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Is Elon Musk right about the future of medicine?

KevinMD

“Mark my words. AI (artificial intelligence) is more dangerous than the nukes.” – Elon Musk. The other day, as soon as I walked in to work, already running my usual ten minutes late, I was hustling from my office to the clinic when I saw one of our physician assistants in the hallway. Otherwise known. Read more…. Is Elon Musk right about the future of medicine?

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How ED Telehealth Improves Access and Patient Satisfaction

Iris Telehealth

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? If so, you’re not alone. The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s not expected to get better. Community and inpatient resources for mental health care are dwindling.

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The Future of Wearable Devices in Healthcare

Telebehavioral Health Institute

In the last few years, many wearable devices have found widespread support amongst the public. Clinicians have also encouraged clients and patients to purchase wearable healthcare devices to monitor and detect changes in health. These products include blood pressure cuffs; pulse oximeters; heart rate variability devices such as the Oura ring or smartwatches with movement trackers made by Apple or Fitbit; smart home technology , and many other devices.

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Telehealth now serves unmet needs, says athenahealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Increased telehealth utilization points to wider use as a diagnostic and triage tool, particularly among those with chronic conditions. WHY IT MATTERS. New research based on a survey of 2,000 athenaOne network patients conducted in June and July of this year, as well as data on booked and completed appointments through the athenahealth electronic health record, suggests telehealth is now integrated across the care continuum.

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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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How providers should rethink their digital front door strategies

Mobi Health News

During a discussion hosted by Frost & Sullivan, panelists examined how healthcare organizations should use digital tools to ensure care is easy to access.

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It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week: “What I Wish I Had Known” About Mental Health

Health Populi

It’s Mental Illness Awareness Week : annually NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness , devotes the first week of October to advocate for people facing managing a mental illness every day and to raise public consciousness on the pervasiveness of mental illness in America. Mental Illness Awareness Week: Oct. 2-8, 2022. This year, NAMI’s key themes address the over-arching message of “What I wish I had known,” each day looking into: Monday Oct. 3: Stigma.

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Report: Digital health funding drops again in Q3

Mobi Health News

According to Rock Health's analysis, startups raised $2.2 billion across 125 deals, making Q3 the lowest quarter by dollars raised since Q4 2019.

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Where telehealth can help curb the mental health staffing shortage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It should not be news to anyone in the healthcare industry that the nation is suffering a profound shortage of mental health professionals, which was exacerbated by the pandemic. What is news to many is the different ways various telemedicine technologies are being used to help chip away at the mental health-staffing problem. As Iris Telehealth's chief medical officer, Dr.

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Health Data, Clinical Jedi, Death Star – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Friday everyone! We hope you had a great week and accomplished many great things. Thanks so much for reading and supporting Healthcare IT Today. We deeply appreciate the amazing community we have here. If it’s Friday, you know it’s time for another edition of Fun Friday where we try and share something funny to start your weekend off right.

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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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Telehealth-As-Healthcare Is a Mainstream Expectation Among Consumers, J.D. Power Finds

Health Populi

Telehealth has increased access to mental health services, I’ve highlighted this Mental Illness Awareness Week here in Health Populi. But telehealth has also emerged as a preferred channel for routine health care services, we learn from J.D. Power’s 2022 Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Among people who had used virtual care in the past year, telehealth-as-healthcare is now part of mainstream Americans’ expectations as a normal part of their medical care.

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Study: Few randomized clinical trials have been conducted for healthcare machine learning tools

Mobi Health News

A review published in JAMA Network Open evaluated 41 RCTs of machine learning interventions. None of the studies fully followed CONSORT-AI standards, a set of guidelines developed for clinical trials evaluating medical interventions that include AI.

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Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Stephen Manley, CTO, Druva. The biggest healthcare innovation in the last twenty years is … data. Every day, healthcare organizations use data to operate more efficiently, improve patient care, and advance medical research. Over […]. The article Data Resilience Requires More Than An Annual Check Up appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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New Digital Health Command to rise in Victoria

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new Digital Health Command will be established in Victoria as part of the state government's latest hospital infrastructure project. According to a media release, this facility will enable the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) and Royal Women’s Hospital (RWH) to support regional, rural and smaller metropolitan services that care for patients locally through virtual care and specialist clinician-to-clinician consultation.

