Are doctors abandoning telehealth?
Morning eHealth
JUNE 29, 2020
How health IT delays diagnoses — CMMI head in line to join domestic policy council
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Growing Evidence for eConsults – the Asynchronous, Clinician-to-Clinician Platform for Telehealth
Health Populi
JUNE 29, 2020
Health care providers stood up virtual health care services with lightning speed as the coronavirus pandemic emerged in the U.S. Telehealth and its various flavors enabled both patients and providers to manage the risk of contracting the virus, especially at a time when little was known about the nature of transmission, treatment and prevention — except for washing hands, covering one’s face, and isolating when showing symptoms.
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Using Tech To Improve The Patient Experience
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 1, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Going to a hospital or other healthcare practice has always been a stressful process for patients. To ensure that their patients are comfortable, healthcare providers need to make sure they are improving the customer experience […]. The article Using Tech To Improve The Patient Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Automated Nurse Cross-Training Needs to Be in Place Before the Next Pandemic
HealthStream
JULY 1, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the need for healthcare organizations to have an automated solution that can quickly identify which of their nurses can most easily be cross-trained for roles that are sorely needed and then determine how much training was necessary.
HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?
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7 vital questions to ask when choosing a virtual care platform
eVisit
JULY 1, 2020
“Can everybody please mute your mics?”.
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U.S. Hospitals Will Lose $323 Billion in 2020 – Before Accounting for Growing COVID Cases
Health Populi
JULY 1, 2020
U.S. health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. according to the American Hospital Association’s report, Hospitals and Health Systems Continue to Face Unprecedented Financial Challenges Due to COVID-19.
Here's how smaller practices can prepare for continuing telehealth demands
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 29, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic swelled throughout the country, many healthcare providers found themselves abruptly pivoting – sometimes in a matter of days – to virtual care. While larger health systems had the infrastructure in place to do so, many smaller practices struggled to keep up. The hurdles to implementing telemedicine programs among smaller practices are fourfold, said Nate Lacktman, chair of the national telemedicine and digital health industry team at Foley and Lardner.
6 Tips To Avoid Stress During The Busy Summer Months
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 30, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. While summer is a time to relax and have fun, it can also be extremely busy, and as any adult knows extremely busy usually translates to very stressful. There’s even evidence that shows people are […]. The article 6 Tips To Avoid Stress During The Busy Summer Months appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Digital health investments stay the course in Q2 2020
Mobi Health News
JULY 2, 2020
Despite the uncertainty of COVID-19, funding deals during the last three months were generally on par with those of Q1 2020 and Q2 2019.
The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications
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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.
Stressed Out By COVID and Civil Unrest – the APA’s Stress in America Survey, Part 2
Health Populi
JUNE 30, 2020
“Now” is the lowest point in history that most Americans can remember: 7 in 10 people in the U.S. feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. Furthermore, 4 in 5 people in the U.S. say the future of America is a significant source of stress, as discussed in Stress in the Time of COVID-19, Volume Two , a report covering a poll of U.S. adults sponsored by the American Psychological Association.
How one health system harnessed AI, telehealth to combat coronavirus
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 1, 2020
When the United States reported its first COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Medical University of South Carolina activated its telehealth response – months before swathes of other health systems rapidly pivoted to virtual care. By April, that response included virtual urgent care, remote patient-monitoring, continuous virtual monitoring for in-unit patients and a shift in ambulatory care services.
What COVID-19 Taught Us About Telehealth and its (Now Permanent) Role in Patient Care
Healthcare IT Today
JUNE 29, 2020
The following is a guest article by Michael Morgan and Andrew Barbash, MD from Updox. Prior to COVID-19, telemedicine was a novelty for the majority of providers. Concerns over privacy, technology costs and reimbursements limited the ability of hospitals to integrate virtual visits into routine care. Likewise, many independent practices struggled with how to fully […].
Lenovo unveils its take on remote chronic disease monitoring
Mobi Health News
JULY 1, 2020
Scheduled to launch in Q3, the offering combines Lenovo devices, connected biometric biomonitoring tools and an AI-based virtual assistant.
Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications
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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.
Wear A Mask and Save 5% of US GDP: My Independence Day Holiday Wish
Health Populi
JULY 3, 2020
“And please…please…please wear a face covering,” Dr. Jerome Adams, the U.S. Surgeon General pleaded on June 30, 2020 , during a speech to U.S. Public Health Workers. [You can fast forward to second #42 to hear Dr. Adams’ impassioned plea to his fellow Americans. s. Wearing a mask or face covering reminds me of an early economics lesson from Adam Smith: that actions I take that are good for you can be good for me. “In addition to caring about our own well-being
With telehealth, one practice is now seeing more patients than before the pandemic
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 1, 2020
Henry J. Austin Health Center, a federally qualified health center in Trenton, New Jersey, was having problems with payment options. THE PROBLEM. Regulations had been passed in New Jersey requiring reimbursement for telemedicine services. But the major payer sources, while aware of the new regs, had not made any changes in their reimbursement process to pay for services provided through telemedicine.
