January, 2022

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The New Healthcare Truths of 2022

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. This time last year, we healthcare leaders were excited to be looking ahead to 2021 and leaving 2020 firmly behind us. But our dreams of putting the pandemic in the past were put on pause. Now, […].

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Virtual organizations in health care

KevinMD

In almost all organizations, an employee has a supervisor responsible for guiding the employee in doing their job. This requires good communication between the two. Currently, in medicine, especially during stays in the hospital, there is a similar relationship between physicians: The attending physician recruits the necessary specialist physicians to provide care for the patient.

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4 Skills You Need To Be A Critical Care Nurse

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Working in intensive care unit is often tiring and stressful. Nurses working in the ICU treat patients with critical medical conditions. At the same, the burden of treating a huge number of patients in a […]. The article 4 Skills You Need To Be A Critical Care Nurse appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. Last night, Steve discussed these trends for media attendees, of which I am one (gratefully) participating in #CES2022 virtually from the hygienic comfort and safety of my home health hub (more on that later in this post).

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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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How interoperability, increased reimbursement options will drive digital health in 2022

Mobi Health News

Glooko CEO Russ Johannesson predicts that the growth in digital health funding will continue this year, and that the push toward interoperability will be critical for the space.

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Long Covid to Diminish Cognitive Abilities

New Age Healthcare

A recent study in UK, conducted on more than 80,000 people who took an intelligence test online, revealed that people who have recovered from Covid-10 could possibly suffer from significant cognitive deficit. This phenomenon is being termed as ‘ Long Covid Brain Fog ’ by experts across the globe. More research is being conducted to offer subsequent scientific basis to the anecdotal evidence.

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Investors poured record-breaking $29.1B into digital health startups. Will the momentum continue in 2022?

FierceHealthIT

Investors poured record-breaking $29.1B into digital health startups. Will the momentum continue in 2022? hlandi. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 12:17.

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Healthcare Consumers Voice An Expectation for Personalized Experiences

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Evanguelidi, director, enterprise healthcare market, Redpoint Global. In a new survey of more than 1,000 U.S. healthcare consumers conducted by Dynata and commissioned by Redpoint Global, more than 80% of respondents said that […]. The article Healthcare Consumers Voice An Expectation for Personalized Experiences appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Building Health Equity Through Faith and Food – the Black Church Food Security Network

Health Populi

Members of his congregation kept going to the hospital with diet-related issues, Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, III , realized. “I got tired of praying and hoping they made it and walked out,” Reverend Brown realized. And then… “God gave us an idea and vision to be proactive on the issue of health in our congregation,” Rev. Brown explained to us yesterday on Day 2 of Real Chemistry’s Health Equity Summit.

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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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Report: Health tech investment more than doubles in 2021

Mobi Health News

Health tech companies raised nearly $40 billion last year, according to Silicon Valley Bank's Healthcare Investments and Exits Report. IPOs were also up, but those companies didn't fare as well in the public markets.

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Female physicians more likely to adopt telehealth early

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital retrospectively analyzed data from all 3,473 physicians providing ambulatory care through Mass General Brigham, which includes 12 hospitals.

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Digital Empathy – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 1/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Sarah Krüg (@sarahkrug1) and Matt Sakumoto (@MattSakumoto) on the topic “Enhancing Digital Empathy and Reimagining the Telehealth Experience.” As telehealth is increasingly adopted across all care settings, […].

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Global digital health funding skyrockets to $57.2B with record cash for mental health, telehealth

FierceHealthIT

Global digital health funding skyrockets to $57.2B with record cash for mental health, telehealth. hlandi. Fri, 01/21/2022 - 11:17.

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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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Clinician Corner: Meet Dr. Isabel Norian, MD

Iris Telehealth

Iris clinicians are at the heart of what makes our organization such a special place to work. That’s why we’re turning the spotlight on the amazing work they’re doing every day. This week we’re sitting down to talk with Dr. Isabel Norian. Q: How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? A: At the time, I was working in outpatient psychiatry at a community mental health center.

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Mental Health at CES 2022 – The Consumer’s Context for Wellbeing in the New Year

Health Populi

As we enter COVID-19’s “junior year,” one unifying experience shared by most humans are feelings of pandemic fatigue: anxiety, grief, burnout, which together diminish our mental health. There are many signposts pointing to the various flavors of mental and behavioral health challenges, from younger peoples’ greater risk of depression and suicide ideation to increased deaths of despair due to overdose among middle-aged people.

