Fri.Apr 24, 2020

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COVID-19 Reveals Urgent Need for Universal Mental Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically disrupted every aspect of life for everyday people, ratcheting up stress across all families: The mandate to #StayHome, being physically distanced from work colleagues, beloved family and friends, and our community touchpoints. The fear and risk-management of contracting the COVID-19 virus, for ourselves and our families.

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Massachusetts' uninsured can access free COVID-19 telehealth visits via Doctor on Demand

Mobi Health News

The telehealth vendor's deal with the state comes shortly after another agreement that provided the services to Medicaid, children's health insurance members.

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Telemedicine triage kiosks reduce ER visits by 11% for ACO

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. THE PROBLEM. A large number of the beneficiaries present multiple complex chronic health conditions with a high coexistence of mental health conditions making the coordination of care more co

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NHSX GDE Blueprint highlights Oxford VR’s virtual reality therapy

Mobi Health News

The latest publication aims to accelerate the adoption of VR therapy and best practice across NHS trusts in the UK.

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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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Bendigo Health to roll out remote monitoring system for suspected COVID-19 patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Bendigo Health in regional Victoria will become one of the first hospitals in Australia to roll-out telemonitoring used for suspected COVID-19 patients. The system has been trialed with current geriatric patients to ensure its viability in the testing for readiness. The digital care application, teamplay myCare Companion ‘Pandemic’ delivered by medical technology company Siemens Healthineers, allows clinicians to remotely prioritize and manage patients based on their clinical needs,

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Video Visits: How to Improve the Patient Experience

Health System CIO

Providing quality care during a telemedicine encounter is about much more than just the technical aspects, says CT Lin, MD, who offers advice on how to more effectively communicate and build relationships with patients virtually.

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Paige gets $5M boost from Goldman Sachs bringing its Series B to $50M

Mobi Health News

The new funds will be put towards growing its diagnostic and testing products.

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Cigna: Patients deferring care for acute needs like appendicitis, heart conditions

FierceHealthIT

While hospitals have put elective procedures on pause during the pandemic, patients seeking care for serious health needs have also decreased significantly, new data from Cigna show.

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Roundup: NHS trust bans Zoom, the UK government to pledge support for startups, and much more

Mobi Health News

Also - Logpoint Siem chosen as Manchester Mental Health security provider.

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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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After fierce opposition, EHR giant Epic now supports ONC, CMS interoperability rules

FierceHealthIT

After launching a fierce opposition campaign to federal data-sharing rules, Epic is now voicing support for the new regulations aimed at improving patients' access to their health data.

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Roundup: NHS bans Zoom, the UK government to pledge support for startups, and much more

Mobi Health News

Also - Logpoint Siem chosen as Manchester Mental Health security provider.

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Alphabet's Verily rolls out COVID screening tool for health systems

FierceHealthIT

Verily has rolled out a COVID-19 screening tool for health systems and hospitals to help automate frontline response to the health crisis. Alphabet's life sciences research arm and a sister company to Google, Verily joins a growing list of technology companies to develop COVID screening chatbots that can be embedded into hospitals' websites.

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Why Telehealth Is Real Now – The Value Equation

Healthcare IT Today

Everyone sees the obvious when it comes to telehealth. The Stay at Home and Physical Distancing that’s come with COVID-19 has almost required telehealth. What other option did healthcare organizations have? Embrace telehealth or die? However, I think that’s actually a little simplistic. If we want to really understand what happened to make telehealth go […].

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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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Tech entrepreneurs' newest ally: The FDA

Morning eHealth

Abortion clinics look to video calls, chatbots for medication prescription — Congress scrutinizes VA's pandemic response

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Convenience Is The New Quality

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jay Eisenstock, principal, JE Consulting and WEDI board chair. Virtual visits help providers increase productivity by adding revenue and reducing travel to different clinical settings. However, despite these obvious advantages, 2019 saw an abysmally low […].

