Wed.Aug 31, 2022

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How to make remote patient monitoring work for consumers

Mobi Health News

During a panel at the Connected Health Summit, participants discussed the growth of remote patient monitoring technology and how providers can encourage its use, particularly among seniors.

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JAMA Article Shows Telehealth Slowed Opioid Overdoses During Pandemic

Continue Education Journal

WASHINGTON, DC, AUGUST 31, 2022 – The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and ATA Action issued the following statement in response to today’s publication of a study authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. This study, published online in JAMA Psychiatry (doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry. 2022.2284), examined the impact of telehealth services for substance use disorder treatment and the p

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New technologies may mitigate fall risk – and just in time

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The stats on death from falls are startling – especially for the 65+. Death rates are rising, projected to be 7 up to deaths per hour for the 65+ by 2030. And that falls are the leading cause of injury death among the 65+. Did you know that the majority of hip fractures are from falling, usually sideways ? Did you know that medical costs from falls was $50 billion in were projected to be $52 billion in 2020?

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Addictive Social Media & Work Overload: Social Media Depression?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Research has found that work overload can lead to mental health problems, particularly burnout, decreased life satisfaction, and work dissatisfaction. It also can contribute to depression, anxiety (Elshaer et al., 2018 ), and other mental health consequences (Dar et al., 2011 ). People often cope with work overload by using social media for entertainment and distraction to find an escape (Zhang et al., 2019 ).

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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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Five Reasons A Clinician Should Attend ATA’s Annual Conference

Healthcare IT Today

CME conferences are great. You get to see old friends and meet new colleagues in your field. But often CME conferences have topics centered around traditional healthcare. Also, after being in healthcare for a decade, the topics are familiar and unless you’re in academia and research, probably not always that impactful on your medical practice day-to-day.

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Future of Telehealth: Experienced Practitioners Increasingly Pursuing Telehealth Jobs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A recent report by SteadyMD , New Proprietary Data from SteadyMD Finds That Experienced Doctors & Therapists View Telehealth as a Better Way to Practice Medicine , throws light on the opinions and telehealth satisfaction of more than 1,700 clinicians, including doctors, nurses, and therapists. B2B telehealth infrastructure supplier across all 50 states, SteadyMD, conducted the study to understand better what motivated healthcare workers to take up positions in telehealth rather than traditio

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A Guide to Pneumonia Patient Education with Telehealth & RPM?

Health Recovery Solutions

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can cause mild to severe illness in people of all ages. According to the? CDC , 1.5 million people in the United States were diagnosed with pneumonia and required emergency department care in 2018.

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Older Adults & Virtual Reality Mental Health

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Older adults are at greater risk of developing the mental health consequences associated with poor well-being, including depression, loneliness, mood disorders, physical health issues like heart disease, and more rapid physiological health declines (Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2007 ). Research has found that regular contact with nature and the outdoors improves functioning in social, emotional, and physical well-being (OECD, 2013 ).

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Finding the Right RPM Solution for Your Patient Population

Health Recovery Solutions

Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is gaining substantial traction ? with healthcare providers nationwide, and for good reason. RPM lets healthcare professionals manage a wide range of patient conditions with enhanced clinical efficiency while providing patients better care at lower costs.

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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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Featured Health IT Job: Director/Sr Director of Finance

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director/Sr Director of Finance position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Rochester RHIO and is in Rochester, New York. Here’s a description of the position: Job Title: Director/Sr.

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GOA & IBM Data Breach Report Reveal Alarming Security Breaches in Healthcare

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Politico’s recent investigation revealed a record number of cyber security breaches in healthcare, exposing the protected health information of an estimated 50 million people. Healthcare data is highly sought after. Sold on the dark web, healthcare data is used for false identification documents and to make false Medicare claims, amongst other things.

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Friendly Tech and Compassionate Humans Drive Innovative Interventions to Help the Chronically Lonely

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Cindy Jordan, CEO at Pyx Health. The idea of loneliness as something that impacts health isn’t novel. For years, medical professionals have written and spoken about its impact. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) links it to serious health conditions. However, common misconceptions around loneliness persist: that it is “fixable” by being near others, that it is simply a “feeling” someone is experiencing, that it only impacts the elderly or tha

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3 Zones for Asthma and Remote Patient Monitoring

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Asthma is a long-term lung disease that damages the airways. Your lungs’ airways are tubes that carry air in and out. The airways might become irritated and narrowed if you have asthma. When you exhale, this makes it more difficult for air to flow out of your airways. The symptoms of asthma are not the same for everyone, and depending on the signs, in which zone will you be categorized. .

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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.