September, 2021

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Building The Right Foundation For AI In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joachim Roski, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton and Kevin Vigilante, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform our world, the healthcare sector stands to substantially […].

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Medical cybersecurity: a virtual battleground that could cripple your practice

KevinMD

Imagine it’s early Monday morning, and you’re getting to your office. When you start up your computer to look at your schedule and bring up your first patient’s chart, you can’t get into your system. The next thing you see is a message from some hacker demanding bitcoin to release access to your data. You. Read more…. Medical cybersecurity: a virtual battleground that could cripple your practice originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service. Local governments will continue to step in to build better networks because communities have very few other options.”.

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Q&A: How predictive analytics and AI can help providers triage

Mobi Health News

Kristin Molina, business leader for patient engagement and healthcare analytics at Philips, talks about how predictive analytics and AI can help providers manage patient flow, especially as some hospitals struggle with large COVID-19 caseloads.

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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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Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Amazon is reportedly looking to launch its app-based home visits in 20 major U.S. cities through 2022. According to Insider 's Blake Dodge , Amazon Care will bring the "full package" of telehealth and in-person services to Philadelphia, Chicago, Dallas and Boston in 2021, with 16 more to follow the next year. Amazon representatives told Healthcare IT News after publication that the company does not comment on rumors or speculation.

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Nanotechnology vs. SARS-CoV-2: Can Nanomedicine Help Combat COVID-19?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In a very short period, the novel coronavirus has caused a very significant impact on the global health and socio-economic sector. This has caused serious damages and mortality among countries, especially those developing countries that […]. The article Nanotechnology vs.

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RIP Medical Debt surpasses $5B in total forgiven bills, notches its largest corporate contribution to date

FierceHealthIT

RIP Medical Debt surpasses $5B in total forgiven bills, notches its largest corporate contribution to date. dmuoio. Tue, 09/21/2021 - 13:30.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. By March 2020, telehealth channels were replacing visits to doctors and emergency departments as shown in the first chart from the CDC’s report on the early pandemic period.

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Apple's health sharing, walking steadiness features go live and other digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: BetterUp hires a president to lead its mental health offering, and a study finds retirees that use the internet may be boosting cognitive function.

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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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How CMS is boosting telehealth and RPM with new CPT codes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy. In particular, CMS specifies that these codes can be used to monitor medication adherence.

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Varied Uses for Artificial Intelligence in Health Care Show AI’s Riches

Healthcare IT Today

Industries, researchers, and governments have only scratched the surface of what they can do with artificial intelligence. Recently I spoke with three companies using AI in creative and unexpected ways in health care. Here are their stories. Personalized Medication Administration by Dosis Over-the-counter cough medicines and aspirins make dosage sound simple: a teaspoon of liquid […].

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MBA In Healthcare: A Quick Guide

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare management is not an easy field of expertise. It demands a lot of time and professionalism from those who tackle it. That is exactly why an MBA in healthcare administration and management is available […]. The article MBA In Healthcare: A Quick Guide appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Ransomware attacks impact patient care, including increased mortality rates, report finds

FierceHealthIT

Ransomware attacks impact patient care, including increased mortality rates, report finds. agliadkovskaya. Fri, 09/24/2021 - 12:54.

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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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Behavioral Therapy: REBT Versus CBT

TheraNest

In therapy, there are many different approaches, theories, and techniques that mental health providers use to help their clients navigate circumstances and develop healthy emotional skills. What theories a provider uses may depend on a variety of things like preference, but ultimately boils down to the needs of a particular client. Some lines of thinking might apply better in certain situations or with patients that have specific emotional needs.

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How digital health can help refugees access medical care

Mobi Health News

Digital health and tech can help refugees access necessary medical care and other social determinants of health, like housing, employment and education.

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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To the surprise of no one, the new AMA Physician Practice Benchmark Survey , finds a major uptick in use of telehealth since before the pandemic: 70.3% of physicians polled say they work in practices that used videoconferencing to provide patient visits in September 2020, according to the survey – that's compared to only 14.3% in September 2018.

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Cleaning Up the Dirty Data In Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

I’ve met a lot of companies in healthcare that are focused on data and analytics. However, I’ve never met a company that’s so focused on ensuring healthcare data is clean, useful, and trusted until I had a chance to meet Verinovum at the HIMSS 2021 annual conference. Like many companies in healthcare, there’s a good […].

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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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MMIT/Evaluate Acquire Panalgo To Bring Speed and Trust To Pharma Analytics and Decision-Making

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Managed Markets Insight & Technology (MMIT) and Evaluate (a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Hg portfolio company)—which joined forces last month to become a $1.6 billion global pharma commercial intelligence provider—announced the acquisition of […].

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Amazon taps VR, voice assistant startups and 8 others for inaugural digital health accelerator

FierceHealthIT

Amazon taps VR, voice assistant startups and 8 others for inaugural digital health accelerator. hlandi. Tue, 09/28/2021 - 14:54.

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Investment in new healthcare technology “top priority” for GCC region

Mobi Health News

According to a new report by the UAE’s Informa Markets and Omnia Health Insights, healthtech and value-based healthcare are more important than ever. But challenges remain.

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Apple looks to digital biomarkers for features detecting depression, cognitive decline

Mobi Health News

The Wall Street Journal reports that the work on the feature could be born out of collaborations with UCLA and Biogen.

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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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Femtech startups nearly double funding dollars from last year, but still make up small percent of market

Mobi Health News

Women+ funding still only accounts for 7% of the total U.S. digital health deals through August 2021, according to Rock Health.

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Hims & Hers rolls out new dietary supplement aimed at curbing UTIs

Mobi Health News

Urinary tract infections are the most common form of outpatient infections in the U.S., with more than half of adult women experiencing at least one in their lifetime.

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Study: Participants using Sleepio's DTx decreased rates of anxiety, depression

Mobi Health News

Using a digital therapeutic improved sleep, anxiety and depression more than other mental healthcare alone, according to a study published in Behaviour Research and Therapy.

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Cloud-based VR education platform used to continue medical students' training in Japan

Mobi Health News

The platform can capture a 360-view of a live medical procedure, a record of which is later stored in a cloud server.

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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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Abu Dhabi on track to operate world’s first city-wide medical drone network

Mobi Health News

The UAE capital’s Department of Health is working with the General Civil Aviation Authority, Abu Dhabi’s SkyGo, and the California-based Matternet to establish the network in 2022.

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UnitedHealth calculator helps schools, workplaces design COVID-19 testing strategies

Mobi Health News

The calculator shows the estimated number of COVID-19 infections during the testing period, how much testing will cost per person and the number of potential false positives.

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Laguna Health launches new tool to help patients after hospital discharge

Mobi Health News

Laguna’s tool lets patients contact an on-demand care team, talk to behavioral health specialists, view recovery plans and educational resources, and communicate with their providers.

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