November, 2022

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Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss

FierceHealthIT

Amazon's latest push into digital health—a virtual clinic for common conditions like allergies and hair loss. hlandi. Tue, 11/15/2022 - 09:18.

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Digital Solutions Key To Enhanced Population Health Strategies and Improved Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Keith Algozzine, PA-C, CEO, UCM Digital Health An essential part of being a healthcare provider, in any capacity, is understanding population health management. This discipline offers a window into the health of a selected […]. The article Digital Solutions Key To Enhanced Population Health Strategies and Improved Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Highmark Health, Google Cloud, League partner to build 'digital front door'

Mobi Health News

The My Highmark member portal will provide a single platform for care navigation, payment and virtual care.

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Inhealthcare: Redefining healthcare with digital technologies

DigitalHealth

The way we deliver healthcare in the UK must change. Nearly one in eight people are awaiting NHS treatment. Increasingly, people own smart devices and expect to be able to use them to engage with the health service, ideally from the comfort of their own homes. Inhealthcare’s virtual wards enable patients to be cared for safely at home and support earlier discharge from hospital.

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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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Digital Transformation: How AI Could Spell a New Era of ‘Smart Care’

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Faramarz Farhoodi, Founder and CEO at AI Nexus Healthcare. The term digital transformation can be interpreted in many different ways. Rather than transforming healthcare practices, I like to view it as transforming the way healthcare is practiced. . Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the unique ability to process vast amounts of data and make sense of what they represent.

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Consumers Rank Healthcare Experiences in the Bottom-Third of All Industries – the ACSI 2021-2022 Index

Health Populi

While consumers’ satisfaction with inpatient care experiences improved a few points over the past year, health insurance and hospitals still fall in the bottom-third of all industries with which people interact, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Insurance and Health Care Study 2021-2022. “With visitor restrictions relaxing and more elective procedures going forward, hospitals are slowly coming out of a COVID-induced satisfaction slump,” the study pres

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Five Practical Tips for Attracting and Onboarding Healthcare Personnel

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Guilherme Macagnan, CEO, AMX Healthcare If we could go back in time three years and take a look around, it would be easy to point out all of the circumstances that have shifted, grown […]. The article Five Practical Tips for Attracting and Onboarding Healthcare Personnel appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Best Buy invests in remote patient monitoring company Coeus.health

Mobi Health News

The retail giant will tap into Coeus.health's Home Health Hybrid Cloud ecosystem to illustrate to users the benefits of its home health devices. .

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Google Cloud to power virtual care delivery at Manipal Hospitals

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Manipal Hospitals has tapped Google Cloud to improve its virtual and remote care capabilities while leveraging AI to enhance patient experience. The partnership involves the deployment of the Amwell telehealth platform to enable virtual visits. Since 2020, Amwell has been Google's preferred telehealth partner to expand access to virtual care delivery worldwide.

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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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The cost of long-term care -- could technology help lower it?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

What care delivery has seen an uptake in technology adoption? People imagined that post-Covid-19, technology would become much more compelling in all types of care delivery. And for sure, the pandemic institutionalized the role of in-home telehealth, with CMS reimbursement presumed to become permanent , or at least regularly renewed. In fact, 23% of respondents to a government survey had used telehealth during a 6-month period in 2021.

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Medical innovation: a serendipitous step toward gender equity

KevinMD

There has never been a better time to be a woman entrepreneur. With ever-growing numbers of venture funds specifically for women and nonprofits dedicated to advancing women in tech, the next Apple is ripe for the picking. However, there remains a wide chasm to cross. Currently, startups led by women command less than 3 percent of. Read more…. Medical innovation: a serendipitous step toward gender equity originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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CIO Podcast – Episode 44: Social Determinants of Health with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO

Healthcare IT Today

For the 44th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System. In this episode we’re discussing Dr. Goldman’s work in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it.

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Modern Health Data Management Requires a Proven Patient Identity Solution

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Gevik Nalbandian, vice president of software engineering, Lyniate. As healthcare providers manage market shifts such as value-based care, increased consumer expectations, staffing shortages, changing reimbursement models, and competition from non-traditional healthcare players including Alphabet, […].

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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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Options MD raises $2.35M to expand virtual care for severe depression

Mobi Health News

The pre-seed will be used to expand the startup's clinical operations and research as well as improve its proprietary clinical protocols.

