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Streamlining emergency care with virtual video telemedicine

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum, Stanford Healthcare representatives discussed the care system's implementation of a virtual fast track program in its emergency department.

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Fortifying Healthcare Email Security: Advanced Solutions and Mitigation Strategies

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Usman Choudhary, general manager, VIPRE Security Email remains a cornerstone communication tool for healthcare entities, yet the communication channel also presents formidable cybersecurity hurdles. The sensitive nature of patient data and the open nature […] The article Fortifying Healthcare Email Security: Advanced Solutions and Mitigation Strategies appeared first on electronichealthre

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Evaluating a return on investment for virtual care

Mobi Health News

Various factors around ROI on virtual tech should be considered before implementation, such as billing revenue, increased efficiency, downstream revenue and improved outcomes, said experts at HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum.

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HIMSS24 Cyber Forum keynote stresses collaboration on standards

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We think a lot about trust, how to build trust into technology so that we can realize its potential to serve our society and the public good," said Cherilyn Pascoe, Director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as she opened the cybersecurity forum ahead of HIMSS24 Monday in Orlando.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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The impact of AR/VR on surgery, patient care and mental health

Mobi Health News

Augmented reality and virtual technologies are shaping innovative approaches in operating rooms, mental healthcare and patient monitoring.

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Wolters Kluwer Health unveils clinical decision support services at HIMSS24

Mobi Health News

The tech company announced it will offer a suite of solutions focused on scalability and flexibility for healthcare organizations.

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HIMSS24: AWS, symplr collaborate on AI assistants to automate complex workflows, mundane tasks

FierceHealthIT

ORLANDO, Florida—HIMSS24 just kicked off today, and there's already a stream of AI innovation news. | ORLANDO, Florida—Symplr is working with Amazon Web Services to develop AI assistants to help automate complex workflows and mundane tasks for healthcare workers and also power chatbots to help patients find and schedule the right care.

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1-year-old Aussie startup goes global for its digital care ecosystem

Mobi Health News

Disability-care focused Kismet recently raised $8 million in seed funding in the United States.

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Breaking down Biden's 2025 proposed budget: Here are his top health priorities

FierceHealthIT

President Biden unveiled a proposed $7.3 trillion budget for fiscal year 2025 on Monday, which continued upon and expanded key health items from previous years. | Drug price negotiations and Medicare solvency were just two areas HHS officials hit upon while unveiling President Biden's 2025 fiscal year proposed budget.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Streamlining emergency care with virtual video telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

At HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum, Stanford Healthcare representatives discussed the care system's implementation of a virtual fast track program in its emergency department.

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HIMSS24: Microsoft, 16 health systems to 'operationalize' AI under new partner network

FierceHealthIT

Sixteen health systems, Microsoft and other healthcare technology organizations are the latest to band together and hammer out best practices and standards for AI in care. | The latest provider-tech AI collaboration will build on the groundwork of members' existing AI partnership, the Coalition for Health AI.

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Navigating Cyber Threats: Cost-Effective Cybersecurity for Healthtech

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Justin Kozak, Life Sciences Specialist at Founder Shield In an era where digital innovation drives healthcare forward, healthtech companies are at the forefront of a double-edged sword. On one side, integrating technology into healthcare delivery has unlocked new heights in patient care and operational efficiency.

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HHS pressures UnitedHealth, payers on financial support for providers as cyberattack disruption continues

FierceHealthIT

The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial disruption caused by the Change Healthcare cyb | The federal government is pressing UnitedHealth Group and other payers to provide financial relief to providers as they continue to feel the financial disruption caused by the Change Healthcare cyberattack.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 70: Chief Medical Information Officers with Donald Levick, MD

Healthcare IT Today

For the 70th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Donald Levick, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAP, FHIMSS, Consultant, Former CMIO and Pediatrician at Lehigh Valley Health Network about the role of Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs)! So to kick this episode off, we are taking a look at the shrinking margins and increasing demands in healthcare to discuss how CMIOs can respond to them.

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New clinicians are having trouble transitioning to the workforce. Patients could pay the price, ECRI warns

FierceHealthIT

Onboarding new graduates into healthcare has become more difficult following pandemic disruptions and will require greater attention and investment from the industry in order to stem preventable pa | Clinicians-in-training had fewer opportunities for hands-on learning and practice due to the pandemic, which has also driven away many of the experienced healthcare workers who would share their knowledge on the job, the healthcare quality and safety group wrote in a new report.

