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Industry Voices—Digital assistants have value in healthcare. But first they need to go to medical school

FierceHealthIT

It’s clear from digital assistant tools that pairing voice technology with machine learning and artificial intelligence is a powerful combination. To harness the power of these technologies in the medical field, we need to send Alexa to school.

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Solving the Patient Engagement Equation: A Personal Touch and The Right Technology

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Geeta Nayyar, chief medical officer at Greenway Health. As a physician, one of the most rewarding parts of my job is building relationships with my patients. In developing this connection, I’m able to better understand their healthcare challenges and frustrations, which enables me to ultimately help them achieve their health goals.

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4 Ways Health Systems Can Optimize Their Telehealth Platform

eVisit

Manatt Health developed the Hospital Telehealth Maturity Model to help leaders of hospitals and health systems identify where their organizations are with their telemedicine efforts. Manatt identified three levels of telehealth maturity: basic, foundational and advanced. Basic describes, telemedicine programs are fragmented across service lines, has little or no integration with EMRs, and has no central governance of its implementation.

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How Facial Recognition Software Is Revolutionizing Hospital Security, Care, Human Resources

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest blog post by Yaroslav Kuflinski. As AI, or artificial intelligence, gets more traction across the healthcare realm, it practically becomes the center of innovation in the industry. Vendors and clinical stakeholders base their solutions around AI to optimize numerous care and administrative processes, including workflow assistance, diagnosis facilitation, and clinical […].

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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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Why “one app to rule them all” results in a worse patient experience and is not the future of Digital Health

Lloyd Price

“One app to rule them all” is a compelling idea if you’re a healthcare giant. In this imagined model, patients flock to one comprehensive user experience for all their healthcare needs, from insurance and scheduling to lab results and disease management. And the healthcare giant, which has developed or acquired its way to market dominance, now has the ability to guide patients to their preferred providers, treatments and services.

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The New Employer Wellness Lens Includes Mental Health, Telehealth and Women’s Health

Health Populi

U.S. employers are tightening their focus on mental and behavioral health, addressing workers’ chronic conditions, emphasizing women’s health, and allocating more resources to digital and telehealth investments, we learn from Optum’s Ten Years of Health and Well-Being at Work: Learning from our past and reimagining the future. Four in five medium, large and jumbo companies expect their spending on health and wellness programs will increase over the next three years.

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Two-thirds of consumers say they're interested in telehealth, but far fewer have given it a try

Mobi Health News

In a new survey of American adults, a quarter of respondents said they would be willing to switch to a new primary care provider offering the technology.

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Fax Reliability Is Key In Data-Driven Healthcare Industry

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Solis, senior product marketing manager, eFax Corporate. The survival of highly regulated industries such as healthcare depend on secure information exchange. Healthcare organizations, or “covered entities,” as they’re known, exchange large volumes of sensitive data daily: billing and medical records, prescriptions and refill requests, lab requisitions, clinical field trial results, patien

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Online clinic treating physician depression and burnout

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Workforce Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Online clinic treating physician depression and burnout Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition

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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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82% of healthcare organizations have experienced an IoT-focused cyberattack, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Security leaders are seeing the impact of cyberthreats—82% have experienced an internet of things-focused cyberattack in the past year. Of the organizations hit by an attack, 30% said the security incident compromised end-user safety.

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Cuffless blood pressure, oxygenation, heart rate monitor receives 510(k) clearance

Mobi Health News

Biobeat's connected remote monitoring device is currently available as either a wristwatch or an adhesive patch.

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Identifying and Reversing the Causes of Physician Burnout

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rick Sheff, MD, chief medical officer, The Greeley Company Physician burnout is an epidemic, and like most epidemics, there isn’t one simple solution. Hospitals, healthcare systems, and physician groups must invest in addressing burnout in order to sustain high-quality patient care.

