Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 30, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Ryan Hungate, DDS, MS, practicing orthodontist and founder and CEO, Simplifeye. From Uber to Airbnb, disruption is all around us. While older generations may look at Millennials askance for changing the business and societal […]. The article Millennials Don’t Make Phone Calls: Here’s How Businesses Adapt appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

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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Mobi Health News

JUNE 30, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated food insecurity, and now more than 42 million people, including up to 13 million children, may be facing inadequate access to food.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

Some of America’s least-healthy communities are also those that index greater for vaccine hesitancy and other risks for well-being, found in U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Healthiest Communities Rankings. U.S. News collaborated with the Aetna Foundation, CVS Health’s philanthropic arm, in this fourth annual list of the top geographies for well-being in the U.S.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 1, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. AHIMA released a new toolkit that aims to provide guidance to healthcare organizations about telehealth, as its use soared during the pandemic and many organizations are seeking to implement or expand their telehealth programs. “Countries […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United Kingdom in March 2020, the government quickly moved to impose a stay-at-home order. But even as society ground to a halt, one thing stayed constant: Babies were being born, and they needed care. In Liverpool, England, the restrictions meant a sudden drop in availability for neonatologists. "There were beginning to be discussions about transferring neonatal surgical services to other centers," explained Dr.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 1, 2021

From drug discovery to forecasting kidney disease AI could be the next game-changer in healthcare.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 29, 2021

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2021

The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services aims to protect the integrity of federal healthcare programs, in addition to the health of beneficiaries. "In other words," said HHS-OIG's Andrew VanLandingham in a recent interview with Healthcare IT News , "our job isn't to run the programs, but to make sure they work well for all Americans.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2021

The following is a guest article by Dr. Jaideep Rayapudi, MD MBBS, Digital Health Technology thought leader and registered physician of Global Telehealth Exchange by Solve.Care. Barriers to healthcare exacerbate already dire consequences, as has been seen on the ground in India over the past few months. Technology can help. The disparities in the quality […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 28, 2021

Kheiron Medical Technologies will distribute its Mia, or “mammography intelligent assessment” in the GCC region via a new partnership with Atlas Medical.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 2, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management, issued “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I,” an interim final rule that will restrict excessive out […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2021

Technology leaders at U.S. health systems have learned a lot this past year-plus. They've gotten better with adaptability and rapid implementation of new workflows. Some have learned that 24- to 72-hour downtime processes are inadequate to prepare for a 23-day outage. And they've discovered that teams that don't usually spend time together can co-create innovative fixes for urgent challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2021

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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Mobi Health News

JUNE 30, 2021

The two South Korean tech firms have signed an agreement for AI integration.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

COVID-19 reshaped people around the world, one-half of whom are re-defining their personal purpose and life-goals. This sense of purpose extends to peoples’ willingness to buy or patronize companies who do not meet their needs for health, safety, sustainability and trust. For example, two in three of these people would switch travel brands if they felt health and safety weren’t up to par, discovered in Life Reimagined – Mapping the motivations that matter for today’s cons

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2021

A new report from analytics firm Trilliant Health suggested that telehealth use is starting to taper in the United States "post-peak pandemic," with use spiking in April 2020 and petering off from there. The report, based on Trilliant Health's national all-payer claims database , found that about 38 million Americans, excluding traditional Medicare users, generated approximately 96 million video visits during COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2021

Since Microsoft has announced the new version of Windows, Windows 11, which has more onerous CPU requirements than its predecessors, there has been significant outcry. These changes shut out a significant number of machines already in use from receiving this update. There has been outcry over the requirements, mainly focusing on Trusted Platform Management.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 1, 2021

The new API is available for governments, providers and authorized third parties in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 29, 2021

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2021

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Director of IT Applications and Innovation position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Blanchard Valley Health System and is in Ohio. Here’s a description of the position: PURPOSE […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 30, 2021

The new acquistiion is expected to help the company grow out its diagnostic capabilities.

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NY Health Law

JUNE 29, 2021

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2021

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JULY 1, 2021

Harris, a global vertical market software provider and acquirer, acquires US-based healthcare SaaS provider Ingenious Med, Inc. (Ingenious Med). Since 1999, Ingenious Med has offered a point-of-care platform that optimizes physician performance through revenue optimization, data intelligence, and workflow automation. Ingenious Med has facilitated more than 200 million patient encounters across over 70% of the […].

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Mobi Health News

JULY 1, 2021

The new capital boosts Olive’s valuation to $4 billion.

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Wyatt Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

By: Courtney Samford, contributing author Blake Sims, Wyatt Summer Associate Employers commonly supply computer and work devices to employees and state that the electronics may only be used for business related purposes, and employers have always had the ability to discipline employees who violate computer use policies through improper use. In some Federal Court of Appeals … Continue reading A Supreme Development in Employer Computer Protection.

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JULY 2, 2021

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2021

As ransomware inundates healthcare organizations, everyone is trying to figure out how they can prepare their healthcare organization for these ongoing attacks. As one CISO told me, we have to be right every time and the hacker only has to be right once. Needless to say, ransomware is a big issue that’s causing a lot […].

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