Bonus Features – September 11, 2022 – LG names 4 companies to help stand up its digital health business, ONC and HRSA team up to modernize Uniform Data System, and more

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The LG Electronics North American Innovation Center, LG NOVA, selected four digital health companies among the nine finalists for its Mission for the Future global challenge program: Digital care platform Digbi Health, precision medicine company LifeNome, sensor-based diagnostics company Mindset Medical, and virtual treatment and analytics firm XRHealth. The four companies will help support LG’s new Digital Health business unit.

ONC and the Health Resources and Services Administration have launched a joint United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) initiative to support the modernization of HRSA’s Uniform Data System, which is a data set used for annual reporting for facilities funded under the Health Center Program. The effort will align UDS data sets with FHIR standards and transition the UDS data set to existing patient-level reporting requirements with USCDI and other quality reporting efforts.

More than two-thirds of cardiac rehabilitation clinicians are providing virtual care, with 48% using remote care at least have the time and 22% using it all or nearly all of the time, according to a survey from medical sensor maker Vivalink. Though adoption is widespread, respondents said insurance coverage and cost continue to present implementation hurdles.

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Brian Eastwood

Brian Eastwood is a Boston-based writer with more than 10 years of experience covering healthcare IT and healthcare delivery. Brian also writes about enterprise IT, consumer technology, corporate leadership, and higher education for a range of publications and clients. He got his start as a professional writer as a community newspaper reporter in 2003.

When he's not writing, Brian is most likely running, hiking, or cross-country skiing in Northern New England. When he needs a break from cardio, he's usually reading a history book.

   

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