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Study: Video telehealth, in-person diagnoses agree in 87% of cases

Mobi Health News

Specialty care was significantly more likely to result in concordant diagnoses between telehealth and in-person appointments, compared with primary care.

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Top Eight Ways to Live a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The cornerstones to avoiding and controlling cardiovascular disease are a good diet and lifestyle. It’s not as difficult as you might imagine! Remember that what matters is the general pattern of your selections. Make these heart-healthy lifestyle tips a part of your daily routine for long-term health benefits. Count your calories. To begin, determine how many calories you should consume to maintain weight.

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Innovation for all: Adapting patient-facing tools to promote digital health equity

KevinMD

More often than not, ground-breaking health care advancements are disproportionately accessible for those who already have favorable social determinants of health. Improving cost, access, and quality, but for whom? The boom of telehealth and digital health during the pandemic was a necessary shift to bridge the critical access gap while also supporting the public health.

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Celiac Disease Diet: What You Should or Shouldn’t Eat

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The small intestine is harmed by celiac disease, a chronic immunological and digestive condition. Consuming gluten-containing foods causes the condition. The illness might prevent your body from absorbing all the nutrients it needs and result in long-lasting digestive issues. (1) Here are some food tips for your celiac disease diet. Foods that You Can Eat When Managing Celiac Disease.

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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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Leverage Telepsychiatry to Build an Effective MAT Program

Iris Telehealth

Access to high-quality substance-use disorder treatment has never been more important. The opioid epidemic continues to grow and impact more and more lives, families, and communities across the country. And, healthcare organizations must include some form of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) services for patients with substance use disorders and those seeking addiction treatment.

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Video visits as clinical touchpoints to improve older adult mental health

KevinMD

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a profound toll on older adults, isolating them physically and emotionally from their communities and families. Mental health has suffered across generations and, as a practicing geriatric psychiatrist, I have had a front-row seat to the unique conditions older adult populations are facing. Despite rising rates of depression and anxiety, Read more….

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Vaccinations, Art and Labor Day: Learning from Diego Rivera and Edsel Ford

Health Populi

For Labor Day 2022, I’m thinking about health, vaccines, work (especially returning-to-work), and art. Let’s start with the vaccine news. Called the “first updated COVID-19 booster,” on September 1st the CDC announced the availability and approval for health citizens to get new vaccines which have added Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 spike protein components to the original vaccine formulation.

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Viz.ai receives FDA clearance for pulmonary embolism-related algorithm

Mobi Health News

The new tool measures the diameter of the ventricles of the heart to provide the ratio of the maximum right ventricle diameter compared with the left ventricle. That can help indicate pulmonary embolism severity.

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Maryland health system conquers the digital divide with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an abrupt change to reimbursement of telehealth services, allowing healthcare providers to more broadly expand patient access to virtual care. For the University of Maryland Medical Center health system based in Baltimore, telemedicine services encompass a vast array of tools that help the organization engage patients, monitor symptoms and provide direct care beyond the confines of a physical location.

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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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Human touch and scientific veracity are missing in health care technology       

KevinMD

Working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic has immersed physicians in technology, perhaps accelerating its integration with medical practice – but not necessarily its acceptance or authenticity. I tend to doubt the veracity of much of what I read in electronic health care records. I also question reports based on data gleaned from large medical databases.

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Most Consumers Are Health and Wellness Consumers, Even in Hard Financial Times, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Consumers consider health and well-being as an “essential” household spending category based on new research from Accenture. Accenture polled over 11,000 consumers in 17 countries, considering how people are faring amid “widespread uncertainty and personal financial strains,” in the firm’s words. While two in three consumers feel financially stressed, 4 in 5 intend to grow or hold their personal spending on health and fitness steady in the next year.

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Q&A: How Akili plans to make its DTx routine ADHD treatment

Mobi Health News

Matt Franklin, Akili Interactive's president and COO, explains the company's strategy for launching EndeavorRx, its video game digital therapeutic for children with ADHD.

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Mayo Clinic to use blockchain for hypertension clinical trial

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Beginning this month, Mayo Clinic will onboard a blockchain-integrated platform by Triall for a two-year multi-center pulmonary arterial hypertension trial that includes 10 research sites and more than 500 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. By building an immutable blockchain-registered audit trial with Triall's Veritable Proof API, Mayo Clinic will test end-to-end clinical data integrity – from start-up to post-study evaluations.

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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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The Effects of Telemedicine on Patient Engagement and Care Options

AMD Telemedicine

The Effects of Telemedicine on Patient Engagement and Care Options. Telemedicine is booming, and healthcare organizations neglecting these technological innovations are missing out. If their delays are rooted in hesitations around implementation challenges, however, it’s understandable — we’re already in a time of increased burnout among doctors and nurses, and no one wants to add more to their already full plates.

