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Telehealth has staying power, should benefit from lasting regulatory changes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As COVID-19 continues to hammer the U.S., more patients than ever are turning to telehealth for care – eschewing overcrowded emergency rooms and dormant physician practices in favor of virtual consults. Some see that trend continuing even after the pandemic has eventually subsided. According to a study published last week in the Journal of the American Informatics Association, virtual urgent care visits at NYU Langone Health grew by 683%, and non-urgent virtual-care visits grew by a stagge

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Drive-Thru Health, In and After the Pandemic

Health Populi

Physical distancing and sheltering-in-place at home are becoming norms in our pandemic life-flows. We’ve seen the advent of drive-through and drive-up weddings , wakes , and high school graduation rites. And when food, hygiene supplies, and medical care can’t be delivered by Amazon or Instacart via FedEx, UPS, or the U.S. Postal Service, there’s always the automobile — which, in the U.S., is also part of COVID-19 consumers’ coping mechanisms for hunting-and-gatherin

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VitalPatch granted EUA for monitoring COVID-19 patients' QT intervals

Mobi Health News

The continuous remote monitor can help prevent complications driven by experimental COVID-19 treatments such as hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, according to the agency.

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How Technology Is Unifying Senior Care Communities In the COVID-19 Era

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Tech innovations are improving senior care by breaking down data and communication silos. That’s important in normal times and infinitely more so during times of crisis, when clear, timely communication and flexible access to care […]. The article How Technology Is Unifying Senior Care Communities In the COVID-19 Era appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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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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How AI use cases are evolving in the time of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As with nearly every element of the healthcare world, applications of artificial Intelligence and machine learning have been reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Whole business models and strategies became outdated and entirely new approaches have replaced them. Three industry leaders who compared notes on a recent HIMSS20 Digital presentation all agree: AI and machine learning technologies are key to responding to the coronavirus pandemic, and how they can aid patients and providers.

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Consumers Focus on Basic Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is Self-Care a New Normal?

Health Populi

Personal health, food and medicine, safety and financial security are consumers’ top priorities as of April 2020, learned in consumer research analyzed in How COVID-19 will permanently change consumer behavior from Accenture. Both health and economic concerns plague consumers around the world as people “strive to adapt to a new normal,” Accenture reports. “Fear is running high as individuals contemplate what this crisis means for them…for their families and friends,

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The COVID-19 Impact: Acceptance of AI in Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

My how the world has changed. It’s been amazing to watch and see how telehealth has been accepted by clinicians and patients thanks to COVID-19. As I outlined in that article, COVID-19 together with social distancing has changed the value equation for clinicians. The value of social distance along with the legal requirements in many […].

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Telehealth, supply chain monitoring key areas of investment during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic has helped shed light on the longer-term structural reforms needed in the US healthcare system, which include telehealth investment and medical supply chain tracking and coordination improvements. These were among the results of a report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, which offers answers and recommendations related to coordinated response to future pandemics, protection of front-line healthcare workers and improved EHR interoperability.

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Medicaid, Medicare and Telehealth: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kayla Matthews, freelance journalist, Productivity Bytes. As the coronavirus outbreak limits individual movement across the country, organizations are turning to remote solutions to stay operational. As a result, demand for telehealth has skyrocketed — prompting health […].

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Apple Heart Study researchers find success in recruitment, struggle with engagement

Mobi Health News

The study enrolled 420,000, but many participants with suspected atrial fibrillation failed to follow up with a study doctor.

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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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Rushing to Implement Telehealth? Don’t Ignore Identity Management and Cybersecurity

Healthcare IT Today

One of the most prominent “silver linings” of the COVID-19 crisis has been the rapid adoption and acceptance of telehealth tools. But as healthcare organizations rush to implement these platforms, they may be making themselves vulnerable to improper access and cyberattacks. Experts from LexisNexis and BridgeCare Health Network say that a whole-team approach is needed […].

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Patient engagement tech yielding positive results during COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Patient engagement tech yielding positive results during COVID-19 pandemic Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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The Benefits and Challenges of Healthcare Bill Estimates

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David Shelton, chief executive officer, PatientMatters. More than half of Americans have experienced the sick feeling that comes with opening a medical bill they assumed would be covered by insurance. Surprise medical bills are […]. The article The Benefits and Challenges of Healthcare Bill Estimates appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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New app aims to reduce impact of fake news on patients and healthcare services

Mobi Health News

The scale of healthcare misinformation is a source of frustration - Healthinote seeks to counter the threat with a verified and up-to-date information resource.

