Mon.Aug 02, 2021

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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

In the U.S., patients have assumed the role of health care payors with growing co-payments, coinsurance amounts, and deductibles pushing peoples’ out-of-pocket costs up. This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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Study finds Pear’s reSET-O could lower costs of treating opioid use disorder

Mobi Health News

Researchers found patients who used reSET-O along with buprenorphine and counseling lowered their healthcare costs by $2,385 per person in the six months after they started using the app, compared with the six months before.

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For telehealth, a hybrid future mixed with in-person care – and mobile devices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth levels peaked during the pandemic, for well-established reasons. While visits have been declining from the peak, virtual care experts predict the future will hold a mix of digital and in-person healthcare. Moving forward, mobile devices can help facilitate this hybrid telehealth world. When healthcare facilities struck down on visiting hours, providers found unique ways to adapt.

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DigitalHealth.London Accelerator opens applications to digital health companies

Mobi Health News

Funded in part by the European Regional Development Fund, the initiative aims to support digital innovations being used by the NHS in London.

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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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Everything You Need To Know About Telemedicine

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sean Hopwood, CEO, Day Interpreting. Scheduling an appointment with your doctor is usually the first thing you do when you’re feeling a little under the weather or have some questions about your health. But […]. The article Everything You Need To Know About Telemedicine appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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The 'giant sucking sound' of digital health consolidation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers? Paddy Padmanabhan Ross Perot may have popularized the term during his unsuccessful presidential bid in the nineties as a reference to the adverse effects of NAFTA on American jobs, but " giant sucking sound " may be an apt metaphor today for the rapid consolidation of digital healt

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Volpara Health lands additional FDA clearance for breast cancer detection product

Mobi Health News

This marks the fourth clearance for Volpara’s breast health platform since its original authorization back in 2010.

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#HIMSS21 Preview

Healthcare IT Today

As the HIMSS 2021 Annual Conference next week, I thought I’d highlight a number of the things I’m most excited to see and hear at the conference. No doubt, the HIMSS 2021 conference will be unlike any other thanks to COVID moving it to the summer in Las Vegas and virtually. The former likely won’t […].

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Abbott's FreeStyle Libre 2 app snags FDA clearance to help users manage diabetes

Mobi Health News

The new system can be used with Apple iPhones and lets users check their glucose without needing a reader.

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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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Video Visits vs. Virtual care — They Aren’t the Same!

eVisit

Virtual Care is entering a new era that promises tremendous benefits to patients and healthcare providers alike. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the telehealth field made huge advances. This growth occurred so quickly that concepts recently thought of as cutting-edge are now commonplace. Here’s a look at how video visits with healthcare providers are markedly different from comprehensive Virtual Care services.

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Deep Genomics raises $180M for AI-enabled RNA therapeutic discovery

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the money to help expand its pipeline and scale.

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WellSky to acquire startup Healthify to scale up social determinants of health efforts

FierceHealthIT

WellSky to acquire startup Healthify to scale up social determinants of health efforts. hlandi. Sun, 08/01/2021 - 23:55.

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A new paradigm of diabetes care

Mobi Health News

How innovation has been a game changer for diabetes patients.

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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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Going to HIMSS21 in Vegas? Here's what you need to know

FierceHealthIT

Going to HIMSS21 in Vegas? Here's what you need to know. hlandi. Sun, 08/01/2021 - 22:18.

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Suspended outside of the Web

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Weaving the web: During the past 18 months researchers at the University of York (in collaboration with Good Things Foundation and University of Leeds) have had the privilege of speaking to people diagnosed with severe mental ill health (SMI), including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder, about digital experiences during the pandemic.

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Majority of nursing homes missing broad safety, quality inspections due to the pandemic

FierceHealthIT

Majority of nursing homes missing broad safety, quality inspections due to the pandemic. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 14:02.

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Video Series: Doctor to Doctor – What is Participatory Medicine?

Society for Participatory Medicine

[link]. Conversations between SPM co-founder and Chief Advocacy Officer, Danny Sands MD and Annie Brewster MD, founder of Health Story Collaborative. Here they discuss the meaning and intent of Participatory Medicine. Did you enjoy this video? Sign the Manifesto and learn more about becoming a member. The post Video Series: Doctor to Doctor – What is Participatory Medicine?

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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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Hospitals' volume, margin gains held in check by rising costs in June, Kaufman Hall reports

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals' volume, margin gains held in check by rising costs in June, Kaufman Hall reports. dmuoio. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 12:51.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 12: Sue Schade – Healthcare CIO Leadership, Innovation, and the Interim CIO

Healthcare IT Today

For the 12th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors and Currently serving as Interim SVP and CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital. In this episode Schade dives into the evolving role of the CIO in healthcare and how it has changed throughout […].

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CMS finalizes $2.3B pay bump for hospitals in federal fiscal 2022

FierceHealthIT

CMS finalizes $2.3B pay bump for hospitals in federal fiscal 2022. rking. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 17:13.

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7 Ways to Go Paperless with the HPS Web Portal

Health Portal Solutions

Healthcare Payers everywhere are looking for ways to go paperless. And whether it’s to save the planet, boost efficiencies, or to simply cut costs, there are numerous reasons to move to paperless processes. The HPS web portal offers several tools that enable Payers to make the switch from paper to electronic. Highlighted below are the top 7 ways you can go paperless using the HPS portal. 1.

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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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Humana names new group, military and specialty business segment president

FierceHealthIT

Humana names new group, military and specialty business segment president. pminemyer. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 12:40.

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Caregiver Support Company Cariloop raises $15 million in Series B funding to expand help for families and ease caregiving crisis

Healthcare IT Today

Cariloop, the Caregiver Support company that pairs caregivers and their families with dedicated Care Coaches as they plan for and manage the health and well-being of their loved ones, announced today that it has completed a $15 million Series B round of financing. Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners, a firm committed to backing high-growth businesses and leading entrepreneurs […].

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Kaiser Permanente requiring all 240K employees, physicians to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente requiring all 240K employees, physicians to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. dmuoio. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 16:37.

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HIStalk Interviews Ashish Shah, CEO, Dina

HIStalk Interviews

Ashish Shah is co-founder and CEO of Dina of Chicago,

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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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MUSC wraps up purchase of 3 South Carolina hospitals from LifePoint Health

FierceHealthIT

MUSC wraps up purchase of 3 South Carolina hospitals from LifePoint Health. dmuoio. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 14:47.

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Counting the Benefits: 4000+ Direct SaaS Intelligence Integrations

LeanIX

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3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package

FierceHealthIT

3 key health policies in the Senate's $1T infrastructure package. rking. Mon, 08/02/2021 - 13:58.