Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Data from an Aetna International survey also suggest that employers and convenient digital tools could play a role in connecting these potential patients to care.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Physicians' use and appreciation of information technology and digital health tools has seen a big uptick over the past five years, according to a new survey from the American Medical Association. The AMA, which first began benchmarking how various health technologies are being integrated into clinical practice in 2016, says its new research finds physicians – more than ever – see digital health as a key driver for quality outcomes, cost efficiency and patient access.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Buoy Health is launching a new coronavirus feature to help educate patients on symptoms and provide action steps.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Recognizing the importance of social determinants of health on outcomes, many health systems have begun to fund community programs targeting areas such as housing or employment insecurity. A new study in Health Affairs quantified just how much direct financial investment there is.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Buoy Health is launching a new coronavirus feature to help educate patients on symptoms and provide action steps.
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Mobi Health News
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Also: Ancestory.com cuts 6% of its workforce; NPJ Digital Medicine review outlines challenges holding digital health back.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Significantly more physicians are using emerging health technology in their clinical practice than they were just three years ago, according to a new American Medical Association survey. Check out which digital health tools physicians are using.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
We’re working on a full article about this, but most of you have probably seen that Judy Faulkner and her company, Epic, have asked their customers to send a letter to HHS asking for them to stop the health data blocking rule that’s about to be finalized. There’s a lot of nuance to this discussion […].
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Insurance giant Anthem is betting big on blockchain technology with several pilot projects in the works. One pilot project makes it easier for patients to access and share their health data.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The following is a guest article by USF Health Online. The healthcare industry has spent the better part of the last decade building new and revamping old information systems. We’ve created new ways to collect, store and share data and have been hyper focused on what comes next for that data. But as the industry […].
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Physical therapists hope to get CMS to reconsider a planned 8% cut to their Medicare reimbursements in 2021.
Healthcare IT Today
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Over the years, I’ve learned a very important lesson. There is a mis-perception that our customers do not understand security, and that they do not care. What I have found is that our customers understand security, and they communicate it in terms they know well. Unfortunately, these are not ones that Information Security professionals normally […].
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Cigna's acquisition of Express Scripts continues to pay (literal) dividends.
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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.
InTouch Health
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Helping Communities in Need Access Telehealth Services. As we move further into 2020, the benefits of telehealth are well known. Health systems that use telehealth can take on more new patients, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the overall cost of care by reducing hospital readmission rates and the average patient length of stay. Despite these benefits, telehealth adoption rates remain low throughout certain parts of the country.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Envision Healthcare CEO Chris Holden will step down, the physician staffing giant announced Wednesday.
Health Recovery Solutions
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Following a successful year that included the close of Series B funding, Health Recovery Solutions earned 2020 Best in KLAS Category Leader for Remote Patient Monitoring. In Addition, HRS received strong ratings across five categories in the recently released KLAS Remote Patient Monitoring Report: patient communication, ease of use, roadmap and vision, functionality, quality of service and support.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
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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!
HealthStream
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Healthcare employers can further insulate themselves from revenue cycle staffing issues with competency and turnover by instituting pre-hire testing to understand a candidate’s skillset and uncover areas of possible deficiency.
Synzi
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Transitioning from Inpatient to the Home Setting During the transition of care, a patient likely needs to be able to readily understand how the new post-discharge medication regimen is different from one’s preadmission medications. When medications, doses, or frequencies change … Read More. The post Optimizing Medication Management and Patient Adherence appeared first on Synzi.
HealthStream
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
For anyone responsible for compliance training, it is truly a nightmare to go through the annual process of compiling all training requirements and then organizing them into a curriculum specific for each job function within an organization
Insulin Nation
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
By far, the most stressful part of living with type 1 diabetes is low blood sugar. Not only can lows disrupt your day and leave you feeling shaky and exhausted, but if not treated quickly, they can become life-threatening. It’s this fact that leads so many people with diabetes, especially those who have just recently been diagnosed, to undertreat the condition and aim for higher blood sugar goals. .
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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The hearing loss statistics are daunting. The number is sizable – 38 million Americans have some degree of hearing loss. But probably the most startling one is related to older adults – half of those age 75+ difficulty hearing. Of those age 70 and older with hearing loss, only 30% have hearing aids. How is this the status quo? Even though age is the single greatest predictor of hearing loss, many people wait 7 or more years before attempting to address it.
FierceHealthIT
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
The Trump administration vehemently pushed back on major criticism of an initiative to get states to convert some Medicaid funding to a block grant, slamming comments as “alarming misinformation.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
Among all Americans, the most popular approach for improving the health care in the U.S. isn’t repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act or moving to a Medicare-for-All government-provided plan. It would be to improve the current health care system, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center’s research reported in a Bipartisan Rx for America’s Health Care.
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