Fri.Oct 15, 2021

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Patient messages via Epic increased during COVID-19, raising burnout concerns

Healthcare It News

A research letter published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that physicians saw a "small but sustained" increase in patient message volume during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. By analyzing more than 10 million messages to 419 unique clinicians from 38 specialties across 141 practice sites, researchers from the Yale University School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic found that ambulatory physicians spent more time in their i

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Health tech giant Philips launches new digital pathology platform

Mobi Health News

IntelliSite is designed to streamline workflows, enhance diagnostic confidence, facilitate collaboration, integrate AI and increase the efficiency of pathology labs.

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Bupa Arabia backs Dubai’s Okadoc with investment and strategic partnership

Healthcare It News

Bupa Arabia , the Saudi-owned and publicly traded health insurance company, has just announced its backing of the Dubai-based online appointment booking platform, Okadoc. The two MENA businesses have signed a “strategic partnership”, which includes an undisclosed equity investment by Bupa Arabia in Okadoc. Part of the Bupa Global network, Bupa Arabia backed the healthtech startup as part of its mission to “enhance customer experience and elevate the level of its digital healthc

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Intelerad acquires competitor Ambra Health to form $1.7B enterprise imaging giant

Fierce Healthcare

Intelerad acquires competitor Ambra Health to form $1.7B enterprise imaging giant. hlandi. Fri, 10/15/2021 - 12:17.

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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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Importance and future of patient portal support

Healthcare It News

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Scrutiny of risk adjustment practices looms over Medicare Advantage as open enrollment starts

Fierce Healthcare

Scrutiny of risk adjustment practices looms over Medicare Advantage as open enrollment starts. rking. Fri, 10/15/2021 - 13:30.

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Walmart unveils employer market team-up with Transcarent

Fierce Healthcare

Walmart unveils employer market team-up with Transcarent. pminemyer. Fri, 10/15/2021 - 14:18.

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Are We Focused on 5% of Patients and We Should Be Focused on the 95%?

Healthcare IT Today

One of the stats that always bothered me when I heard it was that 5% of people are responsible for 50% of the spend in healthcare (and there are other variations that are quite similar). This is quoted so many times at conferences, that it’s almost annoying to hear it now. While this stat is […].

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Conflicting federal, state COVID-19 vaccine requirements have hospitals trapped in noncompliance

Fierce Healthcare

Conflicting federal, state COVID-19 vaccine requirements have hospitals trapped in noncompliance. dmuoio. Fri, 10/15/2021 - 15:49.

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PathAI and Roche team up to push adoption of digital pathology tech

Mobi Health News

The partnership will initially be used to distribute PathAI’s research-use-only algorithm focusing on immuno-oncology.

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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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Industry Voices—The pay gap for male and female doctors Is ridiculous. Here’s what can be done about it

Fierce Healthcare

Industry Voices—The pay gap for male and female doctors Is ridiculous. Here’s what can be done about it. pminemyer. Fri, 10/15/2021 - 10:34.

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Intelerad and Ambra Health Combine to Form the Global Industry Leader in Cloud PACS and Enterprise Imaging

Healthcare IT Today

In 11 months Intelerad has expanded to now manage over 50B images, read over 130M exams/year and serve nearly 2K customers, including all of the top 10 U.S. Best Hospitals Intelerad Medical Systemsâ„¢, a global leader in medical image management solutions, today announced its acquisition of Ambra Health, maker of leading cloud-based medical image management […].

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Blackstone's Equity Healthcare signs on with Centivo

Fierce Healthcare

Blackstone's Equity Healthcare signs on with Centivo. pminemyer. Fri, 10/15/2021 - 17:12.

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HIMSSCast: Taking the CDC's Diabetes Prevention Program digital

Mobi Health News

Fruit Street Health's Laurence Girard on taking one of the most successful health interventions into the 21st Century.

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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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Big Health, NHS Scotland ink deal to provide access to digital therapeutics for insomnia, anxiety

Fierce Healthcare

Big Health, NHS Scotland ink deal to provide access to digital therapeutics for insomnia, anxiety. hlandi. Fri, 10/15/2021 - 14:36.

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Hiring Passion, Happy Little Accidents, Surgeons, and Empathy – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone! Congrats! We made it through another week. Hopefully you had a great week. Although, whether you did or you didn’t, we have another edition of Fun Friday that will make you smile and give you a laugh to start your weekend off right. We have quite the mix today, so check them […].

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Support for Drug Price Negotiation Brings Partisans Together in the U.S.

Health Populi

Most U.S. adults across political parties favor allowing the Federal government authority to negotiate for drug prices — even after hearing the arguments against the health policy. Drug price negotiation, say by the Medicare program, is a unifying public policy in the current era of political schisms in America, based on the findings in a special Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health Tracking Poll conducted in late September-early October 2021.

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Perx Health Secures Funding to Bring Daily Engagement In Digital Care to The U.S.

Healthcare IT Today

-Already used by major global insurers and healthcare brands including AIA, QBE, Roche, and AstraZeneca, as well as Australia’s national healthcare system, Perx solves digital healthcare’s #1 health challenge – daily engagement of patients in digital care -Clinical studies published in the British Medical Journal and American Journal of Managed Care validate that Perx’s precision […].

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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.