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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. Make no mistake, I am a believer! However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel. The fate of telehealth adoption is tied to the fate of broadband adoption.

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Experts weigh in on ways to combat growing antibiotic resistance amid COVID-19. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 15:20.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – Easyhealth raises $135M to redesign Medicare with its end-to-end Medicare experience to help 50 million Medicare members find the best plan and support them through their healthcare journey. EasyHealth , an LA-based company connecting coverage and care with an end-to-end Medicare experience, today announced it has raised $135M in equity and debt funding to further its mission to improve health outcomes for Medicare members by connecting coverage and care.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

CVS Health plans 900 store closures, lowers guidance as retail strategy shifts digital. rtorrence. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 10:54.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – First Stop Health adds virtual primary care as a whole-person, digital-first service to address urgent, preventive and chronic care needs for members. First Stop Health® (FSH), a Chicago, IL-based virtual care provider in the areas of telemedicine (virtual urgent care) and virtual mental health, announced a significant expansion of virtual care for its clients and members throughout the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

CMS: More than 1.6M signed up for ACA coverage through 2 weeks of open enrollment. rking. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 13:39.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

'Pervasive' racial and ethnic inequities exist across all state health systems, Commonwealth Fund analysis finds. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 10:17.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: Biotech R&D platform Benchling raises $100M at a $6B valuation, co-led by Franklin Templeton and Altimeter Capital to expand product development and global footprint, particularly in EMEA. More than 200,000 scientists at over 600 companies and 7,000 research institutions globally have adopted Benchling’s R&D Cloud to make breakthrough discoveries and bring the next generation of medicines, food, and materials to market faster than ever before.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Suicides increased in 2020 among certain groups. Experts say more work is needed to address racial disparities. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 19:55.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The health information network's executive director, Jay Nakashima, sees big progress with 21st century Cures Act compliance, TEFCA, data quality, FHIR adoption and information exchange among providers, public health agencies and labs.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Nursing startup nabs $149M for healthcare staffing platform. rtorrence. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 12:23.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The following is a guest article by Jordan Bazinsky, EVP of Operations at Cotiviti. Artificial intelligence has taken an increasingly prominent role in the healthcare system over the last several years. Until now, however, AI’s role has been primarily focused on two domains: diagnostics and administrative functions. An example of the former is radiology, where […].

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Chutes & Ladders—Cleveland Clinic's new supply chain head; Cerner's first chief health officer. dmuoio. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 16:51.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The new skill will let patients verbally communicate with caregivers through Amazon Echo.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Healthcare associations, experts urge employers to swiftly adopt OSHA's 'commonsense' vaccination requirements. dmuoio. Thu, 11/18/2021 - 12:25.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Dedalus Group (“Dedalus”), a leading international healthcare software solutions provider, has announced to have completed the acquisition of 100% of Swiftqueue Technologies Ltd a fast-growing cloud-native appointment and scheduling solution provider. The Cloud-native Swiftqueue solution enables patients and citizens to access healthcare services provided from hospitals, clinics and specialists through a digital front door.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This comes roughly two years after Ro inked a deal with Plenity creator Gelesis.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Telehealth has been crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic to connect patients to their health care systems. It’s impressive that clinicians, regulators, and payers managed to quickly integrate telehealth—and the innovations seem to be catching on permanently. But in the U.S., at least, these accommodations of telehealth were disappointingly limited to reproducing the doctor/patient visit.

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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 company has received additional seed funding to split off Centrik.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

What You Should Know: In an effort to address glaring racial disparities in healthcare, today Komodo Health is expanding its Healthcare Map™ with new demographic characteristics, including patient race and ethnic data. By incorporating these additional characteristics into its Healthcare Map, Komodo is making it possible to better assess real-world experiences and outcomes for diverse patient populations across the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The company, founded in 2020, works with health plans.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

David Stern, M.D., cofounder & CEO of Experity. A year of constantly shifting gears to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic and meet patient needs further solidified the essential role urgent cares play during large-scale public health crises. Subsequently, the pandemic is continuing to change the way patients use and view urgent care. By the end of 2020, urgent care saw a 58% increase in visit volumes on average, and Covid-19 testing and vaccinations had accounted for 60% of all visits.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Also, South Korean startup Lunit obtains two new US FDA approvals for its AI diagnostic tools.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Acurio Health's soon-to-open private paediatric and maternity facility The George Centre in southwest Sydney will be equipped with nurse call solutions by health IT provider Rauland Australia. Rauland's Responder Nurse Call and Master Clocks, along with associated clinical workflow, design, delivery, and installation services, will be delivered to the A$100 million ($72.5 million) private paediatric facility which is set to open in the middle of 2023.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This is the time of the year that health plans reflect on Q3 results and fully launch their open enrollment plans that have been in development over the last 9+ months. In a couple of weeks, enrollment windows will end and many health plans will gladly hibernate until the arrival of 2022. Around the 2 nd week of January, they will awaken, feeling like they have been shot out of a cannon as work on 2022 goals become a reality.

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