Fri.Apr 17, 2020

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Q&A: Commissioner Brendan Carr on FCC's telehealth programs for COVID-19, underserved patients

Mobi Health News

The COVID-19 Telehealth Program and the Connected Care Pilot Program together are set to invest $300 million so that healthcare providers can reach the patients in greatest need of virtual-care services.

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During pandemic, telehealth visits soar from 10 per week to 300 at group practice

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Dr. Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. One of the biggest complaints his practice would get from patients’ families with school-age children is that it was difficult to get appointments that fit into their schedule, and that those times were further confounded by heavy traffic.

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Public Health England uses new app to manage scaled workforce during COVID-19 crisis

Mobi Health News

The technology by Deputy offers a “touchless clock-in” for staff which enables them to register for work without touching a screen.

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Oklahoma, Texas and Alaska to begin allowing elective surgeries

FierceHealthIT

Texas and Alaska are among the first states to begin reopening their economies, including allowing elective surgeries to resume, following the release of new guidance from the White House this week.

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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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Boots UK to connect patients and pharmacists via LIVI

Mobi Health News

The new, shared online appointment and prescribing platform is intended to relieve NHS pressure.

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At COVID-19 'paper hearing,' industry, government struggle with balancing privacy, public health

Mobi Health News

Seven witnesses submitted statements and answered questions, leaving Senators with promising tech ideas, legislative priorities and words of caution.

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Consolidation: New Survey Measures Impact On Clinicians, Patients

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Franklin, president, LocumTenens.com. LocumTenens.com asked physicians and advanced practitioners about their experiences with healthcare consolidation as part of its 2019 Compensation and Employment Survey. It can take years to determine success or failure, […].

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Public Health England uses new app to manage scaled workforce during COVID-19 crisis

Mobi Health News

The technology by Deputy offers a “touchless clock-in” for staff which enables them to register for work without touching a screen.

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List of Free COVID-19 Health IT Products and Services

Healthcare IT Today

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations. In many cases, that means we’ve been covering the big changes to government regulations and the government funding available to hospitals and healthcare organizations.

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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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Swedish telehealth provider LIVI launches first national COVID-19 medical guidelines for remote consultations

Mobi Health News

The guidance on how to identify and manage symptoms will be provided to all UK GP surgeries.

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CVS Health to work with UCLA Health, other hospitals to create more bed capacity

FierceHealthIT

In a move to help increase hospital bed capacity, CVS Health will provide in-home nursing to support the transition to eligible IV-therapy patients out of the hospital.

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Leveraging Automation In The Fight Against COVID-19

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rick Halton, vice president, marketing and product, Lumeon. Since it was first recorded late last year in China, the spread of COVID-19 has accelerated around the world, rapidly creating a global pandemic. The number […]. The article Leveraging Automation In The Fight Against COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Intermountain ICU doc shares experience heading to New York City to help fight COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

An Intermountain critical care doctor shares her experiences traveling across the country to help healthcare workers in New York City, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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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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Rural, community clinics pick up patients left behind by telehealth

Morning eHealth

ACLU demands info on HHS' location tracking talks —Facebook nudges users to HealthCare.

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New Jersey issuing temporary emergency licenses to international doctors to bolster workforce

FierceHealthIT

The state of New Jersey announced Friday it plans to enlist internationally licensed physicians to bolster its healthcare workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to New Jersey state officials, it's the first program of its kind in the country.

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COVID-19 Codes Enable Greater Surveillance, Population Health Management

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Catherine O’Leary, RN, managing director, healthcare advisory/CDI, KPMG. COVID-19 is imposing a humanitarian and economic toll around the world, and healthcare providers are on the front lines of the response. New COVID-19 medical codes that […].

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KFF: Insurers could pay out $2.7B in medical loss ratio rebates this year 

FierceHealthIT

Health plans are likely to pay out $2.7 billion in premium rebates this fall—nearly doubling the record total paid out last year, a new report shows.

