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5 Common Questions about Telepsychiatry in the ED

Iris Telehealth

Access to prompt, high-quality care is of the utmost importance for psychiatric patients seeking treatment in the emergency department (ED). However, with a nationwide psychiatrist shortage , patients are left waiting for care in EDs across the country. Fortunately, telepsychiatry can help. Telepsychiatry is a seamless solution that helps health systems provide timely care to psychiatric patients while increasing throughput for EDs.

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Hearing Health Technology Making A Difference

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Many people with hearing loss benefit from wearing hearing aids and using other technology. Permanent hearing loss can’t be cured but it can be treated with the right tools and aids. Hearing aids have come […]. The article Hearing Health Technology Making A Difference appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Human nature will help patients better than any algorithm or AI

KevinMD

Tapping into the mindset of one of the most villainous cinematic computers, the HAL 9000 of 2001 A Space Odyssey, may provide introspection to save us from the same paranoid meltdown that led HAL (spoiler alert) to embark on a murderous rampage. Homicidal activity should not be a lurking risk in any of us, but. Read more…. Human nature will help patients better than any algorithm or AI originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Apple, Harvard research highlights relationship between PCOS, heart health and diseases

Mobi Health News

Preliminary data from the women's health study shows individuals with PCOS are more likely to have Type 2 diabetes and obesity than those without the condition.

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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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Food Insecurity, Energy Prices, and Medical Debt Spike in February 2022

Health Populi

There’s a trifecta cost challenge hitting U.S. household budgets in February 2022, highlighted in a poll from Morning Consult : inflationary spikes for housing, food, and energy, and the COVID-19 Omicron variant forcing health care costs up for some consumers driving medical debt up. This further underscores the reality that medical spending in the U.S. is taking shape as a consumer service or good, competing with — potentially crowding out — other household line items like foo

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The artistic side of a broken pot: a story about Oracle and Cerner

KevinMD

I recently had an opportunity to assist a hospital organization with its electronic health records implementation in Las Vegas. I’m usually working non-stop during implementations, but I was ecstatic when I could get a break from work to sightseeing. I arranged with a tour bus to explore the Grand Canyon (I’m not much into gambling). Read more….

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Tech is poised to transform the pharmacy experience for patients

Mobi Health News

UMPC's chief pharmacy officer Chronis Manolis discusses the future of pharmacies ahead of HIMSS22.

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“Talk to me, Teladoc”

Health Populi

Voice technology has become a mainstream household Internet of Things thing for consumers, used to streamline and ease peoples’ daily tasks to hear about the weather, listen to favorite tunes, or seek information. At the same time, the pandemic fostered growing experience with and appreciation for virtual care platforms and on-ramps to health care when needed.

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Teladoc to partner with Amazon on Alexa-enabled virtual visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Teladoc Health announced this week that it was partnering with Amazon to launch voice-activated virtual care on Alexa-supported Echo devices. According to the companies, U.S. customers around the country can connect with a Teladoc provider via audio at any time for general medical needs. "By introducing and integrating our virtual first care experience with Echo devices, we are providing an innovative and convenient way for users to connect with a doctor," said Donna Boyer, chief produ

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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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Human nature will help patients better than any algorithm or AI

KevinMD

Tapping into the mindset of one of the most villainous cinematic computers, the HAL 9000 of 2001 A Space Odyssey, may provide introspection to save us from the same paranoid meltdown that led HAL (spoiler alert) to embark on a murderous rampage. Homicidal activity should not be a lurking risk in any of us, but. Read more…. Human nature will help patients better than any algorithm or AI originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Contributed: Health systems will be challenged to compete in a commoditized telehealth market

Mobi Health News

As more competitors enter an already oversupplied telehealth market, gaining consumer loyalty will be even harder, especially when competing against brands like Walmart and Amazon.

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The Best Practices For Securing Confidential Patient Data

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Milica Vojnic, business development associate, Wisetek. Cybercrimes are on the rise across the Internet and the healthcare sector is certainly no different in terms of the risks. This is why storing patient data […]. The article The Best Practices For Securing Confidential Patient Data appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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T? Ora Compass Health, Pinnacle launch after-hours telehealth service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary health organisations T? Ora Compass Health and Pinnacle Midlands Health Network have developed and launched a new telehealth service providing after-hours care. Practice Plus offers same-day appointments of after-hours virtual consultation on weekday evenings from 5-10 pm and on weekends from 8 am-8 pm. It also enables sending electronic prescriptions directly to patients' preferred pharmacies via the NZ ePrescription Service.

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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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The artistic side of a broken pot: a story about Oracle and Cerner

KevinMD

I recently had an opportunity to assist a hospital organization with its electronic health records implementation in Las Vegas. I’m usually working non-stop during implementations, but I was ecstatic when I could get a break from work to sightseeing. I arranged with a tour bus to explore the Grand Canyon (I’m not much into gambling). Read more….

