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Google Cloud to launch healthcare data capabilities in bid to improve health equity, patient management

Healthcare Dive

The accelerators, announced Monday at the HLTH conference, were developed in tandem with several Google customers, including LifePoint Health and Hackensack Meridian Health.

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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare It News

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. The report, Closing the digital health disconnect: Blueprint for optimizing digitally enabled care is composed of six foundational actions recommended by the AMA: Build for patients and clinician

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HHS cybersecurity center warns of new ransomware threat

Healthcare Dive

The ransomware has attacked targets worldwide, including at least one U.S. health group, since it was first identified in mid-August.

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Microsoft, Wolters Kluwer partner to improve patient engagement

Healthcare It News

Virtual care companies and payer care management also have access to Wolters Kluwer, Health content on Azure. WHY IT MATTERS. The first phase of the partnership focuses on leveraging Wolters Kluwer’s healthcare information products – UpToDate, Lexicomp and Emmi, a personalized education tool – into new applications, like Digital Health Architect.

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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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Google, Epic partnering to allow Epic hospital clients to run EHRs on Google Cloud

Healthcare Dive

Signing a large EHR vendor as a partner allows cloud companies to expand their reach with providers.

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Salesforce launches Patient 360 for Health

Healthcare It News

Salesforce this past week announced the launch of a new customer relationship management product that works with existing electronic health records. WHY IT MATTERS. The Patient 360 for Health CRM platform is designed for cost efficiency and productivity, according to Salesforce. The company boasts of several of its features: Behavioral Health, which it says gives clinicians and case managers tools like interactive health timelines populated with patient health milestones and behavioral events, c

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The UN Must Take Steps To Be an Accountable Player in Public Health

Bill of Health

By Bailey Kennedy. If a government commits a tort, it can be sued — but the United Nations cannot be. That’s because it is generally understood that the UN has absolute immunity , meaning that no national court has jurisdiction over the UN. This immunity is justified on the basis that the UN cannot effectively fulfill its role in the world if it is constantly at risk of being hauled into court around the globe.

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RCM and Coding May Help Close Health Equity Gap

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Leigh Poland, RHIA, CCS, AGS Health. Health equity is a focus of providers, regulatory agencies, and payers as they seek ways to eliminate care disparities across race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic […]. The article RCM and Coding May Help Close Health Equity Gap appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HLTH22: NuraLogix Researchers Announce the Capability to Assess Type 2 Diabetes and Blood Biomarker Health Issues Using Any Video-Enabled Device

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Researchers at NuraLogix , a global pioneer of contactless health monitoring through its patented Transdermal Optical Imaging (TOI™) technology, have announced that it is adding the ability to perform metabolic and blood biomarker health risk assessments for various chronic conditions to its AnuraTM platform. – As a first for video-based contactless health monitoring, the new capabilities add to the existing health and wellness measurements* Anura™ can assess

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In Search of Clinical Effectiveness, But “Investment Exuberance?” Not So Much. Insights From FINN Partners and Galen Growth at HLTH 2022

Health Populi

While venture funding for digital health technology declined globally by 35% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with 2021, this marks a “return to normal” based on the assessment in the Global State of Digital Health Report from FINN Partners and Galen Growth, published today and launched during the HLTH 2022 conference. The report analyzes data from over 12,000 digital health ventures tracked by Galen Growth’s HealthTech Alpha platform.

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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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Cyclica Awarded Grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Discover Non-Hormonal Contraceptive

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cyclica Inc. , a neo-biotech that is exploring the entire protein universe to advance a robust and sustainable drug discovery portfolio, has received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new, non-hormonal contraceptives for low-data biological protein targets. – The CAD$2.4M grant from the foundation enables Cyclica to apply its validated, AI-enabled drug discovery platform towards the discovery of expanded contraceptive options that

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CISA Releases Decision Tree Methodology for Assessing and Remediating Software Vulnerabilities

HIPAA Journal

CISA has issued a decision tree methodology that can be adopted by healthcare organizations to help them develop an efficient and effective vulnerability management program. The Importance of an Efficient Patch Management Program. When it comes to vulnerability management, the best practice is to patch promptly. When software updates and patches are released, they should be applied as soon as possible to prevent bad actors from exploiting the flaws.

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HLTH22: LG Launches Virtual Care Solution with Amwell to Address Hospital Workforce Shortages

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know : – Global innovator LG Electronics announced its first joint solution with digital healthcare enablement leader Amwell® , designed to expand the boundaries of digital health innovation and address a major issue faced by hospitals across the country – workforce shortages. – Showcased at HLTH 2022, a Carepoint™ TV Kit, by LG and powered by the Amwell Converge™ platform, leverages existing LG healthcare TVs in patient rooms to allow providers to remotely engage, mo

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AngelEye Health Announces Series B Funding to Support Company’s Rapid Growth

Healthcare IT Today

Latest Round of Investment in the Family Engagement Technology Company Led by Bradford Whitmore and Mountain Group Partners, with Participation by SeedtoB Capital and the Rash Family Office. AngelEye Health (AngelEye or the Company), a leading provider of patient and family engagement solutions for hospital neonatal, pediatric intensive care, and nursery units, today announced the completion of its Series B funding, bringing the Company’s funding to date to approximately $20M.

