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What if this is as good as it gets?

Joseph C. Kvedar, MD – Reinventing Healthcare

What if this is as good as it gets? These words from the 1997 romantic comedy that starred Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt keep coming into my head these days. I can’t help but recall the ATA annual meeting in June 2020, when it seemed like telehealth was the king of healthcare delivery. Three months … What if this is as good as it gets?

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Owlet receives FDA clearance for its pulse oximetry sock for infants

Mobi Health News

BabySat, available via prescription, alerts parents when their baby's heart rate or blood oxygen saturation falls out of a prescribed range.

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How RPM can solve many patient and provider problems in rural areas

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Rural communities across the U.S. are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. One way people in these rural areas still can receive access to high-quality healthcare in a convenient and cost-effective way is through telemedicine and remote patient monitoring options.

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Study: Employers can help Americans live 90% of their lives in good health

Mobi Health News

A report published by Deloitte says employers can help Americans live longer, gaining nearly 20 more healthy years, utilizing current innovation.

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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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The CONNECT for Health Act is reintroduced, again

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A bipartisan group of legislators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies for Health Act – first introduced in 2016 – to expand opportunities and coverage for telehealth through Medicare. This is the second time the bill has been reintroduced. WHY IT MATTERS Last introduced in 2021, CONNECT 2023 would expand coverage of telehealth services through Medicare, make permanent COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities and make it easier for pa

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FutureRx Appoints Eric Grossman As Chief Commercial Officer

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. FutureRx (FRx) announced today the appointment of Eric Grossman as its chief commercial officer, tasked with all aspects of the commercial strategy related to its innovative FRx cloud-based healthcare platform and FRx Marketplace for health […] The article FutureRx Appoints Eric Grossman As Chief Commercial Officer appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Closed Loop Medicine Appoints Kate Woolland as Chief Operating Officer

Digital Health Global

Key executive appointment supports strategic operational delivery of the Company’s product and partnership programs LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Closed Loop Medicine Ltd., a leading TechBio company developing combination prescription drug plus software therapy products that enable personalized dose optimization, today announced that it has appointed Kate Woolland as Chief Operating Officer.

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7 Ways Tech Is Empowering Veterans To Receive The Care They Need

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Veterans are the brave individuals who have dedicated their lives to serving their country. They have made immense sacrifices, risking life and limb to protect our freedoms. However, transitioning back to civilian life can be […] The article 7 Ways Tech Is Empowering Veterans To Receive The Care They Need appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Together is the first app to use generative AI to make cumbersome healthcare tasks “magically easy”

Digital Health Global

Together removes the barriers between aging Americans and better health by helping patients and caregivers manage their medications, appointments, refills, doctors and more — with no typing — just using their smartphone camera and voice. LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dr. Renee Dua and Nick Desai — who previously founded and built visionary doctor house call company Heal — today introduced Together by Renee, the first app to use generative AI to complete and manage cumbersome healthcare

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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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The Undue Burden of ONC’s HTI-1 On Providers, HIT Developers

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David Bucciferro, chair, EHR Association. The EHR Association has long supported the goals of the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1) released in April […] The article The Undue Burden of ONC’s HTI-1 On Providers, HIT Developers appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Medtech: BrainTale Gathers €4.5 Million to Accelerate the Development of Its Solution for Diagnosis, Monitoring and Prediction of Neurological Disorders

Digital Health Global

STRASBOURG, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)– BrainTale, a French medtech deciphering white matter to enable better brain care, announces it has gathered € 4.5 million from Capital Grand Est and MACSF, as well as business angels, to accelerate its development in Europe and the United States. With this fundraising, BrainTale aims to provide physicians and pharmaceutical companies with innovative solutions to improve the diagnosis, monitoring and prediction of neurological diseases and disorders

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NYU Langone sues competitor Northwell over 'confusingly similar' purple ads

FierceHealthIT

NYU Langone Health System is suing to block competitor Northwell Health from running ads the former said are mimicking its long-established color palettes and encroaching on its reputation. | NYU Langone Health System alleges that Northwell Health began to intentionally run similar ads in 2019 to cash in on the former's "outstanding reputation.

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CareView Communications Partners with Get Well to Streamline Inpatient Virtual Care

Digital Health Global

LEWISVILLE, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CareView Communications, Inc. (“CareView” or the “Company”) (OTCQB: CRVW), an information technology provider to the healthcare industry, has developed an integration with Get Well, a global leader in digital patient engagement, that allows care teams to communicate with patients using the interactive TV platform already present in the patient rooms.

