March, 2021

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When the next storm hits, telehealth could be a lifesaver

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In February, a ferocious winter storm gripped the southern United States. Millions of people lost power and water, with some areas still struggling weeks later. At hospitals, workers spent the night to avoid being stranded , scrambling to care for patients in dire conditions. For people who already have trouble accessing healthcare services – due to geography, socioeconomic factors, transportation difficulties or other hurdles – a weather crisis like the freeze can spell disaster.

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Ten Forces Shaping Health Care in 2021: A View from CVS Health

Health Populi

Expanding omni-channel, data-driven, cost-effective health care in the community, tailoring that care, and attending to mental health paint the picture of health through the lens of CVS Health. The company published the Health Trends Report 2021 today, calling out ten forces shaping health care this year. Those themes are, The Year of the Pharmacist.

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Accelerated by COVID-19, technology carves new pathways for everyone to access health care

KevinMD

Before COVID-19, clinical research was a little-known part of health care. Despite this process being responsible for determining the safety and efficacy of all the drugs, medical devices, vaccines, and other medical therapies available, less than 5 percent of the U.S. population actually participates in clinical research. One reason why clinical research has little awareness […].

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Proof-of-concept system turns smart speakers into contactless heart rhythm monitors

Mobi Health News

Smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo or the Google Nest can be used to monitor heart rhythms without physical contact as effectively as an electrocardiogram, according to research from the University of Washington published in Communications Biology.

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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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The Significant Difference Between Telehealth and Virtual Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sandeep Pulim, MD, chief medical officer, Bluesteam Health. Telehealth, telemedicine, and virtual care are often used interchangeably to describe remote healthcare visits. But virtual care means something much more than just telehealth or telemedicine. […].

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Amazon confirms nationwide expansion of telehealth services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After months of rumor, Amazon confirmed Wednesday that it would be expanding its Amazon Care app-based services to its employees across the United States this summer. The announcement also said that Amazon Care would be available this week to serve other companies based in Washington. Finally, Amazon Care's in-person service will expand to Washington, Baltimore and other cities in the coming months, according to the company.

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How Grocery and Retail Companies Are Delivering Health and Healthcare

Health Populi

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. “With 2,250 pharmacies and 220 clinics largely in the Midwest and the southern U.S., Kroger is the fourth-largest pharmacy operator by script count,” the Journal noted, adding details about Walmart, CVS Health, and Walgreens all fast-expanding their respective health care footprints.

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Is Healthcare AI Adoption Moving Too Fast?

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare AI adoption has been growing rapidly, and to date seems to have been producing worthwhile results most of the time. However, a new survey suggests that at least some healthcare leaders are a bit uncomfortable with the speed at which healthcare AI is being put in place, even if they still believe it can […].

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One-minute 'game changing' COVID-19 breath test currently being trialled in Dubai

Mobi Health News

The technology by Singaporean company, Breathonix can reportedly produce results within 60 seconds by detecting Volatile Organic Compounds [VOCs] in a patient’s exhaled breath. .

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Transform Clinical Communication With Role-based Messaging

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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How To Create A Digital Front Door In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dessiree Paoli, senior solution manager, Interlace Health. Even before the pandemic, rural hospitals were closing at record rates. According to a report by the Chartis Center for Rural Health, 19 hospitals in rural America […]. The article How To Create A Digital Front Door In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Doctor On Demand, Grand Rounds combine to form multibillion-dollar digital health company

FierceHealthIT

Doctor On Demand, Grand Rounds combine to form multibillion-dollar digital health company. hlandi. Tue, 03/16/2021 - 09:31.

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How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth proved its mettle this past year. Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. But some big questions still need ironing out, as regulations and reimbursement mechanisms are in major flux.

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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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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Does IoT Increase Security Risks in Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare is full of acronyms and jargon. IT is the same. Mix them together and you have a mess that is not unlike what you get with a 2-year-old in the same room as wooden alphabet blocks. On top of this alphabet soup are the technology myths that persist – like what really causes EHR […].

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Germany approves new digital mental health app for prescription

Mobi Health News

Deprexis, an app used to help mental health, is the 11th app to be approved for medical prescription and reimbursement in Germany so far via DiGA, and MobiHealthNews learns more about the process from Julia Hagen, Health Innovation Hub.

