Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Penn State Health provides healthcare to patients and communities across 29 counties in Central Pennsylvania, with more than 2,000 physicians and direct-care providers at 127 medical office sites. THE PROBLEM. The health system’s goal is to enhance the quality of life for its patients, yet for those struggling with neurological conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, treatment requires an extensive – and often burdensome – amount of time, energy and resources.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Erin Jospe, MD, chief medical officer and SVP of account management, Kyruus. As clinicians, we pride ourselves on our ability to provide care that meets the clinical needs of our patients and to call upon our colleagues when their skills are needed.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Alphabet, Amazon and Apple all made deals this year to buy digital health startups, and the year saw exits for Qualcomm Life, Fitbit and PatientsLikeMe.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2019

After many years as a black sheep of the healthcare family, the wearable is coming into its own. This has been signaled in no uncertain terms by Google, a kingmaker if there ever was one, which recently acquired wearables giant Fitbit for $2.1 billion. As influential and cash-rich as Google is, though, I don’t think even […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Healthcare organizations need to be certain they are compliant with all the regulations that apply to them as well as to their individual clinicians. Here are some staggering statistics about the current expanse of healthcare regulation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The following is a guest article by Charlie Hutchinson, CFO at InSync Healthcare Solutions. The growth in substance use disorders [SUD] across all demographics and income brackets has impacted the role of primary-care providers [PCPs]. Physicians, especially those in rural and/or underserved parts of the country, who are most affected by the opioid epidemic, have had […].

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 23, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Healthcare professionals: Have you ever had discipline on your professional license during your career? Have you ever been assessed a repayment or fine by Medicare or Medicaid Programs or had your participation in that program terminated or suspended? Have you ever been convicted (or pleaded nolo contendere or had adjudication withheld) for a criminal offense?

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Performance-guided learning takes employee education from a must-do workplace task and turns it into a more meaningful and personalized experience.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 27, 2019

New clinical efforts with big-name partners, more personal health record rollouts and continued smartwatch support defined the Cupertino company's year in digital health.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Over the past decade we have moved from a world where more than half of healthcare processes were paper-based to one that is mostly electronic. We also saw the rise of patient portals, a movement towards value-based care, the implementation of a new billing code system and an explosion of health data. It’s hard to […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2019

One of the realities I’ve seen is that the healthcare CIO is largely a vendor manager. I’ve grown that view a bit to include the management of people, but that’s the majority of a CIO’s job. Manage the people that work for the CIO and manage the vendors that work with their organization. This is […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In recent times, tech giants like Apple, Google and Amazon have made it clear that their sights are set on carving out a place in healthcare. (Yes, the latest news of Google’s healthcare ambitions came when we learned that the HHS Office for Civil Rights was investigating whether its big healthcare data project was holding […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 25, 2019

It’s Christmas time for me and my family, so Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate this day and Happy Holidays to all of the rest of you. If you don’t celebrate these holidays, then I’m sure all the healthcare colleagues you work with love you so they can take the holiday off. We […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Since today is Christmas Eve in the US, I’m thinking about my favorite Christmas tradition. Every Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember we’ve done what we call the mini-dinner on Christmas Eve. Basically, it’s a bunch of bite sized food like mini pizzas, nachos, pigs in a blanket, veggie tray, cookies or […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 27, 2019

While it continues to be an intriguing technology, Google Glass is not in wide use in healthcare today, though It’s far from dead, Also, there’s still those who are exploring ways in which it might help patients, including the following study which seems to have generated some positive results. (There’s reason to be skeptical about […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Ieso Digital Health will provide online appointments through its online ThinkWell platform

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2019

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Coordinator (California and Tennessee) positions that were recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Aledade, Inc. and is in California and Tennessee. Here’s a description of the […].

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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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