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Strategies for effective patient communication: a guide for physicians with the aid of ChatGPT

KevinMD

Effective communication is the cornerstone of the patient-doctor relationship, fostering trust, empathy, and understanding between both parties. As a physician, honing your communication skills helps to facilitate accurate diagnoses and treatment plans and improves patient satisfaction and adherence to medical recommendations. This article will explore strategies to help you communicate more effectively with your patients Read more… Strategies for effective patient communication: a guide for phy

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Albertsons grocery chain announces Apple Watch rewards program

Mobi Health News

Consumers can earn rewards points, grocery coupons and discounts for closing their activity rings on their Apple Watch or iPhone.

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Appreciating Water as a Driver of Health: Designing for Good, from the UN to Liberia and Flint, Michigan

Health Populi

The United Nations (UN) convened the 2023 Water Conference convened March 22-24, 2023, in New York City. The meeting brought together stakeholders from all over the world to brainstorm how to meet UN sustainability development goals (SDGs) for #6 of the 17 SDGs addressing clean water and sanitation. This event was billed in the words of the conveners, a “watershed moment to tackle the global water crisis and ensure a water-secure future.” That water-secure future is a critical factor

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Virtual care company Recuro Health raises $47 million

Mobi Health News

The funds will be used to scale and advance the company's Digital Medical Home care model.

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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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Regional Victoria expands access to virtual care with Microsoft HoloLens rollout

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The state government of Victoria has announced the rollout of Microsoft HoloLens across the East Gippsland region to expand access to virtual care. Backed by an A$80,000 (over $50,000) investment, the region-wide rollout comes following a successful trial at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service – believed to be the world's first application of the technology in a virtual medical setting.

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Equiva Health, Gilda's Club, healthcare providers leverage affordable broadband funding

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Gilda’s Club Twin Cities, part of the national non-profit Cancer Support Community network, and Equiva Health, a digital patient engagement company, are partnering to provide stand-alone devices configured for at-home use as part of an oncology-specific initiative to address health disparities through discounted broadband funded by a $14.2 billion Federal Communications Commission's internet access program.

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Pharmaceutical Multinationals Continue To Spurn The Opportunity To Connect Via Social Media At A Local Level

Digital Health Global

Worldcom’s Digital Health Monitor shows pharma companies make little use of the power of local blogs Facebook is only being used to 10% of its potential The average number of apps more than double compared with 2020 NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #worldcompr — The Worldcom Public Relations Group , the leading global partnership of independent public relations firms, released today The 2023 Worldcom Digital Health Monitor.

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Emergency medicine physicians get key help from telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Michael Gonzalez will offer more detail at the HIMSS23 session "Emergency Medicine Physician EMS Telehealth: Leveraging Partners in Virtual Care." It is scheduled for Wednesday, April 19, at 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. CT at the South Building, Level 1, room S104.

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Wake Up Call for Health!

Digital Health Global

Helsinki renews its commitment to health innovation with a fresh event: the Radical Health Festival Helsinki ‘23. Mark your calendars: June 12-14, 2023. 3 years of investment have strengthened Helsinki’s position as a key global capital for health innovation. In 2023, the city is innovating again and creating a pan-European health festival where international key players in digital health will come together to create one of the largest health markets across: AI, cyber, innovation, womens

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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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Secondary Uses Come to the Fore with MediQuant’s Active Archive

Healthcare IT Today

A medical practitioner would retire. Thousands of dust-gathering paper records would sit in the good doctor’s basement, eventually to be trashed while patients start afresh with new doctors, losing decades of information. This rarely happens anymore, but when hospitals and health systems replace legacy applications nowadays—often after an acquisition—old data still might not be used the way it could be.

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Why do Digital Health companies struggle on the public markets?

Lloyd Price

Executive Summary While there are some successful digital health companies that have gone public, many have struggled to maintain their valuations and generate sustained profitability. There are several reasons why this may be the case: High costs of customer acquisition: Digital health companies often face significant costs to acquire and retain customers, particularly as the market becomes more crowded and competitive.

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Express Scripts rolls out new copay caps, PBM model with focus on transparency

FierceHealthIT

Express Scripts rolls out new copay caps, PBM model with focus on transparency pminemyer Thu, 04/13/2023 - 15:33

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UK Consortium unsuccessful in its bid for £480m Federated Data Platform

DigitalHealth

The UK consortium bidding to run the £480 million federated data platform (FDP) for the NHS has confirmed that it has been unsuccessful.

