April, 2025

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Emerging Technologies that are Driving Significant Innovations in Digital Health and Reshaping Patient Care Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

Countless people and organizations are currently striving to invent and improve technologies to help propel healthcare into a brighter future. But which of these technologies is starting to make a noticeable impact? What emerging technologies are driving the most significant innovations in digital health, and how are they reshaping patient care delivery ?

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Supporting emergency medical response with mobile technology

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Emergency medical services (EMS) teams are often the first responders for patients having emergency health issues. When timing and accuracy are of utmost importance, they must be exactly sure of what each patient needs. Some medical events require expertise best provided by a specialist. Depending on the distance to a medical facility or emergency department (ED), patients rely on the treatments given in the ambulance or at the scene.

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The importance of research and user-centred design in healthcare

Digital Leaders HealthTech

At a time when the UK Government is making the improvement of healthcare outcomes in the NHS a priority, there is a lot of debate – as ever – about the best ways to maximise performance of an organisation we all rely on. Artificial intelligence will undoubtedly play a significant role in transforming how the NHS operates in the near future.

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Under 16 and Offline? Australia’s Bold Move to Curb Social Media Use

Digital Health Global

In a recent commentary published in The Lancet Digital Health , an expert discusses Australia’s proposal to ban social media access for those younger than 16 years old. By setting the bar at 16 years old, lawmakers aim to protect young Australians through what they call a handbrake on harm” without isolating or punishing them. The idea is to place responsibility on platforms , not parents or teens, to ensure safety measures are in place.

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How to Turn “Check-the-Box” Compliance Trainings Into Real Learning

Speaker: Brian Richardson, Brian Richardson, Founder and CEO of Richardson Consulting Group

Let’s face it—most ethics and compliance training programs aren’t winning awards for engagement. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be effective, captivating, and maybe even enjoyable! Join learning design expert Brian Richardson for a dynamic session on how to breathe new life into your ethics and compliance training. We'll explore innovative strategies to bring traditionally dry topics to life, making them resonate with learners and drive tangible change.

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The Impact of Remote Patient Monitoring on Adherence, Quality of Life, and Cost-Effectiveness in Healthcare

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The healthcare landscape is evolving rapidly, with the integration of technology playing a significant role in improving the management of chronic diseases. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has emerged as a powerful tool that allows healthcare providers to monitor patients’ health data outside of traditional clinical settings. As chronic conditions such as heart failure, COPD, diabetes, and hypertension continue to place a significant burden on healthcare systems, RPM often offers innovativ

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The Biggest Opportunity for Sporting Goods is Consumers’ Physical Inactivity: Learning from McKinsey (with a personal nod to pickleball)

Health Populi

McKinsey just published a detailed report into Sporting Goods 2025 , which the firm calls a “new balancing act” that must turn uncertainty into opportunity. The report is based on five key observations: Only a few sporting goods companies have expanded growth and margins since 2018 — and must “rethink the value chain” in the face of challenging geopolitical headwinds One-half of so-called “active consumers” say that fitness is a core element of their ide

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Zoom launches agentic AI-powered mobile comms for frontline staff

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new tool, Zoom Workplace for Frontline, is now generally available to all customers. It uses agentic artificial intelligence to help improve on-shift communications and work management, the telehealth company said Wednesday. WHY IT MATTERS With a real-time activity feed, as well as auto-generated on-shift chat groups and push-to-talk functionality, Zoom said Wednesday in its announcement that it aims to boost productivity, collaboration and connection among frontline teams in several industrie

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The Limits of HIPAA Auditing and What Needs to Change

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jay Trinckes , Data Protection Officer/CISO at Thoropass The healthcare industry faces a critical cybersecurity challenge. Despite the stringent requirements outlined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), enforcement remains alarmingly limited. A recent report revealed that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S.

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Elon Musk announces Neuralink’s first human implant of Blindsight coming this year

Mobi Health News

Musk says the implant will initially provide blind individuals with low-resolution sight with the potential for superhuman vision in the future.

