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Health eHeart Study's smartphone measurements offer population-level heart rate insights

Mobi Health News

After validating smartphone photoplethysmography against in-clinic ECG, UCSF researchers contextualized heart rate data from nearly 70,000 study participants.

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Could Shorter Hospital ICU Rotations Help Alleviate Physician Burnout?

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Shortening the length of rotations in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) from the traditional 14-consecutive day schedule to only seven days helps mitigate burnout among critical care physicians, according to a new Penn Medicine pilot study.The.

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How providers are deciding if their innovations makes business sense

Mobi Health News

From teaming up with startups to creating provider spinouts, hospitals are looking at how innovation can help manage the bottom line.

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University of Missouri Breaks Ground on Precision Medicine Institute

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

University of Missouri System leaders—along with state and national officials—broke ground late last week on the NextGen Precision Health Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia, a central facility supporting a systemwide precision.

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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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How providers are deciding if their innovations make business sense

Mobi Health News

From teaming up with startups to creating provider spinouts, hospitals are looking at how innovation can help manage the bottom line.

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Health eHeart Study's smartphone measurements offer population-level heart rate insights

Mobi Health News

After validating smartphone photoplethysmography against in-clinic ECG, UCSF researchers contextualized heart rate data from nearly 70,000 study participants.

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Medical groups call climate change a ‘health emergency’

FierceHealthIT

A group of more than 70 medical and public health organizations, including some of the most prominent physician organizations on Monday called for U.S. leaders to combat climate change, calling it a “health emergency.

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Smart diaper spots UTIs, study supports BYOD for member engagement and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Olive adds Clinc's conversational AI to its backend automation tool; Researchers see patients and families turning to the web for medical info.

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Healthcare Information Technology Leader, Vyne, Acquired by The Jordan Company

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Vyne, a market leader in secure health information exchange and electronic healthcare communication management, announced today it has been acquired by The Jordan Company, L.P., a middle-market-focused private equity firm with original capital commitments in excess of $11 billion.

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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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Smart diaper spots UTIs, study supports BYOD for member engagement and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Olive adds Clinc's conversational AI to its backend automation tool; Researchers see patients and families turning to the web for medical info.

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The “What If”: The Downside of Not Using A Communication Platform for Patient Engagement

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi. Clinician-to-patient communications are typically anchored by in-person, at-home visits. Home health agencies may struggle with understanding the benefits of technology adoption and how it will “work with” traditional check-ins.

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How providers are deciding if their innovations makes business sense

Mobi Health News

From teaming up with startups to creating provider spinouts, hospitals are looking at how innovation can help manage the bottom line.

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One reason surprise billing solutions are so tricky for hospitals

FierceHealthIT

As Senate lawmakers plan to mark up a sweeping piece of legislation aimed in part at curbing surprise bills, healthcare experts say the solutions before them could ultimately create some tricky entanglements for hospitals.

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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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Nursing home EMS startup Call9 announces plans to close

Mobi Health News

The Brooklyn-based startup is laying off roughly 100 employees.

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Arizona Medicaid to offer beneficiaries ride-sharing with Lyft for nonemergency transport 

FierceHealthIT

Arizona’s Medicaid program will cover Lyft's ride-sharing service as a nonemergency medical transport option, the tech company announced Wednesday.

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Nursing home EMS startup Call9 announces plans to close

Mobi Health News

The Brooklyn-based startup is laying off roughly 100 employees.

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Majority of legal claims related to emergency department care due to delayed diagnosis: report

FierceHealthIT

More than half the allegations filed against hospitals due to emergency department care come from cases where there is a delay or failure to make a diagnosis, according to a new report from medical professional liability insurance provider Coverys.

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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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The Venn Diagram of Health, Aging, and Caregiving

Aging in Place Technology Watch

You see it in the media and hear about it with investors. Digital Health is in its bubble of $8.1 billion in 2018 , which amounted to 8.6 % of VC investments , despite limited exit strategies – but investors love it. Startups focused on the aging/technology space, however, receive only 0.7% of venture capital investment , including the big money ( $115 million to date ) that has gone to just one company.

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Humana, Aspen RxHealth collaborating to offer app connecting patients with pharmacists

FierceHealthIT

Humana is teaming up with digital health startup Aspen RxHealth to offer Medicare Advantage patients an app that connects them with pharmacists for clinical services, including medication therapy management.

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Tidepool CEO Howard Look on Creating an Interoperable Ecosystem for Diabetes Data

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Medtronic recently announced it would develop a Bluetooth-enabled pump compatible with Tidepool Loop. Look explains the significance.

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UnitedHealth scoops up health tech startup PatientsLikeMe

FierceHealthIT

Health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group acquired health technology startup PatientsLikeMe, an online network for people living with chronic conditions.

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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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Workforce development: Your organization is only as strong as its people

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Focus on Workforce Development According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States will see a shortage of between 46,900 and 121,900 physicians by 2032, including both primary care doctors and specialists. How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? How can you recruit the best people, retain talent you have and ensure a diverse workforce that reflects the patients you serve?

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AMA files lawsuit over North Dakota laws it says forces physicians to give false abortion information to patients

FierceHealthIT

In order to protect the patient-physician relationship, the American Medical Association filed a lawsuit over a pair of North Dakota laws it says will force physicians to give false information about abortion to patients. The AMA filed the lawsuit Tuesday to challenge the constitutionality of two state laws it says compels physicians and other clinicians to provide patients with “false, misleading non-medication information” about their reproductive health.

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Using Telehealth to Treat Depression in Elderly Patients

Health Recovery Solutions

Depression can be caused by a number of environmental, social, and biological factors and shows different symptoms as we age. With the elderly population growing, it is important to understand the symptoms and treat them effectively. Enter telehealth.

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CMS offering $50M in grants to help state Medicaid programs tackle opioid epidemic

FierceHealthIT

The Trump administration is offering $50 million in grants to assist state Medicaid programs with addressing the opioid crisis.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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The State of Behavioral Healthcare – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/28 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dr. Reena Pande (@reena_pande) from @AbleTo_Health on the topic “The State of Behavioral Healthcare” It’s not breaking news that over the past few years behavioral health has become […].

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Groups file emergency petitions to reinstate injunction to block Title X ‘gag rule’

FierceHealthIT

The legal battle over the controversial Title X rule continued today, as opponents filed emergency petitions to reinstate injunctions that had blocked the rule from taking effect.

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Using the Insulin Resistance Diet to Help Control Your Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

Your diet impacts your insulin resistance. In my latest article , I talked about the important role insulin resistance can play in the lives of people with type 1 diabetes. This issue is usually thought of as a type 2 problem, but working to reduce insulin resistance has a wealth of positive effects on people living with T1D. Everything from the risk of complications like heart disease to how much you spend on insulin is tied to how well your body utilizes that hormone.

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