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The Benefits of Telepsychiatry During Provider Shortages

Iris Telehealth

America’s provider shortage continues to grow, and people across the country are feeling the strain. Between the greater demand for treatment, limited residency spots, and a decrease in stigma around mental health treatment, there’s a clear need for effective patient care and more providers. By the numbers, the behavioral health provider shortage impacts 129 million Americans , with over three-quarters of U.S. counties experiencing a severe lack of mental health prescribers or non-prescrib

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Clinicians Don’t Feel Prepared For Greater Technology Use

Healthcare IT Today

New research on the future of clinical practice suggests that being technology savvy will be more critical than ever over the next decade — but that the majority of clinicians still don’t feel prepared. While I could have written this headline ten years ago, the problem seems to be a lot worse at this point […].

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Patients Look Beyond the Pandemic to Pharma for Engagement, Innovation, and Integrity

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted patients who were already deeply engaged with their own health care before the coronavirus emerged. Compared with a year ago, more patients and their advocates are seeking quality therapies, innovation, engagement, and integrity from pharmaceutical companies, based on research published today from PatientView. PatientView, based in the UK, has collaborated with over 40,000 patient advocacy organizations globally marking over 10 years doing this research.

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Oura taps Tom Hale as CEO and more digital health hires

Mobi Health News

Also: Mental health-focused Spring Health hires Todd Hill from Headspace Health, Teladoc Health appoints Dr. Vidya Raman-Tangella as chief medical officer and WellSky appoints Dale Zurbay chief growth officer.

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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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With telehealth, Behavioral Nutrition sees many more patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Behavioral Nutrition is a holistic eating disorder outpatient clinic that treats adolescents and adults using behavioral therapy and nutritional counseling. The clinic has five locations spread out among Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Florida, New Jersey and Texas. THE PROBLEM. The provider organization had four main challenges: The clinical team was looking to provide convenient nutritional support to patients who needed help but were deterred from scheduling a session due to being located sever

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How Health Gets Built – The Building H Index Thinking Health-By-Design

Health Populi

“It’s hard to be healthy in the U.S. today.” That is the underlying premise and reason for The Building H Index. Health happens outside of doctors’ offices and hospital operating rooms. Health is made in our homes, in our communities, in our daily lives as we go about working, playing, learning, and praying. Too often, in those daily life-flows, making a healthy decision is harder than defaulting to a less-healthy one.

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Former Cerebral VP alleges unsafe prescribing practices in lawsuit

Mobi Health News

Former vice president Matthew Truebe said he was fired after raising concerns about the company's prescribing practices, alleging Cerebral aimed to prescribe stimulants to all its ADHD patients to increase retention.

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AMA survey: Majority of physicians say telehealth enables more comprehensive quality care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A survey conducted by the American Medical Association found that the vast majority of physician respondents say they're currently using telehealth – and many of those reporting a decrease say they're providing a mix of virtual and in-person care. The survey, which was conducted online in late 2021, explored the variations in telehealth use among 2,232 physicians.

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Goal Setting for Mental Health Patients

TheraNest

Setting goals is common no matter someone’s background, history, or plan for their future. Everyone has things they want to accomplish. Goals help people identify where they see themselves ending up so that they can determine the best path to get there. If someone has a primary goal of buying a house in 5 years, then they might set smaller, secondary goals of saving a certain amount of money every month to have the money they would need for a down payment.

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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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Telehealth Update from the AMA – Setting the Context for ATA 2022

Health Populi

Four in five U.S. physicians were using telehealth to care for patients at the end of 2021. Among those doctors who were not providing telehealth by late 2021, just over one half never did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2021 Telehealth Survey Report from the AMA. This report provides insightful context for the upcoming annual ATA Conference for 2022 , being held in-person in Boston kicking off May 1st.

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Mobile app-based health studies hampered by low participant engagement, retention rates

Mobi Health News

In one large-scale study, mean engagement with the app lasted only 4.1 days.

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Study of 40.7M adults finds telehealth comparable for chronic conditions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A study of 40.7 million commercially insured adults in the United States who sought care via telehealth found contrasting patterns of follow-up care between those with chronic conditions and those with acute clinical conditions. The research, which was published this week in JAMA Network Open , assessed outcomes of care two weeks after patients' initial ambulatory encounters.