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Empowering Overall Healthcare Operations: Why Some Outsourcing Is Smart Business

Many administrators at large and small medical practices and labs can be fearful of bringing in a third party to help with their revenue cycle. For some, this is a fear of giving up control; for others, it is about avoiding staff losses. But a strategic approach with a partner that knows one-size-fits-all is not the solution for every customer, and instead, offers a tailored service that helps an organization close weaknesses in their billing operations by using a proven, highly professional, op

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MDaudit Releases “AI Assist” for healthcare Revenue Integrity

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit,an award-winning cloud-based continuous risk monitoring platform for RCM that enables the nation’s premier healthcare organizations to minimize billing risks and maximize revenues, today announced the latest AI-powered enhancement to its award-winning revenue integrity platform. […] The article MDaudit Releases AI Assist for healthcare Revenue Integrity appeared first on electr

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AI in health care: the black box of prior authorization

KevinMD

Amidst the recent news about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, the issue of prior authorization has come to the forefront again. Insurance companies use prior authorization as an easy tool to control the costs and incorporate it as a genuine step of the health care delivery process. The recent trend is to use AI (artificial Read more AI in health care: the black box of prior authorization originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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A Profile of Health Consumer-Generations’ Use of Digital Health – Rock Health Takes Us Through the Ages

Health Populi

In the past year, most consumers in the U.S. have used virtual care, tracked at least one health metric digitally, and own a wearable or connected health device. Digital health has certainly gone mainstream across U.S. consumers, with varying utilization and motivation by generation, we learn in the report, Screenagers to Silver Surfers: How each generation clicks with care from Rock Health.

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New York now reimburses for RPM: One nurse's view from the trenches

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

On Jan. 1, 2025, New York State Medicaid expanded its coverage to include remote patient monitoring services provided by clinical staff. With this significant change comes a huge benefit for New York citizens. NYS Medicaid will reimburse for RPM services under Current Procedural Terminology code 99457. This code pertains to remote physiologic monitoring treatment management services, which involve clinical staff, physicians or other qualified healthcare professionals spending time in a calendar

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The Essential Guide to Secure Messaging in Healthcare

Discover everything healthcare providers need to know about secure messaging. Covering essential topics like HIPAA compliance, communication efficiency, and patient privacy protection, this resource is indispensable for professionals, caregivers, and administrative staff alike.📱 💬 Whether managing sensitive patient data, coordinating care teams, or streamlining workflows, discover actionable insights to implement secure messaging solutions effectively.

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Innovative, Immersive Learning: Relias Expands VR Access to Solve Healthcare Workforce Training Challenges

Healthcare IT Today

With Realistic, Scenario-Driven Learning, Healthcare Workers can Refine Skills in Real Time, Reducing Errors and Improving Decision-Making Relias , the trusted multi-solution workforce enablement platform partner to 12,000 healthcare organizations and 4.5 million caregivers, is expanding its learning modalities to include assessment-based virtual reality (VR) through its acquisition of InceptionXR , an innovative provider of extended reality training solutions for healthcare professionals.

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Japanese research utilises eye tracking for early autism diagnosis

Mobi Health News

The study has demonstrated the potential of predictable movement stimuli as a behavioural marker of autism spectrum disorder.

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Mynd Immersive, Select Rehabilitation, HTC VIVE, and AT&T Expand Next Generation of Immersive Therapeutics to More Than 150 U.S. Senior Living Communities

Digital Health Global

Beginning Phase will bring access to MyndXR to more than 45,000 residents ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mynd Immersive, the industry leader in immersive healthcare solutions for older adults, successfully concluded Q1 by expanding its digital health footprint with the addition of 150 senior living communities across the United States. This milestone represents the largest deployment of Extended Reality (XR) therapies in senior care history, significantly advancing innovative treatment opti

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Staying stone free with AI: How smart tech is revolutionizing kidney stone prevention

KevinMD

Kidney stones are painful, frustrating, and unfortunately common. I see this brutal problem every day as a urologist. When my wife had her first kidney stone while celebrating her 40th birthday, this issue became deeply personal. Seeing her in pain and struggling to navigate the confusing world of kidney stone prevention made me realize just Read more Staying stone free with AI: How smart tech is revolutionizing kidney stone prevention originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

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Loneliness As Risk Factor for Health and Medication Adherence

