Tue.Jul 26, 2022

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Elevance ups bet on post-acute focus

Healthcare Dive

The payer, formerly known as Anthem, is leveraging its recent acquisition of myNexus to scale a new post-acute product to all of its Medicare markets, executives said last week.

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A Texas-based health system leveraged Innovaccer’s PRM solution to deliver personalized and unified patient journey

Healthcare It News

Sponsor: Innovaccer Primary topic: Patient Engagement Topic: Cloud Computing Patient Engagement Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: Innovaccer.

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U.S. News names Mayo top hospital again, adds cancer surgery ratings

Healthcare Dive

U.S. News added three service areas of evaluation this year and also introduced "home time" as an outcome measure in certain ratings, reflecting patients' preference for recovering at home.

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One Medical Acquisition: The Path Forward

Bill of Health

This piece has been adapted slightly from its original form, which was published at On the Flying Bridge on July 24, 2022. By Michael Greeley. Last week’s $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the health care industry.

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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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UHS net income cut in half as system predicts COVID impact will persist through 2022

Healthcare Dive

The health system — which warned investors it was experiencing a significant shortfall in operational results in June — still performed better than analysts expected.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

Health Populi

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. Welcome to Day 2 of The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S., my week-long update of the American retail health/care ecosystem weaving the latest updates from the market and implications and import for health care consumers.

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ATA cheers prospective telehealth extensions, but calls for more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association and its ATA Action affiliate on Monday expressed support for a bipartisan bill that would extend the virtual care flexibilities of the public health emergency another two years. They also called for the legislation to safeguard two other provisions they said were key to health equity. WHY IT MATTERS. Sponsored by U.S.

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UHS explores joint ventures, aggressive managed care negotiations as costs increase

Healthcare Dive

The system has been in conversation with acute care hospitals that have existing behavioral health services but feel they could be more efficient, CFO Steve Filton told investors Tuesday.

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White House Pushes OSHA Heat Illness Prevention Initiative

OSHA Law Blog

As thermometers hit their peak, the White House is touting the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) heat illness prevention efforts to “protect millions of workers from heat illness and injury.”. To read this article in its entirety, please click here.

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Centene posts $172M loss in Q2

Healthcare Dive

Despite the loss, the payer beat analyst expectations in a number of key metrics and raised its financial outlook for the remainder of the year.

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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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Ultrasound devicemaker Exo acquires AI developer Medo

Mobi Health News

Exo said integrating Medo's AI tools into its platform will let healthcare workers with less ultrasound expertise capture and interpret images.

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HHS names new acting Civil Rights director

Healthcare Dive

Melanie Fontes Rainer is now acting director of the HHS’ Office of Civil Rights. She will replace Lisa Pino, who has left the agency.

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A Look Back at 12 Years of #HITsm Chats – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/29 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn ( @techguy ) on the topic “A Look Back at 12 Years of #HITsm Chats. ”. Hard to believe it’s been nearly 12 years since the #HITsm Twitter chats were started. Almost 6 years ago, we took over the #HITsm chat from the Health Standards blog (which ironically is now gone) and Corepoint (which was acquired by Lyniate).

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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

Digital transformation has increased healthcare access, but quality and consistency are lagging behind. A human touch – and some innovative thinking – can get us where we need to be. We weren’t prepared. But can you blame us? The healthcare industry has gone digital faster than anyone could’ve expected. Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic.

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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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Industry Spotlight: Paul Martin and Manuel Reyes, Cognizant

Digital Health News

In our latest Industry Spotlight, Lizzie Cernick speaks to Paul Martin and Manuel Reyes from Cognizant about what sets the company apart from everyone else and why the right data in healthcare is so important.

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Report: How Apple Is Advancing Digital Healthcare Transformation

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Apple has shared a new report that offers a snapshot of the ways Apple products are empowering people to be at the centre of their health, and acting as an intelligent guardian for their health and safety. – The report covers Apple’s two-pronged approach to advance health: Apple’s focus on personal health and fitness features on Apple Watch and iPhone, and Apple’s work with the medical community to support research and care.

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Heart attack prediction startup Cleerly scores $192M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Primary care tech company Elation Health raised $50 million, and patient intake chatbot Health Note closed a $17 million Series A.

