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Employer-focused Progyny acquires Berlin-based fertility benefits platform Apryl

Mobi Health News

The acquisition will allow the fertility and family-building company to provide its services in more than 100 countries and in over 225 languages.

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Medical Debt, Aflac on Eroding Health Benefits, the CBO’s Uninsured Forecast & Who Pays for Rising Health Care Prices: A Health Consumer Financial Update

Health Populi

On June 11, Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced the agency’s vision to ban Americans’ medical debt from credit reports. He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. Research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2022 showed that medical collections tradelines appeared on 43 million credit reports, and that 58 percent of bills that were in coll

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Desktop system for calculating UV eye damage goes mobile

Mobi Health News

Developers see a potential use of the AI-powered mobile solution for routine early skin cancer screening.

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OSF deploys care transition program, reduces readmission rate from 29% to 9%

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OSF HealthCare, a health system that serves Illinois and Michigan, had a big challenge: Managing the high rate of patient readmissions from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities and eventually to home care. THE PROBLEM This issue stemmed largely from gaps in continuous care during transitions between these settings. Patients discharged from hospitals often were readmitted due to complications that could have been prevented with better monitoring and more proactive management, said Matt Nieukir

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The Cost of Inefficient Communication in Home Care & Beyond

This eBook explores the critical issues of using consumer-grade messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS in healthcare, especially home care. It highlights the negative impacts on patient care quality, data security, and HIPAA compliance and provides practical solutions to enhance communication efficiency! You will learn how to: Consolidate Messaging Platforms: Streamline communication by reducing the use of multiple apps, improving efficiency in patient care.

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HHS finalizes info blocking disincentives for hospitals, clinician groups and ACOs

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is locking in its enforcement strategy to keep healthcare providers from blocking access to electronic health information. | Providers found to have committed information blocking will face financial repercussions tied to Medicare program participation as well as the public disclosure of the enforcement.

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Hospitals' merger-fueled price increases force local employers to lay off staff, researchers warn

FierceHealthIT

Higher care costs directly following a hospital merger have a downstream effect of local employers laying off a portion of their workers, according to a new National Bureau of Economic Researc | A new analysis ties merger-driven hospital price increases to higher employer insurance premiums and subsequent headcount reductions.

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4 Random Health IT Questions – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 143

Healthcare IT Today

For the 143rd episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are discussing 4 random health IT questions provided by our colleague! First, we discuss which aspects of AI worry us when it comes to healthcare/health IT. Then we talk about the things in health IT that we feel are mid. The third random topic we discuss in this episode is the health IT companies we think are killing it right now and why.

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Where UnitedHealthcare is seeing cost savings in its Surest plan

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealthcare is betting big on its Surest unit as the insurer releases new data on where the plan has seen success in the past several years. | UnitedHealthcare is betting big on its Surest unit as the insurer releases new data on where the plan has seen success in the past several years.

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Derby and Burton rolls out BadgerNet EPR for maternity services

DigitalHealth

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out the BadgerNet electronic patient record in its maternity services.

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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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Private equity firm Altaris plans to take Sharecare private in $518M acquisition deal

FierceHealthIT

Digital health company Sharecare has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Altaris for $1.43 in cash per share, or about $518 million. | Digital health company Sharecare has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Altaris for $1.43 in cash per share, or about $518 million.

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Digital Health Company Pear Suite Hits 100-Customer Milestone

Digital Health Global

Closes $1M+ in Funding from Strategic Investors ; C ontinues Rapid Growth Nationwide, Supporting Community Health Workers to Increase Access to Health and Social Services HONOLULU–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pear Suite , a digital health company celebrating its three-year anniversary working to empower community health workers (CHWs) and better address the social determinants of health (SDOH), announced it has hit 100 customers in 24 U.S. states.

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Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to $2.7B BCBS settlement

FierceHealthIT

The Supreme Court will not hear a legal challenge to the nearly $2.7 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield settlement. | The Supreme Court will not hear a legal challenge to the nearly $2.7 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield settlement.

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Thousands of appointments postponed since Synnovis cyber attack

DigitalHealth

More than 1,134 elective procedures and 2,194 outpatient appointments have been postponed since the cyber attack on Synnovis on 3 June.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Methods for evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of direct-to-consumer mobile health apps: a scoping review

BMC Digital Health

There is an evaluation crisis in mobile health (mHealth). The majority of mHealth apps are released with little evidence base. While many agree on the need for comprehensive evaluations to assess the efficacy.

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Direct Recruiters, Inc., a Starfish Partners Company and Health Innovations, LLC Join Forces to Revolutionize Healthcare Staffing and Analytics

Healthcare IT Today

Direct Recruiters, Inc. (DRI) , a leading executive search firm, and Health Innovations, LLC, a trailblazer in physician executive, population health, and healthcare analytics talent acquisition, are thrilled to announce their strategic merger. This transformative partnership combines DRI’s expertise in executive placements in digital health, employer health, pharmacy, hospital IT, and contract staffing with Health Innovations’ deep understanding of population health and data-driven health

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PatchRx to integrate medication adherence data with virtual care platforms

FierceHealthIT

Remote therapeutic monitoring company PatchRx can now integrate its medication adherence insights into existing care management platforms through PatchRx Connect. | Remote therapeutic monitoring company PatchRx launches Connect API to integrate with existing care management platforms. It aims to reduce point solution fatigue in providers, but electronic health record integration is still expensive, and elusive.

