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Digital gastrointestinal care startup Salvo Health launches with $10.5M

Mobi Health News

The company offers a virtual clinic for people with chronic gut conditions like irritable bowel syndrome and gastroesophageal reflux disease.

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Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women’s Health

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi. I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if

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OIG report: Tablets distributed to vets often go unused

Mobi Health News

More than half of patients were not using provided tablets to connect to virtual appointments during the first three quarters of 2021.

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Get Paid for Telehealth: 7 Questions to Ask Insurance Companies

TheraNest

Reading Time: 6 Minutes. During the pandemic, healthcare providers scrambled to offer care to their patients without exposing them to covid-19. This led to a boon in telehealth facilitated by the widespread adoption of video conferencing technology and relaxed regulations. But even as the pandemic wanes, the interest in telehealth is still going strong.

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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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Amwell to power CVS Health's virtual care offering

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Cloud in Healthcare – Is It Time to Speed Up or Slow Down? – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 94

Healthcare IT Today

For the 94th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about using the cloud in healthcare – should we use it more or should we be more cautious? We dive into how the cloud has evolved over time and the many uses it has in healthcare. But with how it has evolved, does cloud integration need to be outsourced to a partner rather than done in house?

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PCOS Diet & Nutrition Recommendations for Women

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

PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) is a hormonal imbalance in women that causes irregular menstrual cycles, fertility problems, and ovarian cysts. It tends to affect one out of every ten women worldwide. It is a complicated condition in which the ovaries generate an abnormally high level of androgens (male hormones), particularly testosterone. These hormones are normally […].

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Remote Care Delivery for Patients with Celiac Disease During and After COVID-19

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The global health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been enormous. Lockdowns caused people to stockpile food and other necessities, causing shortages. The pandemic has raised new concerns in the community of people living with celiac disease, an immune-mediated condition for which the only proven treatment is a gluten-free diet. This article tackles potential remote care delivery for celiac disease patients through emerging healthcare technologies like telehealth, telemedicine, an

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Geisinger's telemedicine program shoots from 20 specialties to more than 70

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. THE PROBLEM. Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need.

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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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Pre-Visit Clinical Intake Automation Company Health Note Nabs $17M in Funding Round

Healthcare IT Today

SignalFire, UnityPoint, Northwell Holdings, Cedars-Sinai back innovations in documentation automation to improve care delivery for clinicians and patients. Health Note, the pre-visit clinical intake automation platform that uses digital patient intake to prepare clinical notes for providers ahead of patient visits, announces the close of a $17 million Series A financing round led by SignalFire.

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Therapy Notes: How Does It Work and Is It Effective?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Reading Time: 6 minutes Mental health practitioners should consider a lot more than just the treatment of their patients when running a mental health clinic. The treatment of patients is essential, but other important aspects also require attention for the care provided to be the best. Therapy notes software such as therapy tech, mobile health applications, electronic health records (or EHR), video coaching, and many others are available to help with practice management.

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Americans Rationing Healthcare in the Inflationary Era; Out-of-Pocket Expenses Are the Concern

Health Populi

Nearly 100 million people in the U.S. cut back on healthcare due to costs in the first half of 2022, according to the latest poll on health care costs form Gallup and West Health , gauging Americans’ financial health in June 2022. That’s the month when inflation in the U.S. reached 9.1%, a 40-year high. Among Americans’ cuts to household spending was the most common medical self-rationing behavior, delaying or avoiding care or purchasing prescription drugs, the survey found.