Options MD raises $2.35M to expand virtual care for severe depression
Mobi Health News
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
The pre-seed will be used to expand the startup's clinical operations and research as well as improve its proprietary clinical protocols.
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AI: Patients Included
Health Populi
MARCH 13, 2024
“Clinical transformation with AI is easier without patients.” public health, as well. Most striking in the Edelman 2023 research was the finding that more consumers trusted peer voices – friends and family – on par with medical experts, and well above the advice of national health authorities and global health authorities.
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Is Open Notes as good in practice as it is in theory?
KevinMD
JULY 23, 2021
Earlier this year, a federal rule that requires clinical information such as doctors’ notes and lab and imaging results to be made immediately available to patients took effect. Read more…. Is Open Notes as good in practice as it is in theory? originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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New codes from the AMA could mean more RPM reimbursement by 2025
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 22, 2024
CPT 99457 is for spending a minimum of 20 minutes of clinical staff time providing care management services related to patient readings and their treatment plan. Finally, CPT 99458 is used when such clinical staff time reaches 40 minutes, and then a second 99458 can be billed at 60 minutes. Medicare was the first to cover RPM.
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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being
Health Populi
APRIL 12, 2024
health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. Providers are burned out, in clinical shortage situations, and many contemplating retiring earlier than planned. We have the opportunity to modernize U.S. has known how to deliver.
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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 23, 2024
Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access.
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Nurses Hacking for Health, Addressing Burnout, Workplace Violence, and AI
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
This leads to a range of mental health, clinical, and economic impacts — moral distress up, job satisfaction down in the case of the employee scenario. The app pulled together content from a variety of sources, customizing that information for instant access as well as ongoing education and training and evidence-based best practices.
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FirstHealth of the Carolinas solves access problem with Virtual Provider program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
DECEMBER 26, 2023
First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas.
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Joint Commission intros new Telehealth Accreditation Program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 25, 2024
But there are requirements specific to the new accreditation program, such as streamlined emergency management requirements to address providing care and clinical support remotely rather than in a physical building. Perlin, president and chief executive officer of The Joint Commission in a statement.
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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
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. This is at the core of population health.
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Safety in Health Care Ties Closely to Workforce Well-Being – Updates from Press Ganey and ECRI
Health Populi
APRIL 3, 2024
of patients saying staff protected me well in ambulatory care compared with 68.2% Here’s ECRI’s list of the Top 10, a mix of supply- and clinical process-related incidents, IT-related impacts, and workforce + human capital concerns. #1 “Safety is the foundation of healthcare. points, 81.8%
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Neurable Inc. and Healthspan Digital Inc. Announce Partnership to Empower Precision Health and Longevity Clinics with Brain-Computer Interface Technologies
Digital Health Global
MARCH 21, 2024
This collaboration aims to empower precision health and longevity clinics with cutting-edge brain span technology to enhance human performance and well-being. The company’s expertise in measuring brain wave activity is expected to drive the expansion of the well-being and healthcare markets. and Healthspan Digital Inc.
Revolutionizing Clinical Diagnostics with Smartwatch Innovation
Digital Health Global
MARCH 1, 2024
In simple terms, smartwatches have yet to replace clinically validated equipment in hospitals as they are not able to provide the same accuracy and reliability in medical procedures. Joseph Newman highlights its importance as a marker of cardiopulmonary function, also emphasizing its role in clinical practice worldwide.
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Orion Corporation and Newel Health enter into licensing agreement for a digital therapeutic (DTx) ODD-403 (“Rohkea”) in pain
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 29, 2024
Orion is entitled to receive royalty from the sales of the product as well as sales milestone payments. points, p=0.046) and substantial improvements in Patient Clinical Global Impression of Change and quality of life at the end-of-intervention, compared to placebo sham controls.
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Are You Ready to Move from Health System to Health IT Vendor?
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 17, 2024
In this article I interview three high-level executives who made the transition from the clinical IT setting—running hospitals—to digital IT settings that develop health apps and services. Why Leave the Clinical Setting for Health IT Development? Edward Marx took a longer path. He now runs his own consulting firm.
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Antidote Health debuts telemedicine-based mental health clinic
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 19, 2022
Called the Mental Health Clinic, it will offer medication management, as well as treatment for depression, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, PTSD, OCD and insomnia disorder. Antidote Health and its clinicians will use an approach called enhanced, evidence-based care. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.
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Five recommendations for improving clinical communication
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 18, 2022
The key to faster response times is an effective clinical communication system. “Real-time, contextual clinical communication is the gold standard,” he noted. On the other hand, poor clinical communication leads to negative patient outcomes, inefficient workflows and clinician burnout. Eliminate pagers.
