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How Safe Are Mental Health Apps?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Mental health awareness is reaching an all-time high. Conditions such as anxiety, depression, and substance addiction are finally starting to be taken seriously, and people are finally seeking necessary help. Almost 30% of Americans have […]. The article How Safe Are Mental Health Apps?

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Metro Health's telehealth and RPM program is helping patients avoid hospital stays

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Metro Health/University of Michigan Health is an osteopathic teaching hospital serving more than 250,000 patients per year throughout western Michigan. THE PROBLEM. Metro Health had been exploring telehealth and remote patient monitoring (RPM) vendors for almost two years before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. The team believed that telehealth and RPM would be the future of healthcare delivery, but were spending time outlining current challenges, program goals and the features its telehealth/

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Problems With Epic’s Sepsis Prediction Model Underscore Larger Issues With Algorithmic Prediction Models

Healthcare IT Today

Recently, a small blaze of negative publicity erupted when research was published suggesting that Epic’s deterioration index designed to predict the onset of sepsis performs far worse than the vendor claims. Researchers behind the study, which appears in JAMA Internal Medicine, examined a cohort of 27,697 patients undergoing 38,455 hospitalizations, concluding that sepsis occurred in […].

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Sen. Brian Schatz: Telehealth is 'single shining exception' to partisanship

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic acted as an accelerator of sorts for many experiments with virtual care implementations. But, panelists pointed out during the American Telemedicine Association conference on Tuesday, it's important to take the lessons learned during the pandemic and incorporate them into future innovation efforts. "Before the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth was seen by many as the future of healthcare," said Sen.

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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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Gympass scores $220M to support the return of in-person fitness

Mobi Health News

This new funding brings the company's total valuation to $2.2 billion.

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How telehealth is improving population health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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HIT Tech Enablement and Staffing – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/2 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Dalton Patterson (@MrDollyPat) from @CorroHealth on the topic “Rev Cycle.” In recent months there has been an obvious uptick in autonomous solutions, AI, and tech enablement. […].

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Aduhelm and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Potential Medicare Budget-Buster Puts A Blazing Light on Health Care Costs and Innovation

Health Populi

The FDA’s approval of the first therapy to treat Alzheimer’s Disease in over twenty years brought attention to a not-yet-convened debate of U.S. health care costs and spending, innovation, and return-on-the-investment (as well as “for whom” do the returns accrue). In my latest post for Medecision, I explore different angles on the Aduhelm and Alzheimer’s discussion, covering: The macro- and micro-economics of Alzheimer’s and the $56,000 list price for the drug

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More Than a COVID Chatbot: Memorial Health System Sees More Uses Post Pandemic

Healthcare IT Today

Implementing digital health technology to help during the COVID pandemic was necessary. Leveraging those technologies beyond their COVID use-cases should now be a priority for healthcare organizations. Memorial Health System in Illinois is doing just that with their chatbot from LifeLink, to the delight of both staff and patients. Jay Roszhart, President of MHS Ambulatory […].

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New York State Approves Establishment of Clinical Staffing Committees in General Hospitals

NY Health Law

In continuing efforts to address problems exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, on June 18, 2021, the Governor signed legislation (S.1168-A/A.108-B) into law to address an urgent public policy priority related to clinical staffing in hospitals licensed pursuant to Article 28 of the New York State Public Health Law. This legislation requires the establishment of clinical staffing committees to create plans to more effectively distribute staff throughout general hospitals.

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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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Digital health industry sees growing focus on LGBTQ+ health

Mobi Health News

Already in 2021, LGBTQ+-focused companies have boosted their total funding to $39 million, according to Rock Health’s estimates.

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Telemedicine saves the day for Avera Health in the COVID-19 era

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been at the forefront of virtual care since the mid-1990s. But with the arrival of COVID-19, the organization was challenged with revisiting its telehealth strategy to reduce virus spread while still providing essential care services to its rural communities. Avera undertook a multifaceted approach to safer coronavirus diagnosis and treatment through telehealth, including a COVID-19 hotline, virtual visits and a hospital-at-home program.

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