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Telehealth and Spirituality – a View From Florence, Italy

Health Populi

I’m in Florence, Italy, this week, working on Slow Food as medicine and finding myself contemplating spirituality, health and wellbeing as I walk the streets of this grand city of the Renaissance. Imagine my surprise, yesterday, walking through the city center by the glorious Duomo, the great dome of the cathedral named Santa Maria dell Fiore, with the beautiful Baptistry built just across the piazza.

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Federal agencies release updated privacy guide for health app developers

Mobi Health News

The Mobile Health Apps tool aims to help developers determine which federal laws apply and which agencies oversee different aspects of mobile health technology.

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Telehealth heavy hitter Dr. Roy Schoenberg on virtual care in 2023

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From the distant past of the 1990s up to just a few years ago, many healthcare technologists have predicted that telemedicine would make it into the mainstream of healthcare delivery. Well, today, thanks to many factors surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, telemedicine has finally made it into the mainstream. And now that it is being so robustly used across the country, the big question is: What's next?

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5 Strategies to Improve Healthcare Billing for Both Patients and Practices

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Blake Walker, CEO at Inbox Health. The dreaded healthcare bill: patients’ anxiety rises the second it lands in their mailbox or inbox, and practices find the process of managing patient billing arduous. The feeling is mutual, but the responsibility is on practices and billing teams to find a solution. As patients take on a greater share of healthcare costs, they are also more selective of the providers they choose.

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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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Site-Shifting: the Consumer-Driven Pressure on Traditional Healthcare Utilization

Health Populi

While overall U.S. consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatory care, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. The companies shared insights in a session on Building Relationships with the Modern Healthcare Consumer l ast week, warning that hospitals are facing economic challenges with implications on how they should engage and interact with patient

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Palo Alto launches medical IoT cyber security protection

DigitalHealth

Medical IoT Security has been launched by Palo Alto to secure medical devices using IoT technology against cyber attacks.

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Mount Sinai Health tackles digital health inequity with robust RPM program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Mount Sinai Health System, based in New York City, has been having a problem with digital health inequities. THE PROBLEM. In a report examining New York's digital divide based on 2019 American Community Survey data, several key data points were established that continue to describe households in the communities Mount Sinai serves today.: Almost 25% of New Yorkers lacked the infrastructure for basic internet connectivity to see their healthcare clinicians, and approximately 1.6 million did no

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Digital Transformation: From Theory to Application

Healthcare IT Today

It seems as though everyone is talking about digital transformation as of late. Talking about the different ways and areas that it can be helpful in the world of healthcare. All of that talk is well and dandy, but actually applying digital transformation to your organization is an entire different thing. It takes time to integrate, it can disrupt things, and it can take a while to adjust to.

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Improving Patient Accessibility through Telehealth

João Bocas

Telehealth is a way to improve patient accessibility and it’s more than just video conferencing. Continue reading on Medium ».

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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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Q&A: How retail healthcare, telehealth trends could evolve in 2023

Mobi Health News

Sanjula Jain, senior vice president of market strategy and chief research officer at Trilliant Health, discusses the future of virtual care and how emerging retail players will affect the industry.

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Epic research shows telehealth efficacy, makes case for more reimbursement 

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A dual team study of in-person, same-specialty follow-up rates after telehealth appointments published by Epic Research examined the cadence of care and found virtual medicine to be an effective tool. WHY IT MATTERS. Analyzing the effectiveness of different methods for delivering care is important to guide decisions about how to allocate resources, according to the study's key findings report.

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Looking ahead to 2023 -- what should we expect?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

You saw and considered the 2022 Tech Trends. Each of these changes will make a difference for older adults and those who serve them. Consider what’s happened with over the counter hearing aids, now available in kiosks at retailers like Walmart and Rite Aid. Note that falls can be detected in a home without a wearable – via a wall-mounted device or through in-home Wi-Fi.

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In states with abortion bans, maternal and infant death rates are significantly higher, study finds

FierceHealthIT

In states with abortion bans, maternal and infant death rates are significantly higher, study finds. hlandi. Wed, 12/14/2022 - 07:33.

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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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Headspace Health lays off 4% of staff and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Click Therapeutics received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for a prescription digital therapeutic for episodic migraine, and Superior HealthPlan announced a home care partnership with MedArrive and Brave Health.

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Roundup: BLK-Max introduces AI surgical robot and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Private hospital in Delhi introduces AI-powered surgical robot. BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, a private tertiary healthcare provider in Delhi, has expanded its robotic surgical programme with the addition of an AI-powered robotic system for joint replacement surgeries. According to a press release, the robotic system imitates the motion patterns of a patient's joint, minimising excessive stress on the muscles, nerves, tendons and sinews.

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Maximize your Learning Management System for EHR Success

Optimum Healthcare IT

A Learning Management System (LMS) is a critical tool for a successful Epic implementation and must be built into your training journey. Continue reading Maximize your Learning Management System for EHR Success at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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2023 forecast: Health tech tools begin constructing the Alzheimer's treatment plan

FierceHealthIT

2023 forecast: Health tech tools begin constructing the Alzheimer's treatment plan. aburky. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 17:17.

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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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Brain-computer interface company Synchron raises $75M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Disease detection company Cardiosense, sustainable pill bottle maker Cabinet Health, testing company LumiraDx and physician engagement platform KeyOps also garner investments.

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Behavioral health is getting a boost from virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Technical Analyst, Delivery Services

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Technical Analyst, Delivery Services position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by TransForm Shared Service Organization and is located in Windsor, Canada. Here’s a description of the position: Position Summary.

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2023 forecast: Pharmacists push to take on a greater role in patient care

FierceHealthIT

2023 forecast: Pharmacists push to take on a greater role in patient care. pminemyer. Fri, 12/16/2022 - 12:39.

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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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PatientsLikeMe and LetsGetChecked partner to increase home testing options

Mobi Health News

Members of the community health network will now have access to LetsGetChecked's suite of offerings via the PatientsLikeMe platform.

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How Mental Health Care Providers Can Combat Compassion Fatigue

Iris Telehealth

Quick links. Symptoms of compassion fatigue. How telehealth helps mental health providers combat compassion fatigue. Self-care tips for providers facing compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue during the holidays. Where Iris Telehealth fits in. As a behavioral health provider, you’re on the front lines of America’s mental health crisis. While helping others is a big part of what you love, your own well-being shouldn’t have to take the back burner.

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8 Ways To Deal With Perfectionism In A Relationship

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

Perfectionism in a relationship is when one or both partners strive for unrealistic standards of perfection in their partner or the relationship itself. This can often lead to disappointment, frustration, and even resentment. Perfectionism can damage a relationship as it can create an environment of constant criticism and nitpicking. It can also make one partner […].

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House and Senate Dems want CMS to drop ACO REACH members due to fraud concerns

FierceHealthIT

House and Senate Dems want CMS to drop ACO REACH members due to fraud concerns. rking. Mon, 12/12/2022 - 16:08.

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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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Trial of ultrasound-based Alzheimer's treatment begins

Mobi Health News

The study follows the pioneering discovery in 2015 when ultrasound was used to clear protein markers for Alzheimer's.

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7 Tips for Healthcare Event Marketing – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 103

Healthcare IT Today

For the 103rd episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are sharing 7 tips for healthcare event marketing! As we share these few tips, we will be debating some questions along the way pulling from our experience attending hundreds of healthcare IT conferences. First up, we dive into whether healthcare customers buy at events. Next, we take a look outward to discuss which company’s event marketing efforts stood out to us.

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Industry Spotlight: Esther Gathogo, Senior Performance Improvement Leader, Oracle Health

DigitalHealth

Curiosity and the desire to make a difference have always been guiding forces for Esther Gathogo. At Oracle Health, she is digitising pathways to standardise care and transform information into something meaningful, a process that has huge potential to improve health outcomes.

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