Tue.Jul 07, 2020

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Faster Pace for Corporate Investments and Behavioral Health in COVID-Driven Digital Health Era

Health Populi

The pace of digital health investments quickened in the first half of 2020, based on Rock Health’s look at health-tech financing in mid-year. Digital health companies garnered $5.4 billion in the first half of the year, record-setting according to Rock Health. Underneath this number were very big deals, shown by the size of the blue bubbles in the first graphic from the report.

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RapidAI snags FDA clearance for neuroimaging analysis device

Mobi Health News

RapidAI, a health tech company specializing in stroke imaging, has received clearance from the FDA for its Rapid ASPECTS neuroimaging analysis device. The product was designed to improve physicians’ interpretations of Non-Contrast CT (NCCT) scans using the automated ASPECT score, according to the company. It uses the Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Scoring (ASPECTS) and machine learning to come up with an ASPECTS score for certain regions of the brain that have early signs of brain infarction.

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How health systems can entice consumers to walk through digital front door

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: HIMSS20 Digital Coverage Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How health systems can entice consumers to walk through digital front door Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Cochlear receives FDA clearance for three new hearing devices

Mobi Health News

Cochlear Limited announced yesterday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance of three new products to be added to the company’s suite of hearing technology devices, all of which can connect to smartphones.

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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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Verma: COVID-19 proving the need for greater interoperability

FierceHealthIT

Verma: COVID-19 proving the need for greater interoperability. pminemyer. Tue, 07/07/2020 - 13:33.

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Mayo Clinic CEO blasts 'just-in-time' ordering as pandemic changes supply chain

FierceHealthIT

Mayo Clinic CEO blasts 'just-in-time' ordering as pandemic changes supply chain. rking. Tue, 07/07/2020 - 13:24.

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Novartis, Propeller Health co-package new asthma treatment

Mobi Health News

The co-packaged product, which will be launched in Europe this year, combines Propeller's sensor tech and Novartis' new medication.

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Blending Marketing and Health IT Solutions – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/10 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Colin Hung (@colin_hung) on the topic of “Blending Marketing and Health IT Solutions“. Most healthcare IT solutions use a variety of techniques to accomplish their goals. […].

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FraudScope secures $7M in funding

Mobi Health News

FraudScope, an artificial intelligence platform that detects heatlhcare fraud, waste and abuse, completed a $7 million Series A round of funding last week. With this financing, FraudScope now has $10.5 million in total funding.

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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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Rural health systems among top recipients of PPP loans

FierceHealthIT

Rural health systems among top recipients of PPP loans. treed. Tue, 07/07/2020 - 10:27.

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Elucid Digital Health’s dashboard gives pharma and CROs real-time patient data

Mobi Health News

Elucid’s Pill connect dispensing system will provide contract research organisations (CROs) and pharma the ability to show adherence data during a clinical trial, across country, site, and individual patient number.

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Verily's OneFifteen rehab campus ramps up telehealth as opioid overdoses rise

FierceHealthIT

Verily's OneFifteen rehab campus ramps up telehealth as opioid overdoses rise. hlandi. Tue, 07/07/2020 - 15:19.

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Rock Health reports record digital health funding of $5.4B set to the backdrop of a pandemic

Mobi Health News

Telehealth and digital behavioral health were two of the most popular investment areas.

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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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Lower Extremity Amputations Are Most Common in Type 1 Patients

Insulin Nation

Among the many complications from diabetes, foot and leg amputations may be one of the most widely known to those outside of the diabetes community. But, until very recently, the actual rates of amputation among people with type 1 versus type 2, was not well understood. Now, a new data study by Aetion is shedding some light on how often this severe complication effects each group.

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Podcast Interview with CIO Kevin Wiese, Part 2: “We End Up Learning From Our Non-IT Staff.”

Health System CIO

In the behavioral health space, where the no-show rate for visitors has long been a challenge, telemedicine offers a level of convenience that could be a game-changer, says CIO Kevin Wiese. “Time will tell as we look at the data.” When you have timelines in place and milestones to meet, as CIOs always do, the last thing you want is to delay them. But when disaster strikes – and poses a strain on your team’s resources – difficult decisions have to be made; projects need to be put on hold and expe

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Appointment Scheduling and Self-Scheduling – Telehealth Features Series

Healthcare IT Today

In this Teleahealth Feature Series, we’re going to cover the long list of potential telehealth features available today. As you’re considering your own approach to telehealth, we will provide you a look at all the possible features telehealth companies are offering on the market. Plus, we’ll offer our insight into the nuances of each feature […].

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OrthoLive Founder to Host AANA Webinar

Ortholive

OrthoLive Founder, Michael Greiwe, M.D., will lead AANA 's webinar, Using Telemedicine to Increase Revenue in the Current Environment, on Tuesday, July 21 at 8:00 P.M. EST. This webinar will be an in-depth discussion on how telemedicine can increase revenue and efficiency at your practice as part of the "new normal" following COVID-19.

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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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Sample Questions for Nurse Peer-Interviews

HealthStream

A good peer interview nursing team will deploy a series of questions designed to learn about a candidate’s mental, emotional and physical state, helping them find the best fit for their unique situation.

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4 Uses for Live Chat You May Not Know About

Health Portal Solutions

Live chat provides an easy and cost-effective way to engage with your users through your portal. Besides instant messaging in a secure environment, live chat has other capabilities that can improve the experience for your users and productivity for your team. Here are 4 uses for live chat you may not know about: Language Translation. In this day and age, there’s a growing need for multilingual customer service.

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DocDoc Helps Patients Discover Providers

Healthcare IT Today

You would think matching patients with the best available provider would be easy with the data and intelligent algorithms we have at our collective disposal. It isn’t. For one, the data required from both patients and providers is siloed and not readily accessible. In addition, there is a lack of momentum by insurance companies to […].

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Cloud-based telehealth, linked with Epic EHR, helps one hospital scale up virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. THE PROBLEM. But the health system needed to rapidly ramp up ambulatory support to address challenges brought on by the COVID-19 health crisis. It immediately recognized a need for virtual employee-health-screening to clear staff for work each day and minimize spread of the coronavirus.

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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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Removing Obstacles to Surgery Care with Telehealth

GlobalMed

In a given year, 48 million surgical inpatient procedures are performed. Because surgical care often requires specialized knowledge, many patients must travel beyond their local hospital or clinic to receive this needed care. But surgical care takes more than a single day at the hospital with a specialist, leaving many patients in a position to make multiple trips for care.