Mon.Jul 29, 2019

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When physicians focus more on screens than patients

KevinMD

As Wei Wei Lee sat with her doctor to discuss starting a family, she felt a “distance” between them. The physician was busy on the computer and focused on the screen. “It just didn’t feel very personal,” Lee said. “I didn’t feel heard.” It seemed as though keeping a record of the conversation was more […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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100 Million People in America Lack Broadband — an On-Ramp to Health and Safety

Health Populi

One in three Americans does not have a broadband connection, according to a new report from the NPD Group. This means that about 100 million people in the U.S. can’t benefit from telehealth and other digital health connections that can bolster self-care, home care, and lower cost care. Most of these folks in the broadband-digital divide live in rural America/. “The so-called digital divide, between those that can or cannot make the best use of the Internet, can be clearly felt in rur

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Livongo's CEO says opening day success signals healthy digital health market

Mobi Health News

The company closed its first day roughly 36% above its initial pricing of $28.

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Should Physicians Disclose Genetic Biomarker Results for Alzheimer’s Disease to Healthy Individuals?

CE App

Communicating risk status for a complex disease such as Alzheimer’s can be challenging. Should providers disclose genetic screening and biomarkers risk results that are solely predictive to their patients? Even if a patient cannot use this information to seek further treatment? Are the potential benefits of seeking early treatment once the initial signs of the disease worth any related worries or fears of the onset of cognitive decline and impairments?

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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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JAMA editorial highlights pros, cons of D2C telemedicine services

Mobi Health News

The increasingly popular business model has its fair share of unknowns regarding the quality of its services.

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Kaiser Permanente taps Prat Vemana as first chief digital officer

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente has tapped Home Depot executive Prat Vemana as its first chief digital officer for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. Vemana will lead the ongoing development and execution of Kaiser Permanente’s digital vision and strategy, in collaboration with internal health plan, hospital, and medical group teams.

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Top Startups That Will Change Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Michael Dehoyos, web developer, PhD Kingdom and Next Coursework. Technology is advancing at an unbelievably rapid pace and there are new breakthroughs every day for artificial intelligence and big data in multiple industries. They have the potential to completely revolutionize the field of healthcare and some changes are already starting to take place.

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Rite Aid launches telehealth service through in-store kiosks

FierceHealthIT

Drug store chain Rite Aid Corporation is adding telehealth to its in-store healthcare services. In partnership with telehealth company InTouch Health, Rite Aid will begin offering a virtual service that connects customers with clinicians via its RediClinic Express kiosks located in retail stores.

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Improving patient involvement through better tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Improving patient involvement through better tools Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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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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Study: Rapid response teams work best with dedicated staff, autonomy

FierceHealthIT

A recent study out of the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine looked at how rapid response teams performed during an in-hospital cardiac arrest at top-performing hospitals.

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Researchers Develop Predictive Risk Model to Identify Low Blood Sugar in Diabetic Patients

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

For the study, EHR data and NLP were used to identify episodes of hypoglycemia

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Mayo Clinic tops U.S. News' best hospitals list

FierceHealthIT

Fifty-seven hospitals across the country received high performance rankings in nine specialty procedures and conditions, according to U.S. News & World Report.

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MU Study Suggests That A Health IT Divide May Be Emerging Among Physicians

Healthcare IT Today

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program. Now, research has emerged to suggest that not only did MU create HIT winners and losers, it might also have helped to foster long-term differences between […].

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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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Judge strikes down New Hampshire Medicaid work requirements program

FierceHealthIT

A federal judge struck down New Hampshire’s work requirements for Medicaid, making it the third state to lose in court over the work requirements.

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Telehealth: the new 2020 taste sensation

Morning eHealth

Facebook settlement: leaving health privacy behind?

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CVS Caremark to expand diabetes program to preventive, hypertension care

FierceHealthIT

CVS Caremark is growing its diabetes care program with the goal of greater prevention, the company announced Tuesday.

