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Planning for Community Connect

Optimum Healthcare IT

Community Connect extends Epic functionality to smaller facilities that may not have the resources to sustain a full-scale implementation. The post Planning for Community Connect appeared first on Optimum Healthcare IT.

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How Grocery Stores Are Part of the Health/Care Ecosystem – the Case of ALDI and Instacart

Health Populi

As humans in the Age of the Coronavirus focus on physiological needs, people have intensely focused on hunting-and-gathering food and hygiene products. We will remember memes about toilet tissue stockpiling and re-visiting canned and shelf-stable comfort foods from childhood long after the pandemic. Some people, though, haven’t had easy access to nutritious food in their communities or the ability to engage with ecommerce platforms to order food for delivery.

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Telehealth reimbursement may be changing. How should providers prepare?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The future potential of telehealth hinges on how it's reimbursed. Virtual care may be popular among patients, but if providers can't get paid for their services, it's unlikely they'll be able to continue to provide them. The government has signaled its support for reimbursing some telehealth services, at least in the short term. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month , for example, that it would add 11 virtual services to its reimbursement lis

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Apple collaborates with researchers on studies of heart failure, flu

Mobi Health News

In addition to a study of asthma patients with Anthem, the tech giant is working with the Universities of Toronto and Washington on two other studies using its new Apple Watch Series 6.

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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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Latest from Tech Tonics: Kevin Lyman – From Halo to CEO

Digital Health

Kevin Lyman was once the world’s highest ranked Warlock in Worlds of Warcraft and a professional Halo2 player. But that wasn’t his original plan. In fact, growing up in New Jersey, Kevin always wanted to be a scientist, even before he was sure of what that meant. While a student at Renselaer Polytechnic Institute, Kevin […].

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Epic, Zoom and mobile app help at-risk clinic volunteers deliver care from home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades in Bend, Oregon, is one of 92 VIM free clinics nationwide. The Bend clinic installed an electronic health record in 2004 and has a long history of adopting health IT. THE PROBLEM. There are around 200 volunteers at the clinic who care for an uninsured population of primarily Latinx patients. The ripples of COVID-19 hit especially hard in this community, where many lost jobs in the hospitality and tourism industries.

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Fitbit receives Army award to further develop its COVID-19 early detection algorithm

Mobi Health News

In addition to the award, Fitbit will begin a study with Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to detect signs of illness in its employees.

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The Digital Health Boomerang: 4 Tips For Successfully Scaling Digital Solutions 

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Juan Pablo Segura, president and co-founder, Babyscripts. In a crisis, finding the “right” solution is much less important than finding the “right now” solution. During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinical practices scrambled to quickly transition […].

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Tech-enabled Home Care Redux? Do investors remember 2016?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

What’s up with investing in home care and technology? Some recent announcements offer almost the same level of overheating investment that the frothy level of investment that characterized the 2016 investor spending spree, noted in a Forbes. In addition to the Forbes list, which included the $157 million poured into Care.com, unfortunately revealing a shocking lack of company oversight of care workers in 2019.

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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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Digital divide remains, despite big COVID-19 tech innovation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During a presentation this past Friday as part of HIMSS Global Health Equity Week, a public health expert from the UN offered his thoughts on some of the challenges and opportunities for worldwide digital health improvement. In the discussion, Health Equity: A Global Perspective , Ahmed El Saeed, thematic lead in health at the United Nations Technology Innovation Labs Programme (UNTIL), spoke with HIMSS CEO Hal Wolf.

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Digital therapeutics and wellness app users to reach 1.4 billion by 2025

Mobi Health News

New study finds that as the pandemic accelerates regulatory acceptance, the market value is expected to grow by 865% over the next five years.

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Three Different Medical Device CE Markings and What They Mean

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The CE mark we know and recognize today was originally an EC mark, but in 1993, this was replaced with the CE mark we use now, which is found in directive 93/68/EEC. This CE mark […]. The article Three Different Medical Device CE Markings and What They Mean appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Why does Walmart think it has a right to play in healthcare? Top health exec Osborne explains

FierceHealthIT

Why does Walmart think it has a right to play in healthcare? Top health exec Osborne explains. pminemyer. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 12:26.

