Tue.Jun 22, 2021

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Peloton expands beyond D2C model with its new corporate wellness program for businesses

Mobi Health News

Now companies in the United States, the U.K., Canada, Germany, and soon Australia, can offer their employees access to Peloton’s workout classes and more.

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5.5 Million Years of Life Will Be Lost Due to COVID-19 in the U.S. in 2020

Health Populi

In 2020 in the U.S., 380,000 people are expected to die due to COVID-19. These people lost due to the coronavirus would, collectively, have lived another 5.5 million life-years would they not have succumbed to the virus. COVID-19 has cut lives short relative to their life expectancy, calculated in an analysis by the Pew Research Center based on CDC data from 2019 and 2020, coupled with additional statistics on life expectancy by age and gender.

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DTx company Pear Therapeutics to go public in $1.6 billion SPAC deal

Mobi Health News

The company said the deal could help it with commercialization and expansion.

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Bioethics Conference Poses Twenty-First Century Questions

Healthcare IT Today

The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field. All the standard ethical issues we talk about in medicine appear in the new genetic and biological research, often with greater urgency: safety and effectiveness, equitable access, privacy and informed consent, data sharing, and individual […].

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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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Sky Labs to develop more health monitoring wearables with latest funds

Mobi Health News

The startup, known for its ring-type heart-monitoring device, recently raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

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Security Exceptionalism, Toxic Positivity, and Healthcare Information Security

Healthcare IT Today

Why we need to adopt strong C-level leadership to stop the tide of exceptionalism and toxic positivity that defines organizational approaches to information security. IN THE BEGINNING Many organizations consider technology to be subservient to the rest of the business. It is considered a cost center, not a valuable resource. It gets funded last, often […].

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Big Hairy Audacious Goals for Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcitoday on the topic “Big Hairy Audacious Goals for Healthcare.” If you’ve ever had the joy of taking business classes or studying […].

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Center for Genomic Discovery launched in the United Arab Emirates

Mobi Health News

The “first of its kind” institution aims at enhancing local genomic research, and diagnosing and treating patients with genetic disorders. Its launch coincides with the formation of the board of the Emirati Genome Program.

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Healthix Selects Clinical Terminology Management Solution from J2 Interactive

Healthcare IT Today

Selection of the J2 Managed Terminology platform, powered by HealthTerm, was the result of an extensive RFP process Healthix, one of the largest public health information exchanges (HIE) in the United States, has selected the J2 Managed Terminology platform from J2 Interactive, a clinical terminology mapping solution powered by HealthTerm. J2 Managed Terminology will increase […].

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Ping An researchers develop AI-powered drug discovery framework

Mobi Health News

The deep learning framework proposed by Ping An learns molecular representations from large volumes of unlabelled molecules.

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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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Revenue cycle managers tackle transition to remote workforce

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Antiviral company Kastus completes Series A €5.65M funding

Mobi Health News

The investment will go towards developing Kastus' patented light-powered anti-viral surface protection technology.

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He Health to expand virtual care services in China

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

New York-listed BlueCity, the developer of Chinese LGBTQ+ dating app Blued, has announced that He Health – its health service platform for men – will be offering comprehensive online consultation services. WHY IT MATTERS. He Health will add more online healthcare services for men in the "second half of the year", BlueCity said.

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ORCHA and Osteopathic Health Centre Dubai partner for Middle East's first digital health library

Mobi Health News

The collaboration will grant 40,000 Dubai citizens access to the library of top-rated health apps.

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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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Women Who Tech accelerator wants to close the femtech funding gap

Mobi Health News

The nonprofit urges early-stage women-led health startups to participate in the FemTech and HealthTech Grants Challenge.

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Sky Labs to develop more health monitoring wearables with latest investment

Mobi Health News

The startup, known for its ring-type heart-monitoring device, recently raised $20 million in a Series B funding round.

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