Sat.Aug 25, 2018 - Fri.Aug 31, 2018

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How Telemedicine Can Improve the Reputation of the Waiting Room

Arizona Telemedicine Program

Patients, physicians and hospital staff alike can agree that the waiting room is not typically a positive experience for patients. According to a survey conducted by the design and development firm Sequence, 85 percent of patients reported that they wait anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes past their scheduled appointment times until they see their physicians.

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How Pharmaceutical Companies Can Take Advantage of the EHR Revolution

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. The 21st century has seen a massive change in the way people live their lives. It is now the digital era, and almost everything is online or made available in electronic form. There are now jobs online. Elections are now run in many countries so that people can submit votes electronically.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

Looking for health information online is just part of being a normal, mainstream health consumer, according to the third Rock Health Digital Health Consumer Adoption Survey published this week. By 2017, 8 in 10 U.S. adults were online health information hunters. Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity.

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Morgan Stanley: Nearly 1 in 10 hospitals at risk for closure 

FierceHealthIT

A new analysis from Morgan Stanley, an investment bank and financial services company, also found that nearly 20% of hospitals are not operating in a "healthy" way. Here's more on why.

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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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Rock Health: Digital health adoption on the rise, but wearables, telemedicine lag behind

Mobi Health News

Eighty-seven percent of Americans used at least one digital health tool in 2017, up from 80 percent in 2015, according to a new survey out from Rock Health. For the past three years, Rock Health has surveyed 4,000 U.S. adults about digital health use and perceptions.

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Will Industry Outsiders Save Healthcare Dollars Through Data?

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Luke Bonney, co-founder and CEO, Redox. With every sector of the economy feeling the effects of ever-increasing healthcare costs and no relief in sight, it’s no wonder household names outside of traditional healthcare are stepping in and attempting to improve what could only be characterized as a problematic system.

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New Technology Offerings for Caregivers and Families

Aging in Place Technology Watch

As summer winds down, innovators rev up. August is winding down -- the calm before the autumn slew of activity. Nonetheless, new milestones and partnerships were announced this month, including Embodied Labs becoming a finalist for the Top8 XR Education Prize sponsored by the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, MedMinder reaching 1433 on the Inc5000 , the acquisition of GreatCall by BestBuy , and MobileHelp announcing a partnership with LifePod.

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Philips Healthcare inks deal with US military for remote monitoring technology

Mobi Health News

The wearable sensors allow clinicians to monitor multiple wounded military personnel at the same time through a smartphone or tablet.

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Blockchain: a Healthcare CIOs’ View

David Chou

Like many CIOs, I’m keeping an eye on what’s really happening with blockchain. As of August 2018, I have yet to see any companies that have adopted blockchain as their companies’ primary ledger technology. Most blockchain solutions are still in the exploratory stages. This jibes with a new survey of business and tech execs by PwC, which found that the majority of companies are in the research, development, or pilot phase when it comes to blockchain.

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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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Patient Engagement: The Catalyst to Care

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Poornima Venkatesan, senior consultant, Virtusa. In today’s value-based care environment, patient engagement is a vital key to success in clinical outcomes. This is especially true for chronic diseases such as arthritis, where continuous care is necessary because of the disease’s physical, emotional and economic impact on patients.

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Just because a technology can be built, is it acceptable?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Reading the employee microchip article – does it make you shudder? Observe the development and evolution of modifiers for the word technology.' Words like sustainable, appropriate, autonomous all come to mind. With the micro-chipping of employees – the convenience argument is ultra thin. But why would one think about a microchip for an ailing relative, aka an older adult.

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Study results support FDA approval of diagnostic algorithm, but experts remain wary

Mobi Health News

Pivotal trial data that led to April’s de novo clearance of the first AI-based diagnostic system to not require clinician interpretation is now available to the public.

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Lack of real-world EHR testing causes patient safety problems, experts say

FierceHealthIT

EHRs are not always evaluated for safety. And when they are, the tests do not reflect real-world clinical conditions, according to a report from Pew Charitable Trusts, MedStar Health and the American Medical Association.

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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 IT Startup: CarePort Health

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. CarePort Health provides post-acute care management solutions for hospitals, payers, ACOs and post-acute providers to better manage patient care across the continuum. Elevator pitch CarePort Health bridges the data gap between acute and post-acute care to help improve patient outcomes.

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Bathrooms and Functional Limitations

Christina's Considerations

Who knew navigating a bathroom could be so frustrating and potentially unsafe. Well, I did, at least I thought so until I had my own experiences in 2017 and into 2018.

