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Telehealth helps Lynn County Hospital District improve access to care, avoid ER visits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Lynn County is a rural area in West Texas. The county consists of four incorporated towns: Tahoka, O'Donnell, Wilson and New Home. The population of the county is 5,915. Lynn County Hospital District (LCHD) is headquartered in Tahoka, the county seat. The hospital serves Lynn County, Garza County, Borden County and portions of Dawson County. Lynn County Hospital in Tahoka is a critical access hospital, with the next larger hospital located approximately 34 miles away in Lubbock, Texas.

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Why The Business of Healing Starts With Healing The Business

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It is easy to forget that doctors are entrepreneurs. They are business owners who very likely lack the formal education and experience necessary to run a successful business. That does not mean your doctor is […]. The article Why The Business of Healing Starts With Healing The Business appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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How Fruits and Veg Can Make Health and Lower Costs – Calling Chef José Andrés to the White House

Health Populi

Springtime is finally emerging on the east coast of the U.S. and my local CSA farm is on my mind. It’s timely, then, to re-visit a research paper on subsidizing fruits and vegetables from a March 2019 issue of PLOS as an introduction to a new initiative growing out of The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) on produce prescriptions.

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Does IoT Increase Security Risks in Healthcare?

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare is full of acronyms and jargon. IT is the same. Mix them together and you have a mess that is not unlike what you get with a 2-year-old in the same room as wooden alphabet blocks. On top of this alphabet soup are the technology myths that persist – like what really causes EHR […].

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Tablet-based telehealth keeps mental health services online during the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Stay-at-home orders put in place in March 2020 required New York City-based Goodwill NYNJ's offices to close. As a result, staff members needed to figure out how to maintain their two PROS (personalized recovery-oriented services) serving people with serious and persistent mental illness. Early in the pandemic, New York State began allowing providers to bill Medicaid for telehealth services, which greatly impacted Goodwill NYNJ's ability to meet the needs of its mental illness population

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What The DTC Testing and Wearables Wave Means For Your Next Doctor’s Visit 

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Dr. Salvatore Viscomi, chief medical officer, GoodCell, and an attending physician at Baystate Health. As we round the corner on the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 sending the country and most parts of the world into lockdown, the pandemic is still ever-present […].

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The Rise of the Homebody Economy and Healthcare to the Home

Health Populi

As the coronavirus crisis stretched from weeks into months, now over one year since being defined as a pandemic, U.S. consumers have made significant investments into their homes for working, educating students, cooking, and working out. Welcome to the “rebalancing of the homebody economy,” in the words of McKinsey, out with new data on consumer sentiment during the coronavirus crisis.

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89% of digital health leaders perceive the industry as risky, says report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A global survey of digital health and wellness practitioners found that although many leaders feel optimistic about the future of the industry, the overwhelming majority also perceive the sector to be relatively high risk. The survey, commissioned by specialist insurer Beazley , focused on 376 executives from telehealth companies in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as mobile platforms and life science technology software.

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What Do You Need To Work In Healthcare Abroad?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare professionals are in demand all around the world. By exploring vacancies abroad, you may increase your chances of securing the perfect role. On top of this, it could be a chance to travel and […]. The article What Do You Need To Work In Healthcare Abroad?

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UAE first country in Arab world to begin manufacturing COVID-19 vaccine

Mobi Health News

Hayat-Vax is a joint collaboration between Sinopharm CNBG and Abu Dhabi’s G42. Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 contact tracing app will now also function as a national vaccine registry.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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A New Journey into Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Deborah Millin, Senior Director of Healthcare Business Development at NVIDIA. The coined term “Smart Hospital” has been the most talked about concept in Health IT journals in recent years since the introduction of HIPAA, illustrating the plethora of disruptive technologies that is casting a wide net over healthcare […].

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Best practices in scaling digital health solutions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Telehealth.

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How Automation Can Provide Pharmacists With Time For Vaccinations and Clinical Initiatives

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Thomas E. Hanzel, Pharm.D., MBA, vice president of long-term care and nutraceuticals, Parata. The role of a pharmacist in today’s world is constantly evolving. While at times seen just as pill pushers, pharmacists are […]. The article How Automation Can Provide Pharmacists With Time For Vaccinations and Clinical Initiatives appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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SOC Telemed acquires Access Physicians to solidify its acute care telemedicine services

Mobi Health News

The deal is valued at about $194 million and will drive about a third of the telemedicine company's expected revenue moving forward.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

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 Fax in the Cloud vs On Premise Servers

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Doug Clayton from WestFax. In recent years, we have watched as healthcare providers have migrated away from their costly and inefficient on-premise fax servers to more flexible, secure, and reliable cloud fax services. A decade ago, concerns about security, bandwidth, and reliable Internet connectivity were still commonplace.