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Nuvance Health develops new memory care-at-home platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patients with mild cognitive impairment being treated at Nuvance Health Neuroscience Institute practices in New York and Connecticut, as well as their caregivers, have access to a new virtual neurological specialty care support program. WHY IT MATTERS. MCI is an early stage of memory loss or other cognition problems, such as difficulty with language and thinking.

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Five smart clothing technologies for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The opportunity for embedded and AI-enabled sensors in smart clothing. The growth of the sensor market has created an opportunity for more focus on smart clothing, which has been around a long time, including for use in dementia care , but may have its greatest utility ahead. Researchers are beginning to notice the potential in the care of older adults, including the assertion that " Smart clothing is more natural to wear compared to the other wearables and covers a wider area for monitoring.

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From finding the right candidates to keeping them, how hospitals are using AI to address workforce needs

FierceHealthIT

From finding the right candidates to keeping them, how hospitals are using AI to address workforce needs. aburky. Fri, 11/18/2022 - 15:25.

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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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Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches

Healthcare IT Today

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information. Both of the recent incidents, which were announced in mid-October, involved a Meta tracking tool known as Meta Pixel.

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The Effectiveness of Light Therapy for Treating Seasonal Depressive Disorders

TheraNest

Reading Time: 5 Minutes. Seasonal depressive disorder (also known as seasonal affective disorder) is a type of depression that occurs during certain seasons, typically winter. Symptoms can include decreased energy, sadness, and problems with focus and concentration. While the cause of seasonal depressive disorder is unknown, some theories suggest that it may be related to changes in light exposure.

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Hint Health acquires direct primary care software company AeroDPC

Mobi Health News

AeroDPC will operate as a subsidiary of Hint Health immediately following the deal. In 2023, the company plans to release a new product combining AeroDPC and HintOS capabilities.

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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS. The report, Closing the digital health disconnect: Blueprint for optimizing digitally enabled care is composed of six foundational actions recommended by the AMA: Build for patients and clinician

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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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The Future of Sensors and Older Adults -- and other October blogs

Aging in Place Technology Watch

So many really want to help older adults – yet so often ‘help’ can be elusive. Look at the ludicrous amount of time it took to officially enable buying hearing aids over the counter. Look at the ten years or more between the first wave of useful sensor tech for seniors (2005 with GrandCare Systems ) until the newer collection of offerings. And not least, look at the shortage of workers in the care industries and the obvious but elusive pay raise that would match the market of possible workers.

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UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared

FierceHealthIT

UnitedHealth continues to lead the way on insurer profits in Q3. Here's how its competitors fared. pminemyer. Mon, 11/07/2022 - 15:36.

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Featured Health IT Job: Epic HIM Analyst

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Epic HIM Analyst position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. and is remote. Here’s a description of the position: Currently seeking an Epic HIM Analyst for a three-month remote engagement for a client on the East Coast.

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Telehealth Update on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Rules

Iris Telehealth

There are many barriers that can keep people from getting the mental health care they need. One of these key barriers is access. Thankfully, organizations like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) continue to drive new initiatives to mitigate this barrier and help more people get the care they need. In November 2022, CMS finalized new rules to expand access to behavioral 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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Q&A: Ensuring digital health programs work for the Medicaid population

Mobi Health News

Ochsner Health Chief Digital Officer Dr. Denise Basow discusses the health system's remote monitoring pilot program for Medicaid patients with chronic conditions like hypertension and Type 2 diabetes.

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Where will advances in remote cardiac and kidney monitoring lead?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Remote biometric monitoring technology company Biotricity recently announced securing National Institutes of Health funding from the National Heart, Blood and Lung Institute with plans to launch a study of its Bioflux-AI technology. Bioflux-AI combines an FDA-approved, high-precision, small mobile cardiac telemetry device with AI-driven algorithms specifically trained for the prediction of stroke in stage 4 and stage 5 chronic kidney disease patients.

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Is HIPAA-Compliant Texting Necessary?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Professionals who don’t text are missing one of the cornerstones of the 21st Century, healthcare communication technology. Pagers and faxes have been replaced by text messaging and videoconferencing to get the job done. Healthcare practitioners of all types are using text messages to send clients and patients automated appointment reminders to reduce the number of no-shows.

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