Wed.Jul 27, 2022

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Included Health, Pear Therapeutics announce layoffs

Mobi Health News

Virtual care company Included Health said it reduced its headcount by less than 6%, while prescription digital therapeutics maker Pear Therapeutics laid off about 9% of its full-time workforce.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Health Populi

Apple wants to be your “intelligent guardian for health,” based on a 60-page paper shepherded by Jeff Williams, the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Published last week, the paper is one of the big signals trumpeted this U.S. summer marked by the BA.5 omicron subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, inflation pressures on our household budgets, social/political tensions, and hot-hot weather.

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Caraway raises $10.5M seed to offer virtual care to college women

Mobi Health News

The startup plans to launch its team-based mental, physical and reproductive healthcare in the fall.

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It’s 2022 – has technology use progressed in senior care?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

There is a labor shortage everywhere -- ditto in senior care. We know that one of the biggest issues in senior living (and home care, nursing homes, home health care) today is a shortage of labor. This roll-up of statistics shows more than 400,000 employees lost between 2020 and 2022, with long-term care facilities (aka nursing homes) being the most impacted.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Featured Health IT Job: Marketing Content Writer

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Marketing Content Writer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Genzeon and is a Remote Position. Here’s a description of the position: The Marketing Content Writer will be primarily responsible for content creation, helping us to bring social posts, case studies, eBooks, blog posts, white papers, video scripts, and article

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Adeel Sarwar, Chief Technology Officer at CareCloud. Home health care fills an important niche in ensuring quality, affordable care for a wide range of patients. The demand for home health services is projected to grow nearly eight percent annually through 2030, which is fueled by the majority of the Baby Boomer generation reaching the Medicare age of 65 and growing orthopedic-related diseases. .

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Why Fiber is Essential To Include in Every Plate of Food?

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

You must consume lots of fiber-rich foods, but you might also not understand why fiber is so necessary. Fiber benefits your health in a variety of aspects, including your gastrointestinal and digestive health. Make sure you have lots of fiber-rich items on your plate. It will aid with digesting, minimize blood sugar rises, and make […]. The post Why Fiber is Essential To Include in Every Plate of Food?

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Reduce Physician Burnout by Addressing Usability and Interoperability Says CMA President

Healthcare IT Today

All around the globe, healthcare systems are beginning to strain and fray as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals leave their positions or scale back their hours. There is no silver bullet. Restoring our health systems and re-energizing staff is going to require change and improvement on many fronts. Technology can help, but only if it reduces the administrative burden.

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How telehealth can help solve the physician specialist shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Everyone in healthcare is well aware of the specialists shortage crisis in the industry today. There just are not enough physician specialists to treat all the patients in need, especially ones in rural areas. One solution to this pressing challenge is telemedicine. This technology – which has finally gone mainstream, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic – can spread the expertise of specialists far and wide.

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

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.