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Why use current Exchange infrastructure rather than starting over?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I proposed an agile approach to improving Healthcare Information Exchange. Why should we keep the current? I covered this mostly with simply "that it is functioning", but did not enumerate why this is such a big deal. Many will say that http RESTful is functioning on a global basis with Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Wiki, and Blogs. This is true, but these are all monolithic servers.

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Hackers reportedly breach hospital surveillance cameras, exposing the security risks of connected devices

FierceHealthIT

Hackers reportedly breach hospital surveillance cameras, exposing the security risks of connected devices. hlandi. Wed, 03/10/2021 - 15:35.

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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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Health systems, care delivery groups, Amazon launch hospital-at-home initiative

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new advocacy group called Moving Health Home launched on Wednesday, bringing together some heavy hitters – major health systems, care delivery services and technology vendors – who say they want to effect a shift in thinking about treating patients at home, and want to adjust reimbursement models accordingly. WHY IT MATTERS. Founding members of this coalition include Amazon Care, Ascension, Dispatch Health, Elara Caring, Intermountain Healthcare, Home Instead, Landmark Health and S

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How Fruits and Veg Can Make Health and Lower Costs – Calling Chef José Andrés to the White House

Health Populi

Springtime is finally emerging on the east coast of the U.S. and my local CSA farm is on my mind. It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions.

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Disrupting the Economics of Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Tom Hale, Chief Medical Officer, VirtuSense Technologies. There is little controversy that the cost of healthcare remains on an unsustainable trajectory. Presently there are two alternatives to this fee for service (FFS) driven economic Armageddon—significant price regulation or a shift in payment economics to value based care […].

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Germany’s DiGA - Secure data in the cloud?

Mobi Health News

As of last July, developers of digital health apps (DiGA) in Germany could no longer host sensitive personal data on American cloud servers. Dr Philipp Kircher from the Health Innovation Hub reveals what cloud providers have to say about it. .

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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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FHIR enabling an immunization registry

HAY on FHIR

In New Zealand (and other places as well I expect) we’ve had a national registry for immunizations for a number of years – the National Immunization Register or NIR. It’s currently fed by HL7 version 2 messages and there’s a User Interface for authorized users, but there was always a plan to introduce a FHIR interface to some point – something that has been accelerated by the current COVID pandemic of course.

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Industry Voices—Direct contracting with providers: An opportunity for forward-thinking employers

FierceHealthIT

Industry Voices—Direct contracting with providers: An opportunity for forward-thinking employers. pminemyer. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 11:49.

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University of Cincinnati researchers invent new telehealth drone

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Inventors at the University of Cincinnati announced this past week that they had developed a semi-autonomous drone prototype to dispatch medicine or supplies to people's homes. The drone, which is still in development, has cameras and a display screen to allow patients to communicate with healthcare professionals from within their own homes. "When the COVID-19 pandemic began, we saw a need for telehealth care delivery drones to provide healthcare in the home and in locations where acces

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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

After a year of living with and “in” the coronavirus pandemic, younger people in the U.S. have had to deal with over twelve months of quarantine and lockdown, going to school remotely from home, and distancing from friends. For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts.

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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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How Can a Digital Workforce Address Healthcare’s Challenges? – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 3/12 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Linda Stotsky (@EMRAnswers) from @Bossoft on the topic “How Can a Digital Workforce Address Healthcare’s Challenges?” Things have changed drastically for the healthcare sector over the last […].

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Abbott updates app-based neuromodulation platform with remote programming

Mobi Health News

Providers will be able to have in-app live video conversations with chronic pain and movement disorder patients, as well as prescribe new settings for their neuromodulation therapies from afar.

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Hearing aids, the elderly, and listening to music

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Hearing aids and music -- why is this so difficult to solve for the elderly? The pandemic isolated everyone, but it may have been even worse for the hearing-impaired. Consider the oldest -- they are aged 85 or 86, love music, enjoy getting together with others in restaurants. The man loses one of the uninsured hearing aids and has to switch to backups that emit whistles or screeches , one that also cannot hear accurate sounds from a grand piano.

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