Bill of Health
JANUARY 12, 2022
By James Toomey. Kathryn Paige Harden’s The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality is a thoughtful, thorough, and well-written book about the compatibility of behavioral genetics with progressive ideology. Weaving together her own fascinating work in genetics with Rawlsian political philosophy, Harden’s book is necessary reading for anyone interested in inheritance or politics — which, I suppose, is everyone.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 18, 2022
Social determinants of health are major contributors to health inequity and rising healthcare costs in vulnerable populations such as Medicaid beneficiaries. Healthcare innovators are building proactive care management programs to mitigate SDOH risk by connecting high-risk members with community-based organizations to arrange food delivery, transportation to appointments, emergency housing and other services.
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Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 19, 2022
Cyber incidents can compromise patient care and attacks against hospitals have become more prevalent in recent years. However, ECRI said the worst consequences are preventable.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 26, 2022
The United States is in the middle of a mental and behavioral healthcare crisis. There simply are not enough clinicians and therapists to go around as the pandemic and its stresses drag on. The problem is worsened by geography – in rural America, such providers are even harder to find. But technology has a huge role to play in lessening the crisis.
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Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 11, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Working in intensive care unit is often tiring and stressful. Nurses working in the ICU treat patients with critical medical conditions. At the same, the burden of treating a huge number of patients in a […]. The article 4 Skills You Need To Be A Critical Care Nurse appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
Health Populi
JANUARY 4, 2022
The four top trends to watch for this week at CES 2022 are transportation, space tech, sustainable technology, and digital health, based on Steve Koenig’s annual read-out that kicks off this largest annual conference featuring innovations in consumer electronics. Last night, Steve discussed these trends for media attendees, of which I am one (gratefully) participating in #CES2022 virtually from the hygienic comfort and safety of my home health hub (more on that later in this post).
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 20, 2022
Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters. Paddy Padmanabhan For a while now, we have been watching how voice-recognition based artificial intelligence tools can improve physician productivity, reduce burnout and impr
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 25, 2022
Signs point toward another historic year in VC investment, experts say, which will benefit the medical system as it evolves to encapsulate more digital services.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 5, 2022
A study published this past week in JAMA Network Open found that while the vast majority of physicians in a large regional healthcare system had transitioned to include virtual care in their practice by December 2020, some were more likely to be early adopters than others. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital retrospectively analyzed data from all 3,473 physicians providing ambulatory care through Mass General Brigham, which includes 12 hospitals.
Electronic Health Reporter
JANUARY 26, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Evanguelidi, director, enterprise healthcare market, Redpoint Global. In a new survey of more than 1,000 U.S. healthcare consumers conducted by Dynata and commissioned by Redpoint Global, more than 80% of respondents said that […]. The article Healthcare Consumers Voice An Expectation for Personalized Experiences appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.
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Kaiser Health News
JANUARY 28, 2022
A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The Jan. 25 ruling, which came in response to a 2011 class-action lawsuit eventually joined by 14 beneficiaries against the Department of Health and Human Services, will guarantee patients the right to appeal to Medicare for nursing hom
Bill of Health
JANUARY 26, 2022
By Sarah Wang. Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population, which numbers about 2.1 million as of 2021. As a first step to protecting incarcerated individuals’ right to health, Congress should repeal the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy (MIEP). The MIEP, established in 1965, prohibits Medicaid from covering incarcerated individuals, despite any prior eligibility.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 5, 2022
As the omicron variant spreads across Europe, leaders are tightening COVID restrictions and bringing in new rules to increase vaccination uptake. In December the European Commission reduced the validity period of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) to nine months to encourage people to have boosters, based on the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s recommendation that the third jab should be given within six months.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 28, 2022
Health systems used financial incentives for quality and cost performance measures, but the percentage of total physician compensation based on quality and cost was just 9% for primary-care providers, according to the study.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 4, 2022
Telemedicine is on an all-time high. The requirements of the contagious COVID-19 and the subsequent loosening of governmental regulations and commercial payer rules have finally propelled telehealth into the mainstream. Travel to virtually any U.S. healthcare provider organization today and its teams are conducting some kind of telehealth. Justin Miller , vice president of customer success at eVisit, a telemedicine technology and services company, did just that.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 10, 2022
The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. This time last year, we healthcare leaders were excited to be looking ahead to 2021 and leaving 2020 firmly behind us. But our dreams of putting the pandemic in the past were put on pause. Now, […].
