KevinMD

JULY 9, 2022

Two years after the global pandemic totally rewrote the health care playbook, hospitals, health systems, facilities, and providers are still striving to find some semblance of normalcy. Challenges present before the pandemic weren’t solved during the all-hands-on-deck mentality during wave after wave of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Obstacles such as outmoded workflows remain to be.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 12, 2022

Health inequity is the result of the behavior of people. It is not the result of anything natural. It involves structural inequalities in the delivery of care – inequalities that are avoidable. Trying to correct health inequity is part of the job for Toni Land, head of clinical healthcare experience at Medallia, a patient and customer experience management company.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 12, 2022

This marks the urinalysis and wound-care company's third 510(k) clearance.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

People whose sense of well-being shifted positively in the past two years are finding greater personal purpose and financial health, we see in Sharecare’s Community Well-Being Index – 2021 State Rankings Report. Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S. states since 2008. When the study launched, Well-Being Index evaluated five domains: physical, social, community, purpose, and financial.

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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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KevinMD

JULY 10, 2022

Physicians are getting their asses kicked by technology, but this is reversible if they integrate technology as they do laboratory science. Medicine needs specialized doctors who only focus on technology. This will combat burnout and take control of a system that has no other incentive to adapt to clinical needs. In 2013, I graduated medical. Read more….

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Mobi Health News

JULY 12, 2022

The Rock Health report found U.S. digital health startups raised $10.3 billion in the first half of 2022, putting the year on track to fall short of 2021. But there are some bright spots for the sector.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2022

Supply chain challenges, inflation, and plummeting consumer economic sentiment are setting the stage for a decline in consumer electronics revenues for 2022. However, there will be some bright spots of growth for consumer tech spending, for 5G smartphones, smart home applications, gaming, and health technologies, noted in the Consumer Technology Association’s CTA U.S.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 12, 2022

The 3G sunset has had plenty of warning, but will that matter to older adults? Many people do not remember much about January 1, 2000, the day all systems that stored 2-digit years would become useless calculators. But there was much preparation and so life went on, mostly normal. Will that be the case with the 3G-to-5G network transition? The big three carriers (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile) are motoring ahead with this switchover to enable them to free up, as they say, faster and more reliab

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2022

Shannon Hastings is the chief technology officer at Project Ronin, where he helps to lead the organization in delivering systems to help cancer patients and clinicians, including remote patient monitoring for cancer patients. Ronin uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and electronic health records in its work to manage cancer patients.

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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

JULY 14, 2022

Researchers found three themes in their review of studies on wearables: the role of providers and potential benefits to care, driving behavior change and barriers to use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

Almost all of the healthcare implementations of Geographic Information System (GIS) being discussed at the 2022 Esri User Conference would not be possible if GIS data was not shared so readily by government organizations. When combined, these disparate datasets lead to important health insights that would have been difficult or impossible to obtain using non-GIS methods.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 12, 2022

This article was originally published in July 2015 but was updated in June 2022. I want to ‘do telemedicine’: What is involved, and how much does it cost? The use of telemedicine is at an all-time high, with 85% of doctors using telehealth to connect with patients. With so much change, organizations can easily get lost in implementing the technology just to stay on top of the latest and greatest.

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Iris Telehealth

JULY 11, 2022

Iris clinicians are at the heart of what makes our organization such a special place to work. That’s why we’re turning the spotlight on the amazing work they’re doing every day. This month, we’re sitting down to talk with Dr. Chris Heh. Q. How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider? A: Six years ago, I was making a job transition and was looking for something that would provide me with flexibility.

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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

JULY 15, 2022

Bicycle Health CEO Ankit Gupta and Medical Director Dr. Brian Clear discuss the treatment landscape for patients with opioid use disorder.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

The following is a guest article by Sachin Patel, CEO at Apixio. The use of AI in healthcare is gaining fast traction, with the total market expected to grow over 46% CAGR, reaching $96 billion by 2028. While AI has the potential to improve health equity, intrinsic and extrinsic biases that exist from the lack of diverse data exacerbate the problem.