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How Iris Telehealth’s Medical Leadership Team Promotes Quality Care

Iris Telehealth

At Iris Telehealth, our top priority is ensuring quality care throughout each patient’s behavioral health journeys. To achieve this, we partner with healthcare organizations across the U.S., providing access to top-notch providers, quality behavioral health programming, and our medical leadership team. This team, comprised of Dr. Thomas Milam, Dr. Tracy Mullare, LaDonna Chirpas, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, and Don C.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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Atropos Evidence Network tops 300M patients with addition of Forian and Syndesis to its searchable network

FierceHealthIT

Atropos Health's Evidence Network has grown to include the data resources of pharmaceutical-focused Forian and international patient data resources from Syndesis. | Atropos Health is adding two new partners to its Evidence Network, a network of healthcare data from over a dozen healthcare organizations that can be queried by any user. The two new additions, Forian and Syndesis, will bring more pharmaceutical and international patient data to users of the network.

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70% Of Gen Z Can't Use Your Application Portfolio

LeanIX

Only a third of Gen Z workers feel empowered to use the digital toolset they've been provided at work. Can application modernization prepare your organization for the next generation?

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SCOTUS to hear case on gender-affirming care access for trans youth

FierceHealthIT

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging a Tennessee law th | The law explicitly prohibits puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgical procedures if they are prescribed for the purpose of gender-affirming care. The plaintiffs argue the law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Leveraging Google Maps and Environmental Data to Improve Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

We’ve all used Google Maps or a technology like that in our life. However, many healthcare organizations probably don’t realize all of the ways that Google Maps API can be used to improve the patient experience. Plus, did you know that Google also has a number of environmental APIs that are available? To learn more about both of these topics, I watched a recent webinar on “ Google Maps adds value to health care organizations ” that was hosted by Hexagon , a partner of

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Download Free Patient Assessment Form for Dentist – Portuguese

NiftyHMS

Bem-vindo, visitante, você pode baixar gratuitamente o formulário de avaliação odontológica do paciente apenas no NiftyHMS. Este formulário reúne com eficiência informações cruciais do paciente, incluindo histórico médico, medicamentos atuais, alergias e preocupações odontológicas específicas. A Avaliação Odontológica torna mais fácil para o dentista e a equipe capturar o histórico odontológico para um atendimento odontológico eficaz.

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HIStalk Interviews Trip Hofer, CEO, Redox

HIStalk Interviews

Trip Hofer, MBA is CEO of Redox. Tell me about.

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Download Free Patient Assessment Form for Dentist – Dutch

NiftyHMS

Welkom bezoeker, u kunt het gratis Patiënt-tandheelkundig beoordelingsformulier alleen gratis downloaden bij NiftyHMS. Dit formulier verzamelt op efficiënte wijze cruciale patiëntinformatie, waaronder medische geschiedenis, huidige medicijnen, allergieën en specifieke tandheelkundige problemen. Dental Assessment maakt het voor zowel tandarts als personeel gemakkelijk om de tandheelkundige geschiedenis vast te leggen voor effectieve tandheelkundige zorg.

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Spotlight on Prior Authorization, Humata Health

Digital Health Wire

Digital health’s flavor of the week was prior authorization, which has clearly been leaving a bad taste in people’s mouths. Humata Health took center stage by adding $25M in unlabeled funding to advance its AI prior auth automation suite for payors and providers. CEO Dr. Jeremy Friese was president of Olive’s payor business before forming Humata to acquire the PA assets after the company was forced to wind-down, and dealt with the headaches of prior auth first-hand during his time practicing at

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Download Free Patient Assessment Form for Dentist – French

NiftyHMS

Bienvenue visiteur, vous pouvez télécharger gratuitement le formulaire d’évaluation dentaire du patient uniquement sur NiftyHMS. Ce formulaire collecte efficacement des informations cruciales sur le patient, notamment ses antécédents médicaux, ses médicaments actuels, ses allergies et ses problèmes dentaires spécifiques. L’évaluation dentaire permet aux dentistes et au personnel d’enregistrer facilement les antécédents dentaires pour des soins dentaires efficaces.

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HeartFocus Joins Butterfly Garden to Develop Software Enabling Any Healthcare Professional to Conduct Lifesaving Echos on Butterfly’s Imaging Platform

Digital Health Global

HeartFocus enters Butterfly Garden, leveraging Butterfly Network’s software development kit (SDK) to integrate new AI-powered heart scan software compatible with Butterfly’s leading imaging platform BORDEAUX, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #artificialintelligience — HeartFocus , the revolutionary, AI-driven heart exam software by DESKi, a provider of automated, accurate, and data-driven image analysis tools today announced it has joined Butterfly Garden , an artificial intelligence (A

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Download Free Patient Assessment Form for Dentist – Italian

NiftyHMS

Benvenuto visitatore, puoi scaricare gratuitamente il Modulo di Valutazione del Paziente Odontoiatrico solo su NiftyHMS. Questo modulo raccoglie in modo efficiente informazioni cruciali sul paziente, tra cui la sua storia medica, i farmaci attuali, le allergie e problemi dentali specifici. La valutazione dentale consente ai dentisti e al personale di registrare facilmente la storia dentale per cure dentistiche efficaci.