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What is Telehealth Awareness Week?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

On September 28, 2022, the US Senate unanimously passed the bipartisan resolution recognizing the importance of telehealth and declaring the 18 th to the 24 th of September Telehealth Awareness Week. The resolution was submitted to the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment. This action now sets the stage for the “awareness week” designation in future years.

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Report: Digital health funding drops again in Q3

Mobi Health News

According to Rock Health's analysis, startups raised $2.2 billion across 125 deals, making Q3 the lowest quarter by dollars raised since Q4 2019.

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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week : annually NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness , devotes the first week of October to advocate for people facing managing a mental illness every day and to raise public consciousness on the pervasiveness of mental illness in America. Mental Illness Awareness Week: Oct. 2-8, 2022. This year, NAMI’s key themes address the over-arching message of “What I wish I had known,” each day looking into: Monday Oct. 3: Stigma.

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Acurable raises €11M to expand at home sleep apnea testing device internationally

Mobi Health News

The UK-based wearable medical device company plans to use the funds to expand in Europe and North America.

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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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Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Stephen Manley, CTO, Druva. The biggest healthcare innovation in the last twenty years is … data. Every day, healthcare organizations use data to operate more efficiently, improve patient care, and advance medical research. Over […]. The article Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Rochester RHIO Advances Interoperability Using Best-in-Class Direct Secure Messaging

Healthcare IT Today

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging.

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Sonara Health raises $3M for digital methadone management platform

Mobi Health News

The startup plans to use the seed funding to continue developing its platform and partner with more opioid treatment programs.

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Burning Up and Burned Out? Addressing Patient Burnout Amidst a Burned-Out Industry – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 10/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Burning Up and Burned Out? Addressing Patient Burnout Amidst a Burned-Out Industry.” As an industry, we have our work cut out for us.

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CVS Health signs definitive agreement to sell bswift to Francisco Partners

Mobi Health News

The San Francisco-based investment firm purchased bswift to propel long-term growth.

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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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Healthcare’s Inflection Point and the Way Forward – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 98

Healthcare IT Today

For the 98th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re joined by a special guest host, Anders Brown, Managing Director at Tegria. It was awesome to be able to sit down with Anders Brown to get his first hand experiences dealing with the topic we are discussing in this episode: healthcare’s inflection point and the way forward. We first dive into the widespread and painful issues that exist in healthcare.

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Legislation introduced on requiring the FDA to study medical device data interoperability

Connected Health Initiative

On September 29, 2022, Representatives Miller-Meeks, O’Halleran, and Murphy introduced legislation requiring the Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a study and issue recommendations on improving medical device data interoperability. Morgan Reed, executive director of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI), expressed CHI’s support for the bill: “Interoperability is critical to realize the promise of digital health and enable better, more cost-effective, patient-centered care.

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Healthtech Startup Doccla Raises £15 Million to Scale up Adoption of its Virtual Ward Technology

Healthcare IT Today

Doccla delivers remote patient monitoring solutions to free up hospital beds and help alleviate pressures on the NHS. Sweden-founded and London-headquartered, Doccla , the leading provider to the NHS of virtual ward and patient monitoring technology, has today announced it has closed a £15 million Series A funding round. The oversubscribed round was led by International venture capital firm General Catalyst , with participation from funds managed by healthcare investors KHP Ventures – a collabor

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AI in Mental Health: Benefits of Technologies for AI Mental Health

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health provides numerous benefits and opportunities for patients and clinicians. Broadening patient access to mental health treatment, improving engagement and quality of care, and providing a better work-life for providers are just a few advantages of AI mental health. Kellogg and Sadeh-Sharvit (2022) examined the potential challenges—and possible solutions—associated with AI in mental health, focusing on how these technologies impact mental health provide

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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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Telehealth now serves unmet needs, says athenahealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Increased telehealth utilization points to wider use as a diagnostic and triage tool, particularly among those with chronic conditions. WHY IT MATTERS. New research based on a survey of 2,000 athenaOne network patients conducted in June and July of this year, as well as data on booked and completed appointments through the athenahealth electronic health record, suggests telehealth is now integrated across the care continuum.

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Post-COVID Recommendations for HIPAA Enforcement & CMS Telehealth: Government Accountability Office

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report urging more oversight of HIPAA regulations and CME telehealth. The uptake of telehealth technologies has increased the risk of telehealth fraud, waste, and abuse. The GAO investigation was focused on urging the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take steps to mitigate these risks.

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Post-COVID Recommendations for HIPAA Enforcement & CME Telehealth: Government Accountability Office

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report urging more oversight of HIPAA regulations and CME telehealth. The uptake of telehealth technologies has increased the risk of telehealth fraud, waste, and abuse. The GAO investigation was focused on urging the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take steps to mitigate these risks.

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Viability of Pediatric Telehealth Neurology: Study of 14,820 Patients

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Now that the data related to forced adoption of telehealth is being analyzed post-COVID, questions remain about the efficacy of pediatric telehealth for different groups of patients and their families. Searching for data about the viability of continuing virtual pediatrics telemedicine, a research team from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia looked into children’s records after the reopening of outpatient clinics.

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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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Enforcement of HIPAA Regulations & CME Telehealth: US Government Accountability Office Recommendations

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report urging more oversight of HIPAA regulations and CME telehealth. The uptake of telehealth technologies has increased the risk of telehealth fraud, waste, and abuse. The GAO investigation was focused on urging the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take steps to mitigate these risks.

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The Future of Wearable Devices in Healthcare

Telebehavioral Health Institute

In the last few years, many wearable devices have found widespread support amongst the public. Clinicians have also encouraged clients and patients to purchase wearable healthcare devices to monitor and detect changes in health. These products include blood pressure cuffs; pulse oximeters; heart rate variability devices such as the Oura ring or smartwatches with movement trackers made by Apple or Fitbit; smart home technology , and many other devices.

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