Telebehavioral Health Institute
MAY 14, 2020
Secure COVID Telehealth Services Over the course of the past couple of months, telehealth has expanded exponentially, but questions still loom about secure COVID telehealth services. A recent study found that in the next five years, it is expected that … Read more. The post Secure COVID Telehealth Services: Has HIPAA Gone Away? appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Health Populi
MAY 11, 2020
In the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all feel like we are living in desperate times. If you are a person at-risk of dying a Death of Despair, you’re even more at-risk of doing so in the wake of the Coronavirus in America. Demonstrating this sad fact of U.S. life, the Well Being Trust and Robert Graham Center published Projected Deaths of Despair from COVID-19.
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Health Recovery Solutions
MAY 14, 2020
In the COVID-19 partner Q&A series, we will share knowledge and expertise from HRS partners across the country on how they are leveraging telehealth in response to COVID-19. Below, ProMedica Home Care Telehealth Supervisor, Kim Putnam, shares her insights into patient adherence, coordinating across providers, and how ProMedica is preparing now for a second wave this fall.
Health Populi
MAY 12, 2020
“We’re not getting back to business as usual any time soon,” Sage Growth Partners and Blackbook Research introduce their latest report on the COVID-19 pandemic, As the Country Reopens Safety Concerns Rise. One of the areas that won’t be getting “back to business” soon will be patients’ visits to doctors’ offices, hospitals, and urgent care centers, the report notes, based on a survey conducted among 591 U.S. consumers on April 28 and 29, 2020.
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Insulin Nation
MAY 14, 2020
Alcohol is a complicated subject when it comes to type 1 and type 2 diabetes — especially for those who take insulin and other medications capable of causing hypoglycemia. . While low blood sugar has been known to be mistaken for drunkenness , diet or diabetes-related ketones may mistakenly trigger a false positive on a breath alcohol test. A study published by the International Journal of Obesity found evidence that ketones can potentially result in a false positive on a breath alcohol te
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Mobi Health News
MAY 14, 2020
AI is steadily proving itself to the clinical community, but there are some aspects of care in which an algorithm will never be granted full control, said Cardiologs CEO Yann Fleureau.
Health Populi
MAY 14, 2020
COVID-19 is re-shaping health care in America across many dimensions. In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. In the report, published in April 2020, IQVIA mined the company’s many data bases that track real-time data, including medical claims, flu data, sales data, oncology medical and pharmacy claims, formularies, among other sources.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 15, 2020
Telehealth is more in demand than ever during the coronavirus crisis, and a new report from Frost & Sullivan suggests its uptake will increase by 64.3% nationwide this year, given the disruptions of COVID-19. But in the years ahead, virtual care and remote monitoring should truly take off, according to the report. WHY IT MATTERS. According to the study , Telehealth: A Technology-Based Weapon in the War Against the Coronavirus, 2020, researchers predict that the pandemic will continue to resh
CE App
MAY 11, 2020
Clinicians today are not just responsible for conducting patient visits and administrative tasks while at work. In their free time, they are also required to make sure they are compliant with all CME and make sure it is completed in a timely fashion. In a previous post, we discussed the difficulties behind this for multiple license holders; some being that there are inconsistent deadlines across states or simply just a high course load that is all due at the same time as well.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MAY 15, 2020
Singapore-based HeartVoice, which was formed in February 2019 as a joint venture between both iAPPS and Omron Healthcare, announced last week that it will extend the use of its telehealth platform to all healthcare providers for free in the country until 31 July, 2020. HeartVoice said the reason for this was to support safe distancing amongst the public and contribute to the fight against COVID-19 situation.
Morning eHealth
MAY 15, 2020
Democrats counter Republicans' privacy bill — FCC's Pai to take hot seat on pandemic response
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 13, 2020
A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Many, however, say they plan to return to in-person care when possible, due to the challenges psychiatric telemedicine entail. WHY IT MATTERS. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, a variety of logistical and regulatory hurdles prevented many psychiatrists from using telemedicine.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 13, 2020
America’s Health Insurance Plans urged insurers to offer a grace period for any pre-authorized surgeries and procedures canceled due to COVID-19 as health systems seek to restart.
