GlobalMed
MAY 5, 2020
While many of us are sheltering in place to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a massive mental health pandemic is also brewing. Fears about COVID-19, the economic meltdown, and prolonged social-isolation are all taking a toll on mental health. Above all else, Americans say their mental health is suffering more than their physical and financial health due to COVID-19.
KevinMD
MAY 9, 2020
We talk a lot in critical care medicine about liberating patients from ventilators. Vents are getting a lot of deserved attention for saving lives in the COVID-19 era. But the machine has downsides that get worse the longer the patient needs it. Because we’re obsessed with taking great care of our patients, we in ICU […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.
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Health Populi
MAY 4, 2020
Physical distancing and sheltering-in-place at home are becoming norms in our pandemic life-flows. We’ve seen the advent of drive-through and drive-up weddings , wakes , and high school graduation rites. And when food, hygiene supplies, and medical care can’t be delivered by Amazon or Instacart via FedEx, UPS, or the U.S. Postal Service, there’s always the automobile — which, in the U.S., is also part of COVID-19 consumers’ coping mechanisms for hunting-and-gatherin
KevinMD
MAY 19, 2020
If you are a physician unhappy with your current EHR system (surveys suggest 2 out of 3 are), and you do have the ability to switch, this article is for you. Our COVID-19 pandemic may place you in a bad financial time for this, but it's also placed you in an excellent time to plan […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.
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Healthcare IT Today
MAY 21, 2020
As the world of telehealth explodes, we’ve seeing all sorts of approaches to solving the teleheath problem. For those waiting for my list of telehealth vendors, I’ve finished evaluating 235 companies and classifying them. I’ll be publishing the first piece of the list next week. In the process of creating the list of telehealth vendors […].
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Mobi Health News
MAY 29, 2020
Healthcare VR researchers say that certain projects have stalled during the pandemic, but strong demand and emergency reimbursement decisions out of CMS have raised hopes across the industry.
Mobi Health News
MAY 27, 2020
Telemedicine has experienced a huge surge in adoption over the past few months, during the coronavirus pandemic. With people locked down at home, it has become the 'new normal' way of accessing healthcare says digital health connector, Aline Noizet.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 15, 2020
Telehealth is more in demand than ever during the coronavirus crisis, and a new report from Frost & Sullivan suggests its uptake will increase by 64.3% nationwide this year, given the disruptions of COVID-19. But in the years ahead, virtual care and remote monitoring should truly take off, according to the report. WHY IT MATTERS. According to the study , Telehealth: A Technology-Based Weapon in the War Against the Coronavirus, 2020, researchers predict that the pandemic will continue to resh
FierceHealthIT
MAY 7, 2020
Health systems across the country rapidly stood up virtual care programs to monitor COVID-19 patients from home and it provided to be a crucial tool during the pandemic. As the country begins to emerge from the health crisis, virtual tools have become a way of life for patients and providers, health technology experts say.
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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.
Insulin Nation
MAY 12, 2020
Doctors told Debbi’s parents she wouldn’t live to be 14 years old. . Her friends and teachers thought type 1 diabetes was contagious, so she wasn’t allowed to play with other children and many teachers didn’t want her in their classroom. . Debbi’s High School Graduation Photo in 1968. My high school principal said I couldn’t go on the senior class trip because I was a danger to other children because of my diabetes.”.
Health Populi
MAY 14, 2020
COVID-19 is re-shaping health care in America across many dimensions. In Shifts in Healthcare Demand, Delivery and Care During the COVID-19 Era , IQVIA presents a multi-faceted profile of the early impacts of the pandemic on U.S. health care. In the report, published in April 2020, IQVIA mined the company’s many data bases that track real-time data, including medical claims, flu data, sales data, oncology medical and pharmacy claims, formularies, among other sources.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 14, 2020
New research has concluded that healthcare organizations are missing high volumes of incoming calls, in part because when they return messages, patients can’t tell who’s on the line. This problem has apparently gotten worse with the inception of COVID-19, the study found. Communications technology vendor First Orion surveyed roughly 1,000 U.S. mobile phone users in […].
Mobi Health News
MAY 14, 2020
AI is steadily proving itself to the clinical community, but there are some aspects of care in which an algorithm will never be granted full control, said Cardiologs CEO Yann Fleureau.
