Mon.Nov 06, 2023

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An Antidote to Loneliness – Amazon’s 2023 Holiday Ad-Video Is A Lesson in Social Health, Aging and Love

Health Populi

To complement today’s sobering Health Populi post discussing Accenture’s 2024 Life Trends Study — an outlook for a decade of “deconstruction” based on technology and other trends in the ether — I share with you Amazon’s ad for this holiday season gift-giving motivation. The agency responsible for the campaign, Hungry Man and director Wayne McClammy, weave together a beautiful plotline of friendship, the Beatles’ In My Life, and a time-traveling ima

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VR mental health platform XRHealth blasts off with NASA

Mobi Health News

XRHealth, HTC Vive and Nord-Space Aps engineered the Vive Focus 3 headset to withstand microgravity conditions to help treat astronauts' mental health in space.

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MA enrollees have fewer hospitalizations, Harvard study finds

FierceHealthIT

Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries have better quality of care and health outcomes than traditional fee-for-service counterparts, researchers from Harvard Medical School found. | Another white paper released by Inovalon and Harvard Medical School highlights the benefits Medicare Advantage enrollees enjoy over traditional Medicare counterparts.

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Walmart Health signs care coordination agreements with Florida health system, insurer

Mobi Health News

The retail giant will be a preferred provider through insurer Ambetter from Sunshine Health and streamline care-coordination services with health system Orlando Health.

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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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MAVEN Project's specialty virtual care avoids $11M in unnecessary costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The MAVEN Project is a nonprofit organization serving Federally Qualified Health Centers and free and charitable clinics, connecting expert specialty physician volunteers with clinic providers. Using telehealth technology, volunteers are working hand-in-hand with those on the front lines. They can consult on cases, serve as mentors, provide continuing education and collaborate with clinical staff.

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4 Steps to Take When Preventing Medical Supply Loss

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Oftentimes, medical facilities need to focus on preventing overstock and out-of-stock supplies needed to get their work done or when needed to provide their patients with the best care. But like any other business, sometimes, […] The article 4 Steps to Take When Preventing Medical Supply Loss appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Kaiser Permanente logs $239M net income, 0.6% operating margin in Q3 2023

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente pulled in $239 million in net income during the third quarter of 2023, a turnaround from the $1.5 billion net loss the integrated system had seen a year prior. | The massive integrated nonprofit's $156 million operating income turns around the $75 million operating loss of the third quarter of 2022 but is a slight pullback from 2023's prior quarters.

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Baxter Highlights New Data at Kidney Week Indicating Sharesource Is Associated With a 77% Lower Risk of Home Dialysis Technique Failure

Digital Health Global

Additional key data presented at the congress indicates how HDx therapy enabled by Theranova dialyzer is helping advance “green” nephrology In total, Baxter supported 17 clinical presentations to advance scientific exchange at ASN: Kidney Week 2023 DEERFIELD, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), a global innovator in kidney care and vital organ support, announced today new data indicating Baxter’s Sharesource remote patient management (RPM) digital platform, whe

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Why (and When) You Should Consider a Virtual Medical Director

Iris Telehealth

Striking the right balance between prioritizing quality patient care and managing everyday leadership tasks is pivotal for healthcare organizations. But it’s not always easy. Hospitals and clinics have safety and quality metrics they must report on, and sometimes it’s unclear who’s responsible and whether they have the training and skills to do that type of work.

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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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CIO Podcast – Episode 63: Patient Messaging with CT Lin, MD

Healthcare IT Today

For the 63rd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by CT Lin, MD, CMIO at UCHealth-Colorado to talk about patient messaging. To kick off the episode we dive into his work in sharing patient results and the efforts to keep it private. Next, we talk about how the sudden increase in patient messaging has led to some practices charging for the service to get Lin’s experience and thoughts on the topic.

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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ? 

DigitalHealth

This briefing features news from Digital Health and Care Wales, Technavio, medical VR provider Jolly Good and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital.

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PicnicHealth Acquires AllStripes, Fortifying its Role as the Leader in Patient-Centered Healthcare Evidence Generation

Healthcare IT Today

PicnicHealth , a patient-centered healthcare evidence generation company, today announced the acquisition of AllStripes , a platform dedicated to generating evidence about the rare disease community. This strategic consolidation establishes PicnicHealth as the leading patient-centric evidence-generation partner within a rapidly evolving life sciences landscape.

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Greater Manchester trusts to deploy Clinisys LIMS

DigitalHealth

Four trusts from the Greater Manchester Pathology Network are to deploy Clinisys' WinPath LIMS to help boost collaborative working across laboratories.

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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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Health tech company Surescripts picks up ActiveRADAR to expand therapeutic alternatives to prescription drugs

FierceHealthIT

Health information network Surescripts acquired ActiveRADAR to build out therapeutic alternatives for prescription drugs. | Health information network Surescripts acquired ActiveRADAR to build out therapeutic alternatives for prescription drugs.