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Housing as Prescription for Health/Care – in Medecision Liberation

Health Populi

COVID-19 ushered in the era of our homes as safe havens for work, shopping, education, fitness-awaking, bread-baking, and health-making. In my latest essay written for Medecision, I weave together new and important data and evidence supporting the basic social determinant of health — shelter, housing, home — and some innovations supporting housing-as-medicine from CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group, AHIP, Brookings Institution, the Urban Land Institute, and other stakeholders learning ho

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What Is Scalp Micropigmentation?

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Chances are you’ve heard the word pigment and know it’s something to do with the color of your skin, and you’d be right. Micropigmentation is essentially the process of changing the color of small areas […]. The article What Is Scalp Micropigmentation?

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AI technology detects ‘ticking time bomb’ arteries

Mobi Health News

System which identifies patients at risk of fatal heart attack obtains CE mark. .

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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Healthcare Ransomware Attacks Cost Nearly $21 Billion In 2020. Now What?

Healthcare IT Today

As the dust settles on 2020, it’s become clear that this was an unbelievably bad year for healthcare ransomware attacks. In fact, it was a year that cost organizations $20.8 billion in ransomware expenses, according to a new estimate. Worse, there is no future relief in sight. Research by Comparitech recently concluded that there were […].

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Can a Nursing Change Model Help Improve Performance and Outcomes Related to Transitions of Care and Readmissions?

HealthStream

Transitions of care and especially readmission rates have long been on the minds and featured heavily on the dashboards of the nation’s healthcare leaders. Practicing nursing change models also can help prepare patients for successful transitions of care.

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IV: What We Learned in 2020 & What We’re Expecting This Year

Redox

Four: Take on more risk (when it makes sense). The end of March is the end of Q1, thus ends our 2021 expectation series. Thanks for being on this ride with us! In 2020, we saw an increasing demand in health tech and digital health solutions, particularly in diagnostics and remote patient monitoring. The significant disruption has also shown us that healthcare can move quickly; the industry now has an opportunity to hit the reset button on how it addresses its relationship with patients and the c

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Dutch medical AI company Thirona launches software for cystic fibrosis

Mobi Health News

The new algorithm allows for automated analysis of CT scans of patients with the condition.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.

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How Have Healthcare Cloud Solutions Helped During COVID?

Healthcare IT Today

This month we’ve been focused on covering a number of topics related to the healthcare cloud. Needless to say, it’s been one of the most important technologies during COVID-19 as many healthcare organizations had to scale up in so many areas. In most cases, cloud solutions was the key to being able to scale effectively. […].

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Using Simulation for Resuscitation Innovation During the COVID-19 Pandemic

HealthStream

During a recent HealthStream webinar, Dr. Pooja Nawathe, Medical Director of Simulation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. discussed her team’s efforts to use simulation to innovate ICU resuscitation procedures to match the demands of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 ratcheting up demand for virtual behavioral healthcare, Cigna finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Care.

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Analysis system for breast cancer diagnosis solves ‘blackbox algorithm’ problem

Mobi Health News

The system uses heatmaps to make AI decisions transparent to clinicians.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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Healthcare XR (Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality) – #HITsm Chat Topic

Healthcare IT Today

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/2 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Joe Desiderio (@JoeDesiderio) on the topic “Healthcare XR (Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality).” Note: See full descriptions for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) […].

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Dementia Patients Are at an Even Greater Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic

HealthStream

For patients and residents experiencing dementia, the behavior modifications required for COVID-19 are a significant obstacle. Almost everything related to this population is made more difficult by measures to combat the disease.

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Apple-backed Stanford study suggests iPhone, Apple Watch could remotely monitor heart patients' frailty

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Care.

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Investors pour $7.1B into digital health investments during Q1 2021

Mobi Health News

MobiHealthNews reported on 99 digital health fundings in Q1. .

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Best Practices for Sharing Protected Health Information (PHI)

In this ebook, you will learn about the 18 PHI indicators, the legal requirements and penalties surrounding PHI, and how your healthcare teams should securely exchange this data. Key takeaways from this ebook: Gain confidence in identifying PHI. Acquire practical implementation strategies for exchanging PHI within your organization. Emphasize the importance of using compliant communication tools within healthcare teams.