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British AI solution for breast cancer screening arrives in the UAE

Mobi Health News

Kheiron Medical Technologies will distribute its Mia, or “mammography intelligent assessment” in the GCC region via a new partnership with Atlas Medical.

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How Safe Are Mental Health Apps?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Mental health awareness is reaching an all-time high. Conditions such as anxiety, depression, and substance addiction are finally starting to be taken seriously, and people are finally seeking necessary help. Almost 30% of Americans have […]. The article How Safe Are Mental Health Apps?

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Report: Telehealth use beginning to taper

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new report from analytics firm Trilliant Health suggested that telehealth use is starting to taper in the United States "post-peak pandemic," with use spiking in April 2020 and petering off from there. The report, based on Trilliant Health's national all-payer claims database , found that about 38 million Americans, excluding traditional Medicare users, generated approximately 96 million video visits during COVID-19.

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The Healthiest Communities in the U.S. After the Pandemic – U.S. News & Aetna Foundation’s Post-COVID Lists

Health Populi

Some of America’s least-healthy communities are also those that index greater for vaccine hesitancy and other risks for well-being, found in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Healthiest Communities Rankings. U.S. News collaborated with the Aetna Foundation, CVS Health’s philanthropic arm, in this fourth annual list of the top geographies for well-being in the U.S.

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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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Google's new tool seeks to tackle hunger by helping folks find food banks, resources

Mobi Health News

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated food insecurity, and now more than 42 million people, including up to 13 million children, may be facing inadequate access to food.

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Metro Health's telehealth and RPM program is helping patients avoid hospital stays

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Metro Health/University of Michigan Health is an osteopathic teaching hospital serving more than 250,000 patients per year throughout western Michigan. THE PROBLEM. Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. The team believed that telehealth and RPM would be the future of healthcare delivery, but were spending time outlining current challenges, program goals and the features its telehealth/

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Reimagining Life After the Pandemic – Seeking Health, Safety, Sustainability, and Trust

Health Populi

COVID-19 reshaped people around the world, one-half of whom are re-defining their personal purpose and life-goals. This sense of purpose extends to peoples’ willingness to buy or patronize companies who do not meet their needs for health, safety, sustainability and trust. For example, two in three of these people would switch travel brands if they felt health and safety weren’t up to par, discovered in Life Reimagined – Mapping the motivations that matter for today’s cons

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Contributed: Top 10 Use Cases for AI in Healthcare

Mobi Health News

From drug discovery to forecasting kidney disease AI could be the next game-changer in healthcare.

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AHIMA Releases New Telehealth Toolkit

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. AHIMA released a new toolkit that aims to provide guidance to healthcare organizations about telehealth, as its use soared during the pandemic and many organizations are seeking to implement or expand their telehealth programs. “Countries […].

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Transform Clinical Communication With Role-based Messaging

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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How telehealth enabled critical care for newborns during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United Kingdom in March 2020, the government quickly moved to impose a stay-at-home order. But even as society ground to a halt, one thing stayed constant: Babies were being born, and they needed care. In Liverpool, England, the restrictions meant a sudden drop in availability for neonatologists. "There were beginning to be discussions about transferring neonatal surgical services to other centers," explained Dr.

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Aduhelm and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Potential Medicare Budget-Buster Puts A Blazing Light on Health Care Costs and Innovation

Health Populi

The FDA’s approval of the first therapy to treat Alzheimer’s Disease in over twenty years brought attention to a not-yet-convened debate of U.S. health care costs and spending, innovation, and return-on-the-investment (as well as “for whom” do the returns accrue). In my latest post for Medecision, I explore different angles on the Aduhelm and Alzheimer’s discussion, covering: The macro- and micro-economics of Alzheimer’s and the $56,000 list price for the drug

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Samsung Electronics's mobile digital x-ray system to incorporate VUNO's AI tech

Mobi Health News

The two South Korean tech firms have signed an agreement for AI integration.

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HHS Announces Rule To Protect Consumers From Surprise Medical Bills

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management, issued “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I,” an interim final rule that will restrict excessive out […].