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Automating and integrating RPM boosts BP care for Prisma Health
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 20, 2024
It had encountered a problem while trying to gather patient biometrics and manage their clinical needs: fragmentation. " The integration also includes a summary of biometric readings over time, enabling physicians to assess and treat the clinical status of the patient more accurately. Enterprise Taxonomy:
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Books Worth Reading: “The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and The Tutwiler Clinic”
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 23, 2021
It is well worth your time and shows quite effectively how one person can create and cause change that can ripple through an industry. […]. The article Books Worth Reading: “The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and The Tutwiler Clinic” appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Unlearn Raises $50 Million Series C to Optimize Clinical Research With AI-Powered Digital Twin Technology
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Founded in 2017 as an AI research company, Unlearn has always been at the forefront of developing innovative AI-based solutions for clinical trials. Digital twins enable TwinRCTs, highly powered clinical trials with smaller control groups, allowing more patients to receive experimental treatment. Founder and CEO at Unlearn.
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Brightside Health Raises Strategic Series C, Welcomes Trip Hofer to Board of Directors
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 29, 2024
With Over $100M in Total Funding, the Telemental Health Company is Poised for its Next Phase of Growth Telemental health company Brightside Health today announced a strategic Series C raise led by S32, as well as the appointment of industry titan Trip Hofer to the Board of Directors to advise on go-to-market strategy and execution.
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Klinik Pintar obtains $5M in Series A funding to develop digital health solutions
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Formerly Medigo , Klinik Pintar operates and partners with clinics, offering a spectrum of healthcare services including doctors’ consultations, laboratory tests, and vaccinations. It also provides digital solutions for third-party clinics and collaborates with corporations to extend healthcare benefits to the company’s employees.
Carenet Health Acquiring Health Dialog, Enhancing Clinical Team and Advancing Insights-Driven Platform Dedicated to the Business of Healthcare
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 4, 2024
Expanded Personalized Population Health Capabilities Support Better Health Journeys for Patients Carenet Health , a trusted partner in helping organizations simplify and power the business of healthcare, is excited to announce it is acquiring Health Dialog , a worldwide leader in delivering clinical decision support offerings.
Context Makes Innovaccer More than a Note Generator
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
This video presents the current and upcoming features of the ambient clinical voice solutions from Innovaccer , notably its InScribe analytics tool. According to Abhinav Shashank, CEO and co-founder, the chief differentiating factor of InScribe comes from its integration with other systems: clinical, claims, and labs data.
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The Big Consult: Additional Criteria for Adopting a Digital App or Service
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 25, 2024
The previous article in this series laid out key criteria for choosing a digital solution to clinical problems. Flexibility: Because no two clinical sites are quite alike, the technology should be easy to adapt to each site. In a larger healthcare system, the clinical and operations pieces may not be fully in sync.
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Houston FQHC to deploy AI-based mental health support at no cost
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
The technologies make "accessing evidence-based care simpler," according to Chaitali Sinha, senior vice president of healthcare and clinical development at Wysa. Demi Minter, clinical director at MyCHN, said that the partnership provides patients and clinicians with access "wherever they are whenever they want it."
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Medable Achieves 75% eConsent Adoption Across Elderly Patients in Pivotal U.S. Renal Care Clinical Trial
Digital Health Global
APRIL 16, 2024
the leading technology provider for modern clinical trials, achieved an impressive 75% adoption of its Total Consent solution deployed in elderly patient population in U.S. Block, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer and SVP of Clinical Research and Medical Affairs at U.S. –(BUSINESS WIRE)– Medable Inc. , Renal Care.
Rush Memorial's virtual ICU reduces transfers, boosts patient experience
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 3, 2024
The virtual ICU has enabled surgeons to feel comfortable performing more surgeries, knowing they had available to them the clinical expertise to care for those patients in recovery in the ICU. In addition, surgery staff was top of mind – without having an ICU, surgeons were less likely to perform certain surgeries.
Wheel doubles down on virtual care investment, rolls out enhanced platform for payers, retailers and pharma
FierceHealthIT
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
Big players continue to make hefty investments in health tech—look no further than Amazon expanding its virtual clinic to all 50 states and the planned $3 billion merger between digital wellness co | Health tech company Wheel has been building for the next evolution of virtual care with an eye toward working with large enterprises, health plans, pharma (..)
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Season Health Announces Strategic Asset Acquisition from Wellory to Expand Clinical Network of Registered Dietitians and Insurance Coverage
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Season Health , the leading integrated food-as-medicine platform, today announced the closing of a strategic acquisition of clinical assets from Wellory , one of the largest networks of registered dietitians in the country providing medical nutrition therapy to patients nationwide.
