Sat.Aug 07, 2021 - Fri.Aug 13, 2021

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Not all data is meaningful data

Healthcare It News

LAS VEGAS – Whether it's from telemedicine, wearables and or electronic health records, a growing amount of healthcare data is becoming available on both an individual and population-wide level. "But just because you have data," pointed out Michael Meucci, chief operating officer at Arcadia, "doesn't mean that it's meaningful.

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10 OTC For Emergencies and First Aid

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Over-the-counter refers to the medications available to you without the doctor’s prescription and can be bought without hesitation. These medications are beneficial in curing common illnesses and disorders that may occur regularly. You might want […].

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound. During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health care sector was profoundly affected by cyber-attacks on connected devices, we learn in the report, Rise of the Machines 2021: State of Connected Devices – IT, IoT, IoMT and OT from Ordr.

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The digital health tools one COVID-19 survivor relied on during his 100-day hospital stay

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In late March of last year, Frank Cutitta was admitted to a Boston-area hospital with COVID-19. He wouldn't walk out again until the Fourth of July, 100 days later. "My name is Frank Cutitta, and I am very happy, literally, to be here," Cutitta told HIMSS21 attendees on Thursday. As the former HIMSS senior director of content analytics and the founder of HIMSS Media Lab, Cutitta, now the founder and CEO of HealthTech Decisions Lab, treated much of his time in the hospital as a long

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

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?

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HIMSS21 tech news: New conversational AI, IT-enabled home diagnostic testing

Healthcare It News

Orbita, a vendor of secure voice and chatbot virtual-assistant solutions for healthcare, has launched an upgrade to its conversational AI platform for healthcare, along with deployments with four healthcare organizations using Orbita to power automated patient engagement and support. Orbita's new Solution Center is an integrated system for quickly deploying secure, scalable, omnichannel voice and chatbot virtual assistants for healthcare's digital front door.

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How Modernizing Traditional Payroll Can Help Heal the Healthcare Staffing Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brian Radin, president, Comdata Prepaid. Employment in healthcare occupations is projected to grow 15% over the next few years, adding nearly 2.4 million jobs. Yet, there is no end in sight to the nation-wide […]. The article How Modernizing Traditional Payroll Can Help Heal the Healthcare Staffing Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Building lasting tele-behavioral health programs to address patient needs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed many patients – especially those in under-resourced areas – unprecedented access to behavioral healthcare. But as Michael Hasselberg, senior director of digital health at the University of Rochester, discussed with Cleveland Clinic Director of Design and Best Practices Julie Rish during a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital session, such programs have required being nimble and adaptable in the face of changing needs.

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Convenience versus Relationships in Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off the HIMSS 2021 conference in Las Vegas, this tweet highlighted a fundamental principle that many in healthcare don’t understand or at least don’t pay enough attention to. Jan Oldenburg shared it in this tweet: When I interview patients it becomes clear that they really WANT both convenience and relationships with their […].

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Digital Tools To Streamline Total Joint Replacement In The ASC Setting

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Veronica Diaz, medical director of orthopedics, Modernizing Medicine. The growing preference for outpatient orthopedic surgery is much more than another pandemic-inspired trend. Recent advances in medicine over the past few years have made […].

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How 'person first' thinking can improve digital health tools

Mobi Health News

Design thinking is key to creating successful digital tools that are helpful for patients, said Molly Woodriff, MPH, senior product manager at NYU Langone Health at HIMSS21.

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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Legislators at HIMSS21 point to telehealth as key pandemic-era tech

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Florida and Rhode Island aren't all that similar when it comes to population size or state politics. But what they do have in common, said two legislators who co-presented at a HIMSS21 session on Thursday, is a telehealth strategy that proved to be wildly popular among residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a multi-decade legislator, Rhode Island Rep.

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HIMSS21 Day 2 Live Updates from John Lynn

Healthcare IT Today

This year we thought we’d try something new at HIMSS 2021. We’ll continue doing our regular coverage of topics we find interesting and useful for the Healthcare IT Today community. Plus, we’ll be doing a number of video interviews which will go out on our Healthcare IT Today Interviews podcast. However, we thought it would […].

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H1 Acquires Carevoyance

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. H1, which provides the largest global healthcare platform that connects healthcare professionals, announced today that it has acquired Portland, Oregon-based Carevoyance, which offers ??the best targeting, sales enablement, and physician segmentation platform to medical device […].

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Is digital transformation in healthcare contributing to provider burnout?

Mobi Health News

A group of former and current providers convened today in a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session to discuss how digital transformation can be both contributing to and alleviating burnout.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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OIG looking closely at telehealth as it weighs future enforcement

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services works to ensure the integrity of federal healthcare programs and to safeguard the health and welfare of those programs' beneficiaries. In a session at HIMSS21 on Tuesday, two HHS OIG leaders offered a look at the enforcement priorities the agency has in mind these days, and some hints about the compliance responsibilities healthcare organizations should be prioritizing in the coming months.