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Walmart + UnitedHealth Group, CVS Health + Signify — the Current Flurry of Big HealthCare

Health Populi

With today’s announcement that Walmart will partner with UnitedHealthcare in a ten-year collaboration to bring affordable health care to Mainstream Americans, we have yet another huge ripple in the evolving retail health ecosystem. The other Big Healthcare news item this week was CVS Health’s planned acquisition of Signify Health , after much speculation that Amazon and other Big and smaller bidders (including UnitedHealth Group) were keen on acquiring the home/care company over the

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FTC reviewing Amazon's $3.9B One Medical acquisition

Mobi Health News

In an SEC filing, One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare said both companies had received requests from the agency for more information regarding the deal late last week.

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A rural Kansas FQHC brings remote patient monitoring to the underserved

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas in Pittsburg, Kansas, is a federally qualified health center and a not-for-profit corporation. CHC/SEK provides medical, dental, behavioral health, addiction treatment, case management services and pharmacies to all, regardless of ability to pay, and serves about 65,000 patients for more than 220,000 visits per year, making the organization the largest FQHC in Kansas and one of the largest of all rural FQHCs in the United States.

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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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Sensor technology can help families and short-staffed care providers

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Sensor technology is increasingly useful in the care of older adults. As part of the research into the Future of Sensors and Older Adults , interviewees outlined ways sensors could be useful for mitigating fall risk. And their role tracking trips to the bathroom has been useful in detecting UTIs , identifying wanderers , alerting about sleep issues , noting whether a person has eaten.

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Russian Cyberattacks Focus on Healthcare

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Over the last three months, the information systems of at least four US healthcare organizations have been targeted by Russian cyberattacks. On August 24, 2022, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) cautioned that hackers known as the Karakurt gang were focused on the healthcare industry. The gang has links to the well-known Russian ransomware group, Conti.

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Users more likely to embrace AI-enabled preventive health measures with human touch, study finds

Mobi Health News

Individuals are also less likely to trust AI-suggested interventions than those recommended by humans.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

CVS Health announced on September 5 that it will acquire Dallas-based Signify Health, a network of 10,000 clinicians across 50 states with more than 50 health plan clients, including CVS's Aetna division, for $8 billion. In order to further CVS's healthcare services strategy, the acquisition of Signify Health adds clinicians that assess patients at home.

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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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CVS Health to Acquire Signify Health

Healthcare IT Today

Advances long-term strategy by providing platform for growth in value-based care. CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) and Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY) (“Signify”) have entered into a definitive agreement under which CVS Health will acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8 billion.

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Alert: Amazon Care To Close At 2022 Year-End

Telebehavioral Health Institute

A surprise to many stakeholders, Amazon Health announced its plan to close Amazon Care at year’s end. According to a statement made on August 25, 2022, the Amazon telehealth service. The news was announced to Amazon Care employees just one month after Amazon’s $3.9B offer to purchase One Medical. It also followed a recent report of a rollout of Amazon Care’s partnership with Ginger, a leading telehealth employer.

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Morgan Health invests $20M in home diagnostics company LetsGetChecked

Mobi Health News

LetsGetChecked, which closed a $150 million Series D funding round in 2021, made multiple acquisitions this year.

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FTC to look into Amazon, One Medical deal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Federal Trade Commission is scrutinizing Amazon's Prime business model, and has also reviewed the tech giant's other potential deals, such as the acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios and a new deal with iRobot which makes autonomous vacuums, for anti-trust violations. That doesn't necessarily mean Amazon's recent $3.9 billion purchase of San Francisco-based One Medical , which provides membership-based telehealth and in-person care, will be challenged (as was the case w

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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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2022 Fall Conference Season Preview – Healthcare IT Today Podcast Episode 96

Healthcare IT Today

For the 96th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast , we’re talking about the upcoming fall health IT conference season. We discuss the different conferences we’re looking forward to and speculating what attendance will be like. Next, we dive into what topics we expect to be covered in these conferences. Then we discuss whether companies and providers get more value from in-person conferences or digital conferences.

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Did you miss insights and data from the five August blog posts?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The biggest older adult tech news from August was audible. The US Food and Drug Administration approved the over-the-counter sale of hearing aids. Ironically that will not actually be official until October. The implications are staggering – hopefully the implementation will match. The big five hearing aid manufacturers will once again remake and remarket themselves, their brands and pricing to fit the new rule.

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Wearable assistive robot developed to prevent falls for Singapore's elderly

Mobi Health News

It can also predict falls by using AI and a deep sensing camera that observes a wearer's movement.

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