Fri.Jan 03, 2020

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Opinion: AI, privacy and APIs will mold digital health in 2020

Mobi Health News

Babyscripts CEO Anish Sebastian outlines major tech-driven trends to keep an eye on for the new year.

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Google Is Building An EHR Tool: What To Know

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. Although Google first gained prominence as a search engine, it quickly moved into other sectors, like smart home tech and cloud computing. One of the latest projects associated with the brand relates to health care, or, more specifically, electronic health records (EHR).

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Opinion: AI, privacy and APIs will mould digital health in 2020

Mobi Health News

Babyscripts CEO Anish Sebastian outlines major tech-driven trends to keep an eye on for the new year.

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More ways to provide care: Telehealth’s leaps in 2019

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The TytoHome is a device that can accurately capture exam data on lungs, ears, eyes and other vitals routinely during any doctor visit. Equipped with a camera for video conferencing, it enables physicians to perform remote checkups. The device made it into Time’s 2019 100 Best Inventions list , illustrating just how widespread telehealth has come.

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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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Swedish startup NuvoAir inks partnership with Roche Italy

Mobi Health News

The companies want to help people living with cystic fibrosis.

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Boots UK partners with Public Health England to launch Reboot Quiz

Mobi Health News

The interactive tool looks to help people build healthy habits.

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How Will The Patient Experience Evolve with Telehealth?

Ortholive

Patient convenience is now the number one factor when choosing a clinical provider. This makes telemedicine an increasingly attractive offering as providers seek to grow their practices. It’s not that patients don’t prefer the face-to-face visit, but the wait times to make those appointments are on the rise. Then there’s the waiting room time spent before actually seeing the doctor or nurse practitioner.

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Health tech funding snapshot—Bright Health scores $635M; Oak HC/FT invests in behavioral health

FierceHealthIT

A Nashville startup tackling interoperability scored $5 million in funding led by hedge fund billionaire Jeff Vinik. Health insurance startup Bright Health scored $635 million in a series D funding round, and more funding news.

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What's needed for wider adoption of healthcare innovations

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Innovation Pulse Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: What's needed for wider adoption of healthcare innovations Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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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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Podcast: What to watch in healthcare in 2020

FierceHealthIT

FierceHealthcare has officially launched its podcast, so you can ring in the new year in style with our executive editor Tina Reed and me as we sit down to discuss the hot topics heading into 2020.

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What's needed for wider adoption of healthare innovations

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Innovation Pulse Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: What's needed for wider adoption of healthare innovations Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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Blue states ask Supreme Court to take up ACA case in current term 

FierceHealthIT

A group of 20 blue states and the District Columbia have formally asked the Supreme Court to intervene early in an ongoing case that holds the Affordable Care Act’s fate in the balance.

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HIPAA Minimum Necessary Standard

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The HIPAA Minimum Necessary Standard The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires covered entities to adhere to the minimum necessary standard in regards to the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI). In essence, healthcare workers must … Read more. The post HIPAA Minimum Necessary Standard appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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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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Analog wellness is so 2019. In 2020 technical wellness will be the thing.

Lloyd Price

Analog wellness is so 2019. In the year 2020, which still sounds like the distant future, technical wellness will be the thing. And if you’re in the mood for jumping on this trend, you’ll have a lot of options. Once upon a time, one could jump in the bath or sniff some lavender oil and call it wellness. And though both of those options still obviously fall firmly within the wellness spectrum, technical wellness is twisting the action of taking care of oneself and accentuating it with a little hi

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Payers, providers spar over NEJM study that suggests hospital mergers don't improve care

FierceHealthIT

Insurers seized on a new study that shows hospital acquisitions have a modest impact on patient quality, while the hospital industry moves to rebut the findings.

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Is Location Data The Big Next Health Privacy Threat?

Healthcare IT Today

With smartphones in the hands of virtually anyone in the U.S. who wants one, they’re part of the background of our lives, quiet, surprisingly powerful assistants that bring much of the modern world into our hands. But as a new investigation by The New York Times reminds us, they also generate a staggering amount of […].

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Sixty Tampa Bay area businesses chosen as 2020 Best Places to Work honorees

Synzi

By Pam Huff – Managing Editor, Tampa Bay Business Journal The Tampa Bay Business Journal asked and you nominated — and now 60 local businesses and companies with a major local presence have been named the 2020 Best Places to Work honorees. Employees … Read More. The post Sixty Tampa Bay area businesses chosen as 2020 Best Places to Work honorees appeared first on Synzi.

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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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How Mentoring Programs Can Enhance Performance in Healthcare

HealthStream

New healthcare employees greatly benefit from spending time with their counterparts who’ve been on the job a while. That said, care must be taken to ensure that the mentor’s skill set is in line with expected performance metrics.

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Sixty Tampa Bay area businesses chosen as 2020 Best Places to Work honorees

Synzi

By Pam Huff – Managing Editor, Tampa Bay Business Journal The Tampa Bay Business Journal asked and you nominated — and now 60 local businesses and companies with a major local presence have been named the 2020 Best Places to Work honorees. Employees … Read More. The post Sixty Tampa Bay area businesses chosen as 2020 Best Places to Work honorees appeared first on Synzi.

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Hospitals Under Siege By Tech Vendors Hunting Health Data

Healthcare IT Today

Patient data has always been in demand, particularly among pharmas and medical research organizations that need it to do their daily business. However, a new and very aggressive wave of healthcare data buyers has emerged: tech organizations are hungrily seeking this data, which they must acquire if they hope to develop powerful specialized analytics tools […].

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Association of Use of Online Symptom Checkers With Patients’ Plans for Seeking Care

Lloyd Price

Introduction Online triage tools are increasingly being adopted in health care to aid patients in identifying the appropriate care level.1 However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on how patients use virtual triage and whether these tools influence care-seeking behavior.1-3 Using data from a free online triage tool, we describe the common symptoms queried by users and analyze whether the tool was associated with the level of care that patients intended to seek.

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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.