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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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HLTH22 Day 1 News Summary: Google, Maven, Highmark, LG, Others

HIT Consultant

Venture Capital, Private Equity Funding. Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform. Maven Clinic , the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health raises $90 million Series E funding bringing its total funding to $300M. Maven plans to use the latest round of funding to advance its end-to-end family care platform to enable deeper personalization to meet the diverse needs of women and families everywhere.

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Health IT: Buy or Sell – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 101

Healthcare IT Today

For the 101st episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are doing another episode of everyone’s favorite buy or sell! In these episodes we pull out a list of topics in the world of Health IT and decide whether we ‘buy’ that it’s going to happen or ‘sell’ it because we don’t think it will. So join us in our latest round of debate on some possible upcoming trends and topics in Health IT.

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HLTH22: Maven Clinic Secures $90M to Advance End-to-End Family Care Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Maven Clinic , the largest virtual clinic in women’s and family health, today announced that it has raised a $90 million Series E funding round led by General Catalyst , with participation from CVS Health Ventures , La Famiglia, and Intermountain Ventures , as well as existing investors Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Icon Ventures, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Lux Capital.

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Hospital groups tell lawmakers looming Medicare cuts 'not sustainable' as officials come back

Fierce Healthcare

Hospital groups tell lawmakers looming Medicare cuts 'not sustainable' as officials come back. rking. Mon, 11/14/2022 - 13:53.

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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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HLTH22: COTA and Google Partner to Use NLP to Harness Unstructured Oncology Data

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: COTA, Inc. , an oncology real-world data and analytics company announced a partnership with Google Cloud to bring clarity to unstructured oncology data through the latest advancements in machine learning and natural language processing. – Many leading real-world data companies – including COTA – leverage clinicians to manually curate oncology real-world data.

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South London and Maudsley cuts blood test results wait times

Digital Health News

South London and Maudsley mental health trust has partnered with ReStart on a new antipsychotic blood test system to help speed up the wait for results.

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HLTH22: Nuance and NVIDIA Bring Medical Imaging AI Models Directly into Clinical Settings

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Peter Durlach , Chief Strategy Officer at Nuance Communications , announced on-stage at HLTH a partnership with NVIDIA that will put artificial intelligence (AI)- based diagnostics tools directly in the hands of radiologists and other clinicians at scale for the first time. – The partnership will enable the validation, deployment, and evaluation of medical imaging AI models with the combined power of the Nuance Precision Imaging Network (PIN) – an AI-powered c

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HLTH22 news flash—Walgreens, VillageMD take Las Vegas; Wolters Kluwer taps Microsoft for cloud tech

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22 news flash—Walgreens, VillageMD take Las Vegas; Wolters Kluwer taps Microsoft for cloud tech. hlandi. Mon, 11/14/2022 - 09:06.

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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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October Research Roundup: What We’re Reading

Center for Health Insurance Reform

The leaves may be changing, but the importance of health policy research is evergreen. Last month, we read up on the results of a survey on the state of U.S. health insurance coverage, enrollment patterns on- and off-marketplace, and the impact of marketplace enrollment strategies. Continue reading → The post October Research Roundup: What We’re Reading appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Long COVID's effects on children and adolescents under the microscope

Fierce Healthcare

Long COVID's effects on children and adolescents under the microscope. fdiamond. Mon, 11/14/2022 - 15:33.

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A look at the fundamentals of virtual nursing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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HLTH22: Highmark teams with Google Cloud, League on new member app, portal

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: Highmark teams with Google Cloud, League on new member app, portal. pminemyer. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 00:32.

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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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ORCHA study supports use of digital health interventions

Digital Health News

A joint study from ORCHA and Spanish academics has found that the majority of physicians surveyed felt digital health tools can improve care delivery.

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AHA: Drugmaker 340B restrictions are harming safety net hospitals financially

Fierce Healthcare

AHA: Drugmaker 340B restrictions are harming safety net hospitals financially. rking. Mon, 11/14/2022 - 16:42.

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Alphabet's Verily, ResMed launch sleep platform Primasun

Mobi Health News

The companies announced the sleep technology platform at HLTH 2022 on Sunday.

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HLTH22: How CMS can sustain record-breaking growth on ACA exchanges

Fierce Healthcare

HLTH22: How CMS can sustain record-breaking growth on ACA exchanges. pminemyer. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 00:59.

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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.