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Digital transformation holds promise for chronic disease management

Healthcare It News

Among the challenges of chronic disease management is the lack of interoperability between different medical records and inability to communicate effectively between patients and their physicians and social workers. In a recent HIMSS21 Digital session, Frank Cutitta, CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab led a panel comprising of Karen Murphy, chief innovation officer at Geisinger, and Tony Farah, chief medical and clinical transformation officer at Highmark Health, who noted innovations in cardiac an

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5 Degrees For A Career In Speech and Hearing Disorders

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Approximately 15% of people in North America have some type of communication and hearing disorder. The issue affects people of all ages, but especially in the elderly population, both hearing and communication problems tend to […]. The article 5 Degrees For A Career In Speech and Hearing Disorders appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare It News

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. These telemonitoring systems allow healthcare to contact elderly and vulnerable people to provide heatwave advice such as adapting their medication or drinking more w

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What’s The One Question Healthcare Technology Professionals Should Be Asking Right Now

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Response from Anne Dabrow Woods, DNP, RN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AGACNP-BC, FAAN, chief nurse of Health Learning, Research & Practice, Wolters Kluwer. How can we curb nursing burnout? The healthcare system simply wasn’t ready for COVID-19, […].

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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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Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi adopts NASA EquiTest to treat chronic dizziness

Healthcare It News

A special balance test originally used by NASA in its space programmes has been adopted by an Abu Dhabi hospital to help determine the cause of prolonged or recurrent dizziness. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi – which is part of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the United States – has just launched a specialised multidisciplinary “Balance Clinic” which includes the EquiTest, known as the world’s first commercially available Computerised Dynamic Posturography (CDP) devi

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Supply Chain Hits Home On Health Equity

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Karen Conway, vice president of healthcare value, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX). The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the true costs, human and otherwise, of health disparities, as low income and minority populations suffered disproportionately from the […].

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DocSpace Raises $1.2 Million To Help Clinicians Build and Launch Independent Practices

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. DocSpace, a digital health commerce platform that helps clinicians start, manage, and grow tech-enabled private practices, announced $1.2 million in seed funding led by Slauson & Co. The round includes other notable investors Precursor Ventures, Acrew Capital’s Scout […].

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Use of automated healthcare revenue cycle operations grows

Mobi Health News

The survey results were based on responses from nearly 400 chief financial officers and revenue cycle leaders at health systems and hospitals across the United States.

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Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division

Fierce Healthcare

Google says health projects will continue even as it unwinds dedicated health division. hlandi. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 19:08.

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MiSalud Launches Digital Health and Wellness Platform for the Underserved US Hispanic Community

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – MiSalud Inc., a San Francisco-based digital health startup has raised $5M and is launching the beta version of their digital health and wellness platform led by Pivotal Ventures , a Melinda French Gates company, with Magnify Ventures. MiSalud, which means My Health in Spanish, aims to make healthcare more inclusive by offering personalized healthcare services to US Hispanics through its mobile app and platform. – MiSalud offers a unique combination of personal

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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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NextGen Healthcare founder Razin looks to shake up board to improve company's performance

Fierce Healthcare

NextGen Healthcare founder Razin looks to shake up board to improve company's performance. hlandi. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:58.

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TRIPP Acquires PsyAssist to Support Patients with VR-Powered Psychedelic Therapy

HIT Consultant

TRIPP , the fastest-growing digital psychedelics platform today acquired PsyAssist to commercialize a first-of-its-kind offering that supports the psychological healing journey of patients in psychedelic-assisted therapies. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition will empower psychotherapists and patients to safely and effectively use TRIPP’s VR, AR, and mobile experiences for ketamine-assisted therapy, and clinical trials of MDMA, and psilocybin treatment.

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Mayo posts $451M in profit in Q2 amid uneven rebound in patient volumes

Fierce Healthcare

Mayo posts $451M in profit in Q2 amid uneven rebound in patient volumes. rking. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 11:28.

