Health Populi
MAY 11, 2020
In the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic, we all feel like we are living in desperate times. If you are a person at-risk of dying a Death of Despair, you’re even more at-risk of doing so in the wake of the Coronavirus in America. Demonstrating this sad fact of U.S. life, the Well Being Trust and Robert Graham Center published Projected Deaths of Despair from COVID-19.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 11, 2020
New York City's Mount Sinai Health System has installed more than 100 Google Nest cameras in hospitals to observe and communicate with COVID-19 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. Health officials have reported more than 189,000 confirmed and probable coronavirus cases in New York City, making it one of the country's biggest hotspots. The ensuing flood of patients has strained hospital resources, including staffing, beds and personal protective equipment.
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Mobi Health News
MAY 11, 2020
The in-person and virtual primary care provider has tripled its staff over the last few months.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 11, 2020
Telehealth Women In Health IT Workforce The pandemic has underlined the importance of nurses working together and ensuring we are better prepared for any future crisis, as highlighted during the 'European Nurses Facing COVID-19' webinar. The challenges of COVID-19 from a nursing perspective, along with learnings for any future pandemics, were addressed during a recent webinar ' From the Frontlines; European Nurses facing COVID-19 ' The discussion highlighted the value of digita
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Mobi Health News
MAY 11, 2020
WHO also released guidelines about contact tracing for the coronavirus yesterday.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mobi Health News
MAY 11, 2020
Also: Dr. Scachin Jain leaves CareMore Health and Aspire Health, and Atual Gawande in talks to leave Haven.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
More than a third of primary care clinicians fear their patients will die because of delayed care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinicians predict primary care will be overwhelmed with pent-up demand, and the majority believe that some of their patients will experience avoidable illnesses, both due to diverted or avoided care, according to a new survey.
Morning eHealth
MAY 11, 2020
Amazon, Salesforce win coronavirus tracing data contracts — Privacy roundup
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is hitting low-income, underserved populations particularly hard. Many people who have been furloughed or lost their jobs are struggling to pay for basic needs. And in communities of color across the country, COVID-19 has exposed existing inequalities. Addressing social determinants of health is more critical than ever, experts say.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 11, 2020
If you had asked me about the benefits of computer vision AI in healthcare settings, I would not have known what you were talking about. Since then, though, I’ve learned about a company that is using this technology in interesting ways to forward the fight against COVID-19. The vendor, Inspiren, has created a solution that […].
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
As states and businesses increasingly push to reopen amid pandemic concerns, interest around the concept of "immunity passports" has begun to grow in recent weeks.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 11, 2020
In all my talks with healthcare organizations, one of the ongoing conversations they’re still having is how to more effectively manage their efforts in the cloud. No longer are healthcare CIOs wondering if the cloud is going to be part of their healthcare organization. Instead, they’re starting to have a much more nuanced conversation about […].
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
The first quarter of 2020 started with mere rumors of a mysterious disease spreading in Asia and turned into a full-fledged worldwide pandemic by the end of the quarter. FierceHealthcare's team discusses the impact on different sectors of the healthcare industry.
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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.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 11, 2020
How essential has the Internet been during this pandemic? Read down the April Pew report with the moniker, “53% of Americans say the Internet has been essential during the Covid-19 pandemic. Past the concerns about whether students can complete work, past the political debate about whether the government should provide Internet access, there are some interesting nuggets and puzzling findings.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
HHS offered details on how it has distributed 1,244 cases of the COVID-19 experimental treatment remdesivir to several states.
New Age Healthcare
MAY 11, 2020
In the last week of April 2020, a septuagenarian in the state of J&K, India who was a renal dialysis patient for 2 years, was asked to get his next round of dialysis from a private nursing home as the hospital where he normally went for treatment refused the dialysis procedure since the entire hospital was converted into a COVID care center. The nursing home neither had the apt infrastructure nor the skilled personnel to handle any kind of complications that is common during a dialysis.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
UnitedHealth Group has launched a new program for its employees that will reimburse them for emergency child care to the tune of $100 per day.
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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!
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 11, 2020
The following is a guest article by Daniel Cidon, Chief Technology Officer, NextGate. The COVID-19 crisis has exposed a painful number of deficiencies in our nation’s healthcare system, including just how severe the lack of an interconnected health infrastructure has hampered response efforts. As the need for collaboration and access to quality data for tracking […].
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
Typically, the healthcare group sees its strongest operating margin in the first quarter due to the timing of open enrollment.
LeanIX
MAY 11, 2020
Business leaders don’t need another reminder about how seriously COVID-19 is disrupting global markets and their daily work. At LeanIX, we also know what’s at stake, and it’s our goal to make it easier for you and your co-workers to leverage the collaborative functionality of our tools to save costs and improve business continuity — just like what we’ve already done for Canada’s Yukon Government and hospitals across Europe.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
U.S. payers feel the most confident that they’ll weather the COVID-19 storm, a new survey shows.
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.
HealthStream
MAY 11, 2020
Using the various electronic medical record systems that are now ubiquitous in healthcare for collecting health information across an organization, nurse informaticists are managing, interpreting, and communicating data with a primary purpose to improve the quality and outcomes of patient care.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
For Medicare Advantage plans specifically, protecting and restoring premium revenue are critically important first steps.
LeanIX
MAY 11, 2020
Business leaders don’t need another reminder about how seriously COVID-19 is disrupting global markets and their daily work. At LeanIX, we also know what’s at stake, and it’s our goal to make it easier for you and your co-workers to leverage the collaborative functionality of our tools to save costs and improve business continuity — just like what we’ve already done for Canada’s Yukon Government and hospitals across Europe.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 11, 2020
At UPMC Presbyterian, Mary McFarland, R.N., was part of a team that worked to convert an ICU unit into the hospital’s first dedicated COVID-19 unit. She shares the moments that have stayed with her during the past two months of treating COVID-19 patients.
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New Age Healthcare
MAY 11, 2020
In the last week of April 2020, a septuagenarian in the state of J&K, India who was a renal dialysis patient for 2 years, was asked to get his next round of dialysis from a private nursing home as the hospital where he normally went for treatment refused the dialysis procedure since the entire hospital was converted into a COVID care center. The nursing home neither had the apt infrastructure nor the skilled personnel to handle any kind of complications that is common during a dialysis.
ACA Times
MAY 11, 2020
1 minute read: On April 30, 2020 the IRS recently issued IRS Notice 2020-32. This Notice discusses the tax deductibility status of expenses that are forgiven under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) provided for by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The Notice explains that if an employer received a PPP loan and some or all of it was forgiven, the forgiven amount is not allowable as a deduction.
New Age Healthcare
MAY 11, 2020
In the last week of April 2020, a septuagenarian in the state of J&K, India who was a renal dialysis patient for 2 years, was asked to get his next round of dialysis from a private nursing home as the hospital where he normally went for treatment refused the dialysis procedure since the entire hospital was converted into a COVID care center. The nursing home neither had the apt infrastructure nor the skilled personnel to handle any kind of complications that is common during a dialysis.
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