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People Using Health Apps and Wearable Tech Most Likely Track Exercise and Heart Rate, Sleep and Weight – But Cost Is Still A Barrier

Health Populi

Among those people who do not yet use health apps or wearable tech for health, cost is the top reason they haven’t adopted digital health tools, Morning Consult found. Why do people own and use health wearables? Nearly 1 in 4 consumers use digital health to track medications , mental health and mood.

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Bonus Features – March 17, 2024 – 65% of nurses think AI will negatively impact healthcare, 14% of EHRs have known cybersecurity vulnerabilities, plus 24 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Practice Better integrated with Claim.MD , enabling mental health professionals to run eligibility checks and submit claims. Payment integrity vendor Apixio launched Health Data Nexus. The Vivalink Biometrics Data Platform now supports fully remote acute patient monitoring.

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Altera Digital Health and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center Expand Partnership

Digital Health Global

Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, the fourth largest publicly owned hospital in the nation, is a full-service, 1,070-bed safety-net hospital that provides ambulatory, acute, mental health and substance use disorder treatment and long-term care services to Bergen County, New Jersey.

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What’s a Problem, Technology, Opportunity, or Issue That Not Enough People are Talking About?

Healthcare IT Today

Isabel Hines, Senior Director of B2B Marketing at Oshi Health – Digestive health, gut health, is really coming up in the surface. Kyle Faget, Partner and Co-Chair of Healthcare Practice Group at Foley & Lardner – Coverage and reimbursement for telehealth services.

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Is your health system’s digital front door big enough to let everyone in?

Xealth

Lyft or Uber), pantry access guidance in food deserts, and remote cardiac care are a few ways health systems can better serve those patients who must be engaged creatively, sensitively, and outside of the traditional healthcare setting. A health data aggregation platform can be the engine of holistic patient care.

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Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over

Henry Kotula

Released on Friday, the wonks at the Congressional Research Service (CRS) urged officials going into the long holiday weekend to remember amid the celebrations that we still don’t know the final toll of the pandemic, especially when it comes to long-term consequences for behavioral and mental health. Not Medicare.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

Specifically, what if the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rescinds the emergency orders it has put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic? Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. The change took place in almost a twinkling of an eye.