Fri.Apr 23, 2021

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Roundup: Wingcopter and ANA partner for pharma drone delivery, thermal screening tech launches for UK hospitals and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Healthware Group acquires Streaming Well Motion to help physicians connect to science and learning.

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CIOs plan on refined telehealth, faster deployments, more collaborative tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.).

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HIMSSCast: Digital health's $7B Q1 and what it means for the space

Mobi Health News

StartUp Health's Unity Stoakes joins the MobiHealthNews team to look back at a groundbreaking quarter for investment.

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Telehealth's awkward waiting room problem, and how one company aims to solve it

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Even as telehealth has made many aspects of care more seamless, a few elements have routinely emerged as points of difficulty. Among them is the waiting room. A new survey from LifeLink Systems out this week found that the vast majority of patients said they'd prefer a virtual waiting room that allowed them to complete paperwork on their phones before they got to a doctors' office.

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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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Telemedicine came to the rescue during COVID-19 – could it help climate change too?

Mobi Health News

Research and experts agree: Telemedicine's green potential is something to look into.

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Kaiser Permanente settles employee racial discrimination suits for $18.9M

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente settles employee racial discrimination suits for $18.9M. dmuoio. Fri, 04/23/2021 - 14:45.

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CoMind and the future of Non-Invasive Neural Interfaces

Lloyd Price

CoMind is a venture-backed start-up building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces. Our mission is to understand the brain and build the next platform upon the worlds most powerful supercomputer. CoMInd Mission. Our mission is to create the next computing interface to positively change how humans interact with technology. We will simultaneously improve our understanding of the human brain and neurological disorders in a ways that have not been possible before.

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New bill aims to pay pharmacists under Medicare for providing health services

FierceHealthIT

New bill aims to pay pharmacists under Medicare for providing health services. rking. Fri, 04/23/2021 - 14:34.

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Hapbee Wearable Tech, Cold Therapy and the Health Benefits of the Wim Hof Method

Lloyd Price

Wim Hof (AKA The Iceman) makes me proud to be Dutch…and maybe this heritage is what drove my cousins and me to roll around in the snow in our swimsuits when we were younger. Or maybe we were just a special kind of crazy. Anyway, Wim is a legend. He has run a half marathon above the Arctic Circle barefoot and shirtless, swam underneath ice for 188 feet, and completed a full marathon in the Namib Desert without consuming any liquids.

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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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Hospitals, payers, staffers are warming up to merger and acquisition deals for 2021 and beyond: Moody's

FierceHealthIT

Hospitals, payers, staffers are warming up to merger and acquisition deals for 2021 and beyond: Moody's. dmuoio. Fri, 04/23/2021 - 10:51.

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Current Health Closes Oversubscribed $43M Series B Financing Round to Scale Remote Care Management Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Current Health – the leading enterprise remote care management platform – today announced it has raised $43M in Series B financing. The round was led by Northpond Ventures, with additional financing from LRVHealth, OSF HealthCare, Section 32, Elements Health Ventures, and existing investors. Andrea Jackson, Director at Northpond Ventures, and Tripp Peake, General Partner at LRVHealth, […].

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BCBSA is aiming to reduce racial disparities in maternal health by 50% in the next 5 years. Here's how

FierceHealthIT

BCBSA is aiming to reduce racial disparities in maternal health by 50% in the next 5 years. Here's how. pminemyer. Fri, 04/23/2021 - 11:57.

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Why Healthcare Organizations Choose Sitecore

Geonetric

5 reasons health systems select Sitecore When it comes to CMS platforms in healthcare there’s a lot to choose from. Each comes with a list of different pros and cons, especially for health systems. To avoid confusion, it’s important to remember why you are embarking upon the process of selecting a new content management system. […]. Read Why Healthcare Organizations Choose Sitecore at Geonetric.com.

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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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Accolade plans to acquire virtual primary care provider PlushCare in a $380M deal

FierceHealthIT

Accolade plans to acquire virtual primary care provider PlushCare in a $380M deal. hlandi. Fri, 04/23/2021 - 07:00.

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Payer Executive Q&A: Navigating the Payer-Provider Relationship

Health Recovery Solutions

As the healthcare industry continues the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care, it’s important that payers and providers work together to get the most out of their partnership. Both must adapt and innovate to meet members’ needs—this includes optimizing care delivery, leveraging reimbursement and payment mechanisms, and using every tool to their disposal, including telehealth and remote monitoring.

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How an automated omnichannel contact center improves patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement.

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Weekender 4/23/21

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Home monitoring platform vendor Current Health.

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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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Nature may be what the doctor orders to boost mental health

Mobi Health News

Dr. John Torous from Beth Israel's Digital Psychiatry Lab is researching the impacts of green space on schizophrenia symptoms.

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Potential COVID-19 Impact Greater on Rural and Single Provider Long Term Care

HealthStream

Duke Aging Care experts suggest there appears to be a correlation between more serious outbreaks of COVID-19 and location in rural areas, as well as the size of a facility and its affiliation with larger health systems.

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