- Both companies’ clients will gain an increased depth of IT and security support, and Technology Seed’s healthcare clients will now have a substantially improved value proposition
DAS Health Ventures, Inc., a provider of health IT and management, announced today it completed the acquisition of Technology Seed, LLC, a managed IT and cybersecurity services company based in Salem, NH. This acquisition strengthens DAS’ position in the MSP sector and significantly advances its growth strategy to
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Super-Spreading of COVID-19 Co-Infections Reveals a Deadly Diagnostics Gap
Secondary bacterial or fungal co-infections in COVID-19 patients have received inadequate attention from the public. For most, co-infections pose little to no risk according to reports that an estimated 8% of patients are found to experience this during hospital admission – a relatively low number compared to the global impact of the virus. However, once a patient enters a hospital for care or becomes ventilated while in the ICU, the risk for acquiring and spreading a deadly
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The Adoption of Telehealth During the Pandemic will Shape Healthcare’s New Normal
COVID-19 has presented healthcare with a challenge like no other, with nearly nine million cases all over the world and over 470,000 lives lost. The speed of the outbreak and the disruption caused by it has created unforeseen challenges for communities and economies, and it’s especially apparent in healthcare delivery. Healthcare systems in nations around the globe have dedicated substantial resources to respond to the pandemic and the growth has only somewhat stymied.
While the U.S.
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5 Critical Considerations for Patient Privacy in Telehealth
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous ripple effect across all industries, with one of the most impacted being healthcare. Providers have had to quickly adapt to supporting patients ‘virtually’ in a secure manner, while simultaneously developing procedures to support accurate reporting to government organizations. These changes have placed added pressure on security and privacy professionals, as they struggle to keep up with urgent demand.
Mature healthcare organizations already have
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How COVID-19 is Driving Changes in Hospital Safety Through Technology
COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on all of us, and it’s likely that many aspects of our daily lives will never return to “normal.” In the same way that we scoff at the notion of driving cars without seatbelts today, we’ll likely feel the same about many other previously normal things we did pre-pandemic.
This will most certainly include the way we manage high-risk spaces where there’s close contact and a higher than average risk of infection - like hospitals, airports, retail stores,
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Avoid COVID-19 Modeling Pitfalls by Eliminating Bias, Using Good Data
COVID-19 models are being used every day to predict the course and short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic. And we’ll be using these COVID-19 models for months to come. While many of us in healthcare are not epidemiologists or data scientists, we’re all sifting through the data to get a handle on how many people are going to get sick, how many will end up in the hospital or on a ventilator, and ultimately, how many people will die.
Government agencies are using models to set public
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Sharecare Acquires WhiteHatAI to Enhance Healthcare Payment Integrity
What You Should Know:
- Sharecare acquires WhiteHatAI to provide health plan
and provider clients with additional capabilities to ensure healthcare payment
integrity
- WhiteHatAI’s ability to detect erroneous claims before
they are paid will help Sharecare’s health plan partners reduce costs
associated with FWA.
- Sharecare will integrate WhiteHatAI’s capabilities to
foster deeper engagement by enabling patients to both verify recent medical
procedures and report
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Holon Integrates with Cerner’s HealtheIntent PHM Platform for Value-Based Care Insights
What You Should Know:
- Holon and Cerner announced a partnership
to advance the delivery of relevant patient insights to providers when they
need it most.
- Holon and Cerner will deploy patented
technology that automatically delivers contextually relevant patient information
from Cerner’s HealtheIntent® population health platform, which
is EHR-agnostic, directly to clinicians in their workflow to inform care
decisions.
Holon
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Current Health, Dexcom Partner to Deliver Continuous, Remote Glucose Monitoring
What You Should Know:
- Current Health has partnered with Dexcom to add continuous
glucose monitoring (CGM) capabilities to its remote patient monitoring (RPM)
platform – enhancing care and improving outcomes for diabetics.
- Dexcom CGM data will transmit directly into the Current
Health wearable and platform for review by the care management and clinical
teams, improving post-discharge and chronic care of diabetes patients outside
the hospital.
- Through this partnership, Current
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Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the COVID-19 Era
Healthcare IT consultants’ work involving health records may expose them – and their provider and payer clients – to regulatory, legal, financial, and reputational risk. These risks are potentially higher in the COVID-19 era, with many of their employees working from home and accessing sensitive records and networks from remote locations. According to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), there is a heightened risk of phishing, SMS phishing and other attacks using COVID-19 themes, and
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