Tue.Aug 25, 2020

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Telehealth Use Among Older Americans: Growing Interest, Remaining Concerns

Health Populi

In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.

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Fitbit releases new smartwatch with ECG app, stress management features, skin temperature sensor and more

Mobi Health News

Fitbit announced today three new wearables – the Fitbit Sense, Fitbit Versa 3 and Fitbit Inspire 2 – to its product pipeline. The Fitbit Sense marks the company’s first “advanced health” smartwatch, including an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor, an electrocardiogram app, a heart rate tracker and an on-wrist skin temperature sensor with more than six days of battery life.

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NYC elder care provider using FCC funds for telehealth, protecting seniors from COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Earlier this year, the FCC awarded Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation in New Hyde Park, New York, $97,965 for telehealth services and connected devices, including remote monitoring devices, to care for the elderly and chronically ill in its 527-bed skilled nursing facility and rehabilitation center specializing in the care of older adults.

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24 consumer tech and digital health companies join new push for industry-wide digital therapeutics standards

Mobi Health News

Under the banner of the Consumer Technology Association, the companies hope that clear standards will improve digital therapeutics adoption and implementation.

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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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CMS to require hospitals to report critical COVID-19 data on bed capacity, PPE and cases

FierceHealthIT

CMS to require hospitals to report critical COVID-19 data on bed capacity, PPE and cases. rking. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 16:20.

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Lyra Health gains unicorn status as demand for teletherapy soars

FierceHealthIT

Lyra Health gains unicorn status as demand for teletherapy soars. hlandi. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 17:41.

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A Look at Healthcare AI Powered Chatbots and Virtual Assistants with Stefan Behrens from GYANT

Healthcare IT Today

One of my favorite parts of healthcare IT right now is virtual assistants and AI powered chat bot. While there’s certainly a lot of activity in the space, it’s sometimes hard to figure out what’s really happening and what’s hype with all this new technology. To help us cut through the noise, we sat down […].

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Medicaid naloxone prescriptions rose dramatically in last decade: Urban Institute

FierceHealthIT

Medicaid naloxone prescriptions rose dramatically in last decade: Urban Institute. pminemyer. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 13:52.

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How To Shed Your Stubborn Belly Fat Without Exercise

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Do you want to burn your belly fat but don’t know where to start? Or looking for additional means to shed belly fat beyond traditional exercise? Belly fat is not good for you as it increases your weight, changes your physical appearance, and leaves you vulnerable to various health problems. In this article, I will […]. The post How To Shed Your Stubborn Belly Fat Without Exercise appeared first on Healthystic.

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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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Alphabet's Verily breaks into stop-loss health insurance market backed by Swiss Re

FierceHealthIT

Alphabet's Verily breaks into stop-loss health insurance market backed by Swiss Re. hlandi. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 15:08.

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Curing Type 1 Diabetes with an ‘Inverse Vaccine’

Insulin Nation

Recently, we covered a potential diabetes cure that uses engineered T cells to stop the destruction of beta cells in those living with type 1 diabetes. Now, another potential diabetes cure that works to stimulate the proper functioning of the immune system is in the works. This new ‘inverse vaccine’ involves the use of anti-inflammatory dendritic cells with the potential to retrain the immune system to be less reactive toward insulin-producing beta cells.

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Drugmakers getting bolder in fight over 340B drug discounts

FierceHealthIT

Drugmakers getting bolder in fight over 340B drug discounts. rking. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 16:39.

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Insights & Trends from Geonetric’s 2020 Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey

Geonetric

Attend our September webinar Register Now 2020 has been a year like no other in modern healthcare marketing. And the results of the 2020 Healthcare Digital Marketing Trends Survey provides incredible insight into how healthcare marketers are changing strategies and tactics to engage their communities, communicate with employees, and stay competitive.

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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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Industry Voices—Interoperability can cut health costs by $30B. But this needs to happen first

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Interoperability can cut health costs by $30B. But this needs to happen first. treed. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 14:06.

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The Impact on Provider Selection and Appointment Booking Amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT Today

As healthcare has had to adapt to COVID-19, one of the areas impacted most was how and when patients schedule appointments. To better understand some of the changes that COVID-19 has brought to healthcare, we interviewed Puneet Maheshwari, Co-founder and CEO of DocASAP, to learn what he’s seeing with their customers when it comes to […].

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Most medical residents are dissatisfied with their salaries. Here's how much more they want to be paid

FierceHealthIT

Most medical residents are dissatisfied with their salaries. Here's how much more they want to be paid. hlandi. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 12:03.

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Long-Term Effects of Fear and Isolation Are Expected to Escalate

Iris Telehealth

A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll reported that nearly half (45%) of adults in the United States said that their mental health had been negatively impacted due to worry and stress over COVID-19 and the resulting quarantine. The CDC also recently reported that 25.5% of 18-24-year-olds surveyed had seriously considered suicide in the past 30 days.

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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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Why Content Strategy Matters in Your Healthcare Intranet

Geonetric

Many of the common complaints employees have with their intranets are multifaceted – difficult navigation, outdated or duplicate documents and forms, inaccessible from some devices (like their phones) – but most of them can be addressed with effective content strategy. What is content strategy? We like this definition from content strategy pioneer Kristina Halvorson: “Content […].

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COVID-19 Pandemic Escalated the Value for Care Using Telehealth

HealthStream

Though telehealth services were already on the rise, 2020 escalated the need for these services with the arrival of COVID-19. Telehealth became a lifeline for patients requiring care but also with a critical need to stay home.

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Online Practices – Get Found On Google With Better Website Expertise, Authority, and Trustworthiness (E-A-T)

VSee

If you have an online medical practice you could be losing out on potential Google search traffic if your website hasn’t been properly set up or updated to show expertise, authority, and trustworthiness (E-A-T). In August 2018, Google announced that in the coming years it was going to be paying closer attention when evaluating the.

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Industry Voices—Teladoc-Livongo merger means virtual care will finally reach the most vulnerable patients

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Teladoc-Livongo merger means virtual care will finally reach the most vulnerable patients. hlandi. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 10:32.

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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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Amwell inks deal with Google Cloud and files to go public

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Deloitte: Medicaid, ACA exchange plan enrollees embracing virtual health

FierceHealthIT

Deloitte: Medicaid, ACA exchange plan enrollees embracing virtual health. pminemyer. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 14:30.

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Health tech company Emme launches birth control tracking smart case and app

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hormonal oral contraception, or "the pill," is 99% effective when used perfectly – taken every day at the same time. But that's not always an easy goal to accomplish; in typical use, the average efficacy drops to about 91%. "I really saw this as a problem that can be solved with modern technology," Amanda French, cofounder and CEO of the health technology vendor Emme, told Healthcare IT News.