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Telehealth Usage and Coverage Continues to Increase Throughout the US

Clocktree

Telehealth coverage and usage is continuing to make strides forward. The US Department of Health and Human Services estimates that currently 60% of all healthcare institutions and about 45% of all hospitals are using telehealth in one way or another. This increased usage correlates with the goal of improving patient care, improving the health of the overall population, reducing healthcare costs and the physician shortage the US is currently facing.

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A digital solution for sleep disorders

New Age Healthcare

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a disorder in which a person stops breathing during the night, perhaps hundreds of times. These gaps in breathing are called apneas. The disorder occurs when tissues in the upper throat collapse at different times during sleep, thereby blocking the passage of air. It most commonly affects middle-aged and older adults and people who are overweight.

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MACRA: The Yardstick for Quality that Health Systems Need

Mobile Health Matters

The number of quality initiatives is rapidly rising in the healthcare industry as stakeholders shift their focus toward the value of patient care. In addition, with the recent implementation of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), the rules surrounding healthcare reimbursement are being rewritten, incentivizing healthcare providers to prioritize the quality of patient visits over the quantity.

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How People with Type 1 Handle Holiday Eating

Insulin Nation

Recently, we asked readers about how they handled blood sugar management during the holiday season. We received 118 responses, and tallied up the (unscientific) results. Here’s how people answered. 1. We asked whether those with Type 1 still go/went trick-or-treating after diagnosis, and got a resounding “YES.”. 87% – Yes. 12% – No. 2. We asked what holiday was the toughest for blood sugar management.

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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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Creating a Seamless System-wide Telehealth Experience

American Well

While hospital-focused telehealth is still largely used for high-acuity cases like stroke, we see the greater, untapped potential of this technology. When leveraged system-wide, telehealth is a disruptive technology that can impact care delivery in a major way — reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions and improving outcomes for patients, while saving the healthcare system a lot of money.

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Expand the Reach of Your Urgent Care With Telemedicine

eVisit

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What “In Sickness and in Health” Means with Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

I scroll through NIH-funded clinical diabetes trials from time to time. In the fine print of the standard government form of these studies, there is a criteria that asks if the study is “accepting healthy individuals.” Of course, the checkbox marked next to it says “NO.” It’s a weird reminder of my health status. And yet, when I look at my wonderful life with my husband, that box reminds me of how grateful I am that he takes me as I am – including the overwhelming, neverending, sickness of

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Creating a Seamless System-wide Telehealth Experience

American Well

While hospital-focused telehealth is still largely used for high-acuity cases like stroke, we see the greater, untapped potential of this technology. When leveraged system-wide, telehealth is a disruptive technology that can impact care delivery in a major way — reducing avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions and improving outcomes for patients, while saving the healthcare system a lot of money.

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“Have you seen the stuff Jarche writes?”

Society for Participatory Medicine

Peter Elias MD viewing medical record with patient. The image above is from the blog post described below. SPM board member-at-large Peter Elias MD is a recently retired family physician who says he’s always practiced participatory medicine, long before he knew it had a name. He’s contributing a terrific amount of his supposedly “spare” time to SPM, both as board member and as a driving force behind implementation and management of our “ SPM Connect ” communit

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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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The IRS is Sending Million Dollar ACA Penalty Notices to Employers

ACA Times

The letter no one wants is now in the mail! (click the image for the full letter). Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees, are starting to receive the IRS’s Letter 226J. The letters are being sent to ALEs the IRS believes have failed to comply with the requirements of the employer mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for the 2015 tax year.

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Extra software/transaction details in FHIR AuditEvent / ATNA Audit Message

Healthcare Exchange Standards

I have been in a few discussions lately where the question came up on how to add additional information to an ATNA Audit Message (aka FHIR AuditEvent). This additional information is not the kind of information that needs to go into an 'extension', as the Audit Message schema has support for what needs to be recorded. But there is a need to setup some things.

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5 Ways to Prepare for Cold and Flu Season with a Telemedicine Clinic

American Well

With cold and flu season approaching fast , it is very important to prepare your staff and patients for the upcoming months and plan to manage increased demand across all ambulatory services. Wait times in ED and urgent care facilities will begin to rise and options for patients are often limited with full clinic schedules and reduced holiday hours.

