Health Populi

MAY 30, 2024

The vast majority of older people (95%) want to “age in place” — that is, stay put in their homes and avoid moving into long-term care residences or elsewhere. One approach for enabling aging-in-place is peoples’ adoption of various technologies, a topic surveyed by U.S. News & World Report. In April 2024, U.S. News interviewed 1,500 U.S. adults ages 55 and over on their views toward technology and everyday life at home.

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KevinMD

MAY 28, 2024

“The patient is a 59-year-old male presenting with fatigue on exertion, pallor, and mild numbness and tingling in both feet. No family history of anemia or diabetes, but I still want to rule them out with a blood test. Does that sound reasonable?” This is the 6th or 7th question I’ve asked in today’s session, Read more… How AI became my medical tutor originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 24, 2024

Patients of the medical center's hospital-at-home program in Minnesota and Florida will be able to receive home deliveries via Zipline's drones.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 28, 2024

Crowded waiting rooms, stressed medical staff, and time pressure during diagnostic examinations—these are familiar challenges faced by many healthcare facilities and they require urgent attention. The Vinzenz Gruppe, one of the largest private operators of non-profit healthcare facilities in Austria, is committed to expanding its digital patient portal to meet the ever-increasing demands.

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This eBook explores the critical issues of using consumer-grade messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and SMS in healthcare, especially home care. It highlights the negative impacts on patient care quality, data security, and HIPAA compliance and provides practical solutions to enhance communication efficiency! You will learn how to: Consolidate Messaging Platforms: Streamline communication by reducing the use of multiple apps, improving efficiency in patient care.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 30, 2024

WASHINGTON D.C. — CVS Health continues to invest heavily in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care. | CVS Health continues to make investments in healthcare delivery services with a focus on affordability, convenience and better access to primary care.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 28, 2024

Bill Kopitke, head of healthcare at Amazon Business, discusses how the company uses analytics to help improve operations and supply management in care settings.

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Health Populi

MAY 28, 2024

Thanks to Progressive Grocer’s 91st annual report and research therein, we have fresh insights into where wellness and nutrition fit into food retailers’ — and pharmacies’ and Big Box stores’ — strategies. That priority ranks high in grocers’ plans for in-store services in 2024 and beyond. Far above all other strategies for food retailers’ in-store services, we see that on-site butchers rank high — among 3 in 4 retailers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2024

Patients at Crescent Regional Hospital can schedule a non-touch visit with their doctor or any range of medical specialists from the Dallas area, or anywhere in the world, through the magic of spatial computing. The once-ailing hospital is now using holograms for non-touch patient visits and plans to expand its uses of holographic technology, Holoconnects announced Wednesday.

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DigitalHealth

MAY 30, 2024

Following the government announcement of a general election, we asked health tech leaders and think tanks what the priorities should be for digital health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 30, 2024

The following is a guest article by John Zimmerer, Vice President of Vertical Marketing in Healthcare at Smart Communications Healthcare shouldn’t feel like an uphill battle. But for many patients, the journey from scheduling an appointment to receiving care is riddled with unexpected roadblocks. Just last year, it was found that nearly two-thirds of adults say that coordinating and managing healthcare is overwhelming and time-consuming, and one in 10 say that finding the care they need is

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Mobi Health News

MAY 24, 2024

The continuous glucose monitoring biosensor platform will use the funds to scale its manufacturing, move toward regulatory approval and perform more clinical trials.

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Health Populi

MAY 24, 2024

Today, I spoke live with Paul Bagnell, news anchor with Bloomberg BNN, on the topic of the GLP-1 agonists and their impact on health care, industries beyond health and medicine, and consumers. In this post, I’ll share with you some of the plotline for our discussion. Gallup polled U.S. adults in March to gauge their experience with injectable weight loss drugs, the results published earlier this week.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2024

A new private collaboration in Malaysia aims to equip rural clinics with telehealth capabilities over the next two years. Rural broadband service provider MEASAT and local health IT company Mudah Healthtech have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable the delivery of digital healthcare services in rural and remote communities. They aim to deliver up to 2,000 Sihat Xpress telehealth kiosks by Mudah to at least 1,000 rural doctors serving in areas covered by CONNECTme NOW, MEASAT's sate

