Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 14, 2021

Mayo Clinic on Wednesday announced the launch of a new platform that's designed to deliver advanced, AI-powered clinical decision support through remote monitoring – helping providers stay connected and deliver more continuous care to device-connected patients. WHY IT MATTERS. The health system's new Remote Diagnostics and Management Platform was created to deliver what it calls "event-driven medicine" – connecting patient data with machine learning algorithms withi

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 16, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Arel Lidow, co-founder and president, Cedar. At a recent doctor’s appointment, I found myself in an uncomfortable situation, one that will probably seem familiar to you. Before my appointment, I filled out a bunch […]. The article Future-Proofing The Healthcare Experience appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2021

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/16 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Robin Farmanfarmaian (@robinff3) on the topic “Digital Therapeutics – DTx.” The Digital Therapeutics Alliance defines DTx as products that “deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients that are […].

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. PwC’s Health Research Institute has combed through their consumer survey data and developed insights on health consumers, shared in a summary titled Consumer health behavior and the COVID-19 pandemic: What we’ve learned. Most U.S. consumers would be likely to have a clinician visit their homes for several kinds of medical care, including: “DIY care,” as PwC exe

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

At the start of 2020, widespread adoption of remote patient monitoring was still in the distance. The technology was struggling to get off the ground despite it being available for years. Most of the hesitancy on RPM implementation seemed to be because of limited reimbursement opportunities as well as lack of incentives for providers offering such services.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 15, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Chetan Parikh, CEO, ezDI. The financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic are generally considered to be secondary to the health crisis, but there’s more overlap between them than you might think. A viewpoint […]. The article With The Financial Health of Hospitals At Stake, AI-Powered CDI Can Provide A Critical Revenue Boost appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2021

In the summer of 2020, four months into the pandemic, one-half of people living in the U.S. felt worry or stress related to the coronavirus that had a negative impact on their mental health. Over a year into the COVID-19 in America, nearly one-half of people still have negative mental health impacts due to the coronavirus, based on research from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) published in their April 2021 update on the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 15, 2021

It's become somewhat common in the last year to see news about prescription delivery apps expanding, either to offer more kinds of services or to offer telehealth more generally. Part of this activity is in response to customer demand: Companies say users are increasingly accustomed to a one-stop-shop experience, especially online, and they're starting to expect similar seamlessness from health-and-wellness tools.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 14, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Have you ever wondered about being operated on for surgery without anesthesia? Or, have you ever thought about what life would have been for the disabled if there were no prosthetic or artificial limbs? Also, […]. The article Medical Breakthroughs: 7 Discoveries That Changed Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 15, 2021

The partnership with the Joslin Diabetes Center will add a panel of novel biomarkers to the indicators currently captured by KidneyIntelX. .

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2021

When the pandemic first began to spike, many providers struggled to offer even the minimum of care to afflicted patients whose lives were in danger. Some doubtless chose to invest in new solutions to address the flood of COVID patients, but others hunkered down and used what they had on hand. After a year plus […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2021

Intermountain Healthcare announced this week that it would extend the reach of its virtual care program with the acquisition of Classic Air Medical, an air medical transport firm with more than two dozen helicopters and planes. WHY IT MATTERS. The company, also based in Salt Lake City, operates 28 aircraft – 16 rotary-wing and 12 fixed-wing – according to Intermountain, which notes that its flight coverage area is "much of the same footprint" as its own telehealth service n

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 15, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Sachin Kalra, vice president of customer success, healthcare, Infostretch. Are people who use health services patients, or are they health consumers? The reality is that in a world where consumer services can be accessed […]. The article Delivering Healthcare In The “Amazon Prime” Age appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 12, 2021

The system identifies potentially dangerous lesions during colonoscopies – but is not intended to diagnose or instruct on next steps.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 13, 2021

