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8 Benefits of Meditation to Mental Health and Well-Being

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Meditation is not about changing or even becoming a better person, nor is it an attempt to disassociate oneself from one’s own ideas and emotions. It’s about developing an awareness of one’s surroundings and acquiring a healthy viewpoint. It is also the ability to view things objectively and understand them better. What is meditation?

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4 Ways Geofencing Can Benefit Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A geofence is a perimeter set virtually, using the global positioning system (GPS) or radio frequency identification (RFID) to create operational boundaries. The software will trigger a predetermined response when a device enters the given […]. The article 4 Ways Geofencing Can Benefit Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How Telepsychiatry Can Decrease Clinician Burnout

Iris Telehealth

According to a study done before the pandemic, over one-half of physicians and one-third of nurses experience symptoms of burnout. Now, we’re seeing an unprecedented rise in the prevalence of burnout among clinicians due to demanding hours, lack of work-life balance, higher demand for providers, and stressful circumstances like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Break the rules of health care with technology

KevinMD

In the 21st century, all but one U.S. industry has used information technology (IT) to cut costs, increase access to products and services, and improve quality. Health care is the lone exception. For decades, medical costs have risen faster than inflation — with spending now above $4 trillion annually. For patients, accessing medical care is. Read more….

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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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Bayer launches KSA’s first digital platform for pulmonary hypertension management

Mobi Health News

Germany’s Bayer has launched Saudi Arabia’s first “digital hub” to improve management of pulmonary hypertension (PH), it has announced.

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Feds release final guidance on telehealth, RPM security

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence published its final guidance this week on securing telehealth and remote patient monitoring ecosystems. The guide is intended, according to NCCoE, to help identify risks associated with RPM architecture and ensure healthcare organizations are partnering with appropriate telehealth platform providers.

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Break the rules of health care with technology

KevinMD

In the 21st century, all but one U.S. industry has used information technology (IT) to cut costs, increase access to products and services, and improve quality. Health care is the lone exception. For decades, medical costs have risen faster than inflation — with spending now above $4 trillion annually. For patients, accessing medical care is. Read more….

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How operating like a start-up helped NZ's Orion Health become profitable again

Mobi Health News

The company had to restructure and delist from stock exchanges in Australia and New Zealand in 2019 after losing contracts in the US.

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Michael Graves and CVS Health – A Match Made in Health Design Heaven

Health Populi

On the Michael Graves Design company’s website, they talk about “Design for All” and “The House and Everything in it.” “Michael Graves Design exists to offer products that create moments of joy in your life.” Prominently featured in the Health section on the homepage are “walking canes reimagined.” The company has unveiled its partnership with CVS Health to continue the architect-turned-disability rights advocate’s legacy combining bril

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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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Millions live in 'contraception deserts' – can telehealth help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

According to researchers, more than 19 million women of reproductive age are living in "contraceptive deserts," defined as areas with fewer than one health center for every 1,000 women in need of publicly funded contraception. Addressing these gaps requires a multi-pronged approach, say experts – including facilitating access to birth control via telehealth.

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Tech for quality of (an aging) life

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The rise of AgeTech – it is a trend. It’s easy to say, and it resonates -- especially compared to other long-standing terms like assistive technology, gerontechnology and durable medical equipment (DME). Parks Associates published a useful chart this week about the Changing form factors of panic buttons – take a look. But that was not the real subject of the article (thankfully).

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Viz.ai's cerebral aneurysms algorithm scores FDA clearance

Mobi Health News

The technology will be included in the Viz Intelligent Care Coordination Platform.

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Medical Distancing Is Bad For Your Health

Health Populi

“Social distancing is great. Medical distancing? Not so much,” I observe in Medical Distancing in America: A Lingering Pandemic Side Effect., my essay published this week in Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. Since we learned to spell “coronavirus,” we also learned the meaning and risk-managing importance of physical distance early in the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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How a medical university's Telehealth Service Implementation Model can help you

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Wellpath is one of the largest correctional healthcare organizations in the country. With nearly 15,000 clinicians and professionals in 34 states across the U.S. and Australia, Wellpath delivers medical and behavioral healthcare services to nearly 300,000 patients located in inpatient and residential treatment facilities, civil commitment centers, and local, state and federal correctional facilities.