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COVID- 19 Group Therapy and HIPAA Privacy

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Group Therapy and HIPAA Privacy Rule Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, a healthcare provider may use and disclose protected health information (PHI), without individual written authorization, if the use or disclosure is a treatment disclosure. This general rule applies to … Read more. The post COVID- 19 Group Therapy and HIPAA Privacy appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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CVS' Larry Merlo was the top paid health insurance CEO in 2019. Here's a look at what other payer CEOs earned

FierceHealthIT

Here's a look at what the CEOs of the biggest health insurers earned last year.

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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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Discreetly Treating A Health Condition At Home

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Although we know that medical professionals are trustworthy and discreet, some health conditions of a personal nature mean that you just don’t want to talk to someone else face to face about it. There can […]. The article Discreetly Treating A Health Condition At Home appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Report: Deals among oncology practices increased 20% since 2018

FierceHealthIT

A new report finds that over the past two years 20% of oncology clinics have been acquired by other practices.

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Why People Prefer Private Rehabilitation Centers?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The alcohol addiction problem has been there since forever. But with today’s stressful lifestyle and extra exposure, this problem has increased significantly. Many people suffer from this problem. And most of them are teenagers and […]. The article Why People Prefer Private Rehabilitation Centers?

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It’s a Marathon Not a Sprint: Choosing a Telehealth Partner to Help you Win the Race Against COVID-19 and Beyond

American Well

In lockstep with the nation and stakeholders across the globe, the healthcare industry is in a race against the virus called COVID-19. As cases continue to soar, medical professionals are struggling to keep up. We’ve seen telehealth emerge as a strong partner in the struggle, helping to ease the burden on traditional care settings while keeping providers and patients safe by facilitating virtual medical care and treatment.

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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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COVID-19 Cartoons

Healthcare IT Today

We’re back with another edition of COVID-19 Fun Friday. In case you missed our previous COVID-19 cartoons be sure to check all of those out. Plus, some of these are a bit nerdy, but I am @techguy on Twitter after all. I hope they bring you a little joy as we head into the weekend. […].

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Managing the Chronically Ill Population in the Absence of Medical Support During COVID-19

Digital Health Today

There’s a health crisis happening behind the scenes. This is by no means an attempt to take the focus off COVID-19 sufferers or the heroic healthcare workers involved. Quite the opposite actually. Because almost every human being on this planet is now a sufferer – infected or not – as all of us have our own personal challenges. As someone living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), I sure have mine.

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SANER Project Coordinates Sharing of Hospital Bed Capacity and Availability of Critical Resources During COVID-19

Healthcare IT Today

I’m excited to finally share some details on the progress of the SANER project. A few weeks ago, I first heard about this project from my friend Keith Boone who is leading the SANER project while working at Audacious Inquiry. The project is an open source effort to create an HL7 FHIR API that shares […].

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Group Therapy

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Group Therapy and the HIPAA Privacy Rule Under the HIPAA Privacy Rule, a healthcare provider may use and disclose protected health information (PHI), without individual written authorization, if the use or disclosure is a treatment disclosure. This general rule applies … Read more. The post Group Therapy appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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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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Potential ACA Relief for Employers Facing COVID-19 Hardship

ACA Times

2 minute read: As the COVID-19 global health pandemic continues to affect businesses large and small, employers must still comply with the requirements of the ACA’s Employer Mandate. As a reminder to employers in conjunction with the Employer Shared Responsibility Payment (ESRP), the ACA’s Employer Mandate, Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), organizations with 50 or more full-time employees and full-time equivalent employees, are required to offer Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) to at least 95%

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More Provider Relief Funds On the Way: Beware Updated Terms and Conditions

Health Law Blog | Telehealth

By Kim Stanger. On April 22, 2020, HHS announced specifics concerning the next round of the $100 billion Provider Relief Fund payments, some of which should reach provider bank accounts today. [link]. As with the initial $30 billion, the additional payments come with more strings attached. Additional Payments. 1. General allocation. An additional $20 billion will go to providers who rendered diagnoses, testing or care of individuals with possible or actual cases of COVID-19 after January 31, 20

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Believing in Tomorrow

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