Health Populi

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The food industry, both retail food chains and food suppliers, has found health and nutrition are having a positive impact on their businesses both for margins and for missions, we learn in the latest annual survey on Food Industry Contributions to Health & Well-being, 2024 , from FMI. This is a key workflow in Food-as-Medicine programs.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

We each have our own stories about how a loved one’s life has ended. Then there are the Rest-of-Us who share family stories and experience of long and painful endings, in institutional settings often coupled with costly, so-called “heroic” but unwanted futile care. Futile care is not a new-new thing. ” But love is not.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

We are lighting our own ways because we know no one is coming to save us, especially when we are facing our or our loved one’s mortality. Halamka and team point out a JAMA study which overestimated the risk of heart disease in people who had high BMIs. ” Cordovano further explained to me. Three in five U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2024

"It significantly eases the way of our patients by extending our clinical team directly into homes, enhancing the quality of care we provide to patients with chronic conditions while streamlining the patient experience," she continued. " Dr. Kenneth W.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2024

Today, providers can only bill this code in a given 30-day period for patients who transmit at least 16 calendar days' worth of device readings. We sat down with him to discuss the proposed coding changes. We will learn more about the rationale during the CPT Editorial Meeting in May. He is an expert in RPM coding.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The conference will be held in Los Angeles on February 25 – 28 this year, so for the 134th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are sharing our thoughts, predictions, and tips. First, we share what we are looking forward to the most at ViVE 2024. We publish a new Healthcare IT Today podcast every ~2 weeks.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 26, 2023

First, the program offers an initial access point for patients who present to the Convenient Care clinics or emergency rooms and who do not have a primary care provider, said Stephen Kapa, administrative director of telehealth services at FirstHealth of the Carolinas.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 11, 2024

For the 70th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Donald Levick, MD, MBA, CPE, FAAP, FHIMSS, Consultant, Former CMIO and Pediatrician at Lehigh Valley Health Network about the role of Chief Medical Information Officers (CMIOs)! Then we debate who is the correct person for CMIOs to report to.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2024

On Monday, we asked Walk for an interview near the end of HIMSS24 week to gain her insights from her experience at the show. Of course, these are higher risk use cases and more challenging to implement from a technical and organizational perspective, so I think we'll continue to see slower progress on this front.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2024

It was a 2,500% year-over-year increase, Kristi Henderson, a former Optum senior vice president for digital transformation and CEO of Optum Virtual Care, who is now chief executive officer of Confluent Health, has said. Supported in large part by Optum technology, UHG facilitated more than 33 million telehealth visits in 2020, up from 1.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We spoke with Hamilton to discuss how telemedicine can relate directly to disease prevention, preventative care and value-based care. From a disease prevention perspective, the more people who have access to healthcare, the more people with chronic conditions are going to be well managed, so that means more diseases can be prevented.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2024

There is a strong connection between the populations that experience barriers in access to broadband and are digitally illiterate and those who have a higher prevalence of and premature mortality from chronic health conditions. "Ask questions such as who has devices? How are we increasing our patients' digital literacy skills?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 25, 2023

We’re enjoying the day off to enjoy time with family. We hope you’re doing the same, but want to say thank you to all the healthcare workers that are still out there working on Christmas. We appreciate you and your sacrifice. Thanks to all of you who support what we do at Healthcare IT Today!

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2024

We haven’t seen this much universal interest in a health IT product since the government offered $36 billion in stimulus money for EHR software. Plus, they share some great stories from their end users who are using the product including one where a doctor is able to get home early to their family.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 25, 2024

For the 71st episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Richard Clark, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Analytics Officer at Highmark Health to discuss data, analytics, and AI! We then shift from AI to data and analytics, and debate over how much data is enough data.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

It eliminates geographical boundaries and allows for the provision of education to those who would otherwise not have access. In late 2023, an Atlanta pathologist posted photos of a baby boy who was unintentionally decapitated during delivery within hours of his death. But we have to do it correctly. It’s not going away.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

“In many ways, we have a chicken-and-egg issue,” Buehl said. Buehl recognizes that some hospitals are better positioned to adopt these technologies than others, but says those who fail to invest will likely pay a price. We’ll see longer waiting times for patients and a dip in patient outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For the 68th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are talking to Shafiq Rab, MD, Chief Digital Officer, System CIO and EVP at Tufts Medicine , who just recently won 2024 CHIME CIO of the Year! Then we discuss a time Rab failed and what he was able to learn from it. We appreciate you listening!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2024