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MAY 29, 2024

This week on "Podnosis," we dive into the topic of telehealth and its role in a comprehensive approach to healthcare. | This week on "Podnosis," Emma Beavins from Fierce Healthcare interviews CVS Health Chief Medical Officer Sree Chaguturu, M.D., to dive into the topic of telehealth and its role in a comprehensive approach to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 29, 2024

Maryland Endocrine has quickly made the big journey from paper billing to on-site payments. The organization had eClinicalWorks installed since 2004 (they were actually eClinicalWorks’ 34th customer), but when Kimberly Stahl, Practice Administrator, came to the company, it was still collecting payments by sending paper bills by post. Bills were often delayed for months.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 28, 2024

The South Korean company now plans to expand the application of its AI to diagnose other medical conditions, including heart and neurological disorders.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 30, 2024

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Israel Krush, CEO and co-founder, Hyro. Generative AI, until recently an uncharted frontier, is now encountering regulatory roadblocks. Fueled by minimal oversight, its meteoric rise is slowing as frameworks take shape. Businesses and users […] The article Reform In AI Oversight – How the Healthcare Sector Will Be Impacted appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2024

Zipline, the drone delivery and logistics company, announced this week its new partnership with Mayo Clinic's hospital-at-home program that's designed to deliver medications and other home-based care needs. Texas-based Memorial Hermann Health System will also work with the autonomous delivery and logistics company to integrate drone-based transport for specialty prescriptions and medical supplies directly to patient homes in the Houston area beginning in 2026, the health system said.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 29, 2024

Republican lawmakers in the House have introduced a bill Tuesday that tightens eligibility and public reporting requirements within the 340B Drug Discount Program, earning the applause of industry | Critics of the increasingly scrutinized 340B program applauded a new bill that tightens eligibility and public reporting requirements. Hospitals, who have increasingly leaned on the drug discounts in recent years, say it'll hamper patient access to lower cost treatments.

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Optimum Healthcare IT

MAY 29, 2024

Optimum developed an EMR Test Management application on the ServiceNow platform to help Methodist Le Bonheur overcome their challenges. The post EMR Test Management at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 30, 2024

The company will use the funds to expand its cloud-based automation platform for providers and pharmaceutical companies.

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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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Digital Health Global

MAY 29, 2024

Partnership enables deeper evidence generation in clinical trials; early success in eight big-pharma-sponsored oncology studies PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Medable Inc. , the leading technology provider for modern clinical trials, is partnering with industry leader Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) to bring best-in-class medical-grade wearable devices to clinical research.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2024

Through a partnership with the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, HunterCare is deploying telehealth technology to all Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics in Oklahoma. Under a funding mandate from Oklahoma Senate Bill 7, the state's Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse distributed more than 30,000 iPads statewide from the MyCare Technologies, the behavioral health division of HunterCare, as a mental health resource.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 24, 2024

A range of digital health companies today are harnessing natural language processing in different ways to catch those at risk and direct them to resources.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 28, 2024

The following is a guest article by Shannon West, Chief Product Officer at Datavant Since the dawn of electronic medical records, American healthcare delivery systems have traced a winding path toward the dream of seamless and timely health data interoperability. Four years ago, we reached a milestone when leaders from three federal entities announced landmark healthcare technology regulations centered around a clinical data-sharing standard called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource, or F

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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 28, 2024

The Australian company is now taking jabs at Saudi's private health sector after cementing its presence in the kingdom's public health system.

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Digital Health Global

MAY 29, 2024

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aptar Digital Health, a global expert in Software as a Medical Device (SaMD), digital Patient Support Programs (PSPs) and disease management solutions, and Iona Mind, a global leader in low-intensity Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) solutions for mental health, today announced a partnership to help support patients with chronic diseases to manage their psychological stress and emotional wellbeing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 24, 2024

Homecare is facing challenges and none are new. Reimbursement rates from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are low and staffing shortages are high, as is demand for home health services due to a rising, elderly demographic.

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