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Sydney LHD extends use of Miya Precision remote patient monitoring platform

Healthcare It News

The Sydney Local Health District will continue using a remote patient monitoring platform by ASX-listed healthcare IT company Alcidion after extending their contract. In July last year, Alcidion signed an initial 12-month contract with the LHD to deploy its Miya Precision system to support the virtual care delivery of Sydney's RPA Virtual Hospital (rpavirtual) for COVID-19 patients in home isolation.

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CrossFit to launch 'fully digital' primary care service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The fitness company CrossFit announced earlier this month that it was launching a new primary care service aimed at providing an individualized approach to health. The company says it will also offer personalized, precision health and preventive medicine in addition to virtual primary care. "You deserve healthcare as effective as your CrossFit training," said CrossFit CEO Eric Roza said in a statement.

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Microsoft integrates healthcare cloud service with Cerner EHR for smoother telehealth visits

Fierce Healthcare

Microsoft integrates healthcare cloud service with Cerner EHR for smoother telehealth visits. rtorrence. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 16:10.

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What’s Enterprise Telehealth Within the Hospital Look Like and Require?

Healthcare IT Today

When we first started covering the explosion of telehealth thanks to COVID, we saw an explosion of live video telehealth companies. They were obviously filling the need for doctors and patients to both stay at home. Then, we started to see a lot of talk about various remote patient monitoring companies. We also were seeing […].

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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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Report: Most Medicare beneficiaries receive telehealth services from providers they know

Fierce Healthcare

Report: Most Medicare beneficiaries receive telehealth services from providers they know. pminemyer. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 15:43.

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Luminopia scores FDA De Novo for VR treatment for lazy eye

Mobi Health News

The tool uses virtual reality to modify media content in order to help children boost their visual acuity.

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Oak Street Health Acquires Virtual Specialty Care Provider RubiconMD

Healthcare IT Today

Oak Street Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSH, or the “Company”), a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare, today announced it has acquired RubiconMD, the leading technology platform providing access to specialist expertise. The deal enables Oak Street Health to integrate virtual specialty care into its existing care model, which significantly streamlines the referral […].

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OIG: UnitedHealthcare banked $3.7B in Medicare Advantage payments in 2017 through chart reviews, HRAs

Fierce Healthcare

OIG: UnitedHealthcare banked $3.7B in Medicare Advantage payments in 2017 through chart reviews, HRAs. pminemyer. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 10:41.

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Zerigo Health Raises $43M, Appoints Glen Tullman as Executive Chairman

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Zerigo Health , a San Diego, CA-based connected light therapy solution for treating chronic skin conditions at home or on the go, today announced a $43M Series B funding round led by 7wireVentures , joined by General Catalyst , Dragoneer , Cigna Ventures , Leverage Health Solutions , and Leaps by Bayer. – In addition, Glen Tullman, Managing Partner of 7wireVentures, former Founder and CEO of Livongo, and Chief Executive Officer of Transcarent , will joi

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Everly Health buys startup Natalist to expand its reach into women's health, retail products

Fierce Healthcare

Everly Health buys startup Natalist to expand its reach into women's health, retail products. hlandi. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 08:12.

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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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FDA Selects Aetion Evidence Platform to Assess In-Patient COVID-19 Treatments

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Aetion , a NYC-based leading real-world evidence (RWE) company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has contracted with them to use their Aetion Evidence Platform® to rapidly assess in-patient COVID-19 treatments and advance regulatory science to help determine when, where and how to use RWD. – This project is designed to demonstrate how using a platform-based approach furthers regulatory learnings on the use of RWE to inform decision-ma

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Amazon expanding virtual care service to 5 additional cities this year

Fierce Healthcare

Amazon expanding virtual care service to 5 additional cities this year. hlandi. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 07:19.

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Hospital of the future: Better than a retrofit

Healthcare It News

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U.S. healthcare could save $265B in administrative costs, McKinsey report finds

Fierce Healthcare

U.S. healthcare could save $265B in administrative costs, McKinsey report finds. rtorrence. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 10:51.

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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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Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma inks deal for VR-based DTx with BehaVR

Mobi Health News

They will develop and commercialise three novel digital therapeutic products.

