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Hospitals Turn To Tech To Help with 2021 Nursing Shortage

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. One of the greatest health concerns of modern society is nursing shortages in different states across the world. The prevalence and impacts of the recent Covid-19 pandemic have taught the world that professional nurses and […]. The article Hospitals Turn To Tech To Help with 2021 Nursing Shortage appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mass. community health centers conduct more than 1M telehealth visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Massachusetts Federally Qualified Health Center Telehealth Consortium announced this week that its dozens of members have conducted more than one million telehealth visits total since March 2020. The Consortium, comprising 35 community health centers, has also passed the halfway mark of its $12 million goal aimed at sustaining telehealth capacity and addressing disparities among patients served.

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Curebase teams up with AppliedVR on pain treatment and other digital health deals

Mobi Health News

Also: NeuroFlow teams up with the Independence Blue Cross Foundation and Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic to provide its mental health software to frontline healthcare workers.

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Alphabet's Verily, Mayo Clinic team up on decision support tech for cardiovascular care

Fierce Healthcare

Alphabet's Verily, Mayo Clinic team up on decision support tech for cardiovascular care. hlandi. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 09:08.

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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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Verily teams up with Mayo Clinic to develop clinical support tool

Mobi Health News

The new effort will focus on cardiometabolic conditions in order to give clinicians more insights into patient care.

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Boehler's Rubicon Founders is taking aim at kidney care. Here's why

Fierce Healthcare

Boehler's Rubicon Founders is taking aim at kidney care. Here's why. pminemyer. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:50.

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Study names best and worst U.S. cities for mental health

Fierce Healthcare

Study names best and worst U.S. cities for mental health. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 13:44.

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LG Electronics releases cloud-based telemedicine platform with ezCaretech

Mobi Health News

The ezOntheCall telehealth solution enables doctors to quickly retrieve patient data in real-time while conducting virtual consultations.

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Olive Launches In-House Venture Studio for Digital Health Startups

HIT Consultant

Olive Launches In-House Venture Studio for Digital Health Startups. What You Should Know: – Olive , the $4B healthcare automation company, today announced Olive Ventures , a new in-house venture studio that works hand-in-hand with early-stage entrepreneurs to create digital health companies through Olive’s platform. – Olive Ventures offers visionaries a secure, compliant tech environment (i.e.

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Foundation Medicine to integrate with Epic to streamline clinical insights

Fierce Healthcare

Foundation Medicine to integrate with Epic to streamline clinical insights. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 11:15.

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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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Jasper Health Integrates BioIntelliSense’s RPM and COVID-19 Screening Solution for Members

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, BioIntelliSense announced it has formed a strategic collaboration with Jasper Health , an emerging leader of digital engagement for people diagnosed with cancer. – As part of the strategic collaboration, Jasper Health will integrate the BioIntelliSense FDA-cleared BioSticker and medical grade BioButton® wearable devices as part of its remote member engagement and guidance platform.

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The Secret Behind Figure 1’s Success with Clinicians

Healthcare IT Today

Figure 1 has been called the “Instagram for Doctors” and has succeed with clinicians, an audience that Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram have failed to fully engage. What’s the secret to their success? Hint: It’s not badges, gamification or giveaways. Their success is the result of something refreshingly old-school. Healthcare IT Today recently sat down […].

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UPMC posts $605M profit in first half of 2021 as insurance business dips

Fierce Healthcare

UPMC posts $605M profit in first half of 2021 as insurance business dips. rking. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 15:38.

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Making connected health a reality

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Intermountain latest health system to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour amid other pay boosts

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Intermountain latest health system to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour amid other pay boosts. rking. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 14:07.

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Epic’s UGM (User) Conference: Insights, Perspectives, and the Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Still on my bucket list of conferences to attend is the Epic UGM (User Group Meeting) they hold every year for Epic users. I love user conferences because you hear about the true realities users face. Plus, there’s a common bond on the same application that makes finding someone who shares your challenges easy. As […].

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Rey debuts VR-based mental wellness platform

Mobi Health News

The new platform is powered by Oxford University spinout OxfordVR.

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Blue Cross NC's value-based care program saved $197M last year

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Blue Cross NC's value-based care program saved $197M last year. pminemyer. Thu, 08/26/2021 - 12:42.

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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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YouTube says removing videos isn't enough to combat COVID-19 misinformation

Mobi Health News

The company's chief product officer wrote that deleting content as quickly as possible doesn't fix the problem.

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Featured Health IT Job: NextGen EPM & EHR Technology Specialist

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the NextGen EPM & EHR Technology Specialist position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Planned Parenthood Northern, Central and Southern and is in New Jersey. Here’s a description of the […].

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Researchers working on AI system to quickly diagnose autism

Mobi Health News

The proposed system uses brain signals and neural patterns from children.

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Mayo Clinic, Verily Partner to Develop Clinical Decision Support Solutions

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Today, Mayo Clinic and Verily , an Alphabet company announced a strategic two-year collaboration to develop clinical decision support solutions. This modular, evidence-based decision support solution, will provide contextualized and validated knowledge on disease management, care guidelines, and treatment to help clinicians make decisions. – The clinical decision support tool will be developed based on a broad range of health-relevant data sources, including M

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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UK healthtech startup Abtrace raises £2.1M to deliver AI tech to GP surgeries

Mobi Health News

The company uses machine learning to detect, monitor and treat chronic and long-term health conditions.

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Foundation Medicine Integrates with Epic EMR for Genomic Insights for Precision Cancer Care

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Foundation Medicine (FMI) announced today a partnership to integrate its comprehensive genomic testing services into Epic’s electronic medical record (EMR) platform, making it easier for oncologists to order comprehensive genomic tests (CGP), review results, continually access clinical and genomic information and share among their care teams in order to develop personalized treatment plans quickly and efficiently for their patients.

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Mind Cure Health begins North American release of digital therapeutic for psychedelic therapy

Mobi Health News

The company says it will begin full commercial deployment of iSTRYM in the first quarter of 2022.

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Imprivata, Microsoft Expand Collaboration to Unveil New Digital Identity Solutions on Microsoft Azure

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Imprivata , a digital identity company for healthcare and beyond, today announced the availability of two of its flagship digital identity solutions on Microsoft Azure. – The expansion of Imprivata OneSign and Imprivata Confirm ID to the cloud fortifies the company’s focus on advancing digital transformation efforts for healthcare organizations looking to enhance security and clinical efficiency with cloud scalability.

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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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Why We Need a Personalized Approach to COVID-19 Immunity Testing

HIT Consultant

Shahrokh Shabahang, Ph.D. is Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Aditxt Therapeutics. To date, the battle against COVID-19 has been waged largely in the field of public health, using a series of binary, black-and-white thresholds to measure progress. The number of positive cases per 100,000 people, yes/no results on PCR tests, absence or presence of antibodies – these have set the benchmarks used to determine when we can open our schools and restaurants, remove our masks and resume someth

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Curebase, AppliedVR Partner on Multiple VR Therapy Clinical Trials

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Curebase , a company committed to democratizing access to clinical studies, and AppliedVR , a pioneer advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced a one-year partnership where AppliedVR will deploy the Curebase platform to run five clinical trials assessing the effectiveness of virtual reality-based (VR) therapy to treat chronic pain. – AppliedVR is the most evidence-based therapeutic VR platform for pain management and has been used by

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