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10 OTC For Emergencies and First Aid

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Over-the-counter refers to the medications available to you without the doctor’s prescription and can be bought without hesitation. These medications are beneficial in curing common illnesses and disorders that may occur regularly. You might want […].

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What You Can Do to Support Children Experiencing Stress and Trauma

Iris Telehealth

This is our third post in our series on pediatric behavioral health conditions. For more, visit our posts on pediatric depression and pediatric anxiety. Children experience trauma differently than adults. As a pediatric care provider, it’s important to understand these differences, how you can spot them, and best practices for treating them. Keep reading for a discussion of the types of trauma and their prevalence, risk factors and protective factors for child and adolescent PTSD, review screeni

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HIMSS21 Day 1: Patient Experience is Important but is it a Priority?

Healthcare IT Today

Not surprisingly, there was general agreement from presenters and panelists that patient experience is important at the Patient Experience & Consumerization Forum pre-conference event at HIMSS21. Prioritizing it, however, was a whole different story. Patent Experience Influences Outcomes On Day 1 of #HIMSS21 I had the opportunity to attend the Patient Experience & Consumerization Forum […].

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

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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 the healthcare industry can use machine learning ethically

Mobi Health News

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are a new frontier for healthcare, but providers and researchers need to work to ensure they use these new technologies ethically.

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The digital health tools one COVID-19 survivor relied on during his 100-day hospital stay

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In late March of last year, Frank Cutitta was admitted to a Boston-area hospital with COVID-19. He wouldn't walk out again until the Fourth of July, 100 days later. "My name is Frank Cutitta, and I am very happy, literally, to be here," Cutitta told HIMSS21 attendees on Thursday. As the former HIMSS senior director of content analytics and the founder of HIMSS Media Lab, Cutitta, now the founder and CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab, treated much of his time in the hospital as a long

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

The rise of digital health investment and growing role of technology in health care services only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMS

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How 'person first' thinking can improve digital health tools

Mobi Health News

Design thinking is key to creating successful digital tools that are helpful for patients, said Molly Woodriff, MPH, senior product manager at NYU Langone Health at HIMSS21.

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Digital Tools To Streamline Total Joint Replacement In The ASC Setting

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Veronica Diaz, medical director of orthopedics, Modernizing Medicine. The growing preference for outpatient orthopedic surgery is much more than another pandemic-inspired trend. Recent advances in medicine over the past few years have made […].

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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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Building lasting tele-behavioral health programs to address patient needs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed many patients – especially those in under-resourced areas – unprecedented access to behavioral healthcare. But as Michael Hasselberg, senior director of digital health at the University of Rochester, discussed with Cleveland Clinic Director of Design and Best Practices Julie Rish during a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital session, such programs have required being nimble and adaptable in the face of changing needs.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

“We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S. health policy and regulatory leaders. The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment.

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Is digital transformation in healthcare contributing to provider burnout?

Mobi Health News

A group of former and current providers convened today in a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session to discuss how digital transformation can be both contributing to and alleviating burnout.

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H1 Acquires Carevoyance

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. H1, which provides the largest global healthcare platform that connects healthcare professionals, announced today that it has acquired Portland, Oregon-based Carevoyance, which offers ??the best targeting, sales enablement, and physician segmentation platform to medical device […].

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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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Legislators at HIMSS21 point to telehealth as key pandemic-era tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Florida and Rhode Island aren't all that similar when it comes to population size or state politics. But what they do have in common, said two legislators who co-presented at a HIMSS21 session on Thursday, is a telehealth strategy that proved to be wildly popular among residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a multi-decade legislator, Rhode Island Rep.

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Zoom Became a Household Name in the Pandemic. It’s Working to Do the Same in Healthcare – At #HIMSS21

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic digitally transformed most people living in the U.S., re-shaping consumers to work from home when possible, go to school there, and buy all manners of goods and services via ecommerce. In March 2021, Zoom conducted research into the question, “how virtual do we want our future to be?” posing that to thousands of citizens living in 10 countries including the U.S.