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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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Biotech company Prothena taps Walgreens to recruit patients for Alzheimer’s drug research

FierceHealthIT

Biotech company Prothena taps Walgreens to recruit patients for Alzheimer’s drug research hlandi Thu, 04/13/2023 - 06:51

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Government failing to meet its digital commitments to social care

DigitalHealth

Last week the government said it was cutting its social care investment, a sign that the sector is not receiving enough to deliver care in the digital age.

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House oversight committee seeks answers on hospitals' COVID relief funds, improper Medicaid payments

FierceHealthIT

House oversight committee seeks answers on hospitals' COVID relief funds, improper Medicaid payments dmuoio Thu, 04/13/2023 - 13:59

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HearO app uses AI to predict heart failure deterioration

DigitalHealth

The HearO app from Cordio Medical is set to expand into the UK this year, helping congestive heart failure patients identify deterioration through AI tech.

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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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Chutes & Ladders—Privia taps Parth Mehrotra as new CEO; Froedtert Health and ThedaCare merge, plan to shake up leadership

FierceHealthIT

Chutes & Ladders—Privia taps Parth Mehrotra as new CEO; Froedtert Health and ThedaCare merge, plan to shake up leadership aburky Thu, 04/13/2023 - 17:30

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PointClickCare Announces Brian Drozdowicz as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Acute & Payer Markets

Digital Health Global

Drozdowicz will focus on driving growth for health systems and plans while continuing to scale the PointClickCare A&P network MISSISSAUGA, Ontario–(BUSINESS WIRE)– PointClickCare Technologies , a leading healthcare technology platform enabling meaningful collaboration and access to real‐time insights at every stage of the patient healthcare journey, today announced the appointment of Brian Drozdowicz as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Acute & Payer Markets.

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Justice Department seeks stay on parts of ACA preventive services ruling

FierceHealthIT

Justice Department seeks stay on parts of ACA preventive services ruling rking Thu, 04/13/2023 - 16:29

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Leeds NHS Trust renews & extends partnership with Epro

DigitalHealth

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has renewed and extended its contract with specialist UK healthcare informatics provider, Epro.

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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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Appeals court keeps abortion drug approval intact but restricts access

FierceHealthIT

Appeals court keeps abortion drug approval intact but restricts access rking Thu, 04/13/2023 - 09:21

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Value Based Contracting Can Drive Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Paul Barnes, Partner at CWH Advisors Today, there is widespread consensus that Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) have an impact on health inequities among various populations; resource scarcity in food, housing and other areas result in different health utilization and outcomes. Although this focus started with attention to the population covered by Medicaid, the healthcare field has recognized that health equity is a relevant issue to populations covered b

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2023 Telehealth Reimbursement Advances: Reimbursement Models

Health Recovery Solutions

The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented acceleration of telehealth services, making remote care a standard practice. Healthcare providers increasingly recognize the benefits of telehealth, including increased access to care, reduced costs, and improved patient outcomes. However, to sustain telehealth programs, healthcare providers require reimbursement for remote patient monitoring (RPM), chronic care management (CCM), and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services.

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US firm CereCore brings its EMR implementation expertise to the UK

DigitalHealth

NHS organisations often struggle to cope with large electronic medical record projects.

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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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Accenture Invests in Virtonomy to Help Medical Technology Companies Use Digital Twin Technology to Accelerate Time to Market for Medical Devices

Healthcare IT Today

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures , in Virtonomy , a provider of data-driven simulations that use existing patient data and digital twin technology to bring life-saving medical devices to market more quickly. Accenture’s investment will help Virtonomy further extend its capabilities to medical technology (MedTech) companies across the globe and power the future of medical device design.

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Hey, CISO: How Mature is Your Digital Identity Strategy?

FierceHealthIT

Hey, CISO: How Mature is Your Digital Identity Strategy?

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Migrating EHRs? Make Sure Your Providers Are Not Left Out in the Cold

Xealth

Migrating EHRs? Make Sure Your Providers Are Not Left Out in the Cold The digital transformation of healthcare is essential to improving patient care, reducing costs, and streamlining clinical workflows. Love it or hate it, at the center of it all is your health system’s electronic health record (EHR). While health systems are adapting their leadership teams to include chief digital officers and expanding the role of the CIO to be more inclusive of the digital ecosystem, without extensive provi

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