Mon.Aug 17, 2020

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Health tech companies claim their largest share of the Inc. 5,000 to date with 123 entries

Mobi Health News

This year's collection of fast-growing digital health, health IT, medical device and consumer digital wellness companies dwarfed the 61 spotted by MobiHealthNews on last year's list.

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The Mental Health Impacts of COVID-19 – Trauma- and Stress-Related Disorders in the Pandemic

Health Populi

The CDC calculated that some 200,000 American lives would be lost to the coronavirus pandemic by Labor Day weekend 2020. Beyond the tragic mortality in the U.S. come morbidity impacts hitting mental health in America, hard. And some people are being hit-harder than others, a report from the Centers for Disease Control details. Overall, 4 in 10 people in the U.S. reported at least one adverse mental or behavioral health symptom in the last week of June 2020.

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Thirty Madison closes $47M funding round and adds new member to board of directors

Mobi Health News

Digital health company Thirty Madison recently announced the closing of a $47 million Series B funding round. It was led by Polaris Partners, but also had participation from new investor Johnson & Johnson Innovation and existing investors Maveron and Northzone. With the closing of this round, Thirty Madison has now raised $70 million. The company also announced the appointment of Amy Schulman, a managing partner at Polaris Partners, to Thirty Madison’s board of directors.

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How To Prepare For Your Telemedicine Visit

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered service delivery in a big way. Even services such as healthcare that rely heavily on in-person meetings have had to bow to the “new normal,” with practices being forced to […]. The article How To Prepare For Your Telemedicine Visit 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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Why buying Physera made sense for Omada

Mobi Health News

CEOs Sean Duffy and Dan Rubinstein explain why their businesses just fit and what COVID-19 has to do with it.

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Industry Voices—From millennials to boomers, digital patient care is key

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—From millennials to boomers, digital patient care is key. hlandi. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 10:50.

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Possible Discrimination Against Remote Workforce

Healthcare IT Today

One of the big optimization lessons learned as people quickly shifted to remote work was that if one person is remote, then everyone should connect in as if they were remote (whether they’re remote or not). It creates some really tough dynamics if a few people are hopping on Zoom or Google Meet remotely and […].

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Industry Voices—More than ever, disease prevention is crucial. Don't forget the HPV vaccine

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—More than ever, disease prevention is crucial. Don't forget the HPV vaccine. treed. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 12:00.

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Modernizing Medicine EHR’s Approach to Telehealth – EHR Telehealth Series

Healthcare IT Today

As part of our ongoing series of telehealth interviews with EHR vendors, we’re excited to share our interview with Patric Edmondson, Chief Technology Officer and Dr. Andrew Rosenthal, Medical Director of Plastic Surgery at Modernizing Medicine. In this series, we talk with an EHR vendors to better understand how they’re approaching telehealth.

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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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Lumeon banks $30M as it adapts to support growing use of virtual care

FierceHealthIT

Lumeon banks $30M as it adapts to support growing use of virtual care. hlandi. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 10:14.

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CIO of the Year Probst talks healthcare challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: HIMSS20 Digital Coverage Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: CIO of the Year Probst talks healthcare challenges Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Industry Voices—Congress: Stop Medicare cuts to specialty healthcare providers

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Congress: Stop Medicare cuts to specialty healthcare providers. treed. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 11:39.

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Millions Of Elderly Patients In U.S. Aren’t Prepared To Participate in Telehealth Visits

Healthcare IT Today

New research appearing in a high-profile medical journal suggests that millions of U.S. seniors aren’t ready to participate fully – or in some cases, at all – in telehealth visits due to a lack of technical knowledge or health-related issues. The study, which was published in JAMA Internal Medicine, looked the degree to which U.S. […].

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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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Banner Health generates $4.7B in the first half of the year as it combats volume declines due to COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Banner Health generates $4.7B in the first half of the year as it combats volume declines due to COVID-19. rking. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 15:46.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Household Oxygen Concentrators

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the demand for health has gradually increased, and family oxygen inhalation has gradually become an important part of family rehabilitation. However, we sometimes encounter some small problems […].

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A Vision from Asia Pacific to Re-Imagine the Future of Health

Digital Health Today

A new whitepaper by Tony Estrella imagines the future of personalized healthcare. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, experts around the world are rethinking health and healthcare. In an uncertain and ever-changing world, how can healthcare systems prepare themselves to deal with new, and often unexpected, challenges? . Tony Estrella , health expert, futurist, and author re-imagines the future of healthcare in a part of the world where the majority of the population resides – the Asia P

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Why Johnson & Johnson is investing in this niche telehealth startup

FierceHealthIT

Why Johnson & Johnson is investing in this niche telehealth startup. hlandi. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 15:18.

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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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HealthStream’s Resuscitation Programs Create Safe, Community-Based Learning Environment

HealthStream

High-quality CPR training is essential — and harder than ever to get, due to COVID-19. HealthStream and the American Red Cross have created a resuscitation suite that is flexible, multifaceted and perfect for socially distanced learning.

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Aetna teams with Olympic athletes on Attain Games fitness challenge

FierceHealthIT

Aetna teams with Olympic athletes on Attain Games fitness challenge. pminemyer. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 14:59.

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Start Optimizing IT Budgets with EA and ITFM

LeanIX

As microservices, cloud migration, and agile development increase the complexity of IT landscapes, CIOs in every industry are under added pressure to balance the costs of running IT with investments in technology necessary for growth. For CFOs like me, it's expected that technology investments link directly to serving the customer and tie to business outcomes.

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HHS allocates $1.4B to children's hospitals affected by COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

HHS allocates $1.4B to children's hospitals affected by COVID-19. rking. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 10:24.

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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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Patient-provider encounter trends have stabilized, but remain significantly lower than before COVID-19

Henry Kotula

[link]. Dive Brief: In-person doctor visits plummeted during the start of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, but have rebounded to a rate somewhat below pre-pandemic levels, according to a new analysis issued by The Commonwealth Fund and conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Harvard University and the life sciences firm Phreesia.

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Federal appeals court sides with insurers over ACA cost-sharing reduction payments

FierceHealthIT

Federal appeals court sides with insurers over ACA cost-sharing reduction payments. pminemyer. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 11:55.

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Using prototypes in app design

HAY on FHIR

I’ve always been fond of creating functional prototypes when designing apps. There are a number of advantages over simply documenting what the app should do: It means that the users (e.g. clinicians) get to try out something that actually works (sort of) before ‘signing off’ on the requirements. This reduces the chance of delivering something that doesn’t quite meet their needs.

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Judge throws out Heritage Valley Health System's lawsuit against Nuance over 2017 malware attack

FierceHealthIT

Judge throws out Heritage Valley Health System's lawsuit against Nuance over 2017 malware attack. hlandi. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 16:33.

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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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Larger hospital, physician systems didn't lead to better quality, study found

FierceHealthIT

Larger hospital, physician systems didn't lead to better quality, study found. rking. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 13:42.

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Industry Voices—The pandemic will usher in a slew of connected solutions in 2020

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—The pandemic will usher in a slew of connected solutions in 2020. treed. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 15:10.

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Industry Voices—6 tips for front-line providers on strengthening your relationships with IPs

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—6 tips for front-line providers on strengthening your relationships with IPs. treed. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 14:30.

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