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

JULY 12, 2022

If you are a dog owner, you probably don’t need convincing that your dog offers various health benefits to you. But, on the other hand, if you are trying to convince yourself or someone that having a dog provides more benefits than just fluffy hugs and fur everywhere, then this is the article for you. […]. The post The Health Benefits of Having a Dog appeared first on Healthystic.

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Mend

JULY 12, 2022

It can be difficult to keep up with the latest healthcare payment trends in a rapidly changing landscape. Here are 10 predictions for what we’ll see in 2022. From new technology like artificial intelligence to an increase in value-based care, these healthcare payment trends will have a major impact on the industry. Trend #1: The Rise of Digital Health.

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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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Mobi Health News

JULY 12, 2022

Health2Sync has upgraded its patient management platform to identify patients' CKD risk levels.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dr. Melissa Urrea from @naviHealthPAC on the topic “ Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Senior Population. ”. In this week’s #HITsm chat, naviHealth Executive Medical Director Dr.

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AMD Telemedicine

JULY 14, 2022

Pandemic restrictions may have largely lifted, but one of COVID’s most important healthcare disruptions — telemedicine — has only become more relevant. That’s great news for the nearly 20% of Americans living in rural communities. Though telehealth technology has positive applications everywhere, it’s especially advantageous for those who are outside of highly populated urban centers.

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Health System CIO

JULY 12, 2022

Telehealth can play a much bigger role in improving care and satisfaction. But until it becomes more attractive to physicians, that potential may never be reached, according to Joseph Kvedar, MD, Senior Advisor of Virtual Care at Mass General Brigham. Source: Moving Telehealth out of the Post-Covid Doldrums on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs of healthcare CIOs.

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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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Mobi Health News

JULY 13, 2022

Peloton said it's expanding its partnership with Taiwanese company Rexon Industrial Corp., which will become the primary manufacturer of its bike and treadmill products.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

When you first hear about VR (Virtual Reality) being used for medical training, it kind of sounds like a game or a joke and not a serious addition to a doctor’s training. However, the reality is that the technology and the research around surgical training using VR is very serious and much more than a game. What did surprise me was how VR surgical training was not so much a replacement to surgical training, but a great addition that takes the existing training to a new level.

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eVisit

JULY 12, 2022

In recent years, cybersecurity has emerged as one of the most pressing focus areas for c-suite executives seeking to strengthen their healthcare enterprise risk management.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JULY 15, 2022

Dyslipidemia is a condition in which the blood has abnormal lipids like triglycerides, cholesterol, and fat phospholipids. Let’s look at some important facts, such as the causes and treatment for dyslipidemia. Prevalence and Statistics about Dyslipidemia in the US. Between 2015 and 2018, about 12% of persons aged 20 and over had total cholesterol levels greater than 240 mg/dL, and about 17% had HDL cholesterol levels less than 40 mg/dL. [1].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 13, 2022

New York-based Northwell said the collaboration will accelerate its digital transformation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

Acquisition pivots prescription management to patients, reduces administrative burden and offers connectivity at the point of prescribing. Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) today announced the acquisition of ScalaMed, a HIPAA-compliant, smart platform that transfers prescriptions directly to patients via a secure mobile app. The acquisition transfers ScalaMed’s technology and assets to Outcomes™, a Cardinal Health company.

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Health Recovery Solutions

JULY 14, 2022

Congestive heart failure or CHF continues to be the leading cause of hospital admissions and readmissions for people above 65 years old in the United States. At 26.9% of the total readmission rate , CHF accounts for the highest 30-day rehospitalization rate among medical and surgical conditions. In fact, 1 in 4 heart failure patients is reported to be re-admitted within 30 days of hospital discharge.

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