Mobi Health News

MAY 7, 2024

The company, which tailors cybersecurity offerings to health systems and providers, also appointed its first chief executive officer, Geyer Jones.

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MAY 7, 2024

WeightWatchers for Business and Personify Health have announced a strategic partnership aimed at supporting employers in providing weight health care solutions for their workforce. Personify Health clients will now have integrated access to WeightWatchers for Business’s full-spectrum weight health platform. This platform is customizable to support benefit coverage decisions and offers a flexible spectrum of care that can grow in intensity from behavioral to medical interventions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. But to truly achieve those quality improvements – while tackling social determinant of health challenges and trimming costs – virtual care should be delivered with a bit more of a hands-on approach, said Dr.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

The following is a guest article by Bill Lewkowski, Vice President of Strategic Client Services at HCTec Gone are the days when patients or couriers physically transported copies of patient records from their primary care physician’s office, lab or imagining center to a specialist. Electronic health record (EHR) systems have drastically reduced the need for physical records, and they have been a critical part of healthcare operations for decades.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Chief among them: critical staffing challenges. Some federal and state legislators are seeking to mandate patient-caregiver ratios to help improve care and reduce nurse burnout.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 7, 2024

Insurtech Oscar Health is standing by its full-year outlook after surpassing market expectations and beating year-over-year measures. | Oscar Health is in the green for the first time in company history, with nearly all financial metrics exceeding market expectations during the company's first quarter earnings call.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 7, 2024

South Yorkshire has seen its first hysterectomy by robotic-assisted surgery, with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals treating a patient with endometriosis.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

This unique video presents a far-ranging conversation with Nio Queiro, President of The Queiro Group. Topics include changes in revenue cycle management (RCM), the role of AI, the importance of being willing to evolve with the times, and finally, a discussion of Queiro’s inspiring and practical book, Joy Notes: Balancing the Trauma with Triumph.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 7, 2024

A new AI tool has been used for the first time at St Bartholomew's to help identify when actions have not been taken that could cause harm or care delays.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MAY 7, 2024

A new draft bill from the Senate Finance Committee aims to establish a new provider incentive program to address drug shortages. | A new draft bill from the Senate Finance Committee aims to establish a new provider incentive program to address drug shortages.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 7, 2024

Messages sent to millions of patients via the NHS App have saved the NHS £1.1m on the cost of previously sending the information via text message.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 7, 2024

The House Committee on Ways & Means Monday night unveiled a first-of-its-kind piece of telehealth extension legislation to preserve Medicare telehealth flexibilities for two years. | Pandemic-era Medicare telehealth flexibilities which removed restrictions on how a Medicare beneficiary could access telehealth are set to expire at the end of 2024.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 7, 2024

The adoption of Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) services is transforming the landscape of chronic disease management and preventive healthcare. With Medicare’s evolving policies, understanding how these changes impact coverage is crucial for patients and providers alike. Understanding RPM and its Benefits RPM utilizes digital technologies to collect medical and health data from patients from wherever they are – their homes, on vacation, etc. – and electronically and securely transmit it to

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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.

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2024

Biosensor Platform Leverages Silicon Semiconductor Manufacturing for Scale Technology Designed to Provide a Better View of Metabolic Health by Combining Glucose Information with Context Around Activities of Daily Living in One Device $58 Million in Funding Led by Alpha Wave Ventures Biolinq Incorporated , a healthcare technology company pioneering precision multi-analyte biosensors to improve metabolic health, today announced the completion of $58 million in financing led by Alpha Wave Ventures

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2024

Among Americans 50 years of age and over, the top health-related concerns are Cost, Cost, and Cost — for medical services, for long-term and home care, and for prescription medications. Quality of care ranks lower as a concern versus the financial aspects of health care in America among people 50 years of age and older, as we learn what’s On Their Minds: Older Adults’ Top Health-Related Concerns from the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

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