Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. There are many signposts pointing to the various flavors of mental and behavioral health challenges, from younger peoples’ greater risk of depression and suicide ideation to increased deaths of despair due to overdose among middle-aged people.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2022

According to a study published in JMIR, providers are generally positive about remote therapy and tele-rehabilitation, but they need more training and support to overcome obstacles like technology hurdles and practical concerns.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a draft guidance focused on using digital health technologies to acquire data remotely from participants in clinical investigations of medical products. "Compared to intermittent trial visits, the use of DHTs to remotely collect data from trial participants may allow for continuous or more frequent data collection," said FDA officials.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Researchers did not find a significant reduction in the rate of hospitalizations between participants in the standard care group and those in the digital intervention group.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

Even before COVID-19, Louisville, Kentucky-based Baptist Health was facing a variety of challenges: access to care, patient experience, lack of specialists in its rural market and lack of new patient acquisition strategies in the digital space. THE PROBLEM. "For far too long, patients needed to follow the hospital's rules to seek care – must drive in, wait in a room, etc.," said Nick Sarantis, system director of digital health at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

If you can’t tell, Information Blocking is top of mind for those at ONC. We can expect more and more details coming out about what they expect from healthcare organizations and health IT companies when it comes to Information Blocking. Jonathan Bush’s vision of not competing based on access to data seems like the main […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2022

The company said it plans to put the funds towards further developing its Mantarry platform.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 3, 2022

So much happened in 2021 that should benefit older adults. It should be more feasible to purchase hearing aids ‘ over the counter’ without an exam (offered for many years in Japan , but whatever.) and at a price point that is more reasonable for largely uninsured devices. Honor bought Home Instead – which should result in more technology used in the home care industry -- and soon, hopefully, for an industry suffering from a severe labor shortage.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 3, 2022

The funds will go toward expansion in Southeast Asia.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

For the 21st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Drex DeFord, Former CIO and Executive Healthcare Strategist at Crowdstrike. In this ripped from the headlines episode, we talk about two major security breaches that impacted healthcare in a massive way. Those are the Log4j vulnerability which impacted […].

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 3, 2022

When Regina Bertlich was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer, her doctor referred her to palliative care and never told her that clinical trials could be an option. Regina’s daughter, Ines Bertlich, MD, decided to do her own research. Ines and her father and brother—who are also physicians—decided to look for clinical trials before accepting palliative care.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2022

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Regional Sales Manager position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Qualifacts and is in Arizona. Here’s a description of the position: Qualifacts and Credible, two leading providers of […].

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Docnotes

JANUARY 3, 2022

BLUF – in October, Circulo acquired my little company, Huddle Health. We are now fully integrated into Circulo – and it’s time to describe the rationale for our convergence and some of what comes next. If you haven’t read my short essay on Primary Health , please go read that first. We’ll wait. — Ok … back? Great. Now, let’s resume the story.

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

There’s a lot to consider when implementing telepsychiatry into your health system, but first, let’s explore what telepsychiatry really is. Telepsychiatry delivers psychiatric assessment and care via telecommunications technology, typically video conferencing. This solution equips health systems across the nation with the tools to provide high-quality, accessible, and affordable mental healthcare to their patients.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JANUARY 3, 2022

Coaching, critical to my success in life, art, politics, advocacy. Still need to do my own work & make choices. Listen to a session with one of my coaches, Jan Oldenburg [link] or watch it on YouTube [link] or read it below. Proem. Want to be a fly on the wall of a year-end session with my professional coach, Jan Oldenburg? You can hear the good, the bad, and the ugly of my process to hone and strategize my professional and personal work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2022

This past month, a new law in Texas went into effect requiring physicians to examine patients in person before providing abortion medication and banning the delivery of such medications by mail. Abortion via telemedicine was already prohibited in the state, as reported by NPR. But violating the new law, SB 4, is considered a state jail felony – meaning providers who are convicted could face between 180 days and two years in prison, and a fine of up to $10,000.

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