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Amazon releases new Alexa features allowing families to monitor seniors living alone

Mobi Health News

The Amazon Alexa Care Hub connects a senior's personal assistant device to a caretaker's mobile app, and includes activity alerts, emergency contacts and other communications features.

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How Digital Patient Engagement Supports Hospitals

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Pipsa Otra-aho, marketing manager, Buddy Healthcare. Primarily, hospitals are used to guiding and supporting patients by making personal phone calls, sending letters or text messaging. However, many hospitals report that reaching patients, especially the […].

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Medtronic launches CGM-integrated smart insulin pen for multiple daily injections

Mobi Health News

The announcement comes a few months after Medtronic acquired the InPen device's original maker, Companion Medical.

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Lean On Your Connected Community of Care In Times of Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Keith C. Kosel, PhD, MHSA, MBA, Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation. We’ve all experienced crises in our lives. They may be personal in nature (e.g., involving our interpersonal relationships), organizational (e.g., relating to our […]. The article Lean On Your Connected Community of Care In Times of Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Talkspace dives into relationship counseling with acquisition of Lasting

Mobi Health News

Talkspace president says this is the first acquisition, but expects it won't be the last.

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Mobile clinics, on-site PPE production: How COVID-19 has propelled health systems to innovate

Mobi Health News

LifeBridge Health's executive director of innovation and research, Pothik Chatterjee, talks about the health system's efforts ahead of Accelerate Health's second episode.

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CMS: More than 800K signed up for ACA plans on HealthCare.gov on first week of open enrollment

FierceHealthIT

CMS: More than 800K signed up for ACA plans on HealthCare.gov on first week of open enrollment. rking. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 20:42.

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Indonesia’s Alodokter successfully raises Series C extension funding

Mobi Health News

The company currently boasts over 27 million monthly active users.

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Medical groups implore Congress to extend moratorium on sequester cuts as COVID-19 ramps up

FierceHealthIT

Medical groups implore Congress to extend moratorium on sequester cuts as COVID-19 ramps up. rking. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 11:15.

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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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Springtide raises $18.1M for its multimodal ASD therapy clinic and platform

Mobi Health News

Deerfield Management Company and Optum Ventures led the Series A funding round.

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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Premise Health team to offer on-site clinics to employers

FierceHealthIT

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, Premise Health team to offer on-site clinics to employers. pminemyer. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 11:07.

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Digital diagnostics: Changing the face of vision care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Digital diagnostics: Changing the face of vision care Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Chutes & Ladders—Karen Lynch tapped to head CVS Health; RWJBarnabas makes several exec moves

FierceHealthIT

Chutes & Ladders—Karen Lynch tapped to head CVS Health; RWJBarnabas makes several exec moves. treed. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 16:28.

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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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SEARCH 2020 – Day One

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEARCH 2020 kicked off on the afternoon of November 11, 2020 with introductory remarks from Dr. Elizabeth Krupinski who, among many things, went over some housekeeping and thanked individuals who helped plan the event as well as the organizations involved. Krupinski also noted that during this bleak time of pandemic, it coincidentally was an exciting time for research with “adjusted outlooks” and “raised opportunities.”.

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Why Do Care Transitions Remain a Black Hole in Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

Care transitions between acute and post-acute organizations remains fraught with challenges. They can be inefficient, highly manual, and prone to errors. This has been known for years, yet remains an area that receives little attention and funding. Why is that? This was the central question in a Healthcare IT Today panel discussion (recording available) featuring: […].

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Amwell posts 80% jump in Q3 revenue amid ongoing wave of telemedicine adoption

FierceHealthIT

Amwell posts 80% jump in Q3 revenue amid ongoing wave of telemedicine adoption. treed. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 21:39.

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Building Resiliency in Your Healthcare Organization – Insights from Marcus Buckingham

Healthcare IT Today

We’ve been attending a whole lot of virtual Health IT conferences lately. We always attended a lot of conferences, but it’s pretty unique to have virtual conferences because you can theoretically attend all of them. Of course, you may only have time to attend part. Quite an interesting world we live in when it comes […].

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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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Fitch: COVID-19 accelerating insurers' financial headwinds

FierceHealthIT

Fitch: COVID-19 accelerating insurers' financial headwinds. pminemyer. Thu, 11/12/2020 - 13:13.

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Featured Health IT Job: EMR Data Conversion Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the EMR Data Conversion Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Galen Healthcare Solutions. Here’s a description of the position: Galen Healthcare is looking for a data conversion […].

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COVID SNAPSHOT: What will be the lasting impact of the pandemic on healthcare IT?

Redox

On Wednesday November 18, 2020 at 2pm ET, Redox will present our inaugural Redox Quarterly where we discuss how we Grow Through Change in the face of this past year and into the year to come. We address what this all means for our customers, our offering, and how it is affected by the legislative changes in digital health. Browse our topic list and register here. .

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How E.ON Merged IT Landscapes with an Integrated EA and ITFM

LeanIX

Markus Rink is always looking to the future. As the current head of global technology architecture at E.ON, one of Europe's largest utility companies, his team is in charge of developing an enterprise architecture (EA), vendor landscape, and licensed landscape to support the energy group's external and internal digital business needs.

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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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Underlying Issues Are Exacerbating Mental Health Challenges during Covid-19 Pandemic

HealthStream

Mental health challenges were already widespread in the U.S., and existing evidence suggests that the conditions created by COVID-19 would exacerbate many of them, leading to negative impacts and a serious mental health crisis.

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Open-Source Audit Log conversion

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I was made aware of an open-source project that has addressed converting classic DICOM Audit Messages into the new FHIR AuditEvent. This open-source project is managed on this github repository. I helped the authors with some background and understanding, but I take no credit for the work they have done. I am sure they welcome comments, suggestions, and assistance.

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The Pandemic Has Been a Shock to Our System – Learning from Known

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has been a shock to people across all aspects of everyday living, for older and younger people, for work and school, for entertainment and travel — all impacting our hearts, minds, and wallets. “As the bedrock of daily life was shaken, uncertainty predictably emerged as the prevailing emotion of our time but this universal problem was eliciting a highly differentiated reaction in different people,” Kern Schireson, CEO of Known, observed.