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Olive Diagnostics Raises $7.3M for AI-Powered Urine Analysis Device

by Jasmine Pennic 09/06/2022 Leave a Comment

Olive Diagnostics Raises $7.3M for AI-Powered Urine Analysis Device

What You Should Know: - Israeli medical device start-up Olive Diagnostics, which uses an optical sensor and AI-powered device to perform 100% passive real-time urine analysis, is extending its seed funding round to $7.3 million, after raising an additional $1.5 million from existing investors and private investors.  - The investors in the pre-seed stage include Israeli HMO Maccabi Healthcare Services, Mayo Clinic, eHealth Ventures, Amgen Ventures, The Israel Innovation
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The Infrastructure Needed to Meet Health Interoperability Needs

by Kristen Ballantine, VP of Government Relations at Gainwell 07/21/2022 Leave a Comment

The Infrastructure Needed to Meet Health Interoperability Needs

For most patients, it has always been extremely difficult to their personal health and medical data electronically. However, with the CMS Interoperability and Patient Access Final Rule, consumers, specifically Medicaid members, there is a greater push to give access to, and ownership of, this data.  With this move towards interoperability comes new requirements healthcare organizations must meet and adhere to under the rule. To meet many of these federal interoperability requirements,
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Polygon to Partner with MSP on Healthcare Blockchain Initiative

by Jasmine Pennic 05/20/2022 Leave a Comment

Polygon to Partner with MSP on Healthcare Blockchain Initiative

What You Should Know: - Today, Polygon Networks, a leading blockchain and scaling solution, announced a partnership with Tokenology and MSP Recovery to deliver LifeChain - a new healthcare claims platform. - LifeChain will leverage blockchain technology to solve healthcare's biggest problems, including fraud, inefficiency in payments and antiquated processes. Tokenize Healthcare Claims On-Chain LifeChain will be developed by MSP Recovery and Tokenology as a fully tokenized Medicare,
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Digital Documentation: How PDFs Can Help Providers Expedite Care

by Deboshree Sarkar, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, PDF Editor Product line at Foxit 05/10/2022 Leave a Comment

Digital Documentation: How PDFs Can Help Providers Expedite Care

We live in an increasingly digital world. Across industries, companies and consumers have come to rely on the rapid exchange of digital information. Healthcare, however, has been an outlier in this regard. While the healthcare digital transformation has been in play for years, it’s still taken longer for the paradigm shift to gain momentum. Healthcare stakeholders have long relied on paper-based processes. From documenting clinical care to filing medical claims and registering patients, paper
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Zero Clients: The New Face of Security for Healthcare

by Mark Kempf, VP, CP Technologies & CP Systems at CP North America 03/29/2022 Leave a Comment

Zero Clients: The New Face of Security for Healthcare

Healthcare data is notoriously vulnerable to hacking. The pandemic has stretched industry resources thin, and data quality and security are suffering as a result. In addition, the rise in mobile applications, the adoption of mobile workstations, and the ease with which organizations can now expand into cloud accounts have made the industry more vulnerable than ever before. In short, “the attack surface” is now expansive. According to IDC, an astounding 36% of the world’s
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How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management

by Anthony Pannozzo, Chief Design Officer and Global Healthcare Lead at frog 09/08/2020 Leave a Comment

How the Simple Telehealth Visit Will Revolutionize Care Delivery and Disease Management

The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare industry’s ability to innovate has been stunning. We have seen FDA emergency authorizations and relaxed regulatory guidelines enable the development of radical new ventilator ideas, accelerated timelines for vaccine development, and an extraordinary transition to telehealth services. Many of these actions were a response to the exposure of weak spots in our healthcare system, but even as those weaknesses have been shored up (in large part due to public
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AHA Launches COVID-19 Data Challenge to Address Health Disparities Among African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans in Rural Areas

by Fred Pennic 05/15/2020 Leave a Comment

AHA Launches COVID-19 Data Challenge to Address Health Disparities Among African Americans, Hispanic, Native Americans in Rural Areas

What You Need to Know: - American Heart Association, Hitachi Vantara and BurstIQ launch COVID-19 Data Challenge to bring global COVID-19 datasets to researchers and clinicians to examine the relationship with other health conditions and health disparities. - Each participant of the challenge will be provided a free, HIPPA compliant and FedRAMP certified, secure Precision Medicine Platform (PMP) workspace to conduct analyses. The American Heart Association, the
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COVID-19: Why Limited HIPAA Waivers from HHS Don’t Do Enough To Address Telehealth

by Alissa Smith, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney and co-chair of its Health Transactions and Regulations Practice Group 03/18/2020 Leave a Comment

COVID-19: Why Limited HIPPA Waivers from HHS Don't Do Enough To Address Telehealth

What You Need to Know: - HHS issued some very limited HIPAA waivers to combat COVID-19999, but experts say it leaves out some very key guidance when it comes to telehealth. - Alissa Smith, Partner at Dorsey & Whitney says the HHS is likely going to have to revisit this issue given the limited waivers issued this week.   The main thing I am hearing from my health care provider clients is that they are seeking HIPAA-related guidance
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DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform

by Jasmine Pennic 09/10/2019 Leave a Comment

DrFirst Integrates Adobe Sign With Backline Secure Care Collaboration Platform

- DrFirst and Adobe Sign has announced the integration of Adobe Sign e-signature solution with DrFirst’s Backline secure care collaboration platform, producing the first mobile solution for the healthcare market to offer an e-signature capability. - Using the joint solution, providers can send SMS messages to the mobile devices of patients, caregivers, or other clinicians to share documents that require signatures. - Once received, the patient or provider can tap a link in the text
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3 Ways to Protect Hospital Data from Email Spoofing Attacks

by Eyal Benishti, CEO & Founder of IRONSCALES 06/03/2019 Leave a Comment

3 Ways to Protect Hospital Data from Email Spoofing Attacks

Picture this: you are a first-year nurse with an unusual case that you and your colleagues have never seen at your hospital. To expedite the formulation of a treatment plan, you turn to a private Facebook group for nurses to which you belong. Since joining the 8,000-person closed group, you’ve witnessed your peers share information - with important details withheld - as to not break privacy laws, but as a means to generate group think on analysis and recommendations. You’ve seen first-hand how
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