October, 2022

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Is Elon Musk right about the future of medicine?

KevinMD

“Mark my words. AI (artificial intelligence) is more dangerous than the nukes.” – Elon Musk. The other day, as soon as I walked in to work, already running my usual ten minutes late, I was hustling from my office to the clinic when I saw one of our physician assistants in the hallway. Otherwise known. Read more…. Is Elon Musk right about the future of medicine?

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India rolls out nationwide tele-mental health service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare of India has formally launched this week its national tele-mental health programme. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. Called Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS), it will provide free, round-the-clock teleconsultation service for mental health concerns. It runs a network of 23 tele-mental health centres of excellence with the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) at its core and the International In

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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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Optimum CareerPath Celebrates Global Health Equity Week

Optimum Healthcare IT

HIMSS Global Health Equity Week brings people together to discuss the power of information & technology in eliminating health disparities. Continue reading Optimum CareerPath Celebrates Global Health Equity Week at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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Report: Telehealth declines while industry faces pressure from retail entrants

Mobi Health News

The traditional healthcare industry could face pressure from changing trends, including the emergence of Amazon, Walmart, CVS and Walgreens as larger players.

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Wellness at Work: 7 Mindfulness Tips to Thrive at Work

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Life has changed. We are constantly overstimulated by our phones and other demands of a fast-paced world. Our workdays are packed. We are always multi-tasking and trying to stay ahead of the game. It’s no wonder we feel frazzled by the end of the day. We are all confronted with never ending demands daily, but […]. The post Wellness at Work: 7 Mindfulness Tips to Thrive at Work appeared first on Healthystic.

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Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Stephen Manley, CTO, Druva. The biggest healthcare innovation in the last twenty years is … data. Every day, healthcare organizations use data to operate more efficiently, improve patient care, and advance medical research. Over […]. The article Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week : annually NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness , devotes the first week of October to advocate for people facing managing a mental illness every day and to raise public consciousness on the pervasiveness of mental illness in America. Mental Illness Awareness Week: Oct. 2-8, 2022. This year, NAMI’s key themes address the over-arching message of “What I wish I had known,” each day looking into: Monday Oct. 3: Stigma.

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Telemedicine boosts access, decreases inequities in Montana

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Montana has unique challenges in providing healthcare to its widely dispersed population of just over 1 million people. THE PROBLEM. Out of 56 counties in Montana, 55 are designated as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), limiting access to both urgent and routine medical visits. The cost of travel and long distances between healthcare providers and patients are commonly cited reasons for patients to delay or avoid medical care.

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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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Study: Few randomized clinical trials have been conducted for healthcare machine learning tools

Mobi Health News

A review published in JAMA Network Open evaluated 41 RCTs of machine learning interventions. None of the studies fully followed CONSORT-AI standards, a set of guidelines developed for clinical trials evaluating medical interventions that include AI.

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The focus of the internet of things (IoT) must pivot to achieve health care potential

KevinMD

In many ways, internet of things (IoT) is a double-edged sword: connected devices are capturing huge volumes and varieties of data that can be mined for everything from potentially life-saving health care information to guidance toward peak athletic performance, but it is incredibly difficult to convert that raw data into truly meaningful and actionable insights.

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The Future of Sensors and Older Adults -- Looking Forward 5 years

Aging in Place Technology Watch

What changes in care technology will be different later in this decade? Consider the implications of adoption of sensors to deliver and improve the care of older adults -- then look forward five years. What will be different in this second technology wave, both from today and from the market a decade ago? Is this optimism justified? Does the shortage of labor to serve the aging population make sensor technology essential in delivering care?

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Corrective Action Plans: Leveling the Audit Playing Field with CAPs

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dana Finnegan, MDaudit. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made no secret of its intentions to crack down on fraud, abuse, and waste, throwing more budget dollars into audits, heightening program […]. The article Corrective Action Plans: Leveling the Audit Playing Field with CAPs appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

What is a “pharmacy” these days? You might have recently walked into a brick-and-mortar retail pharmacy. Or, you might have refilled a prescription to help you manage a chronic condition, online. Or, perhaps, you asked the pharmacist staffing your favorite grocery store Rx counter to give you the latest vaccine to keep COVID-19 variants at-bay.