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Facebook purges accounts, groups related to the 'disinformation dozen'

Mobi Health News

Facebook removed a slew of pages, groups and accounts for spreading COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on its platforms.

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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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Nordic Capital, Insight Partners take Inovalon private in $7.3B acquisition

Fierce Healthcare

Nordic Capital, Insight Partners take Inovalon private in $7.3B acquisition. dmuoio. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:11.

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Provider Adoption of Automated Revenue Cycle Operations On The Rise

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – 78 percent of health systems are currently using or are in the process of implementing automation in their revenue cycle operations, according to recent survey results from AKASA , a South San Francisco-based revenue cycle management automation company. The key findings signal automation in healthcare is no longer an emerging trend but is mission-critical for driving efficiency and cost-effectiveness in revenue cycle operations. – According to the survey, heal

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Number of uninsured adults steady despite impact from COVID-19 pandemic: analysis

Fierce Healthcare

Number of uninsured adults steady despite impact from COVID-19 pandemic: analysis. rking. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 14:01.

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Meno-play: Virtual care solutions preventing the midlife 'pause'

Mobi Health News

The menopause market opportunity has been valued at $600B, and investors are starting to notice innovators.

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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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Blockchain Data Centers and Glaucomflecken Does COVID and Infectious Disease – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s been a long week for me and possibly some of you. The recovery after HIMSS is always a challenge, but coming back to my kids having to deal with COVID causing all sorts of questions and problems is next level craziness. However, we do what we can and carry on. Plus, that’s why we […].

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Reports indicate Apple is cutting back internal health app

Mobi Health News

The app may have been expanded to consumers if it had been successful internally, according to Insider.

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Bright Health planning to expand into 42 new markets in 2022

Fierce Healthcare

Bright Health planning to expand into 42 new markets in 2022. pminemyer. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 12:25.

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HIMSSCast: Are digital therapeutics the future of mental health?

Mobi Health News

Big Health CEO Peter Hames discusses how apps like his are changing therapy.

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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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Industry Voices—2021 update on pharmacy trends to watch

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—2021 update on pharmacy trends to watch. pminemyer. Fri, 08/20/2021 - 10:53.

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Contributed: Patients deserve virtual care that better integrates, and doesn’t compete with, in-person care

Mobi Health News

There is a growing need for care access in the U.S., but telehealth could help.

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bttn. Nabs $5M for E-commerce Platform for Medical Supply Procurement

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – bttn. , a Seattle-based B2B E-commerce platform for medical supply procurement today announced it has closed a $5M add-on to its seed round led by FUSE. – bttn e-commerce platform address critical supply chain issues such price volatility and constrained access to medical supplies, while rapidly onboarding customers and expanding to all healthcare providers across the country. – The company plans to use the seed funding to expand bttn.’s technology

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Roundup: 111 expands partnership with Bayer, Qure.ai secures another US FDA clearance and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, Ujala Cygnus opens an ICU telemedicine facility in New Delhi.

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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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HCA Healthcare to Sell PatientKeeper to Venture Firm General Catalyst’s Commure and Enter Into a New Strategic Collaboration

Healthcare IT Today

HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers, and General Catalyst, a global venture capital firm, today announced the sale of HCA Healthcare’s PatientKeeper to General Catalyst’s portfolio company Commure along with an investment in Commure and the formation of a new strategic collaboration to accelerate digital transformation. PatientKeeper is a leading provider of intuitive software and mobile applications […].

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FBI Denies Claim That Harvard Researcher Requested a Lawyer During Fraud Interrogation

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 6, 2021, federal prosecutors pushed back on claims that government agents tricked a Harvard University professor into making incriminating statements during his interrogation by federal agents. Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said a Harvard nanotechnology researcher fighting federal charges of grant fraud never asked to have an attorney present during his interview.

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Verily acquires SignalPath; Biden pushes for lower drug prices

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