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NHS COVID Pass recognised as equivalent to EU certificate

Healthcare It News

The NHS COVID Pass is now accepted as equivalent in status to the European Union Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC). Under an agreement with the European Commission on 29 October, UK citizens can now digitally verify their vaccination status using the EUDCC gateway. On the same date it was agreed that vaccination certificates issued in Armenia will also be accepted.

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AWS physician expert talks new use cases for telehealth, machine learning, cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Over the last almost two years, healthcare has seen organizations rely on technology and the cloud to get accurate, trusted information to patients and direct them to the appropriate resources and care at scale. From chatbots and remote patient monitoring to telehealth, the industry worked quickly to adapt and find new ways to care for patients. But what does all of this mean for the future of patient care?

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Nearly 32,000 Kaiser Permanente workers set to strike Nov. 15. Tens of thousands more mulling their own demonstrations

Fierce Healthcare

Nearly 32,000 Kaiser Permanente workers set to strike Nov. 15. Tens of thousands more mulling their own demonstrations. dmuoio. Fri, 11/05/2021 - 10:58.

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Full Cycle, Purchased Healthcare Interoperability. – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/5 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Shane McNamee MD (@shanemcnamee_md) from @bpmplushealth and Dalton Ruer (@QlikDork) on the topic “Full Cycle, Purchased Healthcare Interoperability.” “If you don’t manufacture a quality product all you’ve […].

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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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Urgency-driven innovation in healthcare

Healthcare It News

The healthcare industry continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with innovation and grit. Many organizations pivoted to allow nonessential workers to work remotely. They erected field hospitals in parking lots and converted nonclinical spaces into auxiliary ICUs to provide care to sick patients. Physicians turned to virtual visits to continue providing care.

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How Hims & Hers built a business entirely centered on telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hims & Hers has grown rapidly across both of its lines – for men and for women – supporting care for many conditions that patients often feel uncomfortable talking about, including sexual health, mental health, contraception and hair loss. One of the big keys to the company's success has been telehealth. Melissa Baird, COO at Hims & Hers, leads a team of engineers that designed a telehealth experience that engages and connects patient care across its service lines, especi

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Fax Isn’t What It Used to Be

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most interesting conversations I had at the HLTH conference in Boston this month was with Bevey Miner from Consensus. She has quite the history in healthcare and so she has a ton of experiences and perspective to draw on. Plus, she’s leading the charge for the newly branded Consensus suite of solutions […].

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RPM will be the new standard of care, a new study says

Healthcare It News

Sixty percent of healthcare C-suite and clinical leaders see remote patient monitoring becoming a new standard of care over the next two years, according to a new study released today by WebCareHealth , a company that delivers solutions to remotely monitor patients managing chronic illnesses. Further, 66% of survey respondents at provider organizations say RPM helps identify gaps in care for 10% of patients.

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'Change management is key' for maintaining remote cybersecurity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

News stories about ransomware have dominated headlines in the past few years, with healthcare facilities and hospitals high on the list of frequent victims. And although cybercrime has long been a threat, the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the potential risks. "If you look at where we are today from a security perspective, what we've seen is that our threat factors have substantially increased," Sri Bharadwaj, vice president of digital innovation and applications at Franciscan H

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Flu-tracking app enables remote diagnosis and faster intervention

Mobi Health News

A new app which collates older people’s health indicators and monitors for flu symptoms supports nurses and carers to make remote diagnoses and treat patients in their homes, reducing hospitalisations.

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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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Kareo and PatientPop Merge to Form Tebra

Healthcare IT Today

Combination of leaders in practice growth and operations will create an all-in-one practice success platform to help independent practitioners thrive in the era of consumer-driven healthcare Kareo, a leader in cloud-based clinical and financial software, and PatientPop, a leader in practice growth technology, today announced the closing of their merger and the unveiling of the combined […].

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Verizon Business and Visionable team up to empower next generation healthcare with 5G

Healthcare It News

The Kent-based centre will be a place for the co-creation and demonstration of new technology-led concepts to drive the healthcare industry and will be open to healthcare and technology providers. Various digital technologies including Verizon’s private 5G solution , will be showcased and used to demonstrate a smarter, safer, patient-centric healthcare system of the future via the connectivity and collaborative benefits within various healthcare environments running various applications.

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Hundreds of groups ask governors to expand telehealth licensure flexibilities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than 230 healthcare and industry organizations wrote a letter to governors across the country asking for expanded access to telehealth via licensure flexibilities. The expiration of such flexibilities, said the groups, could abruptly prevent some patients from seeing their doctors virtually – a particularly troubling matter for immunocompromised people still at risk for COVID-19.

