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For telehealth, a hybrid future mixed with in-person care – and mobile devices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth levels peaked during the pandemic, for well-established reasons. While visits have been declining from the peak, virtual care experts predict the future will hold a mix of digital and in-person healthcare. Moving forward, mobile devices can help facilitate this hybrid telehealth world. When healthcare facilities struck down on visiting hours, providers found unique ways to adapt.

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Everything You Need To Know About Telemedicine

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sean Hopwood, CEO, Day Interpreting. Scheduling an appointment with your doctor is usually the first thing you do when you’re feeling a little under the weather or have some questions about your health. But […]. The article Everything You Need To Know About Telemedicine appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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The 'giant sucking sound' of digital health consolidation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Mergers & Acquisitions Telehealth The ongoing wave of mergers and acquisitions makes sense for startups and their VC backers. What does it mean for CIOs at their health system customers? Paddy Padmanabhan Ross Perot may have popularized the term during his unsuccessful presidential bid in the nineties as a reference to the adverse effects of NAFTA on American jobs, but " giant sucking sound " may be an apt metaphor today for the rapid consolidation of digital healt

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#HIMSS21 Preview

Healthcare IT Today

As the HIMSS 2021 Annual Conference next week, I thought I’d highlight a number of the things I’m most excited to see and hear at the conference. No doubt, the HIMSS 2021 conference will be unlike any other thanks to COVID moving it to the summer in Las Vegas and virtually. The former likely won’t […].

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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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Doctors’ Offices Morph into Bill Collectors As Patients Face Growing Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Health Populi

In the U.S., patients have assumed the role of health care payors with growing co-payments, coinsurance amounts, and deductibles pushing peoples’ out-of-pocket costs up. This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around.

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Study finds Pear’s reSET-O could lower costs of treating opioid use disorder

Mobi Health News

Researchers found patients who used reSET-O along with buprenorphine and counseling lowered their healthcare costs by $2,385 per person in the six months after they started using the app, compared with the six months before.

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DigitalHealth.London Accelerator opens applications to digital health companies

Mobi Health News

Funded in part by the European Regional Development Fund, the initiative aims to support digital innovations being used by the NHS in London.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 12: Sue Schade – Healthcare CIO Leadership, Innovation, and the Interim CIO

Healthcare IT Today

For the 12th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Sue Schade, Principal at StarBridge Advisors and Currently serving as Interim SVP and CIO at Boston Children’s Hospital. In this episode Schade dives into the evolving role of the CIO in healthcare and how it has changed throughout […].

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WellSky beefs up community care tools with Healthify acquisition

Mobi Health News

WellSky will add Healthify’s SDOH capabilities to its portfolio of healthcare technology tools for providers, payers, health systems and community organizations.

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Caregiver Support Company Cariloop raises $15 million in Series B funding to expand help for families and ease caregiving crisis

Healthcare IT Today

Cariloop, the Caregiver Support company that pairs caregivers and their families with dedicated Care Coaches as they plan for and manage the health and well-being of their loved ones, announced today that it has completed a $15 million Series B round of financing. Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners, a firm committed to backing high-growth businesses and leading entrepreneurs […].

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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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Volpara Health lands additional FDA clearance for breast cancer detection product

Mobi Health News

This marks the fourth clearance for Volpara’s breast health platform since its original authorization back in 2010.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 5 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

By Laurel Hacche, Debra Cortner, & Dondi Pulse-Earle SQA Associates. SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary #5, 2021. International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Extra Guidance on Food Safety: A New Handbook to Accompany ISO 22000 Has Just Been Published, 09 March 2021. Keeping food safe involves the combined effort of every single player in the food production chain, from farm to fork.

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Abbott's FreeStyle Libre 2 app snags FDA clearance to help users manage diabetes

Mobi Health News

The new system can be used with Apple iPhones and lets users check their glucose without needing a reader.

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Deep Genomics raises $180M for AI-enabled RNA therapeutic discovery

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the money to help expand its pipeline and scale.

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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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A new paradigm of diabetes care

Mobi Health News

How innovation has been a game changer for diabetes patients.

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