Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Telemedicine has been particularly important because of the large, multistate service region with many rural and frontier patients, mountain passes and snow that complicate travel, and limited numbers of pediatric subspecialists in the Rocky Mountain region outside of Denver.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 3, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy, Omnicell, Inc. Discussions about the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare often span multiple areas, most commonly about making more accurate diagnoses, identifying at-risk populations, and […].

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

Along with the life-threatening impact of the coronavirus on physical health, and the accompanying mental health distress activated by self-distancing comes a third unintended consequence with the pandemic: a hard hit on women’s personal economies. The recession of the pandemic is considered by many economists as a “She-Cession,” a downturn in the economy that’s negatively impacting women more acutely than men.

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 3, 2020

The robot helps to reduce staff-patient contact with highly infectious diseases at the point of testing by autonomously navigating and safely collecting patient samples.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

The Institute for Family Health based in New Paltz, New York, is one of the largest federally qualified health center networks in New York State. It operates 32 community health centers located in medically underserved communities in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, which have been exceptionally hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic; and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, 90 miles north of New York City.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Linda Stotsky (@EMRAnswers) and Rich Metger (@Rich_Metzger) from @Bossoft on the topic of “Is RPA the Missing Piece in Healthcare?“. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is being […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 6, 2020

While its Galaxy Watch3 device is available now, a launch date for the Samsung Health Monitor app that will enable ECG, blood pressure and blood oxygen saturation tracking is still up in the air.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Greene County General Hospital in Linton, Indiana, faced challenges in providing access to care because the area has transportation barriers. THE PROBLEM. Greene County spans 546 miles, and has a population of about 30,000. Even though the healthcare organization offers four rural health clinics throughout the county, patients still were having difficulties finding transportation to their appointments.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated many trends and new workflows for patients and consumers, and health care providers, too. The convergence of basic needs like hygiene and safety, financial and health security, and living-working-learning-and-cooking-at-home has turbocharged a migration of more acute care delivered at home. I explore this growing concept in my latest essay on Medecision’s Liberation blog, How the Pandemic Is Accelerating the Hospital-At-Home Concept.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

You may remember that we previously wrote about Judy Faulkner and Epic’s decision to return to work and not continue remote working. Well, that decision has now hit mainstream news. Today, Anna Werner from CBS This Morning covered Epic’s decision to return to work despite “objections from hundreds of employees.” In the report, CBS interviewed […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 5, 2020

The three-year investigation will use iPhones, Apple Watches and Beddit trackers to monitor sleep, physical activity, heart rate and other daily behaviors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 5, 2020

In March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released new guidance regarding remote patient monitoring. For the duration of the public health emergency triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, RPM services can be provided to both new and established patients, said the agency. The change was just one of a number of government initiatives enacted to support RPM, explained Tyler Fletcher, global head of medical, advertising and Americas consulting at GlobalData, during a HIMSS20 Digital sess

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 6, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The government is determined to see that all healthcare institutions use electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs). Their features, after all, streamline the healthcare process. Many physicians and healthcare professionals, however, […].

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 4, 2020

When we first started creating our live video telehealth list, we quickly realized that every healthcare organization was going to need to know and understand how their EHR vendor was planning to approach telehealth. Were EHR vendors going to roll out their own solution? Were EHR vendors going to embrace third party telehealth solutions? Would […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 3, 2020

The startup's approach combines a low-cost digital-imaging device for hospitals with a comprehensive medical-imaging software platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. Paddy Padmanabhan In the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems saw dramatic spikes in virtual visits and telehealth adoption in the patient population.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 6, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The COVID-19 pandemic has indeed shed some light on the healthcare sector, especially in terms of how services are rendered. Even though remote care services have been around for a while, they have only now […]. The article How To Create A Customer-Centered TeleHealth Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2020

As some of you may know, connected health company Withings just finished raising $60 million to build a strong presence in the healthcare industry. For most of its existence, Withings has focused on selling to consumers, so this marks a major turning point for the company. The question now is whether Withings — along with […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 5, 2020

Each Livongo share will be converted Teladoc stock at a 0.5920 exchange rate, plus an additional $11.44 in cash per stock.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 6, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Having your child suffer from childbirth is among the most gut-wrenching things that a mother has to deal with. There are many mothers who feel guilty about the hardships that their child has to go […]. The article Recent Advancements For Managing Brachial Plexus Injuries appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2020

I think we all knew that mergers and acquisitions in the telehealth space we’re coming. You can’t have this many telehealth companies in such a hot space and not see a lot of activity in this regard. However, I’m not sure many of us thought that it would start with such a mega merger of […].

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Mobi Health News

AUGUST 5, 2020

Barriers to adoption include hearing issues, lack of tech abilities and visual difficulties.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Teladoc and Livongo merge; CMS proposes telehealth changes Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 5, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. To start this off, we would first of all look into the definition of stem cells. What Are Stem Cells? Stem cells are undifferentiated biological cells that can differentiate into distinct specialized cells and divide […]. The article Stem Cell Therapy: Progress in Technology and Medicine appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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