Tue.Sep 13, 2022

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Will robots help us in our homes – now and within 10 years?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Context matters: consider the likely status of people in 10 years. It makes you think. Asked this question recently and pondered. What will be the context at that time? A decade from now, the oldest baby boomers will be 86. Women will outlive men by a few years – living on average into their late 80s. They may be solo agers – no children, spouse or partner.

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The recent closing of Amazon Care shows the magnitude of the challenge in changing health care

KevinMD

Amazon recently announced plans to shut down Amazon Care, an in-home and virtual health care service. The reasons cited were attributed to a significant overlap of services with the One Medical chain of clinics, which Amazon purchased in July of this year for 3.9 billion, as well as Amazon Care not being a complete enough. Read more…. The recent closing of Amazon Care shows the magnitude of the challenge in changing health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Google adds Medicaid, Medicare enrollment info to Search

Mobi Health News

The tech giant also announces a partnership between YouTube and the Kaiser Family Foundation that aims to help organizations create high-quality informational content on topics like mental health, maternal care and health inequity.

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The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances

Health Populi

“The odds are against hospitals collecting patient balances greater than $7,500,” the report analyzing Hospital collection rates for self-pay patient accounts from Crowe concludes. Crowe benchmarked data from 1,600 hospitals and over 100,00 physicians in the U.S. to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue.

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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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Redesign Health scores $65M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Redesign helps build, launch and find funding for digital health startups, including home-based care startup MedArrive, cancer care-coordination platform Jasper Health and hybrid mental health company UpLift.

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Texas Judge Rules ACA Preventive Care Unconstitutional

ACA Times

Just when you thought the ACA was finally out of the line of fire, another lawsuit questioning its constitutionality makes its way to the forefront. This time it’s an attack…. The post Texas Judge Rules ACA Preventive Care Unconstitutional first appeared on The ACA Times.

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The A to Z Guide to Technology Strategy Implementation

LeanIX

Enterprise architecture plays a central role in successful technology strategy implementation — but what exactly does that role look like in practice?

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Tricare Telehealth: Telehealth Phone Calls Covered But Telehealth Copays Reinstated

Telebehavioral Health Institute

In a recent Tricare telehealth policy update, the Department of Defense (DoD) addressed telehealth phone calls and telehealth copays in the Federal Register with this statement: SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (ASD(HA)) issues this final rule …. Temporary coverage of telephonic office visits is made permanent in this final rule, with its adoption expanded beyond the pandemic; the temporary telehealth cost-share waiver is terminated.

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Revolutionizing Real-World Data Using Next-Generation Tokenization Technology

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Josh Schoeller, CEO, Health Care business of LexisNexis® Risk Solutions & Global President, Elsevier Clinical Solutions. Connecting datasets with unparalleled precision unlocks better health for all. The healthcare industry has widely acknowledged the importance of enabling patient-centered care. We all seem to agree that understanding patients and their unique healthcare journeys provides a more complete picture and increases the chances of positive healt

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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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Work From Home (WFH) Revolution

BHM Healthcare Solutions

While BHM has always had a very strong background in data analytics and reporting, we took this opportunity to explore ethical and fair productivity metrics to allow for data-driven decision-making around our WFH practices. CLICK HERE to learn more about how BHM builds efficiencies. Over the last few years, there has been a rapid switch in organizations allowing and encouraging work-from-home (WFH) options.

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AI Startup AESOP Raises $3M to Tackle Medical and Billing Errors

Healthcare IT Today

Digital health startup AESOP Technology has raised a $2.95 million series pre-A round to address the growing medical and billing errors problem. The round was led by Taiwania Capital with participation from Colopl Next, 500 Startups, and BE Capital. Originally from Taiwan , AESOP started as a university spin-off from Taipei Medical University (TMU).

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Online ERP Therapy for OCD: Benefits and Precautions

Telebehavioral Health Institute

In a 2021 meta-analysis, Ephrem Fernandez and colleagues reported that telemental health services have numerous benefits for the patient and clients, often providing results that are as promising as face-to-face care. Among patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), there is substantial research support for the effectiveness of online OCD treatment like Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP) or online ERP therapy , also known as telehealth ERP.

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MHD Document Responder: patient.identifier chaining

Healthcare Exchange Standards

This is a quick article on a requirement of the MHD Document Responder that may be less obvious to some. The specific requirement is related to chained search parameters, like `patient.identifier`; `source.given` and `source.family`; and `author.given` and `author.family`. These search parameters have a `.` that indicates that one is to search deeper, aka chaining the search value to a different kind of resource and use the results in the primary search.

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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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How AI Can Democratize Healthcare with Robin Farmanfarmaian

Healthcare IT Today

AI seems to be popping up in every part of healthcare. I recently heard an investor say that AI is being mentioned in every new product similar to what we saw with crypto. However, AI is actually making a difference in the products, unlike crypto. This is exactly what I see in healthcare. AI is making an impact on so many parts of healthcare and in many ways we’re just getting started.