December, 2020

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What blockchain mean for health care?

KevinMD

In 2016, I was at an angel investor’s conference in Las Vegas when I met a certain individual pursuing their MBA at Stanford University. We got to talking about angel investing, and the term “blockchain” was mentioned. I asked, “the blockchain: that’s Bitcoin, isn’t it?” “Oh no,” was their reply, "Bitcoin is only the beginning […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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New Healthcare Truths for 2021

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. As 2020 comes to a close, healthcare industry leaders are looking ahead to 2021 with excitement and anticipation. This year has brought a number of challenges and opportunities for innovation, but how will they shape the […].

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Top 5 Healthcare Trends and Predictions For 2021

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Varsha Rao, CEO, Nurx. The challenges and tragedies of the past year are well-known, but amidst the hardships of 2020 some hopeful signals have emerged in healthcare. Patients and the people and systems who care for […]. The article Top 5 Healthcare Trends and Predictions For 2021 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Latest from Tech Tonics: Takeda’s Ariel Dowling: An Engineer With A Passion For Digital Health

Digital Health

A Jersey girl drawn first captivated by engineering while in college at Dartmouth, Ariel Dowling went on to pursue her PhD at Stanford, exploring the use of wearables to anticipate and prevent knee injuries. After several experiences at tech-focused startups, Ariel has more recently found a home — and a calling — as a digital […].

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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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Google's new research app shows participants how their data is driving health insights

Mobi Health News

The Google Health Studies platform is already enrolling Android users into a 100,000-person investigation of acute respiratory illnesses conducted alongside Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers.

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The Digital Divide -- Why haven't all older adults crossed it?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

A hot topic now – crossing the so-called ‘Digital Divide’. It’s ironic – the topic has been under discussion foreve r. Long ago, in a world far, far, away – it was easy for the oldest to say that they don’t see the benefit in technology, Internet access or other devices. That was pre-pandemic of course. In 2020, the divide looks like a chasm, depending on how it is viewed.

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CMS Releases Proposed Rule Expanding Health Data Interoperability Requirements For Payers

Healthcare IT Today

CMS has released a proposed rule that will require Medicaid managed care plans and other insurers offering products on the ACA Exchanges to support the sharing of patient data amongst themselves. The announcement follows the release of the Interoperability and Patient Access final rule in July, which requires all health plans doing business with the […].

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Telemedicine: A Powerful Tool For Preventing Hospital Overcrowding

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Waseem Ghannam, MD, MBA, MHSA, president, TeleHealth Solution Across the country, well over 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and these numbers continue to climb along with rising positivity rates. Similar to the […].

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Doctor On Demand, Harvard study finds telehealth surge driven by behavioral health, chronic illness visits

FierceHealthIT

Doctor On Demand, Harvard study finds telehealth surge driven by behavioral health, chronic illness visits. hlandi. Tue, 12/22/2020 - 17:39.

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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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Fitbit study predicts onset of COVID-19 and hospitalization likelihood

Mobi Health News

The paper outlines predictors for the severity of illness, symptom prevalence, illness duration among male and female participants, and estimations of the need for hospitalization.

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What to expect in 2021 and beyond? IDC offers 10 healthcare predictions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the recent IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Health Industry 2021 Predictions report, experts at IDC Health Insights offer their thoughts about the issues healthcare and life science organizations will contend with over the next year and beyond. WHY IT MATTERS. Unsurprisingly, 2021 will largely be shaped by "the disruptive forces of COVID-19," according to IDC, which sees the pandemic as having changed "everything across all verticals now and into the future.

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Everyone – not just older adults – has lost the tech user interface war

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Once upon a time, a new technology user interface was mostly just annoying. It’s almost quaint to look back at what we complained about – though some of the famous user interface disasters are well-described in a Scientific American article – Windows 8, BMW iDrive, TV remotes. At some point, the user gets mad. The BMW iDrive example from 2007 prompted some drivers to turn around and bring the car back to the showroom.

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Amazon Launches New Service Simplifying Healthcare Data Search and Analysis

Healthcare IT Today

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a new tool designed to make it simpler for healthcare organizations to work with their data. Amazon HealthLake, which AWS describes as “HIPAA-eligible,” was launched during Amazon’s annual re:Invent conference. The new service, which is now available in preview, was designed to help healthcare and life sciences organizations aggregate […].

