Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Gary Hamilton, CEO of patient engagement technology vendor InteliChart, believes three things about virtual care that, he says, deserve more attention: Telehealth services can offer healthcare providers the opportunity and capability to reach broader populations – and they can serve as disease prevention tools for these populations. Telemedicine tools can help ensure physicians and their care teams better manage patient care, and the associated workflow, to help their patients stay their h

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. WHY IT MATTERS The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, analyzed more than 1.5 million adult patients at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2021, and compared treatment and follow-up visits among primary care telemedicine (video and telepho

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Traditionally, telemedicine in schools involved rudimentary devices catering to basic health concerns. However, the landscape has expanded dramatically. In 2023, the focus has shifted to integrating advanced diagnostic tools and health screening applications into an accessible platform. Moving Beyond Basics GALE offers a holistic approach by integrating advanced diagnostic devices, a diverse range of health apps, and customizable health screening forms in its device-agnostic platform.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The latest read from ONC, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, tells a story about patients’ growing use of online portals, medical records, and smartphone apps to access personal health information. We now have solid evidence empowering us to disagree with Col, Nathan Jessup, the iconic character played by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, who responded to Tom Cruise’s Lt.

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KevinMD

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 25×5 Task Force was established in 2022 with the goal of reducing clinician documentation burden by 25 percent in 5 years. Recently, the task force found that “organizational efforts to address documentation burden … were all focused on documentation creation, not on information retrieval.” Similarly, much of the early hype Read more… Are we missing the mark with generative AI?

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Digital Health Global

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Crystal Lake, Illinois, OCTOBER 24, 2023 – Aptar Digital Health, a global expert in Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), digital Patient Support Programs (PSPs) and disease management solutions, today announced it has developed iPUMP® , the first connected allergy assistant which was recently launched in France by Stallergenes Greer, a global healthcare company specialising in Allergen Immunotherapy Treatment (AIT).

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In the food sector, “the opportunity for us and the role that we play is to connect climate and health,” Daniella Vega of Ahold Delhaize told Valerio Baselli during the Morningstar Sustainable Investing Summit 2023. In a conversation discussing the importance of non-financial metrics in companies’ ESG efforts, Vega connected the dots between climate change, retail grocery, and consumers’ health and well-being.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Defense Health Agency has awarded Amwell and Leidos a new contract to develop a hybrid care technology platform for the Military Health System's "Digital First" efforts. WHY IT MATTERS Through the deal, the Amwell Converge platform will be deployed to help DHA care teams deliver more seamless "in-person, virtual and automated" healthcare services for the MHS, officials say.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The ultrasound maker will codevelop a whole-brain neural interface with Forest Neurotech, a research company building a device for brain imaging and stimulation.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The approval of Leqembi by the Food and Drug Administration marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. | The approval of Leqembi by the FDA marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease. There are big questions around costs, access, risk and efficacy in certain populations. The most urgent, overarching question is: How can we find patients who will benefit from the drug before their condition progresses outside of the treatment window?

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

There is growing evidence on the connection between people’s financial health and their mental health, explored and explained in Understanding the Mental-Financial Health Connection , a study published by the Financial Health Network. Keep that relationship in mind in the context of a new forecast from Kaiser Family Foundation estimate the 2023 cost for employer-sponsored insurance for a family to reach nearly $24,000 in 2023.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

NUS Medicine to introduce holographic GI module The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) has tied up with GigXR, a California-based provider of holographic healthcare training, to introduce a new mixed reality-based (MR) training module for treating and diagnosing acute gastrointestinal diseases. GigXR's HoloScenarios: Gastrointestinal module on the Gig Immersive Learning Platform presents a holographic simulation of a clinical setting featur

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Individuals and families can purchase a Basic, Plus or Premier plan for a monthly fee, including the option for more than 400 prescription medicines at a $0 copay.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to c | Abridge, a startup that developed artificial intelligence-based documentation solutions for healthcare, has seen rapid growth in the past year, propelled by a "tornado of tailwinds," according to company CEO Shivdev Rao, M.D.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 26, 2023

What is care coordination and why is it so elusive? Catching my eye – a relatively new company, Sage, offers a ‘ care coordination’ platform for senior living , just received another $15 million. Sage apparently launched in the context of replacing the traditional PERS pull cord alerting system with rapid communication and updates through software. The term, care coordination, is vague and depends on context.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Many companies are jumping on the AI bandwagon to offer services ranging from risk stratification to auto-generation of patient notes after a visit. Oracle Health wants to move further. In this video at the Oracle Health conference, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Suhas Uliyar describes how Oracle Health is creating tools that accompany and augment the workflow of physicians, nurses, and patients.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Ubie has recently introduced an LLM-based feature that provides an automated summary of patient pre-interviews.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Insurance coverage often fails to help Americans avoid medical debt, a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund revealed. | Even with health insurance, people are feeling the effects of high medical costs, often cutting back on necessities or delaying care. A new survey shows half of Americans struggle to avoid their healthcare.

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DigitalHealth

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Thousands of patients with heart failure will now be treated from home as the NHS expands its world-leading virtual wards scheme, NHS England said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 25, 2023

CMS should get more information from Medicare users to help address their health disparities, suggests Ann Maxwell, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Eli Levin, who works on economic affairs and innovation for the Consulate General of Israel to New England, discusses how the war in Israel has affected digital health and technology.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Two-thirds of patients receiving three months of outpatient therapy will not reach remission, a new analysis of behavioral health therapy outcomes data reveals. | Practitioners can use the framework, known as the Blueprint Quality Index (BQI), to track quality improvement over time, as well as assess the effect of programmatic or infrastructure changes on patient outcomes.

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DigitalHealth

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As generative AI obtains a foothold in all aspects of life, health systems need to make sure AI tools are evidence-based and appropriate for clinical use.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 24, 2023

eClinicalWorks AI-Assistant During the opening session of the 2023 eClinicalWorks National Conference (#eCWNC23), company CEO Girish Navani unveiled a slew of AI-powered enhancements, including: Ambient clinical voice to create visit notes (through integration with Sunoh.ai ) AI automation to help with revenue cycle management AI to help reduce no-shows Integration of ChatGPT and generative AI to increase efficiency That final category included two enhancements that generated hearty applause and

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Users of Helpful can now access a loved one's benefit information about their New York-based health plan and select medical records through its app.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Older adults are adopting digital health tools at a higher rate than ever before. | At Elevance Health, we are seeing an increasing acceptance of virtual care and technology by older adults to help manage their health.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Autonomous coding enjoys a high level of trust among healthcare finance professionals who use or plan to use the technology, with 45 percent indicating it often works well and 16 percent placing complete trust in […] The article AGS Health-HFMA Survey Finds Healthcare Finance Professionals Have High Expectations for, Limited Understanding of Autonomous Coding appeared first on electronicheal

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DigitalHealth

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The pace at which generative AI has infiltrated product portfolios and media headlines in 2023 has brought equal parts excitement and consternation to those tasked with evaluating its implications for patient care.

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