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How Healthcare HR Professionals Can Support Hospital Staff

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. Hospital workers are burnt out. The physician shortage in the U.S. is growing increasingly dire, and COVID-19 variants are filling up intensive care units from coast to coast. In late August, […].

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Cigna expands access to covered telehealth services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cigna announced this week that it is expanding access to telehealth services via the virtual care company MDLIVE. The announcement follows the acquisition of MDLIVE earlier this year by Cigna health services subsidiary Evernorth. "With MDLIVE now part of Evernorth, we've fast-tracked our ability to offer a broader suite of differentiated, future-state care solutions that make the patient experience easier and more convenient," said Eric Palmer, president of Evernorth, in a statemen

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6 Ways To Reduce The Risk of Healthcare Data Breach

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The healthcare industry deals with a significant amount of sensitive information every day, thus making healthcare organizations a prime target for cyberattacks. If stolen by cybercriminals, sensitive healthcare data could be used for identity theft, […].

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VA still facing interoperability, scaling challenges amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As the largest integrated health system in the country, the Veterans Health Administration oversees care at hundreds of hospitals and health systems around the United States. That's a lot of patients: more than 9 million, to be specific. And caring for those patients, and stewarding their data, requires major infrastructure. "In a healthcare system in 2021, data really serves as the basis for how decisions are made and how care is delivered," said Kimberly McManus, White House Pres

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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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Still Struggling with Stress in America in 2021

Health Populi

“Americans remain in limbo between lives once lived and whatever the post-pandemic future holds,” the American Psychological Association observes in their latest read into S tress in America 2021, with this phase of the perennial study focused on Stress and Decision-Making During the Pandemic. The top-line: people face a daily web of risk assessment, up-ended routines, and endless news about the coronavirus locally and globally.

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RPM helps lower A1c below 9% for 84% of patients at Leon Medical Centers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Leon Medical Centers serves Medicare patients in South Florida. The center also is the only HIMSS Stage 7 Outpatient Medical Care Institution in Miami-Dade County. The healthcare organization drives toward a standard of care that focuses on personalized patient-physician relationships and quality-driven medical care. (HIMSS is the parent organization of Healthcare IT News.).

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Google taps Headspace executive to lead tech-driven mental health efforts

Fierce Healthcare

Google taps Headspace executive to lead tech-driven mental health efforts. hlandi. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 11:58.

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DataDiscovery Offering from MGMA Debuts at #MPE21

Healthcare IT Today

MGMA debuted its new DataDiscovery analytics tool at the 2021 Medical Practice Excellence Leaders Conference in San Diego (#MPE21). DataDiscovery provides interactive visualizations to quickly highlight high and low performing areas within medical practices. The tool is powerful yet easy to use and can be integrated directly with a practices’ systems including their EHR.

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Apps, devices not enough to manage chronic care without patient-doc relationships, Omada Health research finds

Fierce Healthcare

Apps, devices not enough to manage chronic care without patient-doc relationships, Omada Health research finds. rtorrence. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 10:21.

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What’s Spooky About Health IT This Halloween? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/29 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Julie Maas (@JulieWMaas) from @EMRDirect on the topic “What’s Spooky About Health IT This Halloween?” Health data is becoming more and more accessible in a transparent way. […].

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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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Most healthcare executives don't trust their organization's data, survey finds

Fierce Healthcare

Most healthcare executives don't trust their organization's data, survey finds. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 19:46.

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Innovaccer Unveils Population Health Analytics Solution on Health Cloud

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Health Cloud company Innovaccer , today unveiled its new Population Health Analytics solution , now available on the Innovaccer Health Cloud. – The new solution helps risk-based providers improve care management and delivery with AI-enhanced predictive analytics; performance assessments and benchmarking; and comprehensive, customizable dashboards that drive evidence-based decisions in real-time. – Among Innovaccer Population Health Analytics’ late

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Jack Stoddard's Patina Health raises $57M to reimagine primary care for older adults

Fierce Healthcare

Jack Stoddard's Patina Health raises $57M to reimagine primary care for older adults. rtorrence. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:57.

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Smart COVID-19 modelling tool launched to assess visitor safety at Expo 2020

Mobi Health News

Developed by researchers from Khalifa University, the “Expo 2020 Model” uses a series of data to reportedly assess safety for those visiting the World Expo event in Dubai.

