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Meditation app effective in improving young adults' attention spans

Mobi Health News

A new study published this morning in Nature found that a closed-loop digital meditation platform, dubbed MediTrain, helped improve and sustain young adults' attention spans.

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Creating a Digital Framework for 21st Century Patient Engagement and Care Coordination

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By George Mathew, MD, chief medical officer, North America, DXC Technology. Patients, like all consumers, are more digitally aware and connected than ever before, as they continue to embrace the latest mobile devices and wearables. These devices, as well as the increasing availability of information on health management, have made patients more engaged participants in […].

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Apple announces hearing protection, period tracking, activity trends features on Watch OS6

Mobi Health News

Today at WWCD, Apple unveiled a new feature that will alert WatchOS6 users if environmental noise or smart technology audio is too loud.

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What Can Healthcare IT Leaders Do To Flip the Script on Physician Burnout?

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Leaders from Nemours Children’s Health System discuss the challenges involved in improving the well-being of their health system’s nearly 850 physicians, in the context of EHR-related challenges

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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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T1D Exchange opens online patient registry for Type 1 treatment, policy research

Mobi Health News

By making its registry easy to access, the nonprofit group is hoping to build a longitudinal cohort that includes patient experiences from every demographic.

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Best Buy acquires another remote senior monitoring service

Mobi Health News

Critical Signal Technologies' 100,000 subscriber-strong service offers PERS, telehealth, remote vital sign monitoring and more.

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IBM Watson Health touts recent studies showing AI improves how physicians treat cancer

FierceHealthIT

The use of artificial intelligence technology in clinical decision making is still in an early phase, but recent studies indicate that AI has the potential to help improve the way clinicians treat cancer, according to IBM Watson Health.

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Swedish company Flow unveils brain stimulation headset and app to treat depression in the UK

Mobi Health News

Over 300 million people around the world suffer from depression, according to the World Health Organisation.

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At Health IT Summit, Nemours Executives Describe EHR Optimization Effort

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

Pediatric health system creates Physician IT (PhIT) program to enlist physicians with an aptitude for creating efficiencies to work with colleagues

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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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GreatCall recalls some Lively MobilePlus devices, halts sales

Mobi Health News

The Best Buy subsidiary has also been hit by a class action suit due to an unspecified defect with the device's fall detection features.

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Quest Diagnostics breach may have exposed data of 11.9M patients

FierceHealthIT

Medical testing company Quest Diagnostics says 11.9 million customers could have had their medical and financial information compromised due to a data breach at a third-party billing company.

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GreatCall recalls some Lively Mobile devices, halts sales

Mobi Health News

The Best Buy subsidiary has also been hit by a class action suit due to an unspecified defect with the device's fall detection features.

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In a blow to HHS, Supreme Court sides with hospitals in legal battle over DSH payments

FierceHealthIT

The Supreme Court has sided with hospitals in an ongoing legal battle over billions in disproportionate share hospital payments, a ruling that could impact how federal agencies run Medicare.

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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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Just hours left to weigh in on info blocking and interop rules

Morning eHealth

Rebuilding Paradise — Patient privacy advocates continue to pressure Facebook

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60% of ACA exchange insurers plan to broaden participation in 2020: survey

FierceHealthIT

Insurance companies plan to up their number of Affordable Care Act plans available in 2020, according to eHealth’s latest survey.

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The Importance of Effective Communication in Nursing

HealthStream

Registered Nurse Nicole Kraut shares her experiences with HealthStream and how she believes effective communication is most important during patient interactions.

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Public health officials call for Medicaid coverage of medical battery devices

FierceHealthIT

As hurricane and fire seasons have begun for millions of Americans, public health officials are calling for preventive measures for the medically vulnerable.

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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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What is Service Recovery in Healthcare?

HealthStream

Service recovery in healthcare is the process of making things right after something has gone wrong with the healthcare experience. Learn more from HealthStream.

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Medicaid expansion narrows racial gaps in access to timely ovarian cancer care: study 

FierceHealthIT

Medicaid expansion may have significantly reduced racial disparities in access to earlier ovarian cancer treatment, according to a new study.

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5 Essentials of Nursing Orientation

HealthStream

Learn about 5 essentials of nursing orientation and its pivotal role in the competency and retention of newly hired registered nurses, from HealthStream.

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Telemedicine instruments – Part 2

Healee

Ready to dive deeper into the subtleties of telemedicine? In our previous post, we spoke about the basics of telemedicine and covered the essential instruments a good telemedicine platform should... The post Telemedicine instruments – Part 2 appeared first on Healee.

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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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The Benefits of Hourly Rounding in Nursing

HealthStream

Learn how hourly rounding improves communication and ensures the best outcomes in a healthcare setting between staff, patients, and loved ones, from HealthStream.

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VivaTech 2019: Highlights of Solutions Shaping the Present and Future of Healthcare

Digital Health Today

An inspiring showcase of 13,000 startups in Paris. The fourth edition of Viva Tech took place in Paris from 16th to 18th of May and the main topics of this new edition were women and Africa. Viva Tech is the second biggest European tech and innovation conference. It’s a mix of inspiring talks and a large exhibition floor where big corporations bring along startups on their booth to showcase the innovations of today and tomorrow.

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7 Nurse Retention Strategies

HealthStream

Utilize these 7 nurse retention strategies from HealthStream to keep your healthcare employees happy and engaged with their work.

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UCLA Health deploys Microsoft Azure to accelerate medical research, precision medicine at the point of care

FierceHealthIT

UCLA Health is collaborating with technology giant Microsoft to deploy its cloud computing services to more rapidly gain insights from clinical and medical research data with the aim of delivering more personalized healthcare to patients.

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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.

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Addressing the Demand for Wound Care Management with Virtual Care

Synzi

By Lee Horner, CEO, Synzi Chronic wounds are a common problem in elderly patients and they require frequent, regular monitoring to maximize wound healing. Once a patient develops a wound, healing can be complicated by many comorbid conditions such as … Read More. The post Addressing the Demand for Wound Care Management with Virtual Care appeared first on Synzi.

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Humana says it doesn't plan to buy Centene 

FierceHealthIT

Humana shut down speculation that it intends to purchase Centene in a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Monday.

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People Want to Flourish, Not Just Live – Speaking Health Politics to Real People

Health Populi

“How should we define ‘health?'” a 2011 BMJ article asked. The context for the question was that the 1948 World Health Organization definition of health — that health is, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”– was not so useful in the 21st century.