Right now, the world’s attention is focused on COVID-19. This is most appropriate as it has hit the world like a global earthquake, disrupting lives on an unprecedented scale.
However, there will come a day when the immediate danger has passed. At that point, it’s very likely that the healthcare system will begin to feel the significant aftershocks of COVID-19 in the form of neglected chronic condition management throughout the pandemic.
The Centers for Disease Control
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MTBC Acquires RCM Vendor Meridian Medical Management
What You Should Know:
- MTBC acquires Meridian Medical Management, a former GE
Healthcare IT company to enhance its cloud-based healthcare IT solutions and
services.
- Meridian Medical Management has been providing revenue cycle
management solutions to the ambulatory medical practice management marketplace
for over 20 years.
MTBC, Inc., a Somerset,
NJ-based provider of cloud-based
healthcare IT solutions and services announced it has acquired
Meridian Medical Management
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Cardiology Improving Safety, Technology and Gender Equality
Women currently comprise more than half of all students enrolled in medical school, but gender inequality continues to mar some areas of medicine. In our field of interventional cardiology, men outnumbered women 95 to 5 as recently as 2019, but new technology, shifting attitudes and strategic recruiting have led to an influx of females in interventional cardiology that will alter the evolution of a field historically stunted by traditionalism.
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause
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FCC Surpasses $100M in Approved COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications
What You Should Know:
- FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 305 healthcare providers in 42 states plus Washington, D.C. for a total of $105M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 67 funding applications
for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Healthcare
providers in both urban and rural areas of the country will use this $16.87M in
funding to
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Care Coordination Network PatientPing Raises $60M to Fuel Expansion
What You Should Know:
- PatientPing raises $60M in Series C funding to fuel expansion to new geographies and extends the capabilities of their care coordination network solutions.
- As the nation’s leading care collaboration and
patient event notifications (e-notifications) platform, PatientPing’s
comprehensive suite of solutions leverage real-time patient data and are used
by provider organizations, hospitals, health plans, governments, individuals
and the organizations supporting
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FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Programs Surpasses $50M in Funding
What You Should Know:
- To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program, which was authorized by the CARES Act, has approved funding for 132 healthcare providers across 33 states plus Washington, DC for a total of just over $50M in funding.
The Federal Communications
Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau today approved an additional 43
funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth
Program. The seventh set of healthcare providers in both urban and
rural areas of the
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Intel, UPenn Form AI Initiative to Identify Brain Tumors via Secure Data
What You Should Know:
- To coincide with brain tumor awareness month in May, today Intel and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) announced an NIH-funded program that uses AI to identify brain tumors while protecting patient data.
- Funded by the National Institutes of Health, UPenn and these health care institutions will use Intel’s federated learning technology to produce a new AI model that is trained on the largest brain tumor dataset to
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FCC Approves $4.2M for 13 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What You Need to Know:
– FCC approves the fourth set of 13 COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $4.2M in funding.
– To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 30 health care providers in 16 states for a total of $13.7 million in funding.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional 13 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $4.2M in funding. The third set of providers will support some
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How AR and MR Technology Can Reduce Medical Vulnerability to Improve the Patient Experience
Hospitals and health systems work hard every day to deliver patient-centered care. In fact, “the patient experience” is something now being measured, monitored and discussed throughout the healthcare continuum. Yet for most patients, moments of anxiety and medical vulnerability still abound, and the conversation rarely addresses this important fact.
Patients awaiting an X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scan, for instance, maybe fearful of the results.
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New COVID-19 Tracker Predicts Future Hot Spots Over Next 7-10 Days
What You Should Know:
- Cotiviti unveiled its COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker to map future infection “hot spots” that may emerge over the next seven to ten days across the U.S.
- The COVID-19 Outbreak Tracker identifies potentially hidden outbreak areas by analyzing COVID screening trends across the millions of medical claims processed through the company’s Caspian Insights platform.
- Forecasting future surges of infection is critical for flattening the curve now, especially considering
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