Mon.Nov 08, 2021

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Nurse unions slam Kaiser's advanced care at home strategy

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. The unions accused the health system of trying to maximize profits and endangering patients, along with undermining the role of registered nurses in providing care.

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How this telehealth startup aims to address mental illness with ketamine therapy

Fierce Healthcare

How this telehealth startup aims to address mental illness with ketamine therapy. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 13:17.

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Philips Acquires Cardiologs to Expand Cardiac Diagnostics & Monitoring Portfolio

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Philips today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Paris-based Cardiologs , a France-based medical technology company focused on transforming cardiac diagnostics using artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology. – Cardiologs will further strengthen Philips’ cardiac monitoring and diagnostics offering with innovative software technology, electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis and reporting services.

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Report ranks 10 most cost-efficient hospitals in the U.S., identifies $8B in potential Medicare savings

Fierce Healthcare

Report ranks 10 most cost-efficient hospitals in the U.S., identifies $8B in potential Medicare savings. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 18:03.

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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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Three Steps to a Successful Health Insurance Exchange

HIT Consultant

Chini Krishnan, co-founder and CEO of GetInsured. Since the launch of the Affordable Care Act, we have seen federal administrations come and go. Yet throughout the changes and enhancements to the law over time and across party lines, one thing has remained constant – and that is, exchanges or state-based marketplaces (SBMs) have and will continue to provide states with the autonomy and flexibility to address the unique needs of health insurance markets and consumers around the country in a way t

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Korean startup introduces AI sleep disorder diagnostic tool

Mobi Health News

HoneyNaps claims its software provides more accurate readings than conventional auto-scoring.

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Report: Low-income, high-risk patients less likely to close care gaps, benefit most from one-on-one outreach

Fierce Healthcare

Report: Low-income, high-risk patients less likely to close care gaps, benefit most from one-on-one outreach. rtorrence. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 13:50.

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Beacon Biosignals Secures $27M to Scale EEG Neurobiomarker Discovery Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Beacon Biosignals , a neurotechnology company applying artificial intelligence to EEG (electroencephalography) to unlock precision medicine for any condition affecting the brain, has announced an oversubscribed $27M Series A financing led by General Catalyst and with participation from Casdin Capital. This capital brings Beacon Biosignals’ total funding to date to $30M. – Founded in 2019 by MD/PhDs and engineers from Harvard and MIT, Beacon’s launc

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Kaiser profits decline to $1.6B in Q3 due to increased expenses from COVID-19 surge

Fierce Healthcare

Kaiser profits decline to $1.6B in Q3 due to increased expenses from COVID-19 surge. rking. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 15:01.

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Taking Advantage of Next-Gen Regulations at the Point of Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Gary Meyer, Assistant Vice President at Cognizant. As they say in the Marvel cinematic universe, what if… What if providers had a current, comprehensive view of their patients’ clinical and administrative health history available at the point of care? What if prior authorization were automated between provider and […].

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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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Health tech funding snapshot—Honor pulls in $370M; SoftBank's latest bets in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

Health tech funding snapshot—Honor pulls in $370M; SoftBank's latest bets in healthcare. hlandi. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 11:12.

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How Providers Can Take Advantage of the Healthcare Analytics Boom

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Tom Cavanaugh, analytics, Zotec Partners The global healthcare analytics market is set to balloon to a value of $129.7 billion by 2028. It doesn’t take much digging to figure out why. Data analytics tools used in […]. The article How Providers Can Take Advantage of the Healthcare Analytics Boom appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Anthem enters into multiyear kidney care partnership with Somatus

Fierce Healthcare

Anthem enters into multiyear kidney care partnership with Somatus. pminemyer. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 13:01.

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Teladoc partners to offer virtual-first health plan

Mobi Health News

The plan, built with Trustmark Health Benefits, is centered on Teladoc’s primary care offering, recently made available to payers.

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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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Drugmakers get mixed bag in lawsuit rulings over 340B contract pharmacy moves

Fierce Healthcare

Drugmakers get mixed bag in lawsuit rulings over 340B contract pharmacy moves. rking. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 14:17.