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Study: Medication reminder apps improved heart patients’ adherence

Mobi Health News

A study recently published in Heart found that coronary heart disease (CHD) patients assigned a smartphone app for medication reminders demonstrated greater adherence than those who did not.

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Toby Cosgrove warns innovators about healthcare industry: 'They'll hate it'

FierceHealthIT

Former Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove warns healthcare innovators that they'll face resistance from their colleagues. But here's why the Google Cloud adviser says they should push on with their ideas anyway.

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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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Straight & Narrow, Inc to Host 2-day Telehealth Certificate Training Conference

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Join the Telebehavioral Health Insitute (TBHI) and Straight & Narrow, Inc as they present the Telehealth Certificate Training Conference in Wayne New Jersey Discover the secrets to a thriving legal and ethical online practice with the most highly respected telemental health certificate … Read more. The post Straight & Narrow, Inc to Host 2-day Telehealth Certificate Training Conference appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Five Key To-Do’s When Integrating Epic with Vidyo

Vidyo

It’s very satisfying when clients tell me how easily Vidyo integrated with Epic, their EHR. It’s satisfying because, as emphasized in The Telehealth Interoperability in Clinical Systems Imperative, interoperability with any electronic health record system is imperative to the overall success of a virtual care initiative. One of those clients, the Medical University of South Read More.

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Starkey's new Livio AI is part hearing aid, part fitness tracker, part wellness coach

Mobi Health News

As a health wearable that far predates the invention of the term, hearing aids have always been an interesting spot. Now Minnesota hearing aid company Starkey Hearing Technologies, which launched one of the first hearing aids to connect directly to an iPhone back in 2014, has launched Livio AI.

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CMMI director: Home visits could be focus of upcoming Medicare demos

FierceHealthIT

As founder of Landmark Health, Adam Boehler sees home visits as one way to move from volume to value. To fill the physician gap, nurses and other medical professionals could join in this effort.

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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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Employers Healthcare Kiosks: Creating Onsite Digital Health Centers

19 Labs

In 2018, Digital Health is valued at more than $28 billion. There are amazing healthcare innovations being built, but how do we put them all together? And where? [link] Employers driving healthcare transformation through the emergence of on-site health care clinics where digital health innovations are deployed and come together into a new kind of healthcare experience: AI, chat bots, smart diagnostics devices applying big data analytics chronic disease, and Wellness tracking programs with new se

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Which Patients Are Less Likely To Get A Fatal Hospital Infection?

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: BHM watches health trends and understands the importance of improving and changing with the industry. Click HERE to learn more about how BHM helps your organization address opportunities. fatal hospital infection. Patients who stay in private rooms as opposed to double occupancy rooms have a reduced risk of central line infections, a fatal hospital infection that causes thousands of deaths each year, a study published in PLOS ONE found.

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New technologies should complement patient-centered care, not define it

Mobi Health News

Per the Care Coordination Institute's Blix Rice, care delivery technologies won't work without both engaging patients and fulfilling clinical needs.

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A Virginia VA hospital’s simple solution to prevent pneumonia? Toothbrushes

FierceHealthIT

A Virginia VA hospital has dramatically reduced its cases of pneumonia just by encouraging patients to brush their teeth. They're looking to expand to an additional 40 facilities next year.

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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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Employers Healthcare Kiosks: Creating Onsite Digital Health Centers

19 Labs

In 2018, Digital Health is valued at more than $28 billion. There are amazing healthcare innovations being built, but how do we put them all together? And where? [link] Employers driving healthcare transformation through the emergence of on-site health care clinics where digital health innovations are deployed and come together into a new kind of healthcare experience: AI, chat bots, smart diagnostics devices applying big data analytics chronic disease, and Wellness tracking programs with new se

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South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – August 2018

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

The following attachment is a list of legislative activities compiled by the Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) for telehealth and telemedicine within the South Central region (Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Please Note: CCHP has a pending legislation/regulation web page located at the following link: [link]. Click to View! . The post South Central Legislative/Regulatory Update – August 2018 appeared first on LearnTelehealth.

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Studies of autism screening app highlight machine learning's capacity to iterate, improve

Mobi Health News

In May, a pair of studies were published in the journals Autism Research and the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) that evaluated Cognoa’s artificial intelligence-based tool for early identification of autism in children. While both investigations suggest that the tool’s performance significantly exceeded those of other standardized screeners, comparing the two studies shows a sizable difference in the reported accuracy of the company’s offering.

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