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FTC warns app makers fall under breach notification rule

Health Care Dive

The agency noted that a breach must be reported regardless of whether it was the result of malicious action. Any unauthorized access, including sharing information without consent, would trigger the rule.

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Zane Burke, former Livongo CEO, takes the reins at Quantum Health

Healthcare It News

The care coordination and healthcare navigation vendor Quantum Health announced this week that it had hired Zane Burke as chief executive officer and Board of Directors member. Most recently, Burke served as CEO at Livongo, after a 22-year stint at Cerner. "The team at Quantum Health has succeeded in building the industry’s best high-touch consumer engagement model, with a unique culture that puts consumers and clients first," said Burke in a statement.

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Pandemic special enrollment period led to record number of ACA enrollees

Health Care Dive

Legislation passed earlier this year also expanded premium tax credits and helped drive down premiums — over 90% of those who enrolled during the SEP saw their premiums reduced.

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Lead exposure continues to be a 'silent epidemic' for kids. These 3 states have the most affected areas

Fierce Healthcare

Lead exposure continues to be a 'silent epidemic' for kids. These 3 states have the most affected areas. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 18:28.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Intermountain inks merger deal with SCL Health to create $11B system

Health Care Dive

The deal expands Intermountain's regional footprint to Colorado, Montana and Kansas. CEO Marc Harrison would be the president and chief executive of the newly formed company.

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Intermountain Healthcare, SCL Health unveil plans to form 33-hospital, $14B system

Fierce Healthcare

Intermountain Healthcare, SCL Health unveil plans to form 33-hospital, $14B system. dmuoio. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:44.

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Northwell Health inks deal with Walgreens to provide telehealth, primary care in N.Y. retail stores

Fierce Healthcare

Northwell Health inks deal with Walgreens to provide telehealth, primary care in N.Y. retail stores. hlandi. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:18.

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FDA staff tight-lipped on booster shot views ahead of consequential meeting

Health Care Dive

In a briefing document released Wednesday, agency reviewers did not make a strong case either for or against the broad authorization of boosters for the general public.

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Spring Health snags $190M to build out family mental health services, ramp up health plan partnerships

Fierce Healthcare

Spring Health snags $190M to build out family mental health services, ramp up health plan partnerships. hlandi. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 17:17.

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Managed Medicaid plans and health systems hampered from texting consumers by 30-year-old law

Healthcare It News

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5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist

Complete and accurate provider data is essential for health organizations to operate effectively. A better understanding of your provider network helps to understand patients and consumers, identify gaps in care, and make the best possible decisions for your businesses. A modern provider data management solution should power a complete and accurate view of each of your providers, make this data easily accessible across functional groups, and be flexible and agile enough to scale. with your needs

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Clover Health, MedArrive partner to offer home COVID vaccinations to members

Fierce Healthcare

Clover Health, MedArrive partner to offer home COVID vaccinations to members. pminemyer. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:09.

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Connecting operational and clinical data for optimum performance

Nordic

Healthcare organizations spend enormous amounts of time and money to heal countless illnesses, while the organizations themselves suffer from their own chronic internal problems. Some of these issues are caused by systems that don’t operate efficiently or correctly.

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Study: 15M people could lose Medicaid coverage after COVID-19 emergency ends

Fierce Healthcare

Study: 15M people could lose Medicaid coverage after COVID-19 emergency ends. rking. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 15:06.

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Rune Labs Lands $22.8M to for Neurology Precision Medicine Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Rune Labs , founded by the former head of Google neuroscience, announced a $22.8M Series A round for the development and delivery of precision medicine for neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders and diseases like dementia, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s, as well as neurological conditions resulting from COVID infections.

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Level up Culture & EQ | Sign up for the #CultureDrop

Once a week, culture & leadership expert Galen Emanuele gives free, actionable EQ training in 5 minutes or less. Subscribe to the #CultureDrop and access free resources & content.

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Mercer: 3 ways employers can continue to enhance benefits options

Fierce Healthcare

Mercer: 3 ways employers can continue to enhance benefits options. pminemyer. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 14:10.

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Caresyntax Raises Additional $30M for Digital Surgery Platform

HIT Consultant

– Caresyntax , a digital surgery platform, today announced a $30M extension to its Series C funding round included participation from BlackRock, ProAssurance, and Harmonix. In addition to existing investors such as the Relyens Group and IPF Partners. This extension brings the total Series C funding to $130M. – Caresyntax’s digital surgery platform uses proprietary software and artificial intelligence to analyze large volumes of real-world data in and around the operating room to deli

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FEMA agrees to cover nearly $1B of NYC Health + Hospitals' COVID costs after legislators' intervention

Fierce Healthcare

FEMA agrees to cover nearly $1B of NYC Health + Hospitals' COVID costs after legislators' intervention. dmuoio. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 11:36.

