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Employees: Learn what’s different in medical, dental coverage during open enrollment: News at IU: Indiana University

Indiana University’s open enrollment period is from Oct. 26 to Nov. 6. The enrollment period is earlier this year to accommodate the changes in IU’s academic calendar due to COVID-19.

During the annual event, IU employees can make changes to their medical and dental insurance, add or remove eligible dependents, determine their needs for their Health Savings Account contribution, decide whether to save money through the Tax Saver Benefit plans, and review and change their personal accident insurance coverage.

Informational mailers were sent to all benefits-eligible employees at their home address earlier this month. Additional information is available from Human Resources. Though not sent via campus mail this year, the traditional informational Open Enrollment Guide is available digitally on the HR website.

No benefits fairs or on-campus presentations are planned because of COVID-19. Instead, HR will offer live webinars as well as an on-demand webinar. Employees can also contact askHR

By [email protected]_84 / October 14, 2020

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Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. Announces Partnership with Breakthrough Health for Multiple …

NEWTOWN, Pa., Oct. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Helius Medical Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSDT) (TSX: HSM) (“Helius” or the “Company”), a neurotech company focused on neurological wellness, today announced a partnership with Breakthrough Health (“Breakthrough”), a Berlin-based technology company. Breakthrough builds privacy-focused applications that empower people living with chronic disease to gather and securely own their healthcare data, with the opportunity to share it to support research.

Together, Helius and Breakthrough will work on a research project to better understand how people living with Multiple Sclerosis (“MS”) in the United States evaluate their therapy options as it relates to treatment of gait deficit due to symptoms of MS, which impacts approximately 50-80% of the MS population, estimated at 1,000,000 individuals.

This research project will be conducted via Breakthrough’s MS companion application (“app”) called Emilyn. Emilyn provides Helius with potential access to a diverse cross-section of the MS population, with over

By [email protected]_84 / October 14, 2020

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CompuGroup Medical recognized for quality and convenience in healthcare technology

CEO Benedikt Brueckle highlights CGM Remote Patient Monitoring in cover story for The Healthcare Insights

PHOENIX, Oct. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CompuGroup Medical (CGM) was featured on the cover of the latest The Healthcare Insights for its efforts to support the healthcare industry through technology in its battle against the COVID-19 Pandemic.

CompuGroup Medical. (PRNewsFoto/CompuGroup Medical USA)

“The future of CompuGroup Medical focuses on the evolution of provider delivery models and the entire patient journey.”

Supporting an embattled industry in its fight against a global pandemic, CompuGroup Medical has promoted more accessible care and improved patient outcomes by delivering telehealth and remote patient monitoring solutions to healthcare providers.

By harnessing the potential of telemedicine, CGM is changing the way medical care is delivered around the world. It is this innovation that first drew the attention of the editors at The Healthcare Insights.

Building on the success of its secure

By [email protected]_84 / October 14, 2020

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Your Privacy In The Digital Health Era: The Medical Futurist’s Guide

As solutions like remote care are becoming the norm, 3D-printing disrupts the normal supply chain and even the number of life science studies on tools like artificial intelligence (A.I.) skyrocket, it’s become clear that we are not anticipating the digital health era; we are in the digital health era due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

First and foremost, it’s an era defined by a cultural transformation that will upend the traditional structure of healthcare. Clinical-grade sensors are available outside of the ivory towers of medicine; patients demand such tools so that they can become more proactive in managing their health and with their use; healthcare professionals revitalise the core values of medicine: empathy, attention and time. Healthcare authorities and institutions can further serve as guides for patients.

However, along with the enhanced healthcare landscape that digital health brings along, there is the pressing issue of privacy. To put it bluntly, there

By [email protected]_84 / October 13, 2020

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Medical Residents Learn To Treat The Growing Health Hazards Of Climate Change

It was low tide on the north shore of Boston when Steve Kearns felt the mosquito bite that would land him in a hospital with West Nile Virus disease for a week.

“For at least six months after that, I felt like every five minutes I was being run over by a truck,” Kearns says. “I couldn’t work, I couldn’t walk very well and I couldn’t focus. I wondered for a bit if I’d ever get better.”

Kearns, 71, recounted the experience during a check-up with his physician, Dr. Gaurab Basu, and Dr. Charlotte Rastas, a third year resident in primary care at a Cambridge Health Alliance clinic in Somerville, Mass.