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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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Health Care Costs Are a Driver of Health Across All of America – Especially for Women

Health Populi

Three in four people in America grade health care costs a #fail, at grade “D” or lower. This is true across all income categories, from those earning under $24,000 a year to the well-off raking in $180K or more, we learn in Gallup’s poll conducted with West Health, finding that Majorities of people rank cost and equity of U.S. healthcare negatively.

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How utilizing technology could ease senior care at home

Mobi Health News

Panelists and speakers explored the use and adoption of technology for senior living at the Seniors and Caretakers: Living Independently event.

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Corrective Action Plans: Leveling the Audit Playing Field with CAPs

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dana Finnegan, MDaudit. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made no secret of its intentions to crack down on fraud, abuse, and waste, throwing more budget dollars into audits, heightening program […]. The article Corrective Action Plans: Leveling the Audit Playing Field with CAPs appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19,

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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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Health Consumers Want More Support from Healthcare – At Retail Experience Levels

Health Populi

As consumers learn to appreciate and patronize retail touchpoints, entertainment, and financial management via omnichannel platforms, patients and health citizens are seeking more enchanting service levels for their health care. The latest view on patient preferences from Kaufman Hall is out in the firm’s annual 2022 State of the Healthcare Consumer Report.

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Mental health startup Grow Therapy scores $75M in Series B funding

Mobi Health News

The new allocation will help the company expand its insurance coverage, including Medicare and Medicaid, across the U.S.

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How To Optimize Patient Attendance & Reduce No-Shows in 2022

Mend

Learning how to optimize patient attendance can help you with revenue, retention, and staff workflow. Learn here how to start immediately reducing no-shows. You’ve scheduled the patients — now it’s time to make sure they actually show up! From providing convenient appointment times to sending reminders, there are many ways to increase the chances that your patients will show up for their appointment.

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Telehealth and RPM on the Montana frontier

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

One Health, based in Hardin, Montana, is a family of Federally Qualified Health Centers that provides integrated primary care to rural and frontier communities in Montana and Wyoming. It has 12 clinics spanning from the Canadian border to the Montana/North Dakota border to northern Wyoming. The service area (though not continuous) covers a region roughly equivalent to the states of New York, New Jersey and Vermont – combined.

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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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Connected Wellness Growing As Consumers Face Tighter Home Economics

Health Populi

“Consumers are using the Internet to take their health into their own hands,” at least for 1 in 2 U.S. consumers engaging in some sort of preventive health care activity online in mid-2022. The new report on Connected Wellness from PYMNTS and Care Credit profiles American health consumers’ use of digital tools for health care promotion and disease prevention.

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Google reveals long-awaited Pixel Watch with Fitbit health tracking

Mobi Health News

The new wearable will include continuous heart rate tracking, sleep monitoring and fitness features. Google also plans to add fall detection this winter.

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How ED Telehealth Improves Access and Patient Satisfaction

Iris Telehealth

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? If so, you’re not alone. The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s not expected to get better. Community and inpatient resources for mental health care are dwindling.

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Cybersecurity Tips for Healthcare IT Consultants

Optimum Healthcare IT

Cybersecurity is a critical issue for healthcare organizations as healthcare remains one of the most targeted industries for cyberattacks. Continue reading Cybersecurity Tips for Healthcare IT Consultants at Optimum Healthcare IT.

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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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8 Information Blocking Regulatory Reminders

Healthcare IT Today

As we mentioned in our previous coverage of 10 healthcare organizations requesting a postponement of the deadline , on October 6th the full information blocking legislation goes into effect. While those organizations asked for a delay, it does not seem this is going to happen. Every Information Blocking actor should be ready for this deadline. Whether this was prompted by the request for a postponement or was already planned, ONC has put out a dedicated information blocking webpage and has pla

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Kaiser Permanente members gain access to Ginger and more digital health briefs

Mobi Health News

Jasper Health and Scripps Research partner to advance the body of literature in oncology, and Zipline and Intermountain Healthcare collaborate to deliver prescriptions and medical products via drones in Utah.

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Health equity could get a big boost from digital transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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