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How to Maximize the Value of Your Telehealth Investment

AMD Telemedicine

Telehealth Integration: How to Maximize the Value of Your Technology Investment. The growing presence of telehealth technology in hospitals and healthcare systems has surged; in fact, telehealth usage is 38 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. The benefits of telemedicine can be felt in not only patient acuity levels but also in patient acquisition and retention rates, all of which have an impact on the bottom line.

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The Arc of Digital Health is Long, But it Bends Toward Adoption, Hopefully.

Digital Health

You know how you accumulate stuff in your office until it feels like a time capsule? Well, that was my office until last week. I decided it was high time to dig a trench between the door and the desk and, in the process, to move whatever was in there taking up space to that […].

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Is Crowdfunding a Great Option for Health IT Companies?

Healthcare IT Today

In this weekend’s Bonus Features (Aren’t Bonus Features great?!), you may have seen that Brian mentioned that Rhinogram has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for their secure communication platform for healthcare. Given the Rhinogram has been around for a long time, is used in 750 locations and across 50 different healthcare specialties, you may wonder why they chose to go the crowdfunding route.

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Chaos and order: the simulated context

KevinMD

An excerpt from Reality Check: In Pursuit of the Right Questions. I was on the floor of the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare conference when I heard screaming in the near distance. I turned toward it and saw some people gathering and others running. It sounded like an … Read more… Chaos and order: the simulated context originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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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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DiMe releases toolkits to help scale wearables, remote patient monitoring

Mobi Health News

The toolkits are based on the Digital Medicine Society's Sensor Data Integrations project, which includes organizations like Amazon Web Services, Oracle, the Moffitt Cancer Center, Takeda and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Amazon makes further healthcare inroads with $3.9B One Medical deal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Amazon and One Medical announced their plans to merge on Thursday morning, in a $3.9 billion mega deal that would see the retail giant continue its ambitious string of healthcare acquisitions. Under terms of the merger agreement, which is subject to customary closing conditions, Amazon will acquire One Medical for $18 per share in an all-cash transaction.

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Advanced Treatment-Validation Technology Set To Improve Cancer Treatment Results

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By James Talcott, MD, SM, senior medical director, Oncology for Eviti, NantHealth. A recent study from the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that while the U.S. spends nearly two times more per capita […]. The article Advanced Treatment-Validation Technology Set To Improve Cancer Treatment Results appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Amazon to acquire primary care company One Medical for $3.9B

Mobi Health News

"We think healthcare is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention," Neil Lindsay, SVP of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement.

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Not there yet -- today's design processes and tech are not designed for all

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Design still needs to include older adults. One might say that there’s nothing left to say about this topic – it’s been said in multiple and sometimes overlapping and confusing ways. You can read about inclusive design , sometimes called design-for-all , accessible design, and universal design. None of these concepts are specific to designing for inclusion of aging adults.

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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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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. With funding support from a broad range of federal agencies – Department of Commerce, HRSA, USDA and FCC – the health system has worked with more than 150 community hospitals, clinics, medical practices, schools and other healthcare entitie

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Securing the Internet of Medical Things: 10 Effective Ways

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Vinugayathri Chinnasamy from Indusface. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is revolutionizing the healthcare industry by creating a connected infrastructure of medical systems and services that are helping enhance patient outcomes. But they come with newer security risks too. 63% of healthcare organizations in 2019 faced security incidents owing to the insecure and unmanaged Internet of Medical Things.

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iRhythm Technologies receives another FDA 510(k) for AFib monitoring system

Mobi Health News

The latest clearance is for an algorithm that characterizes how much atrial fibrillation a patient is experiencing over time.

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Top 5 Common Questions about Being a Remote Behavioral Health Provider

Iris Telehealth

When starting your virtual behavioral health career, you’ve likely got many questions – from the differences between on-site and virtual environments to learning about using an organization’s EMR remotely to ensuring you work with a population you love. Whatever your question may be, we’ve got you covered. Whether you’re an LCSW , psychiatrist , or a PMHNP , we have the answers for everything you need to know about getting your remote career started. 1.

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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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Groups doubles down on telehealth with a mobile app to treat opioid addiction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. THE PROBLEM. In order to keep members safe, the organization made the decision to close all 120 of its clinics across the country and transition to 100% virtual opioid use disorder treatment services.