WELL Health to Acquire EMR, Billing and Clinical Assets from CloudMD
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 24, 2022
WELL Health is acquiring CloudMD’s Cloud Practice entity which includes OSCAR based Juno EMR or “Electronic Medical Record” and ClinicAid billing Software applications as well as three primary care clinics located in the province of British Columbia. WELL will pay approximately $5.75
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Boston Medical Center launches new hospital-at-home program
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 3, 2024
As organizations design hospital-at-home programs, they should be strategic about their use of RPM , and leverage both internal and external resources as well as appropriate reimbursement, according to Cindy Gaines, chief clinical transformation officer at Lumeon, a clinical automation company.
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Discern Health Ties Interventions to Patient Improvements
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 20, 2024
It’s not enough to show a correlation, but to demonstrate that the clinical intervention was responsible for the improved patient outcome. Patients as well as clinicians demand explainability (also known as transparency and accountability). Hsieh said they are dedicated to fitting into their clients’ current workflows.
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The Risks and Concerns of Ambient Clinical Voice Technology
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 20, 2024
So while there are a lot of benefits to come from ambient clinical voice technology , we have to be sure that we are prepared for the challenges. So what are the risks and concerns of ambient clinical voice technology and how could they be holding people back from adopting it?
Zealous for Wellness: Deciding What Kind of Change You Want
Healthcare IT Today
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Jim Wallace, CEO of DecisionRx , writes to me that, “Payer incentives for wellness are largely stuck at the water’s edge, so to speak: few payers have gotten a lot of people to go in for a swim.” Some are looking for clinical improvements, and some even for culture change.
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Evaluating biases in Language Models for clinical use: a study on GPT-4
Digital Health Global
JANUARY 8, 2024
Healthcare professionals have increasingly been exploring the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 to revolutionize aspects of patient care, from streamlining administrative tasks to enhancing clinical decision-making. Despite their potential, language models can encode biases, impacting historically marginalized groups.
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AI Will Help Bridge Gaps in Canadian Healthcare
Healthcare IT Today
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The conference was well attended and featured notable Canadian healthcare author + journalist Andre Picard as the opening keynote. Picard, was particularly impressed with ambient clinical voice technology. He made a convincing argument that Canada may see significant benefit from AI given the country’s unique access challenges.
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Newel Health Appoints Ervin Ukaj as New CEO
Digital Health Global
APRIL 24, 2024
A proven leader with an extensive digital health background, Ervin is well-positioned to drive Newel Health’s impact in the healthcare industry. The company partners with pharmaceutical, medical device, and wellness organizations to broaden its customer base and fulfill its vision for future healthcare.
Walmart hires Ochsner exec to lead healthcare push
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Carmouche, who has worked at Louisiana-based Ochsner Health for six years, will oversee Walmart's growing clinical care projects as senior vice president of Omnichannel Care Solutions, as explained by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Repor t. The retail giant is also operating clinics in three states, with plans to open more in a fourth.
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Aptar Digital Health Announces Acquisition of Healint to Reinforce Digital Health Portfolio and Drive Future Growth
Digital Health Global
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The expanded capabilities include patient community management, patient activation, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based data collection and analysis, as well as digital diagnostics to facilitate patient screening and identification. The integration of Healint into Aptar Digital Health’s operations will commence immediately.
The Next Generation Of Medical AI: Exploring Safe and Accurate Innovation In Healthcare
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 12, 2024
While NLP traditionally has been effective in extracting unstructured data, it continues to struggle with the intricate terms and nuances of clinical documentation. The technology enables users to extract information from patient records and rapidly assess disease progression, treatment efficacy, health trends, and other use cases.
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UpDoc to develop conversational, assistant-directed AI providers
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 8, 2024
All care delivered through UpDoc's artificial intelligence-based remote patient providers would be prescribed by physicians or clinical pharmacists who oversee the platform, the company said in an announcement on Friday. THE LARGER TREND "Everybody knows evidence based medicine, but have you thought of intelligence based medicine ?
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The Advantages of Human Scribes for Clinical Notes
Healthcare IT Today
DECEMBER 21, 2023
While many companies boast of creating clinical notes purely through natural language processing and AI, Speke leverages ambient clinical voice together with human scribes to create a higher quality note for the clinician. Thus, the doctor has to spend more time correcting the note than with a well-trained human scribe.
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Sneak peek: New EY survey explores changing consumer telehealth preferences
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 1, 2023
Specifically, health entities may want to rethink the design of the virtual care experience, how it nests within care pathways, the effectiveness of virtual care training and clinician selection, as well as virtual care outcome measures for patients and clinicians (a recent study indicated clinicians prefer providing care in-person, as well).
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