Fri.Sep 09, 2022

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Pure Health, UAE’s Largest Healthcare Platform, Signs a Deal with Equity Group Investments to Invest Half a Billion Dollars in a U.S. Healthcare Company

Healthcare IT Today

$500m investment expands Pure Health’s footprint in the United States healthcare market. Ardent Health Services is the fourth largest private hospital operator in the United States with operations across six states. Alpha Dhabi Holding subsidiary, Pure Health , the largest integrated healthcare platform of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), today announced that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to acquire a minority equity investment in Ardent Health Services (Ardent), a leading U

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Q&A: How Akili plans to make its DTx routine ADHD treatment

Mobi Health News

Matt Franklin, Akili Interactive's president and COO, explains the company's strategy for launching EndeavorRx, its video game digital therapeutic for children with ADHD.

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Roundup: Victoria, WA launch initiatives to support local digital health innovation and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Victoria invests in new centre supporting digital health innovators. The Victorian government has invested A$2.4 million ($1.6 million) to establish a centre for supporting digital health innovators. The Victorian Connected Health Innovation and Commercialisation Centre will support up to 500 local companies each year by connecting them with healthcare professionals, investors, and other innovators who can assist in fast-tracking the development of their new digital health products.

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Morgan Health invests $20M in home diagnostics company LetsGetChecked

Mobi Health News

LetsGetChecked, which closed a $150 million Series D funding round in 2021, made multiple acquisitions this year.

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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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Insights and Perspectives from the DirectTrust and Civitas Conference

Healthcare IT Today

A few weeks back, we shared that we were going to attend what we termed the Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability which was the annual conference hosted by DirectTrust and Civitas. The good news is that the conference did not disappoint when it came to connecting and learning from the best and brightest healthcare interoperability experts in the industry.

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Lessons from the Queen

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone. We usually do our regular Fun Friday article where we share something to make you smile as you head into the weekend. This week we thought we’d mix it up a bit and share some lessons learned from Queen Elizabeth who sadly passed away this week. We don’t like to get political here, so save that for other forums. However, it’s worth recognizing someone who served her nation for a long time.

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Apple Watch Series 8 adds ovulation estimates, car crash detection

Mobi Health News

The Series 8 includes two temperature sensors that can be used to retrospectively estimate when ovulation occurred.

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Facebook Addiction versus Instagram Addiction: Problematic Use and Effects on Wellbeing

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram have been the focus of research within the past decade due to concerns about Facebook addiction and Instagram addiction. Social-media-related disorders have been researched for over a decade. Findings related to user well-being and more specific factors related to well-being have also been closely examined, such as self-esteem, emotional support, and social connection.

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Lab-on-a-patch maker Nutromics scores $14M from Dexcom Ventures, others

Mobi Health News

It is currently conducting clinical studies and expanding its teams in Australia and the US.

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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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9 Benefits of Physical Therapy

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Physical therapy, commonly referred to as physiotherapy, may involve specific exercises, massages, and other treatments that are focused on physical stimulation. Physical therapy’s goals include pain relief, greater movement, and muscular strengthening for weak areas. The ability to demonstrate to patients what they can do to enhance their own health is a crucial objective. (1) Here are some benefits of physical therapy.

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Working with Patients Suffering From Stress, Anxiety, and Trauma

TheraNest

Reading Time: 4 Minutes. When a patient is facing a difficult situation, it is your job as their provider to help them find ways to navigate it. Through evidence-based interventions and educating your patients on techniques, they may be able to learn how to manage better whatever it is they are facing leading to less suffering. Physically, the body can react similarly to things like stress, anxiety, and traumatic experiences.

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Is a Low-Fat Diet a Healthier Option?

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Fat is an essential component of a healthy diet. A minimal quantity of fat is required for a healthy, balanced diet. Fat contains necessary fatty acids, which the body cannot produce on its own. Fat aids in the absorption of vitamins A, D, and E. Because these vitamins are fat-soluble, they can only be absorbed […]. The post Is a Low-Fat Diet a Healthier Option?

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Chaos Continues After Ransomware Hits UK’s NHS

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Itay Bochner, Director of Malware Analysis at OPSWAT. Patients can’t get their medicine, psychiatrists can’t add reports to the system and provide their professional opinion in court, and only last week was the medical helpline number 111 restored. The manual logging of patient records is resulting in piles of paper documentation, which doctors are saying could take months to input into the online system once it’s restored.

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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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Gallup Reveals Americans’ Views on Industry Are the Lowest Since 2008 – Implications for Healthcare and Pharma

Health Populi

Americans’ positive views of 25 industries in the U.S. have declined in the past year. In their latest look into consumers’ views on business in America, Gallup found that peoples’ ratings on business fell to their lowest ratings overall since 2008. Peoples’ highest ratings of industry in American occurred in 2017 when nearly 50% of people gave business a very or somewhat positive grade.

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Completes Majority Share Acquisition of CareCentrix

Healthcare IT Today

Partnership with CareCentrix extends care capabilities into the home to create a connected ecosystem for patients. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today announced it has completed its previously announced majority share acquisition of CareCentrix, Inc. —the leading independent home-centered platform that coordinates care to the home for health plans, patients and providers.