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Infection Control and Prevention: 10 Tips For Preventing Exposure and Contamination In Hospitals

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Hospital-acquired infections are a challenge to clinicians as they increase the mortality and morbidity rate. Sources of infections in hospitals include pathogens from patients, inanimate environments, and medical personnel. In any healthcare delivery setting, infection […].

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere. Further, CIOs and other health IT leaders reinvented systems and processes, and clinicians gained an improved understanding of the invaluable impact of integrated informatics on digital transformations and the quality and efficiency of care.

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Digital Health Tools Are Finding Business Models – IQVIA’s 2021 Read on the Health of Digital Health

Health Populi

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. IQVIA has been closely following the growth, investment in, and clinical evidence for digital health since 2013, when I reviewed their first paper on “mHealth” her

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Bill Gates and George Soros back acquisition of UK diagnostic technology group Mologic

Mobi Health News

Supported from Bill and Melinda Gates, the acquisition is part of the launch of Global Access Health (GAH), a social enterprise that seeks to expand access to affordable medical technology.

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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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Wolters Kluwer Launches Patient Education Platform:EmmiEducate

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Wolters Kluwer, Health announces the release of EmmiEducate to improve alignment between patients and their care teams. With educational content tailored to a variety of learning and reading styles, and interoperability across disparate systems and access points, EmmiEducate gives […].

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Walmart signals continued healthcare expansion in 37 states

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Walmart Health's primary care provider has filed to do business in 37 states, suggesting the company is building the foundation to continue its virtual care expansion. According to reporting by Insider , Walmart Health's medical group, MC Medical LLC, registered to do business in 17 more states in June and July. Although Walmart did not respond to requests for comment from Healthcare IT News about the latest round of filings by press time, a spokesperson told Insider in June that the fil

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Gamification boosts physical activity, healthy behaviors in new study

Mobi Health News

Although the results from this study were modest, the researchers note that even slight increases in physical activity can have health benefits.

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How Technology Helps Provide Better Patient Outcomes

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The medical profession has come a long way from the days when doctors made house calls carrying little black bags with everything they needed for their trade. Changes have occured to the medical profession that […]. The article How Technology Helps Provide Better Patient Outcomes appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mass General Brigham on the finer points of EHR-telehealth integration

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As more health systems begin to build out their virtual care portfolios, they're quickly finding that integrating with their EHR is an essential piece to providing an experience that delights patients and doesn't disrupt care providers. Many health systems are considering expanding their virtual care programs, and many are considering integrating their current platforms with their EHRs.

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Healthcare APIs: A Two-Way Street

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jeff McCool, Vice President, Digital Growth Sales & Strategy at Ciox Heatlh. Bi-directional APIs give healthcare providers maximum data visibility and control. Here’s how they’re shaping the future of release of information. In recent years, a fire has been lit under healthcare’s use of application programming interfaces (APIs). […].

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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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Omniscient Neurotechnology gets US FDA clearance for brain mapping software

Mobi Health News

The platform analyses millions of data points from a patient's MRI and delivers insights to neurosurgeons before and during brain surgery.

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Why Being A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Is Such A Satisfying Career

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. If you see an infant or child not feeling well, it can be heartbreaking, and the first instinct is usually you need to do something about it. Taking care of pediatric patients can be a […]. The article Why Being A Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Is Such A Satisfying Career appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Virtual care management growth may slow, but will keep climbing, analysts say

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new Chilmark Research report out this week found that so-called omni-channel platforms aim to become the centerpiece of provider workflow – especially when it comes to integrating virtual care. The report examined a cross-section of vendors leading the virtual care management charge, noting that solutions go beyond carrying out remote appointments.

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AI Startup Lunit Secures Investment from Guardant Health in a Strategic Funding Round

Healthcare IT Today

Lunit, a leading AI startup in AI-powered cancer solutions, today announced a strategic investment of $26 million from Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company. The deal, which includes the investment made by Guardant Health and also a groundbreaking collaboration between a liquid biopsy company and a medical AI startup, is intended […].

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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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Multimodal primary care provider Carbon Health scores $350M to become largest in the U.S. and more digital health fundings

Mobi Health News

Also: digital chatbot Woebot raises $90M in Series B, b.well lands $32M for company growth and CITYROW closes Series A to enhance its digital platform and open new studios.

