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Apple looks to digital biomarkers for features detecting depression, cognitive decline

Mobi Health News

The Wall Street Journal reports that the work on the feature could be born out of collaborations with UCLA and Biogen.

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Trilliant Health rolls out predictive analytics tool to forecast healthcare demand down to local level

Fierce Healthcare

Trilliant Health rolls out predictive analytics tool to forecast healthcare demand down to local level. hlandi. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 08:10.

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Taming the Wild Animal that is Healthcare Data

Healthcare IT Today

Creating healthcare data is easy. Wrangling it so that it is sharable, useable, and valuable is challenging. In fact, it may be the one thing that prevents healthcare organizations from utilizing advanced technologies like AI, machine learning, and predictive analytics. The good news is that it can be done, you just have to choose the […].

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These are the top 10 socially responsible hospitals in the U.S.: report

Fierce Healthcare

These are the top 10 socially responsible hospitals in the U.S.: report. agliadkovskaya. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 19:44.

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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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NOCD Raises $33M for OCD Treatment Platform & Address Global OCD Crisis

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – NOCD , a Chicago-based provider of obsessive compulsive-disorder (OCD) treatment raises $33M in Series B funding led by F-Prime Capital , with Eight Roads Ventures , and Kaiser Permanente Ventures participating along with existing investors including 7wireVentures , Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) , and Chicago Ventures. – The funds will be used to expand NOCD’s community, reach people earlier in their treatment journey, and offer additional services to assis

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Staffing shortages force long-term care facilities to limit admissions, hire agency workers

Fierce Healthcare

Staffing shortages force long-term care facilities to limit admissions, hire agency workers. dmuoio. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 12:23.

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Pager raises $70M to scale its turnkey care coordination platform

Fierce Healthcare

Pager raises $70M to scale its turnkey care coordination platform. dmuoio. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 14:47.

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Clearsense Acquires Plug-and-Play AI Analytics Firm Compellon

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Clearsense , an AI-powered data analytics platform company that translates healthcare data into highly consumable insights, today announced the acquisition of Compellon , a privately-held, plug-and-play AI analytics company. – The multi-patented Compellon technology uses AI to re-engineer predictive modeling, removing the technical burden from users.

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OIG calls for more oversight as MA insurers bank $9.2B on the back of chart reviews, risk assessments

Fierce Healthcare

OIG calls for more oversight as MA insurers bank $9.2B on the back of chart reviews, risk assessments. pminemyer. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 16:54.

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FTC Applies HIPAA-like Breach Notification Requirements to Health Apps and Connected Device Companies

Healthcare IT Today

Last week, the FTC came out with a statement clarifying the intent of their Health Breach Notification Rule when it came to health apps and connected devices. The key point is that health apps and other connected health devices that are breached are going to be subject to similar notification requirements as a HIPAA covered […].

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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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Senate Dems try to mend fences over drug price reform divide as moderates seek slimmed-down proposal

Fierce Healthcare

Senate Dems try to mend fences over drug price reform divide as moderates seek slimmed-down proposal. rking. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 14:39.

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NANI Makes Equity Investment in Strive Health for Risk Payment

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Strive Health, the national leader in value-based kidney care, and Nephrology Associates of Northern Illinois and Northern Indiana (NANI) , the nation’s largest independent nephrology group, today announced a strategic partnership to jointly pursue and manage global risk payment models. – This partnership will benefit people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage kidney disease (ESKD) through a “whole patient” approach that enhances lives and communit

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Blue Shield of California, Venus Williams team to tackle bias in healthcare

Fierce Healthcare

Blue Shield of California, Venus Williams team to tackle bias in healthcare. pminemyer. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 13:28.

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Welldoc's Bluestar lands FDA clearance for expanded insulin dosing support

Mobi Health News

The new clearance expands its insulin dosing support to bolus and premixed insulin titration for Type 2 diabetes.

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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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Humana: Former exec was fired after sending suggestive text messages to subordinate

Fierce Healthcare

Humana: Former exec was fired after sending suggestive text messages to subordinate. pminemyer. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 11:15.

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Matternet Launches World’s First City-Wide Medical Drone Network in Abu Dhabi

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Matternet announced the launch of the world’s first city-wide drone delivery network for the rapid transport of medical goods in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) and logistics company Skygo. The network will significantly increase the connectivity of the Emirate’s health ecosystem and position it as a global leader in advanced air mobility.

