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The Future of Artificial Intelligence In Direct Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jordan Bazinsky, EVP of Operations at Cotiviti. Artificial intelligence has taken an increasingly prominent role in the healthcare system over the last several years. Until now, however, AI’s role has been primarily focused on two domains: diagnostics and administrative functions. An example of the former is radiology, where […].

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How Telepsychiatry Can Serve as a Long-Term Solution for Shortage Areas

Iris Telehealth

In many rural areas across the U.S., and even in a lot of urban areas, there’s a huge lack of access to psychiatry or behavioral health services in general. Partially due to the ongoing (and worsening) psychiatry shortage , many healthcare organizations find it difficult to locate high-quality, local behavioral health providers to serve their communities.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Craig Settles Six years ago I had a stroke and telehealth saved my life. Make no mistake, I am a believer! However, as wonderful as telehealth is, it has a serious Achilles' heel. The fate of telehealth adoption is tied to the fate of broadband adoption.

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The exciting future of our physical exam with point-of-care ultrasound

KevinMD

In a 1968 episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk is kidnapped by humanoid aliens, tortured unrelentingly, and shackled to the ceiling by his wrists. Science officer Spock and Dr. McCoy find him disheveled and minimally responsive. They release him from the chains and set him on a nearby table for examination. Dr. McCoy urgently takes. Read more…. The exciting future of our physical exam with point-of-care ultrasound originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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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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Contributed: The biggest merger in digital health should be between behavioral and data sciences

Mobi Health News

Digital tools have to do more than just feed people data. They must also keep them engaged and motivate them to make healthier decisions. This is where behavioral science comes in.

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Digital health tools can be useful post-surgery, but more high-quality research is needed

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A systematic review published this past week in npj Digital Medicine examined the use of mobile and wearable digital health interventions to monitor patients after surgery. For the paper, University of Edinburgh researchers dug into 44 studies in which patients had been postoperatively monitored with a digital health intervention after discharge from the hospital.

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The exciting future of our physical exam with point-of-care ultrasound

KevinMD

In a 1968 episode of Star Trek, Captain Kirk is kidnapped by humanoid aliens, tortured unrelentingly, and shackled to the ceiling by his wrists. Science officer Spock and Dr. McCoy find him disheveled and minimally responsive. They release him from the chains and set him on a nearby table for examination. Dr. McCoy urgently takes. Read more…. The exciting future of our physical exam with point-of-care ultrasound originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Study: Digital tools don’t improve physical activity for people with low socioeconomic status

Mobi Health News

A systematic review of studies found digital interventions like wearables and apps weren’t effective in increasing physical activity for people in low socioeconomic status groups.

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Does Inequality Matter in the U.S.? Health and the Great Gatsby Curve

Health Populi

Compared with the rest of the developed world, people living in the U.S. may be concerned about income inequality, but their demand for income redistribution is the lowest among peer citizens living in 31 other OECD countries. In their latest report, Does Inequality Matter? the OECD examines how people perceive economic disparities and social mobility across the OECD 32 (the world’s developed countries from “A” Australia to “U,” the United Kingdom).

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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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What Innovations Are Currently Shaping Audiology?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s staggering to consider the degree to which technology has progressed, even within the past several decades. Hearing aids, for instance, went from clunky, unwieldy boxes clamped to the side of one’s head to sleek, […]. The article What Innovations Are Currently Shaping Audiology?

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Telephone, video visits 'critical' for enabling safety-net care access

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study published this month in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine found that safety net providers in New York state reported positive experiences using telephone and video during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, researchers noted, "When it comes to equity in access, telemedicine presents a double-edged sword." "On the one hand, telemedicine visits can make care more convenient and accessible by removing physical barriers such as distance or transportatio

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The Virtual Care Paradigm: Going beyond telehealth for the future – and present – of care

Mobi Health News

In this 14-part video and podcast series, HIMSS Media editors and guests go deep on what the next phase of virtual care, beyond telehealth video visits, will look like.

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Medicare startup EasyHealth gets $135M in series A to fill information gaps

FierceHealthIT

Medicare startup EasyHealth gets $135M in series A to fill information gaps. rtorrence. Fri, 11/19/2021 - 10:10.

