Wed.May 26, 2021

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How athenaTelehealth boosted one hospital's patient and provider satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. THE PROBLEM. In early 2020, when the pandemic changed the medical center's in-person workflows overnight, the facility needed a quick and easy-to-use telehealth solution that allowed staff to continue to see established patients during lockdowns.

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Digital chatbot Woebot lands FDA breakthrough designation to tackle postpartum depression

Mobi Health News

Despite the prevalence and associated risks of postpartum depression, a significant portion of mothers never receive a diagnosis or treatment for the condition.

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Telemedicine provider reports high teleconsultation uptake in the Philippines

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine provider Medgate saw a 170% increase in teleconsultations in Philippines last year, with an 80% case resolution rate. WHY IT MATTERS. The surge in teleconsultations came after it partnered with the Philippines Department of Health and the National Privacy Commission to deliver free telemedicine services, which helped in easing hospital occupancy and preventing the spread of COVID-19.

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Google rolls out Health Equity Tracker platform, highlighting disparities between communities

Mobi Health News

Eventually, the tracker will be expanded to include conditions such as mental and behavioral health, and include additional determinants of 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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Infrastructure Configuration Guide for Healthcare Network Closets

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Vertiv Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Infrastructure Configuration Guide for Healthcare Network Closets Region Tag: Global Edition

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Five Canadian startups making it north of the border with eyes set on the U.S.

Mobi Health News

The Canadian Trade Commission's accelerator angles to help young companies get their start in the U.S. and other nations.

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Austrian startup hi.health launches health expense account in Europe

Mobi Health News

The hi.health app enables customers of private health insurances to submit their bills and prescriptions for medical services digitally.

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Leading Health System Saves $360K in Annual Energy Costs and Earns Nearly $700K in Rebates

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Vertiv Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Leading Health System Saves $360K in Annual Energy Costs and Earns Nearly $700K in Rebates Region Tag: Global Edition

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Video game-based therapeutic developer Akili Interactive scores $160 million

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the new funds to expand its therapeutics beyond ADHD.

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Healthcare Tech Company Standardizes Monitoring to Ensure Uptime at 126 Sites

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Vertiv Primary topic: Interoperability Topic: Interoperability Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Healthcare Tech Company Standardizes Monitoring to Ensure Uptime at 126 Sites Region Tag: Global Edition

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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What’s Holding Back the Always Connected Wearable Health Sensors We Need?

Healthcare IT Today

Anyone who’s had experienced with bluetooth (I think that’s everyone right?) knows the pains associated with bluetooth. When it works, it works great. However, when the device loses its pairing, it’s a mess. Plus, we all know how much fun it is to get various devices to pair in the first place. The amazing part […].

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Healthcare, Heal Thyself! How the Industry Can and Should Play the Trust Card

Health Populi

The emergence of the COVID-19 vaccine “infodemic” has slowed the ability for nations around the world to emerge out of the public health crisis. Growing cynicism among some health citizens facing the politicization of public health tactics like vaccines and facial masks is what we’re talking about. At the root is peoples’ lack of trust across a range of information providers, including government, media, business, and even peers.

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WebMD M&A deepens its informational resources about ADHD

Mobi Health News

The platform can give users resources about treatment, educational plans and coping with ADHD.

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Patient Benefit Dashboard Proves the Value of Telehealth at PHSA

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare organizations in the province of British Columbia rapidly rolled-out telehealth technologies during the pandemic, just like many others did. The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) took the unusual step of implementing a patient benefit dashboard to track the impact of telehealth on patients across the province. Their dashboard made it crystal clear how valuable […].

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Contributed: How IoMT is Shaping Healthcare

Mobi Health News

From biosensors to chatbots, connected devices are changing health.

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Iodine Software Acquires Physician Engagement Platform Artifact Health

Healthcare IT Today

Iodine Software, a leading healthcare AI company, today announced it has acquired physician engagement platform company Artifact Health. The acquisition brings together two industry leaders and expands Iodine’s clinical predictions and insights platform beyond clinical documentation improvement (CDI) teams to directly engage physicians through Artifact’s HIPAA-compliant mobile platform.

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UK’s Medovate enters Middle East market

Mobi Health News

The Cambridge-based medical device development company has partnered with Omneya Medical Co. to distribute its SAFIRA device in Kuwait.

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Enhancing the patient journey and experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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EU Medical Devices Regulation comes into full application

Mobi Health News

The new legislation is intended to improve the safety of medical devices.

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The HIPAA Blog - Untitled Article

The HIPAA Blog

Small HIPAA Settlement: When I first saw this $25,000 settlement, I figured it was another access issue. But it's not; it's a lack of risk analysis/policies and procedures fine. Still, interesting to see smaller fines coming out.

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Grand Rounds Health, Doctor On Demand look to LGBTQ+ care space with purchase of Included Health

Mobi Health News

The deal will add Included Health’s LGBTQ+ care navigation services to Grand Rounds Health and Doctor On Demand’s virtual care platform.

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Johns Hopkins will examine COVID-19 data in retrospect

Mobi Health News

The initiative will look at inconsistencies in data that hindered COVID-19 response.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Grand Rounds, Doctor on Demand look to LGBTQ+ care space with purchase of Included Health

Mobi Health News

The deal will add Included Health’s LGBTQ+ care navigation services to Grand Rounds and Doctor on Demand’s virtual care platform.

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