Tue.Mar 22, 2022

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Digital IBS therapy startup metaMe partners to bring PDT to market

Mobi Health News

The company announced a deal with Indegene to launch Regulora, its recently FDA-approved prescription digital therapeutic for treating abdominal pain associated with IBS.

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The Financial Toxicity of Health Care Costs: From Cancer to FICO Scores

Health Populi

The financial toxicity of health care costs in the U.S. takes center stage in Health Populi this week as several events converge to highlight medical debt as a unique feature in American health care. “Medical debt is the most common collection tradeline reported on consumer credit records,” the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau called out in a report published March 1, 2022.

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Governments move towards centralized approach to digital health strategy

Mobi Health News

A Nature article outlines the digital health approaches of nine countries around the world.

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Top takeaways from HIMSS22: What CIOs need to know

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Health system IT leaders need to be ready to enable care delivery anywhere, anytime, to any patient. New advances in cloud and telehealth/remote monitoring are forcing the issue. David Chou Healthcare chief information officers had a lot to take in at HIMSS22 this past week.

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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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Talkspace launches new self-guided parenting app

Mobi Health News

This new rollout comes after Talkspace acquired self-guided app Lasting in 2020.

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Nuclei scores $33M for AI-enabled pathology platform and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Telehealth startup Antidote Health and fertility tech company Alife Health both raise $22 million.

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Verizon partners with Kajeet on telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Verizon Business has partnered with wireless connectivity operator Kajeet to offer its BlueJeans Telehealth through Kajeet channel partners. The companies announced this past week that the team-up will give healthcare providers and care teams a new, secure way to connect with patients remotely. "With BlueJeans Telehealth, Verizon is improving access to high-quality healthcare services to create more healthcare equity," said Alex Doyle, vice president of product management at Verizon Bu

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Security, Analytics, Partners, and Safety at HIMSS22

Healthcare IT Today

In-person healthcare conferences offer a unique opportunity to learn from industry thought-leaders, discover interesting new companies, and hear from established players in the ecosystem. This year at #HIMSS22 I had the opportunity to capture a few of these meetings on camera. Check out these short videos with: MedeAnalytics, DrFirst, Fortinet, R-Zero, and Project Hosts.

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ACA Affordability for the 2022 Tax Year

ACA Times

With the 2021 ACA reporting season coming to an end later this month, employers should turn their attention to ACA compliance for the 2022 tax year. A key component of that requires calculating ACA affordability. The ACA affordability threshold for the 2022 tax year is 9.61%. This is a slight decrease from the 2021 tax year, which set ACA affordability at 9.83%.

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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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Post #ViVE2022 and #HIMSS22 Wrapup – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Post #ViVE2022 and #HIMSS22 Wrapup.” We just finished a busy two weeks of big health IT conferences with ViVE […].

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Improving Safety at a Construction Site

Ortholive

What can construction companies do to improve workplace safety? What are 3 ways to create an on-the-job safety culture? Can OrthoLive help construction companies improve their safety record? Working in the construction industry carries an element of danger. In addition to threats from heavy equipment and the tools construction workers use, the sites themselves carry the potential for safety risk. .

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OptimizeRx Acquires EvinceMed, a Specialty Drug Prescription Initiation Platform

Healthcare IT Today

OptimizeRx Corp. (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: OPRX), a leading provider of point-of-care technology solutions helping patients start and stay on therapy, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the EvinceMed platform and related assets. EvinceMed is a leader in delivering end-to-end automation for specialty pharmaceutical transactions. The acquisition includes the full Market Access Management Platform supporting pharma […].

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Why OpenAPI Alone Won’t Create a Robust API Catalog

LeanIX

The adoption of a microservices approach to product development, along with the decoupling of IT landscapes via APIs, has added layer upon layer of complexity to the process of API management. Organizations can have thousands or even tens of thousands of APIs. The sheer volume of APIs in play makes it hard to get a comprehensive overview of the full API landscape.

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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.