Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. TigerConnect released its annual “State of Healthcare Communications” report, a survey of healthcare leaders and patients detailing the pervasive challenges in healthcare communications. The survey confirmed the fragmented state of communication in healthcare – with many organizations still heavily reliant on landline phones, fax machines, and pagers, and the adoption of modern communication techn

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More and more patients are able to take advantage of remote consults and other virtual care options as health systems have begun pursuing telehealth programs in earnest, new HIMSS Media research shows. WHY IT MATTERS. That's not necessarily to say that many patients – and, indeed, many providers – don't still prefer old-fashioned, in-person, one-on-one doctor-patient consults.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“What’s the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being?” asks a report from the World Health Organization ‘s Europe region team (WHO-Europe). There’s a lot of proof supporting arts-as-medicine, WHO details in this paper, which synthesizes research published in over 3,000 studies. The first chart illustrates the logic model that bridges arts to health in three segments: “Components” of arts programs, including but not limited to c

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The new tool, called Abortion Care Finder, lets users put in information about their situation, such as age and location, and gives resources.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Marc Helberg, managing vice president at the Philadelphia office, Pariveda Solutions. Data. It’s everywhere, and healthcare organizations know it can be theoretically useful in the modeling of predictive patient outcomes. This sounds promising enough.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Today’s healthcare system is facing many challenges globally, including growing aging populations, a rise in chronic conditions and co-morbidities, and increasing constraints on the healthcare workforce. As the industry works towards achieving the quadruple aim to help address these issues – the goal of better patient outcomes and improved patient and clinician experiences, all at a lower cost – there is a great need to optimise resources and increase efficiencies.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

iOS users can now sign up for studies on women's health, movement and heart health, and the effects of noise exposure on hearing.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Banco, CEO, etherFAX. Today, the average cost of a healthcare data breach is $429 per record. When organizations factor in the loss of productivity, the amount of civil complaints and fines levied, plus the public relations besmirching, the cost implications skyrocket.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sponsor: Cradlepoint Primary topic: Mobile Topic: Clinical Mobile Telehealth Resource Central: Upcoming Webinars External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: How LTE and 5G in Healthcare Help Save Lives and Improve Efficiency Region Tag: Global Edition

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The following is a guest article by Andy Nieto, Global Healthcare Solutions Manager for Lenovo Health. As healthcare continues its digital transformation journey, providing care is becoming easier and more efficient for providers. But that convenience comes at a cost. Technologies like cloud computing and IoT devices carry inherent risks associated with cybersecurity.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At the SFF x SWITCH conference in Singapore, healthcare representatives from the public and private sectors discussed some of the opportunities and regulatory challenges of digital health in the region.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Millions of registered nurses face growing pressures on their professional and personal lives in the new decade because of increased demand for services, nursing shortages, and structural changes in the healthcare industry, according to a newly released survey of nearly 20,000 RNs by AMN Healthcare.

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Total HIPAA

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

What is GLBA? This week, we are devoting our blog post to a topic we receive many questions about: What is GLBA and how does it relate to HIPAA ? What responsibilities do financial institutions have in protecting NPI? GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999), sometimes called the Financial Modernization Act, is a federal law that regulates financial institutions’ use and disclosure of their customers’ NPI (nonpublic personal information).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A few months ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook made an amazing claim. During his September appearance on CNBC’s Mad Money, he suggested that while Apple’s hardly going to stop doing other things, healthcare may represent the brass ring. “If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question: ‘What […].

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The home-based pilot program will see 20 children each receive a take-home kit that includes Neeuro’s brainwave-reading SenzeBand and a Samsung tablet with the preloaded CogoLand game.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. NextGen Healthcare, Inc. is acquiring Medfusion, Inc., a patient experience platform leader. The proposed acquisition is expected to close in early December 2019, subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions, including the transfer of Medfusion’s data services business out of Medfusion.

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HealthStream

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Technological advances in how to conduct healthcare staff assessments and education have the potential to address some long-standing challenges that exist for nursing and clinical areas in the industry.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The following is a guest blog post by Jim Higgins, Founder & CEO at Solutionreach. You can follow him on twitter: @higgs77 Love ‘em or hate ‘em, online reviews are here to stay. Perhaps nothing has changed the face of healthcare marketing the way online reviews have. Currently, 94 percent of patients say that they […].

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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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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

MobiHealthNews got a tour of the new technologies under development — including contactless monitoring, augmented reality for surgery and the NICU of "the future.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Baystate Health, the premier integrated health system serving more than 800,000 patients in western New England, announced a partnership with Life Image, the largest medical evidence network providing access to points of care and curated clinical and imaging data, to develop novel artificial intelligence tools that would help advance technical innovations in radiology, neurology and […].

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HealthStream

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Delivering great care and achieving better outcomes requires the ability of healthcare professionals to communicate successfully and meaningfully with a patient’s family and other loved ones. Here are some guidelines for improved family communication.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 11/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Richard Corder (@RichardCorder) from @t1healthcare on the topic “Does Patient Experience Transformation Depend on Digital Transformation?” Let’s talk about the increasingly-used term “Digital Transformation.

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

A study being presented this weekend in Philadelphia is the latest data on Livongo's programs, which combine connected monitoring devices and digital coaching.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Regardless of whether the organization is a hospital, university, another huge organization or a private business, they are all under pressure to cut costs. Every year, prices increase and this, together with cuts in funding for government organizations and increases in taxes for businesses, means that other expenses need to be cut if they are […].

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law. Physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health professionals, accused of wrongdoing, may be referred to or receive recommendations from colleagues to refer themselves to the Professionals Resource Network (PRN) or the Intervention Project for Nurses (IPN).

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The following is a guest article by Stacy Leidwinger, CMO of Goliath Technologies. Imagine this. A doctor is sitting at a keyboard in an exam room with a patient, pale and clammy, watching over her shoulder. The patient flinches as the doc hammers the keyboard in frustration over slow response time. Hearing the commotion, a […].

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Mobi Health News

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Calls to the administrators on duty decreased from 274 before electronic notifications to 149 since implementation at Catawba Valley Medical Center.

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Electronic Health Reporter

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joe Grace, partner, Chief Outsiders. While pharma companies have grown to become effective direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketers, hospital systems and other large providers continue to struggle with effective DTC marketing essential for growth. In fact, it’s their Achilles heel.

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The Health Law Firm

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law. The term "fair hearing" is used by different individuals and different organizations to refer to an administrative hearing or a private hearing in a hospital or professional association. There are a number of different types of proceedings that are often referred to as "fair hearings," including clinical privileges (or peer review) hearings, which allow a physician who has had his or her clinical priv

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The following is a guest article by Troy Foster, Senior Manager of Communications Infrastructure. As an IT professional in healthcare, I learned a valuable lesson early in my career. While working for a medical device company, I was involved in the rollout of new IT functionality that introduced the concept of passively monitoring various sensors […].

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