The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Susannah Fox has collected over twenty years of notes recording patients’ and caregivers’ experiences which, collectively, document the growing phenomenon of peer-to-peer healthcare she observed early in her career working on the Internet and health.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JANUARY 22, 2019

Physician burnout is a public health issue that “urgently demands action” from the rest of the healthcare industry, according to a report from Harvard University and Massachusetts trade groups. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Harvard Global Health Institute in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2023

It will also increase referrals for aged care residents, the NSW Ambulance, and GPs, as well as improve systems for assessment, care protocols, and clinical documentation. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Population and Public Health Patient Access Care

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 29, 2021

According to FDA documents, the test is intended to help stop the spread of COVID-19 among Amazon employees. .

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Innsena works with health technology organizations to positively impact the healthcare experience for individuals who are medically underserved—including disadvantaged and rural communities—as well as strengthening public health infrastructure in the United States.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

In March 2020, the State Board of Dental Examiners issued guidance declaring that "dentists in Texas are not authorized to practice teledentistry," according to court documents. " Tactile exams are not possible remotely, so the board interpreted the rule as effectively banning teledentistry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

Convened by HIMSS VP of Government Relations Tom Leary, the panelists – who played a critical role in developing the Riyadh Declaration – reviewed the recommendations, compared them to progress so far and outlined digital health goals for the future. Dr. "Federal leadership in the U.S, HIMSS21 Coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. Some sophisticated organizations offer APIs for access to data, but others still fax or mail in a scanned document.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 12, 2023

Generative AI systems such as chatGPT produce impressive summaries of documents on the Internet, including clinical studies. The user interaction offers a “conversation loop” that doctors rate highly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. "My health insurance may have coverage for telemedicine, and yours may not.

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Health Populi

JULY 23, 2020

One of the public health hallmarks of the pandemic era has been stress, documented by the American Psychological Association’s Stress in America survey. One of the most compelling telehealth access scenarios in the first months of pandemic will be told by consumers accessing virtual care for teletherapy and counseling.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2023

Read more… Translating Healthcare Documents in an Instant. Lexmark’s Seth Johnson demonstrated a scanner using optical character recognition (OCR) to translate documents to any number of languages. The company also showed Healthcare IT Today its technology that can print documents when a network is down.

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Lloyd Price

JANUARY 23, 2024

Opportunities for Collaboration: LLMs and public health researchers: Collaborations can leverage LLMs to analyze large datasets and identify patterns in SDoH factors that contribute to health disparities. However, class imbalance and data limitations present challenges for this sparsely documented yet critical information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 18, 2023

"These are good steps; however, we believe the secret to accountability is improving the level of patient-provider engagement and keeping those practicing addiction medicine compliant with all required documentation. All of these components are critical for quality-of-care and for documentation if an audit is performed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2023

Right now, for every hour I spend with patients, I spend two hours clicking boxes, writing paragraphs, and searching for information in the electronic health record (EHR). All of this is to ensure accurate, compliant, and complete documentation. The above documentation use case makes clinicians nervous.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The scheme, as outlined in court documents, exploited COVID-19-era amendments to telehealth restrictions. "We will continue to support the unprecedented COVID-19 public health effort by holding accountable people who use deceptive tactics to profit from the pandemic," he said. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. Virtual care will be a lifeline for many older people who cannot leave home or do not want to do so.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Rock Health and Stanford commissioned an online survey among 7,980 U.S. adults from early September to early October 2020 to gauge peoples’ interest in and utilization of digital health tools and telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month , for example, that it would add 11 virtual services to its reimbursement list during the COVID-19 public health emergency – following in the footsteps of its earlier flexibilities for virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The ministry collaborated with the Health Development Policy Agency and the Data and Information Center to put up the said portal, which provides access to information including those related to COVID-19 and national surveys like the Indonesian Nutrition Status Survey, Basic Health Research and Health Facilities Research.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The vertical bar chart documents average real wages and the growth of poverty as published in the McKinsey report. As we enter the wild-card era of corona virus in the midst of an eroded public health system and response, these studies are particularly timely…but so sobering. That is, government spending.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In October 2020, The American Cancer Society explained that patients were postponing care, which also drove up peoples’ anxiety in dealing with their health and daily lives. adults delayed or avoided care based on a CDC report. .”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 5, 2020

He noted that during a public health crisis, the more high-quality data that is available, the better organizations will be at forecasting and planning for multiple scenarios based on their likelihood. " Rajput agreed chatbots can have some advantages.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2019

That’s a sad fiscal fact, especially as more Americans gained access to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study published this month in the American Journal of Public Health (AJPA). Between 2013 and 2016, about 530,000 bankruptcies were filed among U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This fall, The Sequoia Project began accepting applications for potential qualified health information networks (QHINs), the entities tasked with operationalizing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) established by the 21st Century Cures Act. Reducing the Inevitable Impacts of Interpretation and Assumptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

"The COVID-19 public health emergency flexibilities and waivers, including expanded reimbursement, were pivotal facilitators that led to the rapid scaling of virtual care services and allowed patients and providers to truly explore and adopt virtual care," she said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Key Responsibilities Responsible for supporting NYeC’s Policy, Compliance and Information Security Teams in managing various program responsibilities, including but not limited to the creation, collection, organization, tracking and maintenance of documentation and evidence Assist with coordination of meetings, including calendaring, tracking (..)

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 26, 2023

This week’s installment concerns a recently published blog post about a controversial reimbursement requirement for telemental health telehealth after the end of the public health emergency (PHE). The Senate Finance Committee at the time had been working on removing the in-person mandate.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Health eating, nutrition, and weight loss = $946 billion. Public health, prevention and personalized medicine = $375 billion. “Imagine if product designers worked with psychologists to prioritize mental health” from the ideation stage of consumer-facing technology development, they imagined.

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Health Intersections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

For me, it was most important to solve 2 inter-related problems: There needs to be a clear business rationale for all parties to get involved (vendors, GPs, specialists, hospitals, public health authorities) We need to solve the directory problem – how do you pay for maintaining it? (or

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. This type of document will require not only top-notch billing tools but also new levels of contractual collaboration between separate provider entities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. Following the public health emergency, primary care providers massively scaled the use of telemedicine.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JANUARY 12, 2023

In response, CMS has approved an unprecedented COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) expansion of Medicare payment for telehealth services. The new indicator has been developed to assist Medicare beneficiaries in finding appropriate providers due to the high demand for providers offering telehealth services. 2021 (2021).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

We’re seeing a “rising of all ships” as people get more used to the modality and as documentation and workflows improve. What have you learned about providers' plans to increase or decrease telehealth usage now that the public health emergency has ended? And why do you think this is?

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