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The Effects of Telemedicine on Patient Engagement and Care Options

AMD Telemedicine

The Effects of Telemedicine on Patient Engagement and Care Options. Telemedicine is booming, and healthcare organizations neglecting these technological innovations are missing out. If their delays are rooted in hesitations around implementation challenges, however, it’s understandable — we’re already in a time of increased burnout among doctors and nurses, and no one wants to add more to their already full plates.

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Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Consumers consider health and well-being as an “essential” household spending category based on new research from Accenture. Accenture polled over 11,000 consumers in 17 countries, considering how people are faring amid “widespread uncertainty and personal financial strains,” in the firm’s words. While two in three consumers feel financially stressed, 4 in 5 intend to grow or hold their personal spending on health and fitness steady in the next year.

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Human touch and scientific veracity are missing in health care technology       

KevinMD

Working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic has immersed physicians in technology, perhaps accelerating its integration with medical practice – but not necessarily its acceptance or authenticity. I tend to doubt the veracity of much of what I read in electronic health care records. I also question reports based on data gleaned from large medical databases.

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Otolith Labs scores $20M for vertigo treatment headband and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Credentialing and licensing platform CertifyOS scooped up $14.5 million, and patient engagement and navigation platform Upfront raised $10.5 million.

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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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A rural Kansas FQHC brings remote patient monitoring to the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.

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Sensor technology can help families and short-staffed care providers

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Sensor technology is increasingly useful in the care of older adults. As part of the research into the Future of Sensors and Older Adults , interviewees outlined ways sensors could be useful for mitigating fall risk. And their role tracking trips to the bathroom has been useful in detecting UTIs , identifying wanderers , alerting about sleep issues , noting whether a person has eaten.

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SAP-backed machine learning programme in India seeks to prevent blindness in premature babies

Mobi Health News

The solution screens for plus disease, which is associated with severe ROP.

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Alert: Amazon Care To Close At 2022 Year-End

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A surprise to many stakeholders, Amazon Health announced its plan to close Amazon Care at year’s end. According to a statement made on August 25, 2022, the Amazon telehealth service. The news was announced to Amazon Care employees just one month after Amazon’s $3.9B offer to purchase One Medical. It also followed a recent report of a rollout of Amazon Care’s partnership with Ginger, a leading telehealth employer.

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What Google’s Helpful Content Update Means for Your Website’s Content & Rankings

Geonetric

What Google is trying to achieve with the helpful content update The new helpful content update from Google promises a robust people-focused change to how users search. Artificial intelligence takes a greater role in what appears on search engine results pages after being trained to think and analyze like the average user. Educating artificial intelligence […].

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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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Musculoskeletal Health Guide: Correct Posture System To The Human Body

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

According to the World Health Organization, musculoskeletal health refers to how well our muscles, bones, and joints work together. When they don’t work well together, it is called musculoskeletal impairment. These impairments can cause limitations in how we function and participate in activities we enjoy. Musculoskeletal conditions often involve chronic pain and issues in mobility, […].

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Important 5G Benefits for Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

It seems everywhere you look these days you see ads for 5G. It’s the “new thing” when it comes to telecommunications. It reminds me when “the cloud” was first introduced – not many people knew what it really was and yet leading vendors like Microsoft and IBM were pushing it. Cloud was this amorphous “thing” that could magically solve business problems.

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Smartphone Addiction: How Use of Mobile Phones Can Lead to Psychopathology and Phone Addiction Issues

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Overuse of mobile phones has led researchers to examine smartphone addiction due to the many consequences associated with the overuse of digital devices. Concerns about phone addiction began appearing early in the literature (Billieux et al. 2008; Chóliz 2010). Other concerns involving dangerous consequences were phone use while driving (Bianchi and Phillips 2005 ; White et al. 2004 ), and using phones in forbidden areas (Nickerson et al. 2008 ).

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5 Ways to Reduce Healthcare Costs with Telehealth & RPM

Health Recovery Solutions

From longer hospital stays and readmissions to rising inflation, keeping healthcare costs within the margins is a constant challenge for any healthcare facility. The traditional approach would be to shift that cost to consumers or look into resizing the organization. In today’s modern healthcare industry, healthcare providers must instead look at sustainable strategies to reduce healthcare costs while respecting the?

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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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Quick Policy Review: HIPAA for Mental Health Professionals

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Mental health and addiction professionals are legally required to ensure that patients and clients can trust their private information is protected. Maintaining the privacy of that information is known as the clinician’s duty to maintain confidentiality. HIPAA regulations focus on compliance with rules to ensure the privacy and security of health information, whether that data is in the form of a document, a remote patient monitoring score, a recording, an image, or an app.

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Celiac Disease Diet: What You Should or Shouldn’t Eat

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The small intestine is harmed by celiac disease, a chronic immunological and digestive condition. Consuming gluten-containing foods causes the condition. The illness might prevent your body from absorbing all the nutrients it needs and result in long-lasting digestive issues. (1) Here are some food tips for your celiac disease diet. Foods that You Can Eat When Managing Celiac Disease.

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Fulcrum Equity Partners Announces $13M Series A Growth Equity Round for Olio Health

Healthcare IT Today

Olio’s platform improves the quality of care while decreasing readmission rates and length of stay by making the engagement between health systems, payers, and post-acute providers easy. Fulcrum Equity Partners (Fulcrum) is pleased to announce a $13M Series A growth investment in Olio Health (Olio), a workflow and collaboration platform for the post-acute care and population health industry with participation from Mutual Capital Partners (MCP).

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Russian Cyberattacks Focus on Healthcare

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Over the last three months, the information systems of at least four US healthcare organizations have been targeted by Russian cyberattacks. On August 24, 2022, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) cautioned that hackers known as the Karakurt gang were focused on the healthcare industry. The gang has links to the well-known Russian ransomware group, Conti.

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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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ESO Acquires Occam Technologies, Leading Provider of Enterprise Master Patient Index (EMPI) Solution

Healthcare IT Today

Company provides bulletproof record matching, record mastering and patient identity automation. ESO, a leading data and software company serving emergency medical services (EMS), fire departments, hospitals, state and federal agencies, today announced it has acquired Occam Technologies. Occam’s powerful EMPI solution provides best-in-class ability to accurately identify patients and share clinical data across the entire patient journey, thus contributing to the best possible care and outcome f