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Swiss startup OnlineDoctor completes €5M Series A funding

Mobi Health News

The company will use the funding to expand its teledermatology services and 600 specialists in the DACH region.

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Healthcare Innovation, Catalyst For Change and Tips For The Year Ahead: Experts Weigh In

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The COVID-19 pandemic has been the catalyst for accelerating many changes in the healthcare industry, hastening new innovations and putting a national spotlight on the need to improve care, vital health infrastructure, and transparency in […]. The article Healthcare Innovation, Catalyst For Change and Tips For The Year Ahead: Experts Weigh In appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Liva Healthcare raises €24.5M in Series B round

Mobi Health News

The funds will be used to drive European leadership in digital chronic disease prevention and management.

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Ways Healthcare Will Evolve In 2021

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Brient, chief product officer, athenahealth. To say that this has been a challenging year for healthcare providers would be a grave understatement. From the financial hardships that the state shutdowns brought, to the […]. The article Ways Healthcare Will Evolve In 2021 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Population health startup Color reaches unicorn status with new $167M raise

Mobi Health News

The company is using the new funds to hire more staff in leadership positions.

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UK implements new post-Brexit medical device information system

Mobi Health News

The move has been lauded by the GMDN Agency as a “valuable resource for the UK healthcare sector”.

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At UPMC, Android-enabled telehealth keeps child transplant patients safe

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh was the nation's first center to perform organ transplantation in children. It has performed more solid organ transplants in children than any U.S. center. With a focus on both outstanding short-term and long-term outcomes, the follow-up of these children typically extends from the immediate period (0-3 months) to long-term follow-up (3 months-20 years post-transplant).

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SocialClimb's provider marketing platform receives $12M from Resolve Growth Partners

Mobi Health News

The SaaS company specializes in reputation management and targeted marketing for doctors, practices and healthcare organizations.

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Study: Hospitals at or near full COVID-19 ICU capacity increase by 90% over past few months

FierceHealthIT

Study: Hospitals at or near full COVID-19 ICU capacity increase by 90% over past few months. rking. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 16:04.

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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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Nanox and USARD expand their radiology diagnostic partnership; Sera Prognostics and Anthem launch a neonatal outcomes study; and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Withings’ remote monitoring system becomes widely available through Redox partnership. Renalytix AI and DaVita team up to offer early intervention for kidney disease.

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Payers concerned with uneven burden they face implementing new prior authorization rule

FierceHealthIT

Payers concerned with uneven burden they face implementing new prior authorization rule. rking. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 11:46.

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2021 Health IT Predictions – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 1/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “2021 Health IT Predictions“ Happy New Year Everyone! Hard to believe that 2021 has arrived, but here we are […].

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Redox, Withings team up to integrate devices with EHRs as remote monitoring trend heats up

FierceHealthIT

Redox, Withings team up to integrate devices with EHRs as remote monitoring trend heats up. hlandi. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 15:37.

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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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Is the COVID Vaccine the Shot in the Arm We Need for Healthcare Access?

Healthcare IT Today

Meeting patients where they are has been a rallying cry for the past several years, but healthcare is still challenged by access challenges. The COVID vaccine might just be the shot in the arm we need to make meaningful progress towards improved healthcare access for all patients. I recently had the chance to sit down […].

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2021 Dates for ACA Reporting

ACA Times

3 minute read: The new year is here, and with it a laundry list of items to be sure your organization has a handle on, including ACA reporting with the IRS. Every year, the IRS requires employers to submit important ACA information to the agency and their employees as part of the ACA’s Employer Mandate. Under the ACA’s Employer Mandate , Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), organizations with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time-equivalent employees, are required to offer Minimum Essential

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When It Comes Telehealth Security, We Don’t Want A Free-For-All

Healthcare IT Today

In many areas of health IT, experimentation is good and may ultimately be to the benefit of users. On the other hand, when it comes to telehealth security, it’s looking more and more as though establishing routine practices and following security best practices is a good idea. At present, there’s still a lot of ways […].

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UnitedHealthcare cuts Envision from its provider network

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealthcare cuts Envision from its provider network. pminemyer. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 13:41.

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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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Impractical or Inadequate: Is Your Virtual Care Solution Good Enough?

GlobalMed

As we look back at 2020, we can clearly see that telehealth adoption and use exploded. Acting as an ignition event for virtual care, the COVID-19 pandemic has inducted patients and providers alike into the benefits of evidence-based telemedicine. But not all telehealth solutions are equal – and in their haste to reach patients safely, many healthcare organizations have adopted a simplified video connector that puts their business and patients at risk.

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GoodRx: 589 drugs have already seen price hikes in 2021

FierceHealthIT

GoodRx: 589 drugs have already seen price hikes in 2021. pminemyer. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 11:40.

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The Escalating Need for Workplace Mental Health Support in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

HealthStream

Even before COVID-19, the U.S. was on the brink of a mental health emergency. Workplace mental health and how to support employees is an especially difficult problem. We're already in a situation where 75% of employees are experiencing burnout. Here’s a solution for the healthcare workplace.

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DaVita, RenalytixAI partner to collaborate on kidney care program

FierceHealthIT

DaVita, RenalytixAI partner to collaborate on kidney care program. treed. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 15:09.

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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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Making Business Sense Out of Cloud Tagging

LeanIX

Questions around cloud computing have been accelerated in today’s mostly virtual work environment. It’s a big reason why companies throughout industries are slowly but surely seeing the value of managing these decentralized resources via cloud tagging principles. As a way to differentiate cloud resources according to business context and ownership, cloud tagging is perhaps the second-most important tactic for cloud governance next to having a central inventory of automatically-discovered cloud r

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Industry Voices—A new crisis point looms for America’s most vulnerable

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—A new crisis point looms for America’s most vulnerable. treed. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 12:38.

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Optimum Healthcare IT Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020

Optimum Healthcare IT

Optimum Healthcare IT is proud to announce the top 5 blog posts of 2020 from the Optimum Healthcare IT blog. The post Optimum Healthcare IT Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020 appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Two-Tiered Healthcare Education about Opioid Abuse Can Improve Treatment Outcomes

HealthStream

The opioid abuse coursework developed by HealthStream has two modules: The first is a general audience course to raise awareness and encourage learners to do what they can to make a difference at work, at home, and in their community. A second course is designed for clinicians and includes CE credit.

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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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Judge dismisses Zocdoc co-founder's lawsuit against executives over his ousting 5 years ago

FierceHealthIT

Judge dismisses Zocdoc co-founder's lawsuit against executives over his ousting 5 years ago. hlandi. Tue, 01/05/2021 - 14:53.

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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

The first year of the coronavirus pandemic in America was a kind of stress test on the U.S. health care system, revealing weak links and opportunities for bad behavior. “These are not just about individual instances or bad apples,” Dr. Vikas Saini, President of The Lown Institute, explained, referring to them as “cautionary tales” of the current state of U.S. health care.