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Future of Telehealth: Experienced Practitioners Increasingly Pursuing Telehealth Jobs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A recent report by SteadyMD , New Proprietary Data from SteadyMD Finds That Experienced Doctors & Therapists View Telehealth as a Better Way to Practice Medicine , throws light on the opinions and telehealth satisfaction of more than 1,700 clinicians, including doctors, nurses, and therapists. B2B telehealth infrastructure supplier across all 50 states, SteadyMD, conducted the study to understand better what motivated healthcare workers to take up positions in telehealth rather than traditio

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Life Expectancy Falls in the U.S., the Largest 2-Year Decline in 100 Years

Health Populi

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5 Ways Telepsychiatry Will Impact the Future of Behavioral Health

Iris Telehealth

As the healthcare industry evolves, one thing is certain: telehealth is here to stay. In fact, we believe that telepsychiatry is revolutionizing the way healthcare organizations approach behavioral health. Below we share five ways telepsychiatry is shaping the future of behavioral healthcare and how your organization and patients can benefit. 1. Telepsychiatry equalizes behavioral healthcare access nationwide.

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Webinar Recap: Avoid the Telehealth Cliff, Part 2

eVisit

Don't forget to check out Part 1 of this two-part blog series recapping eVisit's recent webinar presentation Avoid the Telehealth Cliff: Managing Risk in Virtual Care.

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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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Understanding Healthcare Blockchain Technology in Behavioral Health & Telehealth Security

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Although telehealth has made healthcare more accessible, increased accessibility comes with unique challenges. While healthcare professionals already have to follow HIPAA rules and regulations, telehealth increases the risk of online security issues. Healthcare cyber attacks already occur twice as often as those targeting other industries. This article will answer the question, “What Is Blockchain?

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An inside look at a national, bilingual telemedicine service

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Galileo is a recently launched telehealth service that delivers 24/7 primary and multi-specialty care in both English and Spanish. It aims to set itself apart with its fully bilingual service offerings. Dr. Jason Chirichigno is Galileo's clinical systems leader. His goal is to help remove language as a barrier for access to healthcare for the 53 million U.S.

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Newest Digital Health Programs Address Digestive Disease Management

Healthcare IT Today

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New technologies may mitigate fall risk – and just in time

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The stats on death from falls are startling – especially for the 65+. Death rates are rising, projected to be 7 up to deaths per hour for the 65+ by 2030. And that falls are the leading cause of injury death among the 65+. Did you know that the majority of hip fractures are from falling, usually sideways ? Did you know that medical costs from falls was $50 billion in were projected to be $52 billion in 2020?

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Virtual Care and Mental Health Top of Mind for Employers’ Workplaces in 2023

Health Populi

The concept that all companies are “health care companies” takes on greater import in the wake of the pandemic. The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy.

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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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Study: Symptom checkers' diagnostic, triage accuracy is low

Mobi Health News

A review of studies published in npj Digital Medicine found diagnostic and triage accuracy varied but was generally low, raising concerns about using symptom checkers as patient-facing tools.

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Immediate, accurate diagnosis is crucial to the future of equitable patient care

KevinMD

As the pandemic-stricken health systems recover from the unprecedented challenges that tested them for preparedness, agility, and health equity, the pandemic undoubtedly also nurtured rapid innovation in telehealth, vaccine manufacturing, and point-of-care diagnostics, which have streamlined and accelerated patients’ access to immediate care at the point of need.

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NIH Awards $23M for telehealth oncology

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has provided $23 million to four universities to develop cancer care telehealth centers as part of NCI's Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence initiative. Under the federal Cancer Moonshot initiative, TRACE aims at how best to use and sustain telehealth to provide cancer-related care.

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Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this month’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 9/2 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This month’s chat will be hosted by Erica Olenski Johansen ( @thegr8chalupa ) on the topic “ Back to the Basics: Implications of Interoperability. ”. When #HITsm first began , the initial conversations were rooted in a mission to invite health IT professionals to the larger industry conversation.

