December, 2022

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Federal agencies release updated privacy guide for health app developers

Mobi Health News

The Mobile Health Apps tool aims to help developers determine which federal laws apply and which agencies oversee different aspects of mobile health technology.

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Epic research shows telehealth efficacy, makes case for more reimbursement 

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A dual team study of in-person, same-specialty follow-up rates after telehealth appointments published by Epic Research examined the cadence of care and found virtual medicine to be an effective tool. WHY IT MATTERS. Analyzing the effectiveness of different methods for delivering care is important to guide decisions about how to allocate resources, according to the study's key findings report.

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Q&A: Looking ahead at digital health, biotech funding in 2023

Mobi Health News

Elena Viboch, partner at General Catalyst, discusses her predictions for biotech and health tech investing and how startups can grow in a more constrained economic environment.

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Behavioral health is getting a boost from virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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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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UCHealth slashes code blues up to 70% with telehealth technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

UCHealth is a non-profit healthcare organization based in Colorado made up of 12 hospitals across the state. THE PROBLEM. The organization had a new use case for virtual care, a program called Virtual Deterioration. Essentially, it was trying to find patients who were deteriorating in the hospital sooner in order to provide rescue and treatment faster to give them the best outcome.

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Looking ahead to 2023 -- what should we expect?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

You saw and considered the 2022 Tech Trends. Each of these changes will make a difference for older adults and those who serve them. Consider what’s happened with over the counter hearing aids, now available in kiosks at retailers like Walmart and Rite Aid. Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi.

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Back to basics: What CIOs can learn from Southwest Airlines

David Chou

We have heard horror stories about Southwest airlines from passengers on canceled flights recently during the holiday break. The key theme of the meltdown is technology debt. Technology debt refers to the accumulated backlog of technical work that must be addressed for an organization to use and maintain its technology infrastructure effectively. It can occur when an organization takes shortcuts in developing or implementing technology solutions or fails to maintain and update its systems regula

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Study: Sociodemographic, health factors linked to long-term digital health device use

Mobi Health News

According to the study published in npj Digital Medicine, high scores for depressive symptoms and lower-than-excellent self-rated health were associated with less smartwatch use.

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In states with abortion bans, maternal and infant death rates are significantly higher, study finds

FierceHealthIT

In states with abortion bans, maternal and infant death rates are significantly higher, study finds. hlandi. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 07:33.

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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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Telehealth heavy hitter Dr. Roy Schoenberg on virtual care in 2023

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream. And now that it is being so robustly used across the country, the big question is: What's next?

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Poppy Health Measures Indoor Air Ventilation on a Massive Scale

Healthcare IT Today

A lot of public health depends on measuring proxies for health, such as checking the level of COVID-19 in waste water as a cheap, accurate and (importantly) privacy-preserving way to determine how widespread the disease is in a municipality. Recently, Poppy Health has created a clever technology to determine how well buildings are protecting people from air-borne diseases.

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One last look at 2022's important changes before CES

Aging in Place Technology Watch

CES begins next week – but never mind – what mattered in 2022? The press releases for next week’s 2023 Consumer Electronics Show are stacking up. These will be featured in blogs over the next week or two. Weird and wacky, teeny-tiny, virtual, augmented, robotic, metaverse-y – remote this-and-that. Invented by young and old, the result of competitions and criteria -- Eureka Park , for example.

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Xealth Named to the 2022 CB Insights’ Digital Health 150 List

Xealth

Xealth recognized for achievements in digital health deployment and management. NEW YORK, December 7, 2022 — CB Insights today named Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, to its fourth-annual Digital Health 150 , showcasing the 150 most promising private digital health companies of 2022. “From reimagining clinical care, to leveraging tech like AR/VR to improve surgical training, this year’s Digital Health 150 winners are transforming the future of healthcare with d

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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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Q&A: How retail healthcare, telehealth trends could evolve in 2023

Mobi Health News

Sanjula Jain, senior vice president of market strategy and chief research officer at Trilliant Health, discusses the future of virtual care and how emerging retail players will affect the industry.

