Tue.Apr 28, 2020

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Q&A: 'Digital transformation must focus on both the patient and the healthcare professional'

Mobi Health News

MobiHealthNews talks about the value of digital therapeutics, artificial intelligence and learnings from COVID-19 with Dr. Cesar Morcillo Serra, director of internal medicine in Hospital Cima Sanitas Barcelona, Spain.

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“Everyday Life” Factors Into Our Health Risks for COVID-19, Welltok Explains

Health Populi

Everyday factors can make a big difference in a person’s current and future health risks and needs, we’re learning in the COVID-19 pandemic, detailed in a new Welltok research report, Social Determinants of Health Matter: Voice of the Consumer. “The current public health crisis underscores the importance of leveraging SDOH as a way to effectively provide timely, relevant support that is truly going to make a difference for people’s total wellbeing,” Bob Fabbio , We

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Doctolib among the three most-used providers of online medical consultations in the world

Mobi Health News

Survey found that 80% of patients and 74% of GPs would like remote consultations to continue after lockdown.

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Atrium Health sees community health innovation coming from COVID-19 disruption

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like most other hospitals and health systems nationwide, Charlotte, North Carolina-based Atrium Health has had to make some pretty big changes to the way it does business over the past few months of this ongoing pandemic. Even as it pursues big pre-COVID-19 strategic goals – not least its major electronic health record transition from Cerner to Epic , which was announced in February – Atrium's attention has of course more recently been focused on an array of initiatives meant to

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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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Quest's new service lets customers request COVID-19 antibody test

Mobi Health News

Users can fill out an online platform, get blood drawn at a Quest service center, and get results on a digital portal within two days.

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Optum reportedly finalizing $470M purchase of virtual behavioral care company AbleTo

Mobi Health News

Optum was already a stakeholder in the New York company thanks to a "significant investment" it made early in 2019.

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More PPE? Better telemedicine coverage? New group aims to organize physicians around top concerns

FierceHealthIT

With mounting concerns about safety and the financial security of physicians during COVID-19, organizers say the new group called Physicians United will take advantage of virtual platforms to pull together a large number around the issues they most care about.

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Medici's app-based telehealth platform closes $24M Series B

Mobi Health News

Like many other virtual-care services, the company has seen its audience spike within the past few months.

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AMGA, other physician groups urge CMS to count audio-only telehealth for risk adjustment

FierceHealthIT

More than 100 medical groups and independent practice associations are urging CMS to extend the eligibility for risk adjustment payments to audio-only telehealth services, such as talking to patients over landline phones.

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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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Tomorrow Health launches home health product cost transparency, navigation tool

Mobi Health News

Patients can enter their insurance information and needs, and will get a curated list of products with prices.

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Possible T1D Treatment Shows Promise to Reduce COVID-19 Complications

Insulin Nation

I spoke with Dr. Denise Faustman about her upcoming trial to test the effectiveness of the BCG vaccine to protect high-risk healthcare workers from COVID-19 complications. Denise L Faustman, M.D., Ph.D., Director of Immunobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Last year we had the opportunity to talk with Dr.

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What happens during a telemedicine visit?

GlobalMed

Telemedicine (also called telehealth, virtual care, or virtual health) is the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to gain access to health care services remotely. Telehealth visits have historically faced barriers beyond the technological challenges that come with real-time, synchronous audio and video communication.

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Telehealth and Marketing – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/1 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Sarah Bennight (@sarahbennight) from Stericycle Communication Solutions on the topic of “Telehealth and Marketing“ While telehealth has been around for a while, it certainly hasn’t been the […].

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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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Universal Health Services suspends dividends, stock buybacks amid pandemic woes

FierceHealthIT

Universal Health Services suspended dividends and stock buybacks as it reels from the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Augmenting Clinician Insights with Machine Learning

Healthcare IT Today

Pre COVID-19, clinicians were already overwhelmed by the amount of health data that’s out there. Now, with COVID-19 taking up even more of their headspace, the need for technology and machine learning to better augment the work a physician is doing has become more important. In this panel hosted by Dell Technologies, we dive into […].

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Quest Diagnostics launches first consumer-ordered COVID-19 antibody test

FierceHealthIT

For about $120, anyone can get now get a COVID-19 antibody test from Quest Diagnostics.

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New Healthcare Interoperability Solution Leverages Age-Old Technology

Healthcare IT Today

We may scoff at fax technology, but it remains one of the lowest-cost, lowest barrier ways to exchange patient records. Despite repeated attempts to axe-the-fax in healthcare, it continues to be relied upon by healthcare organizations. J2 Global’s Consensus interoperability solution leans into and leverages this age-old technology to help organizations more easily (and securely) […].

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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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AHA, AHIP team with U.S. Chamber urging Congress to protect coverage during pandemic 

FierceHealthIT

Top hospital, payer, physician and other healthcare industry groups are urging legislators to focus on coverage as they consider the next steps to combat COVID-19.

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Being There For Your Non-COVID-19 Patients During This Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. For the past month or more, doctors in the US have had their hands full with the rapid onset and spread of the coronavirus. Affecting thousands of citizens each day, it’s all hands on deck […]. The article Being There For Your Non-COVID-19 Patients During This Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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House leadership: Next funding package on COVID-19 likely to target states, not hospitals

FierceHealthIT

The House Majority Leader gave details on the talks for the next round of stimulus funding for COVID-19, and it looks like states instead of hospitals will get the most attention.

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#104: Building a Company Culture with Virtual Reality and Remote Teams

Digital Health Today

Download the PDF with Tips, Links and More! Organizations are adapting to the new ways of engaging with their employees, clients and suppliers, and platforms like Zoom are experiencing rapid growth as collaboration tools. But successfully growing a business requires more than simply having the right technology in place. Ultimately, it’s always about the people.

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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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Centene misses Wall Street profit projections amid soaring medical costs in Q1

FierceHealthIT

Centene Corporation earned $46 million in profit for the first quarter of 2020, missing Wall Street projections.

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COBOL is a Distraction (from the real numbers and issues)

Healthcare IT Today

Over the past few weeks, there have been numerous articles lambasting states and organizations for continuing to run legacy systems that support unemployment and financial processes. In particular, New Jersey was lambasted for advertising to find help with maintaining their unemployment system written in COBOL. Many of the systems out there that support our daily […].

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Providers are evolving to offer home care during the COVID-19 outbreak. Here's how they're doing it

FierceHealthIT

Provider groups that specialize in home care delivery are still sending healthcare workers to treat patients in their homes but have made a series of changes to boost safety, a new report finds.

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Your Telehealth Program: The Importance of Patient and Clinician Education

Health Recovery Solutions

Incorporating Patient Education into Your Telehealth Program. Why is it important to have an educational platform incorporated into your services?

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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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Cerner's Q1 revenue grows to $1.4M but misses target due to the impact of COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Cerner's first-quarter 2020 fell short of its expectations as the company felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March. The company's Q1 revenue grew 2% to $1.4 million, compared to $1.39 billion in the first quarter of 2019.

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The Millennials Have Arrived, Especially in Healthcare!

HealthStream

The 73 million millennials in the U.S are part of a larger group that now makes up a quarter of the global population. This cohort, born between 1981 and 1996, already became the largest generation in the healthcare workforce in 2016.

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