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Tips for Getting More Patients To Your Clinic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare professionals provide an incredible service across a range of areas. Chiropractors, psychiatrists, dentists, therapists, and addiction services, are just some areas covered by private practitioners. These professionals often train for years at a huge […].

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Omada Health raises $192M for chronic care management tool

Mobi Health News

The company plans to use the new funds to hire more staff and build out its tech.

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Healthcare Needs Deep, not Surface Automation

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare needs more automation, but not the kind that just robotically repeats a process over and over. That would just lead to factory medicine. Instead, what healthcare needs is deep automation that can adapt in real-time to changing circumstances and that helps to personalize the care for each individual patient. Deep automation reduces the burden […].

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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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Tech can help address the behavioral health crisis, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Medical Association, in conjunction with Manatt Health, published a report this week exploring the ways that virtual care and other digital tools can accelerate the adoption of the integrated delivery of behavioral and physical healthcare. In the report , the organizations note that behavioral health integration is essential for solving the country's dire need for access to services.

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5 Keto Diet Tips for Beginners with Type 2 Diabetes

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

It’s 2022, and by now, you’ve most likely seen a lot of viral social media posts on Instagram or Facebook about the ketogenic diet. It’s known as “keto” for short, and it’s made its way into mainstream culture thanks to social media influencers and celebrities have repeatedly endorsed the long-running fad diet. However, if you have type 2 diabetes, is the keto diet a good diet to follow?

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Digital mental-health medication provider Minded scores $25M

Mobi Health News

Clients can use the platform to meet with a mental health provider and access behavioral health medications.

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Cybersecurity Impacts on Healthcare – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 82

Healthcare IT Today

For the 82nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Cybersecurity Impacts on Healthcare. This has to be one of the most important topics in health IT right now. It’s one of the most challenging items a healthcare organization faces. It’s the reason CIOs can’t sleep at night. In this episode we dive […] For the 82nd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about Cybersecurity Impacts on Healthcare.

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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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Telehealth revenue could hit $20B in five years, say analysts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new report released this week from Bloomberg Intelligence predicted that the telehealth sector could bring in $20 billion in U.S. revenue by 2027. The Digital Reshaping the Health Care Ecosystem publication said that virtual care is set to "become a staple" of healthcare delivery. "The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of telehealth by years, providing safe and convenient access to telehealth services," said Duane Wright, senior research analyst at Bloomberg In

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The Role of Information Technology Services In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Health information technology is a booming industry with so much potential for growth. Naturally, IT services have continued to become more and more important to this industry as time goes on. Health information technicians are the […]. The article The Role of Information Technology Services In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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EarliTec Dx scores $19.5 million for autism diagnostic

Mobi Health News

The Atlanta-based startup uses digital biomarkers to help detect for developmental disorders.

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There’s Not Just One Data and Interoperability Problem in Healthcare, There Are Many

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare loves to talk about the challenge that is data and interoperability in healthcare. Indeed, healthcare faces a major challenge when it comes to data and interoperability. However, it’s actually even more complex than this. I realized this when talking with ELLKAY as they prepare for the upcoming ViVE and HIMSS conferences. As I saw […].

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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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CareTeam enables whole-patient care approach with athenahealth EHR

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CareTeam is a primary care organization that partners with employers to operate on-site, near-site and shared-site clinics for employees. It takes a personalized approach to care, as well as a whole-patient approach. For example, its clinics' providers also are certified health coaches who help patients develop personalized preventative care plans.

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Zoom Announced a Contact Center Solution Followed By a Healthcare Partnership

David Chou

In a move to improve home healthcare and make it more accessible, Zoom has partnered with Current Health. The new partnership will allow Current Health customers to launch the Zoom video conferencing service directly from its care-at-home platform. This will give patients enhanced video communications capabilities that expand their ability to deliver safe and effective virtual care services.

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Mindler scoops up Finnish mental health tracker Medified Solutions Oy

Mobi Health News

Medified Solutions Oy will bring to the table its mood and symptom tracking app.