Tue.Jun 09, 2020

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Review: Abbott?s FreeStyle Libre 14-day system cuts diabetes management costs

Mobi Health News

The study found that the flash continuous glucose monitoring system can cost about 60% less than traditional methods.

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Why I’m Optimistic About The Development of A COVID-19 Vaccine

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell While proper hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, social distancing, testing, and therapeutics are all valid and useful measures in the battle against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes […].

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Portable hospital grade steriliser launched in UAE

Mobi Health News

The recently unveiled, liquid-free UVLicht Sterilizer is the first brand of its kind to be founded in the Emirates. Currently self-funded by its founder, the company is reportedly in the process of scoping investors.

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As Minneapolis clinics repair and rebuild after protests, doctors say unrest shows 'people's voices were unheard'

FierceHealthIT

As Minneapolis clinics repair and rebuild after protests, doctors say unrest shows 'people's voices were unheard'. hlandi. Tue, 06/09/2020 - 11:34.

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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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Disadvantaged groups may not be able to access COVID-19 antigen tests online

Mobi Health News

Credit reference database check could prevent people from ordering home testing kits.

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Patient Ping scores $60M to expand its care coordination tool

Mobi Health News

Andreessen Horowitz, F-Prime Capital, GV, and Transformation Capital led the round with participation from existing investors.

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Cigna: COVID-19 leading to deferred pediatric care for conditions like epilepsy, asthma

FierceHealthIT

Cigna: COVID-19 leading to deferred pediatric care for conditions like epilepsy, asthma. pminemyer. Tue, 06/09/2020 - 15:54.

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Providence St. Joseph's taps video tool to help facilitate end of life discussions

Mobi Health News

Providence's Dr. Matthew Gonzales discusses how using informative video clips is helping patients plan for the future at HIMSS20 Digital.

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HHS to dole out $15B to Medicaid, CHIP providers and $10B to safety net hospitals

FierceHealthIT

HHS to dole out $15B to Medicaid, CHIP providers and $10B to safety net hospitals. rking. Tue, 06/09/2020 - 12:29.

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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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Apple shares COVID screening data with CDC, digital health market to beat $350B by 2025 and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: A deep dive on Verily's Project Baseline; Intermountain Healthcare launches home-monitoring program.

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Strategic National Stockpile aims to get 400M syringes by December for COVID-19 vaccine: officials

FierceHealthIT

Strategic National Stockpile aims to get 400M syringes by December for COVID-19 vaccine: officials. rking. Tue, 06/09/2020 - 15:40.

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Report says Abbott?s FreeStyle Libre 14 day system cuts diabetes management costs

Mobi Health News

The study found that flash continuous glucose monitoring system can cost about 60% less than traditional methods.

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Kaiser Permanente: 8 key capabilities for a sustained response to COVID-19 

FierceHealthIT

Kaiser Permanente: 8 key capabilities for a sustained response to COVID-19 . pminemyer. Tue, 06/09/2020 - 12:24.

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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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Are We Going to Continue to Tolerate Broken Health Care Systems?

GlobalMed

Let me first be clear, I am not referring to our beloved healthcare workers who we all are indebted to and admire more than ever. However, before COVID-19 consumed the world, our healthcare systems were already struggling. In America, medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy , and many people forego treatment altogether because they’re unable to afford it or lack access to care.

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Rising to the Challenges of an All Virtual World

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

At the onset of the COVID19 pandemic, as schools, work, and everything possible became virtual, healthcare was at the forefront of everyone’s mind. Telehealth became the obvious and, for many, the only option available to meet healthcare needs. Many reached out to South Central Telehealth Resource Center for technical assistance and support. When compared to the same time period last year, the SCTRC saw a five to six hundred percent increase in these types of requests.

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Remote Patient Monitoring ? #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by hosted by Lygeia Ricciardi (@Lygeia) and Ashley Dauwer (@amariedauwer) from @CariumCares on the topic of “Remote Patient Monitoring“. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) was already on the verge […].

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Weekly Telehealth 101/Round-up Webinar Archive

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

In light of the ongoing coronavirus/COVID19 pandemic, we are offering our “ Telehealth 101? webinar series on a bi-weekly basis, every other Friday at 3PM Central. On the alternate Fridays, we are offering a “ Telehealth Roundup ” webinar at 3PM Central. “Telehealth 101” will offer a basic overview of telehealth, and “Telehealth Roundup” will feature presentations/discussions on key topics as it relates to telehealth in the SCTRC region as well as nationally.

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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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It’s About Clinical Navigation not Just Provider Matching

Healthcare IT Today

Provider Matching has always sounded like something that should be relatively easy, but like everything else in healthcare, it is more complex than it appears. If all you had to do was match a patient’s needs with a physician who had the right expertise, there wouldn’t be a whole category of solutions in this space. […].

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Use JaneTM as a Personalized Nurse Advisor to Support Retention Improvement

HealthStream

Nurses can feel burnout due to the stress of an overwhelming workload or due to feeling inadequately prepared for their jobs. Here are some of the ways JaneTM works as a personal nurse adviser to support nurse retention through personalized competency development.

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Deploying Digital Identity Solutions in Healthcare is Long Overdue ? With the Current Crisis, It Is More Critical Than Ever

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Yossi Zekri, President and CEO at Acuant. The healthcare industry in the United States faces many challenges including mountains of paperwork, fluctuating policies, payment structures and a bureaucratic process that can do more damage than good. All of this is further complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to […].

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Anthem reaffirms 2020 earnings guidance amid COVID-19 uncertainty

FierceHealthIT

Anthem reaffirms 2020 earnings guidance amid COVID-19 uncertainty. pminemyer. Tue, 06/09/2020 - 10:22.

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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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How Many More Will Die From Fear of the Coronavirus?

Henry Kotula

Seriously ill people avoided hospitals and doctors’ offices. Patients need to return. It’s safe now. More than 100,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. Beyond those deaths are other casualties of the pandemic — Americans seriously ill with other ailments who avoided care because they feared contracting the coronavirus at hospitals and clinics. The toll from their deaths may be close to the toll from Covid-19.

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Providence St. Joseph's taps video tool to help facilitate end of life discussions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Tips for improving your home WiFi signal

Clocktree

Watch this Good Morning America segment for some very helpful tips to improve the WiFi signal in your home. Please share these tips with your clients too! [link].

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High Covid-19 Death Rates Explained

Insulin Nation

Even in the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, it was well-known amongst the medical and scientific communities that diabetic patients appeared to be at a higher risk for hospitalization and death compared to the general population. However, the specifics in regard to this trend were not well known. Particularly, how did death rates and risk factors differ between type 1 and type 2 diabetics?

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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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Trump administration pushes for healthcare facilities to reopen

FierceHealthIT

Trump administration pushes for healthcare facilities to reopen. treed. Tue, 06/09/2020 - 16:28.

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Americans’ Concerns About the US Healthcare System Loom Larger Than Worries About Their Own Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has further opened the kimono of the U.S. healthcare system to Americans: four months into the COVID-19 outbreak, most consumers (62%) of people in the U.S. are more concerned about other people not having access to high quality health care versus themselves. This is a 16 point increase in concern in May 2020 compared with the response to the same question asked in February in a poll conducted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated