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What consumers want from telehealth

KevinMD

After becoming more familiar with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, a growing number of consumers today are realizing the value and convenience of virtual visits for minor urgent issues, chronic disease management, and mental health services. At the same time, an overwhelming majority of consumers believe it is important that both their regular doctor and.

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5 Benefits of Remote Patient Monitoring and How to Implement It in Your Practice

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Are you a doctor who has patients that are hard to reach, move around a lot, or need to see multiple specialists? If so, I’m sure you’ve struggled with care management. Thankfully remote patient monitoring is a growing trend in the healthcare industry. It allows you to provide patient care remotely, consequently improving patient outcomes, reducing emergency room visits, and lowering overall healthcare costs.

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Get Ahead Using Digital Health: 8 Trends for 2023

Xealth

Cynthia Church, Chief Strategy Officer. With the end of every year comes the prediction parade. I’m usually hesitant to add to them (what do I know?) but this year feels a bit different, for all the obvious reasons. Is digital health finally turning the corner? Is it moving beyond pilots and trials, and becoming a legitimate option to boost efficiency, patient outcomes, and revenue with a comprehensive digital health strategy ?

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Improving Patient Experience with Digital Transformation

Healthcare IT Today

Becoming patient centric in your organization isn’t something that you can do all at once. It’s a slow process that requires you to think about the patient experience in every single aspect of your organization. This is especially important when you are establishing new practices in your organization, such as when you’re integrating digital transformation.

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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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How the 2022 funding environment affected digital health startups

Mobi Health News

The year was plagued by layoffs, slowing investment and an increased need for companies to prove their market value.

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MedStar Health uses $2M AHRQ research grant to enhance telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 transformed the delivery of care, making the use of telehealth tools highly beneficial – and a priority area for research. To further understand telehealth's impact in recent years and looking ahead, MedStar Health experts in connected care transformation and research are serving as co-principal investigators of two related Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) grant awards: Dr.

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Myths and misconceptions about virtual primary health care

KevinMD

Virtual primary care, unlike virtual urgent care, involves doctors who take the time to get to know their patients, creating (and nurturing) trusted doctor-patient relationships. Virtual primary care requires that doctors be consistently available for providing ongoing care to their patients. Can doctors who meet their patients via video form an effective doctor-patient relationship, and.

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Digital health leaders predict more stabilized funding in 2023

Mobi Health News

Execs said investors will focus on companies with evidence of market fit, established business models and those achieving measurable health outcomes.

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The Impact of the Digital Front Door

Healthcare IT Today

Too often in talking about digital transformation, we only look to the future. Merely speculating as to how it will impact the world of healthcare once x gets developed. Too little do we take a look at the work that has already been done in this field to examine the impact it has already had. So that is what we will be doing today. We reached out to the Healthcare IT Community to hear their thoughts on the digital front door and how it has already transformed healthcare.

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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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In 2023, We Are All Health Consumers in Search of Value

Health Populi

Every health/care industry stakeholder will be in search of value in 2023, I explain in my latest post written on behalf of Medecision. In this essay, I forecast what’s ahead for hospitals, digital health innovators and investors, employers, pharma, and patients-as-consumers — all firmly focused on value in the new year. “Inflation may make consumers and the healthcare system sicker,” Deloitte expects , signaling a sort of “unrest” for the healthcare ecosystem

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How UVA Health's Medicine HOME program reduces hospitalizations and readmissions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. THE PROBLEM. In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year.

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Study: Sociodemographic, health factors linked to long-term digital health device use

Mobi Health News

According to the study published in npj Digital Medicine, high scores for depressive symptoms and lower-than-excellent self-rated health were associated with less smartwatch use.

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Back to basics: What CIOs can learn from Southwest Airlines

David Chou

We have heard horror stories about Southwest airlines from passengers on canceled flights recently during the holiday break. The key theme of the meltdown is technology debt. Technology debt refers to the accumulated backlog of technical work that must be addressed for an organization to use and maintain its technology infrastructure effectively. It can occur when an organization takes shortcuts in developing or implementing technology solutions or fails to maintain and update its systems regula

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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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Poppy Health Measures Indoor Air Ventilation on a Massive Scale

Healthcare IT Today

A lot of public health depends on measuring proxies for health, such as checking the level of COVID-19 in waste water as a cheap, accurate and (importantly) privacy-preserving way to determine how widespread the disease is in a municipality. Recently, Poppy Health has created a clever technology to determine how well buildings are protecting people from air-borne diseases.

