KevinMD

JUNE 30, 2023

ChatGPT and Epic Systems This year’s buzzword in academic and now business technology is ChatGPT. Epic Systems, Microsoft, and OpenAI (the owners of ChatGPT) have announced the release of the next evolution in artificial intelligence (AI) called GPT-4. This new system integrates AI with electronic health records with the hopes of advancing medical care and Read more… Seen at HIMSS: the latest innovations in artificial intelligence, mixed reality, robotics, and interoperability originally a

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Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

If you live in Massachusetts, Hawaii, and New Hampshire, you win a kind of state lottery for public health and well-being, based on this year’s read of the 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance from The Commonwealth Fund. Here’s a picture of the annual study’s top-line findings, a roster of the fifty U.S. states ranked by a mash-up of health system indicators.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 14, 2023

The company will first use the patent to combine the Apple Watch with Apple's new augmented reality headset Apple Vision Pro for closed loop AI-enabled treatment.

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KevinMD

JUNE 14, 2023

An excerpt from Future of Technology in Medicine, The: From Cyborgs to Curing Paralysis. Have you ever experienced the urge to text someone in the middle of cooking? Have you ever experienced the necessity of responding to a friend’s eager text when performing small tasks such as holding groceries? Brain-machine interfaces, … Read more… Revolutionizing communication and enhancing prosthetics: breakthroughs in neural engineering systems originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

Rural communities across the U.S. are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 9, 2023

Emerging Alzheimer’s disease medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for | Emerging Alzheimer’s medications come with high price tags, but researchers with the University of Chicago calculate that in the long run, it’s much less costly to cover these therapies for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

What is the AARP AgeTech Collaborative? AARP’s AgeTech Collaborative launched in 2021 with a splash (and 50 startups) that has widened into an age wave, or a sort of Match.com for age-related companies to find others, including collaborators, sponsors, pilots, and more. Today’s collection of 98 companies, many of whom have gone through the Innovation Labs incubator process, including pitch competition, Accelerator program, or were directly invited into the AgeTech Collaborative program.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 12, 2023

Dr. Daniel Kraft, founder of Digital.Health and NextMed Health and general partner at Continuum Health Ventures, tells MobiHealthNews how he sees rapidly changing technology shaping digital healthcare.

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KevinMD

JUNE 16, 2023

Health care organizations are complex systems that require a multitude of moving parts to work smoothly. The background operations that keep health systems running are key to enabling frontline doctors and nurses to deliver quality care. As a registered nurse and health care administrator for 45 years, I have a unique perspective on the challenges Read more… Unleashing the power of optimized operations, data connectivity, and technology for unparalleled patient care originally appeared in KevinM

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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.

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2023

A 2019 survey by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation’s Office of Health Policy found that the highest rates of telehealth visits happened among people with Medicaid (29.3%) and Medicare (27.4%), Black individuals (26.8%), and those earning less than $25,000 (26.7%). With so many of the nation's underserved patients using telehealth services, practitioners and medical organizations must work to understand what these patients need in order to improve the quality of care.

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Clear Arch Health

JUNE 16, 2023

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) programs enable the delivery of convenient, proactive, and responsive care to patients wherever they are, regardless of location. This is highly advantageous for rural healthcare patients who often encounter barriers to patient care services. Here, we'd like to share some good news about the RPM program at Coal Country Community Health Center ‐ Beulah Clinic, in North Dakota.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 2, 2023

Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools. | Pharma giant Bayer is launching a precision health unit as it ramps up its investment in consumer-facing digital health tools.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. That’s a hard thing to do when there are so many people pining for attention. Certainly AI us currently doing that in health IT, but in the world of interoperability TEFCA and QHINs are grabbing all of the attention.

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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.

Mobi Health News

JUNE 5, 2023

The Apple watchOS 10 will allow users to track their emotions and moods, connect with mental health resources and measure time spent outdoors to reduce the risk of myopia.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

JUNE 29, 2023

Optimum Healthcare IT announced today that it has acquired eCloud Managed Solutions bolstering cloud expertise and capabilities. Continue reading Optimum Healthcare IT Acquires eCloud Managed Solutions at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2023

It's a challenging time to be a young person. Study after study has shown that stressors such as social media, bullying, loneliness and the pandemic are causing and exacerbating a wide array of mental health challenges among high school and college kids. And healthcare resources are not always readily available to help them. Among some recent stats: There are never-before-seen levels of hopelessness and suicidal thoughts among teens, according to a report from the CDC. 71% of college student

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Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

JUNE 24, 2023

Bodybuilding and fitness influencers have taken center stage on social media, sharing the bulking and cutting cycle with aspiring bodybuilders and enthusiastic gym-goers alike. However, many of these fitness influencers use performance-enhancing drugs, and whether they share this with followers or claim they’re “natural” and do so in secret varies. Due to this, a growing […] The post Bulking and Cutting: The Hidden Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs and the Effect on Your Mental Health app

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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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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 1, 2023

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration | CMS outlined plans Thursday to broadly cover a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs once the medications get full approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange more than prescription information. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN , firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 16, 2023

The company will use the funds to release new offerings to providers and payers, expand its reach nationally in 2023 and establish a presence in all 50 states in 2024.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

JUNE 28, 2023

Agile methodology and Iteration support successful technology integration. How can healthcare embrace these concepts? Continue reading Adopting Agile: The Power of Iteration in Healthcare IT at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

Eighty percent of providers using telehealth in Virginia have seen improvements in their patients’ continuity of care, and 87% feel confident in the quality of care they’re able to offer patients via telehealth, according to a new survey conducted by the Virginia Telehealth Network of more than 10,500 active license healthcare professionals throughout the state.

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Healee

JUNE 20, 2023

Navigating the intricate realm of patient scheduling is no easy task. From the vantage point of administrators, it entails juggling a myriad of appointments, ensuring optimal utilization of resources, maintaining... The post The Ultimate Guide to Patient Scheduling Software: Must-Have Features and Implementation Tips appeared first on Healee.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 22, 2023

Physician-owned general acute care hospitals charge less than other non-physician-owned facilities in their region for several common shoppable care services, according to a new analysis published | A new analysis of competing hospitals' published prices adds fuel to the debate over whether Congress should lift the Affordable Care Act's ban on new physician-owned hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

The previous articles in this series laid out some of the issues in health care affecting testing , and the value of data. This article looks at some specific problems and solutions. Speeding up Test Development We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 30, 2023

Lynne Chou O'Keefe, founder and managing partner of Define Ventures, tells MobiHealthNews what characteristics of a company are essential to garner investment.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

JUNE 29, 2023

Optimum Healthcare IT announced today that it has acquired eCloud Managed Solutions bolstering cloud expertise and capabilities. Continue reading Optimum Healthcare IT Acquires eCloud Managed Solutions at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2023

Over the last few years, Medicare Advantage plans have dramatically increased their deployment of telehealth systems for seniors. While some in the healthcare industry may be skeptical of telehealth’s utilization, particularly within the Medicare population, these plans continue to move full steam ahead. There is growth in the number of plans offering virtual care services and expansion in the varieties of services offered.

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