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Navigating the Interoperability Maze: 3 Key Challenges for Healthcare Providers and Payers

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Anthony Murray, Chief Interoperability Officer at MRO In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, the quest for interoperability has become paramount. While the vision of seamless data exchange promises improved patient care and streamlined operations, the journey is not without its hurdles. Here we explore the three main interoperability challenges that continue to shape the narrative in healthcare.

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Mobile Stroke Units: Bring Emergency Stroke Care to the Home

KB Dental Consulting

Discover how mobile stroke units revolutionize stroke care with rapid response and advanced treatment on wheels. Contact us for to buy mobile stroke units.

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Tailor fit digital health tech to the elderly's needs: study

Mobi Health News

Based on latest survey in South Korea, there is a difference in the use of mobile health apps and devices between frail and healthy seniors.

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Digital Health Intelligence Market Analysis: Electronic Bed and Capacity Management Systems - crucial support for an NHS under pressure

Lloyd Price

In a new series of Digital Health Intelligence Market Analysis, HealthTech Founder and M&A Advisor Lloyd Price examines a range of high potential market segments in the UK, including: 1. Virtual Care – From Hype to Reality 2. Patient Engagement Platforms – Rebuilding Trust in the NHS 3. Population Health – from Reactive Care to Proactive Prevention 4.

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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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Gartner's 5-Step Cloud Data Migration Framework

LeanIX

Gartner recommends a five-step framework for migrating your data to the cloud. Learn how the LeanIX enterprise architecture platform can support you in this technology transformation.

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Virtual second opinions are popular but wariness persists on AI diagnosis tools

Mobi Health News

A survey by the Cleveland Clinic revealed nearly four in ten respondents had reservations around seeking a second opinion if the provider used AI diagnostic tools.

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Americans Come Together in Worries About Medical Bills, the Cost of Health Care, and Prescription Drug Costs

Health Populi

In the U.S., national news media, Federal statistics, dozens of business leaders and the Federal Reserve Bank have been talking about an historically positive American economy on a macro level. But among individual residents of the U.S., there is still a negative feeling about the economy in a personal context, revealed in the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll for February 2024.

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Biofourmis announces major agreements with top pharmaceutical companies

Digital Health Global

Biofourmis , a global digital health and clinical trial solutions leader, announces four key partnerships with top pharmaceutical firms. The newly established partnerships focus primarily on oncology therapies, significantly broadening Biofourmis’ already diverse therapeutic portfolio, which includes cardiovascular, pain, women’s health, and immunology.

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Mastering the art of efficient patient encounters: tips for physicians

KevinMD

An excerpt from No Work After Hours: Tools to Maintain a Pleasant, Efficient, and Productive Clinic Without Work Before or After Hours. The patient encounter is the core of clinical physician practices. That’s why we went to medical school from the very beginning. The excitement and passion for seeing sick patients and helping them on Read more… Mastering the art of efficient patient encounters: tips for physicians originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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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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Contributed: ??Blockchain in healthcare and enhancing security and transparency

Mobi Health News

Blockchain technology has the potential to transform healthcare, from securing patient data to reducing the risks for data breaches.

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As Food-As-Medicine Gains Momentum, Watch for Dietitians and Pharmacists to Sit at The FaM Table – And A Lesson from George Washington Carver

Health Populi

The food industry, both retail food chains and food suppliers, has found health and nutrition are having a positive impact on their businesses both for margins and for missions, we learn in the latest annual survey on Food Industry Contributions to Health & Well-being, 2024 , from FMI. Most retail food channels operate pharmacies, three in five operate clinics in stores, and 2 in 5 of the clinics are health system-owned and operated.

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Groundbreaking study shows Embr Wave® significantly improves sleep quality

Digital Health Global

Embr Labs, Inc., the creators of Embr Wave®, the pioneering temperature wearable, unveiled pivotal findings from a recent sleep study. The results demonstrate a substantial enhancement in various aspects of sleep quality among participants who wore the Embr Wave. These improvements encompassed reduced sleepiness perception, enhanced sleep quality, decreased nocturnal resting heart rate, heightened sleep efficiency, and improved morning cognitive function.

