Health Populi
AUGUST 25, 2020
In the Fear of Going Out Era spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic, many patients were loath to go to the doctor’s office for medical care, and even less keen on entering a hospital clinic’s doors. This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app.
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 27, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology has impacted the way we do many things. Where it has become a partner in progress is in the healthcare industry. Many developments that were once the subject of science fiction have become reality […]. The article 4 Significant Healthcare Trends In 2020 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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South Central Telehealth Resource Center
AUGUST 28, 2020
The following perspective was recently sent from one of our services recipients, Alan Faulkner, Vice President at ARcare. ARcare is a FQHC system with over 40 sites stretched across 3 states – Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky. In the following statement from Mr. Faulkner he describes the main types of telehealth assistance requested by ARcare from the SCTRC.
KevinMD
AUGUST 26, 2020
An excerpt from Scope Forward: The Future of Gastroenterology Is Now in Your Hands. Over a decade ago, many of us still used landline phones, watched cable TV, rented DVDs, called for taxis, took photos using cameras, and drove over to Borders to browse and buy books.Read more. Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now.
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Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2020
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, two certainties emerge in the lives of physicians: they are generating less revenue, and they have adopted more virtual care in practices. The Physicians Foundation surveyed 3,513 physicians in July 2020 on their perspectives on COVID-19 and how the pandemic has impacted practices and patients. This study is part one of three conducted by the Foundation this year, subtitled the “COVID-19 Impact Edition” of the 2020 Survey of America’s P
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Digital Health
AUGUST 24, 2020
John Groetelaars learned to work with his hands on his family’s vegetable farm, but he realized early that he was more interested in using those hands to build motorcycles and mechanical devices. He followed his inclination first by helping manufacture engines and axles after earning his engineering degree through the GM Institute; he later transferred […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 26, 2020
In a new survey of U.S. specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, from data and analytics company GlobalData, found that fewer than half of the cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonology and respiratory specialists surveyed were using telehealth before the pandemic. More than three-quarters of those surveyed said they would continue to use virtual care technology in the future.
Health Populi
AUGUST 28, 2020
In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. However, only 44% would be willing to share their personal data with a national database, a MITRE study learned. Only one-third of Americans would be willing to share their temperature, 29% their location, and one-fourth information about their chronic conditions.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 28, 2020
Following a study looking into how adults living with Type 2 diabetes use technology to self-monitor lifestyle and health behaviors, researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio found that technology-assisted self-monitoring was safe and effective in generating positive health outcomes.
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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.
Healthcare IT Today
AUGUST 26, 2020
I always like to gather insights from practicing clinical informaticists, whose job puts them at the crossroads where health IT and care delivery meet. I particularly like doing so when they find a way to share these insights in a user-friendly way. For this reason, I was delighted to discover a recent blog entry by […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 26, 2020
Bridge Counseling Associates is a nonprofit agency and certified community behavioral health clinic based in Las Vegas – in Clark County, Nevada, the southernmost county in the state, which is the seventh largest by land size. THE PROBLEM. In order to provide needed services in rural communities where professional behavioral health services are virtually unavailable, Bridge needed to provide services via telehealth.
Health Populi
AUGUST 24, 2020
“Digital transformation” was the mantra for all industries before we heard about the COVID-19 virus. Since the emergence of the pandemic, the coronavirus has accelerated the adoption of digital platforms, AI, and ecommerce. That is at least as true for the health care sector as it has been for other industry segments. So, will the fast-adoption of virtual care and other forms of digitization in health care last?
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 25, 2020
Fitbit announced today three new wearables – the Fitbit Sense, Fitbit Versa 3 and Fitbit Inspire 2 – to its product pipeline. The Fitbit Sense marks the company’s first “advanced health” smartwatch, including an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor, an electrocardiogram app, a heart rate tracker and an on-wrist skin temperature sensor with more than six days of battery life.
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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.
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 28, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Matthew Zajechowski, content strategist, Digital Third Coast. The use of Telehealth services has seen remarkable growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent research found that 67% of Americans have used telehealth services during the COVID-19 […].