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New Funding Makes OCHIN Largest Health Center Controlled Network

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Organization to partner with primary care associations on training, technical assistance across 14 states

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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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In ongoing feud with PillPack, Surescripts bars ReMy Health from using its patient data

FierceHealthIT

As part of an ongoing feud with Amazon's PillPack, electronic prescribing company Surescripts is barring a startup, ReMy Health, from accessing its patient prescription data and is in the processing of turning the matter over the FBI.

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Healthcare Regulations: Buying or Selling? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 16

Healthcare IT Today

For the 16th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about whether we’re “buying” or “selling” various healthcare regulations. Back in Episode 12 of the podcast, we tried out a new format we called Health IT: Buy or Sell? It was so popular that we decided to bring it back again in this episode […] Regulation is a major part of healthcare and that's unlikely to change.

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Study: Google Translate accurate enough to convert medical research into English

FierceHealthIT

An improvement in the quality of Google Translate’s algorithm could improve the development of evidence-based medical practices.

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New Series on THCB — The Health Data Goldilocks Dilemma: Privacy? Sharing? Both?

E-CareManagement

Once upon a time, there lived a little girl whose name was Goldilocks. She was a wise girl who was aware that there was great value in health data. One day she decided to go for a walk in the forest of the U.S. healthcare system. Goldilocks learned that there are risks of TOO LITTLE health data being shared: That she and her care providers would not have the best information for clinical decision making.

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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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Keep An Eye Out for Letter 5699 [UPDATE]

ACA Times

3 minute read: We can expect a blizzard of ACA notices and penalty assessments being sent by the IRS as the tax agency steps up its ACA enforcement activities with those employers it has determined failed to comply with the ACA in the 2017 tax year. These notices include Letter 5699, Letter 226J and Letter 5005A. IRS Letter 5699 is a notice sent to employers the IRS believes are Applicable Large Employers or ALEs that failed to file and or furnish the required ACA information by the mandated dea

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4 Examples of Engaging Heart & Vascular Service Line Web Content

Geonetric

Start with Strategy Before you start writing—or even outlining—your service line section, take these steps: Consider your voice, tone, and style – Will your content be academic and authoritative or caring and conversational? Determine your project goals – What do you want to accomplish with this new content? For example, are you hoping to increase […].

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Development and validation of mortality prediction models

Hinduja Global Solutions

Development and validation of mortality prediction models. ABSTRACT . Objective. The objective is to develop and validate a predictive model for 15-month mortality using a random sample of community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries. Data source The Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Limited Data Set files containing the five per cent samples for 2014 and 2015.

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Cut Down on OSHA Reported Events with Athletic Trainers and Telemedicine

Ortholive

Aggressively managing safety in your warehouse or construction site means more money on your bottom line in the long-term. When preventing injuries fails, responding to job site incidents requires an immediate response to help triage employees and better manage workers compensation claims and expenses. Around 80% of all job-related incidents are musculoskeletal sprains and strains.

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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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New Generations, Digital Expectations

GlobalMed

Malcolm X said, “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” It’s sage advice that many clinicians might agree with. After all, a patient’s behaviors and choices today influence their well-being in the future. But what about provider preparation? Have hospitals and private practices laid the groundwork for tomorrow’s success?

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4 Examples of Engaging Heart & Vascular Service Line Web Content

Geonetric

Start with Strategy Before you start writing—or even outlining—your service line section, take these steps: Consider your voice, tone, and style – Will your content be academic and authoritative or caring and conversational? Determine your project goals – What do you want to accomplish with this new content? For example, are you hoping to increase […].

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Synzi Makes Top 100 Best Companies List

Synzi

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Synzi, a leading technology company, announced that is has been recently named one of Florida’s Best Companies To Work For. “We are proud to be named to this prestigious list of Best Companies To Work For In … Read More. The post Synzi Makes Top 100 Best Companies List appeared first on Synzi.

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