"The first issue we needed to address was the ability to efficiently and effectively assess patients who have been deemed at risk for suicidality for potential inpatient admission by our team of trained mental health services staff," said Julie Firman, DNP, RN, system chief nurse executive at Baptist Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 20, 2021

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe Guide on Adaptation to Heat for Health provides the building blocks of a plan to ensure an effective heat response for local populations. We have a registry, so we have a list of who these patients are and through GPs who have a record of all their patients they actively survey them.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The most urgent, overarching question is: How can we find patients who will benefit from the drug before their condition progresses outside of the treatment window? | The approval of Leqembi by the FDA marks an exciting turning point for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2024

In this series, we’ll feast on the contributions of digital technologies to weight control: remote monitoring and coaching, adherence support, genetic and phenotypic testing, nutritional advice, and more. In short, our world is easier and more fun to live in, and we are hard-wired to take advantage of it.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The results demonstrate a substantial enhancement in various aspects of sleep quality among participants who wore the Embr Wave. Embr Labs, Inc., the creators of Embr Wave®, the pioneering temperature wearable, unveiled pivotal findings from a recent sleep study.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2024

For the 135th episode of the Healthcare IT Today Podcast we are busting some myths about being a healthcare entrepreneur! First, we discuss what topics can be the hardest to accept for company founders who are new to healthcare. Next, we pass along advice to healthcare company founders. Thanks so much for listening!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2024

We interviewed her for a deep dive into feeding disorders and how telehealth can help. The child is learning to eat in the place we want them to eat, with the people we want them to eat with. Kelly is a licensed professional counselor and founder and CEO of Focused Approach. And how did telemedicine come into the mix?

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2024

As most of you know, we’ve had a healthcare IT job board called Healthcare IT Central for a long time. With that change of focus, I’m sad to say that shortly we’ll be shutting down the Healthcare IT Central job board. Instead, we can just share some health IT jobs each week in an article for those who are searching.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2024

Although we were forced into fully remote operations with COVID-19, we have been making modifications along the way and have discovered how beneficial it can be to our organizations and our patients. To make further strides though, we have to understand where we’ve come from, where we are now, and how it is making an impact.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

We hope that all of you are having an amazing Thanksgiving. At Healthcare IT Today, we’re so appreciative of all of you in the Healthcare IT Today community. Whether you’re someone who reads daily, reads casually, or your a company that supports the work we do, we are deeply grateful for your support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2022

"We had chosen the technology, the cameras were hung, and we had signed contracts for our physicians to work," explained Roberta Schwartz, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at the health system. "Then, after they are in, nothing is perfect," she said. in Orange County Convention Center W230A.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 10, 2023

"When the first wave of COVID-19 kind of died down, we met with all of our heads of departments, including cardiology, pulmonary and other key service lines, and we asked them about the limitation of that telehealth interaction," he recalled. "What we learned is that we needed data," he continued.

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Digital Health Global

APRIL 17, 2024

“Fund II presents an exciting opportunity to deepen our impact on human health by partnering with entrepreneurs who are positively disrupting healthcare,” said Austin Walters, Managing Partner at SpringTide Ventures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

"To be clear, we’re not talking about the lowest costs. We’re talking about the highest quality of care enabled by better processes," added Dr. Randy Hawkins, Transcarent's chief medical officer. "High-quality care drives down the overall cost of care. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Matt Humphrey, Partner at Quiet Capital led the funding round, joined by Four Acres, Tau Ventures, and a number of angel investors who are AI experts and healthcare founders themselves, including Aditya Khosla, Founder and CTO at PathAI, and senior executives and founders from Flatiron Health , Presto AI , and Athena Health among others.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We spoke with Winsberg to get an in-depth look at this study and what the results mean for the future of telehealth and mental healthcare. Who was involved? It included a total of 8,581 people who completed a digital intake on the Brightside platform. Patients who received treatment via Brightside Health were also 4.3

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We don’t even have the time or word count to cover it all in this article, so instead we will be focusing on healthcare interoperability. At the recent Civitas Conference, we took the time to ask various members of our talented Healthcare IT Today Community to see where their thoughts were on this subject.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

THE PROBLEM Inexperience with technology was the major barrier – those who were older, Black or Hispanic tended to have less education and lower income and were more likely not to be ready. "We also asked the residents what kinds of programming they would like Denver Health to bring into their communities."

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Iris Telehealth

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, if you have an in-person provider who you think might transition to telehealth on a full-time or part-time basis, they may decide they don’t like telepsychiatry after all. At Iris, however, we not only assess their clinical skills, but their technical skills and screen presence as well.

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