Health Populi

MAY 6, 2020

Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture. Both health and economic concerns plague consumers around the world as people “strive to adapt to a new normal,” Accenture reports. “Fear is running high as individuals contemplate what this crisis means for them…for their families and friends,

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2020

The Fitbit Heart Study is looking to enroll 200,000 to 250,000 device owners, and will support clinical evaluation and regulatory submissions of the company's PPG atrial fibrillation algorithm.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. Some see that trend continuing even after the pandemic has eventually subsided. According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Informatics Association, virtual urgent care visits at NYU Langone Health grew by 683%, and non-urgent virtual-care visits grew by a stagge

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2020

GSR Ventures led the round with participation from sequoia Capital, Storm Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners and BIXINK Therapeutics.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

While hospitals around the country are carefully moving forward opening up business such as offering elective surgeries again, don't expect them to get back to pre-COVID-19 volumes anytime soon, experts said during a recent FierceHealthcare Coronavirus Virtual Series.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

Dixie Harris, M.D., shares her experiences during a two-week stretch in the ICU of Southside Hospital in New York as the hospital faced a crush of COVID-19 cases.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2020

The startup, which specializes in a range of at-home testing kits, so far only offers a COVID-19 testing product for point-of-care providers.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

CVS Health earned $2 billion in profit for the first quarter, beating Wall Street expectations.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2020

The web-based application supports the triage, monitoring and treatment of COVID-19 patients.

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

Hospital revenues would plummet if they were paid broadly at Medicare rates, a new study shows.

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Mobi Health News

MAY 6, 2020

The web-based application supports the triage, monitoring and treatment of COVID-19 patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2020

The following is an interview with Travis Volk, Technical Vice President at Radware. In this interview, we talk about some of the unique challenges hospitals face amidst COVID-19. In particular we talk about security as related to temporary hospitals which seem like are going to be part of our future as COVID-19 continues to rear […].

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 6, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. NIX, a leading organization in the development of custom software solutions, announces that it is embarking on a partnership with Fortify 24×7, award-winning cybersecurity, and IT services company, to offer managed services that serve the […].

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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.

FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

Wearables giant Fitbit launched Wednesday a sweeping heart study to explore whether its devices can detect atrial fibrillation. Fitbit co-founder Eric Friedman said the company's wearable data can serve as another tier in the healthcare system. Find out more about Fitbit's expanding ambitions in healthcare.

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Morning eHealth

MAY 6, 2020

States shrug off White House guidance — Cybersecurity warnings for hospitals

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2020

In today’s current global health crisis, many health IT workers have lost their jobs, temporarily and permanently. And this leaves people in a vulnerable position, unsure of what to do to and when to act. For those workers who are in the 50+ age bracket, this is even a more tenuous time. Though there may […].

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

Blue states leading the defense of the Affordable Care Act laid out their arguments for the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

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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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Insulin Nation

MAY 6, 2020

In the past few decades, we have seen huge advancements in the methods available to inject insulin. Today, plenty of patients utilize an insulin pump or a tubeless insulin reservoir for this purpose. Many more turn to insulin pens as a simple and affordable option. And, despite these advances in tech, a huge number of people still choose to inject insulin via the old fashioned method: with a vial and syringe.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

Michele Loor, M.D., typically splits her time between surgery and critical care at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center. But in recent weeks, her shifts have been solely in the ICU as severe cases threatened to overwhelm the hospital. She shares some of her thoughts now that admissions seem to have stabilized.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2020

A global perspective is particularly valuable during this pandemic as other countries are further ahead on their COVID-19 journeys than we are. If we keep our minds open, we can learn important lessons, including how to keep patients at the center of their care despite the pandemic. Throughout this #HealthIT100in100 series of interviews, I’ve had […].

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LeanIX

MAY 6, 2020

We’ve all heard the old adage, “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” However, during times as turbulent as these, it can be difficult for individuals to know where to begin. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an extreme challenge for all of humanity, business, and the global economy. In this blog, we will discuss how enterprise architects can play a small part in the resistance by supporting business continuity.

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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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HealthStream

MAY 6, 2020

It is a great time to review best practices related to defining and formatting clinical privileges. Do you identify any gaps in how your organization handles privileging? If you do identify gaps, you should put a plan in place to address them!

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LeanIX

MAY 6, 2020

We’ve all heard the old adage, “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” However, during times as turbulent as these, it can be difficult for individuals to know where to begin. The COVID-19 pandemic has been an extreme challenge for all of humanity, business, and the global economy. In this blog, we will discuss how enterprise architects can play a small part in the resistance by supporting business continuity.

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ACA Times

MAY 6, 2020

4 minute read: As states begin to relax their stay at home orders and businesses look to reopen post COVID-19 Pandemic, Employers should start thinking about how bringing back furloughed or temporarily laid off employees affects their ongoing ACA compliance obligations. As a reminder to employers in conjunction with the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP), the ACA’s Employer Mandate, employers with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees are required to offer

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. It is being updated regularly with more vendors. In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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CiscoHealth

MAY 6, 2020

Follow along with our new blog series #HealthcareNow and #PublicSectorNow , where we’ll addresses healthcare innovation around the world and how to maintain business continuity in today’s health climate. . In the last few months we have witnessed an unprecedented acceleration in the adoption of telehealth. To keep providers and patients safe, hospitals are shedding their initial he sitation to adopt virtual care , and are using video consultations for everything from routine visits to vir

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 6, 2020

The Trump administration has made sweeping changes to Medicare telehealth policies during the COVID-19 pandemic but physician groups are concerned they will still be underpaid for treating senior patients with complex health needs. Find out why some physician leaders say CMS has not gone far enough to support medical practices.

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