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Better Medicare Alliance: MA adds $32.5B in value to Medicare

Fierce Healthcare

Better Medicare Alliance: MA adds $32.5B in value to Medicare. rking. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 16:23.

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UAE investors back Switzerland’s “smart container” manufacturer, SkyCell

Mobi Health News

The pharma-technology company has just secured $34.8 million in Series C funding, in a combination of equity and debt financing led by Abu Dhabi’s DisruptAD, and the Dubai-headquartered SHUAA Capital.

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Ascension, AdventHealth are breaking up Amita Health, their 19-hospital joint system

Fierce Healthcare

Ascension, AdventHealth are breaking up Amita Health, their 19-hospital joint system. dmuoio. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 17:40.

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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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Connected skin therapy company Zerigo Health scores $43M

Mobi Health News

Zerigo Health, formerly Clarify Medical, makes a connected phototherapy device for skin conditions like psoriasis, vitiligo and eczema.

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Collaborating for Compliance: Helping Actors Comply with Cures Act Final Rule

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Lauren Riplinger, Vice President of Policy and Government Affairs at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). As actors work to comply with the Cures Act Final Rule, it’s become clear that greater consensus is needed regarding the interpretation of the definition of electronic health information (EHI) and […].

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Telehealth firm mHS launches Kickstarter campaign for new telehealth project

Mobi Health News

Its latest telehealth project will allow family caregivers to monitor six patients remotely.

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Chutes & Ladders—CVS Health adds new chief health equity officer; former CMMI director joins CareBridge Health

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—CVS Health adds new chief health equity officer; former CMMI director joins CareBridge Health. dmuoio. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 13:34.

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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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Oak Street Health buys virtual specialty care company RubiconMD for up to $190M

Mobi Health News

Oak Street Health said the acquisition will improve the specialty care experience for patients, improve care coordination and lower costs.

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Oak Street Health expands virtual specialty care with $130M deal for RubiconMD

Fierce Healthcare

Oak Street Health expands virtual specialty care with $130M deal for RubiconMD. hlandi. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 17:40.

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EverlyWell parent company snaps up reproductive health startup Natalist

Mobi Health News

The new acquisition is set to help Everly Health grow its women's health offerings.

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Price of Omeprazole 40mg Decreases Significantly

Medval Compliance Blog

by Charlotte Chovanec, RN, BSN, MHA, Clinical Director & Leah King, PharmD, JD, Independent Pharmacy Consultant. Recently, the price of omeprazole, a generic version of Prilosec, decreased rather significantly. History of Prilosec (Omeprazole). Prilosec, the first proton pump inhibitor approved by the FDA in 1989, has been widely utilized for more than three decades to treat a variety of gastrointestinal conditions such as heartburn, acid reflux and gastric ulcers.

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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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Fujifilm India introduces AI software for COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosis

Mobi Health News

The software automatically analyses chest CT images for pneumonia.

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GeniusRx Digital Pharmacy Launches Asynchronous Telehealth Offering

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – GeniusRx ™, a Boca Raton, FL-based next-generation digital pharmacy focused on improving patient outcomes by disrupting the way prescription drugs are bought, sold, and delivered, announced the launch of GeniusClinic ™ and GeniusIQ™. – GeniusClinic™ provides members with access to providers in a transparent and affordable manner, leveraging the GeniusIQ™ machine learning platform, for new and refill prescriptions medications, for non-acute and lifestyle condit

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CMS, CMMI officials seek more data from Medicare Advantage plans on impact of health equity

Fierce Healthcare

CMS, CMMI officials seek more data from Medicare Advantage plans on impact of health equity. rking. Thu, 10/21/2021 - 14:00.

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How Continuous Optimization of Marketing Outcomes Improves Brand Performance and Patient Outcomes – Q/A

HIT Consultant

Andrew Burkus Principal, Omnichannel Marketing, IQVIA. As fall turns to winter, pharmaceutical brand marketers and supporting teams know one thing is certain: next year’s planning cycle is upon us in earnest. With data-driven decision-making at the core of best practices, and an increasing fluency in tying aggregated, non-identified prescription data to a brand’s efforts, the evidence continues to support the Continuous Optimization approach to driving patient outcomes.

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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.