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

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News 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 o...
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