Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has spawned many side-effects re-shaping consumers’ everyday lives. Among them, more time at home, DIY life-flows, and financial well-being are driving growth of self-care health care. An article in the latest Drug Store News talks about consumers growing more health-conscious, adopting natural, homeopathic products. “It’s about more than washing your hands,” David Salazar explains. “Fending off illness has become a state of mind for many co

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Although still a work in progress, the new center will reportedly help coordinate digital health projects within the agency while providing expertise to external stakeholders.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Amazon is expanding an initiative allowing employees to access healthcare via text message or video call from the Seattle area to throughout Washington state. The service, called Amazon Care, is available via a downloadable app to office workers and to warehouse employees. It allows individuals to communicate with a provider from Care Medical – a Bellingham-based medical group specializing in urgent care, physical therapy, occupational medicine and other needs – using in-app text mes

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The company said that its tool was "highly accurate" in a 425-participant study conducted across 14 U.S. sites.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Telehealth giant Teladoc has accused another player in the space, Amwell, of infringing on several of its patents. As reported by STAT News, Teladoc sent a letter to Amwell representatives this past week alleging that some of Amwell's products – including multiple telemedicine carts and peripheral devices for use with them, such as the Thinklabs One Digital Stethoscope and the Horus HD Digital Scope System – infringed on patents that Teladoc had acquired with its acquisition of I

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Particularly since the COVID-19 hurricane has hit the healthcare system, health systems are struggling to manage and validate even basic data on providers, according to a new research study looking at the impact of such inaccuracies on operational efficiency. The healthcare business of LexisNexis Risk Solutions surveyed more than 100 providers across the industry, including […].

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Earlier this summer, the company announced plans to expand into new markets in 2021 and to add small-business plans in certain areas.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

CMMI director finds mixed results for bundled payments, gives high marks to global budgets. rking. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 14:47.

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TheraNest

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

According to insights from emotion-focused therapy (EFT), emotional awareness, accepting each emotion, and knowing how to work with emotions are important skills essential to wellbeing. As a therapist, you can help your clients make progress by guiding them to understand how their emotions work and how to glean information from the emotions they experience.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Fauci offers defense of why Americans can trust the approval process for a potential COVID-19 vaccine. treed. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 20:44.

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TheraNest

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Many of us have had the experience of enthusiastically starting a garden only to get busy with life’s many other demands. The day-to-day to-do list prevents us from dedicating time to our garden’s growth. As a result, the vision of creating our own Garden of Eden fails to materialize. Running a psychiatric practice often follows a similar pattern. Day-to-day tasks clamor for our attention, blurring the original goals we had in mind for the practice.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Walmart piloting drone delivery for COVID-19 self-swab kits. pminemyer. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 14:26.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption. Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation. Providers either decided to switch to a different EMR or were forced to change due to the consolidation or shuttering of their […].

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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.

FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Optum: How payers can prepare now for wave of CAR-T therapies. pminemyer. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 15:14.

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Insulin Nation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Hello, You’ve asked for my story about T1D, so I decided to share it briefly with you all. I’ve been a military and civilian pilot for over 50 years. Each of those years, I’ve taken an FAA physical exam with normal results. My last exam was in November 2014, and my BG was 85. In January 2015, my wife and I decided to have the Shingles vaccine that was hyped on television at that time.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Most KN95 masks fall short of U.S. standards for effectiveness, ECRI finds. treed. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 14:26.

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eVisit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Published: Sept. 22, 2020.

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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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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

OIG: Coding errors led to $14M in overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans. rking. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 10:22.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dr. Jay LaBine (@labinejay), Chief Medical Officer and Dr. Kris Smith, President of Home-Based Medical Care at @naviHealthPAC on the topic of “Thoughtful Use of Telehealth […].

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Sam's Club membership now comes with telehealth perk. treed. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 10:28.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Nikita Singareddy and Nikhil Krishnan joined me on the show this week. You don’t often hear their last names as these two have rapidly earned their way into the ranks of first-name status in our industry. I wanted to have both of them on the show together as they have incredible rapport and both bring an absolutely refreshing and unique perspective on the industry, as younger analysts having graduated college in ‘16 and ’14.

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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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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

ASCs projected to save Medicare more than $73B in next decade: analysis. treed. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 11:12.

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MedTech Boston

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

AireHealth, a company offering an in-home virtual solution for patients with respiratory diseases, won the first-ever National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP). The post AireHealth Wins First Ever NASP Challenge appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Health Recovery Solutions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The benefits of remote patient monitoring (RPM) within the home health space have been extremely evident over the past six months. People have found ways to fully function without leaving their homes, particularly those with underlying health conditions and those who are immunocompromised.

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LeanIX

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Recently, I had the pleasure of speaking on an episode of the EM360 podcast with Arie van Bennekum, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto and thought leader at Wemanity Group, about how organizations are keeping up with the continuously advancing world of technology. With these advances, I’ve noticed certain trends that businesses have been following to stay afloat.

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Hinduja Global Solutions

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Precision utilization management: meeting patients where they are. Providers view prior authorization as a manual, burdensome, and laborious process, mostly because of process missteps such as lack of clinical data integration, inconsistency in data exchange standards, and differing policies among payers. According to a recent American Medical Association survey , handling the surging prior authorization requests translates into a “high” or “extremely high” burden for 75% of physician respondent

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Optimum Healthcare IT

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Optimum announces first 100% virtual international go-live of the Epic EHR at Royal Melbourne Hospital in Victoria, Australia. The post Optimum Healthcare IT Completes Virtual Epic Go-Live at Royal Melbourne Hospital appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Connected Health Initiative

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

(WASHINGTON, DC) September 22, 2020 - Today, the Connected Health Initiative released a statement from executive director, Morgan Reed regarding the announcement of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new Digital Health Center of Excellence: “The FDA’s announcement of its new Center of Excellence is an exciting development for the future of digital healthcare.

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