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Notable nabs $100M to automate administrative tasks in healthcare, boosts valuation to $600M

Fierce Healthcare

Notable nabs $100M to automate administrative tasks in healthcare, boosts valuation to $600M. rtorrence. Wed, 11/03/2021 - 11:07.

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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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BeMe Health scores $7M for teen mental health app and other digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Pediatric sleep app Huckleberry raises $12.5 million, and illumigyn, maker of a platform for remote gynecological imaging, brings in $33 million.

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How employee wellbeing is smart business

Healthcare It News

Accenture’s multi-industry “Care to do Better” study shows how it unlocks workers’ full potential, with significant positive business impact. The study references the Accenture “Net Better Off” framework, which quantifies human well-being in terms of six dimensions. On this podcast, Sig Shirodkar, Managing Director, Jennifer Hammond, Sr.

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DrChrono acquired by software-as-a-service platform EverCommerce

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The software-as-a-service company EverCommerce announced this week that it is acquiring DrChrono, an electronic health record, practice management and billing software vendor. The transaction is expected to be finalized by the end of the month, pending regulatory review and other conditions. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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Former Livongo exec launches women's health startup that uses data for personalized care

Fierce Healthcare

Former Livongo exec launches women's health startup that uses data for personalized care. hlandi. Wed, 11/03/2021 - 11:24.

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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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Is Dentistry Still the Technological Underdog?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dan Mirsky, Vice President of IT, and Benjamin Walling, Vice President of Intelligence at Sage Dental. Historically, experts have argued that dentistry lagged 10 years behind the medical industry in terms of adoption of cutting-edge technology such as electronic patient records, practice management solutions, patient portals, etc.

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AI is enabling clinicians to focus on what they do best

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Walmart hires Ochsner exec to lead healthcare push

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Walmart confirmed this week to Insider that it had hired Dr. David Carmouche to lead its multifaceted healthcare initiative. Carmouche, who has worked at Louisiana-based Ochsner Health for six years, will oversee Walmart's growing clinical care projects as senior vice president of Omnichannel Care Solutions, as explained by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Repor t.

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Medicare drops end-stage renal disease payment rule that aims to close health equity gaps

Fierce Healthcare

Medicare drops end-stage renal disease payment rule that aims to close health equity gaps. hlandi. Sun, 10/31/2021 - 16:09.

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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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Study: Apps could improve communication between providers, pregnant patients

Mobi Health News

The study found only 46% of patients eligible for prophylactic low-dose aspirin due to high-risk factors for preeclampsia had gotten a provider recommendation by 16 weeks gestation.

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Lehigh Valley Health Network focuses on patient communications

Healthcare It News

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Teladoc eyes hospital growth, says primary care is 'just the beginning'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an earnings report released this week from Teladoc Health, the telehealth giant reported 81% year-over-year revenue growth in the third quarter to $522 million. The company also pointed to what it called "significant new agreements" with CVS Health and Centene to provide its primary care offering, Primary360. "By leveraging our unique combination of data, analytics, technology and dedicated healthcare professionals, we are driving growth across our business," Jason Gorevic

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CMS: Healthcare workers must receive their first COVID vaccine by Dec. 5 to continue Medicare, Medicaid participation

Fierce Healthcare

CMS: Healthcare workers must receive their first COVID vaccine by Dec. 5 to continue Medicare, Medicaid participation. dmuoio. Thu, 11/04/2021 - 09:51.

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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.

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Embracing Telehealth: How to Engage Patients & Improve Outcomes

HIT Consultant

David Rambo, Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Simplex Health. It’s no secret that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit over a year ago, healthcare was one of the most impacted industries in the world. As the founder of a startup that works with a number of large healthcare systems, our ability to see patients virtually (via telehealth ) is not only what kept us afloat, but the very thing that allowed us to expand our reach far outside of our providers’ service areas.

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Digital MSK company Kaia Health partners to offer in-person physical therapy

Mobi Health News

The companies said their collaboration will improve access to care, particularly for those who would benefit from additional in-person care.

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ATA, businesses ask Congress to expand telehealth options for workers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association this week sent a letter to congressional leaders requesting that they continue allowing telehealth and remote care services to be treated as an excepted benefit. "Without Congressional action, employers will be unable to offer basic virtual health services to millions of Americans in part-time and seasonal jobs or workers otherwise not participating in their employer’s full medical plan," read the letter, which was signed by dozens of busines

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CMS physician fee schedule rule cuts payments, expands telehealth reimbursement past 2023

Fierce Healthcare

CMS physician fee schedule rule cuts payments, expands telehealth reimbursement past 2023. rking. Tue, 11/02/2021 - 17:16.

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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.