KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

From stomping on koopas and collecting coins as Mario to “catching ’em all” in Pokemon, video games have enthralled both our childhood, and countless other childhoods. It was our guilty pleasure, much to the chagrin of our parents. Media portrayed video games as bad for your mental health, with the message that video games rot Read more… Harnessing the power of gamification in mental health apps originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Most U.S. consumers will continue to spend their disposable incomes on connected consumer devices, but will be looking for more balance in their digital lives according to Deloitte’s fourth annual 2023 Connected Consumer Survey. In this year’s update, the Deloitte Center for Technology, Media & Telecommunications found that most households use five key digital devices daily: above all, smartphones, followed by laptop and desktop computers, tablets, and computer monitors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Southwest Rural Health Research Center has identified mental health concerns and addiction as the first and second most important priorities for rural health stakeholders, according to a May 2023 policy brief. With a chronic shortage of mental healthcare providers in rural areas, there is a significant lack of access to this much-needed care for those who reside there.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As healthcare organizations embrace new care delivery paradigms with the addition of recent technologies, they must ensure that they have sufficient technical integration to support their goals.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

THE IQ-Creator Program supports healthcare professionals in creating content for underserved communities, while Aloud uses AI to dub videos in multiple languages.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Caregivers are arguably the most important members of a patient’s care team, with more touchpoints and access to a patient and their lifestyle than any provider or specialist. With approximately 43.5 million caregivers in the U.S., 40 percent are in high-burden situations where caregivers take on substantial cumulative physical, emotional, social, and financial strains to Read more… How to facilitate caregiver learning and support to improve clinical care outcomes originally appeared in Ke

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Three in four nurses working in hospitals care about the success of their institution — “they show up and gown up…yet only 57% feel a sense of ownership in their hospitals, leaving leaders to expect 100% quality to be delivered by about half of the nursing workforce.” This is the key finding in a study from PRC on the implications of nurses’ dis-engagement from their work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Transcarent platform integrates directly through the care pathway of each of the 10 health systems it is partnering with, including scheduling and pre- and post-care, support services and same-day payment for providers. WHY IT MATTERS Transcarent says the ecosystem will provide the employees of national self-insured employers with faster access to verified high-quality digital or in-person care, higher-quality care, and affordable and predictable costs with full transparency.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Federal regulators have accused a major Texas-based anesthesia provider and its parent private equity firm of a decade-long, three-pronged scheme to suppress competition and drive-up prices. | U.S. Anesthesia Partners and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, its private equity backer, have "cost Texans tens of millions of dollars more each year" by suppressing competition over the course of a decade, the regulator alleges.

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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.

Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The biotechnology company told MobiHealthNews it will continue to work within the digital health space through partnerships linked to its 'evolving R&D and commercial priorities.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

When someone wants to create a healthcare app, they often think that getting the data they need to make their app work will be easy. They assume that there must be some easy EHR API they can tap into that will provide them with the data access they need. Or maybe they hear about this new more modern FHIR standard that will give them access to that data.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As I pull into clinic, my intention is always the same: be fully present with each patient. By the time I’m two patients in, the reality is always different. We’ve all read the mindfulness quotes about the virtues of being “in the moment,” but somewhere after the first couple visits of the day we face Read more… I’m tired of being a distracted doctor originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Integrating the Omada Health virtual care program into the health system’s digital health platform via Xealth streamlines communications and improves engagement MILWAUKEE and SEATTLE—September 14, 2023— Xealth , the leader in enabling digital health at scale, today announced that The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network is leveraging its digital health platform to engage select employees into the Omada Health virtual care program.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Cancer is a highly complex disease but technology should ideally make caring for cancer patients simpler. That's sometimes easier said than done, however. Kathy Dalton Ford, chief product and strategy officer at Ronin, which develops clinical oncology software, very much believes virtual care and other technologies can help providers improve their cancer care.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Software giant Oracle has integrated generative AI services into its Cerner electronic medical record system as health IT companies race to harness this cutting-edge tech for providers. | Software giant Oracle has integrated generative AI services into its Cerner EHR system as health tech companies race to harness this cutting-edge tech for providers.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Fifteen projects, including eight digital health initiatives, received $3 million in cash, Google Cloud credits and technical assistance.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For the 62nd episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Laura Marquez, Senior Director for Digital Transformation at the University of Utah Health (UofU Health) , to talk all about digital transformation! We begin this episode by looking at healthcare on the East Coast and on the West Coast to see if they are different or not.

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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!

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought about significant advancements in various fields, including health care. ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, is one such AI that has shown great promise in assisting professionals, particularly doctors, in their daily tasks. This article will discuss the average human IQ, the estimated IQs of notable individuals, the average Read more… Leveraging ChatGPT’s high IQ to assist doctors originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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19 Labs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Messias Soares's radio interview on Radio Cultura FM 97.9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offers a deep dive into the world of telemedicine and its transformative power in Latin America. Together with Guillermo Schor Landman, a Lawyer specializing in Telecommunications Law and Telemedicine and President of Fundación Iberoamericana de Telemedicina , Messias sheds light on innovative solutions, real-life cases, and the growing importance of telemedicine in the region's healthcare landscape.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a developing story with updates expected. U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), John Thune (R-S.D.) and four of their colleagues expressed support for the Drug Enforcement Administration's new engagement on a potential special registration for telehealth with this week's listening sessions hosted by the DEA's Drug Diversion Control Division, but said they had several concerns.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. | Amazon announced this week that it would invest up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence company Anthropic as the AI arms race heats up. The collaboration introduces more competition and more options for healthcare teams looking to innovate using different approaches or to get more tactical with their AI strategy, one health IT expert said.

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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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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Patrick J. Kennedy, former U.S. Representative, and Nawal Roy, founder and CEO of Holmusk, discuss how the pair is using experience and data to create a policy guide for lawmakers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

When I first discovered Synapse Medicine , I was fascinated by the depth of work they had done to handle prescriptions and clinical decision support in their system. Since their system was and is being broadly used in France, they were able to see and work on all the problems associated with medication management and discover the solutions that worked across a wide swath of patients and environments.

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KevinMD

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Years from now, the notion of simple telemedicine will seem quaint. Keep in mind that as recently as a decade ago, most physicians would have denied that telemedicine could ever play a role in the medical profession. Physicians would have argued that this would dismantle the fundamental unit of medical care – the in-person office Read more… AI-driven diagnostics and beyond originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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DigitalHealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

AphA have written to NHSE CEO Amanda Pritchard to raise concerns about the omission of any mention of data and analytics in the latest Workforce Strategy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

LKCMedicine to introduce more AI, digital health courses Nanyang Technological University Singapore announced that more course content related to AI and digital health will be added to the refreshed curriculum of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine. From next year, digital health will be integrated as vertical courses throughout the five-year Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery programme.

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FierceHealthIT

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Healthcare organizations are continuing to push the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to rethink its coverage policy for anti-obesity medications. | Critics say that the view CMS has of certain anti-obesity medications is outdated and could be covered under Medicare Part D.

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Mobi Health News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Jennifer Mathieu, senior vice president of professional and government affairs at AMCP, provides an update on the Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act 2023 moving through Congress.

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