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NDMC partners with HTC DeepQ to build largest MR anatomy classroom in Taiwan

Mobi Health News

tudents and teachers can effortlessly switch between VR and the real world with just one click in laboratory lessons, learning from the virtual human body and real cadavers simultaneously.

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Medicare Members Are Health Consumers, Too – Our AHIP Talk About Aging, Digital Immigrants, and Personalizing Health/Care

Health Populi

As Boomers age, they’re adopting mobile and smart technology platforms that enable people to communicate with loved ones, manage retirement investment portfolios, ask Alexa to play Frank Sinatra’s greatest hits, and manage prescription refills from the local grocery store pharmacy. Last week, the Giant Eagle grocery chain was the first pharmacy retailer to offer a new medication management skill via Alexa.

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NMDC partners with HTC DeepQ to build largest MR anatomy classroom in Taiwan

Mobi Health News

tudents and teachers can effortlessly switch between VR and the real world with just one click in laboratory lessons, learning from the virtual human body and real cadavers simultaneously.

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Food As Medicine: Grocery Stores Expand as Health Destinations While the Federal Government Cuts Food Stamps

Health Populi

There’s something like cognitive dissonance as I prepare my 2020 Health Populi TrendCast of what to expect in the health/care ecosystem in the new year. One of my key pillars for health-making is food-as-medicine, and that opportunity in this moment resonates in this holiday season with Dickens’ “Best of Times, Worst of Times” context-setting that kicks off Great Expectations.

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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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Proteus furloughed majority of employees last month after collapse of $100M funding round

Mobi Health News

The employees were brought back after the company secured $5 million in emergency funding, but CNBC's report suggests that several are now looking elsewhere for work.

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Ping An Good Doctor and Merck sign agreement to explore integrated health solutions in China

Mobi Health News

Both companies will also jointly explore how to break down the barrier between online and offline healthcare by means of innovative retail models connecting retail pharmacies, hospitals and primary healthcare in rural areas.

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Trends Likely To Affect Healthcare Technology In the Year Ahead

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Response by Kristin Simonini, vice president of product, Applause. Healthcare has long been looked at as a laggard when it comes to adopting digital services. Part of that is due to the stringent regulations of the industry and the sensitivity surrounding personally identifiable information.

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etectRx's ingestible adherence tracker system cleared by FDA

Mobi Health News

News of the ID-Cap System's 510(k) comes amidst reports of turmoil within the business of its predecessor in clearance, Proteus Digital Health.

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How clinical research is benefiting from digital trials

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How clinical research is benefiting from digital trials Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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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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G Medical Innovations receives $20.5M to grow US, international remote monitoring business

Mobi Health News

The Cayman Islands-based company is looking to add 20 new international sales representatives to its existing five by the end of next year.

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Getting on the apps to fight STIs

Morning eHealth

Jayapal latest lawmaker to press Google on Ascension deal — Azar-Verma feud escalates

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Empowering patients with easy-access remote monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Empowering patients with easy-access remote monitoring Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Comparison Is the New Key To Excellence: What Health Plans Can Do To Boost Enrollments

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Abhinav Shashank, CEO, Innovaccer. After the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, insurers had to cut down on the “cherry-picking” of members and not provide insurance to just low-risk individuals. To some extent, the scope for earning high-profit margins had decreased for health insurance companies.

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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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Developing health tech for missons to the moon and beyond

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Quality and Safety Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Developing health tech for missons to the moon and beyond Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Banner Health agrees to $6M settlement to resolve 2016 data breach lawsuit

FierceHealthIT

Banner Health has agreed to pay up to $6 million to victims of a massive 2016 data breach as part of a proposed settlement, according to court documents filed last week. The class-action lawsuit was filed in August 2016 on behalf of close to 3 million individuals affected by the data breach.

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Quarterly Thought Conference: Why the Need for Research in Health Care Technology?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Join us as Elizabeth Krupinski, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Radiology and Imaging Sciences at Emory University discusses “human factors” in the development of digital health. Click here for registration information: [link]. The post Quarterly Thought Conference: Why the Need for Research in Health Care Technology? appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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UnitedHealth Group to acquire specialty pharmacy Diplomat in $300M deal 

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group will acquire Diplomat, a specialty pharmacy and infusion services provider, the healthcare giant announced Monday.

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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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Drivers of Telemedicine Adoption

MedTech Boston

Telemedicine adoption is on the rise, according to an April survey conducted by Boston-based American Well. At HLTH 2019 in Las. The post Drivers of Telemedicine Adoption appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Providers get win in surprise billing compromise, but they're not happy

FierceHealthIT

Major bipartisan healthcare legislation to outlaw surprise medical bills includes an arbitration backstop for out-of-network charges, in a massive win for the provider industry.

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Telepsych and Mental Health in the Workplace

GlobalMed

We’re in the thick of the holiday season. That means a euphoric time of year for most of us but it can also be pretty stressful – especially if you’re hosting a big family gathering or racing to meet end of year deadlines. In fact, an Accenture poll found 66 percent of full-time employees report additional stress at work during the holidays. It also found some companies offer an extra PTO day or other stress-buster to help their workforce stay focused and productive over the winter holidays.

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Epic's Judy Faulkner: ONC data blocking rule undermines privacy, intellectual property protections

FierceHealthIT

Judy Faulkner, the CEO of electronic health records giant Epic, has big concerns about two federal interoperability rules, primarily that the rules undermine patient privacy.

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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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Amazon Web Services Offering Direct-To-EHR Transcription

Healthcare IT Today

Amazon Web Services has introduced a new line of business focused on tackling in on one of the most vexing day-to-day problems physicians face. The behemoth tech firm is rolling out a version of its new speech recognition technology designed to help developers integrate medical transcription functions into relevant applications like EHRs. The new offering, […].

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Report: Number of MA plans offering supplemental benefits on the rise, but hurdles remain 

FierceHealthIT

Though federal regulators have provided health plans additional flexibility to offer supplemental benefits in Medicare Advantage, uptake of these options has been relatively slow thanks to a number of operational challenges, a new report shows.

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(How) Does telemedicine save time and money?

Healee

A friend of mine called me the other day, to tell me that he used Healee, to see a doctor for one of his kids. He sounded quite happy with... The post (How) Does telemedicine save time and money? appeared first on Healee.

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Fitbit partners with WellCare of Georgia's Medicaid plan with focus on chronic disease management

FierceHealthIT

Fitness tracker company Fitbit is teaming up with a Medicaid plan in Georgia to encourage beneficiaries to better manage their chronic conditions. Marking the company's first partnership with a Medicaid plan, Fitbit is working with WellCare of Georgia to arm Medicaid enrollees with Type 2 diabetes with a Fitbit Inspire device.

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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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Is Your Credentialing Process Really Electronic?

HealthStream

Make sure you don’t claim to provide electronic credentialing when you really aren’t—this will just be a source of irritation to providers when their expectations aren’t met. The key is to be paperless throughout the process.

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Wigan Council’s Deal 2030: harnessing digital

Digital Leaders HealthTech

Harnessing the power of digital is a core element of Wigan Council’s strategy for the next 10 years; Deal 2030. Under the umbrella of ‘Confidently Digital’, we want to help our residents prepare for the future and take every opportunity to improve their lives through digital innovation. We already have a number of initiatives in place that have laid a foundation for that journey.

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10 Risks of Nurse Disengagement

HealthStream

Nurse engagement measures the degree to which a nurse is committed to their job, the organization for which they work, and the nursing profession as a whole. When nurses become disengaged, patient care can definitely suffer.

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