Tue.May 07, 2019

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FDA clears mobile AI platform for heart murmur screening

Mobi Health News

The cloud-based eMurmur ID platform aims to help primary care practitioners and other unspecialized clinicians provide consistent heart screening.

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The Convergence of Health/Care and Real Estate

Health Populi

There’s no denying the growth of telehealth, virtual visits, remote health monitoring and mHealth apps in the healthcare landscape. But these growing technologies don’t replace the role of real estate in health, wellness and medical care. Health care is a growing force in retail real estate, according to the ICSC, the acronym for the International Council of Shopping Centers , which has been spending time analyzing, in their words, “what landlords should know in eyeing tenants

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EHR workflow, clinician messaging startup raises $5.8M Series A

Mobi Health News

Already active in more than 130 Cerner hospitals, TransformativeMed is looking to increase the reach of its CORES Value Suite platform.

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CMS may overpay Medicare Advantage plans by billions, study finds 

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Advantage members often account for less healthcare spending before they switch plans, meaning the government may be significantly overpaying MA insurers, according to a new study.

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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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Astarte gets $5M to build technology for gut health in the NICU

Mobi Health News

The company hopes to use the funding to complete development of its NICUtrition predictive analytics platform.

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Bayer partners with Sensyne Health to develop national linked patient data capability

Mobi Health News

The German firm will provide pharmaceutical insight in a consortium which aims to accelerate discovery and development of new medicines using clinical AI.

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Kaiser Permanente building infrastructure to 'connect the dots' for social determinants

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente plans to roll out a new care network to more effectively connect its 12.3 million patients to the community services they need, such as housing, food, or transportation.

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Clinician house-call platform DispatchHealth lands $33M

Mobi Health News

The startup plans on using the new money to expand its reach and improve its platform.

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For first time, employed physicians outnumber self-employed doctors, AMA study finds

FierceHealthIT

2018 marked a new milestone for physician practices. There are now fewer physician owners than employees, according to the American Medical Association, and this continues a trend that's been tracked since 2012.

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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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New York startup Journey Meditation plans to bring group meditation to a users' living room

Mobi Health News

The company also announced a $2.4 million seed funding raise.

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All of Us Research Program Provides First Look at Data Browser

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

In first year of recruitment, 80 percent of enrollees are from historically underrepresented communities

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Harnessing the Power of Human Capital: Enabling Transformation for Healthcare IT Initiatives through Effective Project and Change Management

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Bill Slama, business consulting senior manager; Philip Handal, business consulting senior manager; and Jamie Morisco, business consulting experienced manager, Grant Thornton LLP. Healthcare organizations are scrambling to harness the potential of digital technology to transform their business and gain a competitive edge in the marketplace.

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Many insurers won't cover medical nutrition if patients can drink it. Some lawmakers aim to change that

FierceHealthIT

Advocates headed to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby on behalf of legislation that would require insurers cover medical nutrition regardless of whether it requires a feeding tube or if a patient could drink it.

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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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New Look, Same Dedication

LeanIX

We have exciting news to share – LeanIX has a new look! In the last few years, we have made tremendous progress as a company. We have welcomed hundreds of new customers around the globe, we have re-architected the underlying technology of LeanIX from scratch, and we have introduced countless exciting new features, integrations, add-ons, and premiered the LeanIX Store.

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Study: Patients treated by fraudulent providers often most vulnerable

FierceHealthIT

Between 2012 and 2015, 1.2 million Medicare beneficiaries were treated by providers who committed fraud or abuse—and many of these patients were from vulnerable populations, according to a new study.

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ASCO’s CancerLinQ Partners with Association of Lung Cancer Experts

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

IASLC to contribute expertise on clinical practice, development of clinical quality measures for thoracic oncology

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Medical imaging company to pay $3M to settle HIPAA breach impacting 300K patients

FierceHealthIT

Touchstone Medical Imaging will pay $3 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights to settle potential HIPAA violations for a data breach that exposed the data of 300,000 patients.

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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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A Sneak Peek into Prudential’s New AI Powered Health App, Pulse powered by Babylon

Lloyd Price

The insurance industry is changing, and its changing fast. The forces driving the change in insurance include skyrocketing healthcare costs, rising protection gap and a shift in the way consumers prefer to interact with brands. These new realities are pressuring the insurance industry to embrace insurtech. Prudential is among those in Malaysia’s insurance scene that have adopted this digital doctrine.

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NIH gives first look at All of Us precision medicine research health database

FierceHealthIT

The NIH rolled out an interactive tool providing a preview of the initial data from participants in the Precision Medicine Initiative's All of Us research program.

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T1D and the First Years of Motherhood

Insulin Nation

Two years ago, I began what I thought would be the toughest challenge of my life: pregnancy with type 1 diabetes. I was so focused on staying healthy and keeping my sugars in line while growing a tiny human inside of me, that I hardly gave any thought to what would happen when she finally came out. Turns out that raising a baby while living with diabetes presents its own set of challenges.

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Judge tells HHS to revisit 340B after ruling cuts 'unlawful'

FierceHealthIT

Cuts to the reimbursement rate under the 340B drug program by HHS was unlawful, a U.S. District judge for the District Court of D.C. has ruled.

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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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Are You Using Evidence-Based Hiring in Healthcare?

HealthStream

Research here also shows that most people aren’t good interviewers and a traditional interview isn’t particularly predictive for healthcare hiring success.

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HRS Telehealth Advancement Conference Delivers Innovative Ideas from Industry Experts

Health Recovery Solutions

Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), a telehealth and remote patient software company, hosted its inaugural Telehealth Advancement Conference this past week. The Conference focused on facilitating the spread telehealth best practices, maximizing cost savings, and the future of telehealth reimbursement.

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Labor and Unemployment Considerations for Healthcare Turnover

HealthStream

Because the United States has a predominantly service-based economy, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics also tells us that jobs in healthcare and social assistance are expected to drive a significant portion of the job growth during the near future.

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CMS.gov - Untitled Article

CMS.gov

At the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), we are making great progress to transform Medicaid, which CMS’s largest program serving 72.5 million beneficiaries.

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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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Recent 2019 Blog Posts about the Healthcare Continuum from HCCS and HealthStream

HealthStream

HealthStream and HCCS, A HealthStream Company recently published numerous blog posts related to the healthcare continuum. We’ve collected and compiled links to them here.

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Clinicians at the Bowen Center give trust back to IT staff after new network infrastructure installed

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

About two years ago, the Bowen Center, a provider of mental health care in northern Indiana servicing 21 counties with nearly 1,300 staff, had gone through tremendous growth. But that growth was halting, thanks to instabilities throughout its various systems and IT infrastructure. THE PROBLEM. The problems were extensive. The Bowen Center is a 39-location health system with a wide spread of mobile workers outside of physical locations.

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Many Healthcare Staff Depart to Improve Compensation and Benefits

HealthStream

The opportunity to improve compensation and benefits by going to a job elsewhere is a powerful motivator, creating a serious challenge for healthcare employee retention.

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