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Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Feature Series Though the pandemic certainly is not over, the dust has started to settle a bit, giving C-suite executives a clearer look forward. At this critical moment, Healthcare IT News sat down with eight C-suite executives at seven healthcare provider organizations to glean insights on where they see investments going in the next five years in six categories: AI and machine learning; interoperability; telehealth, connected health and remote patient monitoring; cybersecurity; electronic hea

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Study: Digital tools don’t improve physical activity for people with low socioeconomic status

Mobi Health News

A systematic review of studies found digital interventions like wearables and apps weren’t effective in increasing physical activity for people in low socioeconomic status groups.

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$1M grant sets up Renown Regional for hybrid telehealth and in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, faced many challenges with telemedicine and the ability to scale quickly as the COVID-19 pandemic grew in force last year and the organization had to close its outpatient offices for elective services. Some of these challenges included technology for providers available at scale, a platform to deliver care in a user-friendly fashion, licensure for these tools, state licensure, and expanding quality care to patients amidst the capacity and staffing

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Cigna study: How much behavioral health treatment can lower total cost of care

Fierce Healthcare

Cigna study: How much behavioral health treatment can lower total cost of care. pminemyer. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 10:37.

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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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AppliedVR Awarded FDA Approval for VR Therapeutic for Lower Back Pain

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – AppliedVR , an L.A.-based advancing the next generation of immersive therapeutics, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted de novo approval for its flagship immersive therapeutic, EaseVRx, to treat chronic low back pain, which previously received breakthrough device designation in 2020.

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CommonSpirit's quarterly patient, premium revenue up 12.3% year over year

Fierce Healthcare

CommonSpirit's quarterly patient, premium revenue up 12.3% year over year. pminemyer. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 16:32.

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General Catalyst, a16z and Rock Health back Ribbon Health's $43.5M series B to build out health data platform

Fierce Healthcare

General Catalyst, a16z and Rock Health back Ribbon Health's $43.5M series B to build out health data platform. hlandi. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 16:32.

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Ribbon Health Raises $43.5M for Healthcare API Data Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Ribbon Health , an API data platform that powers high-quality, cost-effective, and convenient care decisions, announced a $43.5 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and with participation from new and current investors, including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) , BoxGroup , Rock Health, and Sachin Jain. – Ribbon plans to use this funding to prioritize team expansion and technology investments to build a best-in-class data platform to simplify healthc

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New Cures 2.0 bill extends key telehealth flexibilities, hastens CMS approval of medical devices

Fierce Healthcare

New Cures 2.0 bill extends key telehealth flexibilities, hastens CMS approval of medical devices. rking. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 12:01.

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The Future is Open Data: What Healthcare Can Learn From Finance

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Simmons, CEO and Founder at andros. Sharing information across platforms has become so ubiquitous that many of us hardly notice it happening—interconnected technologies touch almost every area of our lives. Industries ranging from tourism to e-commerce have adopted data-sharing practices; greater access to information has proven, unsurprisingly, […].

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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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Improper Medicare payments down $20.7B since 2014, CMS data show

Fierce Healthcare

Improper Medicare payments down $20.7B since 2014, CMS data show. hlandi. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 07:15.

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Parking Lot Healthcare: Is It Here to Stay? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/19 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dessiree Paoli (@dessiree_paoli) from @InterlaceHealth on the topic “Parking Lot Healthcare: Is It Here to Stay?” It’s no secret that the pandemic has changed how people receive […].

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Synthace raises $35M Series C to accelerate the development of cures and expand reach

Mobi Health News

An R&D cloud platform which supports scientists to share and access progress with the development of biopharmaceutical therapeutics has raised $35 million in investment capital.

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Unions hope tentative deal with Kaiser Permanente sends a message about two-tier wage systems

Fierce Healthcare

Unions hope tentative deal with Kaiser Permanente sends a message about two-tier wage systems. rking. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 16:49.

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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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The biggest healthcare data breaches of 2021

Mobi Health News

More than 40 million patient records have been compromised this past year by incidents reported to the federal government in 2021.