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BLACK+DECKER Launches BLACK+DECKER Health

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. BLACK+DECKER launches BLACK+DECKER Health – a new product category within the BLACK+DECKER brand that will be dedicated to providing health and wellness solutions direct-to-consumers. As part of this announcement, the company has introduced goVia, a […].

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Virtual healthcare trajectory remains vital post-pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Like everyone, Michelle Snyder is eagerly awaiting the end of the COVID-19 pandemic and a return to normalcy. The Partner with McKesson Ventures, a San Francisco-based investment firm, however, is quick to point to one exception: “I hope … we will not go back to how things were and that we will continue to see virtual care be an integral part of the primary and specialty care experience,” Snyder said.

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Best and Worst Patient Experiences – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 7/23 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) on the topic “Best and Worst Patient Experiences.” Many healthcare organizations are starting to put extra effort into the patient experience. In the past, […].

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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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Facebook removes #VaccinesKill hashtag following Biden administration criticism of social media

Mobi Health News

The move follows recent White House criticism of social media sites for spreading public health misinformation.

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A New Standard of “Wherever, Whenever” Care Is Here: How Can Healthcare Providers Adapt?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Heidi West, head of healthcare sales, Zoom. Since the beginning of the pandemic, telehealth has emerged as an invaluable part of care delivery. And by all indications, virtual care is here to stay even […]. The article A New Standard of “Wherever, Whenever” Care Is Here: How Can Healthcare Providers Adapt?

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How COVID-19 forced some hospitals back to basics

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on the ways that health systems addressed population health needs. Hospitals had to pivot with only a few days' notice to respond to short-term patient needs, rather than focusing on long-term goals. For many, that meant taking a back-to-basics approach, in terms of meeting immediate demands. In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session scheduled to air on Monday, Aug. 9, Tina Esposito, chief health information officer for Advocate Aurora Health

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Most Patients Don’t Want to Manage Their Own Health Info

Healthcare IT Today

Do patients want to manage their own health info? This is a really big and complicated question. Mostly because there are 7 billion patients in the world that all have different needs and desires. That said, there are some important generalities we’ve learned over the years when it comes to patients and their info. Before […].

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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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Wearable tech market on the rise, according to Consumer Technology Association

Mobi Health News

The wearable market is expected to reach $487 billion in revenue this year, according to the report.

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What Is Application Security?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Application security involves a process that allows companies to find security vulnerabilities and protect their applications against them. IT teams look at vulnerabilities and use past events as a way to assess the risk of […]. The article What Is Application Security?

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Australian seniors are comfortable using telehealth despite challenges, survey shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The CareSide, a home care service provider based in Western Australia, has published a report on Australians' perception of telemedicine, gauging their comfort with its technology and preference between teleconsultations and in-person visits. In January this year, it surveyed 1,122 Australian adults, categorising them by age brackets: 74% were aged 18-39, 20% were 40-64 years old, and 6% were aged 65 and above.

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Unified Data: The Key to HIE Success

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Todd Broadhurst, Solutions Director, Tamr. Electronic Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) are exploding globally and in the U.S., with 92% of the U.S. population now served by them. Private companies, states, and even large counties and cities are scrambling to launch their own HIEs. Why the exponential growth? HIEs […].

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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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AI-powered emotion analysis technology to help diagnose mental health conditions in seniors in Singapore

Mobi Health News

Through video calls, Opsis Emotion AI’s software will be used by counsellers to help diagnose mental health conditions such as anxiety, stress and depression.

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Patient ID Now Coalition Applauds Action On Patient Misidentification

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Patient ID Now, a coalition of leading healthcare organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), Intermountain Healthcare and Premier Healthcare Alliance, is pleased […].

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Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative dissolves, saying 'work completed'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. This week, the organization announced that its remaining assets had been distributed to six local public charities whose grant projects closely align with its purposes. "With our work completed, and our mission fulfilled, it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of HIT innovators," said Dr.

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Pandemic Dramatically Boosted Telehealth Use, With Demand Stabilizing At 38X Higher Than Year Before

Healthcare IT Today

New research suggests that while telehealth adoption has slowed since the peak of the pandemic, it has stabilized at a level dramatically higher than before COVID showed its face. According to research by McKinsey, since the initial emergence of COVID-19, overall telehealth adoption has settled that 13% to 17%. (Interestingly, my colleague John Lynn predicted […].

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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.