Tue.Dec 13, 2022

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Virtual reality companies BehaVR and OxfordVR merge

Mobi Health News

The companies also raised $13 million in funding to support the merger.

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Looking ahead to 2023 -- what should we expect?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

You saw and considered the 2022 Tech Trends. Each of these changes will make a difference for older adults and those who serve them. Consider what’s happened with over the counter hearing aids, now available in kiosks at retailers like Walmart and Rite Aid. Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi.

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Komodo Health lays off 9% of its workforce

Mobi Health News

According to TechCrunch and Fierce Healthcare, the health data company also recently closed a $200 million structured equity infusion.

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Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths

FierceHealthIT

Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths. rking. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 15:04.

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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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Dexcom G7 continuous glucose monitor receives FDA clearance

Mobi Health News

The company said it plans to launch the latest model of its CGM in early 2023.

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Novant Health, Movano partner to beta test smart rings

Mobi Health News

The health system will evaluate the "functionality and wearability" of Movano's smart rings with 30 Novant employees.

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Robot bringing companionship to seniors, ElliQ, gets 2.0 update including caregiver app

FierceHealthIT

Robot bringing companionship to seniors, ElliQ, gets 2.0 update including caregiver app. aburky. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 17:14.

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Digital Transformation: From Theory to Application

Healthcare IT Today

It seems as though everyone is talking about digital transformation as of late. Talking about the different ways and areas that it can be helpful in the world of healthcare. All of that talk is well and dandy, but actually applying digital transformation to your organization is an entire different thing. It takes time to integrate, it can disrupt things, and it can take a while to adjust to.

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HHS proposes to make permanent telehealth flexibilities for doling out buprenorphine

FierceHealthIT

HHS proposes to make permanent telehealth flexibilities for doling out buprenorphine. rking. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 17:10.

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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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Amazon Alexa supports care providers with senior living product

DigitalHealth

Amazon has introduced Alexa Smart Properties for Senior Living, supporting care home facilitities to offer more support and personalised care to residents.

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Value-based payment system shortchanges PCPs, says study

FierceHealthIT

Value-based payment system shortchanges PCPs, says study. fdiamond. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 14:39.

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Ingestible Sensor Tracks Abilify Adherence Using Prescription Digital Therapeutics

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Individuals with serious mental illness often struggle with medication compliance, increasing the likelihood of relapse of serious and life-threatening symptoms and psychiatric hospitalizations. Physicians often face challenges if compliance is in question when determining the efficacy of medications. A new prescription digital therapeutics ingestible sensor is providing a needed service for psychiatric populations with serious mental illness using a digital medication adherence tool— Aripiprazo

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Pharmacy startup Medly has filed for bankruptcy with plans to sell 22 stores

FierceHealthIT

Pharmacy startup Medly has filed for bankruptcy with plans to sell 22 stores. hlandi. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 19:38.

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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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Reimagining Pain in the Wake of the Opioid Epidemic

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Vijay Yanamadala, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Sword Health and System Medical Director of Spine Quality at Hartford Healthcare. In 2017, after years of over prescribing opioids to treat pain, leading to opioid addiction for millions of Americans, opioid dependency was declared a public health emergency. Since then, the opioid epidemic has only worsened.

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'Podnosis': How insurers are using data to personalize care and how to fix primary care

FierceHealthIT

'Podnosis': How insurers are using data to personalize care and how to fix primary care. tcarey. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 13:54.

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Remote Patient Monitoring: A Talk with Rob Flippo, CEO of Clear Arch Health (Podcast)

Clear Arch Health

In this episode, we present Rob Flippo, CEO and founder of MobileHelp and its sister company, Clear Arch Health. Listen in as Mr. Flippo, a veteran health tech entrepreneur and holder of 7 U.S. patents for communications systems, shares his take on the current and future state of remote patient monitoring. The post Remote Patient Monitoring: A Talk with Rob Flippo, CEO of Clear Arch Health (Podcast) appeared first on Clear Arch Health.

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Bright Health at risk of being removed from NYSE

FierceHealthIT

Bright Health at risk of being removed from NYSE. pminemyer. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 16:30.

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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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Making Sense of Telephone CPT Code Modifiers: FQ, 93 & the 99441 CPT Code

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Given the official ambiguity about the official termination of the COVID-related Public Health Emergency (PHE ), it may be time to discuss using the “FQ” telephone CPT code and available resources for provider groups and individuals delivering telephone-based services. Some of the key facts include the following: The FQ modifier code was approved in 2022 for when a service is rendered using audio-only technology.

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U.S. medical schools grew more diverse in 2022, AAMC data shows

FierceHealthIT

U.S. medical schools grew more diverse in 2022, AAMC data shows. hlandi. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 12:05.

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The A to Z Guide to Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation

LeanIX

Cyber criminals have been a top-level business risk for decades, but the post-2020 business world has seen a resurgence in security incidents and the emergence of new kinds of threats, no doubt due to the fast and widespread surge in decentralized and remote infrastructures.

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How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions

FierceHealthIT

How Medicare Advantage plans dodged auditors and overcharged taxpayers by millions. pminemyer. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 10:00.

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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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Peer-to-Peer Review Pitfalls & Solutions

BHM Healthcare Solutions

A Peer-to-Peer Review is a conversation between two healthcare professionals, usually licensed doctors, over the phone discussing a patient’s case. The Peer-to-Peer Review (P2P) process is used to explain or clarify something the clinical record cannot convey clearly. The core of a P2P call basically focuses on matching medical necessity criteria with reimbursement criteria.

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Xealth Customer Highlights | December 2022

Xealth

Sam Hernandez, Release Manager. How health systems are effectively tackling audiology, pre-surgical prep, and blood clots with digital health tools. Digital health is so much more than just an app—it’s about the creative use of technology to increase operational efficiencies across your enterprise, reduce clinician burden, and ultimately improve patient care. .

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Komodo Health banks $200M equity infusion to fuel growth as it restructures, cuts headcount by 9%

FierceHealthIT

Komodo Health banks $200M equity infusion to fuel growth as it restructures, cuts headcount by 9%. hlandi. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 14:30.

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Accurx integrates with NHS App to give patients front door to GP services

DigitalHealth

Jacob Haddad, co-founder and CEO of Accurx, talks exclusively about the company's online consultation feature, Patient Triage, integrating with the NHS App.

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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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NIH's All of Us study hits new milestone as largest-scale research effort to provide DNA results

FierceHealthIT

NIH's All of Us study hits new milestone as largest-scale research effort to provide DNA results. hlandi. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 09:44.

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GigXR brings anatomy to life with hyper-realistic 3D tools

DigitalHealth

GigXR has teamed up with Anima Res to bring hyper-realistic holographic tools to learners, with the Insight Series, focusing on heart, lungs and kidney.

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IncludeHealth teams up with Yale New Haven Health to deliver virtual MSK care in homes

FierceHealthIT

IncludeHealth teams up with Yale New Haven Health to deliver virtual MSK care in homes. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 14:17.

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