What You Need to Know:
- CynergisTek, a provider of healthcare cybersecurity and information management announced it has updated its Patient Privacy Monitoring Services (PPMS) to proactively identify and stop insider snooping related to the COVID-19 virus.
- As the number of cases continues to rise, information on patients who have been diagnosed or tested for the virus is incredibly valuable. Many healthcare organizations face the threat of unauthorized
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What Health IT Thought Leaders Say HIMSS20 Would Have Focused On—If It Had Happened
What You Need to Know:
Health IT thought leaders share what HIMSS20 would have focused On—if It had happened.
- Hot topics include health IT to address COVID-19; artificial intelligence; EHR interoperability and usability; and more.
–Kuldeep Singh Rajput, CEO of Biofourmis, Boston, Mass., which provides digital therapeutics that power personalized predictive care
“Remote monitoring platforms and clinical-grade wearables combined with artificial intelligence [AI]-based
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Orion Health Launches Coronavirus Outbreak Monitoring Platform Globally
What You Need to Know:
- Orion Health launches coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak monitoring platform to its existing and future customers globally at no cost.
- Over time the monitoring platform will increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to allow providers to identify patients at risk of deterioration and optimize their care. This will allow resources to be allocated to those most in need.
Orion Health has
developed the first comprehensive coronavirus pandemic
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IBM Watson Health, EBSCO Information Services Launch Integrated Clinical Decision Support Solution
What You to Need to Know:
IBM Watson Health and EBSCO Health Resources will
announce the merging of their respective platforms – DynaMed and IBM Micromedex
– into a single, high-value global solution called DynaMed and Micromedex with
Watson.
By combining the real-world evidence available on these
platforms, with AI and natural language processing, this new solution will
enable care providers to easily access information to inform both diagnostic
and operational decisions.
IBM
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How Health Plans Can Prepare Their Members for Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Any time there are fears of an outbreak, you can be sure of one thing: Purveyors of disinformation will take advantage of these fears by spreading false, often harmful messages.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is no different, and as what may become the first widespread U.S. public health crisis of the social media era, is likely to be more susceptible to disinformation and conspiracy theories than previous events. For example, some of the more notable falsehoods about COVID-19 include that
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HealthStream Acquires Mobile Nurse App NurseGrid for $25M
What We Need to Know:
- Healthstream acquires NurseGrid, a mobile health app for nurses and nurse managers for approximately $25M in cash.
- NurseGrid Mobile is among the top downloaded apps for nurses and has a highly engaged audience of monthly active users, of which over 40 percent use the app daily (i.e. daily active users).
- NurseGrid’s operations are based in Portland, Oregon and include approximately 20 employees.
HealthStream, a Nashville,
TN-based provider of workforce
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Revenue Cycle Startup Rivet Lands $8.25M to Expand Price Transparency Platform
What You Need to Know:
- Revenue cycle management startup Rivet raises $8.25M Series A funding to expand its healthcare price transparency platform.
- The price transparency platform enables providers to give patients upfront pricing with the ability to pay prior to care via text while at the same time helping providers navigate the complex process that grants “in-network” status with insurance companies.
Rivet, a Salt Lake City, UT-based modern healthcare revenue cycle management
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Health Gorilla Launches EMR-Integrated Electronic Ordering for COVID-19 Testing for LabCorp and Quest
What You Need to Know:
- Health Gorilla announces the launch of electronic ordering for COVID-19 testing for LabCorp and Quest that will allow thousands of providers, who currently rely on Health Gorilla to place lab orders, to seamlessly order COVID-19 tests for their patients.
- Providers and developers can begin placing orders through API and web-based interface, expanding access to COVID-19 testing within their existing product/EMR workflow.
Health
Gorilla, a Sunnyvale,
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AMA to Fast Track New CPT Code for Novel Coronavirus Test
What You Need to Know:
- AMA announces it will fast track CPT code development for a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) test to bolster a data-driven response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.
- The CPT Editorial Panel will manage the expedited process including the creation of a test description to accompany the code and the effective date of the code.
- According to the CDC, there is a total of 647 confirmed cases of COVID-19 resulting in 25 deaths in the United
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Patient Data Liberation: HHS Releases Final Interoperability & Patient Access Rules
What You Need to Know:
- HHS finalizes interoperability rules that will implement interoperability and patient access provisions of the bipartisan 21st Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and support President Trump’s MyHealthEData initiative.
- The ONC Final Rule identifies and finalizes the reasonable and necessary activities that do not constitute information blocking while establishing new rules to prevent “information blocking” practices (e.g., anti-competitive behaviors) by
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