Thu.Oct 31, 2019

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CONNECT for Health Act would expand Medicare coverage for telehealth

Clocktree

Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2019 has bipartisan Senate and House support and would expand telehealth services through Medicare. The bill “aims to improve health outcomes, make it easier for patients to connect with their doctors, and help cut costs for patients and providers” according to a statement released yesterday by the bill’s sponsor Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i).

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Singapore-based neo-natal tech startup Children Health Imprints raises $2.3M in Series A funding

Mobi Health News

Child Health Imprints (CHIL), a neo-natal focused tech startup from Singapore, recently announced it has raised $2.3 million in its pre-Series A funding round led by healthcare investor HealthXCapital, which focuses on healthcare tech investments in South and South-east Asia. Other participants of the round include Enterprise Singapore’s (a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry) investment arm Seeds Capital and high net worth individuals.

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Cigna posts $1.35B profit, citing revenue jump from Express Scripts

FierceHealthIT

Insurance giant Cigna posted $1.35 billion in profits last quarter, citing continued revenue increases from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts as a key driver.

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Consumers interested in voice tech for health, adoption remains low, survey reports

Mobi Health News

A new consumer study, conducted by Voicebot and Orbita, found that 52% of consumers were interested in voice technology for health.

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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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Schools turning to telehealth to improve care for the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Schools turning to telehealth to improve care for the underserved Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Livpact helps family members manage care of loved ones

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Livpact helps family members manage care of loved ones Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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AliveCor teams up with Huami to develop medical-grade wearables

Mobi Health News

The news comes just a few months after AliveCor ended the sales of its FDA-cleared ECG wearable KardiaBand.

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IBM, Mayo Clinic, Geisinger among 25 finalists for $1.6M CMS artificial intelligence challenge

FierceHealthIT

Out of more than 300 artificial intelligence proposals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Service picked 25 organizations, among them IBM, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Mayo Clinic, for the next stage of its AI challenge.

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Apple highlights health in glowing investor call, Withings launches B2B health device offerings and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Medtronic and Samsung's digital health partnership yields more devices; New handheld ultrasounds available.

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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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As ACA open enrollment starts, markets look stable but stagnant on growth

FierceHealthIT

The Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges are the most stable they have been in years but questions remain on whether the market’s enrollment can grow.

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Berlin-based femtech startup Inne lands €8m in Series A

Mobi Health News

Inne will use the new funding to grow the team ahead of the launch of its product.

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Indiana suspends Medicaid work requirement program due to lawsuit

FierceHealthIT

Indiana has suspended its work requirement program for Medicaid due to a lawsuit challenging the legality of the program, the latest state to halt the controversial effort.

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Why Skipping Breakfast Spikes Your Blood Sugar

Insulin Nation

Ever skip breakfast thinking your blood sugar will just sit around the number you woke up at…only to find you’re well above 250 mg/dL by lunchtime? Skipping breakfast can easily spike your blood sugar, and there’s a good explanation for it. First, let’s take a second to talk about skipping breakfast for the sake of intermittent fasting because whether or not that’s why you skipped breakfast, it’s basically the same result on your diabetes management.

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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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California regulators say 'no' to Adventist Health, St. Joseph Health merger

FierceHealthIT

California regulators are rejecting a proposed merger between Adventist Health System and St. Joseph Health System.

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Telehealth Partnership Puts Cleveland Clinic On The Road to Virtual Hospital Deployment

Healthcare IT Today

At first glance, the news item didn’t seem that noteworthy. The Cleveland Clinic, which has worked with telehealth vendor American Well since 2014, has been delivering routine care and access to a small selection of specialists. Now, it had announced that it was going to mount a joint venture with AmWell to offer virtual care. […].

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Outcome Health to pay $70M to resolve federal fraud investigation

FierceHealthIT

Outcome Health, a digital healthcare advertising company, has agreed to pay $70 million to resolve a criminal fraud investigation in Illinois. The Chicago-based company admitted that from 2012 to 2017 former executives and employees of the company fraudulently sold ads to clients, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday. According to the DOJ, the fraud scheme targeted the company's clients, lenders and investors.

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This is the Headline

MedTech Boston

Here is the lede to my article. And a bunch of other words to make it look like I’m writing an actual article. The post This is the Headline appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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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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Teladoc reports Q3 revenue up 24%, boosted by strong growth in mental health virtual visits

FierceHealthIT

Telemedicine company Teladoc saw more than 50% growth in mental health virtual visits in the third quarter of 2019, helping to boost its revenue for the quarter 24% to $138 million. The company’s total virtual visits grew 45% to 928,000 in the third quarter of 2019 compared to the same period last year, Teladoc CEO Jason Gorevic said during an earnings call after the close of business on Wednesday.

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Mayo Clinic and Sana Kliniken join VCs in $5.67 M Series A Funding Round of FundamentalVR

Healthcare IT Today

Tern Plc (AIM: TERN), the investment company specialising in the Internet of Things (“IoT”), is pleased to announce that FVRVS Limited (“FundamentalVR”), a leading virtual reality (“VR”) training and data analysis technology platform and one of Tern’s existing portfolio companies, has closed a £4.3 million Series A funding round, including a £0.5 million convertible loan […].

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Best Practices For Rewriting Your Health System’s About Us Pages

Geonetric

Consider Your Audience Like the rest of your website, this section should be focused on the needs of your website visitors. What do they want to know? Why have they come to this page? What do they want to learn and what are they going to do after they find out? But first and foremost, […]. Read Best Practices For Rewriting Your Health System’s About Us Pages at Geonetric.com.

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Tackling Widespread Credentialing Industry Challenges

HealthStream

Here are four ways healthcare professionals can stay abreast of what is happening on a national scale in the industry—mainly by learning how different organizations across the nation are trying to solve similar problems.

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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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Congratulations to the 2019 Doc Tom Award Winners: Susannah Fox & Ileana Balcu

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2009, the Society for Participatory Medicine was created to continue the work of “Doc Tom” Ferguson (1943-2006), the founder of the e-patient movement and a true visionary who foresaw decades ago that “e-patients” (empowered, engaged, equipped, enabled) would transform the future of health and care. (Learn more about “Doc Tom” and his work: s4pm.info/DocTom ). 2018 marked the fortieth anniversary of Tom’s graduation from medical school and his first published thoughts on medical s

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CMS.gov - Untitled Article

CMS.gov

Today, it’s starting to feel like Night of the Living Regulations here in Washington D.C. It’s no secret that much of what haunts our healthcare system can be tied back to flaws in government policies intended to solve our nation’s problems, but created more tricks than treats.

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The Benefits of Telebehavioral Health

InTouch Health

Discover the Benefits of Implementing a Telebehavioral Health Program. InTouch Health recently expanded their partnership with a non-profit health system that principally serves California, Arizona, and Nevada. The health system started their telehealth program by offering telestroke services to a single hospital, but they soon expanded their telemedicine operations to include 39 healthcare facilities throughout the Southwest U.S., serving both hospitals within and outside of the health system.

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Presidential order could revive turf war over Medicare requirement for physician supervision

FierceHealthIT

An executive order signed earlier this month by President Donald Trump calls for changes in Medicare regulations that limit healthcare professionals from practicing at the top of their profession.

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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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CMS finalizes payment rules to spur greater use of innovative kidney drugs, home infusion

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration finalized a new home infusion therapy benefit as part of a final home payment rule.

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