Fri.Feb 05, 2021

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Contributed: Pregnancy and fertility digital apps are tackling affordability and access

Mobi Health News

Dr. Liz Kwo reviews the support that fertility and maternal-health apps can provide and outlines key considerations for integrating these tools into care.

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Administrative Efficiency Technology Aids Value-Based Care In Times of Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Christina Perkins, NaviNet vice president of product management and strategy, NantHealth. Efficient and effective ways of exchanging information between patients, providers and payers have become even more important during times of crisis, like the […].

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Contributed: When fitness data becomes research data, your privacy may be at risk

Mobi Health News

Digital health and data experts illustrate the risk of sharing anonymized fitness data and call for systematic reform.

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Texas Governor wants to permanently expand telemedicine access

Clocktree

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he wants to permanently expand access to telemedicine services that have surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March, Abbott lifted certain regulations on the types of health care services that can be offered over the phone or through video calls. He also issued an emergency rule to compensate health care providers for telemedicine visits at the same rate as an in-person visit.

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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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Emirates working on making COVID-19 travel requirements easier

Mobi Health News

Automating and centralising medical screenings via an app, and providing a completely contactless airport experience are two of the latest introductions by the UAE flag carrier.

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HIMSSCast: Is virtual care the next frontier in telehealth? - with Sean Duffy and Chris Hogg

Mobi Health News

Three longtime players in the digital health space chat about the digital future of healthcare.

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Medicare Advantage enrollment in chronic illness benefits tripled in 2021: Avalere

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Advantage enrollment in chronic illness benefits tripled in 2021: Avalere. rking. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 15:20.

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The 'pivotal moment' for value-based care has arrived

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: The 'pivotal moment' for value-based care has arrived Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Why investors are taking a hard look at the employer-sponsored insurance market

FierceHealthIT

Why investors are taking a hard look at the employer-sponsored insurance market. pminemyer. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 11:27.

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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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COVID Times Cartoons – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Friday and so it’s time for another edition of Fun Friday where we share some cartoons to hopefully give you a smile as we head into the weekend. This week’s entries are COVID related cartoons shared by the amazing Eric Topol. If you don’t follow him on Twitter, I highly suggest it. Along with […].

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AHA presses FTC to investigate UnitedHealth lab coverage policy, price hikes for travel nurses

FierceHealthIT

AHA presses FTC to investigate UnitedHealth lab coverage policy, price hikes for travel nurses. rking. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 13:34.

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Promoting Telehealth Use By Elderly Calls For In-Depth Patient Education

Healthcare IT Today

I am as comfortable with telemedicine as anyone I know. I’ve been using urgent care services like Teladoc for nearly a decade, and in recent years, have been getting the majority of primary and specialist care via video as well. In fact, by this point, I’ve gotten so accustomed to video visits that they feel […].

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Industry Voices—How real-world providers are confronting the shift to value-based care in the COVID era

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—How real-world providers are confronting the shift to value-based care in the COVID era. hlandi. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 11:13.

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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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IHE whitepaper on Health Information Exchange models

Healthcare Exchange Standards

The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) standards profiling organization has developed a collection of profiles which can be leveraged for use by healthcare communities for the purposes of document sharing. One of the most significant applications of healthcare information technology is the exchange of health information among disparate clinical information systems and otherwise unaffiliated care providers.

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Catholic health giants join 'equity pledge,' commit to fighting systemic racism

FierceHealthIT

Catholic health giants join 'equity pledge,' commit to fighting systemic racism. treed. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 07:44.

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Netsmart Acquires GPM to Enhance Provider Digitization and Mobile Workflows

Healthcare IT Today

Today, Netsmart announced the acquisition of GPM, a North Carolina-based Software-as-a-Service technology and services company, dedicated to supporting Long-term/Post-acute care (LTPAC) medical practices that provide medical care to geriatric patients – many of whom reside in skilled nursing facilities. This acquisition extends the Netsmart CareFabric platform to deliver interoperable data sharing between long-term care facilities and the providers that treat […].

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mHealth at Mobile World Congress 2021

mHealth Insight

After last years event was the first major international conference to be cancelled due to the global COVID lockdown ( which led to use producing the mHealth in Times of Crisis online event last February in which I predicted PCR tests would be used my governments to lock the world down ) I have been looking forward to seeing how the Mobile Industry would bounce back with a renewed mHealth focus after they dropped the ball on mHealth a few years back (read my mHealth reviews/guides of Mobile Worl

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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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Important Enterprise Architecture and Cloud Events of 2021

LeanIX

2021 events at a glance:

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Weekender 2/5/21

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Netsmart acquires GPM. Nordic acquires Bails.

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Americans A Year Into the Pandemic – A View from Pew

Health Populi

Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the same percent of Americans say strengthening the U.S. economy and dealing with the coronavirus outbreak should be a top priority for President Biden and Congress to address this year, according to data from the Pew Research Center collected during the second week of January 2021. Two-thirds of people in the U.S. also want government leaders to prioritize improving the employment situation, defending against terrorism, and improving the political syste