Wed.Aug 25, 2021

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At the start of the pandemic, emergency declarations and insurer policies encouraged the shift to telehealth. Telehealth usage has skyrocketed, often leading patients to grow accustomed to relying on virtual care for its convenience and cost-efficiency. Now, as states across the U.S. are putting an end to these policies, telehealth meets one of its biggest hurdles: geographic barriers.

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Meditation company Headspace merges with digital behavioral health startup Ginger

Mobi Health News

Ginger’s CEO Russel Glass will take over as CEO of Headspace Health, and Headspace CEO CeCe Morken will continue to serve as Headspace CEO and president of the combined company.

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Telehealth, virtual care well-suited for use in behavioral health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Virtual care can help fill the gaps in behavioral healthcare, including the critical supply-and-demand issue – too many patients, not enough clinicians – that has been hampering care for quite some time. This was the focus of a HIMSS21 Digital discussion between Michael Hasselberg, senior director of digital health at the University of Rochester and Julie Rish, clinical psychologist and director of design and best practices at the Cleveland Clinic.

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Is It Epic’s Fault or Your Health System’s?

Healthcare IT Today

In another in our ongoing series that highlights issues with the EHR vs how a health system configures the EHR comes this tweet from Stacy Hurt: In ongoing Epic/MyChart saga, tech support told me I have to fill out this proxy request form and ?? MAIL it to my dr’s office to send attachments ????? […].

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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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Three-quarters of employers have accelerated telehealth offerings amid pandemic: Business Group

Fierce Healthcare

Three-quarters of employers have accelerated telehealth offerings amid pandemic: Business Group. pminemyer. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 16:29.

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Q&A with Mayo Clinic’s Mark Wehde on the Future of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

At the recent DesignCon, an engineering conference and expo, Mark Wehde from Mayo Clinic was the keynote speaker. In his keynote he discussed the future of healthcare. Afterward, he dove into the key points of his presentation in this Q&A. We’re in the midst of a transformative era with regard to medical device innovation. What […].

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Fitbit launches newest wearable with stress management features

Mobi Health News

The Charge 5 is available today for preorder and will launch with worldwide availability in the fall.

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Ginger and Headspace plan merger to rapidly scale up digital mental health services

Fierce Healthcare

Ginger and Headspace plan merger to rapidly scale up digital mental health services. hlandi. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 07:45.

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ConcertAI, Janssen Partner to Address Health Disparities in Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – ConcertAI , a leader in RWD and enterprise AI tech for oncology, announced the expansion of its multi-year collaboration with Janssen. The expanded collaboration aims to further the novel work that the two companies’ are doing to broaden access to trials in new sites and strengthen trial diversity. – This expanded collaboration, which combines ConcertAI’s broad data sets with the expertise of Janssen’s data science team, aims to advance innovative insights tha

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Providers push Congress to include value-based care bill in $3.5T infrastructure package

Fierce Healthcare

Providers push Congress to include value-based care bill in $3.5T infrastructure package. rking. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 11:48.

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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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Ginger and Headspace Merge to Form Headspace Health to Support Mental Health

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Headspace , a global leader in mindfulness and meditation, and Ginger , a leader in on-demand mental healthcare, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. – The combined entity, Headspace Health, will provide the full spectrum of proven, effective virtual support – from mindfulness and meditation to text-based behavioral health coaching, to video-based therapy and psychiatry – for all types of patient populations (cons

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Study finds 95% of patients were able to complete medication abortion via telehealth services

Mobi Health News

The small study found nearly all patients had a complete abortion without the need for intervention.

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UPS Launches First COVID-19 Vaccine Drone Deliveries at Atrium Health Wake Forest

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – UPS, together with its UPS Flight Forward (UPSFF) subsidiary, announced it is now making COVID-19 vaccine deliveries via drone for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, using new cold chain packaging developed specifically for drones. – The announcement marks the first COVID-19 vaccine drone delivery in the U.S. and is an extension of current work for Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist.

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Cigna to expand ACA exchange footprint to 3 new states, 93 counties

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna to expand ACA exchange footprint to 3 new states, 93 counties. pminemyer. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 17:41.

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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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AccessDX Acquires 2bPrecise from Allscripts for Actionable Precision Medicine Insights

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AccessDX , a leading diagnostic laboratory, and diagnostic technology company has acquired 2bPrecise , a genomic and healthcare informatics innovator, from Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. This merger comes as advances in genetic research and medicine have driven skyrocketing demand for genetic testing, data, and insights by healthcare providers, laboratories, and consumers around the world.

