Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 23, 2024

It is transforming the NHS at all levels – from mobile apps to give people greater control of their health and wellbeing at home, to incredible advancements in AI which can identify and diagnose diseases quicker than ever before – and even perform operations. There were 122 million NHS appointments booked in 2022. Of those, around 6.4% (7.8

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

Patient Centered Care The traditional doctor-knows-best model of care has not been viable for more than a decade. Being patient-centric in radiology means digitization, delivering convenience, and providing immediate access to health information for both clinicians and patients,” said Manole. “We

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Meanwhile, there's real-world progress being made at some of the more forward-thinking health systems.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

“So close and yet so far” feels like the right phrase to use a year after the World Health Organization used the “P-word,” “pandemic,” to describe the coronavirus’s impact on public health, globally. and CEC guidelines for fully-vaccinated health citizens.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you hadn’t tuned into the Health Populi blog yesterday, 10th August 2020 , you missed the first five letters of my Age of Corona alphabet, curated in my art journal created in the early weeks of the pandemic. I started with a background page of scrapbook paper featuring the chemical elements.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

“When someone is having an acute situation, that is not a teaching moment.” We explored the value and urgency of health literacy and, to take a play on the old saw that everyone is a patient at some point, called our session “We the Patients?” Peter Pitts . Note the question mark. That’s on purpose.).

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2023

Dr. Milam was my attending physician when I did my residency at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia. Milam was my attending physician when I did my residency at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia. I knew he was starting up something called Iris. That’s my biggest thing is the fluff isn’t there.

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Iris Telehealth

MAY 6, 2024

Thomas Milam, Beth Engelhorn, Executive Director of Southside Behavioral Health in South Central Virginia and Iris provider Dale McQueeney, PMHNP, shared how virtual services can help optimize care delivery for patients experiencing substance use disorders (SUDs).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Amid the chaos of the past pandemic year, there have been many valuable lessons for CIOs and health IT leaders willing to learn them. These executives include: Dr. Sameer Badlani, chief digital officer and executive vice president for technology services at M Health Fairview in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And what happened?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MAY 17, 2023

Prescriptions play a major role in health care delivery. In the mental health space, there’s a ton of literature out there on the effectiveness of drugs, their side effects, and the reluctance of people to continue them once they start. These little slips of paper are power. Oh, and don’t forget about fax machines!

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Iris Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2024

For health systems seeking to provide high-quality inpatient psychiatric care, it’s essential to prioritize learning what patients need, how best to support them on their care journey, and how to connect with patients. We knew exactly what we were working with when we had the physician.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s all about keeping tabs on vital health metrics like blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar, and body composition. These numbers can be early indicators of health issues, and continuous monitoring is essential to ensure timely intervention. Starting in your 30s, you may lose 3-5% of muscle mass per decade.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2020

We are all, truly, on this pandemic journey together. That’s public health, for you. ” Read on, and please let me know after seeing all 26 alpha’s which page(s) you liked best. I’ve already started version 2 of this, to share new learnings and feelings I have as the U.S. Onward, health citizens.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 19, 2024

Sleep is not just a foundational aspect of health; it’s an essential investment in our physical and mental well-being. Sleep is not just a foundational aspect of health; it’s an essential investment in our physical and mental well-being. Sleep plays a vital role in so many things. We need to sleep so we can function.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” So I asked it a starter question, and holy moly, it outlined the whole thing! ” So I asked it a starter question, and holy moly, it outlined the whole thing! Emphasize the Importance : Better Outcomes : Studies show that patients who are engaged and informed often have better health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 10, 2023

Augusta University Health launched its Virtual Care at Home program in February 2021 as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. " When Augusta began the program, it worked with its chronic care management vendor, NavCare, to use the vendor's episodic remote monitoring program.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Today at The Civitas Networks for Health 2022 Annual Conference, a Collaboration with the DirectTrust Summit, I was fascinated by a session that looked at the importance of education and communication for healthcare organizations when it comes to encouraging adoption of technology. Together4Health2022 pic.twitter.com/zB8YzA1y4D.

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Iris Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Behavioral health integration is not a new idea. It started to garner mainstream traction in the 1970s, and as we sit here in 2024, nobody disputes the idea that we should integrate mental and physical health. It is unquestionably the right thing for patient care, and for total cost of care. Let’s talk about each.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s not expected to get better. If so, you’re not alone. Higher admission and transfer rates.