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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 the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Technology leaders at U.S. health systems have learned a lot this past year-plus. They've gotten better with adaptability and rapid implementation of new workflows. Some have learned that 24- to 72-hour downtime processes are inadequate to prepare for a 23-day outage. And they've discovered that teams that don't usually spend time together can co-create innovative fixes for urgent challenges.

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Telehealth use falls 37% from pandemic highs, while demand for healthcare services projected to flatten: report

FierceHealthIT

Telehealth use falls 37% from pandemic highs, while demand for healthcare services projected to flatten: report. hlandi. Mon, 06/28/2021 - 09:53.

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Google Launches COVID Card API for Android, displaying vaccination status and test results

Mobi Health News

The new API is available for governments, providers and authorized third parties in the U.S.

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Forming a COVID-19 Map From Diverse Data Sources and Machine Learning

Healthcare IT Today

Who could benefit from a geographical map that ranks counties by the risk of residents getting COVID-19? Certainly, such detail is valuable to public health agencies-but also to municipal governments, hospitals, clinics, and even private businesses. Japan illustrates the powerful benefits of identifying geographic clusters, which it did early enough in the spread of COVID-19 to […].

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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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What the future holds for HHS-OIG health IT enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services aims to protect the integrity of federal healthcare programs, in addition to the health of beneficiaries. "In other words," said HHS-OIG's Andrew VanLandingham in a recent interview with Healthcare IT News , "our job isn't to run the programs, but to make sure they work well for all Americans.

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Only 1 in 10 patients know hospitals are now required to post their prices online, survey finds

FierceHealthIT

Only 1 in 10 patients know hospitals are now required to post their prices online, survey finds. dmuoio. Mon, 06/28/2021 - 11:31.

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Ro purchases at-home diagnostic company Kit, marking its second M&A in two months

Mobi Health News

The new acquistiion is expected to help the company grow out its diagnostic capabilities.

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Breaking Down The Barriers To Affordable Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Dr. Jaideep Rayapudi, MD MBBS, Digital Health Technology thought leader and registered physician of Global Telehealth Exchange by Solve.Care. Barriers to healthcare exacerbate already dire consequences, as has been seen on the ground in India over the past few months. Technology can help. The disparities in the quality […].

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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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Sen. Brian Schatz: Telehealth is 'single shining exception' to partisanship

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an accelerator of sorts for many experiments with virtual care implementations. But, panelists pointed out during the American Telemedicine Association conference on Tuesday, it's important to take the lessons learned during the pandemic and incorporate them into future innovation efforts. "Before the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was seen by many as the future of healthcare," said Sen.

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Humana teams with Signify Health, AACN to tackle social determinants in San Antonio

FierceHealthIT

Humana teams with Signify Health, AACN to tackle social determinants in San Antonio. pminemyer. Wed, 06/30/2021 - 15:58.

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Healthcare automation startup Olive scores $400M

Mobi Health News

The new capital boosts Olive’s valuation to $4 billion.

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Problems With Epic’s Sepsis Prediction Model Underscore Larger Issues With Algorithmic Prediction Models

Healthcare IT Today

Recently, a small blaze of negative publicity erupted when research was published suggesting that Epic’s deterioration index designed to predict the onset of sepsis performs far worse than the vendor claims. Researchers behind the study, which appears in JAMA Internal Medicine, examined a cohort of 27,697 patients undergoing 38,455 hospitalizations, concluding that sepsis occurred in […].

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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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Optimum CareerPath Partner Program Adds Robert Morris University

Optimum Healthcare IT

Optimum Healthcare IT welcomes Robert Morris University (RMU) to the Optimum CareerPath Program as a University Partner. The post Optimum CareerPath Partner Program Adds Robert Morris University appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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Biden admin releases first rule banning surprise medical bills

FierceHealthIT

Biden admin releases first rule banning surprise medical bills. rking. Thu, 07/01/2021 - 16:36.

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Masimo accuses Apple of patent infringement

Mobi Health News

Masimo is seeking to take Apple's blood oxygenation tech off the U.S. market.

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