Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The software-as-a-service company EverCommerce announced this week that it is acquiring DrChrono, an electronic health record, practice management and billing software vendor. The transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of the month, pending regulatory review and other conditions. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Nearly 32,000 Kaiser Permanente workers set to strike Nov. 15. Tens of thousands more mulling their own demonstrations. dmuoio. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 10:58.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Walmart confirmed this week to Insider that it had hired Dr. David Carmouche to lead its multifaceted healthcare initiative. Carmouche, who has worked at Louisiana-based Ochsner Health for six years, will oversee Walmart's growing clinical care projects as senior vice president of Omnichannel Care Solutions, as explained by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Repor t.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Also: Pediatric sleep app Huckleberry raises $12.5 million, and illumigyn, maker of a platform for remote gynecological imaging, brings in $33 million.
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Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Kaiser Permanente's hospital-at-home push prioritizes savings over high-quality care, nurses union says. dmuoio. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 15:49.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
What You Should Know: – Parkland Health & Hospital System – one of the largest health systems in Dallas, Texas – has selected Current Health , the leading enterprise care-at-home platform, to support patients with hypertension from the comfort of their own homes. – Through its new hypertension monitoring program, Parkland aims to mitigate this risk by providing regular monitoring, engagement, and education.
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HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
What You Should Know: – Hims & Hers , the multi-specialty telehealth platform focused on providing modern personalized health and wellness experiences to consumers, and Walgreens today announced a collaboration to provide greater access to high-quality health and wellness solutions. This will include the availability of Hims & Hers supplements and sexual health and wellness solutions, which will be offered at Walgreens retail locations nationwide and on walgreens.com. – Him
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Kaiser Family Foundation: Consolidation fuels 23% drop in Part D plans in 2022. rking. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 14:59.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
COVID-19 has changed the healthcare workforce, but automation could be the future.
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Many expectant mothers unlikely to get vaccinated for COVID-19, survey finds. agliadkovskaya. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 13:38.
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Electronic Health Reporter
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Edward Abraham, M.D., chief medical advisor, Bright.md. Between the pandemic and dramatic growth in direct-to-consumer healthcare approaches, hospitals and health systems have been forced to find ways to provide convenient care for patients. Consumers […].
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Industry Voices—Let's stop calling it medical 'debt'. pminemyer. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 11:38.
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The mobile platform allows users to access pharmacy services and make appointments, search for drug options and get manufacturer coupons.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
I always love watching the evolution of connected health. In the early days, many of the wearable devices weren’t connected to much of anything. Now, connecting those devices to the cloud is key and essential to all of the remote patient monitoring companies out there. While we’d love for all these devices to just natively […].
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Optum, Oscar's Mario Schlosser back Medallion's $30M round to reduce administrative pain points. rtorrence. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 11:17.
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The Onion has been doing parody well for so long that it’s actually surprising that they haven’t done more about healthcare. Although, when HIStalk pointed out this parody by The Onion, I had to share it with you all for this week’s Fun Friday. In the parody, they talk about a woman being charged for […].
Fierce Healthcare
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Catholic Health, union reach tentative agreement to end 5-week, 2,000-worker strike. dmuoio. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 12:35.
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Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Clinical and Care Coordination Subject Matter Expert (SME) position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by MEDITECH and is in Texas. Here’s a description of the position: As a Clinical […].
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
What You Should Know: – Aunt Bertha , an Austin-TX-based search and referral platform for social services in the US, announced it has rebranded as findhelp – a name shift that helps customers, organizations, and those seeking care to instantly understand the company’s mission: to connect all people seeking help and the programs that serve them with dignity and ease. – The location-based network of free and reduced-cost resources for food, housing, goods, transit, health,
KFF
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
This report finds the public is generally supportive of U.S. distribution of vaccines internationally, though more likely to prefer the U.S. playing a major role versus a leading one, and there are partisan differences. The analysis also examines how different information affects the public's views.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
What You Should Know: – Aver, Inc. , an end-to-end solution that solves the infrastructure challenges driving today’s unsustainable healthcare system announced a $58M investment led by Cox Enterprises and with participation from other existing investors to accelerate the scale and deployment of its new Enlace Health brand. The capital will be used to accelerate growth and represents the first of many financial and strategic moves planned that begin the seismic shift needed to improve healt
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HIPAA & Health IT
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
I dive into the HIPAA weeds on a daily basis, and am sometimes asked about similarities and differences between HIPAA and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Fox colleague Nate Williams provoked me to think more about this topic. Nate took a close look at key definitions and provisions in these privacy laws to examine how they compare in an excellent article published by OneTrust DataGuidance.
HIT Consultant
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
What You Should Know: – Accuhealth’s remote patient monitoring platform and 2bPrecise ’s precision genetic/genomic data platform announced that it is available in the Epic App Orchard. The App Orchard program enables developers to integrate their healthcare IT solutions with the Epic electronic health record (EHR) using standards-based APIs. – The 2bPrecise platform consumes genetic/genomic data from molecular labs and clinical information from EHRs.
Healthcare It News
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The Kent-based centre will be a place for the co-creation and demonstration of new technology-led concepts to drive the healthcare industry and will be open to healthcare and technology providers. Various digital technologies including Verizon’s private 5G solution , will be showcased and used to demonstrate a smarter, safer, patient-centric healthcare system of the future via the connectivity and collaborative benefits within various healthcare environments running various applications.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
News stories about ransomware have dominated headlines in the past few years, with healthcare facilities and hospitals high on the list of frequent victims. And although cybercrime has long been a threat, the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the potential risks. "If you look at where we are today from a security perspective, what we've seen is that our threat factors have substantially increased," Sri Bharadwaj, vice president of digital innovation and applications at Franciscan H
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Health Law RX
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
The wait is over for employers seeking clarity on the details of the Biden Administration’s vaccine and testing rules for private employers, first announced by President Biden in early September and now slated to take effect alongside federal contractor vaccine requirements on January 4, 2022. The first rule, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (the “OSHA Rule”), will require private employers with 100 or more employees to ensure that each of their workers is either fully
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