Mon.Apr 27, 2020

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Telehealth after COVID-19

Mobi Health News

Marianna Imenokhoeva, founder at LinktoMedicine and Future50 International, talks about reopening economies, and how telehealth will be more relevant than ever in the post-COVID world.

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How COVID-19 is Hurting Americans’ Home Economics in 2020

Health Populi

Beyond the physical and clinical aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic are financial hits that people are taking in the shutdown of large parts of the U.S. economy, impacting jobs, wages, and health insurance rolls. Some 1 in 2 people in the U.S. who have had their income impacted by the coronavirus have either fallen behind in paying off credit card debt or other bills, had problems paying for utilities, have lagged in paying for housing (rent or mortgage), been challenged paying for food, or other

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AI-augmented diabetic retinopathy screening programs cheaper than human grading

Mobi Health News

A new study suggests that a deep learning system would save on the roughly two minutes of human labor required to grade each case, although a semi-automated approach was found to drive the greatest savings for large programs.

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Innovative digital tools may be a silver lining to COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Innovative digital tools may be a silver lining to COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK Right Now:

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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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Experts warn of technical limitations of contact tracing for coronavirus

Mobi Health News

This report comes as news breaks that the UK has decided not to use Apple and Google's contact-tracing tech as originally planned.

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Australia’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app sees 2 million downloads within 1 day of launch

Mobi Health News

It is the only contact tracing app that is approved by the Australian Government.

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IBM rolls out blockchain network to address supply-chain issues caused by COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

Tech giant IBM is leveraging its expertise with blockchain technology to help address medical supply chain shortages due to COVID-19. Find out why IBM and other stakeholders believe blockchain technology could be the key to improving the medical supply chain.

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UK passes on Apple, Google's Bluetooth contact tracing tool, Fruit Street Health launches COVID-19 telemedicine platform and more digital health news briefs

Mobi Health News

Also: Wearables, AI support COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine study; Verizon Media deploys new COVID-19 dataset, API and dashboard.

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How UnitedHealth Group and a team of expert partners developed a new ventilator in 30 days 

FierceHealthIT

As providers struggle to access critical ventilators to treat patients with COVID-19, UnitedHealth Group and several partners have launched a new, lighter device that can help ease that strain. And they did it in under 30 days.

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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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Nursing on the Frontlines: How the Covid-19 Crisis Is Changing Standard Hospital Procedures

HealthStream

During the Covid-19 pandemic, my fellow infection preventionists (IPs) and I have still been rounding the hospital, observing infection control practices, and providing education; however, the degree to which we are performing these tasks has expanded greatly.

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Yes, you can use the company jet: A look at 2019 compensation for publicly traded health system CEOs

FierceHealthIT

The CEOs of publicly traded health systems aren't doing quite as well as a group as top health insurance execs. But—at least before COVID-19 struck—they were doing quite alright when it came to compensation.

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Four Tasks that Might Save You from Cybersecurity Landmines In The “New-Normal”

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Drex DeFord CI Security’s Chief Healthcare Strategist, and President of Drexio Innovation Network. The optimist in me wanted to believe the stories I read a few weeks ago: several hacker organizations had pledged to lay off healthcare after the pandemic started, but the pessimist cyber-guy in me was […].

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Lark Health study shows impact of virtual diabetes prevention program on underserved population

FierceHealthIT

Startup Lark Health released new research on the ability of its virtual diabetes prevention program to engage prediabetic patients with limited access to primary care doctors. Delivering care virtually to at-risk populations is more important than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lark Health CEO Julia Hu says.

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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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The latest on contact tracing apps

Morning eHealth

New bipartisan teletherapy push — Cyber vulnerabilities bubble up during pandemic

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VIDEO: FierceHealthcare discusses which changes will stick from COVID-19 pandemic

FierceHealthIT

FierceHealthcare's team recently met — remotely — to talk about some of the biggest shifts in health care and which and what changes might be here to stay. Check it out and let us know what changes you think will stick around.