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HRSA intends to fine 6 drugmakers over 340B contract pharmacy violations

Fierce Healthcare

HRSA intends to fine 6 drugmakers over 340B contract pharmacy violations. rking. Wed, 09/22/2021 - 17:21.

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Pager raises $70M for care coordination; Nomad scores $63M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: NOCD scooped up $33 million for digital OCD treatment, and NEX raised $25 million for its interactive fitness and motion entertainment tech.

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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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Unite Us Acquires NowPow to Address Health and Social Needs Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

The combination of NowPow’s personalized, evidence-based referral platform with Unite Us’ end-to-end social care solutions brings together two market favorites to further deepen community-based partnerships and accelerate health improvements nationwide. Unite Us, the nation’s leading technology company connecting health and social care services, has announced the acquisition of NowPow, the Chicago-based referral platform grounded in […].

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Paige receives FDA De Novo clearance for AI to detect prostate cancer

Mobi Health News

Paige Prostate analyzes digitized biopsy slides and identifies areas that could be cancerous for the pathologist to review further.

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Matternet Launches World’s First City-Wide Medical Drone Delivery Network in Abu Dhabi

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Matternet announced the launch of the world’s first city-wide drone delivery network for the rapid transport of medical goods in Abu Dhabi, in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) and logistics company Skygo. The network will significantly increase the connectivity of the Emirate’s health ecosystem and position it as a global leader in advanced air mobility.

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Tracking Global COVID-19 Vaccine Equity: An Update

KFF

This updated analysis looks at global COVID-19 vaccination efforts by income-level and region to assess the equity gap in both vaccination coverage and rates of administration. Overall, we find that low-income countries and countries in Africa are lagging behind, and based on current rates, are unlikely to meet global vaccination targets.

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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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Alpha Medical Announces New Funding of $24M to Further its Leadership in Women’s Health

Healthcare IT Today

Women’s Telehealth Company Revolutionizing Healthcare Experience with Accessible Technology For All Women, Especially Those in Primary Care Deserts Alpha Medical announces completing a $24 million oversubscribed series B round to help seal its leadership position in women’s virtual primary care. Alpha empowers women to take control of their healthcare by providing the highest quality medical […].

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Tracking U.S. COVID-19 Vaccine Donations

KFF

This analysis assesses U.S. COVID-19 vaccine dose donations in order to gauge progress towards meeting stated global vaccination goals.

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OCR Provides Ransomware Resources

Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

On September 21, the HHS Office for Civil Rights pushed out through their Listserv, a list of information to ensure that "HIPAA regulated entities are aware of the resources available to assist in preventing, detecting,

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Important Update: FTC Clarifies Health Breach Notification Rule- Healthcare Apps and Vendors Are Included

AIHC

Written by: Susan Walberg , JD MPA CHC. As I have written in previous articles about HIPAA and health-tech, many apps in the marketplace have been largely unregulated with respect to the privacy and security of healthcare data. In order for healthcare-related apps to be regulated, for the most part they needed to be covered under HIPAA. As a result, only the apps that were directly related to providing or billing for healthcare services, or those companies’ ‘Business Associates,’ were required t

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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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Pearl Health Raises $18M to Support Independent Primary Care Physicians

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Pearl Health , a New York City-based primary care physicians (PCP) group today announced it has raised $18M in Series A funding led by a16z , with AlleyCorp and Kevin Ryan participating. – Co-founded by Dr. Jeffrey De Flavio (founder of Groups: Recover Together), Michael Kopko (Oscar Health, Bridgewater Associates) and Ankit Patel (CMS Innovation Center, Clover Health), Pearl offers PCPs a fixed per-member-per-month payment for each Traditional Medicare member

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Policies, Protocols, and Guidelines

Healthcare Blog

By Tina Nelson. For obvious reasons, organizational policies, practice guidelines, and protocols have required continuous changes over the last two years. With the constant evolution of health policy during the COVID crisis, leaders are trying to keep pace and make certain the regulatory mandates are reflected in their policies and guidelines, literally, on a daily basis. .

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A Negative Outlook for US Hospital Margins Through 2021

Health Populi

In the fourth quarter of 2021, U.S. hospital margins will still be lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaufman, Hall & Associates project in their latest read on hospital finances. Kaufman Hall has been monitoring hospitals’ financial health in the coronavirus era since March 2020, month-by-month. This new report looks into the Financial Effects of COVID-19: Hospital Outlook for the Remainder of 2021.