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Cue Health steps outside diagnostics to offer virtual health platform

Mobi Health News

Cue received emergency use authorization for its at-home COVID-19 test in March and went public in September.

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CHS doesn't expect some low-acuity business, emergency room volumes to return to normal after pandemic

Fierce Healthcare

CHS doesn't expect some low-acuity business, emergency room volumes to return to normal after pandemic. rking. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 17:48.

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Effective Health Spending Is An Investment, Not a Cost: the Bottom-Line from OECD Health at a Glance 2021

Health Populi

“The pandemic has shown that effective health spending is an investment, not a cost to be contained: stronger, more resilient health systems protect both populations and economies,” the OECD states in the first paragraph of the organization’s perennially-updated report, Health at a Glance 2021. This version of the global report incorporates public health data from the “OECD35,” 35 nations from “A” to “U” (Australia to United States) quantifyi

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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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200 hospitals sign on to new HHS maternal, infant health collaborative

Fierce Healthcare

200 hospitals sign on to new HHS maternal, infant health collaborative. pminemyer. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 16:14.

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Acute mental healthcare provider Valera Health scores $15M

Mobi Health News

The company will cater to individuals with serious mental illness and severe depression.

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Sirona Medical gets $40M for cloud-based radiology IT platform

Fierce Healthcare

Sirona Medical gets $40M for cloud-based radiology IT platform. rtorrence. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 17:16.

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Lunit's AI introduced at Fullerton's diagnostic imaging service RadLink

Mobi Health News

The two companies will also collaborate on a clinical study using AI mammography.

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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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CIO Podcast – Episode 19: Jimmy Weeks on The Evolution of Health IT & Today’s Challenge

Healthcare IT Today

For the 19th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Jimmy Weeks, IT Strategist at Thomas Jefferson Health and a former CIO at the CHIME 2021 Fall Forum event. This was our first CIO podcast episode to be recorded live on site with someone as opposed to on […].

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Your Cybersecurity Questions Answered!

Total HIPAA

Thanks to everyone who attended our November 4th webinar, Don’t Become the Next Cybersecurity Scary Story! We are grateful to our guest experts, Sean Nobles from NaviSec and Brett Haines from Atlantic.Net , for joining us. We discussed social engineering, PenTesting, ways to secure online accounts, how to guard against user error, and other best practices in cybersecurity.

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EverCommerce to Acquire DrChrono, a Leading Cloud-based SaaS Practice Management and EHR Solution

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition would expand EverCommerce’s suite of solutions in health services with a mobile-first platform designed for independent practices Today EverCommerce Inc. (Nasdaq: EVCM) (“EverCommerce” or the “Company”), a leading service commerce platform, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DrChrono Inc., a company developing an essential platform and services for modern medical practices.

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Healthcare Financial Assistance Transactions Increases by 55%, TransUnion Healthcare Survey Reveals

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – The number of financial assistance transactions processed by TransUnion Healthcare increased 55% between September 2020 and September 2021, according to a new analysis from TransUnion Healthcare released at the HFMA Annual Conference indicates hospitals are more proactively working with patients to understand their financial needs and provide appropriate options. – The data reflect millions of financial assistance transactions, from more than 1,000 hospitals 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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Augmedix makes Nasdaq debut in $40M IPO

Mobi Health News

This IPO comes roughly a year after the company closed a $25 million SPAC.

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CMS Releases COVID-19 Health Facility and Staff Vaccination Rule

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Digital X-ray company Nanox wraps up merger with Zebra Medical Vision

Mobi Health News

Nanox also completed the acquisition of USARAD Holdings and its affiliated company, MDWEB.

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On the heels of going public, DocGo aims to expand mobile medical services in the U.S. and overseas

Fierce Healthcare

On the heels of going public, DocGo aims to expand mobile medical services in the U.S. and overseas. hlandi. Mon, 11/08/2021 - 19:53.

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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.