Tue.May 18, 2021

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Amazon in talks to launch at-home medical testing service, says Insider

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Amazon is reportedly weighing the launch of a service offering at-home medical tests, signaling yet another foray into healthcare from the technology giant. According to reporting from Insider , Amazon is considering launching an at-home COVID-19-testing kit in June, and potentially ones for respiratory and sexually transmitted infections. "Amazon's long-term goal is to expand into other areas, such as clinical genomics, and launch a third-party marketplace that sells medical tests from

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Google gives a sneak peek into its new AI dermatology assistant

Mobi Health News

Users are able to get a list of potential conditions and send their information to their providers.

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Payors and Providers, Not Clinicians, Might Drive MedTech Going Forward

Healthcare IT Today

As payors and providers build their enterprises around digital tools, the very nature of the medtech business is changing substantially. According to new research from Frost & Sullivan, medtech vendors are rethinking what they do as hospitals move from high-acuity and high-dependency care to decentralized models. These vendors, in turn, are beginning to rely on […].

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Japanese firms Sysmex and ThinkCyte team up to develop AI-powered tech for IVD

Mobi Health News

The companies will develop a solution based on a new technique of flow cytometry that enables fast and accurate cell analysis using AI.

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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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#HITtheTrails with the HIT Like a Girl Podcast

Healthcare IT Today

This weekend was a unique one for me as I headed to California for a camping trip. First, it was one of the first trips I’d taken since COVID-19. Second, it was a chance to get out and see the start of the HIT Like A Girl Podcast’s epic journey across the country and back […].

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How a pair of 'middle school graduates' developed and sold their respiratory health tech company

Mobi Health News

The two college students built Spira, a no-code back-end tool for creating smart intake forms that was acquired by Galileo Health in April.

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London's Royal Free Hospital to use AI keyhole procedure for heart attack patients

Mobi Health News

Heart attack patients at the Royal Free Hospital in London are to benefit from a new artificial intelligence (AI) backed keyhole procedure. Abbott Ultreon 1.0 software merges optical coherence tomography (OCT), an imaging tool that provides cardiologists a view inside an artery or blood vessel, with AI technology for enhanced visualisation.

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Kinderhook Sells Synzi to AMN Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Kinderhook Industries, LLC (“Kinderhook”) today announced a definitive agreement to sell Telehealth 2017 Holdings, LLC, (“Synzi” or the “Company”) to AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (NYSE: AMN) for a purchase price of $42.5 million. The acquisition signed and closed on April 7th, 2021. Synzi, based in St. Petersburg, Florida, is a technology company that drives better […].

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AI-enabled pathology company PathAI scores $165M, SymphonyRM raises $25M for engagement tool and other digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Artificial scores $21.5M for lab automation, medication adherence platform emocha Health completes oversubscribed Series A and DeepScribe raises $5.2M in seed funding.

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Telehealth can be an effective alternative for seniors, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A wide-ranging study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare this past month found that telehealth can be an effective modality of care for patients over 60, particularly when deployed in the confines of their existing primary care provider. When researchers, including a team from the West Health Institute, which focuses on addressing the care needs of seniors, analyzed 313,516 telehealth visits across three healthcare organizations, they found that virtual encounters successfully

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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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DarioHealth expands mental health foothold with wayForward acquisition

Mobi Health News

DarioHealth has made a number of M&As over the last year, boosting its services.

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Ascensia Diabetes Care launches new cloud-based diabetes management and analytics platform

Mobi Health News

The new tool lets users send their glucose data to caregivers and clinicians.

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