Fri.Mar 20, 2020

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Singapore government launches new app for contact tracing to combat spread of COVID-19

Mobi Health News

TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity.

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How EHR vendors are arming providers to handle COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As healthcare organizations ramp up efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, their health IT vendors are looking to provide them with tools to manage cases, analyze data and assess patients remotely. The nation’s largest vendors of electronic health records systems have augmented their existing systems over the last three months to give users of its systems more tools to cope with the crisis.

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What investors are saying about startups in the age of coronavirus

Mobi Health News

Digital health investors discuss the opportunity, responsibility and liability of investing in health tech during market volatility and a possible recession.

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Amazon, Microsoft launch initiatives to accelerate COVID-19 research and testing

FierceHealthIT

Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft are rolling out separate initiatives to support COVID-19 diagnostics and research. As COVID-19 continues to spread, with 209,000 confirmed cases and close to 9,000 deaths globally, technology giants are stepping up to accelerate research and potential treatments.

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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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Scanwell Health, myLAB Box unveil more at-home COVID-19 testing services

Mobi Health News

The companies are pairing their testing kits with telehealth consultations, and anticipate that their offerings will be available in the U.S. within the coming weeks.

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FDA expands use of vital sign monitors to enable remote care, modifications during COVID-19 emergency

Mobi Health News

The temporary policy also extends to some clinical-decision-support software used in conjuction with these remote-monitoring devices.

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Use of Telemedicine To Surge In U.S. As Regulations Change In Response To Coronavirus

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Use of telemedicine in the U.S. has been low to date. However, asexpected, it is expected that demand for these services will increase dramatically over the next few months because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, […]. The article Use of Telemedicine To Surge In U.S.

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Rural health leaders call ACA impact a mixed bag since passage in 2010

FierceHealthIT

Rural hospital leaders have called the Affordable Care Act's impact on rural health underwhelming, due in part to not being able to write off bad debt and the Medicaid expansion.

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We want to hear your COVID-19 stories

Mobi Health News

How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting you?

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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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‘Please help us'—Many primary care practices paint a dire picture with lack of PPE, tests

FierceHealthIT

Little or no protective equipment. No testing abilities. Fears of losing their practices. Staffing outages. Phone lines flooded with patients concerned about coronavirus. Primary care practices are being hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak and many physicians describe desperate conditions, according to a new survey.

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Working In The Healthcare Field During A Pandemic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David MacQueen, Episode Alert We have all heard of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) which is believed to have originated in the Wuhan province of China. Which it then started spreading across the globe from major […]. The article Working In The Healthcare Field During A Pandemic appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Berwick: We need 'progress in this country toward universal coverage'

FierceHealthIT

We caught up with Don Berwick to look back on 10 years of the Affordable Care Act and weigh the next frontiers in health reform.

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How Virtual Health Represents The Next Evolution of Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brian Slusser, CEO and co-founder, Health In Motion Network. In 2020, much in our daily lives can be accomplished virtually. From clothes shopping to ordering groceries, there is a growing desire to accomplish important […]. The article How Virtual Health Represents The Next Evolution of Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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MIT’s Safe Paths Aims to Inform Individuals About COVID-19 Where They Live

Healthcare IT Today

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is by definition a worldwide crisis, it is still distributed in a very skewed manner–and it would help us to know better where it is. A team run out of MIT is working on this at a very detailed, grass roots level though an interesting system called Safe Paths. Although public […].

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Pence’s medical licensing comment stirs confusion

Morning eHealth

VA networks lag under new telehealth pressure — Is virtual care the new normal?

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In Clever Move, Orbita Releases Free COVID-19 Chatbot

Healthcare IT Today

As the public becomes steadily more anxious about COVID-19, healthcare providers are getting swamped with questions about the virus. They’re also struggling to screen both at-risk and symptomatic patients, a necessary step in triaging them and directing them to the appropriate level of care. In response to this concern, healthcare voice assistant vendor Orbita has […].

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Healthcare IT in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health System CIO

When you’re in the middle of a true emergency – which, let’s face it, we are – healthcare providers need to “do what’s right by the patient, by the doctor, by the nurse, and by society as a whole,” says Dr. Craig Joseph. And that might include breaking some rules.

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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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More COVID-19 Cartoons – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s been another crazy week with the world shutdown. I know we’re all emotionally exhausted and learning to adapt to this new world. We’re doing the same at Healthcare IT Today and trying to find every way we can help the community that we love so much. Given people’s good response to last week’s Fun […].

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COVID-19 Policy Updates

Health Recovery Solutions

Over the last week, there have been many updates and changes from CMS and HHS that directly affect telehealth delivery and reimbursement, including waivers on the following restrictions:

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5 Steps for Moving Birth Care Classes & Tours Online

Geonetric

Advantages of Virtual Birth Care Education When you provide your birth care classes and tours online, your health system and community will benefit from the convenience and flexibility of this format. Find success with online courses that let your patients learn from you where and when they want. Learn how to create virtual classes that […]. Read 5 Steps for Moving Birth Care Classes & Tours Online at Geonetric.com.

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Six Reasons to Prioritize Employee Recognition Over Rewards in Healthcare

HealthStream

Effective recognition occurs when an employee receives authentic feedback from a peer, manager and/or leader as to how his/her actions impacted team objectives or the organization’s purpose. Here are six reasons to prioritize employee recognition over rewards in healthcare.

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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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How to Update Your Google My Business Listings for COVID-19

Geonetric

Read How to Update Your Google My Business Listings for COVID-19 at Geonetric.com. Questions? Contact us. Subscribe to our email newsletter.

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HL7, #FHIR, and Covid-19

Health Intersections

A few people have asked me what HL7 is doing about the Covid-19 pandemic. The short answer is: not much right now. Every health system in the world right now is in emergency mode (or will be very shortly). There’s every reason not to lay down new infrastructure – and what HL7 does is help build the build infrastructure that supports the healthcare system.

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CareCentrix Opens National Telehealth Access with Synzi for 8,000 Home Health Locations

Synzi

The post CareCentrix Opens National Telehealth Access with Synzi for 8,000 Home Health Locations appeared first on Synzi.

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What You Need to Know: ACA Rule of Parity, COVID-19 Pandemic and Temporary Layoffs

ACA Times

4 minute read: The Coronavirus (Covid-19) is putting a strain on all aspects of life in the United States right now. For businesses, they are struggling with closures, decreased demand, work from home policies, furloughs, reduced hours, temporary layoffs and more. While it may not be at the forefront of employers’ minds as they gear up to meet the 1095-C electronic filing deadline of March 31, 2020, one challenge that they should be aware of is how the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the resulting furlou

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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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Telehealth and COVID-19

Health Law Blog | Telehealth

By Kim Stanger. Federal Action. To promote the use of telehealth in response to Coronavirus, the federal government took several significant steps this week: Medicare dramatically expanded the telehealth services for which it will pay. HHS suspended HIPAA security rule requirements that may have otherwise limited the technology used for telehealth visits.

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Weekender 3/20/20

HIStalk Weekender

Weekly News Recap Hospitals ask the federal government for.

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Telehealth and COVID-19

Health Law Blog | Telehealth

By Kim Stanger. Federal Action. To promote the use of telehealth in response to Coronavirus, the federal government took several significant steps this week: Medicare dramatically expanded the telehealth services for which it will pay. HHS suspended HIPAA security rule requirements that may have otherwise limited the technology used for telehealth visits.