Wed.Dec 08, 2021

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Hills Health to deliver patient engagement system to Kaweka Health

Healthcare It News

Hills Health Solutions has bagged a contract to put up a patient entertainment and engagement system at Kaweka Health's upcoming surgery facility in New Zealand's Hawke's Bay district. Following a tender process, the Victoria-headquartered health technology provider was picked to implement the Get Well patient engagement platform, which it exclusively distributes in Australia and New Zealand.

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Amazon launches new elder care subscription service Alexa Together with emergency assistance, fall detection

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon launches new elder care subscription service Alexa Together with emergency assistance, fall detection. rtorrence. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 11:21.

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Israeli startup unveils AI device for measuring eye fluid pressure in glaucoma treatment

Mobi Health News

IOPerfect is an AI-based contactless intraocular pressure (IOP) measuring device from Israeli-based Ophthalmic Sciences.

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SAMSHA offers $30M in grants to boost harm reduction strategies to curb opioid abuse

Fierce Healthcare

SAMSHA offers $30M in grants to boost harm reduction strategies to curb opioid abuse. rking. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 13:33.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Launching a Healthcare Startup Begins with Connecting to Healthcare APIs

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Troy Bannister, CEO and co-founder of Particle Health. For many health tech founders, there’s nothing more exciting than working at scale. It’s incredibly rewarding to build a solution that can positively affect thousands (or millions) of people at once. And as we say at Particle Health, you can’t […].

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AHA, Johns Hopkins, Athenahealth, others launch campaign to make telehealth permanent

Fierce Healthcare

AHA, Johns Hopkins, Athenahealth, others launch campaign to make telehealth permanent. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 15:55.

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City of Hope to acquire Cancer Treatment Centers of America for a reported $390M

Fierce Healthcare

City of Hope to acquire Cancer Treatment Centers of America for a reported $390M. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 15:19.

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Bridging the Gap Between Legacy Applications and New Technologies in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Legacy applications have served Healthcare organizations for years; however, these applications are causing problems executives must address. Some of these issues include licensing, support and reliability, enhanced data retention requirements and security problems. Sunsetting these applications is not simple and straightforward though and several factors must be considered when identifying which applications and supporting infrastructure […].

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Urban Institute: Nearly 13M had problems affording prescriptions before COVID-19 pandemic

Fierce Healthcare

Urban Institute: Nearly 13M had problems affording prescriptions before COVID-19 pandemic. rking. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 16:31.

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Cerebral Inc. lands $300M; AI-backed clinical assistant Robin rakes in $50M

Mobi Health News

Also: HelloHero scores $7.7 million for special education-focused startup, and Pair Team nabs $7.3 million for primary care coordination tool.

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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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States with strong antitrust laws challenge more hospital mergers but still fall short on addressing consolidation

Fierce Healthcare

States with strong antitrust laws challenge more hospital mergers but still fall short on addressing consolidation. dmuoio. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 12:18.

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5 Common Medical Gases Used in Hospitals

Medical Gas Compliance

Medical gas is critical to the function of hospitals and many other healthcare facilities. Knowing the most common types of gases, understanding how each is used, and then maintaining your systems for each gas will ensure your facility's success. At CHT, we understand it's essential to keep your medical gas running smoothly , so you have no unexpected failures, and you have the proper equipment to do your job competently and worry-free.

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Bright Health banks $750M investment from Cigna Ventures, New Enterprise Associates

Fierce Healthcare

Bright Health banks $750M investment from Cigna Ventures, New Enterprise Associates. pminemyer. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 14:44.

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Covid-19 and the Safety Net — Moving from Straining to Sustaining

NEJM

As we enter a new stage of pandemic response and recovery — in which we must address issues of racial health inequities, frontline health care infrastructure, and community preparedness — what constitutes adequate support for the U.S. health care safety net?

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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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SoftBank leads mental health startup Cerebral's $300M round, propelling valuation to $4.8B

Fierce Healthcare

SoftBank leads mental health startup Cerebral's $300M round, propelling valuation to $4.8B. hlandi. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 13:10.