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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By 2030, all Baby Boomers will be over 65 – all as alternative care models emerge. McKinsey estimates $265 billion worth of care services for Medicare patients could shift from traditional facilities to the home by 2025. Instead of thinking of patients as "discharged" once they leave the hospital, which implies care is finished, many healthcare professionals believe it's time to treat home as a fundamental care setting that needs to be well integrated into the care continuum.

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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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Philips releases radiation-free device guidance tool LumiGuide

Mobi Health News

LumiGuide allows surgeons to obtain 3D images of devices within the body using light instead of X-rays, diminishing a surgical team's exposure to radiation.

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Abridge clinches $150M to build out generative AI for medical documentation

FierceHealthIT

Investors continue to pour money into generative AI startups and Abridge is riding this wave as it rapidly scales its technology across U.S. health systems. | Along with the funding round, Abridge also announced an enterprise agreement with Connecticut-based Yale New Haven Health System to give thousands of clinicians access to its AI-powered clinical documentation technology.

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A study shows that telehealth medication abortion in the USA is effective and safe.

Digital Health Global

A recent study conducted by California Home Abortion by Telehealth (CHAT) sheds light on the effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in the United States. Published in Nature Medicine, the study provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of reproductive healthcare, especially in the context of increasing restrictions on abortion access in various states.

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Virtual second opinions are popular but wariness persists on AI diagnosis tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A survey by the Cleveland Clinic revealed nearly four in ten respondents had reservations around seeking a second opinion if the provider used AI diagnostic tools.

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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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Exclusive: Uptiv Health, Lyn Health partner to merge infusion therapy and chronic care

Mobi Health News

The companies will offer Uptiv360, a platform where patients receiving infusion therapy can access virtual chronic care management services.

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Optum's Change Healthcare responding to 'cybersecurity issue'

FierceHealthIT

Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant. | Change Healthcare is mitigating a "cybersecurity issue" that began Wednesday, and details remain scant.

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World Health Organisation launches Global Initiative on Digital Health

DigitalHealth

The World Health Organization Tuesday launched its new Global Initiative on Digital Health, designed to aid country-led digital health transformation.

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CIO Spotlight: Dr. Michael Ross of Northern Light Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ross' HIMSS24 session, "Tightly Integrating Telehealth for Better Access: Lessons From Northern Light," is scheduled for Tuesday, March 12, 10:30-11:30 a.m. in Room W204A. Learn more and register.

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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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Discount drug company Waltz Health moves into Medicare market

Mobi Health News

The company will offer a customizable version of its Marketplace Search Technology to health plans supporting Medicare beneficiaries.

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AHIP, AMA and employer groups team up to accelerate digital health adoption

FierceHealthIT

Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health | Fourteen organizations representing providers, payers, consumer technology companies and employers are teaming up to cut through the noise and raise higher standards for finding digital health solutions that work and are worth the investment.

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Transforming Chronic Care Management: A Comprehensive, Technology-Driven Approach

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Kevin Riley , CEO and President at Zyter|TruCare In an era dominated by the complex challenges of chronic diseases, which account for approximately 90% of healthcare costs , a strategic approach to chronic care management (CCM) is essential. This approach should integrate advanced technology with a deep comprehension of healthcare’s fundamental principles, effectively tackling the current challenges and proactively shaping the future of healthcare.

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Brightside Health expanding Medicare and Medicaid telemental health access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Brightside Health will be entering into new and expanded payer partnerships to support telemental healthcare access through Medicare and Medicaid, teaming with companies such as Blue Shield of California, CareOregon and Centene.

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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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Maven Clinic expands partnership with AT&T to give employees fertility, family benefits

Mobi Health News

AT&T employees can access providers across more than 35 specialties, receive support from a care advocate, and access guidance around IVF, surrogacy, and more.

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UnitedHealth, HAC study: How social health factors impact employer plans

FierceHealthIT

Given the impact that social factors have on overall health, employers can better manage costs and outcomes by embracing deeper, population-level data analysis, according to a new white paper. | Given the impact that social factors have on overall health, employers can better manage costs and outcomes by embracing deeper, population-level data analysis, according to a new white paper.

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ViVE 2024 Preview – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 134

Healthcare IT Today

ViVE 2024 is rapidly approaching! The conference will be held in Los Angeles on February 25 – 28 this year, so for the 134th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are sharing our thoughts, predictions, and tips. First, we share what we are looking forward to the most at ViVE 2024. Then we debate who we think will be the most talked about company/organization.