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How Safe Are Mental Health Apps?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Mental health awareness is reaching an all-time high. Conditions such as anxiety, depression, and substance addiction are finally starting to be taken seriously, and people are finally seeking necessary help. Almost 30% of Americans have […]. The article How Safe Are Mental Health Apps?

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Gympass scores $220M to support the return of in-person fitness

Mobi Health News

This new funding brings the company's total valuation to $2.2 billion.

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Metro Health's telehealth and RPM program is helping patients avoid hospital stays

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Metro Health/University of Michigan Health is an osteopathic teaching hospital serving more than 250,000 patients per year throughout western Michigan. THE PROBLEM. Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. The team believed that telehealth and RPM would be the future of healthcare delivery, but were spending time outlining current challenges, program goals and the features its telehealth/

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Digital physical therapy company Physitrack goes public in $20M IPO

Mobi Health News

The company's IPO included around 4.4 million shares.

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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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Aduhelm and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Potential Medicare Budget-Buster Puts A Blazing Light on Health Care Costs and Innovation

Health Populi

The FDA’s approval of the first therapy to treat Alzheimer’s Disease in over twenty years brought attention to a not-yet-convened debate of U.S. health care costs and spending, innovation, and return-on-the-investment (as well as “for whom” do the returns accrue). In my latest post for Medecision, I explore different angles on the Aduhelm and Alzheimer’s discussion, covering: The macro- and micro-economics of Alzheimer’s and the $56,000 list price for the drug

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Problems With Epic’s Sepsis Prediction Model Underscore Larger Issues With Algorithmic Prediction Models

Healthcare IT Today

Recently, a small blaze of negative publicity erupted when research was published suggesting that Epic’s deterioration index designed to predict the onset of sepsis performs far worse than the vendor claims. Researchers behind the study, which appears in JAMA Internal Medicine, examined a cohort of 27,697 patients undergoing 38,455 hospitalizations, concluding that sepsis occurred in […].

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Excited to share Apple Health Records with a doctor? Thank data interoperability standards like SMART and FHIR

FierceHealthIT

Excited to share Apple Health Records with a doctor? Thank data interoperability standards like SMART and FHIR. dmuoio. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 17:15.

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How telehealth is improving population health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Former CMMI chief Smith launching value-based care company targeting rural providers

FierceHealthIT

Former CMMI chief Smith launching value-based care company targeting rural providers. pminemyer. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 16:10.

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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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HIT Tech Enablement and Staffing – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/2 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dalton Patterson (@MrDollyPat) from @CorroHealth on the topic “Rev Cycle.” In recent months there has been an obvious uptick in autonomous solutions, AI, and tech enablement. […].

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Swift Medical's latest partnership accelerates its push into home health market

FierceHealthIT

Swift Medical's latest partnership accelerates its push into home health market. hlandi. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 08:30.

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Behind the Scenes of Successful Healthcare Content Marketing

Geonetric

When done well, it can help you build brand awareness and loyalty ahead of critical healthcare decisions. Join us for this webinar and learn how to leverage the right strategies for your content marketing plan, from research to writing and promoting. You’ll walk away with ideas and strategies to create content your audience wants to […]. Read Behind the Scenes of Successful Healthcare Content Marketing at Geonetric.com.

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OIG: CMS lacks the teeth to ensure hospitals are ready for emerging infectious diseases

FierceHealthIT

OIG: CMS lacks the teeth to ensure hospitals are ready for emerging infectious diseases. dmuoio. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 12:15.

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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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More Than a COVID Chatbot: Memorial Health System Sees More Uses Post Pandemic

Healthcare IT Today

Implementing digital health technology to help during the COVID pandemic was necessary. Leveraging those technologies beyond their COVID use-cases should now be a priority for healthcare organizations. Memorial Health System in Illinois is doing just that with their chatbot from LifeLink, to the delight of both staff and patients. Jay Roszhart, President of MHS Ambulatory […].

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Aetna Foundation, U.S. News report: Healthiest communities tend to be less COVID vaccine hesitant

FierceHealthIT

Aetna Foundation, U.S. News report: Healthiest communities tend to be less COVID vaccine hesitant. pminemyer. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 14:03.

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ACA Survives Supreme Court, Focus Shifts to More Advancements

ACA Times

Earlier this month the Supreme Court issued its decision to uphold the ACA, dismissing the challengers who asserted it was unconstitutional. So, what happens next? Now that the healthcare law is out of harm’s way for the foreseeable future, we thought it best to comment on Biden’s current ACA advancements and forecast where the administration will focus its priorities moving forward.

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Physician productivity, revenues rebounding to pre-pandemic levels: report

FierceHealthIT

Physician productivity, revenues rebounding to pre-pandemic levels: report. hlandi. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 12:44.

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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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EA Maturity Today: Goals for Continuous Transformation

LeanIX

IT planning is no longer a linear “As-Is” to “To-Be” process. Rather, innovation at an enterprise-level means balancing a multitude of digital transformations at once — all of which are interconnected and have no clear end date. A confluence of common IT change events — from cloud migrations to ERP roll-outs to M&As/carve-outs — is leading businesses to prioritize adaptable plans over conclusive implementations.

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CVS, Anthem, Intermountain form coalition to push for regulatory changes for home dialysis

FierceHealthIT

CVS, Anthem, Intermountain form coalition to push for regulatory changes for home dialysis. hlandi. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 17:45.

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Digital health industry sees growing focus on LGBTQ+ health

Mobi Health News

Already in 2021, LGBTQ+-focused companies have boosted their total funding to $39 million, according to Rock Health’s estimates.

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Industry Voices—To see where digital therapeutics is heading, look to MSK care

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—To see where digital therapeutics is heading, look to MSK care. hlandi. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 15:44.

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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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Telemedicine saves the day for Avera Health in the COVID-19 era

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been at the forefront of virtual care since the mid-1990s. But with the arrival of COVID-19, the organization was challenged with revisiting its telehealth strategy to reduce virus spread while still providing essential care services to its rural communities. Avera undertook a multifaceted approach to safer coronavirus diagnosis and treatment through telehealth, including a COVID-19 hotline, virtual visits and a hospital-at-home program.

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$28M series B in hand, Syllable looks to revamp healthcare customer service with AI

FierceHealthIT

$28M series B in hand, Syllable looks to revamp healthcare customer service with AI. dmuoio. Tue, 06/29/2021 - 21:54.

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