InTouch Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

How Telehealth Can Reduce Costs and Improve the Quality of Pediatric Care. Studies show 86.3% of children from ages 5 to 11 are in excellent or very good health, but around 4.3% of children do not have access to regular healthcare. General pediatricians provide the majority of care for children, but for some families, this may not be enough. InTouch Health partners with Children’s Mercy Kansas City, a non-profit, independent children’s hospital serving Missouri, Kansas, and the surrounding regio

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Should you get a mammogram at age 45? Should you start taking a statin? Is now the time to get a hip replacement? You can go down rabbit holes trying to research these online, talk to friends about their experiences, or have a few too many opinions thrown at you in online communities. And when […].

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Most employers and their workers see the benefits of digital health in helping make health care more accessible and lower-cost, according to survey research published in Health on Demand from Mercer Marsh Benefits. Interestingly, more workers living in developing countries are keener on going digital for health than people working in wealthier nations.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes is like having to relearn how to live all over again. Suddenly there are new rules for eating, exercising, and even sleeping. It can take a lot of time to adjust to all these new demands. But diabetes doesn’t just change how you have to live. It can also have a huge impact on your physical and emotional self. Weight gain is a common phenomenon in T1D people just starting insulin treatment.

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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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HealthStream

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

To illustrate the difficulty that a typical healthcare provider may encounter when planning annual required training, we offer the example of just one role in a single state—a respiratory therapist in Tennessee

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Patients are now front-line payors in the U.S. health care system. As such, American health consumers are wrestling with sticker shock from surgical procedures, surprise medical bills weeks after leaving the hospital, and the cost of prescription drugs — whether six-figure oncology therapies or essential medicines like insulin and EpiPens. To manage personal health finances, patients-as-payors are increasingly willing to face trade-offs and change personal behaviors to lower health care costs, b

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Digital Health

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Dr. Seth Feuerstein’s grandfather was a physician and his parents were both attorneys, so naturally his parents thought he would become…a comedian! While that didn’t come to be, he did end up as both a doctor and a lawyer who practiced neither discipline full time. Instead, Seth combined his skill sets to serially create new […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Mobile patient engagement technology saves clinic $1.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Icon Ventures led the round with participation from Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, Spring Mountain Capital, Female Founders Fund and Harmony Partners.

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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.

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years. Rural U.S. hospitals are in poor fiscal health. “The accelerated rate at which rural hospitals are closing continues to unsettle the rural healthcare community and demands a more nuanced investigati

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Executives are bullish on the potential of artificial intelligence to improve healthcare. But they say adoption is not happening quickly enough and called out several reasons why, according to a survey by KPMG.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

You have probably never heard the term “insulin fibrillation” before or have even the slightest idea of what it means. But, if you are a type 1 pump user, odds are, this little-known chemical process affects you on a daily basis. And that is why the announcement that a new insulin compound that does not fibrillate is such a big deal. This newly synthesized insulin analog called ‘glycoinsulin’ has shown the same glucose-lowering effects of native insulin but without the complications caused by fi

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Jumpstart, TurnCap, Northcoast Fund, Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, Valley Growth Ventures, and Hudson River Capital Partners participated in the round.

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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.

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

On February 12, 2020, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S. submitted the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress and testified to the Senate Banking Committee. Chairman Jerome Powell detailed the current state of the economy, discussing the state of the macroeconomy, GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, and projections for 2022 and beyond.

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Hackers are getting more creative in exploiting healthcare organizations and patients alike. Here are three cybersecurity trends Protenus found that led to the latest surge in breaches.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. John Showalter, CPO, Jvion. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, especially on its clinical side, where 62% of providers have already adopted an AI strategy. The American Hospital Association recently reported that when […].

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Both CGM competitors announced integrations with Insulet yesterday during the Advanced Technologies & Treatment for Diabetes Congress in Madrid.

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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!

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Morning eHealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Patients say they can’t afford to wait for privacy protections — How China's using tech to fight coronavirus

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Tom Catena, M.D., has been described as ”the world’s most important doctor,” and he is, to more than a million patients. Find out why this he 55-year-old American doctor and surgeon has been honored with a top medical missionary award.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Salman Rashid, creative marketer, RightPatient. Budgets and costs regarding IT are expanding more than ever- healthcare providers are increasingly focusing on requirements that demand up to date facilities as well as stability. This […]. The article Patient Misidentification Is Still Problematic For Hospitals appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Nebula is pitching this new product as a more secure and informative alternative to mainstream consumer genomic products.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

I’ve written about telehealth for more than a decade. I’m familiar with VR and most of its cousins as well. And most everyone knows what a clinic is. But until today, I’d never heard of a vendor mashing up telehealth and VR and calling it a clinic. A few months ago, I wrote up a […].

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

You're probably thinking: I already have backup for that. As our grid ages and emergency power requirements remain critical to hospital tools and operations, the current standard of care must innovate and adopt reliable and resilient power systems.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It is crucial that you work to improve your health and overall well-being on a regular basis. However, as a busy man, you may not necessarily have the ability to track everything and keep up […]. The article Tech to Help Enhance Your Health and Overall Well-Being appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

A recently published analysis of eight digital studies found a median dropoff of 5.5 days, as well as a predominantly young and white pool of participants.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 2/21 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Bennett Lauber (@uuAbility). The ISO 9241 standard presents the definition of usability as Effective Efficient and Satisfying in a specified context of use. Almost every App, Website, or […].

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FierceHealthIT

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Big-name health insurers raked in $35.7 billion in profit over the course of the year. Check out the comparisons of how they performed.

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Electronic Health Reporter

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Vyne, a market leader in health information exchange and electronic healthcare communication management, announced today that it has acquired Renaissance Electronic Services, LLC, an Indianapolis-based technology company providing EDI products and services to dental practices […].

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