Mon.Dec 13, 2021

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How to get clinicians more comfortable with delivering telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology. But many caregivers still struggle with the different paradigm for delivering healthcare.

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Insurtech platform HealthCare.com banks $180M, boosts valuation to $1B

Fierce Healthcare

Insurtech platform HealthCare.com banks $180M, boosts valuation to $1B. rtorrence. Mon, 12/13/2021 - 15:15.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Delivering virtual care via community broadband offers big financial and quality of life benefits, says our contributing writer, opening avenues to both digital equity and health equity. Craig Settles Telehealth and community broadband are symbiotic technologies. Much more than mere video chats, telehealth uses intranets and the internet networks to observe, diagnose, initiate or otherwise medically intervene,

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Mightier scores $17M for video games teaching emotional regulation to kids

Mobi Health News

The games are geared toward children who need help with anxiety, tantrums or anger, but also those with diagnoses like ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder and autism spectrum disorder.

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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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Legislators float bipartisan bill to safeguard telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A group of legislators from the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee have introduced a bill aimed at temporarily extending telehealth flexibilities established during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill, the Telehealth Extension Act , would also end geographic and site restrictions on approved telemedicine services for Medicare beneficiaries. "Expanded access to telehealth, permitted by emergency waivers, has transformed healthcare delivery – helping patients connect easily and safely

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How Patient Portals Are Changing the Game in Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Doreen DeGroff, Senior Product Director MEDITECH, CereCore. Patient portals have existed since the late 1990s, but the onset of a global pandemic triggered a drastic shift within the healthcare community and fueled interest in patient portals. According to The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, […].

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How the Powerful Forces of COVID-19 Changed the Healthcare Industry

HIT Consultant

Ofir Paldi, CEO of Shamaym. As pressure eases, fundamental changes will last far beyond the pandemic. As COVID-19 began surging across the globe in the early months of 2020, it almost immediately flooded health care providers with challenges and demands the industry had never before seen. Suddenly doctors’ offices were closed to patients, hospital emergency departments and ICUs were running out of beds, and healthcare workers were battling a new and unknown disease.

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Senate version of Build Back Better axes DSH cuts to hospitals in non-expansion states

Fierce Healthcare

Senate version of Build Back Better axes DSH cuts to hospitals in non-expansion states. rking. Mon, 12/13/2021 - 10:47.

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Polish startup Doctor.One raises €440k for its mobile virtual clinic

Mobi Health News

Warsaw-based Doctor.One, a new model of virtual clinic, has raised a €440k pre-seed round backed by Movens Capital, to build a European network of subscription based private practices.

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Centene mulls divestiture of $2B international business as part of value creation effort

Fierce Healthcare

Centene mulls divestiture of $2B international business as part of value creation effort. pminemyer. Mon, 12/13/2021 - 13:31.

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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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The Clinical Benefits of Monoclonal Antibodies

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Monoclonal antibodies are synthetic proteins developed for therapeutic use in patients with a range of serious conditions, including Ebola, cancer, and COVID-19. Monoclonal antibodies are produced in a laboratory setting like any other therapeutic approach […].

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Employer insurance costs jumped in 2021—and the future is murky

Fierce Healthcare

Employer insurance costs jumped in 2021—and the future is murky. pminemyer. Mon, 12/13/2021 - 11:46.

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A Look Back at Health IT Ups and Downs in 2021 – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 77

Healthcare IT Today

For the 77th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re taking a look back at the ups and downs of Health IT in 2021. While 2020 is the one that will go down in infamy because of COVID, I have a feeling that many of our COVID memories are going to be more about 2021 […] For the 77th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re taking a look back at the ups and downs of Health IT in 2021.

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M&A: CentralReach Acquires ABA Tools

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – CentralReach , a provider of electronic medical record (EMR) software and services for ABA and related behavioral health providers, today announced the acquisition of ABA Tools , a software provider of digital materials for applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy providers. – The acquisition adds to CentralReach’s suite of end-to-end solutions and provides ABA organizations with an alternative to paper-based learning materials, which are heavily used today.

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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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Prolucent Health scores $11.5M for healthcare recruiting, workforce services

Mobi Health News

The company offers workforce-management tools for employers and a job marketplace for healthcare workers.

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Prolucent Health Raises $11.5M for Healthcare Workforce Optimization Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Prolucent Health raises $11.5 million In Series A funding To advance workforce optimization In healthcare. – Prolucent Health will use the new capital to further expand its sales, marketing, and client services teams and broaden product capabilities. Prolucent Health ®, a provider of enterprise-wide healthcare workforce optimization software and services, today announced it has raised $11.5 million in Series A funding co-led by SpringTide Ventures and Health V

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Lynx MD Raises $12 Million Seed Funding to Reinvent Healthcare Data Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

Lynx’s cutting edge platform and anonymization technology leverages over 200 million historical data points spanning over two decades to help healthcare organizations facilitate secure data sharing and optimize outcomes Lynx MD, the leading healthcare AI platform for real world clinical and operational data collaboration, today announced it has raised $12 million in seed financing.

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Pharma-focused digital health accelerator PharmStars completes its inaugural program

Mobi Health News

The 10-week program was focused on clinical trial innovation.

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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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The Ohio Data Protection Act and HIPAA Compliance

Total HIPAA

Every day, there seems to be a new headline about another organization whose data security has been breached. It’s happening to big and small entities — even ones you wouldn’t expect. As cyberattacks become more and more sophisticated, the need to have a strong data protection plan in place becomes even more necessary. For years, lawmakers have struggled to implement effective procedures that actually change the way organizations approach data security planning.

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Streamlining healthcare through virtual technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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5 Considerations for an eQMS in Life Sciences

Dot Compliance

If you are considering an electronic Quality Management System (eQMS) to manage quality events and activities, deciding what is important to your organization will help determine which vendor and system are the right fit. Here are a few things to consider during the selection process. Defining organizational requirements for eQMS. It is important to determine which quality processes will be managed in the system.

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M&A: Phreesia Acquires Insignia Health to Improve Patient Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Phreesia’s acquires Insignia Health, a mission-oriented company dedicated to improving health outcomes through patient activation. – Insignia has an exclusive worldwide license for the Patient Activation Measure® (PAM®). Phreesia , a customized patient intake software platform today announce it has acquired Insignia Health, LLC , a founder-led and mission-oriented company dedicated to improving health outcomes through patient activation.

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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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Phreesia snaps up patient engagement company Insignia Health

Mobi Health News

Insignia Health developed the Patient Activation Measure.

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Will Some State Plans Defy OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination, Testing Emergency Temporary Standard?

OSHA Law Blog

If President Joe Biden’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) vaccine or testing mandate for employers goes forward, nearly half the states have the option of going their own way. To read this article in its entirety, please click here.

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Mednow completes acquisition of Infusicare specialty pharmacy

Mobi Health News

The deal will cost the Canadian digital pharmacy C$1.85 million.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Health Populi

I cannot recall a season when so many health consumer studies have been launched into my email inbox. While I have believed consumers’ health engagement has been The New Black for the bulk of my career span, the current Zeitgeist for health care consumerism reflects that futurist mantra: “”We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run,” coined by Roy Amara , past president of Institute for the Future.

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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.