Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

Mayo Clinic on Wednesday announced the launch of a new platform that's designed to deliver advanced, AI-powered clinical decision support through remote monitoring – helping providers stay connected and deliver more continuous care to device-connected patients. WHY IT MATTERS. The health system's new Remote Diagnostics and Management Platform was created to deliver what it calls "event-driven medicine" – connecting patient data with machine learning algorithms withi

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 16, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Arel Lidow, co-founder and president, Cedar. At a recent doctor’s appointment, I found myself in an uncomfortable situation, one that will probably seem familiar to you. Before my appointment, I filled out a bunch […]. The article Future-Proofing The Healthcare Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

Trust in the technology industry has crashed to an all-time low based on the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer. As Richard Edelman, CEO, concisely asserted , “Tech loses its halo.” The first chart shows the one-year trend on trust across industries through U.S. consumers’ eyes. Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 29, 2021

The following is a guest article by Robin Gaster, CEO of Incumetrics. For 100 years, retailers have segmented the broad marketplace into groups – soccer moms, or Millennials, or New Yorkers, or readers… pretty much every retailer uses target segments like those. But Amazon has never been interested. Instead, it wants a segment of one: […].

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Advertiser: Celo

Let's discuss the trusty pager—an old favorite that’s losing its shine in hospitals and clinics. While once a staple in hospitals and clinics, pagers now present significant limitations that hinder rather than facilitate communication among healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals are constantly on the move, and they need communication tools that can keep up with their fast-paced lives.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 8, 2021

Starting this month, eligible Fitbit Sense users can participate in the study, which will look into how pulse arrival time can be used to measure blood pressure. .

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S. senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. "The last year has shown us that telehealth works, it’s popular, and it’s here to stay," said Sen.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 29, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Deborah Hsieh, chief policy and strategy officer, Ciox Health. Congress enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in 1996. In the 25 years since, healthcare and technology have advanced beyond what any […]. The article Expect More From HIPAA Proposed Changes: Easing Information Flow Shouldn’t Mean Reducing Health Data Privacy appeared first on electronichealt

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2021

Genomics is one of the most exciting parts of healthcare. It’s also one of the most complex and challenging topics out there. As genomic sequencing prices have dropped and genomic research has accelerated, I know of no area of healthcare that’s more exciting than genomics. While genomics has shown so much progress and promise, I’ll […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 22, 2021

Dubai’s GluCare has released its first set of findings, taken over 90 days since launch. Report shows that diabetic patients achieved an average HbA1c reduction of 1.7% in just three months.

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HealthStream

APRIL 5, 2021

On April 5, 2021, the 21st Century Cures Act will take effect, allowing patients to use applications to access data from their medical records. This blog post discusses what that means for patients and healthcare providers, especially for staff in terms of revenue cycle and compliance functions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2021

Preferred Behavioral Health Group, based in Lakewood, New Jersey, is a multi-site outpatient behavioral health organization providing adult mental health services, youth and family services, and substance use services. Its mission is to deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families through a trauma-informed care philosophy and approach.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 27, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. As we grow older, our bodies age and slow down. This can lead to a few embarrassing and alarming situations. While it can take time for us to adjust to our bodies, there are tools […]. The article The Most Common Mobility Tools You Shouldn’t Hesitate to Buy appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2021

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/16 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Robin Farmanfarmaian (@robinff3) on the topic “Digital Therapeutics – DTx.” The Digital Therapeutics Alliance defines DTx as products that “deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients that are […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 9, 2021

GE Research has received a grant from the NIH to develop sensors that can be embedded into mobile devices to detect COVID-19 particles on their surfaces. .

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HealthStream

APRIL 1, 2021

Transitions of care and especially readmission rates have long been on the minds and featured heavily on the dashboards of the nation’s healthcare leaders. Practicing nursing change models also can help prepare patients for successful transitions of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

At the start of 2020, widespread adoption of remote patient monitoring was still in the distance. The technology was struggling to get off the ground despite it being available for years. Most of the hesitancy on RPM implementation seemed to be because of limited reimbursement opportunities as well as lack of incentives for providers offering such services.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 27, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. According to Statista, in 2019, U.S. drug store and pharmacy sales totaled nearly 297 billion dollars. While there has been a big focus on pharmaceutical companies and their sky-high prices in the media, including previously […]. The article How New Drugs Are Priced appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 28, 2021

Health care has increased its role in popular culture over the years. In movies in particular, we’ve seen health care costs and hassles play featured in plotlines in As Good as it Gets [theme: health insurance coverage], M*A*S*H [war and its medical impacts are hell], and Philadelphia [HIV/AIDS in the era of The Band Played On], among dozens of others.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2021

Many of the health IT innovations today are happening on the back of health data. I don’t think anyone would disagree that future health IT innovations are going to rely on high quality data. However, what happens when there are reasons you can’t or don’t want to share that data? What happens when multiple organizations […].

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Speaker: Jack Clough, Chief Growth Officer

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 1, 2021

Hayat-Vax is a joint collaboration between Sinopharm CNBG and Abu Dhabi’s G42. Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 contact tracing app will now also function as a national vaccine registry.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

When COVID-19 hit in early 2020, patient and provider needs shifted substantially – and consumer demand for telehealth options skyrocketed. This year, providers want to get back to running a profitable practice, and implementing a full virtual care strategy may very well be critical to achieving this goal. Mike Morgan is president of Updox, a vendor of a healthcare communication platform for in-person and virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

It's been more than a year since the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. According to a McKinsey report, an estimated 25% of outpatient services could move to telemedicine, which is among the necessary changes that could mean preparation and prevention for future health epidemics and pandemics, said Dr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Even as telehealth has made many aspects of care more seamless, a few elements have routinely emerged as points of difficulty. Among them is the waiting room. A new survey from LifeLink Systems out this week found that the vast majority of patients said they'd prefer a virtual waiting room that allowed them to complete paperwork on their phones before they got to a doctors' office.

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Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.