Health Populi

The role of loneliness and social isolation plays into every aspect of human health, beyond mental and behavioral impacts: loneliness is a risk factor for overall health status and well-being, as well as a barrier to medication adherence, we learn in Loneliness and Health Behaviors: A Missing Link in Chronic Care from Pleio. Pleio launched the report at the Assembia AXS25 Conference in Las Vegas yesterday, Pleio surveyed 2,008 U.S. adults in March 2025 living with at least one chronic condition

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'Off the charts' patient satisfaction at LifeBridge Health's virtual urgent care center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LifeBridge Health, based in Owings Mills, Maryland, faced two primary telemedicine challenges: improving operational efficiency and increasing patient adoption. THE CHALLENGE Dr. Jonathan Thierman, president and chief executive, ExpressCare and Children's Urgent Care, at LifeBridge Health, previously had set up the LifeBridge Health Virtual Health Center.

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Data Storytelling to Spotlight the Customer Voice

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Sally Perkins , Sr. Manager of Storytellers at Authenticx In the complex and dynamic world of healthcare, the drive for meaningful change is fueled by the value of customer-centricity. So, organizations often ask: What can we do to improve customer experience? What can we do to help our contact centers become more efficient and effective?

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HeartBeam, AccurKardia partner to speed up cardiac diagnosis

Mobi Health News

The alliance will combine HeartBeam's ECG device with AccurKardia's monitoring software.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Neuranics Raises $8M to Revolutionise Magnetic Sensing for the Future of Human-Machine Interaction

Digital Health Global

GLASGOW, Scotland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Neuranics, an award-winning Scottish deep-tech semiconductor company pioneering the future of human-machine interaction, has raised $8 million in seed funding to accelerate global growth and the commercial adoption of its Tunnelling Magnetoresistance (TMR) magnetic sensing technology. The investment round was led by Blackfinch Ventures , with participation from Archangels , and continued support from Par Equity , the University of Glasgow , and Old C

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PointClickCare SUMMIT 2025 Recap and Major Announcements

Digital Health Wire

PointClickCare SUMMIT 2025 is officially a wrap, and were back from Vegas with a roundup of the biggest highlights and announcements from the show. The market-leading senior care EHRs 12th annual SUMMIT brought together over 2,000 of the industrys top professionals to connect, learn, and advance care together. PointClickCare CEO Dave Wessinger kicked things off with an opening keynote on the current transformation unfolding across healthcare, which is accelerating faster than anyone expected due

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U.S. Health Care in 2025 Requires Scenario Planning: The Uncertainties That Inspire DIY Healthcare

Health Populi

As Weight Watchers prepares to initiate bankruptcy proceedings, I file the news event under “thinking the unthinkable.” “Thinking about the unthinkable” is what Herman Kahn, a father of scenario planning, asked us to do when he pioneered the process. In this book, for Kahn, “the unthinkable” was thermonuclear war, and the year was 1962.

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Brown University policy expert talks about the future of telehealth flexibilities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For Medicare, telemedicine reimbursement and regulation has been about kicking the can down the road – more temporary extensions of COVID-era flexibilities. The current ones run out on September 30. It's April 2025 and healthcare still waits for a permanent solution from the government for telemedicine and Medicare – which tends to drive what Medicaid and private insurers do.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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This Week’s Health IT Jobs – April 16, 2025

Healthcare IT Today

It can be very overwhelming scrolling though job board after job board in search of a position that fits your wants and needs. Let us take that stress away by finding a mix of great health IT jobs for you! We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Application Analyst – South County Hospital Medical Billing Specialist – Dialysis Clinic, Inc.

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Thyroid cancer AI assistant developed in Hong Kong

Mobi Health News

Claimed to be a world's first, the LLM-driven model has demonstrated over 90% accuracy.

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Aptar Digital Health Reports Positive Impact of iPUMP® on Sublingual Liquid Allergen Immunotherapy Adherence

Digital Health Global

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aptar Digital Health, a global leader in digital health solutions enhancing the patient experience, today announces the positive results from the SPEED 1 survey, showcasing the impact of the iPUMP connected assistant on adherence to Stallergenes Greers sublingual liquid immunotherapy (SLIT). The results will be presented by Stallergenes Greer, a global leader in allergy therapeutics and long-standing partner of Aptar Digital Health, at the upcoming