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Doctors look to tech for the future but need assurance it will work

Mobi Health News

Jesse Ehrenfeld, chair of the board of trustees for the American Medical Association, discusses the evolution of digital health adoption over time at HIMSS21.

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Difference Between Machine Learning and AI – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Friday after a long week at the 2021 HIMSS Annual conference in Las Vegas. I always love the feeling the Friday of HIMSS. I’m absolutely exhausted, but I’m also completely energized and excited for the future. Sharing time with incredible people that are working hard to use technology to improve healthcare is so inspiring. […].

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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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OIG looking closely at telehealth as it weighs future enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services works to ensure the integrity of federal healthcare programs and to safeguard the health and welfare of those programs' beneficiaries. In a session at HIMSS21 on Tuesday, two HHS OIG leaders offered a look at the enforcement priorities the agency has in mind these days, and some hints about the compliance responsibilities healthcare organizations should be prioritizing in the coming months.

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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a reappraisal of value-based care, a shift to remote and virtual care, and acceleration of healthcare stakeholders’ investments in Artificial Intelligence-based solutions, Philips discovered in the 2021 Future Health Index , the company’s latest survey conducted among 2,800 health care leaders working in 14 countries.

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CCM can identify nerve damage in patients with long COVID, new study finds

Mobi Health News

The non-invasive eye examination is also used to identify conditions such as diabetic neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and dementia.

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Convenience versus Relationships in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off the HIMSS 2021 conference in Las Vegas, this tweet highlighted a fundamental principle that many in healthcare don’t understand or at least don’t pay enough attention to. Jan Oldenburg shared it in this tweet: When I interview patients it becomes clear that they really WANT both convenience and relationships with their […].

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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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India prioritising shift to remote care: survey

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Royal Philips has published its latest Future Health Index 2021 report that explores how healthcare leaders are confronting the present challenges of the pandemic and where their current and future priorities lie. The findings from India revealed an imminent shift toward prioritising remote care, adopting digital health technologies and implementing sustainable healthcare practices.

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HIMSS21 Roundup—Zoom launches mobile browser for telehealth visits; Samsung unveils tech for 'smart hospitals'

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HIMSS21 Roundup—Zoom launches mobile browser for telehealth visits; Samsung unveils tech for 'smart hospitals'. hlandi. Tue, 08/10/2021 - 09:42.

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Addressing health inequities upstream can curb later health disparities

Mobi Health News

Dr. Walter Suarez, Executive Director for Health IT Strategy and Policy for Kaiser Permanente's Technology Risk Office, discussed why the time is right to address health inequities today at HIMSS21.

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HIMSS21 Day 2 Live Updates from John Lynn

Healthcare IT Today

This year we thought we’d try something new at HIMSS 2021. We’ll continue doing our regular coverage of topics we find interesting and useful for the Healthcare IT Today community. Plus, we’ll be doing a number of video interviews which will go out on our Healthcare IT Today Interviews podcast. However, we thought it would […].

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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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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – One year ago this week, a group of digital health experts formulated the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, which outlined priorities and recommendations for the global health community in response to COVID-19 and other future pandemics. But in order to see meaningful change, those priorities must be turned into concrete action, said panelists who gathered at a HIMSS21 "view from the top" panel on Tuesday.

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Fitbit moves deeper into healthcare with LifeScan deal to combine diabetes devices, consumer wearables

FierceHealthIT

Fitbit moves deeper into healthcare with LifeScan deal to combine diabetes devices, consumer wearables. hlandi. Tue, 08/10/2021 - 09:00.

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Former ONC head Rucker: APIs will ‘empower totally new business models’

Mobi Health News

“I think those APIs for consumers will be as transformative as APIs have been for music, in printing, in travel, in banking and retail,” said Dr. Don Rucker, former ONC National Coordinator for Health IT, at a HIMSS21 lightning session.

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