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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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Coronavirus Outbreak: Myths vs Facts

New Age Healthcare

The world is grappling with the stark implications stemming out of the uncontrolled coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare infrastructure is under severe stress. Precious lives are being lost in large numbers (over 140k fatalities so far). Economic fragility is peaking, unemployment rate is mounting, and supply chain breakdown is hurting millions across the globe.

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Resuming elective procedures will depend on testing, PPE, decline of COVID-19 cases, providers say

FierceHealthIT

Here's when provider groups say about when and how facilities can resume elective procedures.

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Virtual EHR Training Cartoon and COVID-19 Humor

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Friday, so it is time for another edition of Fun Friday. This week we’re back with sharing a few cartoons that seem particularly poignant given the current pandemic. Be sure to also look back at our past other COVID-19 cartoons. I hope everyone is staying safe. Considering a lot of people who read this […].

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Coronavirus Outbreak: Myths vs Facts

New Age Healthcare

The world is grappling with the stark implications stemming out of the uncontrolled coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare infrastructure is under severe stress. Precious lives are being lost in large numbers (over 140k fatalities so far). Economic fragility is peaking, unemployment rate is mounting, and supply chain breakdown is hurting millions across the globe.

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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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Top 10 Healthcare Tips for Navigating COVID-19

VSee

With an increase of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) cases, it’s important that we take all necessary precautions to adjust to this new normal. By re-focusing on our own personal health, we can both slow the rate of infection and navigate what may feel like an unfamiliar way of life. These ten tips for care during COVID-19.

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Coronavirus Outbreak: Myths vs Facts

New Age Healthcare

The world is grappling with the stark implications stemming out of the uncontrolled coronavirus pandemic. Healthcare infrastructure is under severe stress. Precious lives are being lost in large numbers (over 140k fatalities so far). Economic fragility is peaking, unemployment rate is mounting, and supply chain breakdown is hurting millions across the globe.

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A Wide Range Of Problems Still Holding Back Health Data Interoperability

Healthcare IT Today

A new health data interoperability survey by Healthcare IT Today with 82 responses suggests that when it comes to interoperability, healthcare organizations are struggling with many of the same challenges they faced five or even 10 years ago. Without a doubt, respondents are still interested in fostering health data sharing. Their objectives for doing so […].

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Coronavirus Lockdown: A virtual NHS

Exponential_e

The government recently sent letters to more than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales asking them to return to work to help the NHS cope with the coronavirus outbreak. Since then, 7,563 clinical staff have applied to come back to work, including 5,633 nurses and midwives, and 1,930 doctors to help support the hero frontline NHS workers caring for Covid-19 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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OrthoLive Founder Featured on ABC9 Cincinnati News

Ortholive

ABC9 in Cincinnati shares how OrthoLive is helping orthopaedic practices around the country keep the lights on and avoid employee layoffs while allowing providers to see patients from anywhere. OrthoLive founder and CEO, Dr. Mike Greiwe, was featured on the ABC9 Cincinnati News to discuss how doctors are using telemedicine to curb the spread of COVID-19 while still providing access to care for patients.

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The Healthcare Impacts of Anticipated U.S. Demographic Shifts

HealthStream

The aging of our population, which some have called a “silver tsunami,” will only keep accelerating. Expect rising healthcare expenditures, increased caregiver needs, and simultaneous geriatrician shortages.

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Get to Know the Tax Provisions in the CARES Act

ACA Times

4 minute read: Many employers and individuals are understandably concerned about how to navigate the difficult business environment created by the COVID-19 Pandemic and resulting state and federal mitigation measures. Below is a brief guide to the tax provisions in the CARES Act applicable to either businesses or individuals. Business Provisions: Refundable Payroll Tax Credit (CARE Act §2301): Allows a business to take a tax credit against payroll and other employment related taxes for each cale