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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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'Podnosis': Health equity, measuring social determinants of health

FierceHealthIT

This week the Fierce newsroom took the day off to honor Juneteenth. So we've selected a few favorite segments from the fall of 2022 to reshare in this week's episode. | This week on "Podnosis," we talk about the momentum behind addressing health equity challenges. Also under discussion is how social drivers of health are finally being recognized by CMS.

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How eClinicalWorks Integrates Disparate Data

Healthcare IT Today

Data sharing and interoperability are spreading too slowly in health care, and even if a doctor manages to get all the data, its varied formats make it hard to draw insights from. eClinicalWorks has tackled the problem with a product called PRISMA , which can search across multiple providers and provide a unified view of recent visits, test results, etc.

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The Ultimate Guide to Patient Scheduling Software: Must-Have Features and Implementation Tips

Healee

Navigating the intricate realm of patient scheduling is no easy task. From the vantage point of administrators, it entails juggling a myriad of appointments, ensuring optimal utilization of resources, maintaining... The post The Ultimate Guide to Patient Scheduling Software: Must-Have Features and Implementation Tips appeared first on Healee.

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Equip taps healthcare exec Nikia Bergan as new president to scale up virtual eating disorder treatment services

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare startup Equip has tapped former Get Well executive Nikia Bergan as its first-ever president to shepherd the company through its next growth phase. | Healthcare startup Equip has tapped former Get Well executive Nikia Bergan as its first-ever president to shepherd the company through its next growth phase.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

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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Navigating Population Health Data and HEDIS in an Ambulatory Practice

Healthcare IT Today

One of the big challenges ambulatory practices face today is how to navigate the increasingly complicated world of population including things like HEDIS scores. The good news is that the opportunity to do population health is now there thanks to all of the data that’s available to a healthcare clinic in their EHR. However, it takes more than just a report to do population health effectively and to ensure their closing the gaps in care.

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NHS England awards £25 million contract to Palantir to transition to FDP

DigitalHealth

NHS England has awarded a new contract worth £25 million to US data analytics giant Palantir to transfer current health service projects to the new FDP.

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SpendMend Acquires Rebate Insight to Expand Suite of Healthcare Cost-Cycle Optimization Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

The Acquisition of Rebate Insight Provides SpendMend with Advanced Rebate Management Automation Tools to help Healthcare Organizations Maximize Rebate Earnings and Reduce Supply Costs SpendMend , a leading provider of solutions to optimize the cost-cycle for the healthcare industry, today announced the successful completion of its purchase of Rebate Insight , a software solution provider that streamlines the management and optimization of rebates for healthcare organizations.

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Skin Analytics’ DERM technology revolutionising skin cancer care

DigitalHealth

CEO of Skin Analytics Neil Daly speaks to Digital Health about its AI tool to tackle skin cancer, including its results, benefits and challenges.

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

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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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. This week’s exciting update briefs you on the structure of two pivotal pieces of legislation that, if approved, will permanently alter the nature of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement in the United States.

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An EPR supplier duopoly in the UK would stifle future innovation

DigitalHealth

Forget the big bang approach to EPR implementation - the financial constraints on NHS trusts make it dangerous to rely on the two big suppliers. By Rachael Fox.

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Industry Voices—The 4 'Es' of values-based healthcare

FierceHealthIT

“Don’t pay for that,” my wife exhorts me as I consider ordering a bottle of premium wine during dinner. “You can buy that same wine for 10 times less at Costco. It’s not worth it.” I reconsider. | Transformation requires that we ask three fundamental questions: “What is value?” “What do we value?” and “How do we move toward values-based care?

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NHS mandate reaffirms EHR targets, delivery of federated data platform

DigitalHealth

The new NHS mandate prioritises EHR targets, development and delivery of the federated data platform and transformation of the NHS app.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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Legislation to Remove the In-Person Requirement for Telehealth & Telemedicine Reimbursement

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Since 2011, I have been writing the Telehealth.org blog to inform behavioral health professionals of telehealth advocacy to support the permanent approval of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement at state and federal levels. This week’s exciting update briefs you on the structure of two pivotal pieces of legislation that, if approved, will permanently alter the nature of telehealth and telemedicine reimbursement in the United States.

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SBOM Use Cases: 5 Teams In Your Organization That Need Them

LeanIX

SBOMs are an essential software supply chain security tool for license compliance and managing open-source software risk. However, let's explore five other use cases for this innovative system.

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Thriva partners with Superdrug to bring diagnostic testing to shops

DigitalHealth

Thriva has joined forces with high street retailer Superdrug to bring blood testing to customers via Superdrug's Health Clinics nationwide.

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