eVisit
APRIL 14, 2020
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act was signed into law on March 27, 2020. At over $2 trillion, this formidable legislation represents the largest economic stimulus package in history. It will provide much needed fiscal assistance to individuals, businesses, and hospitals that have suffered as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Populi
APRIL 14, 2020
It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates.
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VSee
APRIL 17, 2020
With an increase of confirmed SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) cases, it’s important that we take all necessary precautions to adjust to this new normal. By re-focusing on our own personal health, we can both slow the rate of infection and navigate what may feel like an unfamiliar way of life. These ten tips for care during COVID-19.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 17, 2020
ACLU demands info on HHS' location tracking talks —Facebook nudges users to HealthCare.
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Mobi Health News
APRIL 16, 2020
An integrated virtual clinic app has been designed to take the heat out of the struggle to maintain appointment levels when they are under intense stress from the COVID-19 response, as the situation steps up the pace of digital transformation.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 16, 2020
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced the first half-dozen awardees of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. WHY IT MATTERS. Health systems in hard-hit states such as Louisiana, New York and Ohio have been approved for a total of $3.23 million, so far, of the $200 million program. The money was earmarked by Congress, part of the recent CARES Act , to help FCC to support the expansion of telehealth services during the coronavirus crisis.
CiscoHealth
APRIL 14, 2020
The New World of Healthcare. “By enabling an innovative telehealth program, Cisco collaboration is helping us positively impact the health of our community and state.” NYC Health + Hospitals. At its core, healthcare is about people taking care of people. When the transmission of the disease is a concern, the meaning of caring for each other and staying close means keeping our distance.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 14, 2020
The medtech company will be required to state in its test reports that the tests have not been reviewed by the FDA and that negative results do not rule out the novel coronavirus infection.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 17, 2020
Texas and Alaska are among the first states to begin reopening their economies, including allowing elective surgeries to resume, following the release of new guidance from the White House this week.
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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 News - Telehealth
APRIL 16, 2020
GE Healthcare has introduced a new cloud-based remote-monitoring tool designed to help clinicians look after ventilated COVID-19 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. GE's Mural virtual-care technology aims to give hospitals visibility across their ventilated patient population, helping clinicians identify patients at risk of deterioration. Delivered via Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, the tool is meant to help hospitals preserve clinical resources as more patients are admitted for COVID-19 treatm
Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 17, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Franklin, president, LocumTenens.com. LocumTenens.com asked physicians and advanced practitioners about their experiences with healthcare consolidation as part of its 2019 Compensation and Employment Survey. It can take years to determine success or failure, […].
Mobi Health News
APRIL 14, 2020
Their new COVID-19 care app helps ease the impact of staff absence, the company’s founder is among leading tech voices asking for innovation during the pandemic.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 17, 2020
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to roll out an app in May that will accelerate electronic case reporting of COVID-19 cases. The app will enable public health agencies to get accurate, real-time data on COVID-19 cases to support case management and contact tracing efforts, the CDC said.
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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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 17, 2020
Dr. Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. One of the biggest complaints his practice would get from patients’ families with school-age children is that it was difficult to get appointments that fit into their schedule, and that those times were further confounded by heavy traffic.
Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 16, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Amar Shah, owner, VitalCare Family Practice in Chesterfield, Virginia. Coronavirus has forced practices nationwide to undertake dramatic changes in how they practice medicine. But whatever the means we use to deliver care, there […]. The article Telehealth: Lifesaving Care During A Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 15, 2020
Many are anticipating greater adoption of digital health services and more favorable regulatory and reimbursement environments, according to a recent poll sampling 513 digital health and adjacent companies.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 16, 2020
Hospitals and health systems across the country are seeing huge increases in virtual medical visits, and it's expected that this trend will only continue in a post-pandemic world. There are steps the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT can take to incentivize telehealth adoption and support deployment, healthcare leaders said.
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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!
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 15, 2020
As hospitals and health systems nationwide grapple with the fast-moving demands of the coronavirus crisis, they're also faced with an added challenge: fending off a sustained upswell in cybersecurity threats, perpetrated by bad actors taking advantage of the pandemic's chaos. Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Dan Costantino, Chief Information Security Officer at Penn Medicine, who offered some insights into how his infosec staff has adjusted its strategies to support the health syst
Healthcare IT Today
APRIL 17, 2020
As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations. In many cases, that means we’ve been covering the big changes to government regulations and the government funding available to hospitals and healthcare organizations.
Mobi Health News
APRIL 13, 2020
Also: Datos Health ties off $7 million in Series A funding; Wellthy Therapeutics collects $4 million in pre-Series A; Lifesprk fleshes out tech with $16.1 million.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 14, 2020
Telehealth company Teladoc announced Tuesday it expects first-quarter 2020 revenue to reach between $180 and $181 million, beating its previous projections of quarterly revenue between $169 million and $172 million.
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.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 14, 2020
A recent IDC Health Insights presentation focused on health IT industry trends during and after the COVID-19 era. It examined some of tools and strategies that stand to gain ground in the months ahead as health systems build on lessons learned during the coronavirus crisis. Among the connected health trends on researchers' radar, of course: "accelerated deployment of telehealth/virtual visits, chatbot assessments, and remote health monitoring.
Aging in Place Technology Watch
APRIL 15, 2020
Saving seniors from Covid-19 requires worsening isolation. In an article in the NY Times, Paula Span’s title said it all: Just What Older People Didn’t Need: More Isolation. The article attempts a number of references to mitigation, including the use of GrandPad in two Pace programs. These are compelling, but the overall story is about the oldest on the wrong side of the Digital Divide, which is notable and particularly pitiful in settings like nursing homes , Note in the Johns Hopkins Covid-19
Mobi Health News
APRIL 14, 2020
Healthbox President Neil Patel describes how his group is helping to facilitate the sharing of solutions and best practices around COVID-19 response.
FierceHealthIT
APRIL 14, 2020
The survey found practices have seen an average 60% drop in patient volume on average and a 55% decrease in revenue since the beginning of the public health crisis.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 16, 2020
The American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association have teamed up to help healthcare organizations respond to a rise in cyber threats exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. The two organizations have drawn particular attention to the risks posed by telehealth and remote work environments, and have published a paper that offers guidance to help healthcare organizations strengthen home- or hospital-based computers, networks and medical devices.
Morning eHealth
APRIL 13, 2020
FCC readies telehealth fund — NIH examines undetected coronavirus spread
Mobi Health News
APRIL 16, 2020
A new guidance from the U.S. regulator relaxes a handful of requirements for these digital health devices, and clarifies the agency's long-term enforcement policy for low-risk wellness products.
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