TheraNest
AUGUST 8, 2022
Reading Time: 6 Minutes. During the pandemic, healthcare providers scrambled to offer care to their patients without exposing them to covid-19. This led to a boon in telehealth facilitated by the widespread adoption of video conferencing technology and relaxed regulations. But even as the pandemic wanes, the interest in telehealth is still going strong.
Health Recovery Solutions
AUGUST 10, 2022
With COVID-19 subvariants and nursing shortages on the rise, hospitals and healthcare providers must look at ways to continue providing high-quality care for their patients.
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 9, 2022
The following is a guest article by Natalie C. Oehlers, Associate Attorney and Carly C. Koza, Healthcare Associate Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. While various legislation has been implemented or proposed at both the federal and state levels to standardize and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), most stop short of addressing the significant ethical challenges that may arise.
Health Populi
AUGUST 10, 2022
There is an image from my childhood, drawn by Lorraine Schneider, which reads “War is not healthy for children and other living things.” As I read through a paper published this week on climate change’s contribution to the burden of chronic disease, I couldn’t help but conjure up Lorraine’s observation from my little girl memory bank.
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Mobi Health News
AUGUST 9, 2022
According to Deloitte's survey, 49% of respondents said they'd attended a virtual medical appointment as a patient in the past year, while 26% said they'd been to a virtual visit where another person was the patient.
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Aging in Place Technology Watch
AUGUST 11, 2022
The Census knows the growth and potential explosion of care needs and older adults. Consider their newly published document explaining the industries to those who may still not see what’s happening.” Assisted Living Facilities for the Elderly saw a 34.4% increase in revenue from 2013 to 2020. Home Health Care Services experienced an even larger increase – 50/5% -- during the same period.
Health Populi
AUGUST 9, 2022
“Almost overnight, lines blurred between consumers’ physical and digital worlds, and home became the headquarters for virtual working, learning, fitness, health care, shopping, socializing, and entertaining.” . That blur has reshaped peoples’ Everyday Normal we learn in Mastering the new digital life from Deloitte, a survey conducted among 2,005 U.S. consumers in the first quarter of 2022.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
The startup's tool records and transcribes conversations between providers and patients, and then organizes relevant information about health conditions, symptoms and next steps.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 8, 2022
Pennsylvania's Geisinger health system faces several challenges common to the healthcare industry, such as improving access to care, recruiting and retaining providers, and scaling technologies for rapid deployment across multiple campuses and dozens of medical specialties. THE PROBLEM. Serving predominantly rural communities, many of Geisinger's patients experience barriers to getting the care they need.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 8, 2022
The following is a guest article by Juliet Bauer, Chief Growth and Marketing Officer at Livi. I’m often asked where I believe digital technology can make the biggest impact in healthcare. My answer? Women’s health. Today, women spend around a quarter of their lives in poor health or disability, compared with one fifth for men. In a health system that has historically been geared towards men, a gender health gap persists where you are more likely to receive poorer medical advice and diagnosis if
Mend
AUGUST 9, 2022
If you’re wondering how to reduce no-shows, you’re not alone. No-shows are one of the most frustrating parts of running a hospital or healthcare practice, with missed appointments resulting in wasted time and resources. But how can you reduce your no-show rate for good? What is it that makes patients no-show in the first place? And what exactly are the costs to your practice or organization?
