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Safeguarding Your Workforce: Antimicrobial Solutions and Their Best Practices

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Decision Point Solutions Primary topic: Population Health Topic: Patient Engagement Population Health Workforce Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Safeguarding Your Workforce: Antimicrobial Solutions and Their Best Practices Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Strategies From a Healthcare Expert That Can Aid In Optimizing and Maximizing Your Organizations’ Telehealth Footprint

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Lisa Miller, CEO and founder, VIE Healthcare Consulting. Telehealth is far more than a technology that allows patients to be monitored virtually within a hospital by a specialist or at home by a provider. Although […]. The article Strategies From a Healthcare Expert That Can Aid In Optimizing and Maximizing Your Organizations’ Telehealth Footprint appeared first on electronichealthreporte

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CMMI director hints at shift away from payment models for every episode of care, specialties

Fierce Healthcare

CMMI director hints at shift away from payment models for every episode of care, specialties. rking. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 14:40.

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Involving Clinicians & Understanding Patient Demand are Key to Implementing Care-at-Home

Healthcare IT Today

More patients prefer to recover and receive care at home than at a medical facility. COVID-19 accelerated the demand as visits to facilities were restricted. Implementing care-at-home services is surprisingly challenging and is much more than people + technology. Key success factors include involving clinicians and understanding actual patient demand.

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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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Willis Towers Watson: Employers expect health costs to rise by 5% in 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Willis Towers Watson: Employers expect health costs to rise by 5% in 2022. pminemyer. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 12:55.

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Sonde Health Launches Vocal Biomarker Tech to Monitor Mental Health and Well-Being

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sonde Health has unveiled Sonde Mental Fitness, a voice-enabled mental health detection and monitoring technology that uses a brief voice sample to evaluate mental well-being. Available as an application programming interface (API) for health systems, employers, and wellness service providers, Sonde Mental Fitness is an easy and affordable way for individuals to engage with and better understand their mental well-being and can serve as a much-needed early warning sy

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Beyond Uptime: Delivering Truly Exceptional Patient Experience with Same IP Failover

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Bigleaf Networks Primary topic: Cloud Computing Topic: Cloud Computing Privacy & Security Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: Beyond Uptime: Delivering Truly Exceptional Patient Experience with Same IP Failover Region Tag: Global Edition Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Healthcare Dealmakers—Intermountain, SCL Health's 33-hospital merger; Invitae's $325M Ciitizen acquisition

Fierce Healthcare

Healthcare Dealmakers—Intermountain, SCL Health's 33-hospital merger; Invitae's $325M Ciitizen acquisition. dmuoio. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 15:56.

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Walmart, Lyft and church leaders talk building trust in the healthcare system

Mobi Health News

This morning at Northwell Health's Raise Health Forum panelists discussed how healthcare organizations can help develop trust among underserved communities.

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Magellan Healthcare, NeuroFlow partner to close gaps in behavioral health care

Fierce Healthcare

Magellan Healthcare, NeuroFlow partner to close gaps in behavioral health care. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 12:55.

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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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Fhun with FHIR – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/8 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Jeremy Coleman (@JeremyColeman) on the topic “Fhun with FHIR.” Fire has been a tool of mankind before there was written language. HL7 created FHIR to be a […].

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Intermountain, Presbyterian and SSM Health announce new digital transformation company

Fierce Healthcare

Intermountain, Presbyterian and SSM Health announce new digital transformation company. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 17:27.

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Sonde launches voice API to detect mental illness

Mobi Health News

The API is able to analyze 30-second audio clips of a user's voice to detect any signs of mental illness.

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This payer CEO topped Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in Business

Fierce Healthcare

This payer CEO topped Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in Business. pminemyer. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 11:06.

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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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The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

KFF

This fact sheet looks at the history, funding, and future outlook of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the U.S. government's major global initiative to combat HIV/AIDS.

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NIH Director Francis Collins to step down before end of year

Fierce Healthcare

NIH Director Francis Collins to step down before end of year. dmuoio. Tue, 10/05/2021 - 11:10.

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Top 5 Takeaways from Webinar on Telehealth’s Trajectory

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ashley Berube, Senior Data Analyst Manager at Definitive Healthcare. Each year, Telehealth Awareness Week sparks critical conversations surrounding the key role that telehealth and virtual care now play in the delivery of healthcare services. We recently participated in a compelling roundtable discussion with our friends at Covenant Health […].