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The Consumer-Priced Device That Brought Surgery Within Reach

Healthcare IT Today

I like to highlight qualitative, disruptive change in my health IT articles. The REVEAL FGS binocular (Figure 1), which allows safer surgeries on brain tumors, meets that criterion on several levels. The binocular is easier to use than previous solutions to the problem and is radically adapted to surgeon’s workflows. And a quantitative change–as a […].

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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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Tell Me Your Story: How Narrative Medicine Fosters Trust

Society for Participatory Medicine

Curled up on her hospital gurney but unable to sleep, the middle-aged Latinx female trauma patient sighed, “I am tired of being tired.” Before daybreak, “Rosa” (not her real name) had arrived at work to open her New York restaurant but was interrupted by an intruder who attempted to rob and assault her. She fought off her attacker and was brought to the ED by ambulance.

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iXensor receives Rohto Pharmaceutical's investment to boost technology licensing

Mobi Health News

The company aims to help the self-testing market grow by licensing its core technology for transforming smartphones into IVD devices.

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Providence spins off DexCare, which orchestrates capacity and digital health demand

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Renton, Washington-based Providence knew healthcare was becoming more consumer-driven and believed that meant digital needed to play a role in how care was accessed and delivered. THE PROBLEM. But, like many health systems, Providence needed to dramatically evolve its digital capabilities to not just meet but exceed customers' expectations of accessing care where and when they needed it.

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Driving Effective Patient Onboarding in Remote Patient Monitoring Programs

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Ryan Clark, VP of Client Solutions at Optimize Health. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has the power to fundamentally change how healthcare providers care for and engage with patients. RPM provides a unique opportunity to collect, monitor, and trend data on a daily basis, so you are no longer limited […].

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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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Surging Gas Prices: How Remote Patient Monitoring Can Help Doctors and Patients Save Travel Costs?

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The average price of a gallon of gasoline has increased by more than 10% in the last weeks, prompting some customers to reconsider their spending habits. This is also a very essential factor for healthcare practitioners and patients, especially for those who live in rural locations. The good news is that one of the key advantages of Telemedicine and Remote Patient Monitoring is that it allows patients, their caregivers, and health-care professionals to avoid traveling.

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Teladoc stock dives after disappointing Q1 earnings

Mobi Health News

The virtual care giant reported a $6.7 billion loss in the first quarter, driven by a non-cash goodwill impairment charge related to its 2020 Livongo deal.

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Mobile app-based health studies hampered by low participant engagement, retention rates

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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A Look at the Behavioral Health Network, TPN.health

Healthcare IT Today

Behavioral Health is in an interesting space since it’s suffered through many stigmas and missed out on many reimbursement and stimulus efforts that have been available to medical care. That seems like it’s starting to change as many realize the importance of treating mental health and overcoming the past stigmas. However, behavioral health still suffers […].

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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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A new generation of ARM software, Smax Technologies SCollect

Corp Advisory Solutions

Ready for a different type of ARM software provider? The Smax Technology team strives to be just that, pulling from their combined experience across all levels of the industry to build ARM software that give you all the features you need with the simplicity you crave. Learn more about the new ARM software technology. The post A new generation of ARM software, Smax Technologies SCollect appeared first on Corporate Advisory Solutions.

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Biofourmis reaches unicorn status with $300M Series D

Mobi Health News

Coming nearly two years after the company's $100 million Series C, Biofourmis tallied its total raise at $445 million.

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Looking ahead to ATA 2022

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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RPM (Remote Patient Monitoring) Challenges

Healthcare IT Today

Yesterday, we took a broad view of RPM (remote patient monitoring) including some of the pressures it faces and the reasons many healthcare organizations are embracing RPM. Today we want to look at some of the challenges that RPM still faces going forward and what it will take to overcome those challenges. As we partially […].

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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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The Fastest Way to Straighten Teeth As Per Experts

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Clean and straight teeth are a dream for many people because it makes them feel secure and confident when they smile and talk. After taking the bold step of straightening their teeth, many people are worried about how long it will take and when they will start seeing results. But having a specific time for […]. The post The Fastest Way to Straighten Teeth As Per Experts appeared first on Healthystic.

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Contributed: The opportunities and challenges for remote patient monitoring

Mobi Health News

Dr. Liz Kwo outlines the landscape of the RPM space.

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Hospital at home is redefining care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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