Medical Realities launches free online COVID-19 platform for medical workers
Mobi Health News
APRIL 29, 2020
Project Pasteur aims to train healthcare volunteers in skills to cope with the pandemic.
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How cell phones can help lead us out of the COVID-19 pandemic
KevinMD
APRIL 22, 2020
As most of America approaches the one-month mark since shelter-in-place orders began, there is increasing talk of “plateauing” and debate of strategies for resuming “normal” life. Unfortunately, we continue to find ourselves without a clear path out of this unprecedented pandemic. Now more than ever, in the setting of an infectious disease crisis, health care […].
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Americans’ Sense of Well-Being Falls to Great Recession Levels, Gallup Finds
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2020
It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates.
8 Ways The CARES Act Will Help Improve Telehealth Expansion & Access
eVisit
APRIL 14, 2020
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act was signed into law on March 27, 2020. At over $2 trillion, this formidable legislation represents the largest economic stimulus package in history. It will provide much needed fiscal assistance to individuals, businesses, and hospitals that have suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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Digital Health: An Evolution From B.C. (Before Coronavirus) to A.D. (After the Disease)
Digital Health
APRIL 22, 2020
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. That Dickensian construct is a perfect one for thinking about digital health before and after the advent of the coronavirus. As late as March, the runaway train that has been investment in digital health had been running along at Bullet Train speed. 2019 […].
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Telehealth after COVID-19
Mobi Health News
APRIL 27, 2020
Marianna Imenokhoeva, founder at LinktoMedicine and Future50 International, talks about reopening economies, and how telehealth will be more relevant than ever in the post-COVID world.
Side effect: Covid-19 Should Close Remaining Older Adult Tech Gap
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 9, 2020
The older adult coronavirus statistics skew toward oldest. There are more than 69 million people aged 60+ in the US. The oldest adults that appear to be at greatest risk dying from Covid-19 are not those of a specific age, but those in the oldest age ranges, particularly with 'underlying conditions.' From the CDC released April 8 : Rates of hospitalization (4.6 per 100,000 of population) during the month of March indicated 13.5% those hospitalized were aged 65+.
The Epidemic After the Pandemic is Stress and Anxiety in America – Learning From Ginger
Health Populi
APRIL 13, 2020
“U.S. workers were stressed before COVID-19; now, stress levels are through the roof,” based on data analyzed by Ginger , the digital behavioral health innovator, asserting this major mental health headline in its latest press release. Working Americans were becoming increasingly stressed, distressed, and anxious in February 2020, when Ginger fielded this study.
Healthcare Reimagined: Creating a Better Remote Care Experience
CiscoHealth
APRIL 14, 2020
The New World of Healthcare. “By enabling an innovative telehealth program, Cisco collaboration is helping us positively impact the health of our community and state.” NYC Health + Hospitals. At its core, healthcare is about people taking care of people. When the transmission of the disease is a concern, the meaning of caring for each other and staying close means keeping our distance.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
Here's a look at just how much HCA, UHS and CHS took in CARES Act cash
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 30, 2020
Three publicly-traded health systems — among some of the largest systems in the U.S. — collectively took home more than $1.1 billion in federal stimulus funds for woes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 puts a spotlight on new pop health demands
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 8, 2020
Dr. Jaan Sidorov, CEO of the Population Health Alliance in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a network of 152 independent community-based providers, says he and his colleagues are quickly learning how the COVID-19 crisis will change their practice patterns. Even though Sidorov is a longtime expert in pop health, he's already seeing up-close how the coronavirus pandemic is changing his own daily duties of care delivery.
First COVID-19 diagnostic test authorized for home sample collection
Mobi Health News
APRIL 21, 2020
Using a designated kit ordered by a doctor, patients will be able to self-swab and mail their samples to LabCorp testing facilities. The self-collection kits will be available in "most states" in the coming weeks.
Covid-19 – Technology changes accelerate – some a work-in-progress
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 2, 2020
Note the wave of announcements of 'free' tech services and sea changes. A number of companies popped into my inbox in the past week with announcements of a period of free access to remote care/engagement technologies – including and in alphabetical order CareCentrix , CareTree , Ergo , Eversound , Outpatient , Ready Responders , VitalTech , and NurseCaller.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
List of Free COVID-19 Health IT Products and Services
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 17, 2020
As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations. In many cases, that means we’ve been covering the big changes to government regulations and the government funding available to hospitals and healthcare organizations.
Insulin Patch Could Provide Cheap, Simple, and Effective “Cure” for T1D
Insulin Nation
APRIL 2, 2020
When you picture the future of type 1 diabetes treatment, what comes to mind? For many, they see high tech devices capable of reading blood glucose levels and adjusting insulin and glucagon rates to keep sugars stable. Others see stem cell transplants and surgically implanted beta-cell devices. What you are probably not picturing is a small, disposable, Nicorette-style patch full of insulin.