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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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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits. "Timely availability of clinical information during health care transitions, in a setting with robust telemedicine access, can shift the method of care delivery wi

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Evaluating musculoskeletal digital health apps

Mobi Health News

Dr. Liz Kwo reviews the opportunity for digital health apps for musculoskeletal health conditions and looks at challenges facing their wider adoption among providers.

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How Technology Is Changing The Way We Age

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Karen Smith, head of sales and marketing, MePACS. People are living longer and fuller lives thanks to advancements in public health, nutrition, sanitation and medicine in the last 100 years. And now, thanks to […]. The article How Technology Is Changing The Way We Age appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Amwell CMO: Google partnership will focus on AI, machine learning to expand into new markets

FierceHealthIT

Amwell CMO: Google partnership will focus on AI, machine learning to expand into new markets. hlandi. Wed, 10/28/2020 - 10:25.

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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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Columbia Asia Hospital group taps on DoctorOnCall to provide telehealth services for patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Malaysia-founded private healthcare provider Columbia Asia Hospital group, which operates 13 medical facilities in Malaysia, has launched a telehealth service in which patients can get the care that they need from their doctor via video call, receive medical advice and/or clinical management as well as drug prescriptions, at their own location and convenience.

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Psyomics secures £1.5m funding for Censeo mental health platform

Mobi Health News

EIS fund manager Parkwalk led the funding round alongside existing investors Jonathon Milner, Cambridge Enterprise and Martlet.

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How A Midsize Dental Practice Scaled Its Finance Team Amid Significant Company Growth

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Virginia Jones, chief operating officer, Village Family Dental. Scaling operations amidst growth can be difficult; staff begin to feel strapped for time which can lead to burn out and companies can get stuck with […]. The article How A Midsize Dental Practice Scaled Its Finance Team Amid Significant Company Growth appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare leaders pinpoint supply chain, data sharing improvements to prepare for next pandemic

FierceHealthIT

Healthcare leaders pinpoint supply chain, data sharing improvements to prepare for next pandemic. rking. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 16:02.

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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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Universal Community Health moves from text-enabled telehealth to robust ‘tele-assisted care’

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Toward the end of March, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard in California, Universal Community Health Center in Los Angeles needed to implement a quick-and-easy platform to get telehealth off the ground. THE PROBLEM. The health center needed a simple solution that would enable its patients to communicate with the devices and the resources it had without the complexity of having to install an application or having to create any user names, said Dr.

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Machine learning app scans faces and listens to speech to quickly spot strokes

Mobi Health News

Researchers say that their tool detected cases with 79% accuracy, and did so within minutes.

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Looking Ahead: The Most Pressing Challenges Facing IT Leaders In 2021

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Greg Jones, chief technology officer, MobileSmith Health. The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly changed the healthcare landscape, and with that, the amount of disruptive technologies flooding the industry at the same time has drastically increased. […].

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More than half of Americans would use virtual care, UnitedHealth Group survey finds

FierceHealthIT

More than half of Americans would use virtual care, UnitedHealth Group survey finds. treed. Fri, 10/30/2020 - 15:23.

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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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Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures. "Mass adoption of this technology will lead to new cybercrime focus, with an emphasis on stealing patient data to enable fraud, target health data in ransomware attacks, t

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Medidata acquires MC10's digital biomarker business

Mobi Health News

Medidata said the deal will help better integrate clinical-grade metrics into its remote trial platform and broadly support the use of wearable sensors for clinical research.

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Tips For Your Healthcare Marketing Campaign

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A healthcare marketing campaign is multifaceted. It should be aimed at attracting more customers and improving the relationship between hospital stakeholders. It should also be targeted at introducing new and improved ways of the hospital […]. The article Tips For Your Healthcare Marketing Campaign appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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