Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

Patient and provider telehealth use has skyrocketed since the novel coronavirus began spreading across the United States – and analysts point to a " tsunami of growth " as virtual care, after years of frustrated promise, becomes the new normal. The challenge now, says Dr. Joe Kvedar, president-elect of the American Telemedicine Association, will be integrating in-person care back into these reshaped clinical workflows.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jeff Fallon, chairman & CEO, eVideon “Innovate or die” has taken on a whole new meaning in the last month thanks to COVID-19. From building ventilators with car parts to hospitals repurposing video conferencing […]. The article The Patient Will See You Now: A Rebirth of Healthcare Post-COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned. There’s been a flurry of research into this question since the hockey-stick growth of telemedicine visits were evident in March 2020, just days after the

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 1, 2020

A recent report analyzing claims data identified virtual-care use cases estimates that could comprise roughly 20% of all Medicare, Medicaid and commercial spend across outpatient, office and home health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

Seven million Californians live in a region with a shortage of physicians. Although telehealth can be used to address that gap, write experts from the University of California, Los Angeles in a new report, policymakers must consider the ways in which vulnerable people are left behind by technological advances. The report , jointly issued by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative and the UCLA Health Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, notes that relying on telehealth during

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 4, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Donna Martin, senior vice president, Healthcare Business Development, HGS. Hospitals and health plans are competing ever more fiercely to gain and retain patient/member relationships. This means changing with the times to bring differentiators that […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 2, 2020

A recent sample of 50 worldwide COVID-19 apps published in Nature Medicine highlights found only 16 that promisted to anonymize, encrypt and secure the data they collect.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has given the OK for what it's calling a "sweeping set of adjustments" to 40 of the measures used for HEDIS scores, given the new realities of widespread and scaled-up telehealth use. WHY IT MATTERS. The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set measures, widely used in quality-improvement efforts, have been updated by NCQA as more health plans, clinicians and patients embrace telehealth services in a major way during the coronav

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 2, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kathy Sucich, healthcare industry expert, Dimensional Insight According to a new survey fielded by Definitive Healthcare and sponsored by Dimensional Insight, 90% of hospitals and health systems use the analytics component of their electronic […].

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 4, 2020

The following is a guest article by Guy Meger, GM/CTO/VP R&D of EarlySense. As we continue to endure the debilitating impact of the novel coronavirus, countries around the world are beginning to ease restrictions and return to their daily routines, a welcome sign and hopefully an indication of good things to come. But as we […].

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. The drop in deaths from cancer in America was indeed positive during the current public health COVID-19 pandemic, a public health data story easily lost in an overwhelmingly tough week in the U.S.: still embattled with the coronavirus, the nation also continues to shed jobs with the

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2020

In January and February, telemedicine technology vendor Doxy.me hosted about 250,000 video sessions a month, according to founder Brandon Welch. By May, Welch said, the service was hosting a million sessions per day. The upswing of interest in telehealth and virtual care, combined with the federal focus on interoperability , has highlighted the importance across the industry of keeping patient data secure.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 1, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dave Stubenvoll, CEO, Wowza Media Services. The scale of the coronavirus pandemic is impacting every facet of daily life. As COVID-19 continues its global spread, authorities are restricting large gatherings of people and enforcing […]. The article Improving First Responder Calls and Patient Monitoring One Live Stream at a Time appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 3, 2020

Created in collaboration with the Swiss technology company, the Fine Guard face masks offer “five levels of protection against human coronavirus 229E,” and “holds promise in the fight against COVID 19.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 4, 2020

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Quality Assurance Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Carium and is a remote work position. Here’s a description of the position: Carium is a team of […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

A collaboration between clinic-management specialists Savience Limited and healthcare IT solution firm HSL Telehealth has created a new secure virtual clinic service. By integrating the virtual clinic module from Savience’s Clarity system with HSL’s shared conferencing and collaboration network, the service allows clinicians to organise a remote outpatient’s consultation by clicking on a screen icon.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Susan Kohler, chief compliance officer, Greenway Health The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, signed into law in March, has provided a lifeline for many businesses — including healthcare organizations. Amid the grim […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 1, 2020

Also Sieren grabs $11.8 million for its diabetic-foot-detecting socks, and Ezra raises $18 million for its AI oncology platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2020

It would be nice if the analytics packages included with EHRs did exactly what you hoped they would do. After all, you want the various capabilities you manage to play nicely with one another. However, for many health IT leaders these analytics platforms just aren’t cutting it, if the results of a recent survey are […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2020

Primary topic: HIMSS20 Digital Coverage Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using digital health to curb diabetic amputation rates Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Anne Dabrow Woods, critical care nurse practitioner, Chester County Hospital These are the days we never thought we’d see – unimagined times, pushing our nurses and healthcare workers to the brink with the demands […]. The article The Nursing Experience Divide and Technology: What Hospitals Need to Know appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 2, 2020

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 4, 2020

When I previously wrote about HIMSS’s decision to go from no refunds for HIMSS20 to a partial credit towards HIMSS21/HIMSS22, I didn’t think we would be talking about it again until next spring. Turns out I was wrong. There is a lot more ire coming from exhibitors and registrants over the cancellation and the lack […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2020

Primary topic: HIMSS20 Digital Coverage Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How COVID-19 will impact the future of clinical care Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 5, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Banco, CEO and co-founder, etherFAX The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the fragility of traditional telephony infrastructure. Government and healthcare organizations utilizing limited PSTN-based fax numbers and legacy systems simply cannot handle the […].

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 1, 2020

Roundtrip, the University of Pennsylvania, Lyft and Contra Costa Health services are joining forces to conduct the study.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2020

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 6/5 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Amanda Hansen (@AmandaSHansen) from @AdvancedMD on the topic of “Ambulatory Telehealth Nuances“. A few months ago, none of us could have imagined the personal and professional pivots […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

In letters sent Thursday both to Congress the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Premier made the case that some two-dozen federal regulatory waivers – enacted early in the coronavirus pandemic to enable rapid response to COVID-19 – should be made permanent once the public health emergency has ended. WHY IT MATTERS. In separate letters to Congressional leadership and CMS Administrator Seema Verma , the Premier healthcare alliance applauded the flexibility from various feder

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 4, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The most recent survey by the American Podiatric Medical Association found that more than three-quarters of Americans have experienced foot pain. While only a third of those seek professional care to treat it, foot pain […]. The article 5 Common Foot Injuries appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 4, 2020

Seeking to cut down an individual's risk of infection, the app encourages frequent washing with appropriate technique.

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