Wed.Oct 05, 2022

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What to do when doctors develop “portal hypertension”

KevinMD

This article is satire. Physicians today face yet another epidemic that affects doctors directly and is not caused by a virus. It is the result of the “patient portal” through which patients send typed messages directly to their physicians. Though the portal has benefits, anecdotal experience suggests that high message volume is having a deleterious.

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SpaceX astronauts bring ISS National Lab-sponsored research to orbiting laboratory

Mobi Health News

The astronauts will support several investigations, including ones aiming to create a protein-based artificial retina and evaluate how gut microbes change in space.

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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem. As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr.

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Integrated fitness tracker, mobile health app potentially improves teachers' mental wellness - study

Mobi Health News

Fitbit and MindFi have teamed up to study the impact of their combined solutions on teachers' mental well-being.

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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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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19,

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New Digital Health Command to rise in Victoria

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new Digital Health Command will be established in Victoria as part of the state government's latest hospital infrastructure project. According to a media release, this facility will enable the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) and Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH) to support regional, rural and smaller metropolitan services that care for patients locally through virtual care and specialist clinician-to-clinician consultation.

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1st Group CEO Klaus Bartosch steps down

Mobi Health News

This comes over a year since he was reinstated in the position.

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Did you miss one? Check out September’s Aging & Health Tech blog posts

Aging in Place Technology Watch

September brings falling leaves, rising and falling hopes. Turns out that VCs are waking up to the opportunity in the longevity economy. Recognizing that people may live a lot longer, perhaps even to 100. How do you prepare for such a long life? Behold the rise of the active adult lifestyle, now enabled with a boom in 55+ rental communities. Combine that change with the ‘ Forgotten Middle Market’ of senior living.

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DirectTrust is Improving the Directory of Direct Addresses

Healthcare IT Today

Did you know there are over 1 million addresses in the DirectTrust directory? That’s right. There are 1 million endpoints that can easily receive a direct message sharing patient information. Considering there are only a little over 600k doctors in the US, this is good progress. However, any directory of this nature also has its challenges.

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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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5 Must-Dos When (Re-)Starting Your EA Practice

LeanIX

Starting or restarting your enterprise architecture practice is a golden opportunity to level up your data-driven strategies, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and create a more collaborative culture across your organization. But taking advantage of this opportunity calls more than simply adopting an EA solution and expecting quick results.

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How Healthcare Organizations Can Overcome Low Adoption Rates of Patient Portal Users?

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Timothy Miller from Plus Technologies. As healthcare organizations continue to embrace new technologies, it is no surprise they would encourage their patients to do the same. For instance, it is common practice for health professionals to refer their patients to the organization’s portal in order to retrieve patient information such as discharge documents, care and exercise instructions, patient’s rights information and more.

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Featured Health IT Job: Systems Analyst – Data Innovations Instrumentation

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Systems Analyst – Data Innovations Instrumentation position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by MaineHealth and is in Maine. Here’s a description of the position: MaineHealth/NorDx is looking for a Systems Analyst with experience building rules in Data Innovations Instrument Manager (DI).