KevinMD

MAY 6, 2024

In the bustling city of New York lived a young woman named Emily. Emily wasn’t a health care provider or even remotely associated with the medical field. She worked as a graphic designer, spending her days creating stunning visuals for advertising campaigns. One evening, while browsing the internet, Emily stumbled upon an article titled “Why Read more… The universal impact of health care informatics originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2024

The Agency has qualified Apple's atrial fibrillation history feature as a medical device development tool, allowing it to be used in clinical trials.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2024

Internal sponsors have been hugely helpful in encouraging their peers to adopt telehealth and RPM at Providence, says Dr. Eve Cunningham, the health system's chief of virtual care and digital health, and a HIMSS24 Changemaker.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2024

The announcement comes less than a year after Virgin Pulse and HealthComp announced their $3 billion merger and their rebranding as Personify Health.

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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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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2024

The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be fully solvent for longer than previously projected, according to an annual Medicare Trustee report. | The Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund won't run out of money as quickly as expected. Here's how federal officials are reacting.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2024

Employers are in a strong position to lead the charge in changing the conversation around obesity care, according to a new report from the Milken Institute. | Employers are in a strong position to lead the charge in changing the conversation around obesity care, according to a new report from the Milken Institute.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2024

Each day that passes, I’m seeing how ambient clinical voice has become the most impactful part of health IT since the $36 billion of stimulus money for EHR software. What’s most exciting about this technology is that it’s mature enough to be used by doctors and provide a lot of value today and yet we’re still in the early days of what’s going to be possible with this technology.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2024

Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues. | Embattled health system Steward Health Care filed for bankruptcy on Monday, a move it says is critical to continue to treat patients as it navigates its financial issues.

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ActiGraph

MAY 6, 2024

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating, progressive neuromuscular disease that has seen very little progress in therapeutic interventions in the last 30 years. This isn’t because there isn’t a drug pipeline; over 110 Phase 2 and Phase 3 industry-sponsored trials were started over the last decade (2013 – 2023 on clinicaltrials.gov). Sadly, this trend continued with two recent failed clinical trials, including the Phase 3 trial for Relyvrio and the Phase 2 trial for SAR443820/DNL788.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2024

As a proud Colombian, Maria Artunduaga, M.D., wanted her startup to have a Spanish name that could easily be pronounced in English. | Every founder has a different story to tell about naming a startup. Two main approaches exist: do it yourself or outsource help. It all comes down to what they can afford.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2024

For the 74th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Ray Lowe, SVP and CIO at AltaMed ! We kick this episode off by discussing how the role of CIO is different at an FQHC than at other organizations. Then Lowe shares with us the patient experience projects he is actively working on and discusses how those projects have changed over time.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2024

Suki, a voice-assistive AI and scribe tool, inked a national group purchasing agreement with Premier, Inc. The deal could skyrocket Suki to the top of the healthcare AI assistant market. | A new group purchasing agreement between Premier, Inc. and Suki AI will encourage adoption by Premier's thousands of hospital and health system members.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 6, 2024

The tech user experience for all ages is mostly depressing. A few delighters here and there break up a constant struggle to produce the right command, find the right part of the right website, and overcome the insanity of bug-fixing updates after updates. And that is if you are well-trained and proficient. Whether it is a phone, a tablet, or a much-needed website, we curse and complain – and then there’s another software update and a new set of complaints.

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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.

Society for Participatory Medicine

MAY 6, 2024

I care for a diverse population of individuals in my primary care practice. It’s hard enough to motivate behavior change in people who have little motivation, but it’s even more challenging when it’s hard to connect with them because of cultural disparities. But sometimes, through trial and error, we can get it right. Joseph (not his real name), a divorced 80-year-old African American, has been my patient for over 20 years.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 6, 2024

Exec Summary: AI has revolutionised the weather industry by providing faster, more accurate, and personalised weather predictions. This has significant benefits for public safety, disaster preparedness, and various industries that rely on weather information. The widespread adoption of AI in weather forecasting is a recent phenomenon, its roots go back further than you might think: Early applications (1970s): AI, in the form of complex algorithms running on supercomputers, has been used in weath

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Optimum Healthcare IT

MAY 6, 2024

Not confident in your HIPAA compliance landscape? Cybersecurity on your mind? ServiceNow can help your IT team meet organizational demand. The post From Regulations To Reality: HIPAA Compliance And ServiceNow appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 6, 2024

Exec Summary: NHS ConfedExpo 2024 is set to be one of the largest and most significant health and care conferences in the UK, attracting over 5,400 delegates across two days. The event, which NHS Confederation and NHS England deliver in partnership, will once again bring together health and care leaders and their teams. You’ll have the opportunity to network with leaders and managers with the ability to lead and drive change in health and social care, as well as attend a plethora of theatre sess

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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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Redox

MAY 6, 2024

In this series, I am exploring how Redox can fill the gap between things one would think should be possible and what actually is possible. In the first two posts, I covered how Redox is overcoming current limitations with bulk FHIR and translating data between HL7 ® v2 and HL7 ® FHIR ®. Let’s dive in. What is Carequality? As someone who sells products to innovators, speed to go-live and value come up on nearly all my sales calls.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 6, 2024

In a webinar hosted by Iris Telehealth Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Thomas Milam, Beth Engelhorn, Executive Director of Southside Behavioral Health in South Central Virginia and Iris provider Dale McQueeney, PMHNP, shared how virtual services can help optimize care delivery for patients experiencing substance use disorders (SUDs). This blog breaks down the core takeaways of that webinar to look at the current state of the opioid epidemic and the role of virtual MAT programs in the crisis.

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LeanIX

MAY 6, 2024

Forbes believes there are five key principles for enterprise architects to consider when working to future-proof their IT infrastructure. Let's explore these points and how LeanIX can support you in implementing them.

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SteadyMD

MAY 6, 2024

New Partnership Will Empower Digital Health Companies to Quickly and Easily Accept Health Insurance, Lowering Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs ATA Nexus 2024: Phoenix, AZ – May 6, 2024 – SteadyMD, a leading 50-state provider of telehealth services, operations, and technology for large enterprises, today announced a partnership with Bridge, a first of its kind insurance enabler for telehealth providers, to greatly expand care access by equipping telehealth providers to quickly and easily bill insuranc

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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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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2024

Telehealth company Amwell continues to struggle with falling stock price and both its bottom and top line results in the first quarter missed Wall Street analysts estimates. | The virtual care giant is plotting accelerated revenue growth and a path to EBITDA profitability in 2026, boosted by a major contract with the Defense Health Agency.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MAY 6, 2024

Heart disease continues to be a major global health challenge and the leading cause of death in the United States, with over 696,000 deaths reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2020. This critical health issue demands innovative management approaches, such as the integration of Disease Management (DM) protocols with Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM).

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Digital Health Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Although Transcarent was already a unicorn, it might be about to grow another horn after landing $126M in Series D funding at a $2.2B valuation. The Transcarent platform makes it easy for employees to access all of their care needs using a single convenient interface – their phone – while also simplifying how employers provide and track that care.

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