Fri.Feb 26, 2021

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MDLive to be acquired by Cigna's Evernorth

Mobi Health News

Set to close in Q2, the deal will provide the payer's healthcare services subsidiary with an integrated virtual care offering.

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USDA invests $42M in telehealth infrastructure

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a move to help rural residents gain access to healthcare and educational opportunities, the United States Department of Agriculture is investing $42.3 million in telemedicine and distance learning infrastructure. WHY IT MATTERS. Rural areas have greater infection and death rates from COVID-19 because of several factors, including a much higher percentage of underlying conditions, difficulty accessing medical care and lack of health insurance.

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What payers, providers and patients can gain from going digital with healthcare payments

Mobi Health News

J.P. Morgan's Stuart Hanson outlines three strategies for organizations looking to keep pace with digital transformation spurred by COVID-19.

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Bipartisan bills gain support for telehealth reform, SDOH coordination

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Different pieces of legislation supporting expansion of technology-enabled access to care were the focus on Capitol Hill this week, with bipartisan bills that provide funding for connected social care networks and call for telehealth regulatory reform gained support on separate tracks. Aligning clinical care and social service. The new bipartisan Leveraging Integrated Networks in Communities (LINC) to Address Social Needs Act was introduced by Senators Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and Chris Murphy, D

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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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Boehringer Ingelheim and Click Therapeutics talk about what makes DTx and pharma partnerships tick

Mobi Health News

Yesterday, at DTx West, the pharma giant and the DTx company sat down to discuss implementing DTx for mental illness.

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Strategic partnership in Singapore looks set to address the worsening myopia situation in Asia

Mobi Health News

Thomson X (TX), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SGX Mainboard-listed Thomson Medical Group Limited, is a platform which aims to bolster the current healthcare landscape by connecting healthcare technological start-ups with their existing healthcare expertise and network. They have established a partnership with Plano, seeking to address the increasing myopia rate around the world through the use of cutting-edge technological solutions.

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Allscripts reports $414M in Q4 with strong growth in its Veradigm data business

FierceHealthIT

Allscripts reports $414M in Q4 with strong growth in its Veradigm data business. hlandi. Fri, 02/26/2021 - 16:44.

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One Medical addresses COVID-19 vaccine allegations during Q4 2020 earnings call

Mobi Health News

Outside of the claims, One Medical’s financial results for both the fourth quarter and full year of 2020 improved year-over-year. .

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Insurers urge SCOTUS to take a look at appeals court ruling on ACA cost-sharing reduction payments

FierceHealthIT

Insurers urge SCOTUS to take a look at appeals court ruling on ACA cost-sharing reduction payments. pminemyer. Fri, 02/26/2021 - 11:55.

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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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Hospitals struggling after winter COVID-19 surge; HHS pick Becerra supports telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Hospitals struggling after winter COVID-19 surge; HHS pick Becerra supports telehealth Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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House passes $1.9T COVID-19 relief package that temporarily boosts ACA subsidies, expands Medicaid

FierceHealthIT

House passes $1.9T COVID-19 relief package that temporarily boosts ACA subsidies, expands Medicaid. rking. Fri, 02/26/2021 - 14:04.

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Telehealth Modernization Act Reintroduced in Senate and Companion Bill in House

Healthcare IT Today

As most of you know, I’ve argued that the future of telehealth is going to be determined by the laws and reimbursement that’s going to be made permanent or even improved. A lot of temporary changes were made so that telehealth video visits could thrive during the pandemic, but the question really remains whether those […].

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RAND: Bundled payment models that waived cost sharing led to major savings

FierceHealthIT

RAND: Bundled payment models that waived cost sharing led to major savings. rking. Fri, 02/26/2021 - 15:11.

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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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Cybersecurity Vendor Emails Video – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

I’ve seen a lot of CISOs complaining on Twitter lately about how vendors are approaching them. To be more specific, it’s largely salespeople reaching out in sometimes the most absurd ways. I get it that sales can be hard, but burning a bridge with a CISO is never a good strategy. With this in mind, […].

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Agile improvements toward #FHIR

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The healthcare IT exchange for Treatment has been improving from the dark ages to today. This article is where I muse about getting to that beautiful future based on #FHIR. Break Everything One possibly that some advocate is turn off what we have today, and everyone and everything switch to using http RESTful FHIR. Even to just leave what we have running, and build new only using http RESTful FHIR, would ignore current successes.

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What Does Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Really Take to Be Successful?

Healthcare IT Today

This month we’ve had an added focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and all it’s nuances and features. No doubt a month still isn’t enough to fully understand this quickly changing area of health IT. The more I’ve learned about RPM and it’s related Chronic Care Management (CCM), the more I realize how complicated it […].

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How Site Reliability Engineering Drives Customer Success

LeanIX

The debut of salesforce.com in 2000 arguably marks the beginning of modern Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The software company we all know and use launched with the tagline “the end of software” — a bold way of saying that vendor-run software would be crowned king over customer-specific, self-hosted alternatives.

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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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Industry Voices—Leveraging business intelligence data to drive next generation co-pay design

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Leveraging business intelligence data to drive next generation co-pay design. pminemyer. Fri, 02/26/2021 - 11:41.

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MDLive to be acquired by Cigna's Evernorth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Weekender 2/26/21

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Allscripts and Teladoc Health release quarterly.

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