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Philips scores FDA 510(k) for acute patient monitors

Mobi Health News

The IntelliVue MX750 and MX850 patient monitors received an EUA last year and a European CE mark in 2019.

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HIPAA Holiday Gifts: Don’t Open That Package!!

Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

by Catherine Wanjau and Jay Hodes, President – Colington Consulting

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Suki Announces $55 Million Series C Funding Round

Healthcare IT Today

Suki, the leader in voice artificial intelligence (AI) technology for health care, announced today that it has closed a Series C funding round of $55 million, led by March Capital, with additional support from Philips Ventures, and all previous investors including Venrock, Flare Capital, Breyer Capital, and inHealth Ventures. The round is also comprised of super-angels […].

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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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Malware, Killware, and the Heart of HIPAA Compliant Hosting

HIPAA Vault

The tests came back, and the news is serious. It’s true, what they say: you don’t think about your heart too much – humming away inside your chest, nearly 100, 000 beats per day – until there’s a problem. Lately, though, you’ve felt like you’re not running on all cylinders; tired all the time, shortness. Continue reading.

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Using Machine Learning in the Evolving Landscape of Real-World Data

HIT Consultant

Zeynep Icten, Ph.D., Director of Data Science Solutions at Panalgo. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA ), the term real-world data (RWD) refers to routinely collected data relating to patient health status and the delivery of healthcare services, and real-world evidence (RWE) is the clinical evidence regarding the usage and potential benefits or risks of a medical product derived from the analysis of RWD.

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New insulin management solution to come out of Health2Sync, Sanofi's extended partnership

Mobi Health News

The digital tool will be first marketed in Taiwan following regulatory approvals.

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Beyond the Digital Front Door: 4 Mobility Tenets for Superior Patient Experience Design

HIT Consultant

Scott Forshay, VP of Sales and Marketing at MEDL Mobile. As the front door to healthcare organizations becomes increasingly digital, these rules for engagement are fast becoming the keys to unlocking patient loyalty. As healthcare digital innovators, we are witness to a fundamental shift in consumer experience expectations. With rising costs, increased quality of care expectations, and access to an expanding array of choices in care, consumers are demanding greater control of their healthcare ex

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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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Jury: UnitedHealth must pay TeamHealth $60M in damages in Nevada case

Fierce Healthcare

Jury: UnitedHealth must pay TeamHealth $60M in damages in Nevada case. pminemyer. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 11:38.

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connectRN Secures $76M for Healthcare Workforce Platform to Address Clinician Burnout

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – connectRN raises $76M to support the acceleration of its healthcare workforce platform and address clinician burnout. – connectRN is a tech-enabled platform connecting nurses and aides with opportunities to improve their work-life. connectRN , a Waltham, MA-based tech-enabled platform built to improve clinicians’ lives through access to community, opportunity, and support, announced it has completed a $76M financing round co-led by Suvretta Capital Management

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Florida Medicare and Medicaid Providers' Vaccine Mandate Dilemma

Holland & Knight

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New insulin management solution to come out of Health2Sync, Sanofi's extended partnership

Mobi Health News

The digital tool will be first marketed in Taiwan following regulatory approvals.

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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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CMS.gov - Untitled Article

CMS.gov

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many shortcomings in our health care system, especially the ability to quickly share and use reliable data to better understand the health needs of all people across the country. This need for more accessible data is why the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) remains committed to making health care data flow more freely and securely among payers, providers, and patients by laying the foundation to foster a more connected health care system.

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3 Healthcare Marketing Tips for 2022

Fierce Healthcare

3 Healthcare Marketing Tips for 2022. admin. Wed, 12/08/2021 - 13:21.

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Hospital at home: How healthcare orgs can set programs up for success

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Although telehealth is often thought of in the context of synchronous video visits, in reality, virtual care encompasses a wide range of opportunities to connect patients with medical care beyond brick-and-mortar facilities. One such expansion involves the provision of advanced care outside of in-person settings, sometimes known as "hospital at home.

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Monthly Update: Biden's appointments and telehealth's surges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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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.