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The Twin Toll of Peripheral Artery Disease and Diabetes on Minority Communities

by Elizabeth Hogan Hamacher, MHL, BSN, RN, VP of Clinical Services and Support, Podimetrics 07/25/2022 Leave a Comment

The Twin Toll of Peripheral Artery Disease and Diabetes on Minority Communities

Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States, with more than 34 million individuals living with the condition.   It’s hard enough to manage this condition on a daily basis — and it gets even harder with the realization that diabetes doesn’t just exist in isolation. A diabetes diagnosis immediately triggers a domino effect of higher risks for other conditions and complications, including kidney damage, eye damage, neuropathy, and cardiovascular
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Breaking Down the Implications of New No Surprises Act Regulations

by Lynne Rinehimer, Esq, GRC Sales Engineer and Compliance SME for symplr 06/17/2022 Leave a Comment

Breaking Down the Implications of New No Surprises Act Regulations

The importance of the No Surprises Act (NSA) cannot be overstated, as surprise medical bills have long been burdensome for patients in the U.S. healthcare system. In fact, more than half of all U.S. consumers have received an unexpectedly large medical bills.  The purpose of the No Surprises Act is to prevent surprise out-of-network bills, often for emergency services. For example, if your appendix bursts while at work, you would be rushed to the nearest hospital for an emergency
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Komodo Health Appoints COO, Transcarent, Vytalize Health, RxBenefits, Other Digital Health Appointments

by Digital Health Executive Appointments 05/27/2022 Leave a Comment

Komodo Health Appoints COO, Transcarent, Vytalize Health, RxBenefits, Other Digital Health Appointments

Komodo Health has named Dr. Aswin Chandrakantan as its Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Chandrakantan will also continue to serve as the firm’s Chief Medical Officer, a role he has held since 2016. Dr. Chandrakantan was one of Komodo Health’s earliest employees – following leadership roles at McKinsey and Google – and has played a central role in the company’s rapid-fire growth. RxBenefits appoints Wendy Barnes as its new Chief Executive Officer. Barnes succeeds Bryan Statham, who served as the
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Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory

by Kevin Vigilante, Chief Medical Officer and George Plopper, Sr. Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton 05/23/2022 Leave a Comment

Reproducibility, Trust, and the Digital Laboratory

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing recognition that results published in scientific journals often cannot be reproduced by other scientists. This has been called the “reproducibility crisis” and has been described in a number of studies. A 2016 Nature article reported that more than 70% of surveyed researchers tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. A 2021 study reported that fewer than half
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The Critical Shift in ASC EHR Adoption: Overcoming Barriers

by Maura Cash RN, BSN, CASC, VP of Clinical Strategies for HST Pathways 04/19/2022 Leave a Comment

Maura Cash RN, BSN, CASC, VP of Clinical Strategies for HST Pathways

Extraordinary advances in technology have opened up previously unthinkable possibilities for the healthcare industry and improvements in patient care. Electronic health records (EHRs) are one of many health IT advancements in recent years, and they prove to have a significant impact on both providers and patients alike. While an EHR optimizes workflow efficiencies for providers, it also enables a more comprehensive view of a patient’s health. By pulling together data points and health
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Health Gorilla Raises $50M to Expand FHIR-Native Health Interoperability Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 03/07/2022 Leave a Comment

Health Gorilla Raises $50M to Expand FHIR-Native Health Interoperability Platform

What You Should Know: - Health Gorilla raises $50 million in Series C funding to securely enable the exchange of actionable and aggregated clinical data. - The new investment will accelerate Health Gorilla's mission to connect everyone, everywhere, with actionable health data. Health Gorilla, a Sunnyvale, CA-based health interoperability platform, today announced it has raised $50M in Series C funding led by SignalFire with participation from Epsilon Health Investors, IA Capital, and
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Amino Launches its Healthcare Guidance Platform in Spanish

by Jasmine Pennic 02/25/2022 Leave a Comment

Amino Launches its Healthcare Guidance Platform in Spanish

What You Should Know: - Amino, the leading employer-sponsored healthcare guidance platform, is adding Spanish Language capabilities and Mental Health providers. This will allow employees to easily find in-network mental health providers in either English or Spanish. - By guiding members to top mental health providers, Amino expands and accelerates access to high-quality, cost-effective mental health services, which can be difficult to find. From insurance details to locating providers,
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Biden Announces Deal With Merck, Johnson & Johnson to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Production

by Announcements 03/02/2021 Leave a Comment

87% of Americans Want to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Information From Their Providers

What You Should Know: - President Biden’s administration today announced a historic manufacturing deal between Merck and Johnson & Johnson (J&J), to expand production of J&J’s COVID-19 vaccine. The collaboration will increase manufacture of vaccine drug substance, as well as its fill-finish capacity – two of the biggest bottlenecks facing J&J in the production of its vaccine. - In addition, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will collaborate with Merck
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Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions

by Michelle Drolet, CEO of Towerwall 02/15/2021 Leave a Comment

Escalating Cyberattacks on Healthcare Organizations Highlight Need for Security Interventions

Healthcare organizations have faced continual stress from heavy COVID-19 caseloads in 2020. Cyberattacks on their information networks also loomed as a serious threat, and the pressure to protect data is expected to grow this year, as more criminals target healthcare providers. Protecting patient data from unauthorized access has long been a regulatory prerequisite for healthcare organizations. But increasingly, cybercriminals see profit potential in attacking and crippling their networks,
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Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach

by Amnon Drori, CEO of Octopai 02/01/2021 Leave a Comment

Healthcare Metadata Management: 3 Critical Capabilities to Creating A Unified, Automated Approach

The healthcare industry, like many others, has become a data driven industry collecting data from patients, doctors, labs, and payers that are all crucial to patient healthcare diagnosis and outcome. When it comes to research, data can be useful in creating emerging healthcare technological innovations, pharmaceutical discoveries, as well as other advances in the market but it also is accompanied by strong regulatory compliance, like stringent HIPAA laws, that dictate that this data is kept
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