Tue.May 12, 2020

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St. Petersburg's journey towards an integrated EHR system

Mobi Health News

At HIMSS20 Digital, Eugene Kogan, Chief Technical Officer of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Analytics in St. Petersburg, Russia, talks hurtles and wins of moving towards continuous care.

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Seeking Comfort and Safety for Being Well: Consumers Turn to Virtual Health Modes

Health Populi

“We’re not getting back to business as usual any time soon,” Sage Growth Partners and Blackbook Research introduce their latest report on the COVID-19 pandemic, As the Country Reopens Safety Concerns Rise. One of the areas that won’t be getting “back to business” soon will be patients’ visits to doctors’ offices, hospitals, and urgent care centers, the report notes, based on a survey conducted among 591 U.S. consumers on April 28 and 29, 2020.

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Study: Symptom checker app data reinforces link between COVID-19, loss of smell, taste

Mobi Health News

Downloaded and used by millions of U.K. and U.S. residents, the study app provided data on which symptoms are associated with confirmed cases, and roughly how many untested users likely have the disease.

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KFF: More than 20M of newly unemployed could qualify for ACA tax credits

FierceHealthIT

As unemployment continues to skyrocket due to COVID-19, a new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows more than 20 million people losing job-based insurance could qualify for ACA tax credits to lower the cost of insurance.

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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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COVID-19: Balancing risk with reward

Mobi Health News

The COVID-19 crisis has undoubtedly accelerated the adoption of digital health. Apps can play a key role in the way health and care services are delivered to patients, in supporting people to self-manage their health and wellbeing, says Liz Ashall-Payne, CEO of ORCHA.

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Smart baby monitor maker Nanit scores $21M in growth funding

Mobi Health News

The new funding is expected to help the company grow its product line.

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The Critical Features That Telemedicine Must Offer

Healthcare IT Today

If you want to know what’s happening in telemedicine and where it’s headed, one of the best people to ask is Michael Gorton. Along with Byron Brooks, MD, he founded Teladoc, the leading company in that space. Gorton recently took the helm at MediOrbis. Telehealth advocates actually made a good amount of progress over the […].

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Telehealth substance use disorder program collects $4M seed funding

Mobi Health News

Lucid Lane combines regular virtual coaching with mobile, data-driven care plans.

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Here's a look at salaries of U.S. front-line workers in COVID-19 fight compared to the rest of the world

FierceHealthIT

U.S. healthcare workers on the front lines of fighting COVID-19 are among the top paid in the world compared to other major developed nations, according to a new study released this week.

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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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2020 Health IT Trends: Revisited

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Susan deCathelineau, senior vice president sales and services, Hyland Healthcare. Much like the formation of New Year’s Resolutions, the prediction of technology trends for the coming year has become a tradition among pundits, analysts […]. The article 2020 Health IT Trends: Revisited appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Startup Carbon Health lands $28M cash infusion to combat COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Health startups that focus on virtual care are getting an injection of cash from investors amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Case in point: San Francisco-based Carbon Health scored a $28 million funding round from existing investor Data Collective in an extended series B.

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Keeping Healthcare Connected with End-to-End Network Resilience

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Marcio Saito, CTO, Opengear. In the past few months, telehealth services have helped many to obtain medical services and avoid exposure to COVID-19 while freeing up resources for those facing graver conditions. This is […]. The article Keeping Healthcare Connected with End-to-End Network Resilience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Industry Voices—4 important ways healthcare systems should change after COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

The pandemic has now made a compelling and urgent case for change, both by highlighting the unpreparedness of many hospitals and through the increasing financial pressures on the industry. Here are four big ways hospitals and healthcare systems are set to evolve in the post-COVID-19 world.

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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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Keeping Families and Patients Updated in the ICU with Cisco’s Video Conferencing Solution

CiscoHealth

The Customer Story blog series highlights how Cisco’s collaboration technology has helped customers solve their business challenges. Learn how Cisco is meeting customers where they are helping them achieve their business goals. NUI Galway, Cisco, and IBM Team up to Connect Family Members with Patients and Staff in the ICU. When the visiting restrictions were introduced in early March, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) team in University Hospital Galway (UHG) in Ireland realized that it was goi

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Faxing: How to Stay HIPAA Compliant When Working Remotely

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. There are thousands of articles on the internet about how to best work remotely from home. What has not been covered is faxing from home, especially when it relates to faxing medical records or Protected Health Information (PHI) Utilizing a HIPAA Compliant cloud fax […].

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Kaiser Permanente just joined forces with Esports team Cloud9. Here's why

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente and the Esports giant Cloud9 are joining forces to educate young people on mental health and to reduce stigma.

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International Nurses Week 2020: Compassion, Expertise, and Trust

Digital Health Today

WHO designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Two additional events, National Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2020) and International Nurses Day (May 12, 2020), provide even more opportunity to recognize the nurses working at the front lines, and how this important group of professionals hold the key to shaping the future of healthcare. The role of nurses in our modern society.

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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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NEJM: OpenNotes/”OurNotes” releases its innovative pre-visit questionnaire for COVID-19 televisits

Society for Participatory Medicine

This morning the New England Journal of Medicine released the latest publication about OpenNotes. The news: an innovative pre-visit form created for the “OurNotes” study has been released before the study is completed, for other providers to use to improve televisits during the pandemic. To access the form on the OpenNotes COVID-19 page shown above, click here.

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“Grit and Grind”: How a Solid Infrastructure and IT Team Have Become Difference Makers

Health System CIO

As healthcare organizations were forced to scale up telehealth and remote work capabilities at unprecedented levels in response to Covid-19, two distinguishing factors have emerged: a solid infrastructure and a capable IT team, according to our panelists.

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Why Information Sharing and Accelerating Response Times Are Critical During a Crisis

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Harold Byun, Vice President at Baffle. In October 2019, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) ran three simulated scenarios to map how nations, organizations and economies would respond in the face of a global crisis. The three scenarios were: a nation-state cyberattack and a disinformation campaign […].

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UnitedHealthcare files to enter Maryland's ACA exchange

FierceHealthIT

After severely scaling back its presence on the Affordable Care Act exchanges in 2016, UnitedHealthcare is eyeing an expansion of its offerings.

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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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Improving Communication in the Emergency Room

HealthStream

While communication is extremely important in every healthcare environment, the Emergency Room stands out as one where communication success is critical, especially when saving lives can be a matter of quick decisions and responses within minutes or hours.

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COVID-19: A Catalyst of Change for Rural America

GlobalMed

COVID-19 has arrived in rural America, threatening the livelihoods of its most vulnerable residents. Many rural communities have an older, poorer population, and limited hospitals and medical staff. A Kaiser Health News study found that overall, 18 million people live in ?counties that have hospitals but no ICU , and about a quarter of those people are over the age of 60.