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Ensuring High Quality Virtual Care Requires Telehealth Training for Clinicians

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Vikram Savkar, vice president and general manager of the medical segment at Wolters Kluwer’s Health Learning, Research and Practice business During the pandemic, nearly every healthcare provider in the country had to execute a rapid, […]. The article Ensuring High Quality Virtual Care Requires Telehealth Training for Clinicians appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Federal judge grants final approval of $575M settlement against Sutter Health

Fierce Healthcare

Federal judge grants final approval of $575M settlement against Sutter Health. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 13:13.

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New platform PreciseMDX aims to simplify diagnostic testing

Mobi Health News

PreciseMDX said its new platform would allow for easier scheduling, care coordination and results reporting.

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Leveraging Telemedicine Post-Op

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Nadeem Dhanani, MD, MPH and Medical Director of Urology, Modernizing Medicine. There has been a great deal of discussion over the last year and a half about the value of telemedicine and its potentially transformative benefits long term. Often, these high-level conversations allude to the use of […].

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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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5G's impact on real-time care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19

Fierce Healthcare

As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 17:25.

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Hospitals to face new emission goals, and potential penalties for noncompliance, under new HHS office

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals to face new emission goals, and potential penalties for noncompliance, under new HHS office. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 11:12.

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Sanas’ Accent-Matching Solution for BPOs Launches with $6M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today Sanas.ai – which has been operating under stealth for a couple of years – is launching and announcing seed funding. Their AI platform for audio matches the accent of the person you’re speaking with to yours with no perceptible lag time. Top venture funds investing in the company’s $5.5 million seed round include Human Capital, General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, and DN Capital.

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Meeting the challenges of managing the military patient's journey

Healthcare It News

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PreciseMDX Launches Digital Health Platform to Automate Diagnostic Testing Experience

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – PreciseMDX , the leading end-to-end digital health platform, introduces a cloud-based solution that automates and simplifies the diagnostic testing experience, empowering labs to deliver a transformative journey to providers and patients. PreciseMDX dramatically improves connectivity between clinical labs, providers, and patients during every step of the diagnostic testing process for any type of test. – Their first-of-its-kind platform enables labs of any siz

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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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Telehealth startup Antidote Health closes seed round to build "virtual HMO"

Mobi Health News

Antidote Health, which launched its telehealth services earlier this year, raised $12 million in seed funding.

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Employers name mental health access as key priority: survey

Fierce Healthcare

Employers name mental health access as key priority: survey. pminemyer. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 14:25.

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The Future of Telehealth: Balancing Security and Ease of Use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: BlueJeans Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Sponsor: BlueJeans.

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Louisiana hospitals mend damaged roofs, coordinate patient transfers following Hurricane Ida

Fierce Healthcare

Louisiana hospitals mend damaged roofs, coordinate patient transfers following Hurricane Ida. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 13:26.

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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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Wearable fitness company WHOOP lands $200M in funding, boosting its valuation to $3.6B

Mobi Health News

WHOOP has now raised $400 million to date.

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As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19

Fierce Healthcare

As NNU blames hospital cost cutting for labor shortage, industry groups keep the focus on COVID-19. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 17:25.

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Genome Medical scoops up telegenetic counseling platform GeneMatters, raises $60M in Series C

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the new cash to build its staff and grow its services.

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Fitch: COVID-19 resurgence threatens nonprofit hospitals' margins, credit ratings

Fierce Healthcare

Fitch: COVID-19 resurgence threatens nonprofit hospitals' margins, credit ratings. dmuoio. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 14:44.

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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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CIO Podcast – Episode 14: Steven Ramirez on Healthcare Security Buy-in and Balance

Healthcare IT Today

For the 14th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Steven Ramirez, CISO at UofL Health. Outside of COVID, my guess is that security threats is the topic that most keeps CIOs up at night. In this episode, Ramirez shares some of the ways he’s had success getting […].

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Cleveland Clinic posts $339M profit in Q2 after major patient revenue rebound

Fierce Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic posts $339M profit in Q2 after major patient revenue rebound. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 15:10.

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Cooper University, Nuance Expand Dragon Ambient eXperience Deployment to 475 Physicians

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Nuance Communications and Cooper University Health Care announced a strategic collaboration to expand Cooper’s deployment of the Nuance Dragon Ambient Experience (DAX) to 475 physicians based on previous deployment success. This ambient clinical intelligence solution will expand upon Cooper’s ability to enhance patient experiences, expand access to care, and advance care quality through a renewed focus on physician-patient conversation and clinical documentation imp

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Sutter Health pays DOJ $90M to settle False Claims Act lawsuit over Medicare Advantage mischarging

Fierce Healthcare

Sutter Health pays DOJ $90M to settle False Claims Act lawsuit over Medicare Advantage mischarging. rking. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 16:30.

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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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Fresenius Medical Invests Additional $25M in Biotech Platform Humacyte

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) today announced its plans to invest an additional $25 million in clinical-stage biotechnology platform company Humacyte following the extension of its collaboration in June. Fresenius Medical Care acquired a stake in Humacyte in 2018 for $150M as part of a strategic partnership. Following the merger of Humacyte with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), FMC is increasing its position in the newly combined entity as the lead investor of a

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Peloton subpoenaed following reported injuries, child death

Mobi Health News

The company is also subject to a class action litigation and personal injury claims.

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Olive launches an in-house studio to help boost digital health innovations

Fierce Healthcare

Olive launches an in-house studio to help boost digital health innovations. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 08/30/2021 - 12:57.

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Florida Governor Signs Bill Requiring Licensure of Genetic Counselors

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On June 21, 2021, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law into a bill requiring genetic counselors to be licensed by the Florida Department of Health (“FLDOH”). The Florida Department of Health, Genetic Counseling, was established to ensure that every genetic counselor in Florida meets minimum requirements for safe practice.

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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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Updated for Expanded DDC Interpretation: New Help for the Florida Healthcare Transaction Attorney- Temporary Drug, Device, and Cosmetic Permits

Health Law RX

Whoever authored this new legislation ( Chapter 2021-135, Laws of Florida ) deserves a pat on the back for an idea whose time has come. When an applicant files for a change of ownership (“CHOW”) or change of location for one of the permits authorized by the Florida Department of Business Professional Regulation, Division of Drugs, Devices, and Cosmetics (affectionately, “DDC”) under Part 1 of Chapter 499, FS, they can now also request a temporary permit for 90 days.

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Trinity Health's RPM program drops 30-day readmissions rate from 16% to 6%

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Trinity Health has 94 hospitals across 24 states. In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM. Trinity needed to reduce readmissions to single digits.

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Accenture Names 8 Finalists for HealthTech Innovation Challenge

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Accenture announced eight finalists for its fifth annual Accenture HealthTech Innovation Challenge-North America , a competition that supports new and novel solutions from startups to improve the way people access, manage and finance healthcare in North America. – The finalists will participate in the final round and awards ceremony at a virtual event to be held on September 28, 2021.

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Biden administration invests nearly $11M toward pediatric telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Friday it was awarding $10.7 million from the American Rescue Plan to integrate telehealth services into pediatric care. The funding is aimed at expanding behavioral healthcare access for children. "The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on all of us, especially children," said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra in a statement.

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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.