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 12, 2022
Glooko CEO Russ Johannesson predicts that the growth in digital health funding will continue this year, and that the push toward interoperability will be critical for the space.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 25, 2022
By James R. Jolin. U.S. incarcerated populations have long dealt with chronic sleep deprivation, often with little to no reprieve. This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. Estimates for the incidence of such sleep deprivation in correctional facilities are admittedly varied (likely a consequence of little epidemiological sleep research in the U.S. correctional systems on the whole), but
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Healthcare It News
JANUARY 7, 2022
ThedaCare is a seven-hospital health system in Wisconsin with 180 locations and 7,000 employees. To succeed in its mission, ThedaCare is on a path to population health – aiming to go above and beyond treating a particular condition to make care easy and accessible to help achieve better health for life. The health system's goals include providing high-quality care, access for everyone in the community, a great patient experience and affordable care.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 20, 2022
Black patients were 2.5 times more likely to have one or more negative descriptor such as "noncompliant" or "aggressive" in their EHR compared with White patients, researchers found.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 17, 2022
The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These include specialist inpatient video and phone consultation items under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, complex specialist telephone consultations and level C or longer telephone consultations for general practitioners. Offered until 30 June, these telehealth items have been made available nationwide, unlike when these were targeted only to hotspot areas previously.
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 4, 2022
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 1/7 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Sarah Krüg (@sarahkrug1) and Matt Sakumoto (@MattSakumoto) on the topic “Enhancing Digital Empathy and Reimagining the Telehealth Experience.” As telehealth is increasingly adopted across all care settings, […].
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Mobi Health News
JANUARY 13, 2022
Health tech companies raised nearly $40 billion last year, according to Silicon Valley Bank's Healthcare Investments and Exits Report. IPOs were also up, but those companies didn't fare as well in the public markets.
Health Populi
JANUARY 14, 2022
Members of his congregation kept going to the hospital with diet-related issues, Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, III , realized. “I got tired of praying and hoping they made it and walked out,” Reverend Brown realized. And then… “God gave us an idea and vision to be proactive on the issue of health in our congregation,” Rev. Brown explained to us yesterday on Day 2 of Real Chemistry’s Health Equity Summit.
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 21, 2022
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Harvard Medical School and Brown University published a meta-review in PLOS Digital Health this week seeking to examine the efficacy of apps and other mobile health interventions for mental illness. After examining results from 14 meta-analyses representing 145 randomized controlled trials, researchers said they failed to find convincing evidence of efficacy.
Healthcare Dive
JANUARY 27, 2022
Hospitals are still grappling with rising turnover, widespread burnout and numerous staff calling in sick nearly two years after the pandemic began. It's unclear when it might get better — or how much worse it could get.
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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 7, 2022
For several years, Houston Methodist had been planning to spin up a virtual intensive care unit as a way to provide support for community hospitals and widen access to care. "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.
Fierce Healthcare
JANUARY 10, 2022
Investors poured record-breaking $29.1B into digital health startups. Will the momentum continue in 2022? hlandi. Mon, 01/10/2022 - 12:17.
Mobi Health News
JANUARY 21, 2022
In a preview of their HIMSS22 presentation, Robert Jarrin, managing partner at the Omega Concern, and Brian Scarpelli, senior global policy counsel at the Connected Health Initiative, explain the current digital health reimbursement landscape.
Modern Healthcare
JANUARY 25, 2022
Following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Jan. 13 against enforcing the emergency vaccination mandate while it's in the appeal process, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it's withdrawing the standard while it crafts a new one.
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