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Telehealth In the Rural Healthcare Center

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Amber Folk, CEO, The Clark Clinic. How do you provide care to underserved patients who have difficulty getting to the office? This was the challenge we were trying to solve at the Clark Clinic. Some of our patients don’t have access to a vehicle or are physically restricted and unable to travel far.

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Doctors are from Venus, Data Scientists from Mars : or Why AI/ML is Moving so Slowly in Healthcare

Lloyd Price

The world of healthcare may look like the most fertile field for AI/ML apps but in practice it’s fraught with barriers. These range from cultural differences, to the failure of developers to really understand the environment they are trying to enhance, to regulatory and logical Catch 22s that work against adoption. According to data compiled by research firm Startup Health funding for digital healthcare totalled $14.6 billion in 2018.

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So how big is Amazon-Berkshire-JPM anyway?

Morning eHealth

New product label needed for AI — EHR reports lead to subpoenas

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When innovating for healthcare, keep an eye out for what works in other industries

Mobi Health News

The associate director of digital planning at NYU Langone discusses how to create a digital patient experience from scratch.

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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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Clocktree Directory is coming soon!

Clocktree

Make a Great First Impression on New Clients. Clocktree is excited to let you know that we are launching a service soon that helps prospective clients find and connect with you on Clocktree. This is a huge benefit to Clocktree members, as clients will be able to find experienced telehealth providers like you, and you will gain new customers who want to meet with you online.

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Google, Sanofi-backed group offering grants for women in health IT

FierceHealthIT

The Women & Access to Health Daring Circle kicked off its 2019 Women's Forum with a call for applications from women entrepreneurs in health IT. Winners will receive funding, mentoring and advertising.

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Philips, NewYork-Presbyterian to roll out remote monitoring app platform to physicians, patients

Mobi Health News

A new partnership will see the deployment of the eCareCoordinator clinician dashboard and eCareCompanion patient app.

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Implementing QA In Healthcare Industry Often Presents a Challenge

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Vikash Kumar, marketing manager, Tatvasoft. Software testing and quality assurance have grown in critical importance for companies. Over the few years, it has established itself as a formidable career choice which is unlikely to stop anytime soon. Now as the name implies, quality insurance is all about maintaining “high quality” on a constant basis.

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Study: Pre-op patient engagement, education app decreased time in hospital

Mobi Health News

Peerwell's PreHab app was also associated with a decrease in poor discharge dispositions.

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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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Industry Voices—Healthcare industries are underinvesting in AI patenting

FierceHealthIT

Health service providers are finding more and more ways to match patients with treatment options, improve the detection of disease, and analyze patients’ data to give them more insight into their individual health profiles. With all the industry investment in healthcare technology, why are traditional healthcare companies not represented in the AI patenting landscape?

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Apple files patent for poisonous gas detection, EBSCO Health acquires HealthDecision and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: 23andMe gets FDA nod for direct-to-consumer test for hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome; Mobile Heartbeat announces integration with Imprivata.

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Consider: Aging in a Virtual World

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Once upon a time, in a language far, far away… We used terms like long distance , remote , and telepresence to describe services and experiences that were taking place somewhere else. We were guided on how to cope with these remote processes where we were not present to manage or experience. And for the care recipients being managed, they were unable to communicate problems in their on-site, 'real' experience.

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Microsoft exec shares strengths and challenges of blockchain

Mobi Health News

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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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Lessons learned: What patients said about their experience in primary care practices

FierceHealthIT

What makes a good doctor? Just ask their patients. Based on a new survey, it's clear that good communication with their physicians, as well as with other clinicians, is key to a positive patient experience.

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Preparing for the Silver Tsunami

Mobi Health News

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Sernova Cell Pouch Hopes to Improve Islet Transplant Success

Insulin Nation

Philip Tolekis, CEO and Founder of Sernova. Sernova is a regenerative medicine company located in London, Ontario. The corporation is led by President and CEO Dr. Philip M. Toleikis ( bio ) who has a strong background in implantable medical devices from twenty years in leadership roles including Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. We spoke with Dominic Gray, Corporate Communications, to learn more about Sernova’s current Phase I/II clinical trial.

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Optum sues former executive, says he took trade secrets to Amazon health venture

FierceHealthIT

Optum sued a former executive who left the company to join the Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan Chase health venture.

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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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Register for SightCall and ServiceMax Webinar

SightCall

SCALE YOUR WORKFORCE & DELIVER SUPERIOR CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE WITH AR-POWERED VISUAL ASSISTANCE Scaling the workforce is a real challenge that service organizations are facing today. While experienced workers are retiring, it is increasingly challenging to attract the younger generation and on-board them with the right skills quickly. The solution is to leverage the deep experience of older workforce to coach the younger field technicians by leveraging proven digital technologies like AR and

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Benefits of bundled payments turn on whether they are voluntary or mandatory: GAO

FierceHealthIT

Medicare has been testing various episode-based payment models to find out if any of them can save CMS money. As it turns out, the results can differ tremendously based on whether those models are mandatory or voluntary.

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The Consumer and the Payor, Bingo and Trust: My Day At Medecision Liberator Bootcamp

Health Populi

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Now that EHRs are well-adopted in physicians’ practices and hospitals, patient data have gone digital, and can be aggregated and mined for better diagnosis, treatment, and intelligent decision making. There’s surely lots of data to mine.

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Urban Institute: ACA exchanges set for a stable year after turbulent 2018 

FierceHealthIT

Thanks to a quieter 2018 on the health policy front, the ACA exchanges are set for a more stable year in 2019.

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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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Americans Are Warming to Universal Health Care, Kaiser Poll Finds

Health Populi

Most Americans like the idea of universal health care as a guaranteed right, Kaiser Family Foundation learned in this month’s Health Tracking Poll. This finding reinforces the voter turnout for the 2018 mid-term elections which was largely driven by peoples’ concerns for losing health access for pre-existing conditions. The first chart notes important nuances under the majority support for a national health plan which, in this case, asked whether people favored a plan “sometime

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Payer Roundup—Survey: Nearly half of adults have never heard of ‘Medicare for All’ 

FierceHealthIT

A new survey finds that 46% of adults have never heard of the varied "Medicare for All" plans, plus more health insurance news.

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Physician Practice Roundup—Trump zeroes in on surprise medical bills in White House chat with patients, experts

FierceHealthIT

President Donald Trump on Wednesday instructed administration officials to investigate how to prevent surprise medical bills, broadening his focus on drug prices to include other issues of price transparency in healthcare.