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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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Promoting Better Customer Service During a Pandemic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Pankaj Gupta, CEO, iPlum During the early stages of the pandemic, many health providers and patients saw the flaws with healthcare customer service. Patients engaged in rounds of “phone tag” with their doctors, or […]. The article Promoting Better Customer Service During a Pandemic appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Report: Telemedicine, modernized licensing can help bridge health disparity gap

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A report by the Commonwealth Fund released this week found pervasive racial and ethnic inequities across all state health systems. When it comes to policy changes that could help bridge the gap, report authors pointed to ensuring health coverage, investing in social services, reducing administrative burdens and improving service delivery – including via telemedicine and licensure modernization.

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French startup Lifen ramps up digital healthcare offering with $58M funding

Mobi Health News

Digital infrastructure company Lifen has raised $58M (€51M) in funding, which will go towards working with 1,500 hospitals and 200 eHealth solutions by 2025.

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Biden admin finalizes rule that requires insurers to submit data on drug costs, rebates

FierceHealthIT

Biden admin finalizes rule that requires insurers to submit data on drug costs, rebates. pminemyer. Wed, 11/17/2021 - 16:42.

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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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Why Does Cancer Grow and Spread? 

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Cancer affects millions of people worldwide. Cancer research is ongoing, and many advances have been made throughout history to help identify the causes of cancer and how to treat it. No matter your relationship with […]. The article Why Does Cancer Grow and Spread?

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Health IT Investment: The Next Five Years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Feature Series Though the pandemic certainly is not over, the dust has started to settle a bit, giving C-suite executives a clearer look forward. At this critical moment, Healthcare IT News sat down with eight C-suite executives at seven healthcare provider organizations to glean insights on where they see investments going in the next five years in six categories: AI and machine learning; interoperability; telehealth, connected health and remote patient monitoring; cybersecurity; electronic hea

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Looking back on a year of interoperability milestones at eHealth Exchange

Mobi Health News

The health information network's executive director, Jay Nakashima, sees big progress with 21st century Cures Act compliance, TEFCA, data quality, FHIR adoption and information exchange among providers, public health agencies and labs.

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Here are the policies and reforms that could reshape healthcare in the $2T bill just passed by the House

FierceHealthIT

Here are the policies and reforms that could reshape healthcare in the $2T bill just passed by the House. rking. Fri, 11/19/2021 - 10:09.

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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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Putting A Price on Transparency: The Patient Payment Challenge for Payers and Providers

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Mel Gunawardena, managing partner, SYNERGEN Health. The healthcare revenue cycle is an unnecessarily complex tangle of patients, providers, employers, and insurance companies. Patients and other parties are often frustrated with medical claim submission and […].

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$1M grant sets up Renown Regional for hybrid telehealth and in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, faced many challenges with telemedicine and the ability to scale quickly as the COVID-19 pandemic grew in force last year and the organization had to close its outpatient offices for elective services. Some of these challenges included technology for providers available at scale, a platform to deliver care in a user-friendly fashion, licensure for these tools, state licensure, and expanding quality care to patients amidst the capacity and staffing

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AppliedVR’s EaseVRx scores FDA De Novo clearance for treating chronic lower back pain

Mobi Health News

The news comes about a week after AppliedVR announced it raised $36 million in Series B funding.

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MedArrive nabs $25M to ramp up at-home health services, expand into new states

FierceHealthIT

MedArrive nabs $25M to ramp up at-home health services, expand into new states. hlandi. Fri, 11/19/2021 - 16:56.

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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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Fighting Off Pandemic Fatigue: How to Stay Mentally and Physically Healthy

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

Since it began, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused profound distress. As people navigate the fluctuations in cases rising and falling and the economic uncertainty, many have battled the onset of depression, anxiety, stress, and other mental health conditions, as well as physical fatigue from the new pandemic lifestyle. Moreover, pandemic fatigue has led to a […].

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How Build Back Back Better Would Reshape U.S. Healthcare

ACA Times

With the Infrastructure Bill now officially signed into law, Congress will now shift its focus onto the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better proposal. In its current version, the plan could reshape U.S. healthcare and the ACA. To start, the plan allocates roughly $130 billion to expand Medicaid and reduce medical premiums for ACA coverage, according to CNBC.

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Birth control startup Twentyeight Health launches Spanish language services

Mobi Health News

Twentyeight will now offer Spanish language support on its website, in customer services and in telehealth visits and messages with doctors in Texas and Florida.