Fri.Oct 08, 2021

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CMS: Medicare Advantage plans with 4 or more stars skyrocket in 2022 compared to 2021

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: Medicare Advantage plans with 4 or more stars skyrocket in 2022 compared to 2021. rking. Fri, 10/08/2021 - 12:12.

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Behavioral health coaching unicorn BetterUp lands $300M in Series E round

Mobi Health News

The Series E round brings BetterUp’s valuation to $4.7 billion and its total raise to $600 million.

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Teladoc takes is primary care service nationwide with Aetna slated to roll out in early 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Teladoc takes is primary care service nationwide with Aetna slated to roll out in early 2022. hlandi. Fri, 10/08/2021 - 07:18.

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Why Healthcare IT Must Embrace Full-Stack Observability for an Increasingly Digital Future

HIT Consultant

Gregg Ostrowski, Regional CTO of AppDynamics, part of Cisco. Long before the pandemic, digital applications were already incredibly important to healthcare organizations, but over the last few years, they have become essential. Applications can assist with scheduling appointments, virtual doctor visits, accessing medical records and conducting tests down to the most complex AI-powered technologies such as medical imaging.

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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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Devoted Health closes $1.15B series D funding round

Fierce Healthcare

Devoted Health closes $1.15B series D funding round. pminemyer. Fri, 10/08/2021 - 14:49.

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Millions of people in England to get access to digital health libraries

Mobi Health News

Apps libraries focused on weight management and mental health support to extend across the South-West.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

A new look into Americans’ views on health privacy from Morning Consult provides a current snapshot on citizens’ concerned embrace of technology — worried pragmatism, let’s call it. This ambivalence will flavor how health citizens will adopt and adapt to the growing digitization of health care, and challenge the healthcare ecosystem’s assumption that patients and caregivers will universally, uniformly engage with medical tools and apps and technologies.

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Biden doubles down on vaccine mandates, pointing to increased uptake and limited resignations

Fierce Healthcare

Biden doubles down on vaccine mandates, pointing to increased uptake and limited resignations. dmuoio. Fri, 10/08/2021 - 13:01.

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A Physician View of Health Insurance – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

The infamous Dr. Glaucomflecken’s latest TikTok is going to rile some people up. He takes on health insurance. It’s comedy, so he doesn’t address the real reality of fraud among other things. However, I think he captured how many doctors think about insurance (right or wrong). Health insurance pic.twitter.com/CbqobWGYId — Dr. Glaucomflecken (@DGlaucomflecken) October 7, […].

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Elemy reaches unicorn status boosted by $219M investment from SoftBank, Chelsea Clinton and Ashton Kutcher

Fierce Healthcare

Elemy reaches unicorn status boosted by $219M investment from SoftBank, Chelsea Clinton and Ashton Kutcher. hlandi. Fri, 10/08/2021 - 06:52.

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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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A Unique View on AI Assistants in Healthcare and Ambient Clinical Voice

Healthcare IT Today

As many of you know, I’ve been a big fan of ambient clinical voice for a while. Although, I’m really just a fan of relieving the documentation burden that the healthcare industrial complex has placed on doctors. That’s the real problem and ambient clinical voice is aiming to improve that situation. Of course, with ambient […].

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HIMSSCast: Telehealth across borders

Mobi Health News

Healthcare lawyer Heather Alleva lays out the many ways that where you live affects what you can do when it comes to offering virtual care.

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Policy USP 800 is available for download

Natalia Mazina

Based on popular demand, we now offer “USP 800 – Hazardous Drugs” policy through our compliance platform RxPolicy. Starting this year, most PBMs require this policy for recredentialing. In addition, it is a required policy for compounding, retail, LTC, and clinical pharmacies, and any other entities that handle hazardous drugs. There is a mistaken assumption that if a pharmacy does not compound, it does not need to worry about complying with USP 800.

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MindMaze scores $125M for game-like rehab treatment

Mobi Health News

MindMaze said the funds will allow it to accelerate the commercialization of its rehab tools and expand its brain-repair products.

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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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Cerner mandates vaccines for US employees; SWORD buys wearable maker Vigilant

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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London-based startup Habitual lands $2.3M seed funding

Mobi Health News

The firm provides a food replacement and digital support programme for people living with type 2 diabetes.

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OCR Issues Guidance on HIPAA, COVID-19 Vaccination and the Workplace

Wyatt Law Blog

On 9/30/2021, HHS Office for Civil Rights issues guidance on when HIPAA applies and does not apply to COVID-19 vaccine information. Generally, HIPAA applies to disclosures of protected health information by HIPAA covered entities and not to requests for such information by such entities or other businesses. Accordingly, HIPAA does not prohibit businesses, individuals or HIPAA covered entities from asking whether a person has received a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Contributed: Technology is helping physicians and pharma to better coexist

Mobi Health News

As physician workloads in increase, technology is helping providers efficiently connect with pharma reps.

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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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NowRx Launches $73 Million Series C Round on Equity Crowdfunding Platform SeedInvest; Funds Will be Used to Expand Same Day Delivery of Prescriptions and Telehealth Services

Healthcare IT Today

Digital health platform’s last equity fundraising round was oversubscribed and raised $20 Million; NowRx has since expanded into additional geographies and launched new telehealth services NowRx, a provider of same day prescription delivery and telehealth services, today announced that it is now accepting reservations for its $73 million Series C equity crowdfunding round on SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding […].

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Q&A: Deloitte's Peter Micca on the digital health investment boom, going public and value-based care

Mobi Health News

Micca discusses how COVID-19 has impacted the future of digital health.

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Cigna to sell its life, accident and supplemental benefits business in 7 countries to Chubb for $5.75B

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna to sell its life, accident and supplemental benefits business in 7 countries to Chubb for $5.75B. pminemyer. Fri, 10/08/2021 - 12:46.

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Hybrid provider Carbon Health scoops up chain of N.J. urgent care clinics

Mobi Health News

This is just the latest acquisition by Carbon Health this year.

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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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Florida Surgeon and Device Company Owner Arrested and Charged For Paying Bribes, Kickbacks

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On September 7, 2021, federal prosecutors announced the arrest of a Florida surgeon and owner of device company SpineFrontier Inc on charges of bribing surgeons to use products by paying sham consulting fees. Accused in an indictment in Boston federal court for violating the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and conspiracy to commit money laundering, is the company's founder and CEO from Florida.

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Healthtech Partnerships Help Hospitals Expand and Thrive

Fierce Healthcare

Healthtech Partnerships Help Hospitals Expand and Thrive. admin. Fri, 10/08/2021 - 13:06.