Tue.May 19, 2020

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3 steps to changing your EHR system

KevinMD

If you are a physician unhappy with your current EHR system (surveys suggest 2 out of 3 are), and you do have the ability to switch, this article is for you. Our COVID-19 pandemic may place you in a bad financial time for this, but it's also placed you in an excellent time to plan […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.

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How Banner Health is using chatbots to help keep ED patients informed

Mobi Health News

The bots are integrated with the EHR and can tell patients when they should expect the doctor and what labs have been ordered.

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What $6,553 Buys You in America: A Luxury Watch, a Year at Valdosta State, or a PPO for One – the 2020 Milliman Medical Index

Health Populi

Imagine this: you find yourself with $6,553 in your pocket and you can pick one of the following: A new 2020 Breitling Navitimer watch; A year’s in-state tuition at Valdosta State University; or, A PPO for an average individual. Welcome to the annual Milliman Medical Index (MMI) , which gauges the yearly price of an employer-sponsored preferred-provider organization (PPO) health insurance plan for a hypothetical American family and an N of 1 employee.

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Drones join emergency care front-line in Sweden with defibrillator drops

Mobi Health News

Getting defibrillators to cardiac arrest patients as quickly as possible is a priority for emergency services everywhere.

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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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Hospitals should prepare now for future telehealth demands

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an article published in the Journal of the American Informatics Association this week, Duke University researchers examined COVID-19's effect on transforming the telehealth landscape. "Whether healthcare enterprises are ready or not, the new reality is that virtual care has arrived," researchers said. WHY IT MATTERS. As federal and state governments evolve in messaging around COVID-19, healthcare facilities have responded accordingly.

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VA telehealth program offers virtual access to care teams, wellness classes, yoga

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs St. Louis Healthcare System announced this week that it has contracted with the telecommunications vendor Uniper Care for a pilot program providing veterans access to telehealth and social engagement services. As part of the pilot program, 40 to 50 veterans would have access to the Uniper Care service at no charge, a VA St.

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After regulatory kerfuffle, EverlyWell finally rolls out home COVID-19 sample collection

Mobi Health News

The consumer-facing digital platform for health testing was forced to pump the brakes on a similar offering roughly two months ago.

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Remote monitoring's role in treating COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Remote monitoring's role in treating COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Omada Health acquires Physera, adds virtual MSK therapy to its chronic care programs

Mobi Health News

Alongside the purchase and service launch, the digital health company also shared news of a $57 million investment from Perceptive Advisors.

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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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American Telemedicine Association, others join AVIA's COVID-19 Resource Hub

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AVIA's COVID-19 Resource Hub, which aims to create collaborative workspace around topics such as telehealth, communications, workforce and capacity planning, supply chain, and patient flow, has three new members – and is seeing an uptick in demand as providers look for help and best practices for digital health deployments during the pandemic.

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SMART receives NMRC grant to develop rapid non-invasive paper-based tests for COVID-19

Mobi Health News

Researchers from SMART’s AMR IRG, NTU and MIT are working together to develop a rapid serological test and a rapid diagnostic test (RDT), based on protein detection.

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Fewer HIT Leaders Are Involving Employees Technology Investment Process

Healthcare IT Today

A new survey of healthcare workers has concluded that in the struggle to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer HIT execs are involving employees in health IT investment decisions. This is not a good sign, as it suggests that we may see a new wave of Health IT investments that end users hate. The survey, […].

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Ro dips into skincare with new prescription dermatology line

Mobi Health News

Customers will now be able to use the services to get eczema treatment, as well as prescription antiperspirant and dandruff shampoo.

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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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Omada Health buys virtual physical therapy startup Physera for reported $30M

FierceHealthIT

Omada Health buys virtual physical therapy startup Physera for reported $30M. hlandi. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 17:21.

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The Role of Specialty Specific Telehealth – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Melissa Alvares, VP Marketing (@swiftmedical) from Swift Medical on the topic of “The Role of Specialty Specific Telehealth“. Telehealth went almost overnight from being a “nice […].

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Industry Voices?When the COVID-19 crisis passes, telehealth will remain

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—When the COVID-19 crisis passes, telehealth will remain. hlandi. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 17:51.

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How Telehealth is Reaching Patients Far Beyond Their Couch at Home

GlobalMed

When you think of telemedicine, you might think of a patient at home using a telehealth app to connect by phone or video with a doctor-of-the-moment who can assess their symptoms and offer advice. What if we told you that virtual care delivery is reaching patients wherever they are from the back of an ambulance, in the workplace, or even on an oil rig?

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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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Microsoft announces Cloud for Healthcare, first industry-specific cloud service

FierceHealthIT

Microsoft announces Cloud for Healthcare, first industry-specific cloud service. hlandi. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 14:13.

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Provention Bio Starts Rolling FDA Submissions for T1D Preventative

Insulin Nation

It has been a while since Provention Bio ( website ), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on immune-mediated diseases, announced their first exciting results from their teplizumab drug trials. In multiple double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials, the company has shown the effectiveness of this drug to preserve beta-cell function in subjects with pre-clinical and new-onset type 1 diabetes.

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Senate GOP aren't in a hurry to pass a new round of COVID-19 stimulus funding after House passes $3T bill

FierceHealthIT

Senate GOP aren't in a hurry to pass a new round of COVID-19 stimulus funding after House passes $3T bill. rking. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 12:46.

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Greenway Health Sees Hope for Physician Practices

Healthcare IT Today

I have a “twofer” for you today, a conversation with not one but two representatives from Greenway Health. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Geeta Nayyar, Chief Medical Officer and Kali Durgampudi, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer. Both provided thoughtful predictions on where healthcare is headed post COVID-19 and what technologies […].

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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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Industry Voices?After COVID-19, there will be a tectonic shift in how medicine is practiced

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—After COVID-19, there will be a tectonic shift in how medicine is practiced. treed. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 15:12.

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Q&A with PSJH CIO B.J. Moore, Part 1: ?Everything We Do Is at a System Level.?

Health System CIO

What can leaders do when part of the health system is in ground zero for an pandemic, and other areas behind the curve? Learn and implement changes locally, while acting globally, says B.J. Moore, who talks about how his team at PSJH has responded to Covid-19.

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UnitedHealth launching clinical trial to test impact of ACE inhibitors on COVID-19?

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth launching clinical trial to test impact of ACE inhibitors on COVID-19 . pminemyer. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 16:35.

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10 reasons to choose telehealth solutions over traditional communication tools

Healee

We live in an era when online communication has become an integral part of the doctor-patient medical experience. Even though doctors and patients have started using traditional communication channels like... The post 10 reasons to choose telehealth solutions over traditional communication tools appeared first on Healee.

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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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Industry Voices?Employer-sponsored health plans: Where do we go from here?

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Employer-sponsored health plans: Where do we go from here? treed. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 14:42.

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NASP Challenges Specialty Pharmacy Stakeholders to Innovate for Medication Adherence

MedTech Boston

The National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP) is launching a new competition to encourage innovation in specialty pharmacy. The NASP Challenge is. The post NASP Challenges Specialty Pharmacy Stakeholders to Innovate for Medication Adherence appeared first on MedTech Boston.

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Payers have lowered barriers to telehealth. Will those changes stick? Here's what experts have to say

FierceHealthIT

Payers have lowered barriers to telehealth. Will those changes stick? Here's what experts have to say. hlandi. Tue, 05/19/2020 - 11:54.