Sat.Dec 21, 2019 - Fri.Dec 27, 2019

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One Doctor’s Thoughts On Why Big Tech Won’t Really Disrupt Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

In recent times, tech giants like Apple, Google and Amazon have made it clear that their sights are set on carving out a place in healthcare. (Yes, the latest news of Google’s healthcare ambitions came when we learned that the HHS Office for Civil Rights was investigating whether its big healthcare data project was holding […].

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Why Our Patients Are Leaving Us

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Erin Jospe, MD, chief medical officer and SVP of account management, Kyruus. As clinicians, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide care that meets the clinical needs of our patients and to call upon our colleagues when their skills are needed.

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The robot will see you now

KevinMD

The year is 2050. You enter the room, ready to speak with your next patient, a 60-year-old white male with recent episodes of chest pain when he climbs the stairs to his office. Before sitting down to speak with him, a monitor in the room pulls up his recent lab work and current medications. Your […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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The 53 digital health mergers and acquisitions we covered in 2019

Mobi Health News

Alphabet, Amazon and Apple all made deals this year to buy digital health startups, and the year saw exits for Qualcomm Life, Fitbit and PatientsLikeMe.

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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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Telehealth links ALS patients to care teams, saving travel and restoring quality of life

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Penn State Health provides healthcare to patients and communities across 29 counties in Central Pennsylvania, with more than 2,000 physicians and direct-care providers at 127 medical office sites. THE PROBLEM. The health system’s goal is to enhance the quality of life for its patients, yet for those struggling with neurological conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, treatment requires an extensive – and often burdensome – amount of time, energy and resources.

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HIPAA Right of Access

Telebehavioral Health Institute

As a HIPAA covered entity, behavioral health practices have an obligation to uphold the standards set forth by the HIPAA Privacy Rule, including the right of access. The right of access mandates that patients have the right to request copies … Read more. The post HIPAA Right of Access appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Provider trends of 2019: Tech deals, voice interfaces, telemedicine and patient-centered care

Mobi Health News

This year, providers have continued to ink deals with big names in tech including Google, Amazon and Apple. The conversation around patient-centered care and technology is also picking up steam.

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Mobile tech ushers in 'golden time' of 24/7 health management

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Medical Devices Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Mobile tech ushers in 'golden time' of 24/7 health management Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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EHRs and Collaboration: Leveraging Technology to Help Patients with Substance-Use Disorders

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Charlie Hutchinson, CFO at InSync Healthcare Solutions. The growth in substance use disorders [SUD] across all demographics and income brackets has impacted the role of primary-care providers [PCPs]. Physicians, especially those in rural and/or underserved parts of the country, who are most affected by the opioid epidemic, have had […].

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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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The T1 Female Heart: Managing Your Heart Disease

Insulin Nation

If you are living with heart disease, know that you are not alone. Over 30 million Americans have been diagnosed with some form of heart disease. That is just over 12% of the adult population. . And if you are also living with type 1 diabetes, you have even more company. About 40% of T1Ds have cardiovascular disease (CVD) by the age of 60, with women being at the greatest risk for developing it at an early age.

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Apple's 2019 in review: Research programs, health records, patents and features

Mobi Health News

New clinical efforts with big-name partners, more personal health record rollouts and continued smartwatch support defined the Cupertino company's year in digital health.

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We asked health execs for their 2020 wish lists. Here's what they said

FierceHealthIT

We reached out to executives around healthcare to get their wish lists for the industry as we enter the next decade.

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Health IT Leaders choose MU, Consumerism and Cloud as Top Stories of Past Decade

Healthcare IT Today

Over the past decade we have moved from a world where more than half of healthcare processes were paper-based to one that is mostly electronic. We also saw the rise of patient portals, a movement towards value-based care, the implementation of a new billing code system and an explosion of health data. It’s hard to […].

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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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The Challenge of Translating Healthcare Regulations into Training Curricula

HealthStream

Healthcare organizations need to be certain they are compliant with all the regulations that apply to them as well as to their individual clinicians. Here are some staggering statistics about the current expanse of healthcare regulation.

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Remote CBT service launched for NHS patients with mild to moderate mental health issues

Mobi Health News

Ieso Digital Health will provide online appointments through its online ThinkWell platform

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During the holidays, free yourself and let go of what you can't control!

Christina's Considerations

The holidays can be a stressful, sad and/or lonely time for some. This may be especially true for family caregivers who are trying to navigate through family gatherings with a loved one who exhibits challenging behaviors. My holiday wish is.

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Third-Party Vendor Risk Management in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

One of the realities I’ve seen is that the healthcare CIO is largely a vendor manager. I’ve grown that view a bit to include the management of people, but that’s the majority of a CIO’s job. Manage the people that work for the CIO and manage the vendors that work with their organization. This is […].

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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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FierceHealthcare's Editorial Advisory Council weighs in on the road ahead in 2020

FierceHealthIT

Here's a look at what FierceHealthcare's Editorial Advisory Council had to say about what's around the corner for healthcare in 2020.

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Connect Core Competencies and Tasks to Targeted Learning for Healthcare Staff

HealthStream

Performance-guided learning takes employee education from a must-do workplace task and turns it into a more meaningful and personalized experience.

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Tis’ The Season to Check the Health of Your Data for ACA Reporting

ACA Times

5 minute read: The end of 2019 is here and that means that if you haven’t done so already, it’s time to get your Affordable Care Act (ACA) filings in order. The information communicated on the 1094-C/1095-C schedules tells the IRS a great amount of information about the health insurance your organization offered employees for the relevant reporting year.

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Happy Holidays!

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Christmas time for me and my family, so Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate this day and Happy Holidays to all of the rest of you. If you don’t celebrate these holidays, then I’m sure all the healthcare colleagues you work with love you so they can take the holiday off. We […].

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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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Trump administration extends comment period on insurer transparency rule

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration has given insurers more time to comment on a proposed rule to require individual and group plans to give consumers out-of-pocket cost information.

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The Double Edge Sword of Traditions

Healthcare IT Today

Since today is Christmas Eve in the US, I’m thinking about my favorite Christmas tradition. Every Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember we’ve done what we call the mini-dinner on Christmas Eve. Basically, it’s a bunch of bite sized food like mini pizzas, nachos, pigs in a blanket, veggie tray, cookies or […].

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Clinical Trial Finds Google Glass App Helped (Slightly) Improve Socialization of Autistic Children

Healthcare IT Today

While it continues to be an intriguing technology, Google Glass is not in wide use in healthcare today, though It’s far from dead, Also, there’s still those who are exploring ways in which it might help patients, including the following study which seems to have generated some positive results. (There’s reason to be skeptical about […].

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Featured Health IT Job: Electronic Health Record (EHR) Coordinator

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Coordinator (California and Tennessee) positions that were recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Aledade, Inc. and is in California and Tennessee. Here’s a description of the […].

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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.