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Smart cities during COVID-19

Digital Leaders HealthTech

How cities are turning to collective intelligence to enable smarter approaches to COVID-19. Density – it’s part of what makes cities bustling cosmopolitan hubs for transnational commerce and mobility. It is also what makes them particularly vulnerable to the risks of outbreaks such as COVID-19, with some experts arguing it will force a significant rethink of urban planning if we are to achieve long-term survival in a pandemic world.

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SCOTUS sides with insurers in battle over risk corridor payments

FierceHealthIT

The Supreme Court sided with insurers in a years-long battle over billions in payments promised under the Affordable Care Act.

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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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Duty of Care: Why Medical Equipment Suppliers Will Need To Embrace Servitization

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Mark Homer, senior vice president corporate development and head of global customer transformation, ServiceMax. Anyone who supplies and maintains equipment to the healthcare industry faces some challenging months ahead. Despite reports from Deloitte that budgets will […].

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How startup Tomorrow Health built an Amazon-like experience for getting home medical supplies

FierceHealthIT

Former Oscar Health executive Vijay Kedar became familiar with the uphill battles clinicians and insurers face trying to transitions patients from the hospital to home. He also experienced the challenges firsthand with his own family. Find out how Kedar teamed up a Casper co-founder to create an Amazon-like experience for ordering home health care equipment.

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COVID-19 and digital transformation

Digital Leaders HealthTech

‘Necessity is the mother of invention’ is an old proverb proving true as health services across the world race to adapt to manage the challenges of the current coronavirus pandemic. Despite the significant pressures on services across the NHS associated with our COVID-19 response, and indeed because of them, there has been a significant acceleration of digital transformation across many areas of health in the UK.

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CVS, Walgreens pledge to ramp up COVID-19 testing efforts as White House takes aim at reopening economy

FierceHealthIT

The White House unveiled COVID-19 testing and tracing guidance on Monday evening, with buy-in from many of the nation's largest pharmacy chains.

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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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Experian Helping Hospitals With RCM Challenges Caused By COVID-19

Healthcare IT Today

We’ve all heard of Experian. We know them from our daily lives as a credit reporting agency. But what you might not know is the significant impact Experian has in the healthcare space via their Experian Health division. I recently sat down (virtually of course) with Jason Considine, SVP & General Manager, Patient Access, Collections […].

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Optum eyeing $470M acquisition of digital therapy provider AbleTo: report

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth Group's Optum subsidiary is close to pinning down a deal to acquire AbleTo, a virtual therapy provider, for $470 million.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Hitting Hospital Finances Hard

Healthcare IT Today

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, hospitals are beginning to face major financial problems which could in some cases threaten their ability to stay in business, according to a new survey. To conduct its research, management consulting firm Kaufman Hall reached out to more than 800 U.S. hospitals and asked them about their financial […].

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Industry Voices—COVID-19 must reshape kidney care for the long term

FierceHealthIT

To save lives, it is essential that we act quickly to create a new normal for kidney care. We need to do everything possible to keep those living with kidney disease healthy, at home and out of the clinic or inpatient settings whenever possible, even beyond this viral pandemic.

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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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eVisit 2.0: A Game Changer for Virtual Care

eVisit

At eVisit we believe that the solution to increasing access to high quality care lies in giving better tools to our incredibly dedicated, and skilled healthcare providers. Efficient healthcare delivery is what eVisit is all about—in fact our vision is to simplify healthcare delivery to everyone, everywhere. From day one we have strived to make our platform clean, beautiful, and easy to use, and every day since we ask each other, “How can we make eVisit better?”.

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HHS files appeal to reinstate controversial MA overpayment rule

FierceHealthIT

HHS is imploring a federal appeals court to reinstate a controversial 2014 rule that would handle overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans.

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Sachdev Orthopaedics Partners with OrthoLive

Ortholive

Sachdev Orthopaedics , located in Easton, Pennsylvania, has signed an agreement with OrthoLive as its exclusive telemedicine partner. Sachdev Orthopaedics currently has two providers at their main office in Easton, Pennsylvania and proudly serves all surrounding areas including Bethlehem & Allentown, Lehigh Valley, PA, Philadelphia PA, Scranton/Wilkes Barre PA, New Jersey, New York, NY, Bridgewater, NJ.