Mon.Sep 12, 2022

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Alphabet's Verily raises $1B to expand precision health business

Mobi Health News

Alphabet's life science arm also announces the company's founder Andy Conrad will step down as CEO. Current president Stephen Gillett will take on the role in January.

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How virtual reality can help address the mental health professional shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More people are in need of mental health treatment today than ever before, but there just aren't enough therapists to meet the growing demand. In 2020, it was estimated that around 41.4 million adults in the U.S. received mental health treatment or counseling. Only an estimated 106,500 psychologists possess current licenses in the United States.

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Millie raises $4M for tech-enabled maternity clinic

Mobi Health News

The startup currently offers virtual services and plans to open a brick-and-mortar clinic in Berkeley, Calif., at the end of the month.

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The Future of Telehealth: 6 Key Trends to Watch

Health Recovery Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to confront a new reality when it comes to healthcare. The unprecedented impact of the pandemic has led governments and healthcare providers globally to re-evaluate their preparedness plans. One of the areas that has seen the most change is telehealth. Until recently, telehealth was seen as a niche field with huge potential that remains unexplored.

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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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Clinical trial platform HealthMatch snaps up $7M in Series C funding

Mobi Health News

The new funds will go toward further scaling its platform in the United States.

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Reproductive Health Data: Open Standard Offers Access Control, Revocation, and Other Traits

Healthcare IT Today

A team of women coders caught attention at DEF CON on June 26 with a secure reproductive health tracking app (Figure 1) that lets a menstruating person exchange data securely with health staff. Their core technology was OpenTDF , a free software library that advances a crucial goal in health care: patient control over their own data, in tandem with the ability to share data with their doctors and other people through access policies and encryption.

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Dr. Danny Sands: Participatory Medicine Can Cure Many Ills

Society for Participatory Medicine

Embracing shared decision making in medicine will improve patient outcomes, reduce costs, increase health equity, and even help alleviate clinician burnout, Danny Sands, MD, co-founder of the Society for Participatory Medicine , said in a recent podcast interview. Erin Moriarty Wade, communications and patient advocacy manager at myTomorrows , interviewed Sands for her company’s podcast, Shared Experiences in Oncology & Rare Diseases.

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PurpleLab, Inc. Raises $40M in Funding from Primus Capital

Healthcare IT Today

Series B Round to Accelerate PurpleLab’s Investment in Real-World Evidence Solutions Built on the Company’s HealthNexus™ Platform. PurpleLab, Inc. today announced a $40 million Series B funding round led by Primus Capital , which joins existing investor Edison Partners. TripleTree served as the exclusive financial advisor to PurpleLab for this transaction.

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Mental Health in Workers Compensation

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: Mental Health in Workers Compensation: Stress, anxiety, and depression are among the most prevalent for injured workers. As experts in mental health claims review, BHM Healthcare Solutions offers objective medical necessity reviews for complex claimss. CLICK HERE to learn more about BHM. Stress, anxiety, and depression are among the most prevalent for injured workers.

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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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How to Treat Geriatric Populations in Health Systems

Iris Telehealth

According to the World Health Organization , approximately 15% of adults aged 60 and over have a mental health condition. However, less than 3% of older adults receive treatment from mental health professionals. In some cases, this lack of care is due to inadequate access to mental health services, stigma, or other medical conditions that might need attention, too.

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HIStalk Interviews Luke Bonney, CEO, Redox

HIStalk Interviews

Luke Bonney is co-founder and CEO of Redox of Madison,

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CIO Podcast – Episode 39: Telehealth with Linda Stevenson

Healthcare IT Today

For the 39th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Linda Stevenson, CIO at Fisher-Titus Medical Center. In this episode we’re diving into the world of Telehealth and Linda Stevenson’s experience with implementing it at her rural health organization during the COVID rush and then their move to a more long term telehealth solution integrated with their Cerner EHR.

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ED patient acuity largely unchanged by COVID (at least so far)

Henry Kotula

[link]. Many health systems are wondering if consumers are now leveraging new access points, including telemedicine, for low-acuity urgent care instead of going to the emergency department (ED), something which many experts are forecasting. For the graphic above, we partnered with healthcare software and analytics firm Strata Decision Technology to try to answer this question.

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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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Today’s Patient Portals CAN NOT Work: Friction ACROSS Portals

E-CareManagement

by Vince Kuraitis and Jody Ranck. Friction across multiple patient portals dramatically limits their usefulness—there's no practical way for patients OR providers to reconcile and integrate information and workflow. This is the third post in our series on patient portals. We've used platform terminology and concepts to explain why today's patient portals are doomed to mediocrity.