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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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 13, 2020
A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Many, however, say they plan to return to in-person care when possible, due to the challenges psychiatric telemedicine entail. WHY IT MATTERS. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, a variety of logistical and regulatory hurdles prevented many psychiatrists from using telemedicine.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 6, 2020
While hospitals around the country are carefully moving forward opening up business such as offering elective surgeries again, don't expect them to get back to pre-COVID-19 volumes anytime soon, experts said during a recent FierceHealthcare Coronavirus Virtual Series.
New Age Healthcare
MAY 21, 2020
Technology has certainly revolutionised the way health care is provided and received across the globe. Amongst the various available ‘new age’ tech solutions, Artificial intelligence is at the forefront and is also the most talked about in media and board rooms. Plethora of use cases are available where implementation of AI in healthcare has resulted in multifold of benefits in areas such as drug discovery, personalised care for chronic diseases, predictive healthcare diagnosis, automation of me
Health Populi
MAY 6, 2020
Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture. Both health and economic concerns plague consumers around the world as people “strive to adapt to a new normal,” Accenture reports. “Fear is running high as individuals contemplate what this crisis means for them…for their families and friends,
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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!
Aging in Place Technology Watch
MAY 7, 2020
Is sixty-five is the new eighty-five – and is ageism trendy? Consider interesting the behavior of ‘leaders’ during the time of Covid-19. Consider the EU guidance : “The chief of the European Union's executive has warned the block's elderly that they may have to stay in lockdown till 2021 due to the new coronavirus.” And in California, as seniors use more technology to communicate with others , the executive director of Village Movement California observed that EU guidance is consistent with Go
Mobi Health News
MAY 15, 2020
Singapore-based HeartVoice, which was formed in February 2019 as a joint venture between both iAPPS and Omron Healthcare, announced last week that it will extend the use of its telehealth platform to all healthcare providers for free in the country until 31 July, 2020. HeartVoice said the reason for this was to support safe distancing amongst the public and contribute to the fight against COVID-19 situation.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 19, 2020
In an article published in the Journal of the American Informatics Association this week, Duke University researchers examined COVID-19's effect on transforming the telehealth landscape. "Whether healthcare enterprises are ready or not, the new reality is that virtual care has arrived," researchers said. WHY IT MATTERS. As federal and state governments evolve in messaging around COVID-19, healthcare facilities have responded accordingly.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 1, 2020
EHR giant Epic continued to amass a greater share of the U.S. hospital market in 2019, while its competitor Cerner lost ground, according to KLAS Research. Meditech was the only other major vendor to see a net gain in 2019.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 22, 2020
The following is a guest article by Rebecca E. Gwilt, Esq., Partner at Nixon Law Group. Many consumers are starting to accept telehealth as a standard of healthcare delivery in their everyday lives, whether through direct to consumer wearables like FitBit or Oura or professional telemedicine consults offered by their healthcare providers, employers, or insurance […].
Telebehavioral Health Institute
MAY 2, 2020
COVID-19 Telehealth Reimbursement Update* Telehealth reimbursement for services delivered during COVID-19 has reportedly been variable. Practitioners across professions are voicing complaints about rejected billing. In this brief article, the Telebehavioral Health Institute (TBHI) summarizes current events as reported from key … Read more. The post COVID-19 Telehealth Reimbursement Update appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.
Insulin Nation
MAY 21, 2020
Excitement over a potential preventative treatment for type 1 diabetes reached a high last year as multiple studies showed a link between inoculation with the rotavirus vaccine and a reduced rate of T1D development in children. These studies came after years of research into the connection between infection with the rotavirus and activation of T-cells against pancreatic cells in those predisposed to type 1.
Mobi Health News
MAY 20, 2020
Opt-in "Exposure Notifications" are included in new operating system updates on both companies' platforms and available now to worldwide public health agencies.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MAY 11, 2020
New York City's Mount Sinai Health System has installed more than 100 Google Nest cameras in hospitals to observe and communicate with COVID-19 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. Health officials have reported more than 189,000 confirmed and probable coronavirus cases in New York City, making it one of the country's biggest hotspots. The ensuing flood of patients has strained hospital resources, including staffing, beds and personal protective equipment.
FierceHealthIT
MAY 7, 2020
As the country begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, what will the “new normal” look like? Health insurance industry experts say to expect a continued focus on telehealth.
Healthcare IT Today
MAY 20, 2020
Yesterday, I came across this excellent piece by Sue Schade called “Knocking on the digital front door.” Here’s an excerpt of what Schade shares: An integrated strategy for a patient centered digital front door has many components including the core website, the patient portal linked to the electronic health record, improved access and scheduling capabilities, […].
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