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Orexo launches alcohol use disorder DTx through Accenture’s INTIENT platform

Mobi Health News

The INTIENT Patient platform supports vorvida’s virtual cognitive behavioral therapy services by providing secure data storage and artificial intelligence-enabled analytics.

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Raffles Medical Group launches first app-based COVID-19 testing booking service in Singapore

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Raffles Medical Group (RMG), a large integrated private healthcare provider in Asia with facilities in Singapore, China, Japan, Vietnam and Cambodia, last week announced the first seamless app-based booking, payment and receipt of COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests in Singapore. The announcement by RMG came after the official unveiling of the inaugural Air Travel Bubble (ATB) flights between Singapore and Hong Kong, which will happen from 22 November 2020.

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Device that trains people to stop touching face launches to reduce COVID-19 transmission

Mobi Health News

The ‘Nudge’ device uses behavioural science and artificial intelligence to train people to stop touching their face.

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Premier, 34 systems partner with global medical manufacturer to create domestic gown maker

FierceHealthIT

Premier, 34 systems partner with global medical manufacturer to create domestic gown maker. rking. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 10:06.

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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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Medtronic buys French AI-enabled spinal surgery company Medicrea

Mobi Health News

Medicrea's tools are designed to help surgeons with planning operations and to create personalized implants.

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AllianceRx Walgreens Prime's new feature lets cancer patients digitally request medication refills

Mobi Health News

Patients can digitally request a refill and answer questions about their condition, adherence and side effects.

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Appeals court sides with hospitals in latest challenge of DSH payment calculations

FierceHealthIT

Appeals court sides with hospitals in latest challenge of DSH payment calculations. treed. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 06:23.

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AliveCor Closes $65 Million Financing to Accelerate Growth of Its Remote Cardiology Platform For Consumers, Employers, and Providers

Healthcare IT Today

AliveCor, the leader in AI-based personal ECG technology and provider of enterprise cardiology solutions, today announced their $65 million series E financing led by existing investors OMRON, Khosla Ventures, WP Global Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Bold Capital Partners. Proceeds from this financing will be used to accelerate growth of AliveCor’s remote cardiology platform both domestically […].

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AHIP: Price gouging gets worse for out-of-network COVID-19 tests

FierceHealthIT

AHIP: Price gouging gets worse for out-of-network COVID-19 tests. rking. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 15:16.

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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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Feds Demand Additional Compliance Efforts from eClinicalWorks (eCW)

Healthcare IT Today

Back in mid-2017, EHR maker eClinicalWorks agreed to pay $155 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit accusing it of a broad list of violations. In addition to paying the fine, eCW was required to sign a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) essentially requiring the vendor to keep its nose clean on several levels. Given the extent […].

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HHS calls on FDA to speed up reviews of lab-developed COVID-19 tests after backlog

FierceHealthIT

HHS calls on FDA to speed up reviews of lab-developed COVID-19 tests after backlog. rking. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 13:08.

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eVisit Co-Founder and CEO, Bret Larsen, Wins BIG!

eVisit

Published: Nov. 16, 2020.

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Providence posts $214M loss during first nine months of 2020 due to COVID-19 impact

FierceHealthIT

Providence posts $214M loss during first nine months of 2020 due to COVID-19 impact. rking. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 12:24.

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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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Insights from Recent Health IT Virtual Events – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 49

Healthcare IT Today

For the 49th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about a number of virtual events we’ve attended and some of the insights coming out of those events. One of the advantages of virtual health IT conferences is that we can easily attend all of them. We don’t have to necessarily choose which ones […] In this episode, Colin Hung and John Lynn sit down to talk about their experiences at a myriad of recent virtual events.

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Use ancestry or ZIP code—not race—when considering a patient's risk factors, AMA says

FierceHealthIT

Use ancestry or ZIP code—not race—when considering a patient's risk factors, AMA says. treed. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 20:50.

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State of Healthcare Intranets

Geonetric

Internal communications took center stage this year. Connecting with your care team became a top priority – one that likely won’t go away any time soon. For many organizations, this gave them a chance to evaluate and improve their intranets and other digital employee communication tools. As you review your platform and plan for enhancements, […].

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Unintended Impact of Focused Dementia Care Surveys

HealthStream

Under the National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, providers will continue to see focused dementia care surveys that pay special attention to usage of antipsychotic medication therapies.

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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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Is that drug company speaking fee legit? HHS watchdog raises red flag over arrangements with docs

FierceHealthIT

Is that drug company speaking fee legit? HHS watchdog raises red flag over arrangements with docs. treed. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 16:19.

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UCHealth builds a successful virtual urgent care clinic with Epic and Vidyo

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

UCHealth is a nonprofit health system with 12 hospitals and numerous physicians across Colorado, southern Wyoming and western Nebraska. THE PROBLEM. Today, patients expect to be treated when they want and where they want, said Dr. Christopher Davis, an emergency medicine specialist and medical director for UCHealth Virtual Health. While urgent care clinics are relatively convenient, treating someone in the comfort of their own home when clinically appropriate takes this type of care to a whole n

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FTC sues to halt Methodist Le Bonheur's bid to buy two Tenet Memphis hospitals

FierceHealthIT

FTC sues to halt Methodist Le Bonheur's bid to buy two Tenet Memphis hospitals. rking. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 17:03.

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Person-First Safe Living in a Pandemic #1

Society for Participatory Medicine

What could go wrong? All of us, from lay people to professionals – you, me and our communities – were totally unprepared for this novel virus with global and household impacts. Now, every single day we try to drink from a firehose of new information with the clean information mixed in with the suspect. Even researchers who deal in information as their profession find it difficult to manage the deluge of information – to keep it clean, clear, current, and relevant.

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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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ACA Likely to Remain Following Supreme Court Oral Arguments

ACA Times

3 minute read: The Affordable Care Act may have avoided the possibility of being removed once and for all, as the Supreme Court hearing last week suggests. The California v. Texas court case that asserts that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional without the Individual Mandate was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on November 10. While a final decision was not reached at this time, the outcome of the arguments suggests that the healthcare law is likely to remain.

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