March, 2020

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Millions of dollars and developers’ time have been invested in conceiving and making digital health tools. Yet with that bullish supply side of digital health, there was a marked decline in peoples’ use of them in the past two years, found by Accenture in their latest health consumer survey, Digital is Transforming Health, So Why is Consumer Adoption Stalling?

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How stakeholders should push digital health services to fight COVID-19

Mobi Health News

German-based Ralf Jahns, MD at Research2Guidance explains the role of different stakeholders in fighting COVID-19.

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How the Coronavirus and Technology Are Reshaping Home-Work, -Life and -Health

Health Populi

As people conform to the #StayHome lifestyle to #FlattenTheCurve of the coronavirus pandemic, technology is transforming peoples’ home lives for working, playing, and socializing. The Consumer Technology Association has conducted the COVID-19 Impact Study assessing the use of technology at home , exploring U.S. households’ changing behaviors for consuming content, stocking the pantry, engaging with social media, and using online health and fitness tools.

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EverlyWell, Nurx to release at-home COVID-19 test kits within a week

Mobi Health News

This news comes amid the shortage of testing kits in the U.S.

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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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Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health. Telemedicine is making a very positive contribution to healthcare during the pandemic, and is being used in a variety of ways.

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IT deficits are eating hospital profits. CEOs need to wake up.

KevinMD

I work for a hospital network with the world's slowest computers. I timed it: Last shift, it took me fifteen minutes to log on. The first computer obtained didn't function at all. It had been worked on the day before by information technology services (IT). Efficiency and time management appear to be amongst top priorities […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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Hypoglycemia Unawareness: Why It Occurs and What to Do About It

Insulin Nation

For a newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic, there is nothing scarier than having your blood sugar bottom out. One minute you’re fine, the next you’re sitting in a pool of your own sweat trembling and struggling to put a coherent thought together. But as you go through the years with this condition, you start to realize that as bad as suffering through those hypo symptoms are, not having them is a heck of a lot worse.

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Health Populi

The hashtag #StayHome was ushered onto Twitter by 15 U.S. national healthcare leaders in a USA Today editorial yesterday. The op-ed co-authors included Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Leana Wen, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Dr. Jordan Shlain, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Andy Slavitt, and other key healthcare opinion leaders. Some states and regions have already mandated that people stay home; at midnight last night, counties in the Bay Area in California instituted this , and there are tightening rules in my area of greater Phi

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Telehealth, HIPAA compliance and innovation tracking

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted instant behavior and tech changes. And not just about hand washing and social distancing. For the past two days, it’s apparent that the seemingly forever slow growth of telehealth adoption has entered a new, “When can I have that? Yesterday?” phase. This applies to caring for and treating the 2.5 million in senior living communities, including nursing homes.

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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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Technology can help diagnose, contain COVID-19 – within limits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digital tools such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, data analytics and even consumer-facing AI-based chatbots could play a key role in containing the outbreak of COVID-19 and help people who think they've been exposed to the novel coronavirus – but experts warn that such tools are not a cure-all. For example, AI-based algorithms could be most helpful in providing information about patients who have already been diagnosed with COVID-19 or who are suspected of being infected.

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How telemedicine is being used on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis

Mobi Health News

Yesterday MassChallenge hosted a summit on innovation in the age of the coronavirus crisis, and panelists discussed how providers are implementing new digital programs into their toolbox.

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Telehealth: Get ready for big changes in health care

KevinMD

The year 2020 might bear witness to a significant shift in control of health care from the providers, insurers, and the government to actual health care consumers. First, it was the politicians, then the tech conferences and promises of 5G, and now global pandemic scares are all signaling the demand for remote health care. The […]. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com.

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7 healthcare-related items you may have missed in the $2T coronavirus stimulus package

FierceHealthIT

The massive $2 trillion economic stimulus package includes several smaller provisions that could have a big impact on hospitals and insurers. Find out what you may have missed.

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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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Waking Up a Health Consumer in the COVID-19 Era

Health Populi

With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., recommendations for hygiene, and call to come together in America. His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020.

