Mobi Health News

MARCH 26, 2021

Since January 2021, all 72 million statutorily insured German citizens have been legally entitled to a national electronic patient record (ePA).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

In February, a ferocious winter storm gripped the southern United States. Millions of people lost power and water, with some areas still struggling weeks later. At hospitals, workers spent the night to avoid being stranded , scrambling to care for patients in dire conditions. For people who already have trouble accessing healthcare services – due to geography, socioeconomic factors, transportation difficulties or other hurdles – a weather crisis like the freeze can spell disaster.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 26, 2021

Women-led startups only represent 14% of digital health deals closed in 2019, according to Rock Health. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Telehealth has the potential to expand access to care to previously underserved populations. However, it also has the possible side effect of worsening health disparities – and it's vital, stakeholders say, to make changes to address that dynamic as soon as possible. "The pandemic brought telehealth to the forefront of everybody's mind," said Dr.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 26, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Keeping your staff needs more than just a high designation. Only a successful nurse leader can motivate the team members to put their best effort into every task assigned to them. Achieving common goals and […]. The article How To Become A Successful Nurse Leader?

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 26, 2021

Industry Voices—Direct contracting with providers: An opportunity for forward-thinking employers. pminemyer. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 11:49.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2021

Today’s Fun Friday comes to us via Eric Topol. If you’re not following him on Twitter and care about the science behind COVID, then you really should follow him. He used to have a lot more diversity in his tweets (and more humorous ones), but it’s understandable why he’s so focused on everything that’s happening […].

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 26, 2021

Startup Medicare Advantage insurer Alignment Healthcare goes public. pminemyer. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 14:20.

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eVisit

MARCH 26, 2021

3 Reasons to Assemble a Cross-Functional Team for Path to Success. The first few months of the pandemic were a mad scramble for healthcare leaders tasked with meeting skyrocketing demand for telehealth. In Feb. 2020, telehealth usage for primary care visits was a sleepy 1 percent. By April, utilization ballooned to nearly 44 percent. According to a recent McKinsey Report , the number of telemedicine encounters in 2020 increased between 50-175-fold nationwide.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MARCH 26, 2021

DOJ taking a closer look at Optum-Change deal amid antitrust concerns. pminemyer. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 19:39.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2021

With the pandemic putting such a large strain on hospital inpatient capacity, it was inevitable that providers would look for ways to discharge the less acute patients safely. However, it seems we are not even close to a standardized approach to remotely monitoring patients who are still at risk. Protocols for RPM seem to vary […].

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 26, 2021

Cigna: COVID-driven demand for virtual behavioral healthcare remains high. pminemyer. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 11:33.

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Geonetric

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s important to understand that making your hospital’s website work with a physical keyboard is less about using the keyboard specifically and more about allowing your website to work for all input devices, such as a keyboard, mouse, switch devices, etc. By programming your website to work with a keyboard, you are essentially programming it […].

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MARCH 26, 2021

Amwell co-CEO to Amazon on telehealth play: 'Welcome to the swamp'. hlandi. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 11:42.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Primary topic: Population Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2021

Having written and done interviews with people talking about Ambient Clinical Voice, I’ve had the opportunity to talk with a lot of people about what they think about the technology. I’d say that most people that reach out are as excited about it as I am and they hope that it can live up to […].

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HIStalk Weekender

MARCH 26, 2021

Weekly News Recap Amwell’s Q4 and fiscal year numbers,

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. While juggling all of these challenges during this most unusual period, executives have learned many valuable lessons. That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the e

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TheraNest

MARCH 26, 2021

Insurance codes for mental health services are an important part of every practice. For providers that accept insurance, understanding how to use and apply insurance codes is the fastest way to full and timely reimbursements. When knowledge of such details is lacking, your bottom line suffers, and your practice cannot grow. What are insurance codes for mental health services?

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HAY on FHIR

MARCH 26, 2021

In the previous post we discussed how an immunization registry might receive Immunization resources documenting the administration of vaccines to an individual (complicated), and how to expose those resources to a client (easy). But vaccine administrations don’t exist in a vacuum – they’re generally related to some particular plan consisting of multiple administrations of different vaccines over a period of time with the intent of providing the recipient with protection against specific diseases

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