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 11, 2022
Researchers found remote patient monitoring use among Medicare beneficiaries increased from 91 claims per 100,000 enrollees in February 2020 to 594 claims per 100,000 enrollees in September 2021.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 10, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, awarded nearly $90 million in American Rescue Plan funding to nearly 1,400 community health centers to advance health equity through better data collection and reporting – as well as nearly $60 million to grow the workforce and increase healthcare access in rural areas.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 9, 2022
In all of my conversations, people know that I often go back to one basic principle: Follow the Money. It’s amazing how often that explains various behaviors, market dynamics, or trying to understand the why of something that seems unexplainable. However, in healthcare I find this is often dramatically more complicated than people realize. The number of people and organizations that profit off the dysfunction of healthcare is troubling to say the least.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 10, 2022
Jane Doe, a patient at UCSF Medical Center and Dignity Health Medical Foundation, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company in relation to its health data privacy practices. According to a report co-published by STAT and The Markup, the company used Meta Pixel, a tracking tool, to extract health data from hospital websites. More About Facebook’s Meta Lawsuit & Data Privacy in Healthcare.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 9, 2022
San Diego-based medical device company ResMed has announced the acquisition of mementor, a consumer software developer that offers a digital solution for insomnia. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The acquisition of Leipzig, Germany-based mementor lays the foundation for ResMed to build its digital sleep medicine portfolio in Germany, the company said.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 12, 2022
WHY IT MATTERS. The EHR integration with the digital prescribing platform enables clinicians to send personalized therapeutic content to their patients throughout recovery. Within their workflows, clinicians can respond to and anticipate patient needs. They can access a central content repository and send patients reading materials, exercise plans, workshops and more.
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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!
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 10, 2022
When I first heard that Civitas and DirectTrust were collaborating to hold the Civitas Networks for Health Annual Conference and the DirectTrust Summit together, I thought that this is likely going to be one of the greatest gathering of healthcare interoperability professionals that has happened. As the title says, it’s going to be a kind of Woodstock of Healthcare Interoperability people, but the music is replaced with really nerdy conversations about standards, networks, identification,
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 10, 2022
It is estimated that primary healthcare in the US is worth $260 billion , and now Amazon is purchasing its starter share of this lucrative industry. The retail giant has just offered to purchase One Medical Healthcare for $18 per share. That’s a deal that tops $3.9 billion. One Medical Healthcare offers 24-hour virtual healthcare and same-day in-person visits nationally at one of 125 locations.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 10, 2022
The multinational digital health company posted Q2 revenue of $265.4 million, compared with $57.5 million during the same period last year. It also reported a $157.1 million loss.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 9, 2022
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 11, 2022
The news recently came out that the TikTok ownwer, ByteDance, has paid $1.5 billion for Amcare Healthcare, one of China’s largest private hospital chains. You might wonder why TikTok’s owner would want to buy a hospital chain. Plus, I can already here the privacy critics coming to complain about TikTok (known for its privacy and tracking issues) owning a healthcare organization.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 10, 2022
The US. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have issued new telehealth guidance to reduce discrimination in telehealth. These telehealth social justice changes are related to federal nondiscrimination laws, including the American Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 8, 2022
The company offers a virtual clinic for people with chronic gut conditions like irritable bowel syndrome and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Healthcare Exchange Standards
AUGUST 9, 2022
I was asked to explain how Break-Glass works. There is not a solitary answer, as the context is very important. Define Break-Glass A method used by authorized clinical people to gain access to information that the patient has indicated they want held more confidential, when that clinician has made a medical assessment that there is a safety concern that the confidential information may help shed light.
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Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 11, 2022
Cleerly, the company creating a new standard of care for heart disease, announced that it has closed a Series C financing round of $223 million. This new funding brings the total raised by the fast-growing health care company to $279 million, which includes its Series B round in 2021. “At Cleerly, we are passionate about our mission to create a new standard of care for heart disease,” said James Min, MD, FACC, FESC, MSCCT, CEO and founder of Cleerly.
Telebehavioral Health Institute
AUGUST 10, 2022
Amateurs practice until they get it right; professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong. — George W. Loomis. The core of professionalism is to serve the client/patient respectfully, In the absence of reprisal With benevolence and pride in one’s work Upholding the standards and reputation of one’s profession. Difference Between Best Practices and Ethics?
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 8, 2022
More than half of patients were not using provided tablets to connect to virtual appointments during the first three quarters of 2021.
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