Mon.Sep 27, 2021

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UnitedHealth calculator helps schools, workplaces design COVID-19 testing strategies

Mobi Health News

The calculator shows the estimated number of COVID-19 infections during the testing period, how much testing will cost per person and the number of potential false positives.

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HHS watchdog: State oversight needed for behavioral telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General issued a data brief this month aimed at providing insight into state evaluations and oversight of tele-behavioral services. The brief, which examined oversight efforts as of January and February 2020, stemmed from a survey of Medicaid directors from 37 states, as well as structured interviews with relevant stakeholders.

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DotCom, Goodside team up on pediatric mental health tool for schools

Mobi Health News

The partnership will allow DotCom’s teletherapy services to build on Goodside’s in-school telehealth offerings, which mostly focus on physical health.

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How Continuing Medical Education Impacts Physician Self-Assessment

Continue Education Journal

The importance of lifelong learning in continuing medical education was explored in a systematic review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Required for all healthcare professionals, continuing medical education (CME) serves the purpose of creating a culture of lifelong learning, assessing clinical competence, and fulfilling mandatory training for licensure.

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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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Amazon Web Services to invest $40M in health outcomes, equity tools

Mobi Health News

AWS plans to select organizations focused on boosting health access, addressing SDoH and using data to form a more equitable health system.

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Zebra Medical Vision lands FDA clearance for tool to detect cardiovascular disease

Mobi Health News

This comes just a month after news broke Nanox was set to acquire Zebra Medical Vision.

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How Retail-Style Digital Engagement Can Leverage Your EHR’s power

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Shorrosh, CEO and founder, AccuReg. Healthcare consumers (aka “your patients”) have easily purchased goods and services on the Web for years and now expect that level of ease with their healthcare experience. So, […]. The article How Retail-Style Digital Engagement Can Leverage Your EHR’s power appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Women First Digital, Doctors Without Borders video series helps educate patients on medication abortions

Mobi Health News

The video series aims to explain how to verify a pregnancy, how medication abortions work, how to look for signs of a complication and what to expect afterward.

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Behavioral Therapy: REBT Versus CBT

TheraNest

In therapy, there are many different approaches, theories, and techniques that mental health providers use to help their clients navigate circumstances and develop healthy emotional skills. What theories a provider uses may depend on a variety of things like preference, but ultimately boils down to the needs of a particular client. Some lines of thinking might apply better in certain situations or with patients that have specific emotional needs.

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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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CVS Caremark takes aim at health inequities, starting with sickle cell, HIV

FierceHealthIT

CVS Caremark takes aim at health inequities, starting with sickle cell, HIV. pminemyer. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:55.

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How You Can Leverage Telepsychiatry to Build an Effective MAT Program

Iris Telehealth

Access to high-quality substance-use disorder treatment has never been more important. As the opioid epidemic continues to grow and impact more and more lives, families, and communities across the country, healthcare organizations must include some form of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for patients with substance use disorders. However, building an effective MAT program at your organization doesn’t have to involve a massive overhaul of your organization’s services.

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Pain doctor convicted in $100M fraud scheme involving unnecessary spinal injections

FierceHealthIT

Pain doctor convicted in $100M fraud scheme involving unnecessary spinal injections. hlandi. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 12:54.

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Key Perspectives on Virtual Care with HCTec and Qure4u

Healthcare IT Today

While virtual care doesn’t have quite the same funding that EMR had with meaningful use, there are a lot of similarities to where we’re at today with virtual care as compared to where we were with EMR back when the government poured down $36 billion of stimulus money on EMR. Thanks to COVID and new […].

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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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Advocate Aurora, Novant Health, Stanford Health Care back Xealth’s $24M round to expand digital health services

FierceHealthIT

Advocate Aurora, Novant Health, Stanford Health Care back Xealth’s $24M round to expand digital health services. hlandi. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 10:58.

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Astarte Medical Secures $7.6 Million in Series A-1 Financing to Advance its Technology for Improving Preterm Infant Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

Astarte Medical, a clinical intelligence company leveraging data and digital tools to improve health outcomes in the first 1000 days, today announced it has secured $7.6 million in Series A-1 financing. Investors in the round include Viking Global Investors LP, Lunsford Capital, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, OCA Ventures, Next Act Fund, Capita3, Leatherneck Ventures, and Social Venture […].

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Hospital finances 'not out of the woods yet' as delta fuels high-acuity stays in August

FierceHealthIT

Hospital finances 'not out of the woods yet' as delta fuels high-acuity stays in August. dmuoio. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:24.

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Video Series: Doctor to Doctor – How to be an Engaged Patient

Society for Participatory Medicine

[link]. Conversations between SPM co-founder and Chief Advocacy Officer, Danny Sands MD and Annie Brewster MD, founder of Health Story Collaborative. Here they discuss meeting patients where they are. Did you enjoy this video? Sign the Manifesto and learn more about becoming a member. The post Video Series: Doctor to Doctor – How to be an Engaged Patient first appeared on SPM Blog.

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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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HHS doles out $73M to 10 universities for health IT workforce initiatives

FierceHealthIT

HHS doles out $73M to 10 universities for health IT workforce initiatives. hlandi. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 15:54.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 16: Joel Vengco on Health Equity and the Digital Divide

Healthcare IT Today

For the 16th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Joel Vengco, SVP and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Baystate Health. Located in Western Mass (Massachusetts for those following along at home), Baystate Health is in a great position to benefit from access to all of the […].

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FTC's backlog is delaying regulatory review of Beaumont-Spectrum merger, systems say

FierceHealthIT

FTC's backlog is delaying regulatory review of Beaumont-Spectrum merger, systems say. dmuoio. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 12:15.

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Beverly Hills Non-Profit NDF Leads the Way in Finding A Cure for Rare Genetic Disease GNE Myopathy (GNEM)

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

If you’ve never heard the term “GNE Myopathy,” or “GNEM” before, you aren’t alone. For decades, this very rare disease that exists in races and nationalities worldwide, and has elevated carrier rates in certain populations of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, has wreaked absolute havoc in the lives of its patients, while going largely […].

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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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KFF: Delta cases, hospitalizations lead to uptick in vaccinations

FierceHealthIT

KFF: Delta cases, hospitalizations lead to uptick in vaccinations. rking. Mon, 09/27/2021 - 16:21.

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Beverly Hills Non-Profit Leads the Way in Finding A Cure for Rare Genetic Disease GNE Myopathy (GNEM)

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

If you’ve never heard the term “GNE Myopathy,” or “GNEM” before, you aren’t alone. For decades, this very rare disease that exists in races and nationalities worldwide, and has elevated carrier rates in certain populations of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia, has wreaked absolute havoc in the lives of its patients, while going largely […].

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What strategies will help to deliver telemedicine “at scale”?

Henry Kotula

[link]. Every health system and physician group is now focused on strategies to make telemedicine more scalable across their networks. When we spoke recently with a chief medical information officer (CMIO) leading his system’s telemedicine strategy, he shared, “ If there is one thing I wish executives would understand about telemedicine, it’s that it will never make doctors more efficient.”.

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An HIT Moment With … Ajay Kapare

HIStalk Interviews

An HIT Moment With … is a quick interview with.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.