Mon.Jul 27, 2020

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Belgian startup Indigo Diabetes scores €38 million to develop its under the skin CGM sensor

Mobi Health News

The company is looking to test the product in the U.S. and Europe, with the goal of gaining market approval for both regions by 2023.

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Healthcare in America – the Change Healthcare/Harris Poll

Health Populi

The phrase, “burden of health care,” has two usual meanings: one, to do with the massive chronic care burden, and the other, involving costs. There’s a third area of burden in U.S. health care — the onerous patient experience in finding and accessing care, assessed in the 2020 Change Healthcare – Harris Poll Consumer Experience Index.

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Anthem releases COVID-19 tracking platform with CloudMedx; Current Health integrates Dexcom CGM into its platform; and more digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Anthem has released its COVID-19-tracking and predictive digital platform, C19 Explorer, in partnership with CloudMedx. The tool has five data categories: public health, hospital, economy, social and preventative. Users can view information on a national, state, county and city level with data on cases, deaths, unemployment, food insecurity and testing.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has been a wake-up call for patients-as-consumers, seeking lower-touch health care services at home or closer-to-home in community health hubs. The need for a holistic platform the serves up a continuum-of-care tools across the patient journey became evident in a matter of months, Capgemini Research Institute calls out in The Health Fix , a research report assessing peoples’ perspectives on health care in the Age of COVIOD-19.

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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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Coronavirus Support App to provide access to trusted information during the pandemic

Mobi Health News

The new Expert Self Care app will enable people to dispel health misinformation and provide trusted answers to health questions.

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With new EUA, LabCorp's COVID-19 diagnostic now handles asymptomatic, pooled testing

Mobi Health News

The FDA now allows LabCorp's platform to test patients with no COVID-19 symptoms, or to run samples from up to five patients at a time.

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Healthcare’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020: Innovaccer

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Innovaccer is a healthcare technology company pioneering the Data Activation Platform that’s helping the industry realize the promise of value-based care. Innovaccer’s integration & analysis engine activates healthcare data, cleaning, aggregating and delivering insights at […].

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Health content verification is the number one ethical decision challenging tech platforms in the COVID era

Mobi Health News

COVID-19 has placed a new focus on how YouTube, Twitter and others are identifying and promoting valid sources of health information, writes VuMedi CEO Roman Giverts.

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A Pain Point for Every Healthcare Stakeholder: Easing the Sting of Prior Authorization

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeffrey Sullivan, chief technology officer of the cloud fax division, J2 Global, Inc. Time may heal most wounds, but it has done little to lessen the sting of prior authorization. Despite decades of streamlining […]. The article A Pain Point for Every Healthcare Stakeholder: Easing the Sting of Prior Authorization appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Here are the top U.S. cities for healthcare jobs based on the employment market

FierceHealthIT

Here are the top U.S. cities for healthcare jobs based on the employment market. hlandi. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 16:25.

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Eyeglasses For the Blind

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Fitness trackers are not the only healthcare related wearable technology. Eyeglasses are now being fitted with technology that can help the wearer with their day to day life. Amazon’s Echo Frame glasses feature Alexa. This […]. The article Eyeglasses For the Blind appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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New bill seeks to boost participation in advanced payment models, ACOs via several reforms

FierceHealthIT

New bill seeks to boost participation in advanced payment models, ACOs via several reforms. rking. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 11:06.

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Virtual Care: Innovations and Efficiencies for Clinicians, Patients and Administrators on the Microsoft Platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Author: Avanade Sponsor: Avanade Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Patient Engagement Precision Medicine Telehealth Resource Central: On Demand Webinars External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: As patient acceptance of virtual care has increased and social distancing concerns have demanded it, there are new ways that healthcare providers can leverage technology to bring patients, care givers and specialists together to deliver better, safer care at scale.

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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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GOP relief bill gives hospitals liability protection but may not give funding

FierceHealthIT

GOP relief bill gives hospitals liability protection but may not give funding. rking. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 16:54.

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Healthcare CIO Uses Hyperconverged Infrastructure To Manage COVID-19 Demands

Healthcare IT Today

At Delaware Valley Community Health, a nonprofit group of clinics and medical offices in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, providers serve almost 50,000 patients across eight locations. To meet the challenges of serving this population in the time of COVID-19, DVCH recently went through a technology upgrade that helped to support remote workers and allowed clinicians to […].

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Humana unveils latest partnership on coordinated kidney care

FierceHealthIT

Humana unveils latest partnership on coordinated kidney care. pminemyer. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 13:37.

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Healthcare’s New Digital Front Doors – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 41

Healthcare IT Today

For the 41st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the new digital front doors of healthcare. We previously introduced the idea of the 2 new digital front doors of healthcare. Needless to say, we think this is a really important topic to be discussing and ensuring we each understand as the healthcare […] Healthcare is experiencing the creation of two new digital front doors.

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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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Industry Voices—Performance transparency will make the payer-provider relationship less adversarial

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Performance transparency will make the payer-provider relationship less adversarial. pminemyer. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 10:38.

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IRS Increases Premium Tax Credit Eligibility and Affordability Cap

ACA Times

1 minute read: The IRS updated indexing adjustments for certain provisions under IRC Section 36B in Revenue Procedure 2020-36. See RP 2020-36. In particular, the initial and final premium percentages listed in the “Applicable Percentage” Table in Internal Revenue Code Section 36B(b)(3)(A)(i) were adjusted for the 2021 calendar year as follows. Household income percentage of Federal poverty line: Initial percentage.

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Trump revives war with payers and PBMs over future of Medicare Part D rebates

FierceHealthIT

Trump revives war with payers and PBMs over future of Medicare Part D rebates. rking. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 16:11.

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Partner Breach? Steps to Protect Your Own Organization

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Scott Ruthe, Chief Information Security Officer and Rick Fitzgerald, Chief Digital Officer at Ciox. As recently reported in the Wall Street Journal, cyber attackers are using the fast-paced uncertainty of the coronavirus as the cover under which they launch malware into hospital networks through phishing attacks.

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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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Ro banks $200M funding round to expand into remote patient monitoring

FierceHealthIT

Ro banks $200M funding round to expand into remote patient monitoring. hlandi. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 17:29.

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The Virtual Future of Long-Term Care

GlobalMed

Long-term care facilities have been some of the hardest hit during the COVID pandemic. According to the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity as of May 2020, 42% of the nation’s known coronavirus deaths are long-term care residents and staff. To date, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has reported over 38,000 coronavirus deaths in their 15,400 Medicare and Medicaid homes.

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Creating an Admin Login Account

Health Portal Solutions

Here’s a step-by-step view of how to create a login account for your staff and other types of admin users. The post Creating an Admin Login Account appeared first on Health Portal Solutions.

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Updated Information about COVID-19 for Healthcare Professionals

HealthStream

HealthStream has posted an updated version of our article, “2019 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know.” Learn more here and link to official information about testing, who is at greater risk, and protective measures everyone working in healthcare should take.

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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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6 months in: What will the new normal look like for hospitals?

Henry Kotula

[link]. Experts say a sustained state of emergency is likely until there is a cure or vaccine for COVID-19. The first U.S. hospital to knowingly treat a COVID-19 patient was Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Washington, on Jan. 20. Since then, every aspect of healthcare has been upended, and it’s becoming increasingly clear all parts of society will have to adapt to a new baseline for the foreseeable future.