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Cornwall first to deploy transformative digital care service

DigitalHealth

People in Cornwall are to benefit from a new transformative digital care service that will support them to live independently in their own homes for longer.

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Hospitals make progress on reducing infection rates but still fall short on patient experience, Leapfrog reports

FierceHealthIT

U.S. | The Leapfrog Group's latest safety grades outlined improvements among hospitals' MRSA, CLABSI and CAUTI numbers compared to the pandemic's five-year high. On the other hand, patient-reported experience measures such as staff responsiveness and communication regarding medicines took "significant" hits.

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What are the implications of Babyl Rwanda's closure for the future of Digital Health in Rwanda?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary The closure of Babyl has a number of implications for the future of digital health in Rwanda. First, it is a setback for the adoption of digital health services in Rwanda. Babyl was one of the most well-known and widely used digital health providers in the country. Its closure will make it more difficult for Rwandans to access digital health services.

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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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NorthShore—Edward-Elmhurst Health, Lumeris team up to accelerate VBC for 440k patients

FierceHealthIT

NorthShore—Edward-Elmhurst Health (NS-EEH) is teaming up with value-based care company Lumeris to improve care for nearly half a million lives. | NorthShore—Edward-Elmhurst Health is teaming up with value-based care company Lumeris to improve care for nearly half a million lives. Working together, the partners hope to enable care coordination while improving clinical outcomes, the patient and provider experience and managing healthcare costs.

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Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference Jan 2024: What are the key talking points likely to be?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary The Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference is one of the most prestigious healthcare conferences in the world. It is attended by thousands of investors, analysts, and healthcare executives from around the globe. The conference provides a platform for companies to present their latest developments and strategies to investors. The 2024 Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference will likely focus on a number of key trends and topics, including: The future of drug discovery and de

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A novel telehealth tool using a snack activity to identify autism spectrum disorder

BMC Digital Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented need for accessible health care services and significantly accelerated the development processes of telehealth tools for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) early s.

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President Biden AI Executive Order Calls For Caution

LeanIX

President Biden has issued an executive order calling for developers to collaborate to restrict the abuse of artificial intelligence tools. Let's explore the concerns and consider what steps you should take to keep your organization compliant.

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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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Ways To Attempt To Prevent Binge Eating Disorder

mHealth Watch

Binge eating disorder is an escalating problem in the United Kingdom, impacting an estimated 3.4 million individuals. To put it into context, this means that approximately one in every 20 people is affected by this condition. Considering these figures, it is highly likely that you are acquainted with someone, or even yourself, who may be experiencing binge eating disorder.

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Kidney Failure Due to Diabetes

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Did you know that diabetes can lead to kidney issues? It’s crucial to be aware of this if you have diabetes. This condition is referred to as diabetic nephropathy or diabetic kidney disease. According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), diabetes is the primary cause of kidney disease, affecting 1 in 3 adults with diabetes.

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HIStalk Interviews Jeff Smith, CEO, Bamboo Health

HIStalk Interviews

Jeff Smith, MBA, MIB is CEO of Bamboo Health of.

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Accenture’s Great Expectations for a Decade of Deconstruction – the 2024 Life Trends Forecast

Health Populi

In the company’s 17th annual look into consumers’ “life trends,” Accenture finds that, top-line, “The harmony between people, tech and business is showing tensions, and society is in flux.” And these consumer-facing trends will also shape peoples’ attitudes about their health care, how they access and pay for it, and what kinds of services and support health consumers will expect in this era of “deconstruction.” Taken together, the trends no

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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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Healthcare Interoperability is Falling Short. How Do We Address It?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by A. John Blair, III, MD, CEO at MedAllies It’s been well-documented for years that the healthcare industry has an interoperability problem. Frequently fragmented and incomplete patient records may lead to negative downstream consequences, such as delayed and inefficient care, avoidable risks to patient safety, greater administrative burden on healthcare organizations, and excessive costs.

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CMS targets predatory MA marketing practices, proposes prior auth and behavioral health changes

FierceHealthIT

The Biden administration is once again cracking down on Medicare Advantage marketing tactics with new guidelines to promote healthy competition in the market and impose limits on plans' payments to | In another proposed rule, CMS aims to tighten Medicare Advantage prior authorizations, establish a maximum payment structure for marketing middlemen and loosen requirements on biosimilar formularies.

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Trump, Biden HHS chiefs clash over impact of Medicare drug price negotiations

FierceHealthIT

Two health secretaries from the Trump and Biden administrations agree that bringing down high drug costs is a critical priority to make healthcare more affordable for patients. | Two health secretaries from the Trump and Biden administrations agree that bringing down high drug costs is a critical priority to make healthcare more affordable for patients.

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