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3 Ways Virtual Care Visits Improve Patient Experience

eVisit

Creating a welcoming digital front door for patients is about more than simply providing access. It’s designing an end-to-end patient journey that simplifies access to care and invigorates personal choice.

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Meditation app Calm lays off 20% of workforce

Mobi Health News

A memo sent to employees from CEO David Ko said the company is "not immune to the impacts of the current economic environment.

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Top 6 Roles of Remote Patient Monitoring for Chronic Disease Management

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Chronic diseases are described as illnesses that last a year or longer and necessitate continuing medical attention and can impede everyday activities. In the United States, chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, chronic kidney disease and diabetes are the main causes of mortality and disability.

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Surgical training platform FundamentalVR scores $20M

Mobi Health News

The virtual reality startup said the investment brings its total raise to more than $30 million.

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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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How to Improve Child and Adolescent Care in Health Systems

Iris Telehealth

Over the last several years, children in the U.S. have faced increased rates of mental health challenges and more barriers to the specialty care they need. Whether it’s long wait times, provider shortage constraints, or social determinants of health , getting care isn’t easy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ,1 in 5 children have a mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder.

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Lyniate Merges with CareCom, Further Extending Capabilities of Interoperability Leader

Healthcare IT Today

Semantic Interoperability Pioneer, CareCom, Improves Clinician Experience with Advanced Healthcare Terminology Mapping and NLP Conversion of Unstructured Data. Lyniate , a global leader in healthcare data interoperability, and CareCom , a leader in healthcare terminology management solutions including HealthTerm® and CareIndexing®, have entered into a definitive merger agreement.

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Pandemic saw a big uptick in health app use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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CIO Podcast – Episode 37: Technology Leadership with Patrick McGill

Healthcare IT Today

For the 37th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Patrick McGill, MD, EVP, Chief Transformation Officer at Community Health Network. McGill shares some of the exciting projects he’s worked on and what made those projects a success. We also ask him what technologies he’s watching but hasn’t implemented yet that he thinks will eventually be important to his organization.

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How telemedicine can leverage the shrinking number of physicians

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Physicians are burning out and leaving the front lines of healthcare in big numbers. The pandemic has aggravated this problem. Solutions to this critical problem are needed. Clinicians and other experts at telehealth technology and services companies across the country are raising their hands, saying they could be at least one part of the solution to physician burnout.

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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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The Challenges of Offering Free Devices to Patients – Lessons Learned from the VA’s 41,000 Device Program

Healthcare IT Today

When you think about digital health, many people take for granted that the patients are going to have the devices and connectivity to be able to do things like telehealth visits and remote patient monitoring (RPM). While the number of people who have both is large, there’s still a significant section of patients who don’t have access to one or both of these things.

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Salesforce Health Cloud rolls out RPM and other 'care from anywhere' features

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Salesforce Health Cloud introduced a suite of new technologies this past week designed for remote patient monitoring, connected health, medication management and more. WHY IT MATTERS. Salesforce says it designed new features to help providers streamline operations and achieve better health outcomes as well as meet patients where they are–at home, at work or on-the-go.