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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
MAY 12, 2020
At HIMSS20 Digital, Eugene Kogan, Chief Technical Officer of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Analytics in St. Petersburg, Russia, talks hurtles and wins of moving towards continuous care.
Insulin Nation
MAY 12, 2020
Doctors told Debbi’s parents she wouldn’t live to be 14 years old. . Her friends and teachers thought type 1 diabetes was contagious, so she wasn’t allowed to play with other children and many teachers didn’t want her in their classroom. . Debbi’s High School Graduation Photo in 1968. My high school principal said I couldn’t go on the senior class trip because I was a danger to other children because of my diabetes.”.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 14, 2020
As MedStar Health launched its telehealth response to the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of the health system’s caregivers first rose to the challenge of meeting a historic surge in demand for the existing MedStar eVisit urgent care, on-demand telehealth offering. Leveraging an existing telehealth platform, the health system responded to volumes that jumped from an average of seven visits daily in February 2020 to more than 500 visits in a day within the first week of the COVID-19 response.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 12, 2020
As unemployment continues to skyrocket due to COVID-19, a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows more than 20 million people losing job-based insurance could qualify for ACA tax credits to lower the cost of insurance.
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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!
Mobi Health News
MAY 12, 2020
Downloaded and used by millions of U.K. and U.S. residents, the study app provided data on which symptoms are associated with confirmed cases, and roughly how many untested users likely have the disease.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 14, 2020
New research has concluded that healthcare organizations are missing high volumes of incoming calls, in part because when they return messages, patients can’t tell who’s on the line. This problem has apparently gotten worse with the inception of COVID-19, the study found. Communications technology vendor First Orion surveyed roughly 1,000 U.S. mobile phone users in […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 11, 2020
New York City's Mount Sinai Health System has installed more than 100 Google Nest cameras in hospitals to observe and communicate with COVID-19 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. Health officials have reported more than 189,000 confirmed and probable coronavirus cases in New York City, making it one of the country's biggest hotspots. The ensuing flood of patients has strained hospital resources, including staffing, beds and personal protective equipment.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 14, 2020
Atul Gawande, M.D., confirmed that he is stepping down as CEO of Haven, the health care company formed by Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway. Find out why Gawande wants to take a different leadership role with the company.
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.
Mobi Health News
MAY 13, 2020
In addition to the funding, CXA Group has signed a MoU with Humanica to integrate its Human Capital Management platform with their platform in Thailand.
Morning eHealth
MAY 13, 2020
Epic developing immunity passport — Telehealth updates
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 14, 2020
Rural hospital leaders say COVID-19 has magnified the need for access to telehealth – and that it's a mistake to rely on one-size, fits-all solutions for virtual care. During a Thursday webinar hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center and moderated by former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, hospital leaders from around the country explained how the coronavirus crisis has exacerbated existing challenges faced by rural health systems.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 14, 2020
The Trump administration is making moves to replenish the Strategic National Stockpile to get ready for a potential second surge of COVID-19 and will add new supplies like critical care drugs
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Mobi Health News
MAY 14, 2020
A new study published by JMIR found that on average participants using Hinge Health's platform reported 68.5% improvement in pain.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 12, 2020
If you want to know what’s happening in telemedicine and where it’s headed, one of the best people to ask is Michael Gorton. Along with Byron Brooks, MD, he founded Teladoc, the leading company in that space. Gorton recently took the helm at MediOrbis. Telehealth advocates actually made a good amount of progress over the […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing consumer perspectives towards telehealth. However, data indicates groups facing the greatest risks right now, including older people and those with lower incomes, are not sharing in these benefits equally. Those were among the results of a Black Book and Sage Growth Partners survey of 591 U.S. healthcare consumers, which also found stress and social isolation are still fueling demand for remote behavioral and mental health services.
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