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Automating Accessibility in Health IT – Part 2

Healthcare IT Today

The first article in this series, Disabilities and Accessibility in Health IT: The Need Is Constant , introduced the importance of designing web sites and other health care tools for many different types of people. In this article, we’ll look at how far you can go with the automation of web site accessibility. Automation and the human factor. In most endeavors, computers can provide help while leaving tasks that require human intervention, a role for the computer that user interaction pion

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Amazon Care to shut down at the end of 2022

Mobi Health News

Neil Lindsay, senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said the telehealth service was "not a complete enough offering for the large enterprise customers we have been targeting, and wasn’t going to work long-term.

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The More Chronic Conditions, the More Likely a Patient Will Have Medical Debt

Health Populi

There is a direct association between a person’s health status and patient outcomes and their financial health, quantified in original research published this week in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers from the University of Michigan (my alma mater) Medical School and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation analyzed two years of commercial insurance claims data generated between January 2019 and January 2021, linking to commercial credit data from January 2021 for patients enrolled

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Fitbit announces Inspire 3, Versa 4 and Sense 2 health tracking wearables

Mobi Health News

The Inspire 3 will be available worldwide in September, while the higher-end Versa 4 and Sense 2 will be available in the fall.

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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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Interface designers opt for cool over useful

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In recent years, TV Remote control devices became more usable – except for Apple’s. Rant on. Starting with the older one (“ Ridiculously symmetrical and highly unusable ”) to the most recent Siri remote – where they give up on usable buttons and enable changing the channel by voice. You gotta love a company with a device so devoid of buttons – and so easily off the rails with an accidental touch.

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Amazon Care Partners with Ginger to Add Behavioral Health Services

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Amazon has partnered with Ginger to add behavioral health services. The company will offer telehealth services through Amazon Care , allowing consumers to quickly see a healthcare professional via video or chat. In addition, Ginger provides home and office visits and prescription delivery. The partnership with Ginger will allow Amazon Care to offer behavioral health services.

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New digital health programme in Australia to help childhood cancer survivors be more active

Mobi Health News

It is a home-based programme with 10 self-paced modules.

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DirectTrust Directory Improvement Initiative

Healthcare IT Today

One of the big updates from DirectTrust at The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, was how DirectTrust was approaching changes and updates to their directory of direct addresses. Many in the community understand the important and value of the directory which contains over 1 million addresses in it.

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Taking the Journey Towards Equitable Virtual Care

Canadian Health Infoway

Virtual care is one way in which we can expand safe access to care. But like every health service, virtual care needs to be equitable: matched to the person it’s serving, and not limited by social and digital determinants of health.

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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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ThedaCare Invests in Qventus to Enhance Patient Experience and Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

Applies AI-Enabled Automation to Improve Access to Inpatient & Surgical Care. ThedaCare is a health system dedicated to reinventing health care and advancing its mission of improving the health and well-being of communities served. Because of the strong alignment with how the organization envisions the future of health care, ThedaCare announced it has invested $3M in Qventus.

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Optimum Healthcare IT Achieves ITSM Product Line Achievement Badge Within the ServiceNow Partner Program

Optimum Healthcare IT

Optimum Healthcare IT announced today it has been awarded the ITSM Product Line Achievement Badge within the ServiceNow Partner Program. Continue reading Optimum Healthcare IT Achieves ITSM Product Line Achievement Badge Within the ServiceNow Partner Program at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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The Physiology of Mental Health

TheraNest

Reading Time: 5 Minutes. Mental health conditions can occur due to various causes, including a patient’s overall physiological state. For example, an injury to the brain or infection can result in a mental illness. According to the University of Utah Health , mental and physiological health should be equally prioritized [1]. Many physiological factors can contribute to developing a mental health condition.

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The Healthy Diet to Promote Heart Health

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

The Mediterranean and DASH diets both enhance your heart and general health, according to the studies, yet they are very different from one another. Understand which option is the greatest fit for you. 1. The DASH Diet (Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension): The DASH diet was created to assist treat or managing high blood […]. The post The Healthy Diet to Promote Heart Health appeared first on Healthystic.

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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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Updates to NIST Cybersecurity Framework Under Review

Telebehavioral Health Institute

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking feedback on its draft update to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. The framework aims to create a comprehensive cybersecurity framework for healthcare to meet HIPAA Security Rule requirements. Healthcare organizations and providers are invited to provide feedback through September 21, 2022.

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Optimum Healthcare IT Achieves ITSM Product Line Achievement Badge Within the ServiceNow Partner Program

Optimum Healthcare IT

Optimum Healthcare IT announced today it has been awarded the ITSM Product Line Achievement Badge within the ServiceNow Partner Program. Continue reading Optimum Healthcare IT Achieves ITSM Product Line Achievement Badge Within the ServiceNow Partner Program at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Strengthening Self-Compassion to Protect Against Instagram Depression and Instagram Anxiety

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Instagram’s influence on depression has prompted a decade of research on the health consequences of using popular social networking apps. Prolonged exposure to social media apps like Instagram has been associated with higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress among users. According to the Pew Research Centre 2018 , young people are at particular risk since at least 92% of teens are active on social media.

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Teladoc Shares Plunge as Competition Mounts

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Analysts have recently dropped their Teladoc stock rating from hold to sell as they view over-exposure to consumer spending as a threat to plummeting Teladoc stocks. Teladoc was riding the telemedicine wave recently as more people sought remote alternatives to in-person healthcare. . However, recent pressures have seen Teladoc stocks drop by 90% from their all-time highs, 74% over the last year.

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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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HealthCare Disparities & Patient Satisfaction with Telehealth: Audio-Only vs. Video Telehealth

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Though many people have used remote healthcare for the pandemic, people experiencing healthcare disparities and older adults with co-morbidities have been challenged when using telehealth. Many disadvantaged people don’t have the technology or the digital health literacy to access or benefit from video consultations, forcing them to rely on audio-only telehealth.