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2023 forecast: Health tech tools begin constructing the Alzheimer's treatment plan

FierceHealthIT

2023 forecast: Health tech tools begin constructing the Alzheimer's treatment plan. aburky. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 17:17.

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How UVA Health's Medicine HOME program reduces hospitalizations and readmissions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. THE PROBLEM. In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year.

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The Impact of the Digital Front Door

Healthcare IT Today

Too often in talking about digital transformation, we only look to the future. Merely speculating as to how it will impact the world of healthcare once x gets developed. Too little do we take a look at the work that has already been done in this field to examine the impact it has already had. So that is what we will be doing today. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Community to hear their thoughts on the digital front door and how it has already transformed healthcare.

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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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How Mental Health Care Providers Can Combat Compassion Fatigue

Iris Telehealth

Quick links. Symptoms of compassion fatigue. How telehealth helps mental health providers combat compassion fatigue. Self-care tips for providers facing compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue during the holidays. Where Iris Telehealth fits in. As a behavioral health provider, you’re on the front lines of America’s mental health crisis. While helping others is a big part of what you love, your own well-being shouldn’t have to take the back burner.

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Take Better Time Off During the Holidays 

Optimum Healthcare IT

Many are excited to enjoy time with family and friends, but time off during the holidays can benefit us as professionals as well. Continue reading Take Better Time Off During the Holidays at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Digital health leaders discuss their key takeaways from 2022

Mobi Health News

The execs spotlight the year's rise of home healthcare, drop in digital health investment and expanded use of AI, in addition to the value of virtual care.

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2023 forecast: Pharmacists push to take on a greater role in patient care

FierceHealthIT

2023 forecast: Pharmacists push to take on a greater role in patient care. pminemyer. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 12:39.

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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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Franciscan Health expands its Epic-linked telemedicine offerings

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Prior to 2020, Franciscan Health, a health system based in Mishawaka, Indiana, conducted few telemedicine visits throughout the organization. Outside of some tele-stroke and behavioral health virtual care there wasn't any robust programming for patients to participate with Franciscan Alliance providers through telemedicine. THE PROBLEM. In February 2020, some specialties were in the process of requesting telehealth technologies, and a few of them, such as urgent care, already were in the sta

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8 Ways To Deal With Perfectionism In A Relationship

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

Perfectionism in a relationship is when one or both partners strive for unrealistic standards of perfection in their partner or the relationship itself. This can often lead to disappointment, frustration, and even resentment. Perfectionism can damage a relationship as it can create an environment of constant criticism and nitpicking. It can also make one partner […].

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Does Enterprise Architecture belong in IT?

LeanIX

Whether enterprise architecture (EA) belongs in IT was one of the topics under discussion at our recent LeanIX Connect Nordics in Stockholm last month. The question came up when one of our partners asked if we were seeing a trend in organizations where EA had moved out of IT and into the business proper (e.g., reporting into the CFO or CEO functions).

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Maximize your Learning Management System for EHR Success

Optimum Healthcare IT

A Learning Management System (LMS) is a critical tool for a successful Epic implementation and must be built into your training journey. Continue reading Maximize your Learning Management System for EHR Success at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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Lumen scores $62M for handheld metabolism measurement device

Mobi Health News

The startup said it plans to use funds to expand its reach in the U.S. and globally, add nutrition recommendation capabilities and support research partnerships.

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Digital health VCs eye healthcare workforce, cancer care as ripe for startups in 2023

FierceHealthIT

Digital health VCs eye healthcare workforce, cancer care as ripe for startups in 2023. hlandi. Fri, 12/02/2022 - 06:26.

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UMass Memorial Health proves RPM virtual sitting is as effective as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

UMass Memorial Health is the largest health system in Central Massachusetts and the clinical partner of UMass Chan Medical School. UMass Memorial is the only adult Level I Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal ICU in Central Massachusetts. The health system's experienced caregivers include experts in behavioral health, cancer, cardiology, children and women's services, heart and vascular care, neurology, pulmonology and surgery.