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Participatory Medicine in Pinstripes: What Baseball Can Teach Doctors

Society for Participatory Medicine

Baseball, like medicine, is deeply imbued with a sense of tradition, and no team more so than the New York Yankees , disdainful of innovations like placing players’ names on the backs of their jerseys and resistant to eroding strict standards related to haircuts and beards. It’s why doctors and patients alike should pay special attention to why the Yankees parted ways with their old manager and what they now seek instead.

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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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Will the IRS Extend ACA Reporting Deadlines?

ACA Times

Are deadline extensions and reinstatement of penalty relief for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the cards for employers? The IRS Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC) has recommended the IRS provide organizations more time to submit IRS filings mandated by the ACA for the 2017 tax reporting year to individuals, as it did for 2016 tax year filings.

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New healthcare fraud trends managed care organizations need to watch

Henry Kotula

[link]. Even traditional fraud schemes can be difficult to detect, and new methods will only make things more difficult for security teams watching healthcare dollars, says Shimon R. Richmond, special agent in charge at the Miami Regional Office in the Office of Investigations for the Office of the Attorney General. Richmond gave a presentation on healthcare fraud trends on November 16 at the annual National Healthcare Anti-Fraud Association conference in Orlando, and says hypervigilance is ke

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5 Ways to Prepare for Cold and Flu Season with a Telemedicine Clinic

American Well

With cold and flu season approaching fast , it is very important to prepare your staff and patients for the upcoming months and plan to manage increased demand across all ambulatory services. Wait times in ED and urgent care facilities will begin to rise and options for patients are often limited with full clinic schedules and reduced holiday hours.

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FDA approves pill with sensor that digitally tracks ingestion

Medicine and Technology

For the past several years, we had heard about the sensor technology and patch developed by Proteus Digital Health. The FDA just approved the first pill that integrates this technology into Abilify, a drug used to treat schizophrenia. Abilify MyCite (aripiprazole tablets with sensor) has an ingestible sensor embedded in the pill that records that the medication was taken.

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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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Microsoft announces a series of healthcare initiatives

Serona Health

Microsoft this week announced several new healthcare-related initiatives and solutions for industry partners and organizations to apply artificial intelligence in multiple areas of care, along with a new partnership with a major hospital. Read This: How 4D printing is now saving lives. Healthcare NExT is a new initiative that will integrate healthcare partners and Microsoft’s A.I. and Research organization, with the goal of enabling a new wave of innovation using Microsoft’s A.I. expertise and

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A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

[link]. Located off a superhighway exit in suburban St. Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. It has nurses and doctors and a cafeteria, and the staff spend their days looking after the very sick?checking their vital signs, recording notes, responding to orders and alarms, doing examinations and chatting with them.

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How to Respond to IRS Letter 226J About Affordable Care Act Penalties

ACA Times

It’s the letter no one wants to receive. However, its coming and you need to be prepared just in case your company or client receives it. It is Letter 226J , the communication that will be sent to Applicable Large Employers (ALEs), companies with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees it believes were not in compliance with the ACA for the 2015 tax reporting year.

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New electronic display is 10 times thinner than human skin

Serona Health

Japanese researchers have developed a thin-film electronic display that is a magnitude of order thinner than the human epidermis, allowing it to be laminated on to a person’s skin without the wearer knowing it’s there. Read This: Apple vs. Microsoft 3.0: The quest for electronic medical record supremacy? The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering developed a mechanical flexible and stretchable “e-skin” film through the use of an organic light-emitting

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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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Big data and the future of healthcare

Serona Health

“Big Data” has been a big buzzword for the past several years, but organizations weren’t really sure how to tackle it. It’s really been in the past two years that these organizations have been able to use this data to find new insights to improve or make actionable changes. Read This: New smartphone attachment can detect cancer. Let’s look at healthcare for example.

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The Healthcare Marketplace is Stabilizing Around the ACA

ACA Times

We are well into open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Despite significant increases in premium rates for 2018, enrollment for healthcare coverage on HealthCare.gov is higher than anticipated. The anticipated increases in premium rates was, in part, driven by an expectation that the Trump administration would stop approving cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments.

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