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AMA moves against doctors who are spreading COVID-19 disinformation

Fierce Healthcare

AMA moves against doctors who are spreading COVID-19 disinformation. hlandi. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 12:38.

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Operations Needs to Match Access – Key Message from ATLAS 2021

Healthcare IT Today

One of the key themes that ran through the ATLAS 2021 event hosted by Kyruus was how operations and infrastructure needs to match the level of access being offered to patients. If a healthcare organization is not ready for the volume, not only will patients have a poor experience, but staff will be frustrated and […].

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Cerner names Nasim Afsar its first ever chief health officer

Fierce Healthcare

Cerner names Nasim Afsar its first ever chief health officer. rtorrence. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 10:33.

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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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BroadReach Group launches new tool aimed at tackling health equity challenges

Mobi Health News

The tool, integrated with Microsoft Teams and Outlook, can help providers identify underserved patients.

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Providence posts $311M operating loss in Q3 due to higher expenses amid COVID-19 surge

Fierce Healthcare

Providence posts $311M operating loss in Q3 due to higher expenses amid COVID-19 surge. rking. Tue, 11/16/2021 - 15:13.

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How COVID-19 has changed the mindset around work and retirement

Mobi Health News

Workforce shortages, partly caused by retirement, has expanded the CFO role, says eHealth CFO Christine Janofsky.

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Healthcare Compliance Tips: Office for Civil Rights

JNC Compliance

Attend training hosted by the OCR to learn more about HIPAA. The eighth resource I would like to share from the series, The Comeback Story: 9 […]. The post Healthcare Compliance Tips: Office for Civil Rights appeared first on JNC Healthcare Compliance Group.

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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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Latest version of Health2Sync app features CGM data

Mobi Health News

This version of the Health2Sync app is currently available in Japan.

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The Importance of Telehealth Credentialing In A Virtual World

Provider Trust

With the endurance of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulators have attempted to balance long-term integration of telehealth with continued emergency response. Both payers have providers must continue adapting credentialing standards and processes to account for the latest telehealth regulations. In this guide, we will provide some tips for adapting to the changing environment as well as evaluating and managing your telehealth credentialing and ongoing monitoring processes to ensure continuity and accu

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Chinese startup gets CE mark for AI polyp detection tool

Mobi Health News

It can simultaneously notify and sound an alarm for every polyp detected during colonoscopy.

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Tougher Surveys for Nursing Homes on the Horizon

Jerri Lynn Ward

Last Friday, CMS issued a memo to State Survey Agency Directors directing increased scrutiny of Nursing Homes. According to Mcknight’s , this means: “Surveyors are being directed to place special attention on things such as nurse staff abilities and actions, use of antipsychotics and areas of care where residents’ health and safety may be at an increased risk.

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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.

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Health data API Ribbon Health raises $43.5M Series B

Mobi Health News

The latest investment brings the company’s total raise to $55 million. It brought in $10.25 million in Series A funding last year.

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Florence Health Adopts Innovaccer Health Cloud to Scale R&D

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Florence Health , a next-generation, fully risk-bearing, primary care provider, has partnered with Innovaccer to move its proprietary technology development to the Innovaccer Health Cloud. . – Florence, which will enter 2022 at full risk for more than 25,000 Medicare patients across multiple states and annual revenues of over $350 million, selected the Innovaccer Health Cloud after an extensive search that included all major public cloud providers.

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Healthcare provider data network H1 snags $100M

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the new money to invest in its data and building out its products.

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QGenda Acquires Nurse & Staff Scheduling Platform Schedule360 – M&A

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – QGenda today announced the acquisition of Schedule360 , the provider of cloud-based software to automate nurse and staff scheduling. – With the addition of nurse and staff scheduling, QGenda will enable healthcare organizations to manage, schedule and optimize the deployment of their entire workforce. Now, organizations can streamline scheduling processes across the enterprise to better optimize capacity and to improve outcomes through more appropriately match

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.