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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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How To Make A Medical App For A Healthcare Clinic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The internet, online websites, and mobile applications have simplified our lives. It is no longer an option but has become a basic necessity for leading a comfortable life. Therefore, as the world is advancing, more […]. The article How To Make A Medical App For A Healthcare Clinic appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How artificial intelligence and augmented reality are changing medical proctoring during COVID-19

FierceHealthIT

How artificial intelligence and augmented reality are changing medical proctoring during COVID-19. hlandi. Wed, 12/23/2020 - 13:10.

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Health plans embrace technology during the pandemic: a roundup of payer news 2020

Mobi Health News

Through all of this year’s tumultuous ups and downs, one trend that has remained unstoppable – and has even accelerated – is the healthcare sector’s adoption of technology.

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Mayo Clinic COVID-19 patients likely had better outcomes thanks to RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Research published this week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that COVID-19 patients who received care at Mayo Clinic had favorable outcomes compared to those reported nationally. One factor contributing to those favorable outcomes, said researchers , was the clinic's remote monitoring capabilities allowing for early detection of complications or clinical deterioration.

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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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Selected tech trends from upcoming 2021 Market Overview

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Looking ahead to 2021 -- pre-CES, what trends will persist? So that's just about enough of 2020 -- a year worth putting behind us, if ever there was one. Much creativit y and stopgap solutions were the signs of the Covid-19 times. There was an awakening about older adults as targets of ageism and victims of social isolation , true. But there was also an awakening to the significance of aging in place , the investment category of older adults , the market power of older adults , including the

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Designing for Patients and Clinicians: Expanding The Human in Human Centered Design (HCD)

Healthcare IT Today

This article was co-authored by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Amy Bucher. A nurse practitioner (NP) was telling patient advocates how to help patients prepare better for appointments. She explained that many people with high blood pressure (BP) don’t track it before their appointment. So, she gives them a sheet and has them schedule another appointment […].

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Gym Management Software: The Revolution of Physical Science

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The emergence of technology is rampant nowadays. From the convenience of the person using it allows reduction of legwork in a few touches of the smartphone. In order to run a business-like Gym Management Software, […]. The article Gym Management Software: The Revolution of Physical Science appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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K through 12 Health and Physical Education in the Time of COVID19

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Before the pandemic, school based telehealth was surging of its own accord; being able to access so many children in one place, especially the high risk populations, was an easy target for an array of specialties: dentistry, nutrition, behavioral health, and physical education (to name a few). Arkansas has plenty of school-based physical education programs (e.g. the UAMS Public Schools Program where physical and emotional well-being of students is promoted through digital technology), but the st

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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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Oura Ring detects the onset of fever, a common COVID-19 symptom

Mobi Health News

This report represents early findings from the TemPredict study, which has a goal to develop an algorithm that predicts the onset of symptoms such as fever, cough and fatigue.

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Telehealth poses big cybersecurity dangers, Harvard researchers warn

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A Harvard Medical School team published a letter in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association this week warning of the "substantial" information security concerns around telehealth. The authors, led by organizational cybersecurity researcher Mohammad S. Jalali, note that the uptick in telemedicine services has undoubtedly made healthcare more accessible – but that the relaxation in regulations about virtual care combined with a heightened threat landscape can sp

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From a consolidation boom to telehealth, here are 5 predictions for the hospital industry in 2021

FierceHealthIT

From a consolidation boom to telehealth, here are 5 predictions for the hospital industry in 2021. rking. Fri, 12/11/2020 - 15:38.

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To Integrate Next-Gen Telehealth, We Need Health System Redesign

Healthcare IT Today

Today I read an interesting piece by Sean Cavanaugh, chief policy officer of ACO sponsor Aledade Inc. The piece, which appears in the Health Affairs blog, looks at the state of telehealth in the U.S. and how we got where we are. It also makes some recommendations on how to think about telehealth in the […].

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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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Why Providers Need Analytics To Prepare Today For The Aftermath of The Coronavirus

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andrea Sorensen, associate vice president of product consulting, MedeAnalytics. Healthcare providers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic continue to be overwhelmed by the increase of cases worldwide. Physicians, nurses and other direct […].

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How to Make the Most of Your Psychiatric Practice Management Software

TheraNest

If you use practice management software for your psychiatric practice, you know how significantly it can transform your efficiency. But not everyone is aware of everything that practice management software is capable of. Making use of the full range of capabilities can result in major time savings and efficiency gains for your practice. In this post, we’ll take a look at how to leverage some of the more advanced features to help you make your business more profitable and your workflow easier.

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VR could be key to helping recovered COVID-19 patients get therapy, according to experts

Mobi Health News

Authors of an article published in BMJ Open Sport Exercise Medicine say the technology could help with rehab therapies, with social distancing.

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