Wed.Dec 01, 2021

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How data intelligence will drive precision healthcare in the NHS

Healthcare It News

As the NHS evolves, many trusts are developing into digitally mature systems, shifting away from the paper-dominated organisations they once were. With the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), it has become possible to deliver deeper insights into patient illness status, often in real time. This, in turn, facilitates prediction and prevention of diseases; as well as development of patient-specific care pathways, enabling a move from a disease-oriented approach to care to a more pa

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CareCloud CEO predicts what's around the corner for telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. We also know that utilization has gradually tapered off as patients have become somewhat more comfortable seeking in-person care – but that many individuals, having experienced the convenience of virtual services, are unwilling to give them up again.

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Improving patient experience through remote monitoring

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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How Technologies Are Personalizing At-Home Diabetes Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Mark Clements, MD, PhD, CPI, FAAP, chief medical officer, Glooko, Inc. Seemingly overnight, healthcare discovered and fully embraced digital health solutions. Just months after the 2020 nationwide lockdown, telehealth visits, virtual clinical trials and […].

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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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Carbon Health launches new program with continuous glucose monitors to assess diabetes risk

Fierce Healthcare

Carbon Health launches new program with continuous glucose monitors to assess diabetes risk. rtorrence. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 17:47.

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Truepill Launches End-to-End COVID-19 Virtual Care Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Truepill launches its end-to-end COVID-19 virtual care platform to provide convenient online care for COVID-19 alongside the rapid delivery of antiviral medication. Truepill , the digital health platform connecting telehealth, diagnostics, and pharmacy to transform consumer healthcare, today announced plans for a first-of-its-kind COVID-19 virtual care platform.

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Why Companies Need Healthcare Commercial Intelligence

HIT Consultant

Jason Krantz, CEO and Founder of Definitive Healthcare. Let’s face it – the healthcare industry has become increasingly difficult to navigate and breeds stiff competition. Faced with a global pandemic, an aging population and increased spending on healthcare, everyone from small startups to tech giants wants a slice of the market. However, each organization entering the healthcare market has unique problems that need solving to be successful.

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HHS wants feedback on improving equity in dialysis care, organ transplantation

Fierce Healthcare

HHS wants feedback on improving equity in dialysis care, organ transplantation. rking. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 17:21.

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Mental health app ThoughtFull, Pfizer to expand access to biopsychosocial care in Singapore

Mobi Health News

ThoughtFull is giving free three-month access to counsellor or psychologist support via its mobile app.

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Truepill builds COVID-19 virtual care platform with antiviral delivery and telehealth consults

Fierce Healthcare

Truepill builds COVID-19 virtual care platform with antiviral delivery and telehealth consults. rtorrence. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 11:56.

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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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New Medical Device Incident Response Playbook

Healthcare IT Today

Some of you may remember last year when we highlighted a resource to help you run a ransomware simulation in your healthcare organization. I came across that great resource thanks to Christopher Frenz, AVP of IT Security at Mount Sinai South Nassau. Well, it turns out that Frenz is continuing to give back to the […].

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Hospitals' infrequently published prices suggest substantial variance in radiology service charges to commercial payers

Fierce Healthcare

Hospitals' infrequently published prices suggest substantial variance in radiology service charges to commercial payers. dmuoio. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 15:24.

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metaMe Health scores FDA 510(k) for digital tool treating IBS-related abdominal pain

Mobi Health News

Regulora delivers behavioral therapy based on gut-directed hypnotherapy through a smartphone app.

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340B advocates urge HHS to step up enforcement after Amgen aims to cut off access to contract pharmacies

Fierce Healthcare

340B advocates urge HHS to step up enforcement after Amgen aims to cut off access to contract pharmacies. rking. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 16:45.

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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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Charité Berlin and Holmusk team up to advance precision psychiatry

Mobi Health News

Real-world data platform could enable large German mental health studies on a ‘Scandinavian scale’.

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UnitedHealthcare teams with Banner Health for new Arizona plan design

Fierce Healthcare

UnitedHealthcare teams with Banner Health for new Arizona plan design. pminemyer. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 11:59.