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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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Study: Pandemic telehealth use linked to lower opioid overdose risk

Mobi Health News

Receiving opioid use disorder-related telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with lower odds of overdose and better retention using medications like buprenorphine, according to a study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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RPM for Clinical Trials

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked significant innovation in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry. Technology experts’ ability to quickly integrate digital solutions that can aid in important clinical activities and trials is even more remarkable. The expansion of telehealth, remote patient monitoring (RPM) and other virtual solutions allows researchers and providers to meet patients’ needs while also ensuring patient safety, study integrity, and data quality.

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Southcoast Health slashes CHF and COPD readmissions rates with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Southcoast Health System, based in New Bedford, Massachusetts, has employed a multi-pronged approach to solving different issues through telemedicine. THE PROBLEM. While early goals involved keeping care accessible and safe during the pandemic, staff have worked to focus on continuous improvement and adding programs that would build for long-term value in care delivery.

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IT Infrastructure Needs in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

Yesterday, we shared a number of the insights into the health data and interoperability needs in healthcare. Today, we’re going to share insights from our expert community for some of the more classic IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. Charlie Clarke, Senior Vice President of Technology at hc1. In its simplest form, treat infrastructure as cattle, not as a pet.

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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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How to make remote patient monitoring work for consumers

Mobi Health News

During a panel at the Connected Health Summit, participants discussed the growth of remote patient monitoring technology and how providers can encourage its use, particularly among seniors.

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Addictive Social Media & Work Overload: Social Media Depression?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Research has found that work overload can lead to mental health problems, particularly burnout, decreased life satisfaction, and work dissatisfaction. It also can contribute to depression, anxiety (Elshaer et al., 2018 ), and other mental health consequences (Dar et al., 2011 ). People often cope with work overload by using social media for entertainment and distraction to find an escape (Zhang et al., 2019 ).

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Full coverage: HIMSS22 APAC Health Conference

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

HIMS22 APAC The first HIMSS in-person conference taking place in the Asia-Pacific region since the pandemic will see healthcare changemakers gathering in beautiful Bali from 26 to 29 September 2022. Our reporters will be present to cover discussions on care, data and connectivity, as well as how Indonesia can learn from the lessons of other nations to advance its digital transformation in healthcare.

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Five Reasons A Clinician Should Attend ATA’s Annual Conference

Healthcare IT Today

CME conferences are great. You get to see old friends and meet new colleagues in your field. But often CME conferences have topics centered around traditional healthcare. Also, after being in healthcare for a decade, the topics are familiar and unless you’re in academia and research, probably not always that impactful on your medical practice day-to-day.

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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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Q&A: Developing an app to ease basic needs for people with neurological conditions

Mobi Health News

Augment Health cofounders Jared Meyers and Stephen Kalinsky describe their device that aims to improve the quality of life for people with bladder-control issues stemming from brain, spinal cord or nerve problems.

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Value-Based Care Adoption Rates Remain Low: New Benchmarks from MGMA

David Chou

A recent study released by the MGMA shows that healthcare organizations are still slow to adopt value-based reimbursement models. The study surveyed over 2,300 healthcare organizations and found that the average rate of value-based care only accounts for 5.5% to 14.74% of revenue. This is a far cry from the 50% goal set by CMS in 2016. While some progress has been made in this area, there is still much work to be done.

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Patient access gets a boost with hybrid care models

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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Health Data and Interoperability Infrastructure Needs

Healthcare IT Today

We reached out to the Healthcare IT Today community to get their thoughts on the IT infrastructure needs in healthcare. The responses we got were quite interesting. Tomorrow we’ll share some of the responses to the more classic definition of IT infrastructure. However, amidst the IT infrastructure responses we received a number of health IT experts talking about the importance of health data and interoperability infrastructure.

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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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Virtual care platform 98point6 raises $20M to support licensing vertical

Mobi Health News

The company also announced Washington-based MultiCare Health System will be the first to license its tools for Indigo Health, the health system's hybrid urgent and primary care service.

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3 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Digital Experience Agency for Healthcare

Geonetric

This makes it more important than ever for healthcare to fully break down the digital roadblocks of the past and find new ways to serve today’s consumers. We all love consumers, just like we love our children, but it doesn’t mean that they aren’t accustomed to have the world at their fingertips. And in […]. Read 3 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Digital Experience Agency for Healthcare at Geonetric.com.

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Study: Pandemic telehealth use linked to lower opioid overdose risk

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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