Health Recovery Solutions
MARCH 11, 2020
There are innumerable ways in which machine learning and big data are starting to impact the healthcare industry. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can ease clinician workload by helping aid decision-making. This can include predicting which patients are most at-risk of a readmission, detecting anomalies like tumors in imaging data, and/or predicting heart conditions from smart watch data.
Morning eHealth
MARCH 13, 2020
Telehealth groups ask for more leeway — Coronavirus stresses antiquated health IT
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2020
The crisis is opening up new opportunities for health and tech, but it is also bringing new challenges.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 12, 2020
The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Verinovum According to a recent report from Gartner, “U.S. Healthcare Payer CIOs Should Avoid Data Lake Mistakes with Clinical Data Integration,” by Mandi Bishop (October 2019), “Payer CIOs want to know whether data lakes can deliver quick wins for business leaders […].
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Redox
MARCH 11, 2020
When they first hit the market, wearable health devices were little more than toys, at least from a physician’s perspective. For several years, doctors rejected the use of such tools (sorry early Fitbit, Garmin, and Whoop adopters) in their practices. They weren’t convinced wearables were measuring health metrics accurately—and what’s more, they were reluctant to add more data to the torrent already pouring into their practices.
Connected Health Pulse brings together the best content for digital health professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 12, 2020
Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, chief clinical officer for Providence St. Joseph Health, talks about the use of chatbots, telemedicine and drive-thru clinics in treating the virus.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 12, 2020
The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. John Thune, R-South Dakota, and Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, and from Reps.
CE App
MARCH 12, 2020
Physician burnout is considered a growing epidemic according to the AMA, with negative impacts not only on the physicians themselves but also on their patients and the healthcare system. Physician burnout is classified as “a long-term stress reaction marked by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a lack of sense of personal accomplishment”. Recent studies have shown that 42% of U.S. physicians report feeling burned out, 15% are depressed, and 14% identify as both.
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
With President Trump’s somber speech from the Oval Office last night, we wake up on 12th March 2020 to a ban on most travel from Europe to the U.S., recommendations for hygiene, and call to come together in America. His remarks focused largely on an immigration and travel policy versus science, triaging, testing and treatment of the virus itself. Here is a link to the President’s full remarks from the White House website, presented at about 9 pm on 11 March 2020.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 10, 2020
The nonprofit professional organization hopes to unify the industry with an active, useful definition of an often ambiguous term.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 12, 2020
Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Population Health Telehealth Workflow Workforce On the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, UW has ramped up telemedicine capabilities and made immediate changes to its EHR to support COVID-19 care. Eric J. Neil UW Medicine was one of the first healthcare systems on the front line of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 10, 2020
Consumer uptake of wearables and mobile health apps has stalled. One-third of U.S. consumers are not using any digital tools to manage their health. The use of wearable technology has decreased from 33% in 2018 to just 18% in 2020. Find out what is turning consumers off from digital health.
Health Populi
MARCH 12, 2020
Will the coronavirus inspire greater adoption of telehealth in the U.S.? Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. They are likely to stay there,” asserts “ The smartphone will see you now ,” an article in the March 7th 2020 issue of The Economist. The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated.
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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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2020
Livongo Health, Hinge Health, Hello Heart, Torchlight and Whil each underwent "rigorous clinical, data security and business evaluation" for inclusion in the program.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 13, 2020
Orion Health released a pandemic outbreak monitoring platform to help healthcare organizations respond to the COVID-19 virus, as well as a website to help people globally understand their risk for the disease. Among the core features of the platform are remote monitoring capabilities, allowing for the engagement of patients in their homes, as well as facilitating communication between quarantined people and the healthcare service and maintaining visibility of those recently discharged.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 10, 2020
Cybercriminals are using fake HIV test results and coronavirus conspiracy theories to break into the computer systems of healthcare companies. Find out what cybersecurity researchers found in these latest disturbing phishing campaigns.
Health Populi
MARCH 8, 2020
March 8 is International Women’s Day. In the U.S., there remain significant disparities between men and women, in particular related to financial well-being. The first chart comes from the new OECD “How’s Life?” report published today (March 9th) measuring well-being around the country members of the OECD. This chart focuses on women versus men in the United States based on over a dozen key indicators.
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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!
Mobi Health News
MARCH 9, 2020
Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China, Ltd (Ping An) launched its COVID-19 smart image-reading system on February 19, which was developed by Ping An Smart Healthcare, the smart health care team of subsidiary Ping An Smart City. The system assists doctors with efficient and accurate diagnoses by leveraging Ping An’s AI tech, which could help control the epidemic through earlier diagnoses and treatment.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 11, 2020
Sentinel Healthcare, a digital-healthcare vendor that specializes in remote patient-monitoring, today has launched a real-time coronavirus and flu-tracking mobile application, Sentinel Fever Tracker, for ongoing quarantine management efforts. WHY IT MATTERS. The new product is designed to support health systems, government agencies, hospitals and employers in their quarantine-management efforts.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 10, 2020
The American Medical Association is moving forward to approve a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for reporting novel coronavirus tests. A special meeting of the committee that makes revisions to the CPT code will be held this week.
Insulin Nation
MARCH 10, 2020
When you were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, you were probably told that a cure was “just around the corner.” And that “corner” likely came and went years or decades ago. While a true cure isn’t exactly just a few years away, there are several remarkable efforts towards eliminating the need for ‘exogenous’ insulin in people with type 1 diabetes. One of the most notable efforts is ViaCyte’s Encaptra “cell delivery system.
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.
Mobi Health News
MARCH 8, 2020
As a new study shows that no country has achieved gender equality, eight women in health tech tell us whether they are seeing any changes in the industry.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 11, 2020
Australian GPs using the PrimaryClinic practice management software by software provider Global Health can conduct remote video conference consultations with patients showing symptoms for COVID-19, the company recently announced. Through Global Health’s video-conferencing platform, GPs can screen clients and avoid having them present to the clinic thereby reducing the risk of contamination.
FierceHealthIT
MARCH 11, 2020
Here are some of the details Providence St. Joseph Health's chief clinical officer Amy Compton Phillips shared about lessons learned treating the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the U.S. during a virtual event hosted by the HIMSS.
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 11, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. Health-tracking wearables — which include monitoring devices like Fitbits and smartwatches — have entered the mainstream. They are providing both consumers and health care professionals alike with unprecedented amounts of […].
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Mobi Health News
MARCH 11, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the US, healthcare providers and industry experts take to Twitter to dispel myths.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 9, 2020
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FierceHealthIT
MARCH 12, 2020
As the coronavirus is increasingly altering American life, a small survey of physicians finds that some patients are canceling elective procedures because of the outbreak. Financial analysts predict what it means for hospitals and surgery centers.
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