Tue.Nov 03, 2020

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R2G Report: Digital diabetes market will be worth €1.3bn by 2024

Mobi Health News

The new report from Research2Guidance (R2G) highlights the current state of the most developed digital health sector, locating service expansion into comorbidities as a key trend.

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Telehealth's uncertain future raises alarm bells for cancer patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The relaxation of telehealth regulations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a wave of interest and support, with patients noting the convenience, discretion and safety of virtual care as major selling points. But another, perhaps less publicized advantage of telemedicine is the availability of specialists for patients – particularly those with chronic diseases such as cancer.

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Omada reports blood sugar, weight improvements after 12 months with its digital diabetes prevention program

Mobi Health News

Outcomes from the randomized controlled trial were presented today at a virtual conference. The company and its research partners says this study differs from others due to its size and length.

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Running a Ransomware Simulation in Your Healthcare Organization

Healthcare IT Today

As part of the recent VMWorld virtual event, I had a chance to sit down and talk with Chris Frenz, CISO at Interfaith Medical. Turns out, he has a long history of working with VMWare products that goes back to 2015 when he first ran a ransomware simulation in his organization. At the time, he […].

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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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Alphabet's moonshot subsidiary X zeros in on depression

Mobi Health News

The company is releasing its research on mapping biomarkers for depression.

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Human API's $20M+ Series C, Curve Health's $6M seed round and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Digital therapeutics company Palo Alto Health Sciences reports $9.1 million; Adherium gains new support from investment firm Viburnum.

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Industry Voices—The future of medicine is going virtual. Here is what that means for both doctors and patients

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—The future of medicine is going virtual. Here is what that means for both doctors and patients. hlandi. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 11:30.

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Ontrak deepens its behavioral health platform with LifeDojo acquisition

Mobi Health News

The company hopes to reach new and existing customers with the addition of LifeDojo’s digital tools that can lead to better health outcomes and lower associated costs.

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Here are the biggest healthcare ballot measures voters will decide on this year

FierceHealthIT

Here are the biggest healthcare ballot measures voters will decide on this year. rking. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 18:08.

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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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MediCity helps raise £26M for 70 new companies

Mobi Health News

The accelerator project has created over 200 jobs in life sciences and medtech companies in the last five years, creating opportunity in an otherwise very expensive field

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Humana reports $1.3B in Q3 profit, nearly doubling its earnings year over year

FierceHealthIT

Humana reports $1.3B in Q3 profit, nearly doubling its earnings year over year. pminemyer. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 07:18.

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MediCity helps raise £26 million for 70 new companies

Mobi Health News

The accelerator project has created over 200 jobs in life sciences and medtech companies in the last five years, creating opportunity in an otherwise very expensive field

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Medicare fines half of hospitals for readmitting too many patients

FierceHealthIT

Medicare fines half of hospitals for readmitting too many patients. treed. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 07:17.

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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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Healthcare Disruption – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/6 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Healthcare Disruption“ A lot of people love to talk about disrupting healthcare. This makes a lot of sense […].

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Health tech funding snapshot—Honor scores $140M for in-home care; Lark Health lands $70M, expands Anthem partnership

FierceHealthIT

Health tech funding snapshot—Honor scores $140M for in-home care; Lark Health lands $70M, expands Anthem partnership. hlandi. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 17:49.

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Using digital tools to improve patient engagement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using digital tools to improve patient engagement Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: EMEA Right Now:

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New York ER docs sue UnitedHealth for alleged underpayments

FierceHealthIT

New York ER docs sue UnitedHealth for alleged underpayments. pminemyer. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 15:08.

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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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Billing Telehealth Updates for the South Central Region

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The South Central Telehealth Resource Center is committed to assisting you through the complexities of billing telehealth through the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic continues to unfold, the ability to remain nimble to provide care and still obtain accurate reimbursement is critical for financial stability. The Virtual Visit Billing guides for Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, originally released in the Summer, have been updated and newly formatted!

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CMS expanding payments for new home dialysis equipment

FierceHealthIT

CMS expanding payments for new home dialysis equipment. treed. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 06:49.

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What Makes Healthcare Digital Marketing Leaders Stand Out?

Geonetric

Three leadership trends emerge Yes, digital leaders spend more and yes, they have bigger teams, but that has always been the case for this group. The bigger insights come from how they use those resources and where are they looking to invest in the future. When analyzing leading organizations in that light, three key trends […]. Read What Makes Healthcare Digital Marketing Leaders Stand Out?

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Biden to turn to executive authority to invoke healthcare priorities in face of divided Congress

FierceHealthIT

Biden to turn to executive authority to invoke healthcare priorities in face of divided Congress. rking. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 18:45.

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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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COVID-Related Investments In Advanced Tech May Position Hospitals For Future Success

Healthcare IT Today

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, over the last several months, healthcare organizations have made investments in cutting edge tech despite the job COVID was doing on their finances. Fortunately, these investments may have set the stage for future growth as well, according to a new research study. Research firm Frost & Sullivan […].

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Rethinking Healthcare Training for Diversity, Inclusion, and Bias

HealthStream

There’s a lot of work to be done to address healthcare challenges in diversity, inclusion, and bias. This blog post begins our series of excerpts from a Q&A with Jeremy Short, diversity expert, who is helping HealthStream develop learning courseware in this area.

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Linking DevOps Efficiency With IT Management

LeanIX

Many of today’s prevailing methods for IT management can’t track the day-to-day realities of DevOps teams — that is, in ways that let developers work uninterrupted while giving business stakeholders constant lines of sight into their activities. Though it was once feasible for application owners to document architectures by manually updating and aggregating product data, these approaches are highly impractical when sustaining cultures of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

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HIMSS CEO: How to capitalize on an 'exponential growth' in digital innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As we focus this month on the topic of Leadership Fundamentals for Digital Transformation , we wanted to ask one healthcare leader – Hal Wolf, CEO of HIMSS, parent company of Healthcare IT News – for his thoughts on the fundamental transformations that have taken place around the globe as health systems innovate their approaches to information and technology in response to the COVID-19 emergency.

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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.