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Latest AI drug discovery partnership in South Korea to tackle tuberculosis

Mobi Health News

The partners aim to accelerate the discovery of novel anti-tubercular drug candidates.

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Solera expands mental health network with new partners Ginger and eMindful

Fierce Healthcare

Solera expands mental health network with new partners Ginger and eMindful. rtorrence. Wed, 12/01/2021 - 14:48.

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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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USQ launching digital mental health platform for children, adolescents next year

Mobi Health News

The online platform being developed by USQ will help young people manage anxiety and depression.

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System Development of the Hazardous Waste e-Manifest System

Sharps Compliance

Hazardous waste generators get invoiced for an “EPA Electronic Manifest Program Fee.” Why? What is this fee used for? Let’s see if we can answer that for you. The EPA regulates all types of hazardous waste (HW) generated in healthcare, from spent solvent (such as alcohols and ketones) and pharmaceuticals to diagnostic testing procedure residuals. Much of the HW that these businesses generate must be shipped long distances to treatment, storage, and disposal facilities (TSDFs) where it can be pro

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CareCloud CEO predicts what's around the corner for telehealth

Mobi Health News

A. Hadi Chaudry says he foresees a growth in remote patient monitoring overall, not just face-to-face video visits.

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LifeVoxel.AI Raises $5 Million Seed Round for its AI Diagnostic Visualization Platform

Healthcare IT Today

LifeVoxel.AI, a San Diego based medical platform for AI and Visualization, today announced it has raised a $5 million seed funding. LifeVoxel’s patented technologies empower instant and ubiquitous access to interactive imaging studies and data, with zero latency and zero client footprint, rendering them at 4K image quality. The platform enables unprecedented, real-time, immersive 3D telepresence interactivity for remote patient engagement and the direct integration of AI diagnostic support

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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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Truepill to launch COVID-19 virtual care platform

Mobi Health News

The service, to debut in the coming weeks, will include telehealth consultations and antiviral drug prescriptions.

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Leveraging Everyday Technology to Improve Diabetes Outcomes for Patients Battling Social Determinants of Health

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCRN, CCNS-BC, NP-BC, FCCM the advancing evidence-based practice clinical specialist at the Grady Health System. Over the past year, discussions surrounding health disparities, inequities and the social determinants of health have been amplified as COVID-19 exposed how severely they increase risk and impact the […].

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Playback Health, Northwell Health team up on digital front door initiative and other digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Notable and the Medical University of South Carolina join forces on automated scheduling, registration and clinical intake.

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Unpacking Averages: Popular Ways to Combine Device Functionality

Health Law Advisor

This month, we’re going to look at a visualization that uses network techniques. Visualizing a network is a matter of nodes and edges. If the network were Facebook, the nodes would be people, and the edges would be the relationships between those people. Instead of people, we are going to look at specific device functionalities as defined by the product codes.

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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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M&A: HealthStream Acquires Rievent Technologies for $4M

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Leveraging its hStream open architecture, HealthStream expands its ecosystem with the acquisition of Rievent Technologies’ continuing education management and delivery application. HealthStream (Nasdaq: HSTM), a provider of workforce and provider solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Rievent Technologies , a Virginia-based healthcare technology company for $4M in cash.

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California startup Healthful launches with a focus on patient navigation

Mobi Health News

The company was spun out of Vituity and Inflect Health's innovation hub.

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Northwell Health to Launch Enterprise Patient Engagement Platform at Clinical Sites

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Northwell Health and Playback Health sign multiyear deal to launch patient engagement platform at clinical sites across health system. Northwell Health , New York State’s largest health care provider and Playback Health , a software technology company dedicated to helping care providers build deeper, more meaningful connections with their patients, today announced a multiyear agreement to launch Playback’s patient engagement platform at select locations across the health sy

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Harrison.ai snaps up $97M in Series B funding

Mobi Health News

It is also partnering with Sonic Healthcare to develop new pathology AI tools.

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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.