Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced the first half-dozen awardees of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. WHY IT MATTERS. Health systems in hard-hit states such as Louisiana, New York and Ohio have been approved for a total of $3.23 million, so far, of the $200 million program. The money was earmarked by Congress, part of the recent CARES Act , to help FCC to support the expansion of telehealth services during the coronavirus crisis.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving. In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. We’ve done our best to cover the areas we thought were most important to healthcare organizations. In many cases, that means we’ve been covering the big changes to government regulations and the government funding available to hospitals and healthcare organizations.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chris Franklin, president, LocumTenens.com. LocumTenens.com asked physicians and advanced practitioners about their experiences with healthcare consolidation as part of its 2019 Compensation and Employment Survey. It can take years to determine success or failure, […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

GE Healthcare has introduced a new cloud-based remote-monitoring tool designed to help clinicians look after ventilated COVID-19 patients. WHY IT MATTERS. GE's Mural virtual-care technology aims to give hospitals visibility across their ventilated patient population, helping clinicians identify patients at risk of deterioration. Delivered via Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, the tool is meant to help hospitals preserve clinical resources as more patients are admitted for COVID-19 treatm

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Health Populi

APRIL 13, 2020

“U.S. workers were stressed before COVID-19; now, stress levels are through the roof,” based on data analyzed by Ginger , the digital behavioral health innovator, asserting this major mental health headline in its latest press release. Working Americans were becoming increasingly stressed, distressed, and anxious in February 2020, when Ginger fielded this study.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 16, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Amar Shah, owner, VitalCare Family Practice in Chesterfield, Virginia. Coronavirus has forced practices nationwide to undertake dramatic changes in how they practice medicine. But whatever the means we use to deliver care, there […]. The article Telehealth: Lifesaving Care During A Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

Dr. Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. One of the biggest complaints his practice would get from patients’ families with school-age children is that it was difficult to get appointments that fit into their schedule, and that those times were further confounded by heavy traffic.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2020

On Saturday, April 11, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flew over Las Vegas to celebrate health care workers. They were also celebrating you, wherever you are. Thanks for your service! Photos by Mike Semel – ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 15, 2020

Many are anticipating greater adoption of digital health services and more favorable regulatory and reimbursement environments, according to a recent poll sampling 513 digital health and adjacent companies.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 16, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Aaron Johnson, senior product manager, ATEN Technology, Inc. With the continued spread of COVID-19, it’s more important than ever for healthcare organizations to continue implementing ways to keep employees and patients safe, while improving […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2020

As hospitals and health systems nationwide grapple with the fast-moving demands of the coronavirus crisis, they're also faced with an added challenge: fending off a sustained upswell in cybersecurity threats, perpetrated by bad actors taking advantage of the pandemic's chaos. Healthcare IT News spoke recently with Dan Costantino, Chief Information Security Officer at Penn Medicine, who offered some insights into how his infosec staff has adjusted its strategies to support the health syst

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2020

We all know that telehealth use has been mushrooming as providers struggle to address the demand for coronavirus care. However, the data is starting to come out on how much the use of telehealth has changed. These new studies look at the extent of telehealth use during the pandemic. One physician-focused study comes from healthcare […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 14, 2020

The medtech company will be required to state in its test reports that the tests have not been reviewed by the FDA and that negative results do not rule out the novel coronavirus infection.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rick Halton, vice president, marketing and product, Lumeon. Since it was first recorded late last year in China, the spread of COVID-19 has accelerated around the world, rapidly creating a global pandemic. The number […]. The article Leveraging Automation In The Fight Against COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

A recent IDC Health Insights presentation focused on health IT industry trends during and after the COVID-19 era. It examined some of tools and strategies that stand to gain ground in the months ahead as health systems build on lessons learned during the coronavirus crisis. Among the connected health trends on researchers' radar, of course: "accelerated deployment of telehealth/virtual visits, chatbot assessments, and remote health monitoring.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2020

What happens when you bring an amazing group of experts to talk about an important topic? Magic. That’s how I’d describe this National Patient ID virtual meetup we put together with our friends at NextGate. Take a look at the amazing panel that shared important insights and perspectives on a National Patient Identifier: Julie Pursley […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 13, 2020

Also: Datos Health ties off $7 million in Series A funding; Wellthy Therapeutics collects $4 million in pre-Series A; Lifesprk fleshes out tech with $16.1 million.

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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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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 16, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Many people drink alcohol for varied reasons and on different occasions. For some people, alcohol is part of their dinner. Others drink because they enjoy how alcohol makes their brains a little fuzzier. For some […]. The article Quarantine Is A Great Time To Quit Drinking appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

The American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association have teamed up to help healthcare organizations respond to a rise in cyber threats exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. The two organizations have drawn particular attention to the risks posed by telehealth and remote work environments, and have published a paper that offers guidance to help healthcare organizations strengthen home- or hospital-based computers, networks and medical devices.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2020

Apple and Google have announced that they’ll work together to help governments and health agencies trace contacts made by people who have contracted the COVID-19 virus. The effort, which will only involve users who have opted in, will rely on Bluetooth technology. To kick off the initiative, the tech giants are launching a multi-layered solution […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 14, 2020

Healthbox President Neil Patel describes how his group is helping to facilitate the sharing of solutions and best practices around COVID-19 response.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 17, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Catherine O’Leary, RN, managing director, healthcare advisory/CDI, KPMG. COVID-19 is imposing a humanitarian and economic toll around the world, and healthcare providers are on the front lines of the response. New COVID-19 medical codes that […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2020

Healthbox President Neil Patel describes how his group is helping to facilitate the sharing of solutions and best practices around COVID-19 response.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

It’s Friday, so it is time for another edition of Fun Friday. This week we’re back with sharing a few cartoons that seem particularly poignant given the current pandemic. Be sure to also look back at our past other COVID-19 cartoons. I hope everyone is staying safe. Considering a lot of people who read this […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 16, 2020

A new guidance from the U.S. regulator relaxes a handful of requirements for these digital health devices, and clarifies the agency's long-term enforcement policy for low-risk wellness products.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 16, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Andriana Moskovska, content curator and contributor, Legaljobsite.net.With every technological advancement, we’re working toward a mostly digitized healthcare system. And, if the current results are anything to go by, the future is bound to be […].

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HealthStream

APRIL 17, 2020

The aging of our population, which some have called a “silver tsunami,” will only keep accelerating. Expect rising healthcare expenditures, increased caregiver needs, and simultaneous geriatrician shortages.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2020

In my previous article on telehealth adoption due to COVID-19, I highlighted a number of telehealth adoption numbers that Epic shared. In the article, I asked the question about which telehealth applications these Epic customers were using. All of the Epic telehealth implementations I’d seen first hand were using Vidyo, but there were 15 telehealth […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 14, 2020

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