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Report: About a quarter of Americans used telehealth during COVID-19

Mobi Health News

According to Trilliant Health's trends analysis, 45.7% of telehealth patients only had one visit.

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Client remote monitoring for home care agencies -- why and what?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Why should home care agencies boost awareness of remote monitoring? Both types of monitoring are increasingly likely to be found by home care professionals entering a new care recipient’s home. The objective of these remote monitoring technologies is to help healthcare teams, care workers and/or families understand if any issues are occurring inside the home when they cannot be there in person.

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Combining virtual care and personal touch to help the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Tech-enabled vendors and services on the market have expanded with rapid acceleration since the pandemic. Telemedicine, though, cannot directly provide services to address social determinants of health, services that still remain scattered and disparate. Hospital technology leaders could potentially benefit from companies that offer an umbrella of technologies and services that address health disparities for vulnerable populations to promote health outcomes and equity with an inclusive and expan

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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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Q&A with CIO Terri Couts, Part 1: “If you’re not adapting, you’re not surviving.”

Health System CIO

“Anything we deploy enhances or enables care in some way,” said Terri Couts, CIO at The Guthrie Clinic. In this podcast, she talks about taking on the CIO role during “interesting times,” the new bar for patient experience, and how Covid has helped improve agility. Source: Q&A with CIO Terri Couts, Part 1: “If you’re not adapting, you’re not surviving.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and compr

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Study: Hybrid, stratified physical therapy not more effective than face-to-face care

Mobi Health News

However, researchers found the blended approach did have a greater impact on fear-avoidance beliefs and patients' reported adherence to at-home exercises.

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7 Trends 2021 Taught Us About The Future of Telehealth

Mend

When considering the future of telehealth, it helps to look backward. 2021 had a lot to teach us about where telehealth is going. Most importantly, we learned that telemedicine wasn’t just a pandemic trend, as more and more people continued to see their healthcare providers virtually even as in-person offices opened up. So what does the future of telehealth look like?

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NorthShore's medical director offers an in-depth look at a continuous RPM program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Wearable sensors that collect continuous physiologic data streams are becoming less expensive, more accurate and increasingly connected to cloud-based machine learning algorithms to identify perturbation – a deviation from a normal state caused by an outside influence. To date, there has been limited work looking at how these platforms can remotely identify perturbation, allowing care providers ample time to intervene and prevent decompensation and readmission.

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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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IHE Basic Audit Implementation Guide

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Supporting Privacy Principles to give transparency to how a Patients data are used is one of the goals of a new Implementation Guide from IHE. The AuditEvent profiles in this guide can also be used for Security purposes. The Basic Audit Log Pattern (BasicAudit) Content Profile defines some basic and reusable AuditEvent patterns. The Audit Log Patterns defined here rely on the ATNA Profile for transport of the AuditEvent and query/retrieval of AuditEvents previously recorded.

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MyHealthTeams launches new tool for patients with 'long COVID'

Mobi Health News

The tool lets patients access information about the condition and connect with others living with it.

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9 Health Benefits of Decluttering Your Home

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Have you ever entered your home and noticed a lot of stuff and thought it was a mess? If there is just too much stuff, it has already become clutter in your home. We are all guilty of having that tendency to keep stuff for future use. It is so unfortunate that we are often late to realize that once you keep these items inside your drawer or cabinet, they pileup together and may end up being forgotten, turning into clutter in the long run.

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Audio-only telehealth benefits patients in need, study finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent University of California study of telehealth implementation at community health centers found that although phone visits were beneficial to historically marginalized patients, continued virtual care use depends on increased technological resources. The study, published in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health , took a closer look at the rollout of telemedicine at two federally qualified health centers serving primarily Chinese and Latino immigrants.

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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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Going Legit: Sorting “Truth vs. Trash” in Online Health Information

Healthcare IT Today

The following article includes contributions by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Teresa Wagner. Most kids grow up online. And for 70% of teens, their first source of health information is the web. It’s easier to use their phone, and they may not feel comfortable asking parents or teachers. Sometimes they do a search to find out […].

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Operations AI startup Qventus scores $50M and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: Vocal biomarker company Kintsugi raises $20 million, VR startup XRHealth scoops up $10 million and Gesund.ai emerges from stealth with $2 million.

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2 Ways Remote Patient Monitoring Prevent Occurrence of Stroke

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Stroke is a prominent cause of death and disability. The progress in avoiding stroke deaths has paused after decades of reduction. Every year, about 800,000 individuals suffer a stroke, more than 140,000 people die, and many survivors are left disabled. This is concerning because around 80% of strokes can be avoided. Other facts about stroke include the following: Stroke was responsible for one out of every six deaths caused by cardiovascular disease in 2018. [1].

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