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Flywheel Acquires Radiologics, Raises $22M for Biomedical Research Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Flywheel , a biomedical research data management platform, announced the acquisition of St. Louis-based Radiologics. The two organizations’ combined capabilities in imaging research data management and analytics provide the medical research community unrivaled end-to-end research workflow solutions—from open source to global enterprise. – In addition, the company announced a $22M Series C funding round led by 8VC with participation from investors iSelect , Arg

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A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address

This guide highlights key areas that your sepsis detection platform should address to minimize the impact of this leading, entirely preventable cause of in-hospital deaths, as well as how to increase compliance by 20% in 30 days. Download to learn more!

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Cityblock, Tufts Health Plan expand collaboration in Massachusetts

Fierce Healthcare

Cityblock, Tufts Health Plan expand collaboration in Massachusetts. pminemyer. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 15:54.

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Sorcero Raises $10M for AI-Powered Medical Language Intelligence Platform

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Sorcero , a provider of medical and technical Language Intelligence (LI), today announced the close of a $10M Series A financing round led by CityRock Venture Partners and Harmonix Fund. The round also included participation from Rackhouse, Mighty Capital, and Leawood VC, and joining previous investors, Castor Ventures and Worldquant Ventures, to support the increasing demand from new and existing customers. – Sorcero’s Language Intelligence platform combines

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Idaho to start rationing care as hospitals face 'extraordinary influx' of COVID-19 cases

Fierce Healthcare

Idaho to start rationing care as hospitals face 'extraordinary influx' of COVID-19 cases. rking. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 12:28.

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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage with Telehealth and RPM

Health Recovery

I have been a nurse for over 45 years and have witnessed the myriad challenges facing our front line nurses. The relentless COVID pandemic may have accelerated the national nursing shortage, but the problem and the underlying issues have been growing for some time. Only now, the impact is more deeply felt. So much so that the American Nurses Association (ANA) released a letter written to the Secretary of Health and Human Resources sounding the alarm.

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The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration

Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator

Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.

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Burke, former Livongo CEO, takes the helm at healthcare navigation firm Quantum Health

Fierce Healthcare

Burke, former Livongo CEO, takes the helm at healthcare navigation firm Quantum Health. hlandi. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 13:49.

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Telehealth: Short-Term Fad or Key to Improving Access to Affordable Healthcare?

HIT Consultant

Stephanie Jamison, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Greenway Health. While telehealth offerings have always held great promise, prior to 2020, their success was sometimes hindered by provider hesitation to adopt the technology, consumer reluctance to using virtual care, and a reimbursement methodology that did not value the investments required by providers or the positive impact on patients.

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Chutes & Ladders—Banner Health adds new president, COO; Burke to lead Quantum Health

Fierce Healthcare

Chutes & Ladders—Banner Health adds new president, COO; Burke to lead Quantum Health. dmuoio. Thu, 09/16/2021 - 16:58.

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‘Everybody Is Facing This Problem’: Staffing Struggles Force In-Home Care Providers to Turn Away Business

Home Health Care

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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication

Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA

Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.

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How reverse mentoring can help tackle inequality in the workplace

Health Care Leader News

Statistics show that a diverse workforce leads to better outcomes for organisations [1] and that there is a positive link between NHS staff experience and patient satisfaction [2]. Significant work in recent years has sought to create a more diverse workforce, reflecting the communities that we serve and the different capabilities individuals bring.

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Private-Pay Home Health Provider Spring Hills Taking ‘All-in-One’ Approach to Post-Acute Care

Home Health Care

Spring Hills wants to be able to do everything that other home-based care agencies do, while also doing everything that they don’t do. Based in Woodbury, New Jersey, the company takes a bit of a different approach to home care — it actually considers itself a private-pay home health provider. Its ultimate goal is to create a full continuum of care within its network, filling in gaps in care it sees in the industry.

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World Patient Safety Day 2021 Act now for safe & respectful childbirth

Life Qi

The World Health Organisation (WHO) are marking their third, annual World Patient Safety Day on 17 th September focusing on the theme “Safe maternal and newborn care”.

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Corrected Link for CMS National Stakeholder Call – Friday, September 17, 2021

Briggs Healthcare

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS National Stakeholder Call on Friday, September 17 at 12:30pm ET (Corrected Link). You are invited to join the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS), Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and her leadership team, to hear key updates from her first 100 days in office.

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Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know

Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend

Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.