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Difference Between Machine Learning and AI – Fun Friday

Healthcare IT Today

It’s Friday after a long week at the 2021 HIMSS Annual conference in Las Vegas. I always love the feeling the Friday of HIMSS. I’m absolutely exhausted, but I’m also completely energized and excited for the future. Sharing time with incredible people that are working hard to use technology to improve healthcare is so inspiring. […].

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Empathy Is As Important as the Medical Treatment – the 2021 Accenture Health Experience As Backdrop to HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

The rise of digital health investment and growing role of technology in health care services only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, people took on their own versions of digital transformation at home, for work, for school, for cooking, shopping, and indeed, for health care. But with digital health adoption gains has come some ambivalence and mixed signals, Accenture has discovered in its 2021 Health and life Sciences Experiences Survey released this week during the HIMS

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CCM can identify nerve damage in patients with long COVID, new study finds

Mobi Health News

The non-invasive eye examination is also used to identify conditions such as diabetic neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and dementia.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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India prioritising shift to remote care: survey

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Royal Philips has published its latest Future Health Index 2021 report that explores how healthcare leaders are confronting the present challenges of the pandemic and where their current and future priorities lie. The findings from India revealed an imminent shift toward prioritising remote care, adopting digital health technologies and implementing sustainable healthcare practices.

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What’s a Cable Company Doing at HIMSS21?

Healthcare IT Today

Cox Business, the B2B technology division of cable provider Cox Communications, is aiming to make more inroads in healthcare. They are doubling down on front-of-the-house technologies that impact clinical care vs back-end infrastructure. They are smartly growing their healthcare capabilities which were on full display at #HIMSS21 Non-traditional Vendors Every year at the HIMSS conference, […].

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

“We don’t un-learn,” Dr. Amy Abernethy asserte d as she shared her pandemic perspectives on a panel with 2 other former U.S. health policy and regulatory leaders. The three spoke about navigating compliance (think: regulations and reimbursement) in an uncertain world. An uncertain world is our workplace in the health/care ecosystem, globally, in this moment.

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Doctors look to tech for the future but need assurance it will work

Mobi Health News

Jesse Ehrenfeld, chair of the board of trustees for the American Medical Association, discusses the evolution of digital health adoption over time at HIMSS21.

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How Embedded Analytics Gets You to Market Faster with a SAAS Offering

Start-ups & SMBs launching products quickly must bundle dashboards, reports, & self-service analytics into apps. Customers expect rapid value from your product (time-to-value), data security, and access to advanced capabilities. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) tools can provide valuable data analysis capabilities, but they have a barrier to entry that can stop small and midsize businesses from capitalizing on them.

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Pandemic preparedness is a national security issue, say experts at HIMSS21

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

LAS VEGAS – One year ago this week, a group of digital health experts formulated the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, which outlined priorities and recommendations for the global health community in response to COVID-19 and other future pandemics. But in order to see meaningful change, those priorities must be turned into concrete action, said panelists who gathered at a HIMSS21 "view from the top" panel on Tuesday.

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Insights and Perspectives at #HIMSS21 from Hal Wolf, President & CEO of HIMSS

Healthcare IT Today

Today I had the chance to hear from Hal Wolf, President & CEO of HIMSS at a press event during the HIMSS 2021 conference in Las Vegas. It was great to be able to hear his thoughts and perspectives on the industry and some perspectives on how the HIMSS21 conference has gone so far. Here’s […].

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New survey finds COVID-19 is taking a significant toll on physicians

Fierce Healthcare

New survey finds COVID-19 is taking a significant toll on physicians. agliadkovskaya. Mon, 08/09/2021 - 15:51.

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Telehealth policy is key for patients of all incomes to access care

Mobi Health News

Abner Mason, founder and CEO of ConsejoSano, and Madhur Garg, medical director of radiation oncology at Montefiore Health system, discuss the role of technology in addressing SDoH.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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The future of aging technology and care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The rising number of seniors and the rising cost of care are making technologies that can provide services like remote care delivery critically important, requiring a focus on innovation to keep costs down. Brian Hozler, CEO of Lacuna Health, Sherwin Sheik, CEO of CareLinx, and Sumit Nagpal, CEO of Cherish Health — in a panel moderated by Justin Gernot, vice president of Healthbox — agree that “healthcare is coming home,” which means using digital tools to identify rising

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HIMSS21 Day 2 Live Updates from Colin Hung

Healthcare IT Today

We’re trying something a little different this year…a throwback to the early days of blogging. Today John Lynn and I will be posting interesting news, conversations, thoughts and insights from Day 2 here at #HIMSS21 in Las Vegas. Bookmark this article and watch for updates from me throughout the day. Be sure to check out […].

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Integrating clinical, claims data key in one Delaware organization's response to COVID-19

Healthcare It News

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Addressing health inequities upstream can curb later health disparities

Mobi Health News

Dr. Walter Suarez, Executive Director for Health IT Strategy and Policy for Kaiser Permanente's Technology Risk Office, discussed why the time is right to address health inequities today at HIMSS21.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.