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“Now we can contact any specialist in Kazakhstan any time – and save more lives.”

eVisit

The quote above came from a Kazakhstan intensive care doctor in a report just released by The World Health Organization (WHO).

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A Call to Healthcare Professionals: Contrary to what you’ve been taught, use social media

Christina's Considerations

Way back in 2005, I began blogging. After a couple of years, I got tired of explaining to my hospital administration and physician friends "what's a blog?" and "why would I want to Twitter?" Since all of the young people.

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Eyeing healthcare providers, Microsoft updates its messaging platform with interoperable EHR support, messaging features

Mobi Health News

The new features seek to streamline communication between mobile hospital clinicians, as well as boost collaboration with the wider hospital staff.

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The secret to making AI work for physicians

KevinMD

If you are a physician or know a physician or have ever visited one, chances are you have probably heard them complain about technology in health care. More to the point, they are likely to be complaining about the one piece of technology that affects their lives minute-to-minute: the electronic health record (EHR). To get […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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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 Expectation Gap Between What Patients Want Vs What They Get

Health Populi

Talk to me, patients are demanding in unison. Most health consumers expect providers to communicate about routine health care and prevention; this is especially true among those patients trying to manage chronic conditions we learn from 10 Ways to Fulfill Patients’ Communication Wish List , a report based on a consumer survey from West, the communications and network infrastructure company.

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BCG Vaccine Shows Promising Signals of T1D Efficacy

Insulin Nation

We spoke with Denise Faustman, MD, Ph.D., Director of Immunobiology Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School. The following is a summary of the research that she and her team are working on. Early Islet Trials. I started my career doing islet transplants 25 years ago and was involved in the first islet transplant trials in the US.

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DrChrono gets Meaningful Use Stage 3 certification for its mobile-first EHR

Mobi Health News

DrChrono has announced that its EHR, which runs on the iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, has attained ONC certification for Meaningful Use Stage 3. The company believes it is the first to obtain that certification for a mobile-based product.

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How can healthcare improve care for high-need, high-risk patients? Just ask them

FierceHealthIT

While lots of studies have focused on how to manage high-need, high-cost patients, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York decided to take a different approach. They asked the patients themselves how doctors and healthcare systems can best meet their needs and, in the process, cut costs.

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Thailand Board of Investment to help promote medical robotics

Mobi Health News

Under its Thailand 4.0 vision, Thailand plans to leverage on its reputation and excellence in medical services and medical devices and strengthen its position as the regional medical hub.

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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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HHS' Office for Civil Rights reports $28.7M in payments for record HIPAA enforcement year

FierceHealthIT

The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights had a record year for settlements from its enforcement of the nation's largest healthcare privacy law.

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Saliva-based glucometer, leaked Fitbits for kids and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Grants for virtual reality in surgery, a medical search engine and telemedicine in the news.

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Pennsylvania AG sues UPMC, aiming to push healthcare giant into new deal with Highmark

FierceHealthIT

Pennsylvania’s attorney general has filed suit against healthcare giant UPMC, questioning whether it has hewed to the state’s charity laws as its breakup with Highmark looms.

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Blockchain personal health record company rakes in $3.7M

Mobi Health News

The news coincides with the announcement that Embleema will be joining the Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator.

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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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Greenway Health to pay $57M to settle claims it falsified EHR certification

FierceHealthIT

Tampa, Florida-based EHR company Greenway Health has agreed to pay $57.25 million to resolve claims it falsely obtained EHR certification and paid users to promote or recommend its product to prospective new customers.

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Predictive analytics platform KenSci closes $22M Series B funding round

Mobi Health News

The new money will be used to accelerate the company's growth and global expansion.

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Looking At the Facts: Overcoming Benzodiazepine Addiction

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Anyone can become addicted to benzodiazepines, or benzos, and like any addiction, it can be a difficult thing to overcome but it is possible. Knowing the fine line between dependence and addiction can help you determine the next best steps to take. Like Xanax, Benzos are prescribed by doctors to treat patients with anxiety and […].

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Mayo Clinic teams up with Leidos to build accelerator, Save the Children taps EarlySense for pilot program and other digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: Bright.md worked with Ozers and providers from Kaiser Permanente on anxiety and depression platform; MobileSmith Health teams up with Isabel Healthcare on pediatrics app.

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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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Humana, Aledade team up to expand value-based care

FierceHealthIT

Humana is teaming with primary care company Aledade to expand access to value-based care for its Medicare Advantage members in three states.

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Eyeing healthcare providers, Microsoft updates its team coordination platform with interoperable EHR support, messaging features

Mobi Health News

The new features seek to streamline communication between mobile hospital clinicians, as well as boost collaboration with the wider hospital staff.

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Health Systems, Vendors Innovate With a Focus on Opioid Crisis

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NewYork-Presbyterian works with Splunk to create alerting platform to prevent diversion of controlled substances

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UK product safety marking for no-deal Brexit will not affect healthtech industry

Mobi Health News

UKCA marking will not be used for medical devices.

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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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Mayo Clinic and Leidos announce strategic collaboration

FierceHealthIT

Mayo Clinic and Leidos have formed a strategic collaboration to accelerate research and development of tools, technologies and therapeutics, it was announced on Thursday.

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#FHIR Events at HIMSS

Health Intersections

A couple of FHIR community members asked me about what specific FHIR events are happening at HIMSS 2019. Here’s the list of things I know about: Monday: 10:00 – 11:00 Clinical Informatics In the Age of FHIR: How API-Based Technologies are Transforming Healthcare. 11:00 – 12:00 VA API Market Challenges # 9100, Hall F. Tuesday: 11:00 – 12:00 Argonaut Project Panel Update: Where Now?

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Health IT Roundup—Facebook plans to launch blood donation tool in the U.S.; Healthcare coalition lays out AI policy recommendations

FierceHealthIT

A new Facebook tool will help connect hospitals to blood donors, a healthcare coalition has laid out policy principles to address AI in healthcare and more health IT headlines.

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One MD Executive Peers Forward Towards HIMSS19: A Rapid Acceleration of Tools Capability?

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Scott Weingarten, M.D., of Premier Inc.

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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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HIStalk Interviews Nora Lissy, Director of Healthcare, Dimensional Insight

HIStalk Interviews

Nora Lissy, RN, MBA is director of healthcare for Dimensional Insight of Burlington, MA. Tell me about yourself and the company. I’ve been a registered nurse for over 30 years. I started out as a clinician, with the majority of my time spent in the emergency room. I then got interested in hospital operations and working with the operational folks and leadership.

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The Learning Health System in Action: Studying Guideline Changes at Kaiser Permanente Washington

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Research question on gestational diabetes screening came from clinical leaders

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Congressional fallout and agenda

Morning eHealth

Feds hit Greenway Health — PDMP update

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