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No-Cost Talk Therapy & Telehealth Technology Are Put to Use in England, to Provide Greater Access to Mental Health Services

Clocktree

England has become the first country to offer no-cost talk therapy to their people. No-cost phone talk therapy is funded by the National Health Service and is a hotline available for unlimited phone therapy sessions. The hope from this program is that they will be able to create a primary mental healthcare system that gives access to those in rural communities throughout Great Britain.

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Jake Dorst, CIO, Tahoe Forest District Hospital, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

Sometimes innovation doesn’t have to involve machine learning, Hadoop, or any other buzzwords, says CIO Jake Dorst, who believes the focus should be on solving problems in a practical way. One of the most important characteristics for a strong leader is being able to stay calm when the organization hits rough waters. For Jake Dorst — who has survived tumultuous times during his career, including acquisitions and difficult go-lives — the ultimate test came less than a year into his tenure at Taho

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Successfully Approaching M&As in Healthcare IT

Mobile Health Matters

Over the past couple of years, there have been around 200 merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the healthcare IT space, driven by high enterprise value and the sheer size of the industry. 49 deals came together in the first quarter of this year alone. These numbers make health IT the highest performing industry in terms of M&A activity in the consumer and retail space, and the second highest in the infrastructure/industrial space.

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Can you identify 7 qualities of a successful telehealth program?

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

Consumer need is driving the development of telehealth programs across the country. Consumers want healthcare that is: easy-to-access. cost-effective. convenient. quality-focused. Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs.

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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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The Iris Spotlight: Meet Katherine Dreyfuss

Iris Telehealth

Part of the reason Iris Telehealth has been able to grow so much since it was founded in 2013 is because of the amazing employees who work relentlessly to dominate their jobs. So we figured it was time for us to spotlight them and give you a behind-the-scenes look at our staff! One of those [ ] The post The Iris Spotlight: Meet Katherine Dreyfuss appeared first on Iris Telehealth.

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4 Steps to Accelerate the Growth of Your Urgent Care Practice

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Creating documents in clinFHIR 

HAY on FHIR

I did a demo of clinFHIR for the Clinicians on FHIR group that will be meeting at the Working Group Meeting next week, and completely forgot to talk about creating/viewing documents in clinFHIR using the scenario builder. This is functionality that has been around for a while, and allows you to create a FHIR document by adding a Composition resource to the scenario, and then linking up the other resource to it.

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Remedial FHIR Consent Enforcement

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I have been working with some of the teams wanting to do something with Privacy Consent and are coming to the FHIR Connectathon in San Diego. Here is a few stepping stones that I think are educational to move from zero to a reasonable set of Consent possibilities. Basic Consent is a necessary and powerful step : Pre-conditions: Some form of Business Access Control are already in place to support basics of separating the kinds of things that various users (roles) are allowed to do; like Clinician

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Novo Nordisk Will Pay Out $60M to Settle Victoza Marketing Lawsuit

Insulin Nation

The Justice Department and Novo Nordisk announced yesterday the conclusion of a series of civil actions against the drugmaker to settle allegations of unethical marketing practices connected with the marketing of Victoza, a Type 2 diabetes drug. Under the agreement , Novo Nordisk agrees to pay the federal and state governments $46.5 million for allegedly violating the False Claims Act and give up $12.15 million in profits made on Victoza sales for allegedly violating the Federal Food Drug and Co

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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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U.S. Senate Committee Starts Hearings Today on Bipartisan Approach to Fixing the ACA

ACA Times

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will start deliberations on a bipartisan bill to address issues with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aimed at shoring up government health exchanges and providing certainty that subsidy payments to insurance companies that offer health insurance plans on the exchanges will continue. The committee’s first step is to hold hearings on healthcare policy this week.

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How Will a New Era of Healthcare Entrepreneurs Be Impacted by the ACA?

ACA Times

At some point, the gig economy was bound to expand into industries most never imagined. With the growing rate of Americans taking on some form of a job within the gig economy , it’s become something that many employers are seeking to understand and, in the case of the federal government, regulate. The healthcare industry is no exception. Companies like Nomad Health, where freelance physicians are matched with hospitals who need their assistance to address patient demand, along with startups like

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State Insurance Commissioners Ask Senators to Continue Subsidy Payments to Insurers

ACA Times

It was a positive start to what the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hopes will be the start of a successful bipartisan effort to draft legislation that will modify the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to stabilize government health exchanges for the 18 million Americans who purchase individual health insurance plans and providing certainty that subsidy payments to insurance companies that offer health insurance plans on the exchanges will continue.

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