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SWORD Health buys workplace health-focused wearable company Vigilant Technologies

Mobi Health News

Vigilant Technologies makes a shirt-collar wearable that uses haptic feedback to improve posture and reduce workplace injury.

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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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Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Healthcare Blog

October is upon us and our thoughts turn to friends and family who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for breast cancer in the United States for 2021 are as follows: . Approximately 281,550 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women .

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FDA warns Ellume's at-home COVID-19 test may give false positive results

Mobi Health News

The FDA said negative test results don’t appear to be affected.

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CMS Releases NGHP User Guide Version 6.5

Medval Compliance Blog

by Frank Fairchok, Vice President of Medicare Reporting Services. In what continues to be an exciting time of change in the Medicare Secondary Payer space, CMS released version 6.5 of the NGHP User Guide last week (dated 10/4/21). This new version provides additional updates around the evolving query processes in relation to the implementation of the PAID Act.

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Central Logic Integrates Offering and Rebrands to ABOUT

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Healthcare technology company Central Logic, today announced it has rebranded as ABOUT (ABOUT Healthcare, Inc.), as the company also announces the integration of two earlier acquisitions with its core solution, to better serve health system clients across the country. – The integration of Ensocare—which automates the inpatient referral process to post-acute care; and Acuity Link—which provides transportation communications and logistics management software—int

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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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Leveraging telehealth to achieve health equity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Wolters Kluwer Targets Health Equity with Best Care Everywhere

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Wolters Kluwer, Health today announced the launch of Best Care Everywhere , a mission-driven movement to build and strengthen health equity globally. Wolters Kluwer is committed to the belief that all people—everywhere—should receive the best care possible. – Wolters Kluwer is tackling challenges head-on in an array of healthcare settings to help reduce inequities in learning, research, decision support, and care.

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AdhereHealth Join Forces with Health Connect America to Support Medication Adherence For Managing Mental and Behavioral Health Conditions

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. AdhereHealth, a healthcare technology medication company in adherence insights and health outcomes, today announced a new partnership with Health Connect America (HCA), a multi-state mental and behavioral health services manager. The new collaboration provides HCA’s […].

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Imprivata, VMware Partner to Give Clinicians Password-Free Access to Any App

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Imprivata® , the digital identity company for healthcare and beyond, and VMware® (NYSE: VMW) today announced a collaboration that will free clinicians entirely from having to type passwords on mobile devices by combining Imprivata GroundControl, Imprivata OneSign®, and VMware Workspace ONE™. This new integration unlocks the full power of both company offerings with the tap of a badge to give clinicians more secure, no-password access to any app from their mobile dev

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How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, app owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework from Software Pricing Partners explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. You’ll learn: How to take a disciplined approach to pricing The three elements of the Packaging Decision Framework Ways to structure your new embedded analytics offering Download the White Paper to learn about How To Package & Price Embedded Analytics.

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Bringing Clinical Context to the Patient Experience

Healthcare It News

David Nace, MD, Innovaccer’s Chief Medical Officer, talks about what happens when providers bring patients’ clinical and care episodes to the forefront of a tailored patient engagement journey. Today’s healthcare consumers expect their care experiences to be highly personalized, similar to their interactions with companies like Netflix, Amazon and Uber.

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Innovaccer Launches Patient Relationship Management (PRM) Solution

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today Innovaccer Inc., the Health Cloud company, unveiled its Patient Relationship Management (PRM) solution on the Innovaccer ? Health Cloud , the first solution to bring patients’ clinical and care episodes to the forefront of a tailored patient engagement journey. – Now providers can integrate clinical data with claims, pharmacy, laboratory, SDoH, and other consumer information to establish a complete patient record that helps engagement strategies go beyon

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GraphWear scores $20.5M for needle-free continuous glucose monitoring platform

Mobi Health News

The funding will help the company grow its team and go through clinical trials.

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Taking a Platform Approach to Drug Pricing Issues Can Help Unify Adversarial Sides

HIT Consultant

David de Vogel, Founder & CTO at Kalderos. Healthcare is a notoriously complex industry with a multitude of stakeholders, many of whom find themselves in adversarial positions, simply due to the way the market operates. Ultimately, there is a shared goal of providing the best care to the patient. But as stakeholder relationships grow more complex, there can also be conflicts that drive wedges between parties and hamper successful collaboration.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.