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Activating Patient Payment Behavior: Why a Digital-First Approach Is a Hospital’s Best Bet

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Mark Spinner, President and CEO at AccessOne. It takes about three paper statements , on average, for consumers to pay their medical bills. Why? Because it’s easy to set these mailings aside and wait to act on them another day. Just three years ago, 90% of healthcare organizations relied on paper-based billing statements.

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Eko receives FDA clearance for heart murmur analysis algorithm

Mobi Health News

Eko Murmur Analysis Software is a machine learning algorithm that detects and characterizes heart murmurs in adult and pediatric patients.

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2022 Patient Payment Statistics and Bad Debt in Healthcare

Mend

Healthcare providers rely on getting paid in order to continue operating, and bad debt can have a significant impact on any business. Here are some of the most recent patient payment statistics as they relate to healthcare and what you can do as an organization to ensure timely payment. What is Bad Debt in Healthcare? Bad debt in healthcare is money that is owed to a healthcare provider but is not able to be collected.

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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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Dozens charged in sprawling $1.2B telehealth and genetics fraud crackdown

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Three dozen defendants across the U.S. were charged this week for more than $1.2 billion in alleged fraud involving telehealth, phony genetic testing and durable medical equipment. WHY IT MATTERS. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the coordinated law enforcement action, which includes criminal charges against executives from virtual care vendors, owners of clinical laboratories and makers of durable medical equipment, among others.

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Access to Care and Digital Health/Health IT – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/22 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Derek Streat from @dexcare on the topic “Access to Care and Digital Health/Health IT. ”. The hard truth is – our healthcare system is hardly a system at all. Rather, it is a convoluted assemblage of disconnected and decentralized sectors that struggle to provide a streamlined, coordinated, and connected care experience for all stakeho

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Medable, Withings partner to use connected devices in decentralized clinical trials

Mobi Health News

The partnership will allow Withings' connected scales, blood pressure monitors and sleep-tracking mats to integrate with Medable's trial platform.

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4 Questions to Ask Before Partnering With a Telemedicine Tech Provider

AMD Telemedicine

4 Questions to Ask Before Partnering With a Telemedicine Technology Provider. Telemedicine and telehealth technologies are transforming the way that doctors and patients interact with each other. They’re also improving access to care for many individuals. That said, anytime a change is introduced to an existing system, there’s always a transitionary period during which challenges are to be expected.

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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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Northern Health to expand virtual ED access to COVID-19, aged care patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This comes as part of the additional A$162 million ($122 million) funding provided by the state government of Victoria to the health service to improve the operations of Ambulance Victoria.

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Maple Anticipated the Decline in Telehealth and Expects to Continue Growing

Healthcare IT Today

Maple is a Canadian healthcare success story. Founded in 2015, the company has grown steadily and is now the country’s largest online network of doctors. They offer both virtual care services as well as a virtual care platform. The company experienced the meteoric rise in usage during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent decline, but unlike other telehealth providers, they expected this and planned for it.

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HIMSSCast: What does the future of AI in healthcare look like?

Mobi Health News

With Google, Meta and others pushing the envelope in artificial intelligence research, Chirag Shah, professor at the iSchool at the University of Washington, talks about some practical and ethical considerations.

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Preventing Clinician Burnout with AI

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Arnaud Rosier, CEO, Implicity. Burnout among doctors and nurses was already a major problem facing healthcare organizations, even before the COVID pandemic – maybe even more for healthcare professionals working in the extremely demanding […].

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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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Roundup: Monash Health sets up virtual clinic for blood pressure management and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Monash Health pilots virtual clinic for blood pressure management. Monash Health, a public health service in Victoria, has piloted its pharmacist-led virtual clinic for managing the blood pressure of patients with chronic diseases. Dubbed Optimising One Medication with Patients (OOMPa), the virtual clinic sees patients for the titration and adjustment of their blood pressure medication.

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A Look at the Biggest Challenge Healthcare RCM Professionals Face

Healthcare IT Today

When you attend a conference, it’s always fun to see if there’s a kind of theme or hot topic for those attending the conference. At this year’s HFMA annual conference the big theme I kept hearing over and over had to do with staffing challenges. Needless to say, the world in general and healthcare in particular has been hit hard with staffing challenges.

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NZ study finds mobile app able to alleviate symptoms of common phobias

Mobi Health News

The VR app has been shown to reduce 75% of phobia symptoms after six weeks of treatment.

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