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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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Telehealth Reimbursement Gets Really Hard Really Quick

Healthcare IT Today

We wrote previously about how COVID-19 has shifted the Value Equation for Telehealth. Doctors previously didn’t value Telehealth since it was the same work (or slightly more) for possibly less reimbursement. Now doctors value social distancing (or at least they have no real choice but to social distance) and that revamped the value of telehealth. […].

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How athenahealth’s EHR FaceTime feature is helping a solo practice during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Dr. Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as usual and had many patients start to cancel appointments as they were nervous about coming in. THE PROBLEM. This became a growing concern, especially for patients with chronic illnesses such as hypertension and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.

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Alexander, Warner Introduce Legislation To Help Rural Hospitals

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. United States Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) introduced legislation that will ensure rural hospitals can keep up with the cost of providing care and curb the trend of hospital closures by boosting […]. The article Alexander, Warner Introduce Legislation To Help Rural Hospitals appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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New EIT Health funding fast-tracks COVID-19 innovation projects

Mobi Health News

As 14 European health innovation projects receive more than €6 million in funding from Health EIT, CEO Jan-Philipp Beck says the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the speed of change enabled by digital healthcare and telemedicine – and not before time.

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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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Enabling Tech for Telemedicine – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 5/1 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Irma Rastegayeva (@IrmaRaste) and Evan Kirstel (@evankirstel) on the topic of “Enabling Tech for Telemedicine“ With the Coronavirus Pandemic intensifying around the world, Telemedicine is experiencing a […].

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Italian non-acute facilities facing COVID-19 emergency

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 has affected not just hospitals and acute services treating infected patients, but the entire Italian healthcare system. In the recent HIMSS webinar ‘Italian non-acute facilities facing COVID-19 emergency,’ chair Nevio Boscariol, head of finance, services and management at ARIS, opened up the discussion to those in rehabilitative and residential care.

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Current Health Launches a Collaboration with Mayo Clinic To Detect COVID-19 Infection Using AI

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Current Health announced that it has launched a collaboration with Mayo Clinic to develop remote monitoring solutions that accelerate the identification of COVID-19-positive patients and predict symptom and disease severity in patients, healthcare workers and other […].

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Helium Health closes $10m Series A, led by Dubai venture capital fund

Mobi Health News

The Nigerian startup offers a comprehensive suite of technology solutions, including electronic medical records and telemedicine, as well as administration and financial management.

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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.

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Is Enterprise Telehealth Heading for Channel Conflicts with Health Systems?

Healthcare IT Today

Over the past 1.5 weeks I’ve been going through a long list of telehealth companies. I’ll be publishing the list shortly in multiple segments, but there are groups of telehealth vendors that are coming together. It’s not totally clean yet, but in many ways it’s kind of similar to the way EHR vendors are broken […].

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Moving away from one-way information flow from doctor to patient

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Patient Engagement Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Moving away from one-way information flow from doctor to patient Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Healthcare Interoperability Expanded Significantly In 2019 with More than 19 Billion Secure Health Data Transactions Nationwide

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare interoperability and enhanced information sharing continued to improve healthcare quality, safety and cost for U.S. patients and providers, according to the Surescripts 2019 National Progress Report. The nationwide health information network processed 19.15 billion […].

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Palo Alto company Limbix grabs $9M to develop a digital therapeutic for teens with depression

Mobi Health News

GSR Ventures led the round with participation from sequoia Capital, Storm Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners and BIXINK Therapeutics.

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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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Temporary Hospital and Other Security Issues Amidst COVID-19

Healthcare IT Today

The following is an interview with Travis Volk, Technical Vice President at Radware. In this interview, we talk about some of the unique challenges hospitals face amidst COVID-19. In particular we talk about security as related to temporary hospitals which seem like are going to be part of our future as COVID-19 continues to rear […].

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Pop health strategies pivot to answer the questions that matter most

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Population Health Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Pop health strategies pivot to answer the questions that matter most Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Shoring Your Defenses Post COVID Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Carl Kunkleman, senior vice president and co-founder, ClearDATA. Working in the world of healthcare security and compliance, I find one of the biggest dangers organizations face is having a false sense of security that […]. The article Shoring Your Defenses Post COVID Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Digital fitness company Pear Sports buys AI-enabled health coach Performance Lab

Mobi Health News

This deal comes only a few months after Pear Sports purchased Functional Solutions.

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.