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Your doctors don’t keep track of what they’re doing

KevinMD

A little-known fact about doctors that most patients would find horrifying is that physicians don’t keep track of their results. If I botch a knee surgery so badly that my patient requires five repairs by a different specialist, I might never find out. As a result, I will continue to use a flawed technique on. Read more…. Your doctors don’t keep track of what they’re doing originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Google confirms Pixel Watch coming this fall and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Wysa receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its mental health chatbot, and Pear Therapeutics expands its telehealth partnership program.

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Broadband access, outdated laws among hurdles to equitable telehealth, says NCQA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Committee for Quality Assurance released a white paper this week exploring the root causes of disparities in virtual care access. The report , which grew out of an NCQA roundtable discussion on the future of telehealth, outlines existing barriers to equity and recommendations for improving care delivery. "Even prior to the pandemic, a change in healthcare delivery was on the horizon with ever-evolving advancements in technology," said NCQA President Margaret E.

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Roundup: Free mental health app offered to UK NHS users, Dutch startup begins study on therapy for chronic disorders, and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Free mental health app available to 1 million South Yorkshire NHS users An emotional wellness app is being offered to over 16s in the UK's South Yorkshire for free, to help manage low moods, reduce stress and improve sleep.

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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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Telemedicine for a Post-COVID World

eVisit

How to prevent falling off the pendulum of virtual care adoption. When I was younger, my parents took me to a lakeside bed and breakfast in Vermont. The lake had a rope swing, and being an adventurer, my mom decided to jump on and take it for a spin. As she reached the apex over the lake, she realized she no longer wanted to jump and began to swing back and forth like a pendulum until her strength inevitably failed her, causing her to fall and break her collar bone.

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Isn't it time for a Voice-enabled Tech Concierge?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Tech complexity for new users is getting worse. And it’s pretty obvious to anyone who is paying attention to Apple new releases , new versions of Android phones and other apps like Spotify. And then there’s the PC that runs out of memory – just encountered yesterday. You want to see what that means by checking the manual. How naïve. No manual. So you do what everyone who has just encountered an error message does.

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Roundup: Good Doctor Technology joins NHSO's COVID-19 programme and more briefs

Mobi Health News

Also, India Health Link has partnered with Medikabazaar to promote its health kiosk through the latter's extensive delivery network.

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The Importance of Marketing to the Future of Health IT Success

Healthcare IT Today

Certainly, this article is inspired by the past 3 days I’ve spent with the Healthcare and IT Marketing Community (HITMC) at the annual conference. Spending multiple days with some of the best healthcare and IT marketing and PR professionals makes it easy to see and understand the impact that marketing can have on healthcare. Plus, […].

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Maternal health startup Mahmee scores $9.2M

Mobi Health News

The company said it would use the Series A to expand its team, build its provider network, and add partnerships with health systems and payers.

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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.

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Digital Innovation Spurs Seamless Healthcare Engagement

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Keith Algozzine, co-founder and CEO, UCM Digital Health. An unexpected side effect of the pandemic is how the health industry quickly realized the extraordinary advantages stemming from the rapid adoption of advanced, end-to-end telehealth […].

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Singapore-based digital health startup Ordinary Folk gets $5M in pre-Series A funding

Mobi Health News

It looks to grow its engineering, product, and design teams while expanding across Asia.

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Turquoise Health Raises $20M Series A Financing, Launches Direct Contracting Platform

Healthcare IT Today

Led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Bessemer, Box Group, and Tiger Global Turquoise Health, an end-to-end healthcare pricing platform, today announced a $20M Series A investment led by existing investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Bessemer, Box Group, and new investor Tiger Global. In conjunction with the financing, a16z General Partner Julie Yoo […].

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KT Corp. plans Vietnam launch of telemedicine platform for chronic disease management

Mobi Health News

The telemedicine platform will start by offering diabetes care support.

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

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.

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The Future of Clinical Technology Has Arrived

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Alejandro Spiotta, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of South Carolina. Physicians are only human – we don’t have limitless computing capacity, we undergo emotional strain and feel the symptoms of burnout. As a physician, one of the ways I (and many others) unplug and recharge is through […].

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How to Optimize Adherence of Wearables in Your Clinical Research

ActiGraph

The most critical factor to the success of any clinical research study is participant adherence to the study design. As the use of wearable technologies becomes more and more mainstream in clinical research, it presents unique challenges and considerations to ensure proper protocol adherence with minimal missing data. Many of these considerations have to do with the usability of the wearables and the platform required for data collection.

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How to Optimize Adherence of Wearables in Your Clinical Research

ActiGraph

The most critical factor to the success of any clinical research study is participant adherence to the study design. As the use of wearable technologies becomes more and more mainstream in clinical research, it presents unique challenges and considerations to ensure proper protocol adherence with minimal missing data. Many of these considerations have to do with the usability of the wearables and the platform required for data collection.