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Better than ever with a long way to go: The future of digital health reimbursement

Mobi Health News

In a preview of their HIMSS22 presentation, Robert Jarrin, managing partner at the Omega Concern, and Brian Scarpelli, senior global policy counsel at the Connected Health Initiative, explain the current digital health reimbursement landscape.

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One expert travels the country to see how telehealth is holding up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telemedicine is on an all-time high. The requirements of the contagious COVID-19 and the subsequent loosening of governmental regulations and commercial payer rules have finally propelled telehealth into the mainstream. Travel to virtually any U.S. healthcare provider organization today and its teams are conducting some kind of telehealth. Justin Miller , vice president of customer success at eVisit, a telemedicine technology and services company, did just that.

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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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ACA Penalties Are Increasing in 2022

ACA Times

The IRS penalty amounts for non-compliance of the ACA’s Employer Mandate are again increasing in 2022. . Below is a rundown of the new penalty amounts and how the IRS will assess them. . 4980H(a) Penalty. For the 2022 tax year, the 4980H(a) penalty amount is $229.17 a month or $2,750 annualized, per employee. The IRS issues the 4980H(a) penalty when: An employer doesn’t offer Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) to at least 95% of its full-time employees (and their dependents) for any mo

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Supreme Court upholds HHS' vaccine requirement for healthcare workers, blocks OSHA's large employer mandate

FierceHealthIT

Supreme Court upholds HHS' vaccine requirement for healthcare workers, blocks OSHA's large employer mandate. dmuoio. Thu, 01/13/2022 - 15:37.

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Elements of an Effective EMR for Psychiatry

TheraNest

Finding the best EMR for psychiatry is not as difficult as providers might think. The options can be overwhelming when you take into consideration that there are hundreds of EMR vendors on the market. Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) have been around for quite some time now. What this means is that the creators of the technology have had time to figure out what is most important and curate technology to really help providers do their job better.

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AI and Automation in RCM is All About Balance

Healthcare IT Today

The team at CorroHealth is emphasizing a balanced approach to improving Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) – one that blends AI, automation, and people. The company’s leaders believe that healthcare organizations should set themselves a goal of streamlining and augmenting the current processes, especially in light of the hiring challenges. Road to AI and Automation in […].

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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 changed health tech. So what’s next for women’s digital health?

Mobi Health News

The growth of telehealth and remote monitoring tools could be a game changer for women’s health, particularly maternal and fetal care.

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Australia makes temporary changes to telehealth amid Omicron outbreak

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners. Offered until 30 June, these telehealth items have been made available nationwide, unlike when these were targeted only to hotspot areas previously.

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Hormonal Imbalance in Females: Natural Ways to Balance it

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

Hormones are produced by various glands and tissues and are part of the endocrine system. Hormones pass through the bloodstream to all of the body’s tissues and organs. They send messages to these organs, instructing them on what function to execute and when it should be performed. Hormones play a role in a variety of […]. The post Hormonal Imbalance in Females: Natural Ways to Balance it appeared first on Healthystic.

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CMS issued over 300 warnings, but no fines, to hospitals falling short on price transparency last year

FierceHealthIT

CMS issued over 300 warnings, but no fines, to hospitals falling short on price transparency last year. dmuoio. Fri, 01/07/2022 - 17:39.

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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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JAMIA Study Reports 22-68% Interoperability Across EHR Platforms: 7 Implications

E-CareManagement

by Vince Kuraitis, JD and Ian McNicoll, MD. A recent study of EHR interoperability found that 68% of data was "understood" when exchanged across different sites using the same vendor , but only 22% was "understood" when exchanged across different EHR vendors. The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).

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The Surgery Market Shake Up – The Growing Importance of Ambulatory Surgery Centers

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Todd Bellemare, SVP of Professional Services at Definitive Healthcare. The impact of COVID-19 has penetrated every aspect of daily life. From how we communicate to how we learn, shop and play, we’ve all had to adapt to the seismic shakeup of the pandemic. Nearly two years later, we’re […].

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Study: Practitioners like telerehab, but want more training

Mobi Health News

According to a study published in JMIR, providers are generally positive about remote therapy and tele-rehabilitation, but they need more training and support to overcome obstacles like technology hurdles and practical concerns.

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