Basu had never seen West Nile in a patient before Kearns. The first reported case in Massachusetts was in 2002. By 2018, the year a mosquito bit Kearns, there were 49.

“When someone comes in with a fever and

By [email protected]_84 / October 12, 2020

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Leon Medical Centers Health Plans Awarded Medicare’s Highest Star Rating for Fourth Time

MIAMI, Oct. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Leon Medical Centers Health Plans, a Cigna company, announced it has achieved Five out of Five Stars for quality and performance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for 2021. This is the fourth time the plan has been awarded this top status.

“We’re incredibly proud to receive Medicare’s highest Star rating again,” said Ryan Berger, president of Leon Medical Centers Health Plans. “The rating reflects a tremendous commitment from our employees, doctors, and health care partners to improving the health, well-being and peace of mind of our members.”

CMS measures a Medicare Advantage plan’s quality of health care services and experience received by its members. The annual ratings are based on a scale of One to Five Stars with Five Stars being the highest. These ratings help Medicare beneficiaries, their families and caregivers compare Medicare plans. The Star ratings

By [email protected]_84 / October 8, 2020

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Why diversity training in medical schools can save patients’ lives

David J. Skorton, Opinion contributor
Published 6:01 a.m. ET Oct. 7, 2020

Dr. Joia Crear-Perry has dedicated her life’s work to advocating for Black mothers. She founded the National Birth Equity Collaborative and is a fixture of the Black Mamas Matter Alliance.

USA TODAY

As medical professionals, we’ve seen firsthand the damage that conscious and unconscious racial bias does to our ability to care for those in need.

In recent weeks, the topic of diversity training — typically an internal matter for organizations — has generated front-page news. The spark was an executive order banning certain racial sensitivity training programs for federal grantees and contractors— and extending similar restrictions for federal agencies issued earlier last month.

I and my colleagues at the Association of American Medical Colleges believe these restrictions are deeply problematic, in no small part because of the threat they pose to the health of our nation.

By [email protected]_84 / October 7, 2020

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Grand Strand Health names Dr. George Helmrich as new Chief Medical Officer | Myrtle Beach Area News

They say home is where the heart is.

Grand Strand Health announced on Sept. 29 that Dr. George Helmrich will be the new Chief Medical Officer for the health system. Helmrich said he chose to take the position at Grand Strand Health because it was a great professional opportunity for him and it brings him closer to his family.

“They’re all in South Carolina so I’m much closer,” he said. “I had a grandson three and a half weeks ago.”

Helmrich will replace Dr. Andy Schwartz, who retired at the end of August.

“He was well-liked and well-respected,” Helmrich said of Schwartz.

Helmrich most recently served as CMO at HCA Healthcare’s Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center in Panama City Beach, Fla. Prior to his years in Panama City, he spent 16 years in the Greenville, S.C., area serving in various complex clinical and operational positions with Greenville Health System and

By [email protected]_84 / October 7, 2020

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What are the medical ethics behind disclosing a president’s health information?

Jana had a chat with a Medical Ethics professor to find out.

If history is our guide on how much a president may disclose about his health, the guide shows us he doesn’t always tell us everything.

From Presidents James Madison to Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, or Ronald Reagan, we have not always been told what we might want to know about the health of the Commander in chief.

So, for a moment, let’s take a leader’s political reasons for withholding or divulging out of it and let’s talk about the medical ethics side of this.

“The issue is really difficult because there is not a bright line and these are all on the spectrum of medical issues that affect a person and that person might be the President but that information there is no bright line as to whether or not

By [email protected]_84 / October 6, 2020

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AdvMeds consolidates medical information services to drive refined healthcare

Going into its fourth year, startup AdvMeds provides consolidated medical information services with a focus on leveraging information and communications technology (ICT) advances to integrate medical and healthcare services and deliver AI-enabled smart solutions. By providing and promoting access to medical information, AdvMeds helps partners improve the quality and performance of their medical and healthcare services. Its customer base currently comprises hospitals, medical care institutions, insurance firms, healthcare product manufacturers and healthcare service providers. Its market footprint now includes 12 countries and regions around the world.

According to Johnson Huang, general manager of AdvMeds, since its creation in 1995, Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) program has achieved impressive results that the rest of the world is envious of. Boasting a 99.5% satisfaction rate, the program is advancing toward precision medicine and looks to export Taiwan’s smart healthcare technologies. The AdvMeds team has created a spectrum of solutions based on its

By [email protected]_84 / October 6, 2020

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