Tue.Apr 21, 2020

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First COVID-19 diagnostic test authorized for home sample collection

Mobi Health News

Using a designated kit ordered by a doctor, patients will be able to self-swab and mail their samples to LabCorp testing facilities. The self-collection kits will be available in "most states" in the coming weeks.

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COVID-19 and digital transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. Layla McCay ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an old proverb proving true as health services across the world race to adapt to manage the challenges of the current coronavirus pandemic.

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Innovators share tech, ideas on treating the coronavirus

Mobi Health News

HIMSS launches a COVID-19 Digital Think Tank, which provides an online discussion forum where healthcare professionals and innovators to share ideas, products and best practices.

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Industry Voices—Primary care needs a new operating system

FierceHealthIT

Primary care was meant to be the front door to the healthcare system. But as a front door, it’s pretty broken. Primary care needs to take a new approach, to be "unbundled," so it can become more verticalized and personalized.

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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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Online ventilator training tool speeds up return of medics to ICU

Mobi Health News

A new digital training tool from FundamentalVR, developed with Imperial College in London, is helping to prepare them to ventilate patients on the front line.

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Danish Government launches COVIDmeter tracking service as lockdown restrictions are lifted

Mobi Health News

They will also launch a COVID-19 contact-tracing app to alert users of prolonged social proximity.

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HHS will relax enforcement of interoperability rules to ease burden on providers

FierceHealthIT

Federal policymakers are relaxing enforcement of recently released data sharing rules and extending compliance timelines for some requirements due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out how the compliance timelines have changed.

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Amwell launches new telehealth offering geared towards small, medium physician practices

Mobi Health News

The company is pitching this as a way for providers to reach their existing patients at home during the coronavirus emergency and beyond.

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'LinkedIn for healthcare' startup lands $13M backed by Menlo Ventures, Novartis

FierceHealthIT

Startup H1 landed $12.9 million in a Series A funding round to scale up its platform that is a LinkedIn for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The company's first institutional funding round was led by Menlo Ventures, a 44-year old venture capital firm, and was joined by Novartis DRX, Y Combinator, and Liquid 2 Ventures, a seed-stage fund led by former NFL quarterback Joe Montana.

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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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With its latest acquisition, One Drop looks to integrate Sano Intelligence's CGM wearable for broader health monitoring

Mobi Health News

One Drop recently announced the acquisition of Sano's assets, IP and a portion of its staff.

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Eight Reasons Video Conference Products Don't Provide Enterprise Virtual Care

eVisit

Video conference products provide a way to talk with friends, family, and conduct a business meeting, but they’re not designed to handle the demand of a hospital or healthcare system. These products do not provide you with an efficient way to schedule and manage your patients, send prescriptions, or create detailed reports. They will create fragmentation across service lines as different departments choose different short term solutions making billing, reconciliation and tracking reimbursement d

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More ACOs turn to telehealth to combat COVID-19 financial crisis

FierceHealthIT

A recent survey of ACOs found that the value-based care organizations are turning to telehealth to help blunt the financial losses caused by COVID-19.

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Care Redesign For a Post-Peak COVID World

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Robbie Hughes, CEO, Lumeon. In this brave new world, of so called post-peak COVID, if we have no clear means of vouching whether a patient is ‘clean’, then the challenge we all have is how to bring them into an environment with other more vulnerable patients and avoid […].

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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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Congress reaches deal that includes $75B for hospitals after requests from providers

FierceHealthIT

Congress has reached a major deal that includes $75 billion in funding for hospitals that have been struggling financially during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Providing Virtual Care for Older Adults During COVID-19

GlobalMed

When people think of a hospital currently, they likely picture a patient struggling to breathe in the emergency room or someone connected to a ventilator in the ICU —all suffering from COVID-19. But what about senior patients who would have normally gone to the doctor for a checkup on their diabetes or for a problem they were experiencing due to congestive heart failure?

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Cigna, New York Life launch fund to support families of healthcare workers who died fighting COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Cigna and New York Life are partnering to provide financial support to the families of healthcare workers who died fighting COVID-19.

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Boosting Telehealth Adoption

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Bright MD Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Clinical Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Boosting Telehealth Adoption Region Tag: Global Edition

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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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How HCA Healthcare—one of the country's largest hospital systems—is planning amid COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

When it comes to knowing how COVID-19 will shape the future of healthcare, HCA Healthcare doesn't claim to have any special insight into how it will play out. But that isn't stopping it from trying to make plans. Here's what executives had to say about how they're weathering COVID-19.

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Financial Support for Your Practice

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Dear Colleagues, With the Federal $350 million stimulus offer now depleted, we’re providing you with an update on other small business programs to help with cash flow. Please be sure to read each of these and if you meet their eligibility … Read more. The post Financial Support for Your Practice appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Beaumont Health to temporarily lay off 2,475 workers, cut 450 positions after massive financial losses

FierceHealthIT

Michigan-based hospital system Beaumont Health became the latest major health system to shed workers due to the COVID-19 financial crisis.

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Why Business Capability Modeling is Crucial to Enterprise Architecture

LeanIX

Business capability modeling is an effective way to support application portfolio management and kick-start enterprise architecture programs. But as explained in the below video on the subject by LeanIX’s Director of Professional Services, Patrick Schober, there is a fine art to defining an organization’s key services and then documenting their supporting technology.

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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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Leveraging Automated Telehealth During a Capacity Crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Bright.

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Telehealth Platforms and Features – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/24 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from Healthcare Scene on the topic of “Telehealth Platforms and Features“ We don’t really need to highlight that Telehealth and Telemedicine are seeing massive […].

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Hand Sanitizer: Non-Alcohol Options

Christina's Considerations

These days there is a great deal of buzz about hand sanitizer. There are options to the traditional alcohol based products, or those you can make from home. One intriguing option is Clean Well, because my skin is really dry.

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Advance Care Planning Is Important for COVID-19 and Beyond

Healthcare IT Today

Pandemic or no pandemic, having an Advanced Care or End-of-Life (EOL) plan is important. Discussing it is a necessary first step. Then you have to document it and make it available/accessible so that it can be respected when the situation calls for it. None of this is easy, but thankfully there are tools to help […].

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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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Eight Reasons Video Conference Products Don't Provide Enterprise Virtual Care

eVisit

Video conference products provide a way to talk with friends, family, and conduct a business meeting, but they’re not designed to handle the demand of a hospital or healthcare system. These products do not provide you with an efficient way to schedule and manage your patients, send prescriptions, or create detailed reports. They will create fragmentation across service lines as different departments choose different short term solutions making billing, reconciliation and tracking reimbursement d

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Alberta commissioner launches investigation into Babylon by Telus Health virtual healthcare app

Lloyd Price

Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton has launched investigations into the Babylon by Telus Health virtual healthcare app. The investigations were opened after concerns were identified in separate privacy impact assessments (PIAs) that a Calgary-based physician and Babylon Health Canada Limited had submitted on the app. “No one is required to use Babylon by Telus Health.

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New $475+ Billion Government Funding Deal for Healthcare, Small Businesses, and Testing

Healthcare IT Today

News is breaking today that the senate has reached an agreement on another funding package that’s over $475 billion. Assuming it can pass a voice vote in the Senate today, then it will go to the house tomorrow. The package will fund the somewhat controversially implemented Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, provider funding, and […].