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HIPAA Penalties Suspended for Telehealth During Covid-19 National Emergency

Healthcare IT Today

Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the news that enforcement of HIPAA penalties around telehealth, patient communication, and remote communication technologies will be suspended during the Covid-19 National Emergency and will go into effect immediately. Here’s the official wording from the announcement: OCR will […].

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How EHR vendors are arming providers to handle COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As healthcare organizations ramp up efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, their health IT vendors are looking to provide them with tools to manage cases, analyze data and assess patients remotely. The nation’s largest vendors of electronic health records systems have augmented their existing systems over the last three months to give users of its systems more tools to cope with the crisis.

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FDA warns of BlueTooth Low Energy vulnerability affecting connected medical devices

Mobi Health News

"SweynTooth" impacts several microchip and medical device manufacturers, and could allow bad actors to wirelessly crash or access these products, according to the agency.

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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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4 Ways Hospitals Can Prepare for COVID-19 Using Virtual Care

eVisit

COVID-19 is spreading rapidly. Evidence of this is being reported across the United States from Washington State to Rhode Island. The numbers of confirmed cases in the US changes daily, and so far it’s in the wrong direction.

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HIMSS cancels 2020 global health conference due to coronavirus concerns

FierceHealthIT

HIMSS canceled its global health conference. HIMSS organizers said the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition was called off due to the coronavirus outbreak and the "unacceptable risk to bring so many thousands of people together in Orlando next week.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.

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Will ViaCyte’s Encaptra Cell Delivery System ‘Cure’ Type 1 Diabetes?

Insulin Nation

When you were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, you were probably told that a cure was “just around the corner.” And that “corner” likely came and went years or decades ago. While a true cure isn’t exactly just a few years away, there are several remarkable efforts towards eliminating the need for ‘exogenous’ insulin in people with type 1 diabetes. One of the most notable efforts is ViaCyte’s Encaptra “cell delivery system.

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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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Technology is radically improving care for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Government & Policy Patient Engagement Telehealth With its three-pillar approach to modernization, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is transforming its technology systems to create foundational change, says its chief modernization officer. Surafeal Asgedom How do you play pool when one hand is paralyzed?

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At-home COVID-19 testing services pump the brakes after FDA warns of 'fraudulent' kits

Mobi Health News

Nurx and Carbon Health have officially halted their mail-order testing kit services. But at least one startup is still moving to secure an Emergency Use Authorization for its at-home rapid serology diagnostic.

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What interop means for rare disease patients

Morning eHealth

High-profile HIMSS dropout — More momentum for telehealth in coronavirus response

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Adoption of digital health is stalling. What is turning consumers off?

FierceHealthIT

Consumer uptake of wearables and mobile health apps has stalled. One-third of U.S. consumers are not using any digital tools to manage their health. The use of wearable technology has decreased from 33% in 2018 to just 18% in 2020. Find out what is turning consumers off from digital health.

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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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Confronting COVID-19 with New Remote Monitoring & Education Tools

care innovations

The last few weeks have clearly been out of the norm for all of us. COVID-19 has made us enter a place of uncertainty, which is never comfortable for anyone. Among the few things we know with certainty right now is the fact that this new virus is easily spread, and that we must ALL do our parts to minimize the growth in cases. The news is ever changing and unpredictable, as will be our responses.

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Insulet’s Omnipod to Join Hybrid Closed Loop Pump Market

Insulin Nation

2020 is set to be an exciting year for anyone interested in switching to or upgrading their hybrid closed loop pump. Not only does Medtronic have a slew of improvements and advanced features planned for their next-generation AID system, but Tandem just launched its first hybrid-closed loop system, Control IQ, in partnership with Dexcom last month. Now, Dexcom is making headlines again for their most recent partnership with Insulet, the company behind the trusted tubeless system, Omnipod.

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OCR will ease restrictions on telehealth tech during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that during the coronavirus pandemic it will use discretion when enforcing HIPAA-compliance for telehealth communications tools. WHY IT MATTERS. Even though some of those technologies may not fully comply with HIPAA requirements, OCR says it "will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA Rules against covered health care providers in connection with the good faith provision of telehealth duri