KevinMD

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

In the history of medical care, medical records served one purpose and two masters: to record diagnosis and treatment for physicians to refer to and for patients to use to transfer care when they desired. The medical record was a simple 3 x 5 or ledger card in the 1950s. The patient paid directly for […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It was the best of times, It was the worst of times, It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …. starts Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities. . That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

While medical education has felt stagnant since the 20th century, a new group of startups wants to make it more efficient, effective and affordable.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Howie Berman, executive director, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Imagine being rushed to the emergency room after a car accident or a heart attack. You’re in terrible pain, perhaps confused and disoriented. The last thing you want to have to worry about at that critical moment is the ability to communicate […].

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Despite some wins across its various business efforts, Fitbit's mounting losses provide some insight as to why the company was looking to sell.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company is also gradually diversifying its business, with 20% of the expected value of new contracts coming from the non-diabetes business.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. Precision medicine involves formulating treatments for individualized patients, typically with genetic sequencing that could shed light on the underlying causes of disease. It’s an amazing idea that could substantially reduce the likelihood of the same treatment curing one person and failing to help another.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The acquisition also gives American Well access to a handful of major provider and payer customers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The Keystone Health Information Exchange (KeyHIE), a network of more than 350 healthcare facilities, announced that it recently launched an innovative new tool that allows physicians to share medical images and associated reports to enable better care coordination, provide important clinical context for diagnostic interpretations, and improve outcomes.

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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.

Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The acquisition also gives American Well access to a handful of major provider and payer customers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Validic, a market leader in solutions for personal health data, and Trapollo, a Cox Business company and a leading provider of managed services for telehealth and remote health monitoring, announced today a strategic collaboration to offer comprehensive hardware and software services supporting remote patient monitoring (RPM).

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Healthcare Information and Management Sytems Society (HIMSS) has rebranded the organization as part of its strategy to keep pace with a rapidly changing health IT industry. And that will mean some big changes at the HIMSS20 conference in March.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Series C round brings the company's total raise to nearly $52 million.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Medicare’s payment policy is a major driver of physicians linking up with hospitals, a trend that is raising costs for beneficiaries, new data show.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The following attachment is a list of legislative and regulatory updates compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. Click the image below to view the full PDF update.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Text. Email. Web portals. Consumers use these digital tools to facilitate nearly every aspect of their lives, except one: financial communications with healthcare providers. Making digital communication a priority will improve patient experience and financial performance in an increasingly competitive industry.

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David Chou

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has agreed to pay $3 million to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and take substantial corrective action to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. #Chousangle - This is an area where, on the surface, it looks like an easy fix where every device such as a thumb drive and laptop should be encrypted.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Leapfrog released this latest set of grades Thursday, it was also responding to a new lawsuit from one of those hospitals that received a lower grade.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Justin Campbell, Vice President, Strategy, at Galen Healthcare Solutions. Purging Guidelines & Criteria HIPAA privacy rules do not address medical record retention requirements, and the guidelines from several states and the federal government are ambiguous at best. Healthcare organizations considering a purge of their archived data soon realize that errors […].

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Childhood trauma is linked to long-lasting negative health effects and physicians have a role to play in its prevention, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

National telehealth leader American Well® announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aligned Telehealth, a leader in the provision of behavioral telehealth and telepsychiatry services to hospitals and health plans. Combining Aligned Telehealth’s ability to access a network of clinical experts with American Well’s digital care delivery platform, the companies will deliver programs […].

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As the Supreme Court gets ready to decide the fate of the DACA program, leading medical organizations say rescinding it will hurt the healthcare workforce and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Interoperability generated the most excitement for the leaders of long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) organizations gathered at the annual PointClickCare user conference – #PCCSUMMIT19. Surprisingly PDPM, the new payment model for LTPAC, last year’s dominant topic, was barely mentioned. PDPM – Barely A Ripple On October 1st, 2019 the LTPAC industry experienced a seismic shift […].

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Though the average benchmark premium for ACA exchange plans in 2020 declined, there’s plenty of regional variability in premium costs, according to a new analysis.

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Synzi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Salt Lake City Agency Implements Synzi’s Virtual Care Communication Platform to Lead the Region in Delivering Innovative Patient Care ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Synzi, a leading virtual care company, has announced that Aspire Home Health and Hospice (Aspire), a leading home … Read More. The post Aspire of Utah Partners with Synzi to Strengthen Care for Diabetic Patients appeared first on Synzi.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Ryan Schmid, the co-founder of Vera Whole Health, says his company’s vision is to create a health revolution and he thinks the answer lies in advanced primary care.

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HealthStream

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

To be a successful nursing mentor requires a balancing act. One must refrain from providing too much assistance or too little in the effort to grow new nurses into clinicians who can make the bold decisions sometimes necessary to provide great, supportive patient care.

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FierceHealthIT

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Add Geisinger’s medical school to those offering free tuition to encourage more students to pursue careers in primary care.

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