Big tech – from simple tools to cynicism and hapless users
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JUNE 28, 2020
Reading about big tech controversies can make you sigh. Rant on. You may remember when the browser arrived. Maybe you knew about Mosaic in 1993 or Netscape Navigator in 1994. But you probably did not try them unless you were a geek -- because there wasn’t much to look at then on the so-called World-wide-Web. Apple’s Safari did not appear until 2003 and Google Chrome in 2008 – eventually these dominated the browser market, though three cheers for the existence of privacy-oriented browser Brav
New Irish contact tracing app ‘less invasive than Alexa’
Mobi Health News
JUNE 29, 2020
The European Open Science Cloud Secretariat initiative has approved €1,235,000 in emergency funding for 32 projects to specifically tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the new apps the initiative is supporting is called Tracing Ireland’s Population (TIP), which will focus on giving users with coronavirus symptoms ownership of their personal data and will be available to download on 10 July.
The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report
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3 Healthy Habits for Seniors to Keep Healthy
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 1, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. We live in troubled times. When the coronavirus appeared in the United States after wreaking havoc around the world, it found a country with many socioeconomic structural weaknesses to expose—dysfunctional political parties, an economy based […].
Hundreds of industry groups call on Congress to advance permanent telehealth reform
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 30, 2020
Three hundred and forty healthcare organizations published an open letter Monday asking Senate and House leaders to permanently enshrine changes to policies that would make telehealth accessible in the long term. The groups, which included Healthcare IT News parent company HIMSS and 17 regional HIMSS chapters, the American Telemedicine Association, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the American Heart Association, the Rural Hospital Coalition, the California Association of Public H
ATA 2020 Takeaways and Wrap-Up from eVisit
eVisit
JULY 1, 2020
Thanks for joining us at the ATA2020 Annual Conference last week. Whether we virtually saw you in our booth, in a 1:1 meeting, or together attending the vast range of sessions, one huge takeaway for us is that the ATA delivered on its hashtag — #GoTelehealth — with powerful content to propel telehealth forward. Telehealth is certainly on the move and here to stay!
Investors are taking bets on femtech, now looking beyond just fertility apps
Mobi Health News
JUNE 30, 2020
While the capital for femtech companies continues to pour in, investors discuss the importance of looking beyond menopause and fertility to sexual health and contraception.
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.
6 Effective Ways To Make The Most Out Of Keto Diet
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 27, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The dieting world has been speaking a lot about the Ketogenic diet. The ketogenic diet has been a popular choice for many, and recently, people have turned to it for its health benefits. The keto […]. The article 6 Effective Ways To Make The Most Out Of Keto Diet appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
HIMSSCast: Will the COVID-19 telehealth boom last?
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 2, 2020
Healthcare IT News Executive Editor Mike Miliard and Senior Editor Kat Jercich join host Jonah Comstock to recap what went down at the American Telemedicine Association's virtual conference last week. The team also discusses the state of telehealth more broadly, including the trends Kat observed at last week's congressional hearing. This episode is brought to you by AmWell.
Amazon healthcare initiatives wake up an industry slow to change
Lloyd Price
JUNE 27, 2020
The healthcare industry is rife with runaway costs and unrivaled bureaucracy, with established companies either unwilling or unable to fix their most fundamental problems. Amazon's entry into this market will no doubt pressure traditional players to shake things up. Amazon is a company that scans business landscapes with a mercenary's eye. The healthcare sector appeared in its crosshairs several years ago, and its early ventures have already forced traditional companies into action.
Masimo announces device designed to reduce opioid withdrawal symptoms
Mobi Health News
JUNE 29, 2020
The device applies electrical impulses to the cranial nerves around the ear, which can reduce neuron activity and opioid withdrawal symptoms.
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The Importance of A Healthy Lifestyle
Electronic Health Reporter
JUNE 30, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are almost too numerous to count. However, it has also brought to the forefront the importance of maintaining your health. Let’s look at a few ways to do […]. The article The Importance of A Healthy Lifestyle appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
After initial spike, telehealth visits are on the decline, report finds
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 29, 2020
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found a "plateau" in the growth of telemedicine visits, accounting for a relatively small percentage of rebounding ambulatory care services. As states experiment with reopening – and re-closing – their economies in response to concerns around coronavirus, continuing attention has been paid to skyrocketing rates of telehealth visits.
More than 300 organizations, physician groups push Congress to take action on telehealth policies
FierceHealthIT
JUNE 30, 2020
More than 300 organizations, physician groups push Congress to take action on telehealth policies. hlandi. Tue, 06/30/2020 - 12:01.
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