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Allina Health spinoff to help health systems build hospital-at-home programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Minneapolis-based Allina Health, working with Flare Capital Partners, has launched a new company, Inbound Health, designed to help health systems and payers design and build hospital-at-home and home-based skilled nursing programs. WHY IT MATTERS. The goal with Inbound Health is to offer the full stack of capabilities needed to scale at-home care models, according to Allina Health – such as engagement and workflow technologies, analytics, virtual care teams, home-based care pathways, suppl

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Q&A: The FDA's challenge in regulating evolving digital health tools

Mobi Health News

David Rosen, a partner and public policy lawyer at Foley & Lardner, discusses the agency's recently wrapped Software Precertification (Pre-Cert) Pilot Program and what it means for the future of digital health regulation.

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Scientists Studying Health – “Evidence Based Medicine”

Healthcare IT Today

When someone new comes to healthcare, it’s always amazing to see how many things they think happen that just don’t. For patients, that’s the realization that doctors often don’t collaborate together on their care and they often don’t share information. That’s on the patient and their caregiver to ensure the records get where they need to go and care is coordinated.

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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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Five 2022 AgeTech Trends That Matter to Older Adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Taking stock of 2022 in AgeTech. We are approaching end of the year – it has been a good one for emerging technologies that can help older adults, today commonly known as AgeTech. The timing is right – as 56 million Americans are now aged 65+, looming older population growth has awakened the sleeping giant. The investor and technology market, historically known for tech ageism, is beginning to wake up to the AgeTech opportunity.

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The Main Advantages of Online Pharmacies

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health problems periodically occur in a person, regardless of his age, social status, and gender. But on the way to timely access to medicines, there are a number of difficulties – lack of time, a […]. The article The Main Advantages of Online Pharmacies appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How Will Consumers’ Declining Trust in Technology Impact Health Tech?

Health Populi

Americans’ trust in technology as “plummeted” in the past decade, according to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer’s focused look on trust and technology. How might this play into U.S. health citizens’ trust in digital health technology? To answer that, let’s start with the macro-view on trust in tech. Richard Edelman convened a virtual meeting launch for the Trust Barometer’s tech perspectives yesterday, looking broadly at the global study findings.

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Australia to restore video telehealth subsidy for rural mental health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian government is restoring its subsidy for bulk-billed video telehealth psychiatry consultations through a A$47.7 million ($30 million) investment in the October budget. Starting this November, people living in rural and regional areas and other eligible patients can once again access free video consultations for mental health. This comes as the latest funding will restore 50% fee loading to bulk billed Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) psychiatry services delivered by video telehealt

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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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CDC report: Urban adults and women more likely to use telehealth

Mobi Health News

According to the report, higher family incomes, more education, race and Hispanic origin were factors related to increased telemedicine use.

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Big Tech in Healthcare with Capital One Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Naturally as healthcare moves into a more digital space, more tech is needed to accomplish every day tasks. This opens up a new market that is largely attractive to Big Tech. However, the success of this move varies from company to company. Some companies were able to organically integrate into the world of healthcare while others forced their way in.

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Final Regulations Amend Eligibility for Premium Tax Credits

ACA Times

The IRS recently issued final regulations on the use of Premium Tax Credits (PTCs), resolving the “family glitch” and extending PTC eligibility beyond individuals to family members. As a result,…. The post Final Regulations Amend Eligibility for Premium Tax Credits first appeared on The ACA Times.

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Concerned About Your Unborn Baby? What You Need to Know About Genetic Anomalies

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A genetic disorder is a medical condition that is brought on by changes in one’s genes or chromosomes. There are between 20,000 and 25,000 genes in every human body, and these genes determine which traits […]. The article Concerned About Your Unborn Baby?

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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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The Patient as Prescription Drug Payer – The GoodRx Playbook

Health Populi

Patients have more financial skin-in-their-healthcare-games facing high-deductibles and direct out-of-pocket costs for medical bills…including prescription drugs. I collaborated with GoodRx on a “yellow paper” discussing The Health Consumers as Payer , with implications and calls-to-action for pharma and life science companies. You can download the paper at this link.

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Using telemedicine when it makes sense

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the pandemic, organisations across private and public healthcare systems have been rethinking their care delivery models. This is one of the major trends Ronald L. Emerson, Global Healthcare Lead at Zoom, shared virtually in the keynote session, "The Rise of Digital First and Decentralized Healthcare," at the HIMSS22 APAC conference.

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Why declining investment could be positive for the digital health sector

Mobi Health News

During a discussion at the Frontiers Health Global Hybrid Conference, panelists said a more competitive funding environment could push startups and investors to focus on quality.