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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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Startup Brave Health picks up $10M to expand access to behavioral health care for Medicaid patients

Fierce Healthcare

Startup Brave Health picks up $10M to expand access to behavioral health care for Medicaid patients. hlandi. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 07:03.

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Arine Raises $11M to Scale AI-Driven Medication Optimization Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Arine , a San Francisco-based AI-driven platform that optimizes medication management, reduces costs and improves outcomes for health plans and providers today announced that it closed $11 million in an oversubscribed Series A round co-led by 111° West Capital Partners and Katalyst Ventures , with strategic investments from Magellan Health Inc. and SCAN Group. – Medication mismanagement unnecessarily costs healthcare $1 in every $6 spent.

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Humana: How Medicare Advantage helps deliver value-based senior care

Fierce Healthcare

Humana: How Medicare Advantage helps deliver value-based senior care. agliadkovskaya. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 17:56.

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23andMe Agrees to Acquire Lemonaid Health

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition provides telemedicine platform for 23andMe to advance its vision of individualized primary care that empowers consumers to live healthier lives 23andMe Holding Co. (Nasdaq: ME) (“23andMe”), a leading consumer genetics and research company, today announced the signing of a definitive merger agreement with Lemonaid Health, Inc., an on-demand platform for accessing medical care and […].

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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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A look at Anthem, Kroger's new co-branded Medicare Advantage plans

Fierce Healthcare

A look at Anthem, Kroger's new co-branded Medicare Advantage plans. pminemyer. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 15:06.

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Patina Emerges Out of Stealth with $50M to Reinvent Primary Care & Aging Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Patina Health Inc. (PatinaTM) came out of stealth today to announced its $57M Series A round from healthcare investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and GV (formerly Google Ventures), who co-led the Seed and Series A rounds, as well as F-Prime , Rock Springs Capital , Viking Global Investors and others. – Patina has created a new model of primary care, in collaboration with Patina Medical Group, to profoundly improve the healthcare and aging experience for adults

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LifePoint Health to create new 79-hospital company upon close of Kindred Healthcare acquisition

Fierce Healthcare

LifePoint Health to create new 79-hospital company upon close of Kindred Healthcare acquisition. dmuoio. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 16:10.

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Life Insurance Tech That Will Impact Healthcare Providers

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Life insurance is something that healthcare providers would rather not deal with. After all, it is only slightly related to the medical field, in that most insurers require a person to undergo a medical before […]. The article Life Insurance Tech That Will Impact Healthcare Providers appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Primary care docs strained by vaccine hesitancy, potential telehealth rollback as COVID-19 pandemic drags on

Fierce Healthcare

Primary care docs strained by vaccine hesitancy, potential telehealth rollback as COVID-19 pandemic drags on. hlandi. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 10:51.

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Oura Ring's latest version includes period prediction, education content

Mobi Health News

Features on the Oura Ring Generation 3 at launch include heart rate tracking, improved temperature monitoring and period prediction.

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Centene reports $584M in Q3 profit, falling short of Wall Street projections

Fierce Healthcare

Centene reports $584M in Q3 profit, falling short of Wall Street projections. pminemyer. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 07:23.

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Brave Health Raises $10M for Virtual Behavioral Health for Medicaid

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Brave Health , a Miami-based virtual behavioral health provider for Medicaid, today announced it has closed a $10M Series B round ($20.75M in total) led by City Light Capital, Union Square Ventures and Able Partners, bringing its total funding to $20.75M. – Today, access to basic behavioral health services for the nation’s most vulnerable populations is a public health crisis.

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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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CVS, BCBS venture funds back Workit Health's $118M round to expand virtual addiction treatment platform

Fierce Healthcare

CVS, BCBS venture funds back Workit Health's $118M round to expand virtual addiction treatment platform. hlandi. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 16:14.

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Medable Secures $304M at $2.1B Valuation for Decentralized Clinical Trials Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) leader Medable , today announced a $304M Series D funding round today – the company’s largest and fourth funding round in 18 months, bringing total capital raised to $521M – and valuation to $2B+. The funding round was co-led by new investors Blackstone Growth and Tiger Global and existing investor GSR Ventures.

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Medical practices say regulations adding more red tape that hamstrings patient care

Fierce Healthcare

Medical practices say regulations adding more red tape that hamstrings patient care. dmuoio. Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00.

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Senior-focused Patina Health emerges from stealth to score $50M, and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Anomaly scores $17 million for health payments, and Arine rakes in $11 million for medication management.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.