1 diabetes have a five times greater risk for heart failure than nondiabetic women. This excess risk appears to be from a combination of factors, including the damage caused by type 1 diabetes and circumstances that are uniquely female, such as hormones, body fat, and disproportionate medical care. As a young or newly diagnosed woman with type 1, it can be disheartening to look at the stats associated with T1D and cardiovascular disease (CVD).

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Medicaid, CHIP enrollment decline for 2nd straight year 

FierceHealthIT

Enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP declined nationally for the second year in a row, with a 2.6% decrease over the past two years, according to a new report.

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Featured Health IT Job: Cerner Millennium/IT Service Desk Agent

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 Millennium/IT Service Desk Agent position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is a remote position. Here’s a description of the position: Now seeking […].

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5 insurance executives to watch in 2020 

FierceHealthIT

As healthcare continues to evolve, so too are the leaders making a stamp on the industry.

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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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Happy Holidays from GlobalMed

GlobalMed

It’s here: the most exciting and meaningful holiday of the year, for many of us. How are you celebrating? As an international company, GlobalMed’s partners, customers and employees are spending the season in a variety of ways. That can include putting up a tree for a traditional family Christmas, creating pathways of las luminarias on Christmas Eve, making resolutions for January 1 or honoring other cultural and religious traditions.

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Industry Voices—'Medicare for All' might work. Here's what definitely does

FierceHealthIT

Unlike Medicare for All, employer on-site clinics need neither presidential support nor a law passed by Congress.

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Better Management of High Utilizers and the Impact on the Overall Costs of Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Manjula Julka, MD, MBA, Vice President, Clinical Innovation at PCCI. For safety-net healthcare systems, helping patients with social needs such as transportation, food or housing, just makes sense from a mission perspective. But when it comes to creating a business case, it gets more complicated. A recent Kaufman […].

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5 Ways to Connect With Users in Your Forms

Geonetric

That’s why considering your form’s voice and tone, error messages, security experience, and transparency are so important to the user experience (UX). And that UX carries over into trust and recognition of your brand, driving present and future conversions. Here are five ways you can connect with users through your forms. 1. Speak their language […].

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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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Create a Multifaceted Revenue Cycle Employee Development Path to Strengthen Retention

HealthStream

There are a growing number of ways to meet the career development expectations of healthcare revenue cycle employees. Consider mentorship/apprenticeship opportunities for both new and seasoned team members.

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Cigna inks $6.3B deal to sell group life, disability insurance units to New York Life

FierceHealthIT

Cigna will sell off its group life and disability insurance business lines to New York Life Insurance Company in a deal worth $6.3 billion.

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Can’t attend our Telehealth 101 webinar live? Check it out here!

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Telehealth 101 provides a high overview of telehealth, telemedicine, and digital health. Learn about terminology, benefits, technology and the South Central Telehealth Resource Center among the other Telehealth Resource Centers. Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions, comments or feedback. Check out the telehealth etiquette videos here: [link].