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Chutes & Ladders—BetterUp names its first CMO; Allina Health Aetna's new COO

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—BetterUp names its first CMO; Allina Health Aetna's new COO. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 18:01.

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Antidote Health Raises $12M to Build First Virtual HMO in the U.S.

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AntidoteHealth , a New York City-based telehealth provider making quality healthcare accessible to all Americans, today announced it has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI-based virtual Health maintenance organization (HMO). The seed round was led by iAngels , Well-Tech Ventures , and Flint Capital , along with other angel investors. . – Antidote is an HMO, which means it cuts out the middleman, connecting simply patients to doctors.

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ACOs generated $4.1B in gross savings in 2020, nearly double 2019 amount

Fierce Healthcare

ACOs generated $4.1B in gross savings in 2020, nearly double 2019 amount. rking. Wed, 08/25/2021 - 15:22.

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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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Rezilient Health Raises $2.5M to Open Virtual Primary Care CloudClinics

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Rezilient Health , a St. Louis-based, concierge primary care practice that uses connected digital devices and an advanced video platform to bring doctors remotely to its CloudClinics today announced it has closed its oversubscribed $2.5M seed funding. The seed funding was led by Unseen Capital , with participation from Techstars , Headwater VC , The Council, and The Living Fund. . – Founded in 2016 by Danish Nagada, MD and Jeff Gamble, Ph.D., Rezilient Health

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K Health expands its mental health offering with Trusst acquisition

Mobi Health News

The new acquisition is set to give K Health more behavioral health capabilities.

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Experity Launches $50M Urgent Care EMR/PM to Power On-Demand Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Experity , the chosen partner of 50% of U.S. urgent care clinics, announced their new EMR and PM operating system in direct response to the pivotal, pandemic-driven movement towards on-demand healthcare. The company. has committed over $50 million in product and development to bring this new urgent care-focused EMR/PM to market in under two years. – With Experity’s new EMR/PM solutions, on-demand care and urgent care facilities can keep up with pandemic needs

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South Korea clears VUNO's AI cardiac arrest prediction device for use

Mobi Health News

The device predicts cardiac arrests using four primary vital signs.

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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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Accenture Invests in Virtual Diagnostic Testing Platform ixlayer

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Accenture Ventures announced a strategic investment in ixlayer , a leader in healthcare IT-focused on providing technology-based solutions for diagnostic testing. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. – Aimed at making lab testing more efficient, the company’s platform lies at the nexus of doctors, researchers, patients and medical facilities, providing healthcare providers, payors and governments with the cloud-based IT infrastructure to scale products

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SCAN Group Makes Strategic Investment in MedArrive

Healthcare IT Today

With second outside investment, healthcare non-profit signals ‘the future of healthcare lies in the home. SCAN Group, whose holdings include SCAN Health Plan, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit Medicare Advantage plans, has made a strategic investment in MedArrive. MedArrive is a healthcare logistics and services platform that enables payers and providers to leverage a […].

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Calibrate scores $100M following company's one year anniversary and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Better Therapeutics scored a $50 million loan facility, DiA Imaging Analysis raised $14 million and SCAN Group invested in MedArrive.

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FDA Approval Means Smoother Road to Vaccine Mandates for Healthcare Employers

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In COVID-19 , Hospitals , Mandatory vaccination policies , Workplace health Amidst the new surge of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. due to the highly contagious Delta variant, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, one of three that has been available under Emergency Use Authorization, has achieved full approval.

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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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Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, Independence Blue Cross Foundation Launches Program to Address Nursing Burnout

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Independence Blue Cross Foundation , Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, and NeuroFlow have joined forces to implement a new technology program to create better pathways to care for nurses and frontline workers suffering from symptoms of burnout. – The initial rollout will include Nazareth Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, and St.

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Telehealth may not engender strong consumer loyalty, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new analysis suggests that downstream capture from telehealth as a "digital front door" does not suggest strong consumer loyalty. Sanjula Jain, chief research officer at Trilliant and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, recently analyzed the behavior of commercially insured individuals in a single market, within and outside one of the country's largest health systems.

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Why Healthcare Orgs Need to Take a Practice-Centered Approach to IT

HIT Consultant

Mona Abutaleb, CEO of Med Tech Solutions. Over the past year, we’ve all witnessed the dramatic impact that healthcare IT had on both the selfless clinicians who power our health systems and their patients. The Covid-19 crisis accelerated innovation and led to increased adoption of the cloud and telehealth technologies that helped organizations continue to provide care no matter where they or their patients were.

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