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Exo Acquires Medo to Make Ultrasounds Simple and Accessible

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Exo , a health information and devices company, today has announced it has acquired Medo, an FDA-cleared AI platform that makes ultrasound workflow faster, more reliable, and accessible to all. . – By integrating Medo’s AI, Exo enables more caregivers in more settings to capture and interpret medical images – allowing faster and more accurate diagnoses and treatment.

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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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Profitable Digital Health Platform Healthie Closes on $16M to Enable the Next Generation of Healthcare Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

Syndicate of healthcare angels and customers joined the round. Healthie, ( www.gethealthie.com ) an infrastructure platform for digital health companies, announced today it has raised $16M in an oversubscribed Series A led by Velvet Sea Ventures with participation from Greymatter Capital, Watershed, Builders VC and a customer syndicate. Over 60 angels with deep healthcare and tech experience also participated in the financing, including Roushan Zenooz, Executive Chairman at Primary Health, B12 C

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VC General Catalyst Closes $675M Health Assurance Fund II

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Early-stage venture capital firm General Catalyst closes $670 million Health Assurance Fund II. . – The new fund comes on the heels of the Health Assurance Fund I closed in April of 2021 at $600M. To date, General Catalyst has invested $1.7B in companies aligned with the health assurance thesis. Health Assurance Fund II Investment Thesis.

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Birmingham NHS trusts select Citadel Health to reshape pathology

Digital Health News

Two Birmingham trusts are introducing a new LIMS from Citadel Health which will increase testing capacity and support safer, more efficient care.

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RxLive Raises $5M for Population Health Telepharmacy Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RxLive , a provider of population health pharmacy solutions, today announced a $5 million Series A funding round led by SpringTide with participation by Cardinal Health. RxLive has raised a total of $8 million to date. – As value-based pharmacy care models expand beyond the retail pharmacy setting RxLive will use the funding to expand its engineering, analytics, and sales and marketing teams, with particular investment in the continuous improvement of its AI a

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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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Berkshire Healthcare NHS FT driving forward with digital-first policy

Digital Health News

Dr Guy Northover speaks exclusively about Berkshire Healthcare's digital focus, feedback, future ambitions and advice for other trusts.

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Cleerly Raises $192M for AI-Driven Precision Heart Health Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Cleerly , the company creating a new standard of care for heart disease, announced that it has closed a Series C financing round of $192M. – This new funding, led by led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and T. Rowe Price Investment Management , Inc., and Fidelity Management and Research Company , brings the total raised by the fast-growing health care company to $248M, which includes its Series B round in 2021.

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Bogged Down by the Unrelenting Complexities of Compliance?

Healthicity

Have you ever had a day, week, month, or year where you feel overwhelmed by the complexities of compliance?

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Hospital Deploys Immersive Virtual Reality Treatment Room for Kids with Cancer

HIT Consultant

Photo By Brian Tietz. What You Should Know: – Lee Health’s Golisano Children’s Health Center in Naples, FL has deployed a new immersive virtual reality treatment room to improve the chemo experience for kids with cancer. Today, children battling cancer can now receive their chemotherapy while traveling to outer space, going on a deep-sea diving adventure or being immersed inside a video game. – The opening of the immersive treatment room took place earlier this year and is part of a

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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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Australian medical management platform MedAdvisor to acquire medicines info provider GuildLink

Mobi Health News

It has also entered into a collaboration with The Pharmacy Guild of Australia for health service initiatives.

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RLDatix Acquires Galen Healthcare Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – RLDatix , the international leader in governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions for healthcare, announced today the acquisition of Galen Healthcare Solutions (Galen), the market leader in implementation, optimization, data migration and archival solutions for HIT systems. – The Galen acquisition will enable RLDatix to help organizations meet regulatory requirements for data retention while also ensuring continuity of care for patients throughout their he

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Justice Department Charges Dozens for $1.2 Billion in Healthcare Fraud

Med-Net Compliance

The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against 36 defendants in 13 federal districts across the United States for more than $1.2 billion in alleged fraudulent telemedicine, cardiovascular and cancer genetic testing, and durable medical equipment (DME) schemes. The nationwide coordinated law enforcement action includes criminal charges against a telemedicine company executive, owners and executives of clinical laboratories, durable medical equipment companies, marketing organization

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Bicycle Health Partners with Included Health on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Bicycle Health , a provider of virtual opioid addiction treatment, today announced a collaboration with Included Health – the only integrated clinical care and healthcare navigation platform – to help patients discover and navigate Bicycle Health’s treatment options and seek treatment for their opioid use disorder (OUD).

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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.