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 25, 2020
Earlier this year, the FCC awarded Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation in New Hyde Park, New York, $97,965 for telehealth services and connected devices, including remote monitoring devices, to care for the elderly and chronically ill in its 527-bed skilled nursing facility and rehabilitation center specializing in the care of older adults.
Health Populi
AUGUST 27, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed many flaws in the U.S. healthcare system, first and foremost the nation’s patchwork public health infrastructure and health inequities in mortality rates due to COVID-19. The Commonwealth Fund ‘s biennial report, published as the pandemic continues into and beyond the third quarter of 2020, sheds light on another weakness in U.S. healthcare: the cost of health insurance relative to working Americans’ relatively flat incomes.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 26, 2020
NurtureVR was designed to be used at home as future moms enter their third trimesters to receive prenatal education, pain and stress management, and postpartum support.
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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!
Electronic Health Reporter
AUGUST 28, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Finding new revenue opportunities and avoiding claims denials has taken on greater urgency as hospitals and other healthcare organizations face growing reimbursement shortfalls in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is why Hayes, makers […]. The article Hayes Launches Revenue Optimizer To Help Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations Reverse Revenue Declines, Reduce Claim Denials appeared fi
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 24, 2020
In Maine, COVID-19 case counts have been relatively low compared with the rest of the country, though that number has been slowly climbing. But when the pandemic began to unfold this spring, Central Maine Healthcare Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Steven Martel said the system still worked to minimize risk to patients and team members while delivering the care people needed.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 28, 2020
Hospitals could be facing lower patient volumes for a while due to COVID-19. How are they responding? rking. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 12:53.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 27, 2020
While on average participants lowered their anxiety and depression, a fraction of the original participants filled in the 9-month follow up.
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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.
South Central Telehealth Resource Center
AUGUST 28, 2020
Ms. Donna Robinson is the Wellness Coordinator at Magazine School District’s School-Based Health Center (SBHC) in Magazine, Arkansas. Magazine is a small, rural town with a population size of approximately 800 people. Magazine SBHC began using telehealth in 2016 through the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Digital Health & Innovation: Public Schools Program (formerly called STAR), and they continue to enhance and develop their telehealth services.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 24, 2020
Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay. Layla McCay As the first wave of infections arrived, we saw near-instant digital innovation that might otherwise have taken years: the rapid roll-out of remote working platforms, shared care record projects, electro
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 27, 2020
Competing with Apple and Fitbit, Amazon launches health wearable that tracks activity, body fat, emotions. hlandi. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 15:38.
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 28, 2020
Toronto-based SeamlessMD announced today the closing of its $4 million Series A financing round, led by MEDTEQ+ with participation from Hikma Ventures, Anges Québec, AIoT Health and health IT entrepreneur Sanjay Malaviya. With this funding, SeamlessMD has reached $7.4 million in total capital raised. The company also announced that Robert Ritlop, the director of investments at MEDTEQ+, and Malaviya will be joining SeamlessMD’s board of directors.
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Health System CIO
AUGUST 27, 2020
One of biggest challenges facing CIOs is the ability to effectively prioritize tasks based on the most pressing needs, and set realistic expectations, says JD Whitlock. In this interview, he talks about his team’s vision for an enterprise imaging architecture. Source: Podcast Interview with CIO JD Whitlock, Part 1: “You Can’t Do Everything.” on healthsystemcio.com - healthsystemCIO.com is the sole online-only publication dedicated to exclusively and comprehensively serving the information needs
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 28, 2020
The Arc Madison Cortland in Oneida, New York, knows that there is a lack of providers that specialize in the intellectual/developmental disability field. Making the problem worse, not so many that understand dual diagnosis. THE PROBLEM. With COVID-19 minimizing the ability for individuals to receive face-to-face services with their providers, many patients are resorting to emergency department visits.
FierceHealthIT
AUGUST 26, 2020
Hospital revenues, delayed elective surgeries top trends to watch over next year: survey. treed. Wed, 08/26/2020 - 16:45.
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