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#090: Ending the HIV Epidemic with guests Dr. John Sargent and KP Yelpaala

Digital Health Today

The World Health Organization reports, based on statistics from the end of 2018, that about 38 million people are living with HIV around the world. While about 62% of those – about 23 million people – were receiving antiretroviral treatment by the end of 2018, another 21% of them did not even know their HIV status. That’s about 8 million people who didn’t even know they are infected, and who are at risk of infecting others.

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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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Fitbit expands healthcare ambitions with new devices, subscription service

FierceHealthIT

Wearables company Fitbit is deepening its reach into healthcare with a new premium subscription service for users that offers coaching and personalized insights mined from the billions of health data points it collects.

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AmblyoPlay launches new digital therapy for people with 'lazy eye'

Mobi Health News

The new vision therapy technology will be gamified and send physical rewards in the mail.

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Delivering Business Value with Tech Efficiency

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ashmi Shah, senior vice president, finance, Talix. The healthcare industry has experienced significant changes over the last few months. According to a recent report by Deloitte, physicians are increasingly being asked to provide cost-effective and quality care in an effort to curb rising healthcare costs.

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A Former CMIO on Why EHR-Caused Burnout Isn’t Reason to Panic

hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

EHRs are still “debuting,” and while physicians’ pain points need to be understood, patience is key, says one health IT expert

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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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HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf: Healthcare industry has turned a 'significant corner' on interoperability

FierceHealthIT

With 35 years of experience as a healthcare and informatics executive, Hal Wolf has observed the evolution of interoperability and has a glass-half-full perspective on current progress.

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Fitbit unveils data-driven personal health subscription, Fitbit Premium

Mobi Health News

The new consumer-focused service comes paired with the announcement of the Fitbit Versa 2 smartwatch and the Fitbit Aria Air connected scale.

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Healthcare Providers Are Behind the Marketing Curve

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joe Grace, partner, Chief Outsiders. While pharma companies have grown to become effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketers, hospital systems and other large providers lag behind the rest of the industry when it comes to creating highly efficient, measurable and accountable DTC marketing programs.

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The fall tech/aging circuit -- events for your calendar

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Out and about in the fall. Especially for startups, going to events can reveal contacts that you may need or initiatives that you did not know even existed. Over the next few months, there are a number of events around the country worth attending if schedules permit and interest areas match. Useful, besides sessions themselves, are exhibit areas where vendors offer new and existing solutions for the target audiences of the attendees.

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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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Patients don't think payers, providers can protect their data, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Patients are skeptical of healthcare industry players’ ability to protect their data—and believe health insurers to be the worst at doing so, a new survey shows.

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FIGUR8 launches body movement tracking platform, announces $7.5M funding

Mobi Health News

The technology was co-created by researchers at MIT Media Lab and Massachusetts General Hospital Sports Science Lab.

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5 Useful Apps That Help Fight Addictions

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Many people are struggling with alcoholism and addiction to different drugs across the world. Unfortunately, some of the people that need treatment for substance use disorders don’t get it. And, even after undergoing treatment, some individuals have difficulties maintaining sobriety.

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Online clinic treating physician depression and burnout

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Workforce Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Online clinic treating physician depression and burnout Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Europe/UK

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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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Industry Voices—How doctors and other healthcare professionals can help end the loneliness epidemic

FierceHealthIT

Loneliness is our largest, most silent health epidemic. Physicians and other healthcare professionals must drive urgency in identifying and treating loneliness in our mission to improve healthcare delivery.

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Finalists named for pitch competitions focused on SDOH, home and community care

Mobi Health News

These six contestants will present their tech-enabled platforms in front of judges and a live audience next month at Health 2.0 in Santa Clara.

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How Critical Are Electronic Records for Better Healthcare Outcomes?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adarsh Jain, editor, Transparency Market Research. Timely diagnosis and advanced treatment measures are imperative for better healthcare outcomes. But, little have we realized the criticality of patient’s history in treatment. It is human to remember information about major healthcare incidents, but it is impossible for individuals to store every detail of medical history.

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