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Q&A: A firsthand account of FDA's Pre-Cert Program

Mobi Health News

Dr. Yuri Maricich, chief medical officer at Pear Therapeutics, speaks on his company's experience bringing a digital therapeutic product through the regulator's experimental program for health software.

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West Virginia Was the Last State to ID a COVID-19 Positive Patient; The States’ Residents Are At Highest Risk for Severe Reaction to C19

Health Populi

Gallup has estimated 11 Million in U.S. at Severe Risk If Infected With COVID-19 in research published today. And the health citizens of West Virginia would be at greatest risk for having a severe reaction to the coronavirus. A “severe reaction” here means being critically ill or dying. The forecast doesn’t focus on the whole number of people in the US. who would be at-risk of contracting the coronavirus; the 11 million is the total number of Americans who have a “very hi

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Apple releases COVID-19 screening tool, resource guide

Mobi Health News

The new website and app were born out of a partnership with Apple, the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force and FEMA.

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Telehealth group practice offers free care to seniors nationwide during crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CCS Healthcare is a telehealth practice that has been delivering telehealth care extensively throughout Western Pennsylvania and New Jersey since 2016. It delivers care to assisted living facilities through on-site visits performed by its physician assistants, nurse practitioners and physicians. “We use telehealth for urgent care visits to maintain on-call availability 24 hours a day for each assisted living facility,” said Bill Hopkins, CRNP, a nurse practitioner and director of cli

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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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Scripps, UCSF kick off wearable-driven research projects to spot viral infections early on

Mobi Health News

Both efforts are employing popular consumer wearables and health trackers to spot potential cases of COVID-19 or other viral diseases as they begin.

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Apple teams up with CDC and White House to roll out COVID mobile app and website

FierceHealthIT

Silicon Valley giants are building software and technology tools to serve as healthcare resources in the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. Apple has developed a new COVID-19 website and app in partnership with the CDC, the White House Coronavirus Task Force, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Health providers desperate for PPE take to Twitter

Morning eHealth

HHS' expected licensing reg appears to be a letter to states — Privacy, telehealth measures in Phase 3 sail through Senate

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More hospitals turn to in-house tests to handle surge of COVID-19 patients

FierceHealthIT

More hospitals and academic medical centers are turning to their own labs to develop in-house COVID-19 tests to bypass the long wait for results.

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IoT Hand Washing Tracker: Safety First

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brian Kirkendall, vice president of product management, Digi International. In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis theorized that hand washing could limit the occurrence of puerperal fever among new mothers. But despite the obvious success […].

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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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Urban Institute: COVID-19 pandemic highlights risks of Medicaid block grants

FierceHealthIT

The coronavirus pandemic puts a spotlight on some of the biggest risks for states seeking to roll out Medicaid block grants, a new analysis shows.

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Kno2 On Demand Record Retrieval from Carequality and CommonWell for Free

Healthcare IT Today

In some exciting news for people who have been watching healthcare interoperability for a long time, Carequality has passed an emergency waiver that allows users to access the network and be able to query for records even if the EHR they use is not integrated (this was a requirement before the waiver). For those not […].

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HITAC sets up COVID task force to focus on tech issues impeding frontline clinicians

FierceHealthIT

An advisory group to ONC is standing up a coronavirus task force to tackle privacy and interoperability issues that are impeding frontline clinicians as they combat the growing outbreak. The task force will begin soliciting participation early next week and will likely tackle challenges around privacy, data standards, data interoperability, and infrastructure.

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COVID-19 Humor – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Friday after a long year…I mean month…oh crap, it’s only been a week. Well, regardless of how it’s felt, we’ve made it to Friday and you know what that means. It’s time for a little Fun Friday to hopefully give you a smile and a laugh amidst the challenging crisis we face. Considering how […].

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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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HIPAA Privacy Rule Waiver

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Emergency HIPAA Privacy Rule Waiver During an emergency or public health crisis, some elements of the HIPAA Privacy Rule may be waived. As of March 15, 2020, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued an … Read more. The post HIPAA Privacy Rule Waiver appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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HRS Launches COVID-Kit and COVID-Mobile to Meet Telehealth Demand

Health Recovery Solutions

Health Recovery Solutions (HRS), the leading provider of telehealth and remote patient monitoring solutions, announced the first telehealth COVID-Kit available to all providers. The COVID-Kit is a variation of HRS' widely adopted PatientConnect Complete solution and comes standard with a 10'' Samsung tablet with pre-downloaded telehealth software, Bluetooth thermometer, Bluetooth pulse ox, and Bluetooth blood pressure cuff.

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James McClurg MD APC Partners with OrthoLive

Ortholive

James McClurg MD APC has signed an agreement with OrthoLive as its exclusive telemedicine partner. OrthoLive will provide the technology solution to deliver telemedicine appointments for new and established patients at the practice.

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Use Feedback to Improve Engagement in the Healthcare Workplace

HealthStream

Millennials make up the largest generation working in healthcare, and their numbers and predominance will only continue to grow. That’s why it is important for healthcare managers to learn how to make regular communication about performance work, specifically for millennials.

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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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Steering Nearly 60% Collections Improvement for a Health System

Hinduja Global Solutions

A Pennsylvania-based health system was struggling to support growth of a complex insurance collections program, undermined by labor-intensive and inefficient A/R processes. With the understanding that planned growth would further decentralize operations, this client sought out HGS for our proven A/R expertise and strategic, global resources. . Throughout this client’s growth trajectory—from 5 to 25 hospitals—HGS has been there every step of the way.

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Security Assurance in the Expanding Telemedicine Landscape

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Sonia Arista, Healthcare CISO at Fortinet. As with other industries, healthcare continues to thrive thanks to new technologies, including telemedicine. By offering this service, medical professionals can monitor the wellbeing of their patients remotely, something that has proven to be a critical service in today’s health landscape.

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Challenges in ACA Compliance during the Covid-19 Pandemic

ACA Times

3 minute read: As businesses across the country shutter their doors, reduce their hours and move to remote working to comply with various state or local stay at home orders to combat the spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic, employers are assessing their options for workforce management. This includes considering furloughs, leave policies, terminations and more.

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COVID-19 Potpourri of Stories

Healthcare IT Today

A new COVID-19 story everywhere you turn. It’s hard to know what to share and what not to share. Hopefully, you’re finding value in the stories we have shared about COVID-19 and healthcare IT. We’re always open to feedback on what we can do to better serve you and your teams. Let us know on […].

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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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Weekender 3/27/20

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap UC San Diego Health publishes a.

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HRS Launches COVID-19 Telehealth Pathways to Help Clients

Health Recovery Solutions

Health Recovery Solutions, a national provider of telehealth and remote patient monitoring solutions, announced today the launch of COVID-19 telehealth clinical pathways. HRS' Clinical Advisory Board developed the COVID-19 clinical pathways, which consist of a COVID-19 screening tool, symptom surveys, custom education, and accompanying clinical best practices on symptom survey cadence and video visits.

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Join Healthcare’s Powerful Telehealth Response to COVID-19

CE App

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow in the United States, demand for telehealth services has skyrocketed to the point where many systems have been overwhelmed. The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, for example, has endured more virtual patient requests than they can handle, while large systems like the Cleveland Clinic have seen a fifteenfold increase in telehealth visits over the course of a single week.