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North of Scotland goes live with electronic medicines management solution

DigitalHealth

Six health boards in the North of Scotland are now live with System C's hospital electronic medicines management system and pharmacy stock control solution.

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MMI Raises $110 Million in Series C Financing

Healthcare IT Today

Largest Ever Investment in Microsurgery will Further MMI’s Mission to Transform Open Surgery with Robotic Technology MMI (Medical Microinstruments, Inc.) , a robotics company dedicated to increasing treatment options and improving clinical outcomes for patients with complex conditions, today announced that it has raised $110 million in Series C financing.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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University Hospitals Plymouth selects Epic as preferred EPR supplier

DigitalHealth

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has selected Epic as its preferred supplier for an Electronic Patient Record system.

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Bridging Gaps in Care for Underserved Patient Populations Through Value-Based Healthcare and RPM

Clear Arch Health

Is your healthcare system, community health center or federally qualified health center (FQHC) struggling to reach patients with obstacles to receiving in-person care? Do your rural community patients have limited access to care due to location or financial constraints? Are you looking for actionable insights into combining remote patient monitoring (RPM) with value-based care (VBC) to improve the quality of services delivered to chronically ill patients?

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Cardiff and Vale UHB’s digital transformation powered by Nervecentre

DigitalHealth

Nervecentre is to provide an electronic prescribing and medicines administration solution to Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

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How to Tackle Healthcare’s Greatest Operational Complexities with ServiceNow

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: < 1 min In the first episode of our Healthy as Tech Talk series, Optimum Healthcare IT’s Sr. Director of Customer Success Natalie Tollefson and Enterprise Architect Brian Maguire discussed the greatest operational challenges holding healthcare organizations back today. They also talked about how ServiceNow platform owners can better leverage the technology to reduce operational spending and create more efficient and user-friendly workflows for their employees.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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Health Secretary announces digital initiatives for NHS productivity

DigitalHealth

Secretary of State Victoria Atkins has renewed promises to digitise every hospital and extend use of the NHS app to help patients.

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Feasibility and accuracy of a real-time depth-based markerless navigation method for hologram-guided surgery

BMC Digital Health

Two-dimensional (2D) medical visualization techniques are often insufficient for displaying complex, three-dimensional (3D) anatomical structures. Moreover, the visualization of medical data on a 2D screen dur.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ?

DigitalHealth

Monday's briefing features an app from Dartmouth College that detects depression early and AI tech detecting 100% of severe cases of a blindness condition.

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How Integrating Scheduled Services Benefits Inpatient Care

Iris Telehealth

Depressive disorder is the most common cause of hospitalization among patients under age 18. However, the shortage of behavioral health providers in this setting makes meeting patients with timely care challenging. A study from the Mayo Clinic found that, of 2,300 U.S. hospitals surveyed, 54% had no psychiatrist on staff or available for medical ED or inpatient consultations.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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How to Tackle Healthcare’s Greatest Operational Complexities with ServiceNow

Optimum Healthcare IT

Read Time: < 1 min In the first episode of our Healthy as Tech Talk series, Optimum Healthcare IT’s Sr. Director of Customer Success Natalie Tollefson and Enterprise Architect Brian Maguire discussed the greatest operational challenges holding healthcare organizations back today. They also talked about how ServiceNow platform owners can better leverage the technology to reduce operational spending and create more efficient and user-friendly workflows for their employees.

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Medicare Advantage Lacking In Home Care

Digital Health Wire

A study in JAMA Health Forum stirred the pot ahead of a busy HIMSS week by suggesting that Medicare Advantage patients are getting skimped on home care. Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study of 178k traditional Medicare and 107k Medicare Advantage patients, analyzing those who had care between 2019 and 2022. Compared to their Medicare counterparts, MA patients: Saw shorter home health lengths of stay (-1.62 days) Saw fewer nursing, therapy, and aide visits (social work was the only excep

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How Do You Benchmark Your IT Sustainability?

LeanIX

IT sustainability is vital for the future of our planet, as well as your bottom line. How do you benchmark your sustainability to learn how much work you have to do?

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