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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

Healthcare It News

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Mobility Patient Engagement With Google Health and Apple both reported to be, respectively, closing down and scaling back their healthcare efforts, it's worth asking just how disruptive consumer technology companies can be in this hugely complex and fragmented industry.

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Books Worth Reading: “The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and The Tutwiler Clinic”

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. If you work in healthcare, you need to read this book. It is well worth your time and shows quite effectively how one person can create and cause change that can ripple through an industry. […]. The article Books Worth Reading: “The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and The Tutwiler Clinic” appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Apple scaling back employees-only virtual care app, says Insider

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Apple is reportedly reducing a key health division project that employees could use to track fitness goals, manage blood pressure and communicate with primary care clinicians. As reported by Insider 's Blake Dodge, the app, called HealthHabit, is the biggest project to come from Apple's health clinics following their 2018 acquisition from Crossover Health.

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KFF: Preventable COVID hospitalizations among unvaccinated cost U.S. health system $2.3B

Fierce Healthcare

KFF: Preventable COVID hospitalizations among unvaccinated cost U.S. health system $2.3B. dmuoio. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 16:01.

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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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UPMC CMIO talks telehealth's new normal, EHR workflow, pharmacogenomics and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS21 earlier this month, Dr. Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond.

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Independent pharmacists sound the alarm on Surescripts, GoodRx partnership

Mobi Health News

The pharmacists argue the partnership will hurt independent pharmacies and hides the real issues behind high drug costs.

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TRIPP acquires PsyAssist to move into psychedelic-assisted therapy

Mobi Health News

TRIPP PsyAssist will provide protocols and anxiety-easing support to patients undergoing ketamine-assisted therapy.

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Beyond telehealth: Embracing an omnichannel healthcare future

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Optellum, Johnson & Johnson Collaborate on AI-Powered Lung-Health Initiative

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Optellum , a lung-health medtech startup that is pioneering the use of AI to improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making announce a strategic collaboration with Johnson & Johnson’s Lung Cancer Initiative. This announcement accelerates Optellum’s market entry, building on its FDA clearance earlier this year and deployments underway at hospitals in the USA and ongoing clinical trials in the United Kingdom. – As part of the collaboration, Optellu

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CMS delays enforcement of key parts of price transparency rule by 6 months

Fierce Healthcare

CMS delays enforcement of key parts of price transparency rule by 6 months. rking. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 16:49.

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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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Dosis Expands Dosing Platform to Personalize Anemia Management

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Dosis , the AI-powered precision dosing platform on a mission to transform healthcare, has announced the release of its Strategic Iron Advisor (SIA) tool, the first precision dosing tool on the market for intravenous iron. – SIA is a sub-module that works with Dosis’s existing anemia tool, Strategic Anemia Advisor (SAA), to personalize anemia management.

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Google dismantles health division in strategy overhaul

Mobi Health News

The initiatives housed in Google Health will now join other departments.

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Why Is So Much “Patient Experience” Effort Focused on Financial Experience?

Health Populi

Financial Experience (let’s call it FX) is the next big thing in the world of patient experience and health care. Patients, as health consumers, have taken on more of the financial risk for health care payments. The growth of high-deductible health plans as well as people paying more out-of-pocket exposes patients’ wallets in ways that implore the health care industry to serve up a better retail experience for patients.

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Clinicy secures “largest Pre-Series A investment” in Saudi healthtech this year

Mobi Health News

Funding will be used towards scaling the platform, focusing on product development and expansion across the Kingdom and the rest of the GCC region.

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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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Pharmacies gearing up to administer COVID-19 booster shots

Fierce Healthcare

Pharmacies gearing up to administer COVID-19 booster shots. pminemyer. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 11:44.

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Health data analytics platform Covera Health lands $25M in Series C funding

Mobi Health News

Venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners led the round with participation from existing investors including Equity Group Investments.

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Health IT Startups – The Good. The Bad. And Tips for Success – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 69

Healthcare IT Today

For the 69th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Health IT Startups – The Good. The Bad. And Tips for Success. Money is flowing into healthcare from angel investors, venture capital, and private equity alike. This means an explosion of startup companies building something for healthcare. It’s exciting until you see startup […] Given Colin and I’s background and the work we do at Healthcare IT Today, we’ve been apart of many health IT startups, we’

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OpenTable taps CLEAR to help restaurants screen for vaccinated customers

Mobi Health News

When a restaurant requires proof of vaccination, the CLEAR banner will pop up on the OpenTable booking confirmation page.

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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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Appeals court strikes down bid from hospitals and clinics to recalculate Medicare outlier payments

Fierce Healthcare

Appeals court strikes down bid from hospitals and clinics to recalculate Medicare outlier payments. rking. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 15:27.

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How Built-In Financial Services Can Help Healthcare Providers Rebound Post-Pandemic

HIT Consultant

Tarun Bhasin, CEO of Kunai. While their staff grappled with the medical toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare provider’s financial struggles went largely uncovered. But a 2021 KaufmanHall report revealed that hospital operating margins lag well behind pre-outbreak levels—a gap even the CARES Act assistance couldn’t help bridge. To make matters worse, cash flow has been bogged down in bureaucracy, further highlighting the need for providers to ensure fiscal stability.

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Amid rising expenses, Banner Health sees $179M operating income for H1 2021

Fierce Healthcare

Amid rising expenses, Banner Health sees $179M operating income for H1 2021. dmuoio. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 17:20.

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UPMC Launches Drug Discovery Company Novasenta to Develop Targeted Immunotherapy Drugs for Cancer

HIT Consultant

Mani Mohindru, Ph.D.,Chief Executive Officer, Novasent. What You Should Know: – UPMC today announced the launch of Novasenta, a drug discovery and development company seeking novel and effective treatments for cancer. Co-founded in late 2018 by Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., Dario Vignali, Ph.D., and Greg Delgoffe, Ph.D., all of the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Pitt, Novasenta is currently focused on T-cell targets and rapidly advancing programs with the goal of launching its first clinical

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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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Tech On the Front Lines: 3 Things Healthcare Organizations Must Do to Improve Security

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Rom Hendler, CEO and Co-Founder at Trustifi. The past year has brought some sobering statistics to light regarding healthcare cybersecurity. Despite HIPAA and its strict regulations, reports show a staggering 25% increase in data breaches throughout the industry in the past year. According to a 2021 Identity Breach […].

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Advocate Aurora's net income, revenue bounce back in Q2

Fierce Healthcare

Advocate Aurora's net income, revenue bounce back in Q2. dmuoio. Mon, 08/23/2021 - 13:47.

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Beth Israel Deaconess creates homegrown telehealth with help from Amazon

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. It had some tools to work with, but they were not optimized for enterprise use. THE PROBLEM. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement.

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Google Shuts Down Health Division After VP Joins Cerner

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Google is eliminating its health division after VP, David Feinberg, MD, joins Cerner as its newest President and CEO, according to an internal memo, Insider first reports. In an internal memo sent by Jeff Dean, head of Google’s research division to employees stated Google Health will no longer function as a unit. Formed in 2018, Google Heath which included artificial-intelligence research teams Google Brain and DeepMind, as well as health teams from Nest Labs, the c

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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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Password Manager Recommendations for Simpler, Better Security

Total HIPAA

A Password Manager Can Help Pave the Way to HIPAA Compliance. We’re all storing more information online than ever before. The average Internet user has at least 90 online accounts , and within three years, researchers estimate the number may triple. 1 You likely have tons of usernames and passwords to keep track of. If you’re using unique, strong passwords as HIPAA and NIST guidelines recommend, it’s impossible to remember them all.

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