Smoking cessation programs are challenging. Not just because getting people to quit is hard, but also because it is difficult to get people to enroll in programs in the first place. The Duke Smoking Cessation Program has overcome both challenges. Through a combination of technology and best practice they have increased quit smoking rates 10-fold […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

A new report from KLAS Research found that overall customers feel that the health IT vendor community has "responded well" to the COVID-19 crisis. Among large vendors, Nuance and Epic led the way, with MedAptus, Medigate, Mend and Pelitas ranking highly among those with fewer customers. "In the spring of 2020, KLAS began collecting provider organizations’ feedback on the response of their software vendors and services firms to the COVID-19 pandemic and how well these compani

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 13, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Bariatrics is the field of medicine that looks after obese and overweight patients. Government statistics obtained from the Health Survey for England 2019 show that over three quarters of people aged over 16 in England […]. The article Choosing Bariatric Beds: What You Need To Know appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 15, 2021

Interested researchers must submit a letter of intent describing their research and how they will use Fitbit’s products and services in it. .

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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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2021

The following is a guest article by Shaillee Juneja, Principal, & Shaun Sangwin, Senior Vice President, Business Development at Divurgent. Many, including the New England Journal of Medicine and the National Academy of Medicine, have described physician burnout as the “parallel pandemic,” but the problem is broader than provider burnout – it encompasses the entire […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2021

California's Santa Rosa Community Health, a federally qualified health center, serves more than 40,000 uninsured and underinsured people in the greater Santa Rosa area. THE PROBLEM. In 2017, the Tubbs Fire destroyed 6,000 homes and the provider organization's largest health center, which served half of its patients. The devastation traumatized staff, patients and the community.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 14, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dipak Prasad, senior product manager, Devbridge. Communication is one of the most important parts of the healthcare industry, but as it stands it may be the most challenging element as well. To reach the […]. The article Using Software To Revolutionize Healthcare Communication and Improve Patient Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 12, 2021

The semiconductor player claims success with D-SaLife in a recent clinical trial involving diabetic outpatients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2021

The following is a guest article by Richard Scully from Atos. While the vision of the Digital Hospital has been much talked about in health systems all over the world, relatively few organizations have yet realized it. Yet the realities of delivering a digital hospital are less about purchasing the high-tech of tomorrow, and more […].

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Health Populi

APRIL 16, 2021

Our feet have become an important health focus during the pandemic, as the importance of exercise-as-medicine and mental health helper has looked to walking, running, and biking as good-for-us physical activities. The Mayo Clinic published an informative piece on Feet and the COVID-19 Pandemic , and the Cleveland Clinic posted advice on exercising during the pandemic earlier this month with the strong recommendation of walking.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 13, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Medical science has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last few years. Recent studies and technological advancements have brought forward new healthcare practices. However, with the rise in the spread of diseases, people attempt […]. The article 6 Excellent Reasons To Promote Family-Centered Care appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 15, 2021

Also: Swiss insulin-delivery company CeQur gets $115M, and Medable gains more funds for clinical-trial process. .

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 16, 2021

In recent times, Google has been working on a tool designed to help clinicians filter complicated patient information more quickly and view it in context. Now it’s thinking about doing the same thing for consumers. Google began to test the professional tool, which it calls Care Studio, with small groups of clinicians in Nashville, TN […].

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McBrayer Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Posted In Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) , Code Enforcement , Medicare In addition to staying up to date on the constantly changing landscape of COVID-19 requirements, healthcare providers must also stay well-informed of industry changes unrelated to the pandemic. On January 1, 2021, changes in Evaluation and Management (‘E/M’) codes for physicians took effect.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 15, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The biopharmaceutical industry is consistently on the cutting edge of the future, not only for healthcare but for innovative technologies and transformations across multiple industries. Companies such as Wuxi Biologics, AbbVie, and Patheon have all […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 15, 2021

The electronics giant has been repurposing older Galaxy model smartphones for innovative medical uses.

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