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Health Populi

JUNE 7, 2019

In this post, I aim to share the key lessons that resonated with me, many of them through my broad lens on health. Catherine Powell, President of Disney Parks, Western Region, kicked off the Summit with her keynote talk during which she detailed her work history and personal life, offering key insights along her journey.

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Health System CIO

MARCH 23, 2017

Luke’s had to take a pause in its Epic journey to make sure everyone was headed in the same direction. Luke’s isn’t a project; it’s a journey that requires an enormous effort to stay on course. It also requires a lot of change, and when that becomes too much, leaders must be willing to hit pause. A federated EDW model.

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Iris Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2024

It was about three years ago when I moved to Minnesota. Telehealth is an asset, especially when patients live in a city where they struggle with transportation or stay home with their kids. A lot of times when I work with people, that’s their safe place. How did you find Iris and decide you wanted to be an Iris provider?

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

There is so much to learn when you are first diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. But as you move out of the newly diagnosed phase, you slowly begin to see things in a new light. Even if you have only been living with diabetes for a short time, odds are you’ve started to pick up on the fact that few people really understand what T1D is.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2018

Design-thinking has come to health/care, finally, and Amy Cueva has been beating this drum for a very long time. I’m blogging live while attending HXD 2018 in Cambridge, MA, the health/care design conference convened by Mad*Pow, 26th and 27th June 2018. Today was Day 1 and I want to recap my learnings and share with you.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

MARCH 1, 2022

My diagnostic journey began 10 months prior, the result of a routine blood test after a car accident which yielded concerning biomarker levels. I had no physical symptoms and felt like I was in perfect health, so to hear I had an underlying disease was baffling. With such a rare disease, they didn’t know for sure.

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Iris Telehealth

AUGUST 13, 2021

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s expected to worsen in the coming months. If so, you’re not alone.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers (CCBHC) are specially designated clinics offering comprehensive services to treat mental health and substance use disorders. Whether you want to enhance your existing behavioral health services or reach more people in your community, CCBHC certification can help support your efforts.

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AMD Telemedicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Not only have workers been putting in longer hours with increasing administrative demands, but they’ve also been struggling to achieve a good work-life balance, access mental health services, and obtain the necessary support from their leadership teams. Nursing appears to have the highest rate of burnout at 56%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Population Health Telehealth One of the more remarkable features of the NHS’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been its rapid uptake of technology in the UK says director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay.

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Mend

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Learn here how to start immediately reducing no-shows. Healthcare providers need to make sure that patients are aware of their appointments and know how to get to the healthcare facility. When patients attend their appointments regularly, they’re more likely to receive the care they need in a timely manner.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 13, 2022

All of that talk is well and dandy, but actually applying digital transformation to your organization is an entire different thing. It takes time to integrate, it can disrupt things, and it can take a while to adjust to. The intersection of people and technology is what matters when implementing digital tools.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

JULY 12, 2023

The exper ience is propelling his patient advocacy and entrepreneurship, as co-founder of the digital health company Strong Haulers. Discovering you have Long COVID is quite a bizarre journey. You contract the virus, and once 14 days have passed, you start to feel fine. You know your own body best.

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HIStalk Interviews

MAY 20, 2019

Aunt Bertha focuses on the easiest way to connect people to health and human services programs through a simple interface. Throughout this journey, I would find out about social programs after the fact. I started the company nine years ago to offer an easier way to find programs and to connect to them directly and electronically.

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TheraNest

APRIL 4, 2022

It is vital to highlight one’s triggers so that they know what situations and experiences might put them at risk for relapsing. It is vital to highlight one’s triggers so that they know what situations and experiences might put them at risk for relapsing. Addiction can be isolating. This condition is, by nature, self-destructive.

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When it comes to transitioning from face-to-face to video visits, clinicians still have trepidation, and the onus is on leaders to assuage those fears by addressing the reimbursement and integration questions, says Joe Kvedar. It started 20 years ago with a vision to leverage technology to improve access to care and efficiency.

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Iris Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Is your emergency department (ED) becoming the go-to for behavioral health patients because your psychiatry unit is under too much pressure? The United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatrists and mental health providers — and it’s not expected to get better. If so, you’re not alone. Higher admission and transfer rates.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

From improved mental health provisions to the age of telecommunications, this article, discusses what 2020 might hold for technology in healthcare. That being said, when it comes to its digital strategy, we will see significant progress in the months ahead. The journey to integrated care continues. A year in brief.

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