HIMSSCast

In a wide-ranging discussion, Mathematica Senior Fellow Dr. Diane Rittenhouse joins host Jonah Comstock and Healthcare IT News Senior Editor Kat Jercich to talk about the unique impact of COVID-19 on primary care, how digital tools like telehealth can help, and how primary care providers can move forward in this new world. We talk about why primary care is important and how technology can only go so far in what is fundamentally a very human field. This episode is brought to you by AmWell.Further reading:Telehealth seems here to stay – so how can it be improved?Expanding access to telehealth is a 'hundreds-of-billion-dollar question'Effectively Implementing Telehealth in Primary Care (from Mathematica)Saving Primary Care: Is it Time for A New National Service Corps for Primary Care Practices? (from Mathematica)America’s Looming Primary-Care Crisis (from the New Yorker)

In this episode of Top Stories: Health Information Exchanges can expect a monetary boost from the ONC; M&A activity is down precipitously Plus: Medtronic's latest acquisition.Links to the stories:ONC to offer new funding for state and local HIE innovationAt ONC Tech Forum, Rucker touts value of HIEs in COVID-19 responseHealthcare M&A transactions see large decline from Q1 to Q2Medtronic plans to buy connected insulin pen startup Companion Medical

Kistein Monkhouse, CEO and cofounder of Patient Orator, and Dr. Tamir Wolf, CEO and cofounder of Theator, join host Jonah Comstock and MobiHealthNews Managing Editor Laura Lovett to discuss disparate health outcomes for racial minority groups, how their startups are looking to address these inequities, and what else those in the healthcare industry can do to help.More about this episode:Rock Health survey on startup diversityHIMSS Global Health Equity NetworkPatient OratorTheatorEnabling Patient Engagement and Population Health Management (webinar)Meet 10 Black People Disrupting the Digital Healthcare Industry TodayCoronavirus exacerbates health inequities: How tech can helpAs health tech brands scramble to respond to protests, critics stress need for representation

The MobiHealthNews team — host Jonah Comstock, Managing Editor Laura Lovett and Associate Editor Dave Muoio — sit down to unpack the major shakeup that hit the digital health markets this week when telemedicine giant Teladoc announced its plan to merge with chronic condition management success story Livongo. We talk details, motivations, and implications of this digital health mega-company in the making.More about this episode:Teladoc Health absorbs chronic care company Livongo in $18.5B mergerUnitedHealth Group offering Dexcom G6 CGMs, Fitbit trackers, virtual coaching to 230,000 Type 2 membersEuropean Commission expands Google-Fitbit acquisition probe into full-scale investigation

In this episode of Top Stories: Telehealth companies propose $18B merger; Trump issues executive order to make telehealth permanent. Plus: dispatches from the Taskforce of Telehealth Policy’s virtual town hall.Links to the stories:Teladoc Health absorbs chronic care company Livongo in $18.5B mergerOnline prescription discount platform GoodRx reported to be filing for IPOTelehealth to become permanent under Trump executive orderCMS proposes telehealth changes under Trump executive orderTaskforce on Telehealth Policy holds town hall to solicit public input

On Monday, President Trump dropped a surprise executive order making regulatory allowances for telehealth permanent. But what exactly does that mean? And how much authority does Trump have to make his pronouncement a reality? HIMSS Media editors Jonah Comstock, Mike Miliard, Susan Morse, and Kat Jercich answer these questions and more in this breaking news edition of HIMSSCast.Mentioned in this episode:Telehealth to become permanent under Trump executive orderCMS proposes telehealth changes under Trump executive orderThe Executive Order

In this episode of Top Stories with Jeff Lagasse: Ro and Hims would both be valued at more than $1 billion if the latter completes its sale to an unknown acquisition company, while the healthcare industry says more funds are needed to make up for lost revenue due to the pandemic.Links to the stories:Ro receives $200 million in funding and is now valued at $1.5 billionHims eyes deal to go public and expands its remote mental health servicesDoctors and hospitals are asking for $100 billion in next COVID-19 relief billAMA & other med groups express 'dismay' at prospect of waivers made permanent

Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and host Jonah Comstock chat about some recent trends in cybersecurity including telehealth security, securing remote patient monitoring, ramped up ransomware attacks, and the danger of a coming "cyberpandemic" as organizations rapidly adopt new technologies like cloud hosting.Referenced in this episode:The Cybersecurity Implications of Telehealth: Safeguarding the New Normal of Virtual Care (Editorial Webinar)Babylon Health admits GP at Hand app data breach caused by ‘software issue’Tech optimization: Fine-tuning cybersecurity defensesSecuring Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem (NIST)Hasty rush to cloud hosting during COVID-19 crisis could set stage for 'cyberpandemic'Microsoft unveils Azure IoT Connector for FHIR, to help with RPM securityUCSF pays $1.14 million to decrypt files after ransomware attackThe cybersecurity framework organizations should follow to keep data safeHealth Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients (FDA)

Megan Zweig and Sean Day, chief operating officer and consultant respectively at Rock Health, join host Jonah Comstock for a discussion of digital health funding, M&A, and IPOs in the first six months of 2020.Per Rock Health's recent report on the subject, US digital health companies pulled in $5.4 billion so far this year, in spite of (or, perhaps, because of) a global pandemic that has sparked a recession in the broader economy. Listen in for a dive into the details of those numbers and some ideas about where the space may be headed next.More related to this episode:Rock Health reports record digital health funding of $5.4B set to the backdrop of a pandemic2020 Midyear Digital Health Market Update: Unprecedented funding in an unprecedented time (Rock Health)Digital health investments stay the course in Q2 2020Digital health’s IPO window is back open (Rock Health)Halfway in, 2020 looks like a banner year for digital health M&As, with 35 deals

Agility and innovation were always the name of the game for health tech startups, but the past few months of COVID-19 have shifted the demands of providers, payers and consumers in a way few could have predicted. Many entrepreneurial teams are fighting the clock to review or revamp their products or commercialization strategies – but what are their options, and what should they be keeping in mind when rewriting the rules of their startups? In this episode of the HIMSSCast, Dr. Roxie Mooney, CEO and healthcare commercialization strategist at Legacy DNA, joins Editor-in-Chief Jonah Comstock to discuss the challenges – and opportunities – health startups are facing in the "new normal."