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Telehealth helps stop suicidal ideation for many patients, study finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Recently, the Journal of Medical Internet Research published some significant data highlighting the efficacy of psychiatric care delivered through telehealth: Those in the treatment group were 4.3 times more likely to have suicidal ideation remission. This is noteworthy because telehealth has not traditionally been equipped to treat those with the most severe symptoms of mental health due to the oversight necessary to actually provide safe, effective treatment, said Dr.

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Q&A: Looking ahead at digital health, biotech funding in 2023

Mobi Health News

Elena Viboch, partner at General Catalyst, discusses her predictions for biotech and health tech investing and how startups can grow in a more constrained economic environment.

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One last look at 2022's important changes before CES

Aging in Place Technology Watch

CES begins next week – but never mind – what mattered in 2022? The press releases for next week’s 2023 Consumer Electronics Show are stacking up. These will be featured in blogs over the next week or two. Weird and wacky, teeny-tiny, virtual, augmented, robotic, metaverse-y – remote this-and-that. Invented by young and old, the result of competitions and criteria -- Eureka Park , for example.

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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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XBB COVID variant presents a unique threat: study

FierceHealthIT

XBB COVID variant presents a unique threat: study. fdiamond. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:11.

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Major Trends and Stories from 2022 – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 104

Healthcare IT Today

For the 104th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we are taking a look back at the year! As this will be the last episode in 2022, it is time to review all of the major trends and stories from this year. First we share the story that stood out the most for us in 2022. Then, we share what we thought was the most surprising trend in health IT. And in that light, we also share what topic we wished we had seen more of throughout 2022.

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Q&A: How ambient documentation is altering the provider workload

Mobi Health News

Ian Shakil, founder, director and chief strategy officer at Augmedix, discusses the company's role in the evolution of medical documentation.

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OxfordVR combines with BehaVR for VR delivery platform

DigitalHealth

OxfordVR and BehaVR have combined to create the largest VR delivery platform for evidence-based digital behaviour therapies.

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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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ACA exchange enrollment continues at record pace, nears 11.5M through mid-December

FierceHealthIT

ACA exchange enrollment continues at record pace, nears 11.5M through mid-December. pminemyer. Wed, 12/28/2022 - 11:48.

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Staying Focused on Patient Access Will Help Providers and Plans

Healthcare IT Today

It might be tempting to pause seemingly “nice-to-have” projects in these tough times. Projects like improving your patient-facing website, adding online appointment booking, or enabling price transparency. Investing in these areas, however, may be the key to a faster recovery for healthcare providers and health plans according to Paul Merrild, President of Kyruus.

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Heal plans layoffs ahead of potential sale and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Drug development platform Quris raised another $9 million, and PharmStars is accepting applications for its accelerator cohort focused on women's health and health equity.

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Create Ayushman Bharat Health Account – ABHA Card

NiftyHMS

ABHA (Health ID) card is a 14 digit unique number with which you can link all your health records digitally. Create your ABHA Health ID card using an Aadhar number in less than 30 seconds with NiftyHMS. Coming Soon. The post Create Ayushman Bharat Health Account – ABHA Card first appeared on NiftyHMS.

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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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Re:Cognition Health and MYndspan improve access to brain healthcare

DigitalHealth

Re:Cognition Health and MYndspan are collaborating to make MEG technology more accessible, in a bid to improve data-driven brain health insights.

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Chicago Providers Charge Fees To Answer Clinical Questions Submitted Via Portals

Healthcare IT Today

Back when patient portals were first introduced, one of the original concerns clinicians raised was that they were afraid that they would get too many patient messages and find themselves overwhelmed. Over time, most stopped complaining about this problem, though I’d wager it was because they simply had worse things to worry about during the painful initial period of EHR adoption.

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Digital health execs review the most noteworthy events of 2022

Mobi Health News

Although investment slowed for startups, leaders noted several big deals in digital health, particularly among retail players.