Half of physicians now using telehealth as COVID-19 changes practice operations
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 22, 2020
Close to half of doctors are now using telehealth to treat patients as the COVID-19 pandemic changes how physicians deliver care. That's up from 18% in 2018. Find out how the current health crisis is changing practice patterns.
CMS relaxes more rules around telehealth, allowing care across state lines
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 10, 2020
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has temporarily suspended several regulations to enable hospitals, clinics and other providers to boost their front-line medical staff during the coronavirus pandemic. The CMS changes reduce certification requirements for clinicians, with the aim of expanding workforce flexibilities and enabling practitioners to be hired quickly and "perform work to the fullest extent of their licenses.
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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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!
When eHealth goes viral: The strengths and weaknesses of health tech during COVID-19
Mobi Health News
APRIL 7, 2020
Vasileios Nittas from the University of Zurich explains the importance of technology in the middle of a pandemic, and the pros and cons of relying on these solutions.
Tackling Covid-19’s social isolation of seniors – one tech at a time
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 15, 2020
Saving seniors from Covid-19 requires worsening isolation. In an article in the NY Times, Paula Span’s title said it all: Just What Older People Didn’t Need: More Isolation. The article attempts a number of references to mitigation, including the use of GrandPad in two Pace programs. These are compelling, but the overall story is about the oldest on the wrong side of the Digital Divide, which is notable and particularly pitiful in settings like nursing homes , Note in the Johns Hopkins Covid-19
The Patient Registry is a Challenging But Potentially Powerful Tool
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 9, 2020
The following is a guest article by Nancy Kadish, Vice President, Operations, Real World Data at Ciox. Patient registries are a powerful tool in population health. Experts consider disease registries one of the three pillars of IT infrastructure needed to improve population health (alongside electronic health records and patient portals). The National Institutes for Health […].
How intelligent automation is solving unforeseen COVID-19 challenges
Digital Leaders HealthTech
APRIL 14, 2020
Here’s a look at two companies that have successfully turned to intelligent automation to tackle the unprecedented challenges resulting from COVID-19. Disruption is nothing new to the tech world. We’re used to discovering new ways of using technology to solve problems. But even with our love for challenging the status quo, COVID-19 has disrupted the business world in ways many of us never anticipated.
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.
Oklahoma, Texas and Alaska to begin allowing elective surgeries
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 17, 2020
Texas and Alaska are among the first states to begin reopening their economies, including allowing elective surgeries to resume, following the release of new guidance from the White House this week.
FCC announces first hospitals to win COVID-19 Telehealth Program funding
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 16, 2020
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced the first half-dozen awardees of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. WHY IT MATTERS. Health systems in hard-hit states such as Louisiana, New York and Ohio have been approved for a total of $3.23 million, so far, of the $200 million program. The money was earmarked by Congress, part of the recent CARES Act , to help FCC to support the expansion of telehealth services during the coronavirus crisis.
Apple, Google have teamed up to build system-level COVID-19 contact tracing, interoperable APIs for iOS, Android
Mobi Health News
APRIL 10, 2020
The two tech giants' unprecedented partnership looks to engage as many users in disease-tracing and prevention efforts as possible while tearing down the data silos of their respective smartphone platforms.
How the Pandemic Is Revealing the Power of Remote Patient Care
care innovations
APRIL 23, 2020
I think many of us would agree that life has been somewhat strange for the past several weeks as we globally battle COVID-19. As I sat with my 10-year old daughter attempting my best to be a home schoolteacher, she looked up at me and said, “has anything like this happened before?” I told her there have certainly been pandemics before, but none that have directly affected us like COVID-19.
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COVID-19 MixTape Volume 2
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 10, 2020
As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on society, it’s more important than ever that we find ways to lift up our spirits. A couple of weeks ago we published (technically the word is ‘dropped’) Volume 1 of the #COVIDMixTape To create that mixtape, I asked over a dozen friends to choose a song that […].
Telehealth Group Therapy: Reimbursement & Clinical Issues
Telebehavioral Health Institute
APRIL 15, 2020
Telehealth Group Therapy: Reimbursement & Clinical Issues As group therapists work to respond during the COVID-19 crisis, online telehealth group therapy sessions are replacing in-person groups. Group therapy is effective. Frequently, group work can be more effective for some patients … Read more. The post Telehealth Group Therapy: Reimbursement & Clinical Issues appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Apple, Google team up on COVID contact tracing via smartphone apps
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 10, 2020
Tech giants Google and Apple are working together to create contact tracing technology to help in the fight against COVID-19. Through the joint effort, Google and Apple will be able to notify people via smartphone if they've come into contact with someone with the coronavirus.
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