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6 Facts You Need to Know About the Emerging Monkeypox

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

As of July 29, 2022, approximately 70 countries where monkeypox is not endemic had reported outbreaks of the viral disease, with confirmed cases exceeding 20,800, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare the outbreak a global health emergency. Here are the six facts you need to know about monkeypox: What is monkeypox? Monkeypox is an uncommon disease caused by a monkeypox virus infection.

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Carefeed secures $3 million to expand platform in senior care settings

Mobi Health News

Funding will support accelerating adoption of communication solutions.

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“Beyond the Bubble Bath,” Self-Care Must Be Rooted in Science To Build Trust Among Consumers

Health Populi

The goal of self-care for health-making is to improve lives by scaling health-and-wellness accessible to all, Bayer believes, giving people more control over their personal health. Self-care work-flows must be based in science to ensure products and services are trusted and deliver on their clinical promise, Bayer explains in Science-Led Self-Care: Principles for Best Practice, a paper published this week which the company intends to be a blueprint for the industry.

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Five Sensor Technology Offerings to Benefit Older Adults 2022

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Some might say that sensor technology for older adults is nothing new. What’s the big deal? Remote monitoring products and services built with sensors have been around for decades. Grandcare Systems was founded in 2004 followed by a sensor-based remote monitoring startup and consolidation wave in 2009-2010. This type of tech had obvious benefits, even then, but today, what was obvious then has become a crisis of care today.

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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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Growing Your Telehealth Services: What is a Digital Front Door?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Reading Time: 2 minutes. It could be said that Covid-19 opened the digital front door to traditional healthcare, as well as telehealth services. What is a digital front door? Digital front doors are the electronic gateway to seamless healthcare across multiple digital channels. Digital front-door healthcare services can include anything from online scheduling of appointments, online check-ins, and online video or audio consultations.

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New Model Telehealth Laws for Practicing Over State Lines: Uniform Telehealth Act

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Reading Time: 3 minutes. The Uniform Telehealth Act was approved at July’s 131st Annual Meeting of the Uniform Law Commission (ULC). The ULC consists of lawyers in the US states and territories who meet to propose laws to address common issues. The new Uniform Telehealth Act was written to suggest a path forward for practitioners seeking to work over state lines while maintaining existing practitioner standards of care.

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Verustat Acquires One Healthcare Solution

Healthcare IT Today

Remote patient monitoring company to expand its physician and patient services. Verustat , a full-service remote patient monitoring (RPM) system, has acquired Texas-based One Healthcare Solution TM (OneHS). OneHS’s chronic care software will help strengthen Verustat’s commitment to providing physicians with top-tier medical technology to improve patient care while also opening up new revenue streams.

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Exploring the Efficacy of Telehealth Prenatal Care

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Reading Time: 2 minutes. As advanced as healthcare is today, maternal health remains a problem in the USA. In 2020 there were 23.8 deaths per 100,000 births, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. The death rates for women over 40 are significantly higher than in younger cohorts and significantly higher for non-Hispanic, black women than for other ethnic groups.

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Preventive, Proactive, Productive: Digital Care for Managing Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Subhro Mallik, SVP and Head of Life Sciences business unit at Infosys. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims more lives than any other ailment. In 2019, it accounted for about one-third of total deaths globally. CVD also takes an enormous economic toll – US$ 1 billion per day in the United States alone. What makes it worse is that more than 80 percent of cardiovascular disease is preventable.

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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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Improving Healthcare in Rural Areas

NiftyHMS

Healthcare is a necessity that every individual needs regardless of life circumstances such as geography. Backcountries are places that tend to be secluded and farther from everyday institutions and resources. As a result of the location, locals in farm towns are more likely to have issues when seeking treatment. Availability, accessibility, and affordability are important factors to consider when improving healthcare in rural areas.

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. As an industry, we often point at the banking industry as a model to aspire to, but perhaps a better exemplar is the GIS community. They share their data using open standards and common platforms because they share a common goal – to make the world a better place.

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Reducing Travel Time for In-Person Appointments

NiftyHMS

From availability to accessibility, there are numerous barriers for patients seeking to receive high-quality healthcare. Time is one huge factor preventing individuals from being treated by medical professionals. Scheduling and attending a visit take a large chunk of time out of one’s day from traveling to the office and getting vitals taken before being seen by a doctor.

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Key Telehealth Law Update: Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2022

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Reading Time: 3 minutes. On July 27, 2022, Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) celebrated the House passage of their Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2022. It extends critical Medicare telehealth policies and is implemented during the pandemic through December 31, 2024. The extension would include telehealth and allow US citizens to benefit from other healthcare technologies.

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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 to Establish a Culture of Continuous Transformation

LeanIX

The past several years of uncertainty and disruption have prompted businesses to rethink operating models and reprioritize the need for organizational agility — a theme that has long been seen as an ideal but has now become imperative.

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Webinar Recap: Avoid the Telehealth Cliff, Part 1

eVisit

What an exciting and inspiring week in virtual care!

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Health, Politics, Inflation and Women: Health Engagement at the Voting Booth

Health Populi

Two in three Americans disapproved of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision ( aka the Dobbs case), the latest Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll found. While inflation tops voters’ priorities, abortion access resonates for key voting blocs. KFF conducted this survey among 1,847 U.S. adults 18 and over between July 7 and 17, 2022.