Mon.Jan 14, 2019

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Health IT Roundup—Report to Congress from ONC finds too many interoperability hurdles

FierceHealthIT

A new report from the Office of the National Coordinator raises concerns about lingering health IT barriers and more health IT headlines.

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Telemedicine still little used for substance abuse treatment

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NHS Chair Lord Prior talks challenges, opportunities of digital health tech

Mobi Health News

Part of the NHS's new 10-year plan is to make the organisation a testbed for new health tech, such as the portal-like HealthTechConnect.

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Insurers back CMS proposal to relax network adequacy rules for state Medicaid managed care programs

FierceHealthIT

Insurance groups lauded a proposed move to give states more flexibility in determining network adequacy. However, they raised concerns about changes to federal rates setting standards.

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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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Virtual behavioral care platform Forefront Telecare closes Series A round, hires new CEO

Mobi Health News

The funding, an undisclosed sum, will be used for growing the company's telepsychiatry network and developing HIPAA-compliant telehealth platforms.

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ClassPass hastens global expansion with GuavaPass acquisition

Mobi Health News

ClassPass will shut down GuavaPass' service in markets where the two companies were competing, and maintain the latter company's other operations under the ClassPass name "until further notice.

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Report: There were fewer, but larger, hospital mergers and acquisitions in 2018

FierceHealthIT

The number of hospital mergers last year dipped about 22% in 2018 but grew in overall size as part of a broader trend toward megamergers, according to a new report.

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Israeli medical device cybersecurity company raises $7M

Mobi Health News

The company said it would be using the money to fuel its push into North American markets.

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Telehealth Reimbursement: Legally and Ethically Practicing Over State Lines Using a Consultative Model

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The Telebehavioral Health Institute (TBHI) is honored to bring you the first of a series of video moments to advance your understanding of telebehavioral health, telemental health, and distance counseling. This first TBHI video training segment was recently recorded at one … Read more. The post Telehealth Reimbursement: Legally and Ethically Practicing Over State Lines Using a Consultative Model appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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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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First Stop Health raises $6.5M for growth

Mobi Health News

The latest funding round was led by Morningstar CEO Joe Mansueto and bswift CEO Rich Gallun.

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Sen. Tester puts new VA CIO on notice over Cerner EHR contract

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health record development has been a consistent thorn in the agency's side. Can its new CIO finish up what his predecessors couldn't?

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Comment on Anand Oswal, SVP at Cisco, on Building a Better Network – Harlow On Healthcare by Anand Oswal, SVP at Cisco, on Building a Better Network – Harlow On Healthcare - HITECH Answers: HIPAA, MIPS, EHR, Cybersecurity News

Health Blawg

[…] article was originally published on HealthBlawg and is republished here with […].

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The future of health and social care: a service fit for the 21st Century

Digital Leaders HealthTech

How technology and digitisation will transform health and social care. When was the last time you used a fax machine? If you work in the NHS, the answer is probably very recently. The NHS buys more fax machines than any other organisation in the world and staff frequently have little option but use them to send crucial patient information to colleagues.

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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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Medical messaging platform Siilo launches new solution for Secure Faxing in the Healthcare sector

Lloyd Price

Digital Fax Assistant Medical messaging platform Siilo has launched an in-built solution for secure faxing in the healthcare sector, for a smooth transition to a paperless era. The popular app, which is designed specifically for healthcare professionals, now contains a secure, digital fax assistant, eliminating the need for physical fax machines. This development follows an NHS wide ban on both buying and using fax machines by March 2020.

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Payer Roundup—Judge orders DOJ to continue CVS-Aetna review; CMS considering Medicaid block grants

FierceHealthIT

A federal court's review of CVS Health's $69 billion purchase of Aetna won't be held up by the federal shutdown, CMS is examining block grants and more payer news.

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Provider Directories – part 2

HAY on FHIR

In the previous post , we set up the environment for our provider registry and imported some test data (Practitioner only at this stage) from an existing reference server. Now let’s think about how we can go about exposing that information through an API. We’ll work with 2 use cases – which can then act as a pattern for future APIs. First up is a search against the Practitioner resource.

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Healthcare Roundup—The government shutdown’s impact on Indian Health Service

FierceHealthIT

The government shutdown is slowing administrative work for the Indian Health Service, plus more healthcare headlines.

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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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Dual rulings blocks Trump administration on birth control coverage nationwide

FierceHealthIT

Dual rulings have blocked the Trump administration's new rules lifting some employers' requirements to provide birth control coverage that was set to go into effect on Monday.

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